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5785/2024 High Holy Days Registration

CONGREGATION DOR TAMID
5785/2024 HIGH HOLY DAY TICKETS (MEMBER & GUESTS), PARKING (ACCESSIBLE and PAID RESERVED), PRAYERBOOK, CHILD CARE, CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES, USHER, AND YIZKOR BOOK

August, 2024

Dear Friends,

We are fast approaching our season of renewal and repentance and with it the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.  As we enter in to this New Year of 5785, I am looking forward to joining together with each of you in our Holy Day services.

This part of the year is always full of opportunities to gather together, strengthen our community, and engage in the holy process of cheshbon hanefesh, the accounting of our souls. 

As we gather this year, we will also explore our own reactions to the last year.  The horrific events of October 7, the ensuing war, and the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and in other parts of our society have all truly affected us as individuals and as a community.  Through our liturgy, study, and meditations we will grapple with how the last year changed each one of us.   

Our celebration of the Holy Day season, from selichot through Simchat Torah will include a number of opportunities to participate in different ways.  One new addition this year is our new meditative Eleh Ezk'rah experience.  This meditative hour on Yom Kippur afternoon will include music and readings focused on communal moments of memory in our people's history.  More information about this new experience will be shared in the coming weeks.

Here is some additional important information:
  • We will welcome back our shofar choir on Rosh Hashanah morning.  If you would like to join us and blow the shofar, please email Doug Katz at doug@katzrus.com.
  • Tashlich will be held at the lake behind Johns Creek City Hall on the first day of Rosh Hashanah at 1:00pm.
  • During the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, you will have the opportunity to come to the synagogue, hear your loved ones names being recited, place a rock on the table in their memory, and spend some private and prayerful moments in front of the open Ark.
  • Additionally, we will be continue to include our ritual of the rocks during Yizkor on Yom Kippur afternoon.
  • We will include a Healing Service on Yom Kippur afternoon between Mincha (afternoon services) and Yizkor.
Childcare and Children's programming will be held during both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur morning services for any child aged 19 months through 2nd grade.  Additionally, Family services will be held during the afternoon of each holiday.  

This year, when you arrive at CDT for services during the High Holy Days, you will, like always, be greeted by our volunteer ushers. However, THERE WILL BE NO PRINTED TICKETS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. 

Please make sure to fill out all of the information below and submit it by September 13.

I wish you all an early shanah tovah and am looking forward to seeing you soon for the Holy Days.

B'shalom,

Rabbi Jordan

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HHD Schedule 5785
Selichot
Saturday, September 28
  • Communal Gathering- 6:15pm
  • Service- 7:00pm 
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday, October 2 15 at 8:00pm
Rosh Hashanah Day 1
Thursday, October 3
  • Morning Service- 10:00am
  • Tashlich- 1:00pm (behind Johns Creek City Hall)
  • Family Service- 3:30pm
Rosh Hashanah Day 2
Friday, October 4
  • Morning Service- 10:00am
  • Lunch- 12:15pm
Erev Shabbat Shuvah
Friday, October 4
  • Kabbalat Panim- 5:45pm
  • Kabbalat Shabbat Services- 6:15pm
Religious School Family Day of Learning
Sunday, October 6 at 9:00am
Personal Yizkor Experience
Tuesday, October 8 from 11:00am until 7:00pm
Kol Nidre
Friday, October 11 at 8:00pm
Yom Kippur
Saturday, October 12
  • Morning Service- 10:00am
  • Enrichment Opportunities- 1:00pm
  • Young Family Service- 1:00pm
  • Eileh Ezk'rah Meditative Experience- 2:15pm
  • Afternoon (Mincha) Service- 3:15pm
  • Healing Service- 4:30pm
  • Yizkor/Neilah- 5:00pm
Erev Sukkot
Wednesday, October 16 at 6:00pm (Dinner and Erev Sukkot Celebration)
Erev Simchat Torah/Consecration
Wednesday, October 23 at 6:30pm (with celebratory oneg after services and klezmer band)
Sh’mini Atzeret/Simchat Torah Festival Morning Services and Yizkor
Thursday, October 24 at 9:00am

 
TICKETS- This year there will be no tickets for members of CDT.  Non-members will be asked to sign in and show ID prior to entry for security reasons.  While there are no tickets this year,  we ask that you still register ahead of time in order for us to plan appropriately and ensure proper security measures are in place.
Please indicate the number of members of CDT attending services.
Please indicate the number of non-member guests who will be attending services.  We encourage you to make a $54 donation per guest attending CDT for the High Holy Days.
Please indicate the number of non-members who will be attending services.  We encourage you to make a $54 donation per non-member attending CDT for the High Holy Days.




Childcare and Childrens' Activities

Childcare and youth High Holy Day programs will be offeredi for children between age 19 months and 2nd grade during the first day of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur morning services. The program begins 15 minutes before and ends 15 minutes after the sanctuary service.

The program will be held subject to minimum enrollment.

PLEASE, PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED BY THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. NO EXCEPTIONS!

   Rosh Hashanah Morning Service
   Yom Kippur Morning Service

USHER VOLUNTEERS

CDT requests the help of all members (men and women) to usher at this year’s High Holy Day services. Most arrival times listed are 30 minutes prior to the start of each service. The end time is approximate, depending on when each service is over. You will be provided with a schedule and our High Holy Days Usher’s Guide via email prior to the services. If you have any questions, please contact Art Criden at artcriden@gmail.com. 

We greatly appreciate your help. If you are able to usher at more than one service, please indicate each service that you are available. Both men and women are needed, and if you have children age 16 and older who would like to assist please include their name(s) as well as age(s).

Provide the following information so we can contact you with the ushering schedule including your assignment(s).

Thank you for volunteering!


Sponsorship Opportunities
Please consider one of the following opportunities to help support Congregation Dor Tamid during the Days of Awe.

Mon, June 16 2025 20 Sivan 5785