2024 High Holiday Schedule

Rosh Hashanah Schedule (October 2 - 4, 2024)
All Services will take place at ACE Day Care, 941 Rutherford Rd. except for Friday afternoon, which will take place at 201 AUTUMN HILL BLVD.

Important Notes for Rosh Hashana:

1. Don't forget to light a 48 hour light before Yom Tov.
2. Reminder to make an ‘Eruv Tavshilin’ before Yom Tov.
3. We recite the 'Shehechiyanu' blessing on both nights at Candle Lighting and during Kiddush. At kiddush the second night, one should have a new seasonal fruit at the table to eat, and have in mind that the Shehechiyanu is also going on the fruit and the holiday. (One still makes the blessing even if there is no new fruit).
4. There is an important custom to eat 'Simanim' – various symbolic foods – as omens for the new year on the first night at the beginning of your meal. Through them we express our desires for a sweet new year and to be inscribed in the book of life. Procedure: One should make Kiddush, make Hamotzi, eat bread, Say "Boreh Pri Haeitz" on an apple, take a bite, then dip the apple in the honey, say the appropriate prayer ('Yehi Ratzon') on it, eat it, then move on to the next foods. You can find the Simanim in the Artscroll Machzor on page 96.
5. One should avoid eating walnuts and vinegar and other bitter foods on Rosh Hashana but walnuts mixed into food is fine. Bitter foods (vinegar, lemons, etc) are fine if mixed into food such that the end result is that the food is not bitter. (eg. mayonnaise).
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Yom Kippur Schedule
All Services will take place at Stephen Lewis Secondary School, 555 Autumn Hill Blvd.