Prayer & Reflection in Preparation for the High Holiday Days

Kol Tzedek & Leyv Ha-Ir Joint Selichot Service & Program

Saturday, September 4, 8:30pm

Held at the William Penn House, Community Room, 19th & Chestnut Streets

Repentence, Reflection and Returning: Exploring the Themes of the High Holiday Days

with Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann

Part of the Topics on Turf Series

Monday, August 9, 2010, 7pm

Location: TBD

During the High Holidays, we are are asked to acknowledge our wrongdoings and seek forgiveness.  Doing so is never as easy as we hope it would be.  This "Topics on Tap," which falls on the eve of Rosh Hodesh Elul, when we are supposed to engage in heshbon hanefesh, the accounting of our souls.  Thus, we will explore the meaning and power of the High Holidays, exploring concepts like "teshuvah," repentance/turning and consider practices that will help us prepare ourselves for these holy days.