L'Shanah Tovah U’metukah! We Move Together Toward a Good New Year.

As we enter the High Holy Day season, S’lichot offers a gentle transition, a time to slow down, reflect, and return to ourselves and our purpose. Through music, mindfulness, movement, and prayer, our mini retreat offers us an immersive experience of spiritual preparation and renewal.

The evening includes a community dinner, a Spiritual Practice Lab and text study, and a moving candlelit S’lichot service as we ready our Torah scrolls— and our hearts — for the Days of Awe.

For optimal viewing of the liturgy during our online prayer experiences, we suggest you have our prayerbook physically in front of you in book form or electronically. During the month of September, we will lend out copies of Mishkan HaNefesh, the Reform Movement machzor for the High Holy Days, to TI members in good standing.

by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Beloved by generations of seekers, Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath is a timeless invitation to behold the majesty of creation — even as we are wearied by the noise and urgency of modern life. In this lyrical and profound work, Shabbat is not a day of restriction, but a cathedral in time — a sacred pause that lifts the soul, offering rest, reflection, and connection with the Divine beyond the material.

As we prepare our hearts for the Days of Awe, Heschel’s words offer a path to reflection, connection, and meaning. We invite you to engage with this accessible and powerful text as we journey through Elul and into the High Holy Days, studying together and drawing near to holiness.

Each year we select several organizations.to support through our communal tzedakah effort. Please consider a donation into one of the tzedakah boxes in the Atrium. This year’s partners are:

• La Colaborativa
• Dror Israel
• Keshet

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For over two decades, Temple Israel has given the Greater Boston Food Bank their largest single-day delivery of food through our Yom Kippur Food Drive. We invite you to make an onsite food donation.

This year, Yizkor, our memorial service, will be included in the Afternoon Service on Yom Kippur.

Sukkot reminds us of our communal obligation to face outwards with open hearts to ease suffering and heal our fractured world. Join us in our Sukkah of Justice & Compassion for a night of heartfelt prayer, festive food, and music.

We celebrate the conclusion of one cycle of Torah reading, and immediately begin again, reading various familiar passages, and learning some of our clergy’s favorite texts. Stay afterwards for music and dancing with the Torah!