Erev Rosh Hashanah
On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Yael Werber looked at the story of Jacob wrestling through the night, emerging wounded but transformed.
Through Jacob’s struggle and the call of the shofar, Rabbi Werber explores what Rosh Hashanah asks of us in hard times: not to deny despair, but to keep moving forward with enough hope to believe that the next chapter may yet hold more blessing than we can imagine.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, a look at the true meaning of “God Bless America,” one of America’s most famous hymns, written by a Jewish immigrant.
Through the story of Irving Berlin and the renewal of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum offers a moving vision of patriotism rooted not in triumphalism, but in prayer, immigration, freedom, and the possibility of a better America for all.
Rosh Hashanah Day 1
We were honored to welcome back Rabbi Kleinbaum to give the drashah at our Rosh Hashanah Day 1 service.
“We have to be the voice of God that says, we are gonna change this world one by one. No one can do everything. Everyone can do something and there’s something I can do is to say to you, I wanna hear your despair and I wanna tell you mine. Can we listen together?”
Cantor Sam Rosen and Music Director Joyce Rosenzeig led the CBST Community Chorus over the three days. They were accompanied by Adria Benjamin on the viola and Barbara Freedman on percussion.
Rosh Hashanah Day 2
Rabbi Alana Krivo-Kaufman on Rosh Hashanah Day 2.
“In the name of all of our ancestors, in honor of our drawing close to Torah, right here, right now, in this community, in honor of drawing close to the sacredness of this day and to the divine, may the source who has brought each of us through bring each of us more goodness.”