Dates and times:
Erev Rosh Hashanah: October 2, 6:30 p.m.
Rosh Hashanah Day 1: October 3, 8:30 a.m.
Rosh Hashanah Day 2: October 4, 8:30 a.m.
Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre): October 11, 6:15 p.m.
Yom Kippur Morning, October 12, 8:30 a.m.
Yom Kippur Mincha, October 12, 4:15 p.m.
Yom Kippur Maariv and Break-the-Fast: October 12, 7:26 p.m.

Alternative Service in the library on Rosh Hashanah Day 1, October 3, Time TBD. Other than during the alternative service, the library will provide a quiet introspective space for individual prayer or meditation.

All services will take place at Beit Kohelet.

Fees for Members:
Singles $120
Families with two people $240
Families with more than two people $320
Childcare $40 per child

Fees include a catered lunch on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, a potluck lunch on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, and a catered break-the-fast. Childcare fees also include snacks and a pizza lunch on Yom Kippur.

Fees for Non-Members (those who don’t pay Kohelet dues):
Singles $150
Families with two people $300
Families with more than two people $380
Childcare $40 per child

Ask us about our NEW $100 first-time membership fee!

Childcare:
Rosh Hashanah Day 1, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Rosh Hashanah Day 2, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Yom Kippur, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
All childcare will take place at Beit Kohelet.

Donations: As always, additional donations are welcome and encouraged to help sustain the various programs and sense of community that Kohelet offers. Donations in memory of family members are especially appropriate at this time of year. Donation envelopes will be available.

THANK YOU to all of the volunteers who are helping to make Kohelet’s High Holy Days programming possible.

Questions: Email Susan at bersons2@comcast.net.

Click below to pay by either credit card or check. If you have a need for reduced fees, contact us in confidentiality. Having you at services is always our top priority.

The Minor Prophets - Hosea and Amos

Both Hosea and Amos were written during the 8th C B.C.E. in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The king at this time was Jeroboam II who built Israel into a prosperous trading “empire” controlling trade routes to Damascus on both sides of the Jordan River. In response to this wealth, Amos focused his prophecies upon warning of the economic disparity created by Israel’s newfound wealth and her lack of concern for the fate of the poor. Income inequality - does this sound familiar? He castigated those who “live on beds of ivory, sprawled on their couches, eating the fattest of sheep and cattle and who anoint themselves with the choicest oils with little concern for the future of Israel”. His outcry was that consequences to Israel must be understood by their causes within Israel and that all calamities that befall the nation must be understood as punishments and never as coincidence. How can we understand this today?

Hosea focused on Israel’s lack of loyalty to its history and teachings. He noted that new wealth and new trade with other nations threatened Israel’s attention to its exclusive relationship with their God.The resultant regression into repeated wrongdoing and transgression would have severe consequences. He warned against attributing prosperity to their own doing and at the same time denying that wrongdoing could have a part in amassing fortunes. Hosea urges us to “return to God” who will ”heal and bandage us and we will then run to quickly renew our loyalty”. The penitent “begs God to look favorably upon good intentions, prayer and confession as more worthy than offerings of fatted bulls which are superficially impressive but lack inner content”.

Event: Preparing for the High Holidays. A talk by Rabbi Binyomin Halpern of the Denver Kollel.
Where: Aish Denver - 9550 E. Belleview - refreshments provided.
When: Thursday Sept 1 at 7 pm
Info: Rabbi Halpern is Denver Kollel Scholar in Residence will speak on physical , emotional and spiritual preparation during Elul.
Contact: Ken Weil kencweil@gmail.com for further information

Event: Ekar Farm seasonal harvesting
When: Sunday September 18th 1:00-3:00
Where: Ekar Farm, 6825 E. Alameda Ave.: A community farm that grows food for various hunger relief agencies.
Info: Abrahamic Initiative family event - bring sunscreen and prepare for dirty shoes.
Donations will be appreciated appreciated
Contact: Chuck Jacobs for further information chj1908@aol.com