High Holidays

HIGH HOLIDAYS 2022/5783

Chabad UES High Holiday Schedule

Tishrei (Tishri), the first month of the Jewish year (the seventh when counting from Nisan), is full of momentous and meaningful days of celebration. Beginning with the High Holidays, we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Ten Days of Repentance, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. Each one is filled with its own meaningful customs and rituals. Some are serious, awesome days set aside for reflection and soul-searching. Some are joyous days full of happy and cheerful celebration.

All of these days are opportunities to connect, to be inspired, and to become more fulfilled and in tune with our true inner selves. Tishrei is considered the “head” of the year, and the reservoir from which we draw our strength and inspiration throughout the year ahead.

If the year is a train, the High Holidays (AKA High Holy Days) are its engine. A delicate blend of joy and solemnity, feasting and fasting, prayer and inspiration make up the spiritually charged head of the Jewish year.

The High Holiday season begins during the month of Elul, when the shofar is sounded every weekday morning, a clarion call to return to G‑d in advance of the sacred days that lay ahead.

The two-day holiday of Rosh Hashanah is the head of the Jewish year, the time when G‑d reinvests Himself in creation as we crown Him king of the universe through prayer, shofar blasts, and celebration.

Rosh Hashanah 2022 begins before sundown on Sunday, Sept. 25, and ends after nightfall on Tuesday, September 27.  Full Rosh Hashanah Calendar at Chabad

A week later, the High Holidays reach their crescendo with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). Like angels, we neither eat nor drink for 25 hours. Dressed in white, we pray in the synagogue—united as one people, children of One Father.

Yom Kippur 2022 begins before sundown on Tuesday, October 4, and ends after nightfall on Wednesday, October 5.  Full Yom Kippur Schedule at Chabad

But it does not end there. The otherworldliness of the High Holidays is then channeled into the festive holidays of Sukkot and Simchat Torah, which bring the annual fall holiday season to a most joyous conclusion. Full Sukkot Schedule at Chabad. Full Simchat Torah Schedule at Chabad.

Join us at Chabad Upper East Side for inspiring and uplifting services and holiday celebrations, filled with melodies, insights, inspiration and warmth.

This year Rosh Hashanah daytime services will be held at the Bohemian National Hall and evening services will be at the Chabad House. All Yom Kippur services will be at the Bohemian National Hall. Sukkot and Simchat Torah Services and celebrations will be held at Chabad Upper East Side.

$180 donation includes all services (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.)

Meal Reservations are $65 per person.