HIGH HOLIDAYS 2023/5784
Chabad UES High Holiday Schedule (Below)
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 2023 begins before sundown on Friday, Sept. 15, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, September 17. 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 2023 begins before sundown on and ends after nightfall on . 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.
All Yom Kippur services will be at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd St. 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.
High Holidays Schedule:
Sunday: Mikvah is open for Men from 6:30 am - 1:30 pm $20 for non mikvah members.
Yom Kippur
Sunday Eve., September 24
Services at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd St.
Light Candles and Yahrzeit candle
by 6:32 pm
Kol Nidrei 6:30 pm
Yom Kippur Day
Monday, September 25
Services 9:00 am
Children's program 11:00am -1:00 pm
Yizkor approximately 11:45 am
Mincha 5:00 pm
Neilah 6:00 pm
Fast Ends: 7:29 pm
Sukkot
Join us in our beautiful curbside Sukkah.
Bless the Lulav and Etrog each day of Sukkot (except Shabbat).
Friday, September 29
Candle lighting 6:24 pm
Services 6:30 pm
Dinner in the Sukkah RSVP
Shabbos, September 30
Services 9:30 am
Kiddush in the Sukkah
Mincha/Maariv 6:30 pm
Candle lighting after 7:20 pm
(from a pre-existing flame)
Dinner in the Sukkah RSVP
Sunday, October 1
Services 9:30 am with Lulav and Esrog
Kiddush in the Sukkah
Mincha/Maariv 6:30pm
Holiday ends: 7:19 pm
Sukkot intermediate Days (Chol Hamoed)
Monday through Thursday
7:30 am Services
Hoshana Rabbah
Friday, October 6
7:30 am Special Hoshana Service:
Hoshanot are available for purchase for $10.
Shemini Atzeret
Friday night, October 6
Light Candles 6:12 pm
6:15 pm Services followed by beautiful Kiddush Buffet in the Sukkah and Hakafot (exclusively at Chabad)
Shemini Atzeret Day /Shabbos day, October 7
Services 9:30 am, Yizkor 11:45 am
Kiddush in the Sukkah
Mincha 6:00 pm
Simchat Torah
Motzei Shabbat, October 7
Maariv 6:50 pm
Followed by Grand Kiddush
Candle Lighting after 7:09 pm
(from a pre-existing flame)
8:00 pm: Simchat Torah Street Festival
Hakafot & Childrens Activities
Simchat Torah Day/Sun., October 8
Services 10:00 am
11:15 am Morning Kiddush followed by
Atoh Hareisah and community members resolutions and Hakafot
1:30 pm Special Simchat Torah Reading of the Torah and Aliyot for all men
3:30 pm Grand Kiddush
5:45pm Mincha & Farbrengen followed by Maariv & Havdalah
Holiday ends 7:07 pm