High Holidays 2020 Videos and Sermons

Written by: Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman

High Holidays 2020 Videos and Sermons

Missed part of the High Holidays? View our services or read through these resources.

Rosh Hashanah 2020

• Rosh Hashanah Day 1
  “Pregnant with Possibilities”
  
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• Rosh Hashanah Day 2
  “The Unbinding of Isaac”
  
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Yom Kippur 2020

• Kol Nidre
  “The Suppleness of Being”
  
  
  
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• Yom Kippur
  “The Eyes of Blessing”
  
  
  
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Simchat Torah 2020

Tour of the Scroll

Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman takes congregants through a tour of the Torah Scroll as part of the Simchat Torah celebration, October, 2020.

A Musical Revue of Torah

Following the Tour of the Scroll, Rabba Kaya joined with musical guests Lisa Jane Lipkin and Jay Hitt to offer  A Musical Revue of Torah, a community concert and sing-along that paired favorite  Torah stories with contemporary songs. 

Complete song list: 

B’reishit
Creation- What a Wonderful World (Bob Thiele and George David Weiss)
Flood Song- A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)
Brothers – Get Together (Come on People Now,  The Youngbloods) 

Sh’mot
Exodus – Freedom Oh Freedom (Gospel)
Pharaoh – King George  (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton)
Tabernacle- Sanctuary Song (Appalachian folk tune)

Vayikra
All of Me (jazz standard)

B’midbar
Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff)
Korah- Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)

D’varim
One Love Heart – Ode to shma (Bob Marley)
Golden Slumbers- Carry that Weight- And in the End (Beatles)