High Holidays 5771/2010 Schedule of Services

Regular Services: The shul has services all year round: Sundays at 8:30 am (Trad), Mondays at 7 am (Egal), Friday nights at 6:30 pm (Egal) and Shabbat mornings at 9:30 am (Egal and Trad). See the online calendar for a complete schedule | See our services page for more information on our services

Services over Chagim: We will be holding Egalitarian Services in our Main Sanctuary and Traditional services in our Vestry (downstairs) throughout the chagim. Both minyanim meet at the same time unless otherwise noted. (Note that some of these times may be subject to change.)

Monday August 16
Deadline for High Holiday Seat Reservations

Sunday, August 29
10:00am-12:30 pm Pre-High-Holiday Open House

Thursday, Sept 2
6:30pm 20s&30s Fall Kickoff BBQ

Saturday, Sept 4
9:30am Egal/Trad Shabbat morning services Selichot
10:30pm Egal Selichot Services
11:15pm Inter-Selichot Pizza Bash
12:40am Trad Selichot Services

Sunday, Sept 5
8:30 am Morning Minyan (Trad)

Monday, Sept 6 - Labor Day
8:30 am Morning Minyan (Egal)

Wednesday, Sept 8 - Erev Rosh Hashanah
6:48 pm Candle Lighting
6:45 pm Mincha
7:00 pm Maariv

Thursday, Sept 9 - Rosh Hashanah I
Egalitarian Minyan ( Sanctuary )
Traditional Minyan ( Vestry )
8:30 am Shacharit
10:00 am Torah service
Youth Services at Faith Lutheran Church. ( No signup required. )
 10:30 a.m - 11:15 for grade 3 and up
 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 for kindergarten - 3rd grade.
10:30 am Sermon
11:30 am Musaf
5:00 pm Tashlikh (Weeks Footbridge)
6:30 pm Mincha/Maariv

Friday, Sept 10 - Rosh Hashanah II
Egalitarian Minyan ( Sanctuary )
Traditional Minyan ( Vestry )
8:30 am Shacharit
10:00 am Torah service
10:30 am Sermon
11:00 am Shofar
11:30 am Musaf
6:30 pm Mincha (followed Kabbalat Shabbat)

Saturday, Sept 11 - Shabbat Shuvah
9:30 am Egal/Trad Shabbat morning services

Sunday, Sept 12 - Tzom Gedalia
8:30 am Trad Minyan

Friday, Sept 17 - Erev Yom Kippur
Egalitarian Minyan ( Sanctuary )
Traditional Minyan ( Vestry )
6:15 pm SHARP: Kol Nidre

Saturday, Sept 18 - Yom Kippur
Egalitarian Minyan (Sanctuary)
Traditional Minyan (Vestry)
8:30 am Trad Shacharit
9:00 am Egal Shacharit
10:30 am Torah Service
Youth Services at Faith Lutheran Church (No signup required.)
 10:30-11:15 am for grade 3 and up
 11:30am-12:15pm for kindergarten - 3rd grade.

11:00 am Sermon
11:30 am Yizkor
12:00 pm Musaf

4:45 PM: Minchah
6:15 PM: Ne'ilah
7:30 PM: Shofar

Sunday, Sept 19
8:30 am Trad Shacharit
10:00am - 3:00pm Sukkah building

Wednesday, Sept 22 - Erev Sukkot
6:30 Mincha/Maariv Trad
6:30 Mincha/Maariv Egal
7:15 pm Potluck Sukkah Yom Tov Dinner
Note: the Sukkah is open to the public all week long.

Thursday, Sept 23 - Sukkot I
9:30 am Services (Egal and Trad)

Friday, Sept 24 - Sukkot II
9:30 am Services (Egal and Trad)
1:30 Sukkah Match lunch (tentative) 5440

Thursday, Sept 30 - Shemini Atzeret
9:30 am Shacharit (Egal and Trad)
11:00 am Yizkor

7:00 pm Simchat Torah Eve  Ma’ariv Followed by Hakkafot
Join 700 of your fellow TBSers and other Boston-area Jews for the holiday that puts Tremont St. on the map. We close off Tremont St. for dancing with our 12 Torah scrolls...

Friday, Oct 1 - Simchat Torah
9:30 am Shacharit (Egal and Trad)
11:00 am Torah Service
Come get an aliyah! After closing down Tremont St. the previous night, we're still going in the morning! Come back for more hakafot, singing, dancing, hot food, and get called to the Torah as we restart the yearly cycle of Torah reading.

Seating on the High Holidays
TBS will as always make seats available (and affordable) to non-members. We do request that you contact our executive director Miriam Klapper in the shul office, (617) 864-6388 or office@tremontstreetshul.org) if you are interested in obtaining seats, or fill out and send in either the Main Sanctuary Seat reservation form or the Traditional minyan seat reservation form and send to the shul office.

Non-member seating: reserved $150, unreserved seating (balcony, Traditional Minyan) $65
Non-member Full-Time Student: reserved $75, unreserved $35.

You can also donate to the shul or pay for seats via PayPal; be sure to specify what it's for.

Youth Services and Child Care on the High Holidays
On Rosh Hashana Day One and Yom Kippur there are Youth High Holiday Services at Faith Lutheran Church, 311 Broadway side entrance
10:30 to 11:15 3rd grade and up
11:30 to 12:15 K to 3rd grade

If you are planing to make use of the formal child care program at TBS, please fill out the Child Care Registration form (space is limited).

Sukkot
The Shul Sukkah is open to the public during non-Alef-Bet hours: anytime after 5 M-F, and all weekend.
There is usually informal dairy potlucking after services on chag.

Home Hospitality over the High Holidays
New to the community? Looking to meet new TBS friends? If you would like to open your Rosh HaShanah, Seudah Mafseket (ritual pre-fast meal) or Break-Fast meal to others, please send email to chesed@tremontstreetshul.org with the number of guests you would be able to host. If you are interested in being a guest at the home of another community member, likewise, please send e-mail to chesed@tremontstreetshul.org.

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