Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, begins before sundown Friday and ends after sundown Saturday. According to the Chabad calendar on our website, the exact times are 6:31 P.M. Friday to 7:29 Saturday. Traditionally, we deny ourselves food and water for this twenty-five hour period. Fasting is prohibited if one has a medical condition that warns against it.

Beth Shalom's Yom Kippur services are Friday evening at 7 and Saturday morning at 10 at the temple, 956 J Street in Crescent City. Cantorial soloist Barry Wendell is leading the evening service, and Rabbi Joseph Hample, the Jewish chaplain at Pelican Bay Prison, is leading the morning service. Each service will run approximately two hours. There is no afternoon service or Torah study this week.

Services are open to the public without charge. Donations can be mailed to Beth Shalom, P.O. Box 1557, Crescent City, CA 95531. We do not receive mail at the J Street address.

Sukkot begins a few days after Yom Kippur, at the full moon, this year on Wednesday evening, October 12. Sukkot is a holiday of joy and relaxation lasting seven or eight days. Simchat Torah, celebrating the end and beginning of our Torah reading cycle, is celebrated immediately after Sukkot.  Jill Munger will lead Beth Shalom's Sukkot service on Friday night, October 14. We will celebrate Simchat Torah on Friday night, October 21, technically just after the holiday.

Best wishes for a meaningful Season of Repentance and a Joyous Sukkot.

Barry Wendell
President
Beth Shalom