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Each year, Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue offers a unique programme of learning and reflection during the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As a community we take a pertinent theme and explore it in depth from a variety of perspectives. Through this process we allow ourselves to stop, think and re-order our priorities; to reconnect to our deepest understandings of reality. We aim to arrive at Yom Kippur having done the inner work necessary to prepare for that great day of reckoning.
This Year's Theme: Hope
Please join us for all or some of the shiurim this year! All sessions are stand-alone, requiring no background knowledge. We have an amazing programme which includes teachers from within our community as well as guest teachers. In addition, Rabbi Joel will be at all of the sessions, in person and on-line, ensuring that there is a constant conceptual ‘shape’ to our ten days of learning.
This page will be updated over the next few days as our programme is finalised.
Schedule of Events
Monday 22nd September
6.30pm
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Join us for our service and communal meal. Rabbi Joel will kick off our programme with a drasha,
Tuesday 23rd September
1st Day Rosh Hashanah
Service starts 9:00am
Tashlich
Join us for Tashlich, followed by tea and a light study session with Rabbi Joel.
Wednesday 24th September
2nd Day Rosh Hashanah
Service starts 9:00am
Study sessions will take place each day between Thursday 25th September and Tuesday 30th September
Motzei Shabbat, September 27th
Film viewing and discussion. The film on the theme of Hope is 'Ed Wood', a 1994 movie. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results.
Tuesday, September 30th
Theatre outing and discussion. Soho Place Theatre, 7.30pm. Please book your own tickets in advance.
The play is "Every Brilliant Thing", and a discussion led by Rabbi Joel will follow the performance
Wednesday 1st October
Kol Nidrei
Service starts 5:45pm
Thursday 2nd October
Yom Kippur
Service starts 9.30am