High Holy Days & Festivals

On-line registration for the High Holy Days is now open! See options below. We look forward to sharing this joyful and thoughtful time with you!

Oseh Shalom celebrates the High Holy Days with awe and joy. Join us in person if possible but on Zoom if your health or safety necessitates that choice. We offer programs geared to families, youth and teens with uplifting services filled with music, movement, prayer and fun. Family services are for toddlers and elementary age students. Teen services are for grades 6–12.

JOIN US! Below are the Presidents’ Welcome Letter and High Holy Day (HHD) Forms

President’s HHD Letter
Members in good standing, non-members and guests withOUT children under age 18: Sign up for services, Break-the-Fast, Holy Days Greetings and Yiskor booklets and much more
Member families and non-members with children aged 0-18: Sign up for Teen Service, Children’s Program, Parent Registration, and Family Tent Service
Volunteer Registration: PLEASE help run Zoom, hand out prayer books and greet members and guests

In addition to festival services, Oseh enriches this special time with the events below:

Online Shofar Blasts on Tuesdays and Sundays starting August 27; see the calendar for links.
Back to Shul Night Party and a Special Musical Shabbat service
Sign up for daily Elul Reflections to prepare for the High Holy Days
Selichot: Songfest and Services to Introduce the High Holy Days
Harnessing the Power of Reflection Class
Labor on the Bima with a program on the Starbucks Unionizing initiative
Women’s Rights presentation by the author of 9-5 (What a Way to Make a Living…)
Tashlich in the Park program and picnic
Sukkah Hops at member homes
Simchat Torah dinner, services, music and dancing

Attending on Zoom Only? Here are the links to the materials.

2023/5784 Drashes

Erev Rosh Hashanah: Rabbi Daria: “Creation, Crises, and Deepest Desires,”
Celebrating the miracles of creation, and courageously facing the crises that threaten us- and all of creation- can help us attune to our unique inner motivations and deepest desires,
Guide to reflecting upon your deepest desires.
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 – Rabbi Josh: “Rosh Hashanah Prayers as One Answer to our Existential Situation”: Rosh Hashanah prayers (U’netanah Tokef, Malshuyot, Zochronot and Shofarof) can be a good way of getting in touch with and responding to our existential situation as Jews and human beings. Watch Video
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 – President’s Message – Watch Video
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Torah Discussion – Rabbi Josh: led the discussion “Teshuvah, Maimonides and Psychotherapy“. Using the writing of spiritual teacher Estelle Frankel, we explored Maimonides’ ideas of the basic steps of teshuvah from a psychotherapeutic framework.
Kol Nidre – Rabbi Daria: “A Bee on the Knee: Courage and Teshuvah.” Every year at this season, one of the central High Holy day prayers lifts up the importance of the Jewish practice of teshuvah. What does this practice actually ask of us, and what is the vision of possibility it holds out for us?
Yom Kippur Day – Rabbi Josh: “Striving for Sacred Speech that Does No Harm: Yom Kippur and Beyond.” In this sermon, Rabbi Josh discussed some of the issues of Jewish speech ethics related to our Yom Kippur liturgy and focused on the contemporary example of micro-aggressions.

Calendar of Events, Contact Us, Drashes

See our Calendar for all our programs and services throughout the year. We are always adding more so stop back often.

2022/5783-RH Day 1, Brilliance by Rabbi Daria!
Interested in our award-winning Religious School with small classes and a creative curriculum? Contact Religious School Director Rabbi Rebecca.
Have other questions and want to reach a person? Contact Administrator Benj or call him at (301) 498-5151 x101.
Have spiritual or study questions? Email Rabbi Daria or Rabbi Josh.