Days of Awe

High Holy Days 2025 // 5786

Service Schedule | Service Descriptions | Guest Ticket Information

Our High Holy Day Services

All services held in our Sanctuary will be available on Zoom. An email will be sent to our subscribers the week of the holidays with all links and information!

Monday, September 22
Rosh Hashanah Eve

6:00 p.m. - Rosh Hashanah Eve

CRZ Sanctuary

Tuesday, September 23
Rosh Hashanah Day I

8:45 a.m. - Masorti Service

CRZ Sanctuary

9:30 a.m. - Na’aseh V’Nishma

CRZ Chapel

10:30 a.m. - Minyan Katan (ages 0-5)

Loeb Room

10:30 a.m. - Minyan Gadol (ages 6+)

Mandel Room

11:30 a.m. - Sermon

CRZ Sanctuary

12:15 p.m., or after the sermon - Study Session with Dan Libenson

CRZ Library

After the sermon - Discussion with high schoolers led by Rabbi Minkus

CRZ Chapel

5:00 p.m - Taschlich at 51st St. Beach

51st St. Beach

Wednesday, September 24
Rosh Hashanah Day II

8:45 a.m. - Masorti Service

CRZ Sanctuary

10:30 a.m. - Minyan Katan

Loeb Room (209)

11:15 a.m. - Sermon

CRZ Sanctuary

11:45 a.m., or after the sermon - Study Session with Sheila Jelen

CRZ Library

Wednesday, October 1
Kol Nidre

6:00 p.m. - Kol Nidre

CRZ Sanctuary

Thursday, October 2
Yom Kippur Day

9:15 a.m. - Masorti Service

CRZ Sanctuary

10:30 a.m. - Minyan Katan (ages 0-5)

Mandel Room

10:30 a.m. - Minyan Gadol (age 6+)

CRZ Chapel

12:15 p.m. - Sermon, followed by Yizkor

CRZ Sanctuary

1:00 p.m., or following the sermon -

B-Mitzvah Cohort Discussion with Rabbi Minkus

CRZ Chapel

1:00 p.m., or after Yizkor - Study Session with David Gottlieb

CRZ Library

4:30 p.m. - Mincha Service

CRZ Sanctuary

6:00 p.m. - Ne’ilah

CRZ Sanctuary

6:15 p.m. - Kids’ Ne’ilah

CRZ Chapel

7:15 p.m. - Shofar Blast for Everyone

CRZ Sanctuary

Service Descriptions

Programs & Services

Selichot | During the month of Elul, the shofar is sounded each weekday morning, awakening us to the period of reflection on the past year and helping us to begin the process of teshuvah (returning) as the New Year approaches. The Selichot service on Saturday night, September 13, extends that period of reflection.

Tashlich | Tashlich will be held on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Tuesday, September 23rd at 5 pm. The term, Tashlich, is the first word of Micah 7:19, You (O God) will hurl (tashlich) all our sins into the depths of the sea. Join us at 51st St Beach at 5 pm. We will provide bird seed to throw into the water to symbolize our desire to cast away our sins (in an environmentally-friendly way!).

Masorti Service | Uplifting music, thoughtful prayer, and opportunities for learning and reflection. Rabbi David Minkus, Jonathan Miller, and the High Holy Day Choir will daven on Yom Kippur. Cantor Rachel Rosenberg will join Rabbi David Minkus on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, on Yom Kippur, and throughout the holidays.

Na'aseh V'Nishma | The first day of Rosh Hashanah features the more contemporary Na'aseh V'Nishma service with musical instruments, readings, and other approaches to the season. Led by Cantor Rachel Rosenberg and accompanied by a superb ensemble of musicians, including talented members of our community, we will raise our voices in communal singing and prayer as we expand upon our High Holiday experience in different ways. Geared toward adults, teens, and older children.

For Our Youth

Minyan Katan | Songs, prayer, and stories geared toward children 0-5 years old and their families.

Minyan Gadol | On the first day of Rosh Hashanaha and on Yom Kippur morning we offer an experience especially designed for families with school-aged children. If your children would like to participate through a reading, leading a prayer, or a Torah reading, please email Cantor Rachel Rosenberg at cantor@rodfei.org before September 1. All ages are welcome to join us!

Teens | Rabbi Minkus will meet with our Rodfei teen cohort for an engaging learning session and discussion based on the themes of the season.

Kids' Ne'ilah | We encourage families to join us for a special Kids’ Ne’ilah service before the conclusion of Yom Kippur! Our entire community comes together as our children proceed to the bimah with electric candles, and we all join together for Havdalah and the final Shofar blast with Cantor Rachel Rosenberg, Jonathan Miller, and Rabbi David Minkus.

Guest Tickets

We have replaced tickets with a more welcoming and secure check-in process which requires you to provide your name at the door.

Relatives and friends who are not members of CRZ are welcome to join us! As you are registering, please remember that we need the information of everyone attending with you - both adults and children. Names will be checked at the door prior to entry. Because we are no longer providing physical tickets, so it is essential that we know the name of each person in your party.

Please order guest tickets here by September 20, 2025.

*Financial commitments for 2025 must be paid in full, as well as any other outstanding debts to the synagogue, before your High Holy Day tickets will be made available to you.

Enduring Memorials

The memory of your beloved departed is well honored by a charitable act, such as a contribution in support of Congregation Rodfei Zedek’s educational and religious programs. Please consider one of the following Memorial choices available to you.

Memorial Plaques Perpetuate the memory of your departed loved ones by purchasing plaques in their memory. These simple, elegant plaques are displayed chronologically by yahrzeit month on the beautiful memorial wall overlooking the Mandelbaum Atrium. Each one includes the name of the departed as well as his/her yahrzeit dates according to both the secular and Hebrew calendars. Yahrzeits are also maintained in our records so that the families are notified of the date every year. The yahrzeit is also announced from the bimah at the Shabbat service immediately preceding the yahrzeit date and on the actual day during our morning minyan. At both Shabbat services and the yahrzeit, the congregation says Kaddish, the memorial prayer, with you or on your behalf. Each name also appears in the annual Book of Life which is distributed at Yizkor services throughout the year. beginning with Yom Kippur. The cost of a memorial plaque is $600.

Permanent Inscription Permanent inscriptions in the congregation’s Book of Life, without the purchase of a memorial plaque, can be arranged for a contribution of $180.

Annual Listing An annual listing in the Book of Life, for one year, is provided for a contribution of $36 per name per year. Renewals must be submitted to the congregation’s office each year.

Please fill out this order form if you with to memorialize your beloved departed in this way.