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High Holidays 2025 (5786)

Shanah Tovah!

REGISTATION FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS IS NOW CLOSED.

TST Members and registrants, please check your inbox for the informational email sent the afternoon of September 19th.

Service Schedule: Community (all-ages) services*

Saturday, September 13 (Evening): Selichot

Monday, September 22 (Evening): Erev Rosh Hashanah community service

Tuesday, September 23 (Morning): Rosh Hashanah morning community service. Followed by picnic, Tashlich, and ice cream truck. 

Wednesday, September 24 (Morning): Rosh Hashanah 2nd day community service. Followed by lunch.

Wednesday, October 1 (Evening): Erev Yom Kippur/Kol Nidrei service

Thursday, October 2 (Morning through Evening): Yom Kippur morning community service, study session, healing service, music meditation, Yizkor, and Ne'ilah service


Service Schedule: Children's and family services*

Tuesday, September 23 (Morning): Rosh Hashanah Aleph service (ages 0-5) and Rosh Hashanah Kehillah service (ages 6-10)

Thursday, October 2 (Morning and Evening): Yom Kippur Aleph service (ages 0-5) and Yom Kippur Kehillah service (ages 6-10), EJL Break Fast

*Specific times and service locations will be sent to members and those who register.

Parking

For evening services, you are welcome to use the parking lot across from Town Hall on Mount Vernon Street, or street parking. Do NOT park in any space labeled "Jenks Center."

For daytime services, please find street parking. You are welcome to park in any time-limited space in downtown Winchester and will not be ticketed for overstaying the limit. DO NOT PARK IN THE LOT ON MOUNT VERNON STREET ACROSS FROM TOWN HALL, OR IN ANY ILLEGAL PARKING SPACE.

If you require accessible/handicap parking, a few spaces are available by the rear entrance of Town Hall. These are only for those with a valid placard. Unfortunately we cannot reserve these spaces.

Parking

Doors will open 30 minutes before each service. When you arrive, please wait in line for a greeter to welcome you and check your name off the registration list. If you are bringing guests who will arrive separately, please remind them their reservation is under your name.

Winchester Police Officers will be stationed around Town Hall and by the First Congregational Church. We thank them as always for the work they do to keep our community safe.

Large bags (backpacks, purses, etc.) are not permitted.

Donations

If you have not yet, please consider making a donation to the High Holiday fund at www.shir-tikvah.org/donate.

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

The Shir Tikvah community and friends gather at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to take a personal and communal inventory of the past year and to envision the next. Services are a moving blend of prayer, contemplation, and remembrance, woven together with music—our cantor's soulful chant, our choir, members who are talented vocal and instrumental soloists, and the entire congregation singing as one. Our largest community services and children's services are held at other local venues to accommodate large turnouts. (Aleph services are geared to children 5 and under; Kehillah services are for families with kids ages 6-10).

Sun, October 5 2025 13 Tishrei 5786