Our plans for High Holy Days are set.  Sisterhood has scheduled a baking day for this Wednesday, to prepare Challahs for Rosh Hashanah.  They’ll fire up the ovens at 9 AM.  The Challahs will be available for purchase… they’ll cost $5 apiece.  Contact the Synagogue office if you want one made for you.  And we can tell you from experience, the Sisterhood Challahs taste amazing.

This Friday, September 11, is Erev Rosh Hashanah.  It’s also Shabbat, so Rabbi Delcau is preparing a service to combine both events.  The service begins at 7 PM.  It will also be on Zoom – our Zoom broadcast starts at 6:30. We start the Zoom broadcasts early so people on Zoom have a chance to chat and get settled in.

Saturday morning will be our annual Rosh Hashanah day service.  The service will start at 9 AM… that is earlier than our usual Shabbat service, so please make a note of it.  The Zoom broadcast will start at 8:30 AM.

We’re also going to have a second day Rosh Hashanah service.  This one will be at Lions Park in the Gazebo, starting at 10 AM on Sunday, September 13.  Because it’s at the park, we encourage you to attend in person.  It will also be available on Zoom.  The Zoom broadcast will start at 9:30 AM on Sunday.

Here’s a wonderful note about our High Holy Day services.  Many synagogues charge a fee or sell tickets to High Holy Days.  Mt. Sinai does not.  If you would like to come for services, just come.  There’s no admission charge or cost to attend (but if you want to make a donation, we certainly won’t say no).  Some of our young people who grew up in Cheyenne have been surprised to learn that going to services in other synagogues might cost them money… but we don’t charge.

Kol Nidre, the prayer that begins Yom Kippur, will be Sunday evening, September 20.  Yom Kippur is Monday, September 21, and Break the Fast is Monday evening.  And we’ll be going into Sukkot after that.  We’ll have more on Sukkot and other holidays in a later newsletter.

Our services are also on Zoom and then are uploaded to YouTube and Facebook.  We change the Zoom links every week for security reasons.  On Fridays, we send out an email with the Zoom links for that weekend.  If you would like to get on the Friday Zoom links mailing list, please email [email protected].  You can also unsubscribe at any time – the unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every email.

Apples and honey are a traditional treat for Rosh Hashanah.  We found a very cute video about it.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Er hot shpilkes in kop.
He’s got pins in his head. 

Shalom,