Wow! Rabbi Baum you were a shofar blast to our complacent selves on the Eruv and Rabbi Barr, how you brought us, too, to the essence of these High Holy Days, made it so beautifully personal yet communal. Toda raba!

The services made me truly made me proud to be a Jew and reminded me what an awesome responsibility it really is. Toda raba, thank you!

My beloved life partner and I did a contemporary taslich by taking bread to Lake Michigan and its choppy waters, thinking about those fears and things which keep us from being our full selves, and adding any other negative things, transferring that to the wadded bread in each of our hands, and then casting into the water. Truly powerful!

May you each inscribe yourselves in the Book of Life lived to the fullest!

Shalom, Yossi

yosef atzulit nurwasi lopez-hineynu
Chicago IL

Thank you for your online services for the High Holidays. I live on Maui, HI and I don’t know of a Synagogue that has a choir as part of the service on the island, so it was a joy to hear! I enjoyed it very much. The only thing I missed were some of the traditional High Holiday Songs. All in all, it was wonderful to be a part of your community on the High Holidays online.

Mahalo (thank you in Hawaiian) again for sharing your online High Holiday Services with us who could not be present in-person!

L’Shana Tova,
Sandy in Maui, HI

One suggestion – do not know if it is possible or not. If you have the capability to scan a PDF document, if you could scan your service handout and either place it on this site or the Congregation Beth Adam site, it would make the experience even better as it would be easier to follow and even to participate.

Again, I did thoroughly enjoy your service and will probably return for your Yom Kippur service also.

Regards,

Patrick Swank

Tech note… if the speaker has a cell phone or blackberry on, even if it’s silenced, it will create the radio interference you heard.