Reserve your High Holiday Seats

While the official deadline to reserve High Holiday seats has passed, seats are still available and we welcome reservations.

Please submit your seating request (including accessibility needs) here.

High Holidays 5785

We invite you to commemorate the High Holidays at Shearith Israel. Learn about our special traditions, view prayer schedules, reserve seats for services, and explore classes and lectures delivered by our clergy.

This year, Rosh HaShana 5785 is Wednesday evening, October 2-Friday, October 4, and Kippur is Friday evening, October 11-Shabbat, October 12.

Our High Holiday Traditions

On Rosh HaShana and Kippur, the sanctuary takes on a special aura of purity and holiness. The Torah scrolls are dressed in white silk cloaks, and the Myer Myers Rimonim grace the Torah scrolls.

It is our custom to make memorial offerings during Kippur services and offerings of thanksgiving on Succot. These offerings are a beautiful way to memorialize or pay tribute to loved ones and help maintain our synagogue.

You can purchase your lulab & etrog set through the synagogue. 

High Holiday Liturgy

Preview our powerful and unique Spanish and Portuguese liturgy for Rosh HaShana and Kippur.

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