High Holidays Outdoors 2024/5785
Enjoy the outdoors while celebrating and observing the High Holy Days. Ma’yan Tikvah’s unique services and events are welcoming and accessible for all ages and backgrounds, regardless of Hebrew or Jewish knowledge, and include active interaction with the natural world, traditional and contemporary music, discussion, moments of quiet reflection, and ways to personally embrace the messages of the High Holy Days. All are welcome, including Jewish, Jew-ish, and “Jewish-curious” and “Jewish-adjacent” individuals and families.
All services are free for members of Ma’yan Tikvah. Non-members are welcome to join our outdoor High Holiday events.
We’d love to meet you!
Here are the suggested donation amounts for attending one day or both days:
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If you decide after the holidays to become a member, your donation will be credited to your membership donation amount.
- | One Holiday (Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur) | Both Holidays (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) |
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Family | $180 | $270 |
Couple | $126 | $162 |
Single | $72 | $108 |
Student | $36 | $54 |
Additional information:
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Some things to bring with you:
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Name tags. We’ll provide name tags, but if you have one you can bring it.
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Canned or packaged food for the food drive for the Grow Clinic at Boston Medical Center. We will collect the food at all services. A list of needed foods can be found here. Please bring what is listed, there's a lot of need out there!
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Bug spray.
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Tallit and kippah if you’d like.
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​Dress for the weather! Whatever it may be.
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If you have any Covid or other symptoms, we ask that you remain at home
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Lighting a yahrzeit candle
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A yahrzeit candle is a small candle that burns for 24 hours. In addition to lighting such a candle on the date of the anniversary of the death of a loved one, it is customary to light one whenever we say Yizkor, the memorial service, which is done on the holidays of Sukkot, Passover, Shavuot, and Yom Kippur. We light the yahrzeit candle before we light the candles for the festival or Yom Kippur. There are no prescribed prayers to recite when lighting a yahrzeit candle. Whatever you are moved to do is appropriate, including telling stories of your loved one(s).
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