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          High Holy Day Schedules

SELICHOT - Saturday, September 13 Location 
 8:00 PM Dessert Reception                                                                                                                Outside Chapel
8:30 PM Selichot Service with                                                                                                            Chapel                   
                                                                                                                                                                                 
EREV ROSH HASHANAH - Monday, September 22                 
6:00 PM - Conservative Service  Chapel
5:00 - 5:45 PM - Family Service  Sanctuary
7:30 PM - Reform Service
                                                                                                                                                                                 
ROSH HASHANAH DAY 1 - Tuesday, September 23  
8:30 AM - Conservative Service  Chapel
9:00 - 9:30 AM - Tot Service  Library
10:00 AM - Children's Programming  *registration required when reserving seats  ECC
 Classrooms
Check-In at 9:45 AM. Programming ends 1:00 PM. Daycare until 2:00 PM.
10:00 AM - Reform Service  Sanctuary
                                                                                                                                                                                 
ROSH HASHANAH DAY 2 - Wednesday, September 24  
8:30 AM - Conservative Service  Chapel
12:00 PM - Meditative Musical Service  Sanctuary
   
TASHLICH - Sunday, September 28  
4:00 PM - Tashlich with Ice Cream Truck  Dana Point Pier
   
EREV YOM KIPPUR - Wednesday, October 1  
6:15PM - Conservative Kol Nidre Service  Chapel
7:30 PM - Reform Kol Nidre Service  Sanctuary
   
YOM KIPPUR - Thursday, October 2  
8:30 AM - Conservative Service  Chapel
11:45 AM - Musaf Service
1:30 PM - Conservative Yizkor
2:00 PM - Study Sessions (Location TBD)
4:15 PM - Conservative Mincha
5:30 PM - Conservative Neilah
6:58 PM - Conservative Shofar Blast & Havdalah
9:00 - 9:30 AM - Tot Service Library
10:00 AM - Children's Programming  *registration required when reserving seats  ECC
 Classrooms
Check-In at 9:45 AM. Programming ends 1:00 PM. Daycare until 2:00 PM.
10:00 AM - Reform Service  Sanctuary
1:00 PM - Reform Yizkor Service
2:00 PM - Study Sessions  TBD
3:30 - 4:15 PM - Family Service  Sanctuary
4:30 PM - Teaching about Jonah - with Rabbi Lutz
5:30 PM - Reform Neilah
6:30 PM - Reform Shofar Blast & Havdalah
6:30 - 8:00 PM - Community Break-Fast Meal  Banquet Hall

 


 

 

 


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

High Holy Day Resources

Reserve Your High Holy Day Seats

High Holy Days Service Reservations

Members whose accounts are current for the 2025–2026 membership year (or who have made payment arrangements with our office) receive reservations for all High Holy Day services for each adult in the household, through age 26.

Members' guest reservations: $200 per person
Non-member reservations: $360 per person

Non-Members: If you decide to join TBESOC by December 1, 2025, we’ll apply the cost of your High Holy Day reservations toward your membership.

All Memberships Include:
• Reservations for High Holy Day services for your household.

All Sustainer and above Membership Levels will receive additional High Holy Day benefits:
 • Two extra High Holy Day Guest Reservations (a $400 value)
 • Complimentary Shana Tova Wish in Temple Talk (a $36 value)
 • High Holy Day Parking in the front Parking Lot 
 • Reserved High Holy Day Seating in Sanctuary or Chapel (Benefactor & Rabbi’s Circle)
 
   Adult - (Anyone over the age of 12)We do not want anyone to miss out on High Holy Day services for financial reasons. If you require confidential financial assistance or have any questions about our registration process, please contact our office at admin@tbesoc.org or 949-362-3999. 


Prayer Books (Machzor)

In order To participate fully in the Reform and/or Conservative High Holy Day services you need your own machzor (they are not provided).

We use the two book set (silver and gold) of Mishkan Hanefesh prayer books for Reform Services, or the tan Machzor Lev Shalem for Conservative Services. Please plan to have your book readily available to use during each service you attend or purchase now. 

We have sold out of our inventory of the tan Machzor Lev Shalem conservative prayer books. We will have a limited number available to check out at the beginning of each service. 

 


CHILDCARE AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING

 

Registration for Childcare (ages 2-5) is $36 per child for each service.  

To ensure we have enough staff to accommodate care, advanced registration is required.

$36 per day for each child. 
$36 per day for each child.
$36 per day for each child. 
$36 per day for each child. 
$36 per day for each child. 



Registration for Youth Programming (Grades K - 7) is complimentary, however, to ensure enough staff we request that you pre-register. 

Grades K - 7 Only


ADDITIONAL ITEMS

Please go through each section or leave blank if it does not apply.
  • Temple Talk ads and greetings deadline is September 12, 2025.
  • Book of Remembrance deadline is September 18, 2025.
  • Name tags can be ordered at any time, however if you would like yours before Rosh Hashanah please submit by September 12, 2025.
  • To ensure we have enough food for Yom Kippur Break Fast, please RSVP on this form.

 

TEMPLE TALK ADVERTISING AND GREETINGS

Temple Talk Tributes, Advertisements & Shana Tova Wishes
Temple Talk Tributes, Advertisements & Shana Tova Wishes
Temple Talk Tributes, Advertisements & Shana Tova Wishes
 

PERSONALIZED TBESOC NAME TAGS


BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

Name submissions to the Book of Remembrance has closed. If you need to make edits please call our office at 949-362-3999.

 

 


YOM KIPPUR BREAK-FAST 

October 2, 2025
The Jewish Collaborative of Orange County will be hosting a community post-Neilah break-fast for people who do not have plans at the end of Yom Kippur. 
To ensure that we have enough food, please indicate if you plan on joining us at the conclusion of Yom Kippur on Thursday, October 2. 
 
 

LULAV AND ETROG

Will be available for pick up at Temple Beth El by October 5.

 

High Holy Day Pledge
 

Please consider making your High Holy Day Pledge prior to Kol Nidre.

 

Sermon Titles & Yom Kippur Afternoon Programs

September 22: Erev Rosh Hashanah
♦ Finding Faith in Tough Times - Cantor Shula Kalir Merton - Sanctuary
♦ Bridging Divides Through Discovering Common Moral Ground -Rabbi K’vod Wieder - Chapel

September 23: Rosh Hashanah Day 1
♦ Reclaiming Our Minds: Overcoming The Market For Our Attention- Rabbi K’vod Wieder - Chapel
♦ We Stand Together: What Rosh Hashanah Teaches Us About Who We Are and Our Responsibilities in the World - Rabbi Barry Lutz - Sanctuary

September 24: Rosh Hashanah Day 2
♦ Embracing Change- Rabbi Marcia Tilchin - Chapel

October 1: Kol Nidre/Erev Yom Kippur
♦ Being Godly - Wisdom from the 13 Attributes of Compassion - Rabbi Barry Lutz - Chapel
♦ Reclaiming Our Minds: Overcoming The Market For Our Attention- Rabbi K’vod Wieder - Sanctuary

October 2: Yom Kippur Day 
♦ What Death Teaches Us About Living - Rabbi K’vod Wieder - Chapel
♦ Being Godly -Wisdom from the 13 Attributes of Compassion - Rabbi Barry Lutz - Sanctuary

Yom Kippur Afternoon Programs
2:00 PM -
♦ What We Can Learn About Teshuvah From the Twelve-Step Path - Scott Spitzer
     Scott Spitzer is a Professor of Political Science at CSU Fullerton, a founding board member of the Jewish Collaborative of Orange County (JCoOC, and husband to Rabbi/Hazzan Marcia Tilchin.  An active member of Alcoholics Anonymous since 1989, he was a research fellow at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 1999-2000, helped form JCoOC’s “12 Steps and Torah” program, and was a board member for Rabbi Ilan Glazer’s "Our Jewish Recovery" from 2021-2023.  

♦ Combatting Antisemitism through Civic Engagement – Building Bridges Across Our Community - Ilana Meirovich
     Ilana Meirovitch, CEO of the Jewish Community Action Network, will share the work JCAN is doing with our elected officials and how each and every one of us can also play a role.

3:00 PM -
♦ Compassionate Yoga - Ilana Rogel Wieder
Ilana Rogel Wieder has been teaching and practicing Yoga for over 20 years. As a student of Torah, she integrates Jewish wisdom into her yoga classes. She can be contacted for private lessons at ilanarw1@gmail.com

♦ The Glory of Groveling: Learning The Lost Art of Apology - Jason Feddy

 

 Livestream

Livestreaming of High Holy Days services will be available to members in good standing and to those who have purchased tickets. 

Click here to watch online

 

Share an Anonymous Transgression with the Community



During Yom Kippur, we will be asking for forgiveness in each of the different services that we pray together. In order for us to make our prayers relevant and meaningful, we will not just call out the transgressions that are listed in the prayer book, but we also want to call out the real transgressions (anonymously, of course) of the actual people that we are praying with. It is powerful and deeply healing to hear how other people’s transgressions parallel our own and to ask forgiveness for not only ourselves, but the actual people in the congregation.
 

 

High Holy Day Torah Portions 

To help Torah Readers prepare for reading a High Holy Day Torah Portion. 

Rosh Hashanah Reform
Genesis 22: 1-3 (audio) (Torah)
Genesis 22: 4-7 (audio) (Torah)
Genesis 22: 8-11 (audio) (Torah)

Reading (text)

Yom Kippur Reform
Deuteronomy 29: 9-11 (audio) (Torah)
Deuteronomy 29: 12-14 (audio) (Torah)
Deuteronomy 30: 1-3 (audio) (Torah)

Reading (text)

Conservative Worship: Honors Resources

How To:
PDF: "What do I do when given an honor in the Conservative Service?"

 

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