Emerging from a Time of Release, Coming out of Shmita
A new year begins. With it, new realities have taken shape. We emerge from a shmita year - where we were invited into the value of release. Over and over again we were invited in. Sometimes this invitation might have been welcome - to give up control where we have held on too long, to let go of harmful patterns or ego getting in the way of deeper connection. Or perhaps release of needing to see ourselves, as individuals, communities, or species, as the center or chosen one in the narrative of our lives. We might have grown expansive. And we may have learned to trust more. To rely on that which is beyond our control: to let the land lay fallow and be amazed that what would sustain us and still grow.
And still, while we were given opportunities for release, some things were taken from us. Policy, adjudication and vigilantism have attempted to make us fearful and strip us bare, to tare away at our agency and our resiliency. Thankfully we have each other in the face of this. And thankfully, we have a season and a tradition that can align our feelings of being stripped bare with a spiritual journey we move through together.
Join Kadima for this journey to conclude a season of release and begin again to gain a hold and move forward intentionally. We together may find the strength and the wisdom to experience this moment not just together, but surrounded by our ancestors and descendants. As we emerge from shmita together, let us plant, let us grow, let us be artful and intentional about what seeds we sow for what this new 7-year cycle may bring, and what we shall bring to it. Begin the new cycle with Kadima these High Holidays both in person and online.
Please click here to access our online guide for Kadima High Holidays 5783!
Find our Machzorim/High Holiday Prayer Books in PDF and flipbook format here
A new year begins. With it, new realities have taken shape. We emerge from a shmita year - where we were invited into the value of release. Over and over again we were invited in. Sometimes this invitation might have been welcome - to give up control where we have held on too long, to let go of harmful patterns or ego getting in the way of deeper connection. Or perhaps release of needing to see ourselves, as individuals, communities, or species, as the center or chosen one in the narrative of our lives. We might have grown expansive. And we may have learned to trust more. To rely on that which is beyond our control: to let the land lay fallow and be amazed that what would sustain us and still grow.
And still, while we were given opportunities for release, some things were taken from us. Policy, adjudication and vigilantism have attempted to make us fearful and strip us bare, to tare away at our agency and our resiliency. Thankfully we have each other in the face of this. And thankfully, we have a season and a tradition that can align our feelings of being stripped bare with a spiritual journey we move through together.
Join Kadima for this journey to conclude a season of release and begin again to gain a hold and move forward intentionally. We together may find the strength and the wisdom to experience this moment not just together, but surrounded by our ancestors and descendants. As we emerge from shmita together, let us plant, let us grow, let us be artful and intentional about what seeds we sow for what this new 7-year cycle may bring, and what we shall bring to it. Begin the new cycle with Kadima these High Holidays both in person and online.
Please click here to access our online guide for Kadima High Holidays 5783!
Find our Machzorim/High Holiday Prayer Books in PDF and flipbook format here
High Holidays art by Kadima member Isaac Lord
High Holiday Services
Register here to reserve a space in-person or online with us at Rosh HaShanah and/or Yom Kippur services. Priority space reservations will be honored if you register by Tuesday, September 7. Everyone will receive detailed instructions for how to join us either online or in-person by noon on Erev Rosh Hashanah, September 25th.
Please take a look at our daily & weekly offerings happening now by scrolling down.
Selichot Service :: Saturday, September 17 w/ Joey Weisenberg, Deborah Sacks Mintz, and Chava Mirel
Kadima is an outreach partner for this Seattle community event hosted by and at Congregation Beth Shalom
Free community service (following a ticketed concert) 11:30pm-12:15am
More information here
Erev Rosh Hashanah :: Sunday, September 25
In person and online services via zoom
Zoom Room Opens: 6:30pm
Services from 7:00pm - 8:30pm w/ teaching from ?
Rosh Hashanah // Day 1 :: Monday, September 26
Online services via Zoom
Zoom Room Opens: 9:30am
Morning Service: 10am - 12:30pm w/ teaching from ?
Shofar Mobile Gatherings (30 minute in-person, masked Shofar services): details and times between 5-7pm here
Rosh Hashanah // Day 2 :: Wednesday, September 8
Tashlich: Physically-distant & masked @Madrona Beach, 4pm (picnic bench by south parking lot) -- or on zoom
Pre-recorded tashlich guided meditation for on-your-own tashlich
Shabbat Shuvah Reparations Torah Study :: Saturday, September 11
Open schmooze: 9:30-10am
Text Study: 10-11:30am
Kol Nidre :: Wednesday, September 15
Zoom Room Opens: 6:30pm
Service: 7:00pm - 9:00pm w/ teaching from Shelby Handler & Maia Brown
Yom Kippur :: Thursday, September 16
Zoom Room Open: 9:00am
Morning Service: 9:30am - 1pm w/ teaching from Sandy Silberstein
Isaiah Challenge: 3pm-4:30pm -- Understanding the lived experiences of Jews of Color
Yizkor: 5:30pm
Ne’ilah & Havdalah: 7pm
Break-fast Together: 8-9pm
Offerings from Elul through Simchat Torah
For more details and for links for all virtual events, please visit the Kadima calendar.
Elul Shabbat Afternoon In-person & Masked Neighborhood (Re)Connections & Shofar Blasts ::
Saturday, August 14, 4-5:30pm, at Greenlake Wading Pool
Saturday, August 21, 4-5:30pm, at Jefferson Park Playground and Spray Park (meet at the spray park)
Saturday, August 28, 4-5:30pm, at Powell Barnett Park
These events will only occur if the AQI is 99 or under based on this reading at 3pm the day of the gathering
Elul & Tishrei Kabbalat Shabbat Services ::
Fridays August 13 - September 24, 8:00pm - 9:15pm on Zoom
Weekly Shofar Blasts & Intention Setting for Elul ::
Sundays August 15, 22, 29, & Sept 5 9:00am - 9:30am on Zoom (blasts happening both at 9:05am and 9:25am)
Crip Camp Screening for Progressive Jews ::
Sunday, August 15, 1 - 4pm PT
Shabbat Shuvah Torah Study: Teshuvah as Reparations ::
Saturday, September 11, 10-11:30am
Erev Sukkot Ma’ariv & Schmooze on Zoom ::
Monday, September 20, 6:30-7:30pm
Chadesh: Intergenerational Connections Among Progressive Jews - Sukkot Edition ::
Saturday, September 25, 10am-12pm
A Shpilkis Simchat Torah Celebration & Havdalah for the Season
Tuesday, September 28, 6:30-8pm
Register here to reserve a space in-person or online with us at Rosh HaShanah and/or Yom Kippur services. Priority space reservations will be honored if you register by Tuesday, September 7. Everyone will receive detailed instructions for how to join us either online or in-person by noon on Erev Rosh Hashanah, September 25th.
Please take a look at our daily & weekly offerings happening now by scrolling down.
Selichot Service :: Saturday, September 17 w/ Joey Weisenberg, Deborah Sacks Mintz, and Chava Mirel
Kadima is an outreach partner for this Seattle community event hosted by and at Congregation Beth Shalom
Free community service (following a ticketed concert) 11:30pm-12:15am
More information here
Erev Rosh Hashanah :: Sunday, September 25
In person and online services via zoom
Zoom Room Opens: 6:30pm
Services from 7:00pm - 8:30pm w/ teaching from ?
Rosh Hashanah // Day 1 :: Monday, September 26
Online services via Zoom
Zoom Room Opens: 9:30am
Morning Service: 10am - 12:30pm w/ teaching from ?
Shofar Mobile Gatherings (30 minute in-person, masked Shofar services): details and times between 5-7pm here
Rosh Hashanah // Day 2 :: Wednesday, September 8
Tashlich: Physically-distant & masked @Madrona Beach, 4pm (picnic bench by south parking lot) -- or on zoom
Pre-recorded tashlich guided meditation for on-your-own tashlich
Shabbat Shuvah Reparations Torah Study :: Saturday, September 11
Open schmooze: 9:30-10am
Text Study: 10-11:30am
Kol Nidre :: Wednesday, September 15
Zoom Room Opens: 6:30pm
Service: 7:00pm - 9:00pm w/ teaching from Shelby Handler & Maia Brown
Yom Kippur :: Thursday, September 16
Zoom Room Open: 9:00am
Morning Service: 9:30am - 1pm w/ teaching from Sandy Silberstein
Isaiah Challenge: 3pm-4:30pm -- Understanding the lived experiences of Jews of Color
Yizkor: 5:30pm
Ne’ilah & Havdalah: 7pm
Break-fast Together: 8-9pm
Offerings from Elul through Simchat Torah
For more details and for links for all virtual events, please visit the Kadima calendar.
Elul Shabbat Afternoon In-person & Masked Neighborhood (Re)Connections & Shofar Blasts ::
Saturday, August 14, 4-5:30pm, at Greenlake Wading Pool
Saturday, August 21, 4-5:30pm, at Jefferson Park Playground and Spray Park (meet at the spray park)
Saturday, August 28, 4-5:30pm, at Powell Barnett Park
These events will only occur if the AQI is 99 or under based on this reading at 3pm the day of the gathering
Elul & Tishrei Kabbalat Shabbat Services ::
Fridays August 13 - September 24, 8:00pm - 9:15pm on Zoom
Weekly Shofar Blasts & Intention Setting for Elul ::
Sundays August 15, 22, 29, & Sept 5 9:00am - 9:30am on Zoom (blasts happening both at 9:05am and 9:25am)
Crip Camp Screening for Progressive Jews ::
Sunday, August 15, 1 - 4pm PT
Shabbat Shuvah Torah Study: Teshuvah as Reparations ::
Saturday, September 11, 10-11:30am
Erev Sukkot Ma’ariv & Schmooze on Zoom ::
Monday, September 20, 6:30-7:30pm
Chadesh: Intergenerational Connections Among Progressive Jews - Sukkot Edition ::
Saturday, September 25, 10am-12pm
A Shpilkis Simchat Torah Celebration & Havdalah for the Season
Tuesday, September 28, 6:30-8pm