High Holy Days 2024/5785
A New Way of Gathering
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Reimagined
Healing & Caring in This Unusual Year
with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman,
Cantorial Soloist Kiki Lipsett, and Friends
You are invited to our alternative heart-based and soul-filled High Holy Day experiences on Zoom.
Sign up now to reserve your place.
When?
You can attend all gatherings or just one. Upon registration, you will be sent the Zoom links.
Rosh Hashanah
- Erev Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday, October 2
4:30 pm-5:45 pm PT
(7:30 pm - 8:45 pm ET)
- Rosh Hashanah Day
Thursday, October 3
10:00 am -11:30 pm PT
(1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET)
Yom Kippur
- Kol Nidre & Shabbat (Erev Yom Kippur) Living Room Cello
Friday, October 11
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm PT
(7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET) - Yom Kippur Day - TIME CHANGE
Saturday, October 12
10:00 am - 11:30 am PT
(1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET) - Yizkor: Contemplative Service of Memory
11:45 am - 12:15 pm PT
(2:45 pm - 3:15 pm ET)
Return home. Return to your center.
Heal From The Past Year
Join Rabbi Jill and friends for our non-traditional High Holy Day experiences. In this difficult year, our gatherings will be tailored to address this current moment AND be joyful. We will especially embrace the themes of healing ourselves and caring for each other.
Each service includes soulful music, learning, poetry, and reflection. Note: While we draw on traditional texts and prayers. our gatherings are not traditional "services."
Our contemplative gatherings include creative readings, soulful music, poetry, and meaningful prayer. We leave time to breathe and dig deeper into texts with layers of meaning.
Your Leaders
This year we are thrilled to have Cantorial Soloist Kiki Lipsett join our leadership team! She brings soulful music, a beautiful voice, and a presence to match.
Cellists Mary Artmann and Monica Scott will be rejoining us this year for Kol Nidre Living Room Cello.
Our Yizkor Contemplative Service of Memory will include poetry, music, and time for you to honor the memory of your loved ones.
Our virtual experiences are warm, welcoming, and deep. We would be thrilled to have you as part of our holy community this year.
No knowledge or prior experience is necessary. You are welcome just as you are.
Cost?
Our High Holy Day Experiences are "sliding scale" in the range of $100-$500+ for all gatherings. Your tax-deductible donations help support our extensive High Holy Day offerings. Nobody will be turned away. Please contact us if you need a scholarship.
Register now:
About Our High Holy Day Leaders
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
Founder, Path With Heart Community: Jewish Mindfulness For Every Day
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman is the founding rabbi of the Path With Heart Community: Jewish Mindfulness For Every Day. A trailblazer in the Jewish virtual world, she began creating online communities long before the pandemic. Rabbi Zimmerman believes that the sacred can manifest in many forms, and she regularly integrates poetry, music, and other creative expressions into her work. She teaches extensively on the intersection of spirituality and mindfulness. Rabbi Jill is also the founder of Hineni, an online Jewish spirituality & mindfulness community. Rabbi Zimmerman is a spiritual activist and speaks out on issues of our time from a Jewish perspective.
Mary Artmann
Cellist
Cellist Mary Artmann is an active chamber musician, recitalist, and freelancer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Artmann maintains a private teaching studio and is committed to using
her musical skills to address our global climate emergency.
Kiki Lipsett
Cantorial Soloist
Kiki is a Bay Area Jewish community prayer leader, musician, and educator. She grew up at the intersection of music and Judaism, and her love of Jewish ritual and music has been a consistent thread woven through her work over the past decade. She has brought her musical leadership to Urban Adamah, Chochmat HaLev, the Jewish Studio Project, San Quentin Prison, Children’s Hospital Oakland, arts programming for unhoused youth, grief retreats, and many b’nai mitzvah ceremonies. Kiki is delighted to bring her love of liturgy and music to the Path with Heart Community for the High Holy Days.
Monica Scott
Cellist
Monica Scott is an active teacher and cellist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She performs classical and avant-garde chamber music, as well as composing for her multi-media quartet LIGHTFAST.
Path with Heart Community
With Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
The Path With Heart Community is an accessible, warm, & welcoming Jewish mindfulness project. Our focus is the spiritual & mindful elements of Jewish tradition & their practical application in people's everyday lives. We are an innovative alternative to traditional synagogue membership. Participants come from around the world and our paid Hineni Members meet virtually bi-monthly and weekly for Torah Study and Shabbat Meditations.