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Dear Absurd Times: There's a really good chance you know someone who knows someone who would be spiritually uplifted and perhaps even transformed by attending our social-justice oriented High Holidays this year (you don't have to be Jewish to get a tremendous amount out of this). In the past people have come from as far away as Australia, Israel, Japan, England, Germany and South Africa.  Would you please send this below to all your friends and email lists, post this on your Facebook page and send it also to any email lists you are part of? post it on your website?  And tell people on twitter or on any other social media to which you have access? They can read this info at : http://www.beyttikkun.org/article.php/HHDMain -- Thanks so much.  Rabbi Michael Lerner   RabbiLerner.tikkun@gmail.com Beyt Tikkun High Holy Days       September 16, 2012 - September 26, 2012 The ten days of Return to our Highest Selves Rosh Hashanah Eve Sunday Sept 16  7:30 p.m.-10 p.m.   First day Rosh Hashanah Monday Sept 17  9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.followed by a vegetarian pot-luck (bring a main course dish to share)  and then at 4 p.m. a  demonstration in the spirit of Rosh Hashanah challenging the arrogance of the large banks--at the Wells Fargo bank opposite the downtown BART station at Shattuck Ave. and Center Street  Second day Rosh Hashanah Tuesday Sept 18 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. followed by Tashlich at a nearby stream of water  Kol Nidrey Eve Sept. 25   6:45-10:30 p.m. Yom Kippur All day Sept 26  (with break between 3:30-5:30 p.m.) Occupy Rosh Hashanah: 4 p.m. Sept 17 outside the Wells Fargo Bank at Shattuck and Center Street   Berkeley, Ca.   All services held at Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley except 2nd day Rosh Hashanah at 951 Cragmont Ave, Berkeley and Mincha/Ne'ilah on Yom Kippur at 5:30-8 p.m. at the Bade Museum of the Pacific School of Religion  Child care available on 1st day of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur if you call us in advance to reserve a place for your children. Children's services on 1st day of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at 11 a.m.    Come and join the Beyt Tikkun Community for a spiritually deep High Holy Days experience.Services will be under the leadership of Rabbi Michael Lerner. This year he will be joined on Rosh HaShanah by Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman in co-leading the services. All three will be involved in teaching and leading services on the first night and on both the first and second days of Rosh HaShanah. On Kol Nidre we will have Beyt Tikkun member Rae Abileah sharing a teaching, and on Tom Kippur day, Josh Healey. The services are likely to be joyous, intellectually stimulating, psychologically sophisticated, with music, dancing, and rejoicing at the New Year and the possibility of self-and-societal transformation (tikkun) plus an amazing highpoint of Jewish social justice, peace, and environmental consciousness, and a spiritually rich experience. In the spirit of Rosh Hashanah prayers that call for the overthrow of "the kingdom of the arrogant," we will join with the Shalom Center and Kehillah to protest the arrogance of the major banks in the way they've treated their approach to mortgage loans by a brief demonstration outside Wells Fargo at 4 p.m. on the first day of Rosh Hashanah at the corner of Center St. and Shattuck Ave.    Rabbi Michael Lerner is a founder and editor of Tikkun Magazine, chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley and author of eleven books, including: Jewish Renewal, The Politics of Meaning, Jews and Blacks (with Cornel West), The Left Hand of God: Taking back our Country from the Religous Right, and Embracing Israel/Palestine:  A Strategy for Middle East Peace.   Rabbi Arthur Waskow is the author of Seasons of Our Joy(a new version of which will be published this summer by the Jewish Publication Society), Godwrestling, and many other books of Jewish spiritual wisdom, as well as the founder of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia and a tireless activist for environmental sanity and social justice.   Rabbi Phyllis Berman founded (in 1979) and continues to direct the Riverside Language Program for adult immigrants in NYC; she directed the summer program at Elat Chayyim for 12 years; she co-authored, most recently, Freedom Journeys with her husband, Arthur Waskow.   Rae  Abileah is the co-director of CODEPINK Women for Peace and is a co-organizer of Occupy AIPAC, Stolen Beauty boycott of Ahava cosmetics and Women Occupy. Rae is a contributing author to 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military; Sisters Singing; Incantations, Blessings, Chants, Prayers, Art and Sacred Stories by Women Beyond Tribal Loyalties; Stories of Jewish Peace Activists.   Josh Healey, a community organizxer, poet and former director of Youth Speaks in San Francisco received the Mario Savio Young Activist Award in October 2011, delivering his acceptance speech and poem in front of 10,000 people at Occupy Casl. His blogs are available through Tikkun Daily at www.tikkun.org.   Music for these services will be provided by Achi Ben Shalom and his Beyt Tikkun band. He is the founder of Adamah band, is an experienced Jewish educator and song leader, and has been working with Beyt Tikkun synagogue-without-walls for 15 years.   Our services are like our shul, traditional in most of the format and melodies, with lots of Hebrew prayer, singing, and dancing, with many innovative English translations and commentaries, with time for inner work so that the whole thing doesn't feel like a performance or a stage show. Our emphasis is on being spiritually alive and experiencing the transformative power of these special days. Our High Holy services are also a celebration of life--with music, dancing, and potlucks for delicious food and schmoozing. We invite you to come and bring your family and your friends. Many people who are not Jewish come to our services and are made to feel welcomed there. Children: Children under 16 are admitted at no cost. Free childcare will be available during the day-time services. There will be special services for children on the first day of Rosh HaShanah and on Yom Kippur. Location of Services:  All services except the 2nd day of Rosh HaShanah will be in Berkeley at the Pacific School of Religion. The 2nd day of Rosh HaShanah will be at the Rabbi's house in Berkeley. Click here for directions and more information. Prices:  Ticket prices are on a sliding scale based on income. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. To view the price schedule and information on how to apply for a discount click here. How to Register On-Line: Members receive free tickets to all services. Membership for one year is 1% of your annual income but not less than $300 for a single person household or $400 for a two or more person household. A special $75 membership is also available to adults under age 30. To join or renew your Beyt Tikkun Membership on-line, click here. Non-Members: If you want to purchase tickets via our secure server without joining right now,here click or www.beyttikkun.org/staticpages/index.php/hhd_2012. By Phone: If you have any questions or you wish to register by telephone, please call us at (510) 528-6250and leave a message with your name and phone number and good times to call you. We will call you back  and complete your reservation by phone.  Links to High Holy Day Pages: Main High Holy Day Page ll On-Line Registration ll l l Directions