Kadima Reconstructionist Community

Join Kadima this Saturday for the last service of our High Holidays Season, Simchat Torah!

Join us this Saturday for Simchat Torah! It’s not too late to register and today (Thursday, Oct 1st) is the last day to register to be included in the catered lunch so make sure to RSVP for lunch (link received once you register via High Holidays form).

We are still in need of volunteers (link also received after registration). Many hands make light work!
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��Simchat Torah: Saturday, October 3rd | onsite only | Southside Seattle (email for location)
* Young People’s Simchat Torah Craft Party: 10am-10:30am
* Simchat Torah Service with Hakafot (Torah circle dancing): 10:30am-12pm
* Community Lunch (Catered – RSVP here): 12pm-1pm
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We look forward to being in community and prayer with you. 🔗 Register here: https://www.kadima.org/high-holidays.html

We're excited to once again co-host SOULFUL JEWISH LIVING with our fellow Synagogues Rising communities (listed below)

If you're looking for a values-aligned, online "Intro to Judaism" course to prepare you for conversion, adult b'mitzvah, or just learning lishmah (for its own sake) – this course is for you!

Hinenu Baltimore
Kadima Reconstructionist Community
Kehilla Community Synagogue
Kolot Chayeinu
Kol Tzedek Synagogue
Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue
New Synagogue Project
Or Shalom Jewish Community
Shir Tikvah MN Congregation
T'chiyah

✏️Weekly Schedule🗓️
Monday, September 28th - Sunday, October 4th
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🌟THURS: Kadima Board Meeting - 5:30pm
🌟FRI: Kadima Office Closed
🌟SAT: Simchat Torah - High Holidays services 5787* - 10am�

*Join us for the closing of our High Holiday season with Simchat Torah in South Seattle. We will begin the day with our Young People’s Simchat Torah Craft Party. Then we will move into our Simchat Torah Service with Hakafot (Torah circle dancing). We will end our day together with a catered community lunch. Please RSVP if you have yet to! https://www.kadima.org/high-holidays.html
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🔗 Link below for full Kadima calendar and more details. ✨Join us!💫

https://www.kadima.org/calendarofevents.html

“This entire drasha… might read like the acknowledgements section at the end of a book, but my attempt is to provide teaching on the practice of acknowledgement and gratitude. May there be lessons and also Torah in them each."
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For R’ David’s full Shabbat Divrei Torah this week and to read past blog entries, see the link below!

Shabbat Shalom from all of us at Kadima! ✨🕯️💛🕯️✨

https://www.kadima.org/blog

Join Kadima this weekend for our Community Sukkah Hop and next week for Simchat Torah!

��🌟 Community Sukkah Hop | Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th | Locations emailed upon registration��

Kadima members are organizing a Sukkah Hop, with community member-hosted Sukkot to visit from Green Lake to Cap Hill to Columbia City! A full map with Sukkah host locations, hours, and emails of hosts will be coming soon to your inbox (so long as you are registered for Kadima's High Holidays!).�

🌟Simchat Torah: Saturday, October 3rd | onsite only | Southside Seattle (email for location)

* Young People’s Simchat Torah Craft Party: 10am-10:30am
* Simchat Torah Service with Hakafot (Torah circle dancing): 10:30am-12pm
* Community Lunch (Catered – RSVP here): 12pm-1pm
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We look forward to being in community and prayer with you. 🔗 Registration for both events here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/N726ls3YpTdIHRWEAHmRYA?t=1785869893

“On Yom Kippur, even Samael testifies that we Jews are collectively like the ministering angels.

Our becoming angelic is not an abstraction. It happens through what we do with our bodies and with one another. For one day, we step outside our ordinary patterns of footwear, food, posture, conflict, and guilt. We become angelic.

Let this be a turning point. Let this be a hinge. The rest of our lives—the rest of Kadima’s life—begins anew now, again.

May this angelic state not be a performance of perfection, but a practice of returning—to one another, to our values, and to the practice of reconstruction. The practice of loving repair."
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For R’ David’s full Shabbat Divrei Torah this week and to read past blog entries, click here: https://www.kadima.org/blog

Shabbat Shalom from all of us at Kadima!
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Kadima High Holidays continue with Kol Nidre services this Sunday, and Yom Kippur services this coming Monday. 🕯

To those who have joined us in making these High Holidays meaningful thus far, we are so grateful for your presence. If you have yet to join us and wish to, it is not too late to register!�

זָכְרֵנוּ לְחַיִּים
Zochreinu L'Chayim
Remember Us for Life 🕯

In a world marked by grief, uncertainty, and profound challenges, the High Holidays call us back to one another. They ask us to choose life: to show up, to reflect, to reconnect, and to renew our sense of purpose and possibility.

We need not arrive fully repaired or with every question resolved. No. We come together because the work of living, healing, and becoming is communal work and it is ongoing. In this season of teshuvah, we also practice tokhecha: the sacred work of telling difficult truths with love and receiving them with humility, so that we can return to ourselves, to one another, and to the world we are trying to build.

Join us for the High Holidays 5787 season as we seek to be remembered for life—and as we help make our community a place where life, in all its complexity and possibility, can flourish.
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YOM KIPPUR SCHEDULE:�

🌟 Kol Nidre | Sunday, Sept 20th | 6:30pm-9pm

🌟 Yom Kippur | Monday, Sept 21st | 9:30am-9pm
- Littles Family Services - 9:30am-10am
- Morning Services - 9:45am-1:45pm
- Family Services - 10:15am-11am
Afternoon Workshops:
— What are Values and What are Ours? With Kadima’s Values Task Force - 1:45pm-3pm
— The Sacred Art of Tokhechah: Calling One Another In as a Key Step in Teshuvah with Rabbi David- 3:15pm-4:30pm
- Yizkor Service - 5pm-6:30pm
- Ne’ilah Service & Havdalah - 7pm-8pm
- Break Fast Potluck - 8pm-9pm
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We look forward to being in community and prayer with you. Gmar tov! 🕯💞🕯

🔗 Click link to register: https://www.kadima.org/high-holidays.html

✏️Weekly Schedule🗓️
Monday, September 14th - Sunday, September 20th
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🌟WEDS: Weekly Torah Study - 12pm
🌟THURS: Kadima Board Meeting - 5:30pm
🌟SAT: Kol Nidre - High Holidays services 5878* - 6pm

��*Come join us this Sunday for the continuation of our High Holidays season services. Please find the registration link in our bio if you have yet to register to join us for the High Holidays.

We look forward to being in community and prayer with you! Shanah Tovah!
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🔗 Link below for full Kadima calendar and more details. ✨Join us!💫

https://www.kadima.org/calendarofevents.html

“While Jewish tradition has much to say about so many aspects of this annual seven week season, no rabbi nor Jewish community has ever before lived through these particular seven weeks this particular year until us, together, right now.

Today is the precipice of the end of these seven weeks of struggle, of work, of emotion, of thinking. Of list making and community gathering. Of planning and preparing. Of transition and transformation. Of realization and confronting. Of wrestling and doing. Of conflict and repair. Of life and of loss.

I hope you have been able to share in the journey Kadima has laid out over these last seven weeks.

All leading to now. To this evening – later today on the Gregorian calendar, and fully tomorrow on the Jewish calendar. To sundown. To a new beginning. To 5787 and all it will bring, all it can bring, all we will cause it to bring.

Shabbat Rosh HaShanah Shalom, l’Shanah Tovah u'Metukah and Anyada Beuna, Dulse i Alegre."
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For R’ David’s full Shabbat Divrei Torah this week and to read past blog entries, click here: https://www.kadima.org/blog

Shabbat Shalom from all of us at Kadima!
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