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2024/5785 Community Tickets and Adult Children (26+) of Beth Am Member Tickets


Each High Holiday ticket includes all  Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services and programming, both in-person and on Zoom.  $154 per person. Choose '0' here if you are only attending children's programming. 
Each High Holiday ticket includes all Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services and programming, both in-person and on Zoom.  $250 Per Person. Choose "0" if you are only attending children's programming.




Ticket Requests:
Please complete the sections below for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur by Tuesday, September 12, 2024.
Each holiday has a separate section for in-person and Zoom.

 Rosh Hashanah IN-PERSON services:
Please select which services you plan on attending IN-PERSON
    This worship experience is geared for ages 5 and older and is multi-generational--children, grandparents, families, and individuals who want to experience an uplifting, interactive, joyful, one-hour service to usher in the New Year and our High Holiday season of renewal.
    This uplifting service runs concurrently with our Youth Service and Programming. Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir will lead our Rosh Hashanah Early Worship.
    Led by Rabbi Prass and our Youth Song leader, is geared towards those in grades K-5. Our students pray, learn, and enjoy this interactive, fun, special Holiday time. Reservations are required to ensure we have enough staff and program materials. 
    This half-hour song, prayer, and story-filled time is geared toward our youngest friends and their families and begins at 11:15 am. All Welcome! 
    This uplifting service, which begins at 11:45 am, is led by Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and our Tefillah (prayer) Band.
    A tradition on Rosh Hashanah afternoon dates back to the Middle Ages. Tashlich (tahsh-leekh), meaning “to cast,” is an outdoor tradition where we symbolically cast away our transgressions from the past year into a body of water, symbolizing the transformative beauty and power of creation. Our Tashlich takes place on Rosh Hashanah afternoon around 1:45 pm at Green Lake Park, 1101 Green Knolls Drive, in Buffalo Grove. Tashlich is a tradition not to be missed! Bring your own birdseed, corn, chopped lettuce, or oats to feed the ducks.
 

 Rosh Hashanah Zoom Services:
Please select which services you plan on attending ONLINE.  
Zoom links will be sent closer to each holiday. 
(one link per membership household).
    We welcome in the New Year 5785 with a service geared toward ages five and older. This worship experience is multigenerational—for children, grandparents, families, and individuals who want to experience an uplifting, interactive, joyful, one-hour service to usher in the New Year and our High Holiday season of renewal. This service is on Wednesday night, October 2, at 7:00 p.m.
 
    This uplifting service is led by Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir.
    This uplifting service, which begins at 11:45am, is led by Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and our Tefillah (prayer) Band.  

Yom Kippur IN-PERSON services. 
Please select the services you plan on attending IN-PERSON.
    This Erev Yom Kippur worship experience is geared towards ages five and older and is multi-generational--children, grandparents, families, and individuals. This worship is led by Rabbi Bellows, Rabbi Prass, and our Soloist Todd Kessler. This service a meaningful, interactive, one-hour service with the Yom Kippur themes of forgiveness and repentance, including a selection from the Kol Nidre prayer. 
    This service is geared toward 6th-grade students and up. Kol Nidre, the prayer which releases us from vows made to God in the past year, will be chanted. This solemn service is a powerful way for our community to offer teshuva, returning together. It is led by Rabbi Bellows, Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir.
    This service of prayer, contemplation, teshuva (returning), and repentance runs concurrently with our Youth Service and Programming. Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir will lead our Yom Kippur Early Worship.
    Led by Rabbi Prass and our Youth Song leader, this service and program is geared towards those in grades K- 5th. Our students pray, learn, and enjoy this interactive, special Holiday time. Reservations are required to make sure we have enough staff and program materials. 
    This half-hour song, prayer, and story-filled time is geared toward our youngest friends and their families. All Welcome! 
    This service of prayer, contemplation, teshuva (returning), and repentance begins is led by Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and our Tefillah (prayer) Band. Immediately following, we will begin the Yizkor service. (Yizkor will also be offered later, in the afternoon.)
    On October 7, 2023, Israel and the world witnessed the worst attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. At this service, we will pray, sing, and remember the more than 1400 Israelis killed.
    The Afternoon service begins at 4:00 pm and continues the themes of repentance and prayer. We will read from the Torah scroll and selections from the Book of Jonah will be recited in English. The liturgy of this service allows one to go deeper into the themes of repentance, forgiveness, and renewal. 

Yom Kippur Afternoon Yizkor Service: Yizkor, the solemn service of remembrance, will take place after our Afternoon Worship service. Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir will lead this service. (This service is also offered in the morning following the 11:45 am Late Morning worship) 

Yom Kippur Neilah Service: This service, the last service of Yom Kippur, is powerful, as our last prayers of the Yamim Noraim, Days of Awe, are uttered. At the conclusion of Neilah, we invite all who wish to join us on the bima (where the Ark and Torahs are) for Havdalah (concluding worship with candle, wine and spices), Shofar sounding, and a breaking of the fast with Motzei and Challah. If you have a shofar, please bring it to this service!

 Yom Kippur Zoom services. 
Please select which ones you plan on attending.  Zoom links will be sent closer to each holiday (one link per membership household).
    This Erev Yom Kippur worship experience is geared towards ages five and older and is multi-generational--children, grandparents, families, and individuals. This worship is led by Rabbi Bellows, Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir as we experience a meaningful, interactive, one-hour service with the Yom Kippur themes of forgiveness and repentance, including a selection from the Kol Nidre prayer. 
    This service is geared toward 6th-grade students and up. Kol Nidre, the prayer which releases us from vows made to God in the past year, will be chanted. This solemn service is a powerful way for our community to offer teshuva, returning together. It is led by Rabbi Bellows, Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir.
    This service of prayer, contemplation, teshuva (returning), is led by Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir. 
    This Yom Kippur service of prayer, contemplation, teshuva (returning), and repentance is led by Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and our Tefillah (prayer) Band. Immediately following, we will begin the Yizkor service. (Yizkor will also be offered later, in the afternoon.)
    On October 7, 2023, Israel and the world witnessed the worst attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. At this service, we will pray, sing, and remember the more than 1400 Israelis killed.
 
    The Afternoon service begins at 4:00 pm and continues the themes of repentance and prayer. We will read from the Torah scroll and selections from the Book of Jonah will be recited in English. The liturgy of this service allows one to go deeper into the themes of repentance, forgiveness, and renewal. 

Yom Kippur Afternoon Yizkor Service: Yizkor, the solemn service of remembrance, will take place after our Afternoon Worship service. Rabbi Bellows, Cantorial Soloist Todd Kessler, and the Beth Am Choir will lead this service. (This service is also offered in the morning following the 11:45 am Late Morning worship) 

Yom Kippur Neilah Service: This service, the last service of Yom Kippur, is powerful, as our last prayers of the Yamim Noraim, Days of Awe, are uttered. At the conclusion of Neilah, we invite all who wish to join us on the bima (where the Ark and Torahs are) for Havdalah (concluding worship with candle, wine and spices), Shofar sounding, and a breaking of the fast with Motzei and Challah. If you have a shofar, please bring it to this service!
 

Prayer Books Order Form
 Each order includes a Rosh Hashanah prayer book and a Yom Kippur prayer book. 
$48.00 Per Set
$100.00 Per Set

Accessible Parking and Seating

Childcare
$10 per child
$10 per child

Wed, September 18 2024 15 Elul 5784