Selichot 2023

Selichot Choral Service & Film
Saturday 9 September, 20:30-00:10

Selichot is a beautiful way to bring yourself towards the High Holy Days and to enhance their spiritual impact. We come together on a Saturday evening to hear for the first time the sound of the High Holy Days and the poems which search our souls.

We will start the evening with the quirky Coen brother’s film ‘A Serious Man’ which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture on its release in 2010. With echoes of the Book of Job, the filmcentres on a Minnesotan Jewish man, Larry Gopnik, whose life crumbles both professionally & personally, leading him to questions about his faith. Much of it is set in the Conservative Jewish community of the city, the Bar Mitzvah of Larry’s son Danny, and his nightmare Cheder! The film opens in subtitled Yiddish and then quickly moves to America.

After a break for refreshments, at 23:00 we will begin our beautiful choral service led by our rabbis, our Cantors and featuring the EHRS Choir and cellist, Ekaterina Solomenik.