Selikhot, an inspiring service of song, music, prayer and readings that will invite us to ask ourselves: how do I want to grow spiritually in the new year ahead? Do I have a pommel horse routine?
How should we be thinking about our spiritual goals for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? Is our goal to become an all-around better person? To become kinder and gentler and more empathetic in all ways? Or is more helpful to focus: This year I want to focus on X?
At Selikhot on Saturday night, September 28, at 8:00, we will encounter the High Holiday liturgy in its haunting and lyrical beauty. We will sing the songs and say the words that let us know the yamim noraim are coming. We will hear choir and clergy bring ancient songs to life. And we will watch this clip of American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik, an American male gymnast who did one thing really, really well: the pommel horse.
His routine on the pommel horse won the American male gymnast team a medal. He was not a general gymnast. Pommel horse was his only thing, and his focus helped him, and his team, thrive.
Do we have our version of a pommel horse? Should we? If we should, what is it? If we don’t, how do we get it?
Join us in Reisman Hall or via livestream here.
View the songsheet here.
View our service booklet here.
View Stephen Nedoroscik’s routine here.
