High Holiday Interpretive Services

Every Jew is welcome.

High Holidays don't have to be an all-or-nothing experience.

We invite you to join us at Chabad this Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur, to try out Rabbi Yochanan Posner's unique Interpretive High Holiday Service. No one else does it quite the way he does! 

Rabbi Posner shows the meaning and relevance of the prayer text and uses humor to make it engaging and enjoyable. He explains every prayer and liturgical poem in English as the congregation is saying it, and that is why it is called the Interpretive Service.  There is no wasted time, and the  Interpretive Service ends at the same time as the classic services. 

If you are accustomed to a Non-Orthodox style service with lots of English, but you want to try something else, the Interpretive Service if for you. If you are comfortable with an Orthodox service that skips nothing and is in Hebrew, you will also like the Interpretive Service.

You may be asking, how can he possibly do that? Well, there is only one way to find out! Just show up! And yes, we mean that literally, Just show up! No tickets needed and no assigned seats. Just come! We’ll be ready to greet you with a smile. 

If you don't have lots of time, please feel free to come and go as you please. No one will look at you funny for arriving late, or leaving before it is over. We just want you to come!  Of course if you want to help us prepare properly, you can reserve voluntarily, and although there is no charge, we do accept donations if you can and want to give.