Join us for inspiring, land-based, musical outdoor prayer and ceremony, led by Rabbi Lee Moore and cellist Aaron Fried! 

Our Rosh HaShana liturgy invokes the theme of "Crowning God as King," echoing ancient near-Eastern coronation ceremonies. Instead of crowning a person as a divinely chosen king, we Jews would crown God as the Ultimate Ruler. Yet many of us in this generation experience the Divine as the LifeForce that flows through all (and is beyond all), more so than a Ruler-in-the-Sky.

Against the inspiring backdrop of trees, field and sky we will take this theology seriously while nevertheless asking: How might we crown/praise/surrender to the power of that LifeForce? What does that look like? And what does it feel like to inhabit our own sovereignty, our own power to choose the kind of year we want for ourselves and for the world?

All participants are welcome to stay for a Tashlich gathering, 2:30–4:30 pm. We'll walk down to Living Tree's private beach on the Mad River and together enact this High Holy Days ritual of casting away/releasing what no longer serves us. Meet in the field across from 307 Rte 100B. Wear good walking shoes.