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Kol Nidre Mahzor

At first glance, Yom Kippur with its weighty themes of atonement and forgiveness, might not seem like a holiday for children. Yom Kippur does not offer the merriment of Purim, nor the narrative of Passover and Hanukkah. But, Yom Kippur contains many significant points of connection for children and their parents.

Kol Nidre takes place at dusk, the awesome transition from day to night. A child’s first memory of Yom Kippur might be eating an early dinner, watching mom and dad drink glass after glass of water, riding to shul as the shadows lengthen, and seeing the synagogue parking lot filled with cars as never before.

As the parents approach the synagogue, they hold their children’s hands tightly.

The Sanctuary shines with brilliant white kippot and tallitot. The atmosphere seems charged and magnetized. Unfamiliar words like “fasting,” “sin,” “the Book of Life,” and “the holiest night of the year” are floating in the air. As dusk arrives, and darkness encroaches, people gather closer together. Kids wonder at all the extraordinary sights and sounds. They feel excited and happy that their parents are close at this magical time.

Kol Nidre provides a unique opportunity for children to witness their parents publicly reciting their sins. Parents model a path of forgiveness for their children.

They admit what they have done wrong and ask for forgiveness from one another and from their children, encouraging their children to do the same. Children see their parents and other parents asking and receiving forgiveness from one another. Families unite in community.

It is in this spirit of the child’s experience of awe and wonder on this holy night that we present this book.

The Flame of Memory We light candles for many reasons.

On Shabbat, we light candles to celebrate God’s creation, the end of the work week, and the warmth of our homes.

At the end of Shabbat, we light a beautiful, twisted Havdalah candle to say goodbye to Shabbat and welcome a new week.

On Hanukkah, we light candles to celebrate victory in battle and the miracle of the burning oil.

On this day, Yom Kippur, we light a yahrzeit candle to remember people we love who are no longer alive.

This is a yahrzeit candle. It will burn for 24 hours or more.

Something to Think About Parents: Tell your children the name of someone you loved who has died and share a special memory about that person.

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God’s Blanket

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n every other day of the year, we put on our tallit only in the morning.

But, on this day, we put on our tallit at night because it is the holiest day of the year.

We wrap ourselves in God’s holiness.

The cloth of the tallit covers us like a blanket.

It reminds us of God’s protection.

The fringes of the tallit remind us to do the mitzvot.

Sometimes we place the tallit over our heads to have a special private moment with God. Let’s say the blessing for the tallit and put on our tallitot together:

x¤y`£ ,m¨lFr¨d K¤ln «¤ Epi«d¥Ÿl¡` ¨i§i d¨Y`© KEx¨A .z¦vi¦SA© s¥H©rz§ d¦ l§ Ep«¨Ev¦ e§ ,ei¨zŸev§ n¦ A§ Ep«W ¨ C¦ §w Praised are You, Adonai, Ruler of the Universe, who has made us holy

by Your mitzvot and commands us to wrap ourselves in tzitzit.

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Parents’ Blessing

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n Yom Kippur parents stand with their children before God. As God blesses us with God’s forgiveness, we embrace our children and bless them with the following prayer: May all your worthy dreams come true.

May your heart be filled with goodness.

May your hands be busy with mitzvot.

May your mouths speak truth and wisdom.

May your eyes see the beauty of Creation.

May your ears hear the words of Torah.

May your shoulders be strong enough to carry the less fortunate.

May your mind remain curious about the world.

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Saying “I’m Sorry”

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uring the year, we try to apologize for the bad things we have done.

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for saying “I’m sorry.”

Turn to your mother or father, your grandmother or grandfather, your brother or sister, or to your friend and say these words:

I made a mistake, and I am sorry that I hurt you and let you down.

Please forgive me.

I will try to do better next time.

When we turn to the other person and say “I’m sorry,” God smiles.

When we hear an apology and say “I forgive you,” God smiles.

Yom Kippur has worked its magic, and we smile, too.

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Kol Nidre

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he sun is about to set. Day will soon turn into night, and Yom Kippur will begin.

The entire congregation stands and prepares to pray Kol Nidre.

Kol Nidre is about the power of words and promises.

We need God’s help.

We ask God to help us keep all the promises we will make during the coming year.

We ask God to help us think about the words we use to make our promises.

We know, and God knows, we must choose our words very carefully.

When we break our promises, people are disappointed in us.

We disappoint them, we disappoint ourselves, and we disappoint God. The prayer of Kol Nidre reminds us to only make promises we can keep.

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An Invitation to Prayer We rise.

The reader calls out the first line of the Bar’khu and we answer with the second line.

We bow our heads and bend our knees as we echo this call to prayer.

Reader:

.KxŸ¨an§ d© ¨i§i z¤` Ekx¨ §A .KxŸ¨an§ d© ¨i§i z¤` Ekx¨ §A

Blessed is Adonai, we praise God.

Congregation:

.KxŸ¨an§ d© ¨i§i z¤` Ekx¨ §A .c¤r¨e m¨lFr§l KxŸ¨aO§ d© ¨i§i KEx¨A .c¤r¨e m¨lFr§l KxŸ¨aO§ d© ¨i§i KEx¨A We praise Adonai, now and forever.

Reader: We praise Adonai, now and forever.

.c¤r¨e m¨lFr§l KxŸ¨aO§ d© ¨i§i KEx¨A

Something to Think About Parents and children: Why do you think we bow our heads and bend our knees as we say this prayer?

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The First Blessing Before the Shema The Gift of Creation

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e praise You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the universe, Who makes the sunset. Every morning, You open the gates of dawn with Your wisdom.

Every year You create time, cause the seasons to change, and arrange the stars in the sky.

Awesome Creator of day and night, You roll light away from darkness and darkness away from light, causing the day and causing the night.

Adonai Tz’vaot, Ruler of Time and Space, Praised are You, Who makes the sunset.

Something to Think About In our busy lives we often can’t see the sun rise or the sun set. But remember, seeing the beauty of dawn and dusk can make us feel closer to God.

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The Second Blessing Before the Shema The Gift of Torah

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od showed His love for us by giving us the gift of the Torah.

By following the Torah, we show our love for God. Dear God, rah and

en us the To You love us so much, You have giv Your commandments.

t You, to remember The Torah teaches us to think abou nor our parents, to love Shabbat and make it special, to ho ct older people, to be our neighbors as ourselves, to respe poor. fair, to be honest, and to care for the of Your Torah that We are so thankful for the treasure wake up, its words before we go to sleep and when we are in our minds and on our lips. ppy.

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Praised are You, Adonai, Who loves With love, The Jewish People

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the people Israel.

The Shema

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od taught Moses the words of the Shema.

Just as Moses then taught these important words to the Jewish people in the desert, we teach our children the Shema in our homes, schools, and synagogues.

Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

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,d¤ e§ d.LŸl¡ cŸ`¤`n§| ¨i§i l¨z¥ ka`§ E Y¨,L§ l¨ kNa§`¥E d¨ ,L§amia¨x¨ l§¦aC© |§ dl¨kA§Ei¨d,Li¤ a§ W d© `t¨§ ©pe§ m¨YN§p`¥©PdW .L¤ax¨ rd,mFI© | x¤ ,d¤ ¨¦ e§ mi ¦a¨ l§C© §d| l©Ei¨ e§ .LdcŸ¤`L§En§v© n§ l¨i¦ kka§ŸpE`¨ ,L§ WWt§`£©p Teach the words of Torah to your children and speak them at home L§Ykp§and ,L¤ A§ | go, L§ a§,mFI© W ¦ Ayou §d ,m¨ §i¦AatkŸc§ ¦`¨e ,Li¤ pWa¨`£l§ m¨ ©P¤lW ¦a§everywhere e§E .L¤ aza¨i¥l§ayou l© rYbefore L§AEtov©sleep n§Y¨ x© pnight |and x¤ go when you wake up in the morning. l© r |

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I command you: Love the Lord Your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. Let the words of Torah live in your heart.

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.c¨g`¤ | ¨i§i ,Epi«d¥Ÿl¡` | ¨i§i ,l¥`x§ ¨U¦i | r©nW § The Shema .c¤r¨e m¨lFr§l FzEk§ln© cFa§M m¥W KEx¨A l¨ka§ E ,L§aa¨ l§ | l¨kA§ ,Li¤dŸl¡` | ¨i§i z¥` Y¨ a§ d© `¨ e§ ,d¤N`¥ d¨ mix¨ ¦aC© §d Ei¨de§ .LcŸ¤`n§ l¨ka§ E ,L§Wt§ ©p m¨Y§p©PW ¦ e§ .L¤aa¨ l§ | l©r ,mFI©d L§Ev© n§ i¦kŸp`¨ | x¤W`£ L§Yk§ ¤la§ E ,L¤zi¥aA§ L§Ya§ W ¦ A§ ,m¨A Y¨ x© §Ac§ ¦e ,Li¤pa¨ l§ l©r | zF`§l m¨Yx© §Ww§ E .L¤nEw§aE ,L§Ak§ W ¨ a§ E ,Kx¤C© ¤a l©r | m¨Ya§ z© k§ E .Li¤pi¥r | oi¥A zŸth¨Ÿhl§ Ei¨de§ ,Lc¨ ¤i .Lix¨ ¤rW § a¦ E L¤zi¥A zFfªfn§ And Adonai said to Moses: “Tell the people of Israel to put white fringes on the corners of their clothes and one blue fringe among all the white ones. The fringes will remind them that I freed them from Egypt and to follow My commandments; to always do good instead of bad.

Something to Do and Think About Children: Look at the fringes of your tallit. Each one represents a commandment.

Choose a fringe.

Use your imaginaton and tell your parents the mitzvah you see in the fringe you selected.

For example, this fringe reminds me to hear the sounds of the shofar. And this fringe You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) reminds me to honor my father and mother.

And that fringe over there, reminds me to build a sukkah.

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The First Blessing After the Shema The Gift of Freedom

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ur escape from slavery is so important, we remember it every day.

Again, we stand at the shore of the Sea of Reeds, before it parted, with the soldiers of Pharoah, chasing after us. We remember our fear, and then we see the great sea split open before us.

Every day, we remember that without this miracle we would not be a free people today.

Who is like You, Adonai, the awesome Maker of miracles?

Your children saw Your power when You parted the sea before Moses.

Praised are You, Adonai, who has saved the people Israel.

Something to Think About Prayers help us to go back in time. In fact, the prayer book can be seen as a time capsule containing all of Jewish history.

Parents and children: If you could go back in time, what event in Jewish history would you like to be a part of? Which Jewish personality would you like to meet and why?

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The Second Blessing After the Shema The Gift of Protection

n this prayer, we ask God for protection when we sleep.

Help us, God, to lie down in peace at night and to wake up refreshed in the morning.

Spread Your sukkah of peace over us.

Guide us with Your wisdom.

Shield us from enemies and sickness, from hunger and war.

Defeat the evil forces that surround us.

Shelter us in the shadow of Your wings.

Guard our coming and our going.

Give us life and peace, now and always.

Praised are You, O Lord, Protector of Your people Israel.

Something to Think About Parents and children: What helps you to stop being afraid?

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The Amidah: A Family Album

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he first paragraph of the Amidah is like a family photo album of our relatives who lived 4,000 years ago. We say their names and remember their good deeds.

Dear God, Adonai, God of our fathers and mothers God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob God of Sarah, God of Rebecca, God of Rachel, and God of Leah You are great and powerful, God, and You act with supreme loving kindness.

You create everything.

You remember the good deeds of our fathers and mothers, and You love and care for us.

On the High Holy Days, we ask You to remember our deeds of loving kindness and to write our names again in the Book of Life.

You are a king, helper, life saver, and shield.

Blessed are You, who protects Abraham and keeps His promise to Sarah.

(She will have a child!)

Something to Think About Parents: Tell your children about the story of a relative or friend who did a good deed.

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The Amidah: Peace, Shalom

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he last part of the Amidah is all about peace, shalom.

The Amidah recognizes that nothing is more important than peace.

Peace between countries Shalom in families Peace between brothers and sisters Shalom between parents Peace at work and peace at play Shalom in school and shalom on the playground Peace in our homes, peace in our hearts, peace on earth May God Who makes peace in heaven, make shalom for Israel and for everyone on earth, and let us say: Amen.

Epi«¥l¨r mFl¨W d¤U£r©i `Ed ,ei¨nFx§nA¦ mFl¨X d¤UŸr .o¥n`¨ Ex§n`¦ e§ ,l¥`x§ ¨U¦i l¨M l©re§ Something to Think About Parents and children: What are the things you do that help create peace in your family?

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The Book of Life

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uring the Kol Nidre service, there is a special section called “the Confessional.” This is where we admit our mistakes and ask God to forgive us.

This prayer tells us that God has a great Book of Life and in it God writes down each person’s story.

On Yom Kippur, God looks at the good and bad deeds a person has done over the past year in the hope that he or she might do better next year.

God also asks us to look over our own lives in the same way so that we can keep improving.

At the end of the prayer we ask God to continue writing our stories in the Book of Life. We get to decide what kind of story gets written down about us.

Dear God, may You write our names and stories in the Book of Life.

Something to Think About Parents and children: Think about the past year. What are you really proud of that you did this year? What are some things you might like to do in your story for next year?

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The Ashamnu • Aleph through Tav

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otice how each new word of this prayer follows the order of the Hebrew alphabet.

The first word begins with Aleph and the last word begins with Tav. There are many ways to make mistakes from A to Z in English and from Aleph to Tav in Hebrew.

On Yom Kippur we try to be honest and complete in the naming of our sins.

We pound our hearts as we say each word to ask God for forgiveness and to make sure we do better next year.

,Epi«¦e¡rd¤ .i¦tŸc Epx«§A© C¦ ,Ep§l«©f¨B ,Epc© «§bA¨ ,Ep§nW «© `¨ ,rx¨ Ep§v«©r¨i .x¤wW «¤ Ep§l«t© h¨ ,Ep§qn«© g¨ ,Epc«§©f ,Ep§rW «© x¦ §de§ ,Ep«¦e¨r ,Epx§x¨ «©q ,Ep§v«`© ¦p ,Epc§x¨ «©n ,Ep§v«©l ,Ep§a«©GM¦ ,Ep§zg«© W ¦ ,Ep§rW «© x¨ .sx«¤Ÿr Epi«X ¦ w¦ ,Epx§x¨ «©v ,Ep§rW «© R¨ .Ep§rY «¨ §rY¦ ,Epi«¦rY¨ ,Ep§a«©rY¦

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The Ashamnu • A through Z

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e pound our hearts as we say each word to ask God for forgiveness and to make sure we do better next year.

Act out in class.

Bully others on the playground.

Call people names.

Disobey parents and teachers.

Envy another person’s success.

Fight with brothers and sisters.

Get angry and lash out.

Hate people who are different.

Idolize the wrong people.

Jump to conclusions.

Keep repeating the same mistakes.

Let evil win an argument over good.

Make someone else feel bad.

Never take the time to say “I love you” or “thank you.”

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Open our mouths and bad words come out.

Pollute the earth.

Quietly stand by when someone needs our help.

Regret what we might have done.

Say God’s name in vain.

Talk about people behind their backs.

Underestimate our own abilities.

Validate someone else’s bad behavior.

Want what other people have.

Xenophobic feelings (hate strangers or foreigners).

Yell when we could have spoken softly.

Zoom down the hallways instead of walking.

Something to Think About Parents and children: Which of these sins will be hardest for you to avoid in the coming year?

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Al Heyt

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udaism understands that words can be very powerful. Words can excite us. Words can make us feel better. Words can make us happy.

But words can also make us sad. Words can hurt us. Words are easier to say, but much harder to take back.

After we ask the people we hurt to forgive us, on Yom Kippur, we ask God to forgive us for using words that could cause pain.

Notice that we do not only ask God to forgive us individually, but we also ask God to forgive all of the Jewish people as a group.

May it therefore be Your will, O Lord, our God and God of our fathers, to forgive us...

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For the sin of hurting people’s feelings For the sin of speaking behind a person’s back For the sin of saying unpleasant things For the sin of lying For the sin of speaking rudely For the sin of making fun of someone For the sin of breaking promises For the sin of bad language For the sin of embarrassing someone For the sin of spreading rumors about someone For all these things, we say “I’m sorry” to our families.

We say “I’m sorry” to our teachers, friends, and neighbors.

We say “I’m sorry” to God.

,E«p¨l l©gn§ ,E«p¨l g©lq§ ,zFg¦lq§ D© F«l¡ « ` ,m¨NMª l©re§ .E«p¨lÎx¤RM©

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Avinu Malkeinu

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n this prayer, we call God both our Father and our King.

We expect God, like a king and like a father, to be both loving and strict, accepting and demanding.

Our Father, our King, You have seen our mistakes.

Our Father, our King, You are the only One Who knows us.

Our Father, our King, deal with us kindly; we want to be better.

Our Father, our King, give us a wonderful new year.

Our Father, our King, treat us fairly and with kindness.

We are depending on You.

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How do you feel? What do you say to your parents when you have done something wrong?

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Aleinu

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Adon Olam

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ometimes our parents are far away from us.

They may be at work or on a trip. Sometimes they are close to us – while we eat and play, before we go to sleep, and when they sit next to us in synagogue. Whether our parents are near or far we are always in their hearts.

Adon Olam tells us that God, in the same way, can be both close and far away.

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A Night Prayer for a Parent to Say to a Child

e have been praying together for a long time this Yom Kippur night. We listened to the beautiful melody of Kol Nidre, we counted up our sins and asked for forgiveness.

Tomorrow we will meet once again. But now it is almost bedtime.

Here is a prayer written by Rabbi Naomi Levy for a parent to say to a child on this holiest night of the year.

As you lie down in bed, May sweet thoughts fill your head.

When I turn down the light, May your sleep fill the night.

If the dark makes you fear, Remember I am here, And God is near, So sleep, my dear, Sleep, my dear, Sleep.

Amen Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One. 35

Mahzor Hevruta (study partners) is an intrinsically Jewish way of studying. Through studying in hevruta, partners become peer teachers and often close friends who support and nurture one another intellectually and spiritually. A more modern word to describe hevruta is collaboration. This Mahzor is truly a work of collaboration and I would like to acknowledge and thank all of my hevruta partners: Steve Schutzman who continues to teach me about the beauty and power of words; Judy Meltzer who reads my rough drafts so closely you would think she was reading a Biblical text; Ann Zaiman who always encourages me to create and make things new; Alex Borinsky who reminds me how much my students have to teach me; Avi Wilcox whose illustrations have brought the text alive; Cheryl Snyderman and Rachel Levitan who have made each page of this Mahzor beautiful and unique. A special word of thanks to Erica Allen and the Chizuk Amuno clergy and staff for their assistance and support. Last but not least, I want to express special gratitude to all of the participants in the Family High Holy Day Services, especially the kids whose comments and ideas add insight and sweetness to the traditional liturgy.

Š 2014 • Compiled and written by Rabbi Stuart Seltzer 36

The reason you are holding this book in your hands is because the Chizuk Amuno Sisterhood so generously stepped forward to cover all costs of its production. It is with great pleasure that we dedicate this Mahzor for Erev Yom Kippur to them. We are humbled and honored by their continuing support of our schools.

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