The Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad will be hosting services for the High Holidays in the coming days

The Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad will be hosting celebrations for the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur over the next few days.

Rosh Hashanah will begin the evening of September 22 and ends at nightfall on the 24th. The holiday celebrates the Jewish New Year and the creation of the world. Rabbi Mendy Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center explained that it is a time where members may wish each other, “Shanah Tovah,” or “good year,” and express their gratitude and love for God through the sounding of the shofar, or ram’s horn. The Jewish Center will be celebrating the holiday on September 23 with services throughout the day.

Yom Kippur will begin on the evening of October 1 and end on the 2nd, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah. It is a time of repentance and acknowledging the atonement for the Jewish people, and a time of deep introspection. An evening service will be held at the Jewish Center on Wednesday October 1 and services will be held throughout the day of Thursday October 2 with the breaking of the 26 hour fast during the evening of Yom Kippur Day.

“It’s a beautiful time to get together with the members of our community,” Rabbi Mendy Greenberg said. “It’s a beautiful time to get together and celebrate our Judaism and celebrate what this means, be able to wish each other with blessings of a good year, being able to connect to our identity and being able to learn in a more serious and a meaningful and uplifting way, in an inspirational way of what our mission here on Earth and how we can go forward and continuing that with a whole new resolve, for this new fresh year to be done the best way possible.”

More information about the services can be found at https://www.matsujewishcenter.org/