Holiday celebrations at Eitz Chayim are vibrant and engaging events for the entire community. They blend traditional ritual with contemporary interpretation and uniquely home-grown creative involvement.

Community participation is the hallmark of holiday celebrations at Eitz Chayim. On the High Holy Days, congregants chant Torah and Haftara, share moving personal prayers, and offer interpretive readings. Anyone and everyone is invited to blow the shofar.

At Sukkot, all are invited to help build and decorate the sukkah and to share a communal meal within its shelter. On Purim, adults and children alike dress in outrageous costumes and join in an energized, riotous reenactment of the story of Esther, Mordecai, and Haman. And every year on the second night of Passover, we have a gala Seder that transforms a traditionally family-focused holiday into a celebration that treats the entire Eitz Chayim community as family.

At these holiday celebrations and many others, our wonderful rabbi, Liza Stern, helps reintroduce us to the enchantment of our traditions and rituals, encourages us to discover our own meaning time and again, and invites us to create new, rich experiences of the holidays as individuals and together as a community.