We Were Made for This Repair – 14Y Selah High Holidays 5786

Once a year, we’re invited to begin again. At 14Y Selah, the High Holidays are more than services, they’re a sacred season of healing, reflection, and return.

This year’s theme, We Were Made for This Repair, reminds us that the cracks in our stories are where the light can enter. Across Rosh Hashanah, the Ten Days of Repair, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and our special Kintsugi Workshop, we’ll hold space for real conversations and the kind of belonging that begins with showing up as you are.

Join us for one event or the full series.

Rosh Hashanah: Experiential Services + Brunch
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 11 AM – 1PM
Location: 17 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of the world – and we’re throwing an epic birthday party. But like most birthdays, it’s not just about balloons and beginnings. This is a time to start fresh with our whole selves – grief, hope, mess and all.

Join us on the second day of Rosh Hashanah for experiential, songful prayer, followed by a New Year’s brunch to open up a season of dreaming, healing, and possibility.

NEW THIS YEAR: Reflection Email Journey
When you register, you’ll also be enrolled in our free Kintsugi: Made for Your Repair email series — a 10-day journey through reflection, return, and repair. Each morning between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, you’ll receive a short email with a reflection, a “gold line” prompt, and a moment of meaning to carry into your day. This offering is available to all registrants, or can be accessed by choosing the “Email Journey Only” ticket option.

Kintsugi Workshop: We Were Made for This Repair
When: Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 6-8pm
Location: 14th Street Y | 344 E 14th Street, NYC

The ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi teaches us that brokenness is not the end, but an invitation to transformation. By mending cracked pottery with gold, Kintsugi reveals that our fractures can become sites of beauty, strength, and renewal. In this special hands-on workshop, facilitators Esther Mun and Sarah Tintle will guide us through this practice as a spiritual metaphor for the High Holidays.

Please don’t break anything to bring. Use cracked, chipped, or broken ceramics or wood you already have (no glass).

Yom Kippur: What We Hold, What We Let Go
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025, 3-4:30pm
Location: 17 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Yom Kippur is one of our favorite days of the year, not because it’s easy, but because it’s full of potential! (If you can break something, we think you can fix it.) There’s something sacred about stopping to notice what’s shifted and what might still be possible. We’ll gather for dynamic prayer, elements of traditional liturgy, and playful conversation about release, repair, and the kind of belonging that begins with showing up as we are.

Ecstatic Sukkah: A Ceremony of Impermanence
Date: Thursday October 9, 2025
Location: 344 E.14th Street, NY 10002, Rooftop Sukkah

The sukkah is a home that knows it won’t last. In a world that clings to permanence, Sukkot invites us to celebrate the beauty of what is fleeting, fragile, and fully alive. Join us for an immersive evening of music, movement, and ritual inside the sukkah, where we’ll honor the joy of being here now, even in all our uncertainty. Come ready to shake the lulav, sing under the stars, and root yourself in what remains when everything else shifts!