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Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur

Explore our LGBTQ-affirming articles, rituals, and Torah commentaries to enrich your observance of the High Holidays.

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Cultivate a Culture of Belonging: Guidance for Synagogue Greeters

Make sure you give a great first impression at your congregation this High Holiday season!
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Keshet Conversations: High Holiday Safety for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color with Joshua Maxey

Joshua Maxey talks to Keshet about safety and security as an LGBTQ+ Jew of Color.
Reluctant Prophets: Reading the Book of Jonah as a Queer Jew of Color

Being a queer Jew of Color can often feel like being asked to become a prophet — check out Saffron Mala Kaplan's insightful d'var torah!
Teshuvah After a Year of Conflict and Pain

How do we engage in teshuvah right now? Maybe we go outside the binary of right/wrong. Maybe we don't repair, but rather seek to understand and empathize both with ourselves and with those we have harmed and who have harmed us.
The Shofar is Calling Us toward Queer Reconciliation: A Kavanah

Let the shofar wake you up to what is possible this High Holiday season.
Three Keshet Rabbis, Three Hundred Musings on the High Holidays

What Keshet's staff rabbis are thinking about and hoping for as the holidays approach.
To Be Holy: When Yom Kippur and National Coming Out Day Fall on the Same Day

Keshet intern Nuriel Gutman shares why these two holy days have more in common than you might think.
Turning Back to Teshuvah

Learn how teshuvah can be a source of catharsis and healing, particularly from an LGBTQ+ perspective.
Homophobia Hurts All of Us, Especially God

Learn from Rabbi Mike Moskowitz about why discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community is an affront to life — and life's Source.
Simanim / Ye’i Rasones for Rosh Hashanah

Go beyond apples and honey with traditional and new foods for participatory magic! Created by Binya Koatz and daph ben david with Keshet.
A Kavanah – Directing our Hearts and Minds: A Declaration of Intention that we bring to the reading of Leviticus 18

Intention to be read before reading Leviticus 18 on Yom Kippur, regarding the Torah’s enumerations of prohibited sexual relationships
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5767 Sermon

A sermon delivered on Rosh Hashanah eve using twilight as a metaphor for transgender people, remarking on the holiness of intermediate space.
Days of Awe: Turning To Do Good

A reflection on the Al Cheyt high holiday prayer which focuses on the sins of transphobia and homophobia.
The Place of No Distance

Read this powerful poem from Thea Hillman marking one year since October 7.
Atoning for Unintentional Harm

How do we atone when we miss the mark and cause harm? Contributor Aviva Davis provides useful insight.
Teshuvah Means Living Out Loud

A big theme of the high holidays is "teshuvah," often translated as repentance. But teshuvah can mean so much more; it can also mean honoring yourself for who you are.
From The Look Of Love From The Eyes Of Pride (Tu B’Av)

This Torah Queery reflects on the proximity between Tu B'av and Tisha B'Av.
Sinking into Compassion (Yom Kippur) (Book of Jonah)

A Torah Queery about Jonah's attachment to judgment.
Returning to Mitzrayim (Parashat Acharei Mot)

This Torah Queery looks at the link between Passover and Yom Kippur.
The Queer Community “Collectively“ Comes Out (Parashat Nitzavim)

This Torah Queery calls upon us to continuously grow and change to become more our true selves.
Entering the Holy of Holies (Rosh Hashanah)

This Torah Queery examines the Song of Songs as a path for being aware of God's presence in the universe, which is our ultimate purpose behind all of our Jewish traditions.
Eighteen Twenty-Two (Yom Kippur)

This Torah Queery decontructs Leviticus 18:22 word for word.
Days of Awe(some) (Days of Awe)

This Torah Queery highlights the conneciton between the High Holidays and the experiences of Queer people.
Kol Nidre: Uncovering Our True Selves

Rabbi Barbara Penzner explores the concept of ‘nistarot,’ hidden thoughts and secrets, to illuminate the different ways Jews have had to hide parts of their identities throughout Jewish history, and the ways that LGBTQ people too have had to hide parts of their identities.