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Cantor Meir Finkelstein’s best-known melody at PAS is L’dor Vador. However, on Kol Nidrei, the largest setting of the eponymous prayer that we offer is also his tune.

To help us wish you a good and sweet new year, we want to share this new setting of B’Sefer Chayim we commissioned from our friend Beth Styles.

When Cantor Schwartz sings with his children on the High Holidays, it is a special moment for them and a joy for us to share. Through the Days of Awe, let music be your guide to the ultimate solemnities and joys as we gather.

We are getting ready for the High Holidays together, in ways we all recognize and also in ways that are special to each of us. This prayer is always a high moment above many.

What secular month is upon us? "Do you remember" how we surprised Rabbi Cosgrove for his 50th birthday? What happens when the PAS Tijuana Brass come out from behind the bimah after services? Answers to these questions are found in this fun video.

There is a tradition of singing the final High Holiday Kaddish in a happy mode. This melody, from the Modzitz Chasidic movement, is sung in many congregations and appears here in a new arrangement. We wish you beautiful last days of summer, Shabbat Shalom, and a meaningful Elul.

Adon Olam shares a common meter with popular songs, allowing us to “flip the script” with a hit tune from time to time. This setting, however, is newly composed by Gilad Cohen and brings a modern flavor to our prayer. We hope you sing along and wish you a Shabbat Shalom!

Will forgiving and graceful days yet come,
When you will walk in the field like an innocent traveler,

Psalm 126 comforts us with the idea that the labor of weeping leads to the harvest of joy, and the work of mourning helps us move forward. We hope this duet inspires us all, even as we recall the destruction of the temple.

This Shabbat, we bless the new month of Av, which gives us the opportunity to reflect on an old, pious custom: the keeping of Yom Kippur Katan (a “Minor” Yom Kippur, the day before the new month).