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      • 36th Anniversary Celebration
      • Havurah Origins – JCHP Interviews
      • Groups Related to Fabrangen
    • Directions to Fabrangen
    • Stay Up to Date
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    • Saturday Morning Meditation
      • More on Jewish Meditation
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    • First time at Fabrangen on Shabbat?
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    • Fabrangen in Northern Virginia
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    • High Holiday Services 2024/5785
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      • Yizkor Memorial Booklets
      • High Holiday Aron Kodesh
      • Yizkor Memorial 2023/5784
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      • Ilan Vitemberg, z”l
      • Rabbi Jeffrey Marker, z”l
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Selichot

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How Does Fabrangen Celebrate Selichot?

In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, we follow the Ashkenazic tradition of having a special service on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah in which selichot (סליחות) – prayers asking for forgiveness – are recited.

Praying and singing. Photo © Lloyd Wolf

For many years, Fabrangen and Tikkun Leil Shabbat have joined to provide a full evening for Selichot. At approximately 9:15 PM on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah, we gather for our joint celebration. We begin with multiple workshops on topics that are intellectual and/or experiential. For example, we have had hevruta (partnered) learning and then expressive art projects using clay, pipe cleaners, and other materials. We have had learning on a variety of topics, including our relationship to God, the meaning of teshuvah (forgiveness), chanting/music of the High Holidays, etc.

The Selichot gathering provides a space for a fresh approach to the High Holidays.

As Rabbi Shefa Gold says,

“With this practice, I acknowledge and celebrate the miracle of transformation. Each time I have experienced devastation, it feels as if even the possibility of Redemption is a cruel illusion. And then I find myself in Eden, surrounded by beauty, held in God’s loving embrace.”

The following melodies (not the words) were featured in the 2018 Selichot services, led by Ethan Merlin of Tikkun Leil Shabbat.

  • Nigun Elul (by Nava Tehila)
  • Elul Nigun (by Eitan Katz)
  • L’maancha (also by Eitan Katz)
  • L’cha Dodi (composed at NHC 2018)

Check the events calendar for more details.

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Email: coordinator@fabrangen.org
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Leave a message at: (202) 595-9138

Fabrangen’s in-person services (except for High Holiday services) are held at the Washington Ethical Society building:

7750 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20012

Please check the calendar for the service format for any particular Shabbat.

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May 31
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Jun 2
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Jun 14
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