How To Participate

The service officially starts at 9:00 am; however, you are welcome to enter the sanctuary at any time.  Elnatan's participation in the service will be at various points throughout the morning. 

Feel free to sit wherever you find an open seat in the sanctuary.

Follow the service in the siddur (blue prayer book) as well as the Chumash (larger red book containing the Torah and Haftarah), which contain both Hebrew and English.

It is not customary to clap for a job well done.  In lieu of clapping, people frequently use the phrase, “Yasher Koach,” loosely translated as, “more power to you.”  This is what is said when shaking the hand of a person returning to their seat after an Aliyah.  The one exception will be at the conclusion of the Torah service when the congregation will sing "Siman Tov U'Mazal Tov" and clap, celebrating Elnatan's becoming a Bar Mitzvah.