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High Holiday Resources

Make your Jewish High Holiday experience accessible and meaningful for everyone in your family or classroom! Browse and download free High Holiday resources for children and teens with disabilities and diverse learning needs, prepared by Gateways’ experienced special education teachers.

High Holiday Blessings

Illustrating each word of the blessing with a symbol makes it more accessible and understandable for pre-readers and those with disabilities and diverse learning needs. Use these downloadable blessing printouts to learn a blessing’s meaning, follow along, and recite the blessing.

The blessings are written out here in three ways: large print Hebrew text, an English transliteration accompanied by Picture Communication Symbols®, and a simple English translation.

Blessing for Lighting the Candles

Blessing for Apples and Other Fruit

Blessing for Hearing the Shofar

Kiddush — Blessing over Wine

Shehecheyanu — Blessing for New Things

Build Your Own High Holiday Social Story

Customize your very own High Holiday social story by printing out sections that are of interest and assembling them into a single book or a little library of short stories. You may also want to add in some of our general going-to-temple social stories.

Blowing the Shofar

What to Think and Do if the Shofar Sounds Too Loud

Going to High Holiday Services Online

We Go to Temple on Rosh Hashanah

People Say “Shanah Tovah” on Rosh Hashanah

We Go to Temple on Yom Kippur

My Parents May Fast on Yom Kippur

What “Breaking the Fast” Means

High Holiday Activities

High Holiday Services Bingo

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Apple & Honey Spot-the-Pattern

image symbol for apples and honey pattern matching activity

Shofar Puzzle

picture symbol of a shofar

Weighing Our Deeds Activity

High Holiday Crafts

Apple Print Rosh Hashanah Cards

photo of apple print cards

Rosh Hashanah Messages

photo of a rosh hashanah message card

Pomanders for Yom Kippur

photo of apple pomander activity

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