Why is it that during the High Holidays the ushers sometimes won t allow people to enter or leave the sanctuary?
Because the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services are so profoundly important to so many of us, the Ritual Committee feels a responsibility to maintain a quiet and prayerful atmosphere in the sanctuary during services. This is the case throughout the services, but it is particularly true during certain prayers and messages. It is for this reason that the ushers will ask us all to refrain from entering or leaving the sanctuary at the following times: during the Kedushah at all services, during the chanting of Hineni, during each recitation of the kol Nidre prayer, and during the Rabbi s sermons and the UJA and Kol Nidre appeals.
