Shabbat Shuva, the Shabbat of Return, is the Shabbat between Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur.
Nesshama Carelbach’s beautiful rendition of her father’s song is a wonderful way to welcome us to this special time.
Close your eyes and become a part of this meditative experience.
G’mar chatima tova, May you have a good seal- May it be a year of health and blessing.
Donald Trump words must be rebuked.
The dark rantings and ravings, the calls for violence, and the hatred of others is unacceptable. It has no place in civil society and needs to be condemned.
During Elul, we include Psalm 27 in our prayers. Line 4 is most familiar, performed by the incomparable Chava Mirel and translated by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat:
Only one thing do I ask of You, Yah:
Just this alone do I seek, I want to be at home with you, Yah,
All the days of my life.
I want to delight in seeing You.
Seeing You when I come to visit You in Your temple.
Shabbat Shalom
We welcome Shabbat with the song Shalom Aleichem, May Peace be upon you.
It is a message brought by the Angels of the Divine and a way for us to greet each other.
May this Shabbat be one of peace.
Shabbat Shalom
In response to the 1973 Yom Kippur War and inspired by the Beatles, Let It Be, Naomi Shemer created Lu Yehi, Let it be.
This Shabbat, we continue to pray for the hostages to come home, and for the bloodshed to stop.
Shabbat Shalom
Baruch Dayan HaEmet
We are heartbroken at the news of the murder of the six hostages, Eden Yerushalmi, Hirsch Goldberg Polin, Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Alexander Lobanov, and Almog Sururi.
In our grief, there is sorrow and anger. In this moment, let us sit in the pain and pray for them.
Blessed is the true judge.
As we prepare to enter Shabbat, I pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,
A place and time where we can live together, honoring the humanity in all of us.
Thank you Cantor Rachel Brook for this moving rendition of our prayer.
Shabbat Shalom
Bring them Home
We ache for the day when our people are returned home when all can be held in the arms of loving family. Let us work for this day, let us pray for this day. Peace cannot come soon enough.
Josh Groban shares his gift with us, sending our prayers heavenward.
Shabbat Shalom
#BringThemHome
Shabbat is not the same. As we welcome the Shabbat Bride, too many of us feel the absence of loved ones lost in the carnage and war.
Idan Raichal, an extraordinary poet/singer/songwriter, shares this sad longing for those we only wish could “Return”
#bringthemhome
Wishing you Shabbat Shalom
The tired hours that don’t let time run
The heavy legs that find no reason to walk
The days and nights like the faces in the pictures
Everything stops when you’re not here
And waking up from a dream and feeling you close
Then calling you out of the night
Come back! Come back today!
I so wanted you to come!
I wish you would come without announcing today
I am a tower of light.
From distances that will reappear
I wish you would come without announcing today.
