Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
Shake your Lulav and
Shabbat Shalom!
As Shabbat Shuva approaches, I share Cantor Azi Schwartz’s Sh’ma Koleinu-
Please God hear us.
G’mar Chatima Tova
Wishing everyone Shabbat Shalom
Hadar featuring Deborah Sack Mintz shares Lecha Dodi as we welcome Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabotai shares a beautiful a cappella medley of Kabbalat Shabbat music to help prepare you for Shabbat. Listen to the voices and welcome Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom
A lovesong/prayer from parent to child
Shabbat Shalom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVCxzfTaZk
This beautiful song, better together, helps set the mood for Shabbat- lyrics, melody, and people combine to form an easy-listening message of deep importance.
Celebrate the power of unity with “Better Together” Song Around The World, featuring Jack Johnson, Paula Fuga, Lee Oskar and talented musicians from around the globe. This beautiful, feel-good song was a single, released in February 2006 from Jack Johnson’s third studio album, “In Between Dreams,” and was inspired by his love for his wife. “Better Together” has a universal message that “it’s always better together” when we lead with love as the answer.
Shabbat Shalom
Yedid Nefesh at the beginning of Kabbalat Shabbat, we are looking to find a way to bring us closer to God, setting the mood for welcoming Shabbat. Asaph Neve Shalom shares our love poem.
Shabbat Shalom
Within this parsha lies an extraordinary verse. As you will recall, Miriam contracted leprosy and was consigned outside the camp until she recovered. This comes on the heels of what Moses could see as a betrayal of him by Miriam, challenging his authority as the leader of the people. However, putting aside personal hurt, Moses prays to God for her recovery, saying, “El nah refanah lah. Please, God, heal her.” Moses teaches us to embrace our humanity and our need for human relationships, not mired in anger, but to replace retribution with reconciliation and to do the right thing.
In the words of the modern prophet Ted Lasso in response to Nate’s return as the prodigal son, “I hope that either all of us, or none of us, are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather, by the strength we show when and if we are ever given a second chance.”
May their words serve as lessons for us to be better, more deeply human, and connected.