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Prayer is a language that each of us speaks and hears in a different way. When we pray together, we try to find meaning within the chorus of diverse voices. With engaging sermons, stimulating teachings, and meaningful prayer intertwined with music, our clergy show us how the lessons from the past are relevant to our lives today.
Through a wide range of spiritual experiences we offer something for everyone, including weekly Shabbat evening and Shabbat morning services. In addition, special services are held throughout the year which include “Pray and Play,” “Shalom Yoga,” and so much more.
Our services are fully egalitarian (men and women participate equally). We believe we have found a healthy balance between the traditional and the creative. Services are a blend of Hebrew and English that helps everyone feel comfortable. Our prayer book, Mishkan T’filah, contains transliterations adjacent to all Hebrew prayers so that everyone, including guests, can participate easily and fully. We use both traditional and contemporary melodies. People who attend vary from those with traditional backgrounds to Jews by choice as well as guests of all faiths.
Schedule of Services:
Shabbat Evening Service
Erev Shabbat Services: Fridays, 7:00 pm (except the 1st Friday night of the month)
Kabbalat Shabbat Services: 1st Friday night of the month – 6:30 pmMorning Service
Saturdays
10:30 am, September - JuneHoliday Services & Special Events
Please see our Calendar for a full listing of services
Rock Shabbat Services
Check here for more information on our musical Shabbat services.
Rabbi's Most Recent Shabbat Greetings:
This Shabbat is different from other Shabbatot. We stand at the threshold of a new year, just before Selichot, just before Rosh Hashanah. In additiion, this year, there is another threshold we have just crossed: Labor Day, a day when we pause to recognize the work that sustains our families, our communities, and our society.
There is a beautiful connection between Labor Day and our double portion, Nitzavim–Vayelech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30) gives us a word that feels especially powerful at this moment: hayom – today. The text begins by teaching us: “Atem nitzavim hayom kulchem lifnei Adonai Eloheichem (29:9)” – “You are standing today, all of you, before Adonai your God.” The question is: Why today? Of course they were standing there that day. Why emphasize it?
The rabbis teach that hayom is not simply a date on the calendar. It is a spiritual invitation: Today is the day we choose to begin again. We often enter the High Holy Days carrying the weight of yesterday. Often we are thinking of the things we wish we had done differently, words we wish we hadn’t said, opportunities we missed. But the Torah reminds us that we are not defined only by our past. We are capable of standing before God, and before one another, today.
And then, further in the portion, Moses says, “Lo uchal od latzet v’la’vo (31:2)” – “I am no longer able to go out and come in.” His own journey is coming to an end. Yet the Torah’s message is not about endings alone. It is about transition: one chapter closes, and another begins. That is exactly where we are now.
Tomorrow night, Selichot asks us to look honestly at yesterday. Rosh Hashanah asks us to imagine tomorrow. But the only place where change can actually happen is today. So perhaps the invitation of this Shabbat is very simple:
Stand where you are. Acknowledge where you have been. And believe that today, something can begin again. Hayom—today—we stand together. Hayom—today—we can forgive. Hayom—today—we can return.
And hayom, perhaps more than any other day, we can hear the quiet call of the new year asking us: Who do you want to become? May we enter these holy days not burdened by the past, and not anxious about the future, but fully present in the sacred possibility of today. Shabbat Shalom, and may we all be written and sealed for a year of blessing, health, meaning, and peace.
SHABBAT SHALOM
