Shabbat Services – Kehilla Community Synagogue

Kabbalat Shabbat

First Fridays (multi-access): Join us for a soulful, song-filled evening to welcome Shabbat in community with spirited and contemplative prayer. Led with voices, percussion, handpan, and guitar.

Second Fridays (in-person): BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and Beloveds Shabbat. Beloved community, this space is for Black, Brown and Indigenous folks, and folks who identify as People of Color AND their Beloveds!! Join us as we slow down, embody self-care and step fully into our time of rest. We’ll gather at 6:45 and at 7pm we will light candles and invoke sacred space together in a brief service. Please bring a potluck dish to share. This space is for us, created by us. Please contact the BIPOC Council at bipoc@kehillasynagogue.org if you would like to co-lead, lead, or create.

Fourth Fridays (during the winter and online): Liturgically Traditional, Radically Inclusive Kabbalat Shabbat. A.k.a. Rad Trad Kab Shab. This service is songful and in Hebrew (transliteration provided), following the full liturgy. Whether this type of prayer service is new for you, familiar, or intimately known, ALL are welcome! Co-sponsored by Kehilla and Glitter Kehilla.

Shabbat Morning Service

Our Shabbat morning practice grounds in a Jewish Renewal approach, lifting up the essence of the traditional liturgy through song and prayer, welcoming our celebrations, gratitudes, challenges and losses, as we refresh ourselves with Torah and community.

Sponsor a Kiddush! – In-person and multi-access Shabbat Morning services are followed by a kiddush lunch, sponsored by Kehilla committees, or by members in honor of a special occasion or in memory of a loved one. To sponsor a kiddush or find out more, email R’ SAM: rabbisam@kehillasynagogue.org

Shabbat Service with B’Mitzvah Celebration

At some Shabbat morning services we celebrate the coming of age of a young member of Kehilla as they step into leadership of our community: chanting from the Torah, offering a drash/teaching, and speaking and reflecting on their year-long experience of learning and exploring moving toward adulthood, in relationship to Jewish ancestral teachings and Jewish community. Everyone is welcome to share in these simchas / joyous celebrations, as we receive the wisdom of our youth.

Chai Shabbat

A few times a year, we enhance our shabbat practice with a special, celebratory “Chai Shabbat” to gather more of our community, with more of our prayer and musical leaders. After a morning Chai Shabbat service, we enjoy a fabulous kiddush lunch, and when we have Chai Kabbalat Shabbat, we kick off Friday night services with a festive shabbat meal together.

Tot Shabbat

Led by Jen Miriam and Alon Altman and their puppet friends, Tot Shabbat generally takes place on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month, from 10:30 am to 11 am. It is geared for babies and children up to age 5 and their grown-ups, followed by kiddush.

If there are young children in your family, you are warmly invited to bring them to Tot Shabbat. It’s a wonderful way to introduce your children to Shabbat and to meet other Jewish families.

We love that we have all kinds of families at Tot Shabbat. Some have two Jewish parents and some have one. We have queer families, multiracial families, and families with single parents. Sometimes grandparents bring their grandchildren. Come join us for a special time of Shabbat connection and fun!

Family Shabbat

This service is held several times a year on Saturday mornings. Family Shabbat is filled with upbeat songs and prayers geared to younger participants but meaningful to all. Plenty of opportunities will be provided for participants to dance, wiggle, and sing!