Join us for an extra-special musical multi-access Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7pm. There's an ancient tradition of using the six psalms of Kabbalat Shabbat to evoke a musical journey through the week, with L'cha Dodi as the triumphant culmination as Shabbat enters our midst. We'll harness that tradition, singing some familiar melodies and some that […]
Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Prayer at CBI is joyful, uplifting, and spiritual. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular […]
Please join us for the July meeting of CBI’s Book Group, led by Suzanne Levy Graver, CBI member & Emerita Professor of English Literature at Williams College. We will be discussing Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, a biography of an art collection and a family that traces the ascent […]
Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Prayer at CBI is joyful, uplifting, and spiritual. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular […]
Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular views from our sanctuary, which connect us with […]
Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Prayer at CBI is joyful, uplifting, and spiritual. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular […]
Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular views from our sanctuary, which connect us with […]
Given the Supreme Court's recent decision on a woman’s “right to choose,” it seems timely to discuss the Jewish perspective on the topic of our reproductive and other related rights. Please join us on Zoom on Sunday, July 31 at 7pm for an Adult Education forum led by Ephraim Schwartz about what Torah, Talmudic study, […]
Join us on Friday night as we light candles and welcome Shabbat with prayer and song. Let go of the week, breathe in the "extra soul" that Shabbat brings, and let poetry and melody begin to replenish heart and soul.
Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Prayer at CBI is joyful, uplifting, and spiritual. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular […]
August 7 (Tisha b’Av observed, since the day itself falls on Shabbat this year) is the first day of the Reverse Omer Count, the 49-day journey from Tisha b'Av to Rosh Hashanah. There's so much brokenness this year. Instead of using Tisha b'Av this year to help us connect with what’s broken, we’ll harness it […]
Starting August 7, we'll launch Jewish tradition's seven-week journey up to Rosh Hashanah. Using the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and mussar (Jewish character traits), we'll use each week to connect with one of the sefirot (energy centers, like the seven weeks of counting Omer between Passover and Shavuot, except in reverse), and deepen inner practices to prepare heart, […]
