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Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vayeshev and to Chanukah!
Chanukah, Shabbat
Shavua tov: a good new week to all.
Happening This Week
Light the first candle of Chanukah on Thursday night. And celebrate online: the City of North Adams Menorah Lighting will be virtual / remote this year. Join us via livestreaming…
Stop and let goodness catch us
divrei Torah
At the start of this week's Torah portion, we read that Jacob was afraid, and his fear was constricting. He was afraid that Esau would come after him, that the mistakes he made in that relationship earlier in life would come back to harm…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vayishlach, Shabbat dinner, and more!
Shabbat
Shavua tov: a good new week to all.
Happening This Week
Join us in the CBI Zoom room on Friday evening at 7:30pm for our first Monthly Zoom Shabbat Dinner! Read more about it and RSVP here at Facebook.
And, join us in the CBI Zoom…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vayetzei
Shabbat
Shavua tov: a good new week to all.
Join us in the CBI Zoom room on Saturday morning at 9:30am for Shabbat morning services, led by R’ Pam Wax.
This week we’re reading from parashat Vayetzei in the book of Genesis. If you’d…
Surge capacity and old wells
divrei Torah, pandemic
An old well.
This week's Torah portion, Toldot, is so rich. There's great stuff here. This week we've got Rebecca conceiving twins, feeling them grapple with each other in her womb, asking God why this is her life. We get Jacob, whose name…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Toldot and to Kabbalat Shabbat!
Shabbat
This week is a Kabbalat Shabbat week! Have candles and/or challah on hand to bless with us!
Shavua tov!
Join us in the CBI Zoom room on Friday evening at 7:00 PM for Kabbalat Shabbat services, led by R' Rachel. Please note: this…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Chayei Sarah
Shabbat
Shavua tov!
Join us in the CBI Zoom room on Tuesday night at 7:30pm for our Annual Meeting, and on Saturday morning at 9:30 for Shabbat morning services, led this week by R’ Pam Wax.
This week we’re reading from parashat Chayei…
Every righteous person matters
pandemic, Shabbat
In this week's Torah portion, Vayera, God decides to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, because "their sin is so great."
Later in the parsha we'll see an example of their sin: an angry mob demanding that Lot release the strangers…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Lech-Lecha
Shabbat
Shavua tov!
Join us for Shabbat morning services at 9:30am on Saturday morning in the CBI Zoom room, led this week by R' Pam Wax.
This week we’re reading from parashat Lech Lecha in the book of Genesis. If you’d like to read some…
A message from Rabbi Rachel
contemplative practice, pandemic, video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvwKx0lQiw&feature=youtu.be
Here's a short video message from Rabbi Rachel. You can watch it / listen to it here, or, if you prefer, you can read the text below.
Hello friends.
I'm here because…
Julian’s D’var Torah for Shabbat Bereshit
b-mitzvah, divrei Torah, guest posts
This is the d'var Torah that Julian offered at his celebration of bar mitzvah on Shabbat morning.
My Torah portion is the very first reading in the first book of the Torah, Genesis. Genesis means beginning or origin. It’s about the…
Joy to fuel our building – a d’varling for Sukkot
pandemic, sukkot
The CBI Sukkah this year. (Thanks to Jen Burt and family for building it!) Sign up to use it here.
Sukkot: festival of impermanence, festival of joy even in vulnerability. We build sukkot to remember our ancestors' harvest traditions; to…
What Can We Do, In Love
days of awe, sermons
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpWpqQBiaWI]
I gave my sermon "live" on Zoom in realtime, and also pre-recorded it to go live with this blog post around the time I was offering it. If you prefer to watch the sermon, it's above…
One Heart: Lessons in Love from Jewish Cuba
Cuba, days of awe, sermons, Yom Kippur
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwH0sNVtr9s]I gave my sermon "live" on Zoom in realtime, and also pre-recorded it to go live with this blog post around the time I was offering it. If you prefer to watch the sermon,…
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