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Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vayishlach, Shabbat dinner, and more!

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,…

Wake Up! (A d’varling for Shabbat Shuvah)

days of awe, divrei Torah

כְּנֶ֙שֶׁר֙ יָעִ֣יר קִנּ֔וֹ עַל־גּוֹזָלָ֖יו יְרַחֵ֑ף יִפְרֹ֤שׂ כְּנָפָיו֙ יִקָּחֵ֔הוּ יִשָּׂאֵ֖הוּ עַל־אֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃Like an eagle who…

The Courage to Stand Up, With Love

days of awe, sermons, tikkun olam

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNMuJWw6syY] Here's a video of my sermon if you'd rather watch it than listen to it. (It's here on YouTube.) Or, you can read on, below... Do you remember how you felt when you heard…

Holy at Home, With Love

days of awe, pandemic, sermons

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTun5Lk9PfE] Here's a recording of my sermon if you'd rather watch it than read it. (It's here on YouTube.) Or, read below... Not quite two thousand years ago, the Roman army sacked the second…

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Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vayishlach, Shabbat dinner, and more!

Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vayetzei

Surge capacity and old wells

Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Toldot and to Kabbalat Shabbat!

Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Chayei Sarah

Every righteous person matters

Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Lech-Lecha

A message from Rabbi Rachel

Julian’s D’var Torah for Shabbat Bereshit

Joy to fuel our building – a d’varling for Sukkot

What Can We Do, In Love

One Heart: Lessons in Love from Jewish Cuba

Wake Up! (A d’varling for Shabbat Shuvah)

The Courage to Stand Up, With Love

Holy at Home, With Love

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