This Week’s Zoom Offerings at CBI

Shavua tov – a good new week to you!

This week our Zoom offerings include Rabbinic Drop-In Hour (1pm Mondays), Omer Discussion Group with Jen Burt (5pm Tuesdays – in Jen’s Zoom room), Pirkei Avot  (2pm Thursdays with Rabbi David Markus, in TBE’s Zoom room), Friday Morning Meditation (9am Fridays), a new Psalm-Writing Weekly Workshop (1pm Fridays, for members of CBI and TBE together), and Shabbat Morning Services (9:30am Saturdays), all (except the Omer group and the Pirkei Avot class) in the CBI Zoom room with the usual password. (For password and login information, email the office.)

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Join us for Shabbat services on Zoom at 9:30am on Saturday morning led by Rabbi Rachel. This week we’re reading from parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha, here are a few:

• • 2004: Rereading Leviticus 18:22
  • 2006: Ways to redeem one problematic line (
  • 2008: Naked [Torah poem] and Returning to Mitzrayim (part of the Torah Queeries series at Mosaic / Keshet) and  Gevurah [Torah poem]
  • 2009: You shall be holy [Torah poem]
  • 2010: On holy community
  • 2012: On loving our neighbors
  • 2017: Because [Torah poem] and Shabbat, renewal, and you
  • 2019: Counting, listening, becoming: a d’varling for Acharei Mot and the Omer; and Communities of safety and repair at Builders Blog; and After the death; and How to be holy: boundaries come first; and Holiness lessons

Here’s commentary from Steve Silbert, Rabbi Rachel, and Rabbi Ben Newmn at Builders Blog, a project of Bayit: Building Jewish:

• Communities of safety and repair
• Start-ups and Suffering the Need for Speed

And here are commentaries from the URJ:

• Acharei Mot-K’doshim

Hope to see you at one of CBI’s Zoom offerings (again, for Zoom link and password, contact the office.)