Deepen your connection with our Shabbat liturgy by examining the core ideas and metaphors of Shabbat. In our first session, we’ll look at the spiritual themes that have evolved from the rabbis’ interpretations of Torah to the innovations from the mystics of Safed. In our second session, we’ll look at the connection between those themes and our Friday evening liturgy, including Lecha Dodi and Shalom Aleichem. Join liturgist Alden Solovy in a program designed to deepen you connection to Shabbat and our prayer book.
 

Alden Solovy spreads joy and excitement for prayer. An American Israeli liturgist, poet, and educator, and the Liturgist-in-Residence for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, his teaching spans from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem to synagogues throughout North America, Leo Baeck College in London, and Limmud Conferences in the U.S., Canada, and the UK. He is the author of five books, three from CCAR Press: This Joyous Soul: A New Voice for Ancient Yearnings, This Grateful Heart: Psalms and Prayers for a New Day, and This Precious Life: Encountering the Divine with Poetry and Prayer. His sixth book, These Words: Poetic Midrash on the Language of Torah, is pending publication, also from CCAR Press. Alden’s work is anthologized in twenty volumes from Jewish and non-Jewish publishers. He writes for Ritualwell, RavBlog and the Times of Israel, and is a three-time winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. Find his latest work at ToBendLight.com. In 2012, Alden made Aliyah to Jerusalem where he is the founder of ManKind Project Israel.

 

$18 for Members

$36 for Non-members