Riverway Simchat Torah JP Licks Gathering

Join the Temple Israel community in the Annual reading of the Torah. Then walk together with a group of Riverway Project folks to Coolidge Corner to enjoy JP Licks following an Immersive Torah Experience! 

Unique to Temple Israel of Boston, join our clergy, congregation, and roving Torah-Cam in this immersive, full-bodied experience of Torah. 

Peer into the Torah scrolls close up, catch sight of your favorite stories, and even your own Torah portion! 

With five Torah scrolls unrolled to form an enormous interactive worship space, congregants are encouraged to move freely around the room, noticing close up the mystical crowns atop the Hebrew letters, the rare spaces that divide one book from another, and the famous words and prayers they've known their whole life but have never seen in person.

Chanted verses, stories, and experiences of Torah are woven into the Qabbalat Shabbat service – all while our amazing roving Torah-Cam focuses, close up, on the Torah verses that highlight the evening, broadcasting on our large gallery wall and to our congregants at home all the magic inside the Torah.

Afterwards, enjoy dessert and dancing with the Torah to the music of the Boston-based klezmer band, Shirim!

6:00 p.m., Qabbalat Shabbat & Simchat Torah Service and Torah-Cam (in mixed presence, onsite and online)

7:15 p.m., Dancing and Dessert (onsite)

Following the Dancing, Riverway will gather together and walk to JP Licks. This event and the Riverway Project community are open to all in their 20s and 30s.