Sounds of Prayer

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On May 14, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. This morning I participated in the program organized by CJP and JCRC to connect Boston with Israel during these troubling times. I offered these words of prayer: Some of the best moments […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On May 7, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. The Book of Leviticus comes to an end this week with an addendum to the holiness code offered earlier in the book. In those previous chapters, we found ways to be holy […]

Posted by Amy Sherr
On April 30, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. We can’t make history go away. Eventually it returns as a reckoning or worse as a reoccurrence someplace else but with the same purpose. The same is true with genocide. With the intentional and strategic campaign of extermination of a group […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On April 23, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. There are two stories of creation of the world. Each has its own method with which to sustain the newly created world. In the first story, the world is unformed and void. There […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On April 16, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. This is a story about the difference between listening and hearing. We might hear what someone says, but not actually listen. In II Kings chapter 5, we meet Na’aman, a warrior Aramean commander. […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On April 9, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. As we come off of Yom Hashoah this past Thursday, a day of remembering, commemorating, and marking the Holocaust, we are summoned to hold its lessons with us each day. Elie Wiesel was one who bore witness and recognized how silence led to […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On April 2, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, our weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat and this week, as we are coming to the end of Passover. I share with you the D’var Torah I offered last Friday night at Qabbalat Shabbat Services. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. It is the perfect summary, placed between […]

Posted by Guest Author
On March 30, 2021
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One summer evening in 2017 I happened to come to Shabbat at Temple Israel and left with an unusually uplifted feeling. The clergy, the congregation, the service, the staff all left me wanting more. I looked around at the diversity, at the intention, and was drawn to come again and again. I soon became a […]

Posted by Guest Author
On March 30, 2021
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By Anne Licciardello “None of us alone is as strong as all of us together,” Imam Taymullah. On Tuesday, March 16, over 1,400 people, with over 102 from TI, participated remotely in GBIO’s Refounding and Re-Launch. That night, 19 new member organizations officially joined the 40 prior members as we stood together for change. […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On March 26, 2021
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat and this week, Pesach. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. Passover starts the cycle of the Jewish holidays. The Torah refers to it as the first month. Rosh Hashanah falls in the seventh month but it is also […]

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Adult

Youth

Sounds of Prayer

Consequences

Genocide

Master/Rule or Till/Tend

Listen

Scream

The Night of Watching

Finding Friendships in Tikkun Olam

The GBIO Listening Campaign Comes to TI

Rebirth