Led by Angelina and Nathan Lopez-Brody

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784 (No Passcode Required)

Refresh your souls with shared song, worship, and learning. New and old melodies in a traditional-ish service including creative ways to make the parashah come alive - drama, storytelling, discussion. Families with children (even very young!) are especially encouraged to join - we expect your children to act like children and that is welcome! May they absorb the joy and song around them like the sponges they are. Kiddush and oneg to follow - feel free to bring something to share.

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784
No password required

Download SONG SHEET POEM

Pot luck dinner with poetry, songs and prayers in Ladino, Hebrew and Spanish. Led by Sofie Shefia Stephanie Cohen. Candle lighting at 6:30.

We will continue a three-month exploration of the poetry of Algerian born Erez Bitton, the first Mizrahi poet to receive the Israel Prize in Literature. His parents, originally from Morocco, moved to Israel in 1948 with Erez.

Be prepared to share your response to this month’s poem, “In Praise of the Dreamers of Jerusalem”, read out loud in English and Spanish (translated by Héctor Contreras López and Marciel Romero).

If you are able, please show up early and or stay late to help set up and clean up. And bring a vegetarian dish to share!

Zoom ID 282 164 5784 (no password required)

PDF Chant Sheet
The service will be contemplative as we take time to enter the liturgy through chant, then pause in the silence long enough to allow for an unfolding of possibilities and to develop the skillful practice that allows for Shabbat consciousness to flourish.

PDF of Der Freylekher Shabes Prayer Booklet

THE VEGGIE POTLUCK DINNER at 7:45PM is BACK!!

Celebrate Shabes (Shabbat) JOY in-person in our sanctuary. The participatory klezmer Shabes service from 6:30-7:40 PM can be danced to and includes prayers from Kabbalat Shabbat and the Ma’ariv services. We will also observe the candle lighting/blessing, Kaddish Yatom, Mi Shebeirach, Kiddush and Hamotzee. The service will be followed by a Vegetarian Potluck dinner at 7:45pm and recreational Jewish dancing to a live klezmer music jam from 8:20-9 PM. Everyone is welcome to all or any part of the evening’s events.

For more information, contact Cantor Beth Cohen: cohenedmunds@netzero.net

Meeting ID: 282 164 5784
No Passcode Required

Have you wondered why we call organized prayer, “services”? We gather together in sacred space to “serve,” to do sacred work with and for each other.

The Shabbat morning “service” is not a random collection of prayers. It is a journey taking us both out of ourselves and into ourselves. Through prayer, chant, song, movement, and meditation, we will travel the path of the Jewish mystics to the sacred heart of Shabbat.

MEETING IN BAYT B’RACHA THIS MONTH

Let us welcome the arrival of the Sabbath Bride by chanting sacred phrases together, as we let go of the week that was and, in the silence after the chant, receive the blessings of Shabbat.

This week’s parsha, Tzav, addresses the priest in each of us and commands us to take responsibility for the holiness of our world. We’ll chant together to tend the perpetual fire burning on the altar of our hearts.

Chanting Kabbalat Shabbat will meet in the welcoming and spacious sanctuary at Nahalat Shalom. We look forward to hearing all of our voices joining in generosity.

Queer Shabbat will be hosting a Queer Purim Dance Party that is open to all! Put on a costume, bring a vegetarian dish to share, and join us for Hamantaschen, Punch or Soda, Dancing, Purim Spiel and Much, Much MORE! This month we are meeting in the Sanctuary, Bayt B’racha, (we ask everyone to please wear masks while indoors) and the Courtyard for this Purim Celebration. Queer Shabbat is a monthly ritual space for reflection, connection, grounding in the sacred cycles of Jewish time. This is a space for self-identified Queer Jews and their loved ones to gather. Ritual items and challah welcome.

For any questions and zoom link, please contact queershabbatnahalatshalom@gmail.org

Led by Angelina and Nathan Lopez-Brody

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784 (No Passcode Required)

PDF Handout

Refresh your souls with shared song, worship, and learning. New and old melodies in a traditional-ish service including creative ways to make the parashah come alive - drama, storytelling, discussion. Families with children (even very young!) are especially encouraged to join - we expect your children to act like children and that is welcome! May they absorb the joy and song around them like the sponges they are. Kiddush and oneg to follow - feel free to bring something to share.

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784
No password required

Download SONG SHEET AND PRAYERS POEM

Pot luck dinner with poetry, songs and prayers in Ladino, Hebrew and Spanish. Led by Sofie Shefia Stephanie Cohen. Candle lighting at 6:30.

Tonight we begin a three-month exploration of the poetry of Algerian born Erez Bitton, the first Mizrahi poet to receive the Israel Prize in Literature. His parents, originally from Morocco, moved to Israel in 1948 with Erez.

Be prepared to share your response to Zohra El Fassia, a beautiful poem, read out loud in English and Spanish (translated by Héctor Contreras López and Marciel Romero).

If you are able, please show up early and or stay late to help set up and clean up. And bring a vegetarian dish to share!

Zoom ID 282 164 5784 (no password required)

This week’s Chant Sheet
The service will be contemplative as we take time to enter the liturgy through chant, then pause in the silence long enough to allow for an unfolding of possibilities and to develop the skillful practice that allows for Shabbat consciousness to flourish.

PDF of Der Freylekher Shabes Prayer Booklet

Friday, March 1st from 6:30-9:15pm KlezmerQuerque begins with Der Freylekher Shabes free opening event. All are welcome to any part of the evening’s festivities and the DOORS OPEN AT 6:00pm. From 6:30-7:30pm Cantor Beth Cohen, The Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band, Rikud dancers & featured guest Yiddish dancer Avia Moore will lead the joyous, participatory and danceable klezmer Shabes service which includes our favorite prayers from Kabbalat Shabbat, Ma’ariv, the lighting and blessing of the candles, Kaddish Yatom, Mishebeirach (prayer for healing), Kiddush and Hamotzee. Maggidah Batya Podos will also treat us to an inspiring story.

At 7:30pm the VEGETARIAN POTLUCK dinner will begin–bring a dish to share. At 8:00pm, The Rebbe’s Orkestra-ABQ’s own Klezmer & Judaic Band will give a brief performance of Jewish music from the Mizrahi tradition: a Syrian Hanuka pizmon (poetic hymn in Hebrew) and a classical middle eastern belly dance suite –dancers, bring your veils and finger cymbals! Featured guest musicians Deborah Strauss and Cantor Jeff Warschauer will share a short set of their sweet soulful sounds and the evening will round up with traditional Jewish dancing led by guest dance artist Avia Moore to the joyous music of The Community Klezmer Band.

Free event, but donations are appreciated and encouraged! To donate online, click here

For more information, contact Cantor Beth Cohen at: cohenedmunds@netzero.net

Meeting ID: 282 164 5784
No Passcode Required

Have you wondered why we call organized prayer, “services”? We gather together in sacred space to “serve,” to do sacred work with and for each other.

The Shabbat morning “service” is not a random collection of prayers. It is a journey taking us both out of ourselves and into ourselves. Through prayer, chant, song, movement, and meditation, we will travel the path of the Jewish mystics to the sacred heart of Shabbat.

Let us welcome the arrival of the Sabbath Bride by chanting sacred phrases together, as we let go of the week that was and, in the silence after the chant, receive the blessings of Shabbat. In Parsha Tetzaveh, we consider the light that always burns, the ner tamid, and how we keep our inner light burning.

Chanting Kabbalat Shabbat will meet in the welcoming and spacious sanctuary at Nahalat Shalom.. The service leaders, Judy Brown and Sofie Shefia Stephanie Cohen, look forward to hearing all of our voices joining in generosity.

Queer Shabbat is a monthly ritual space for reflection, connection, grounding in the sacred cycles of Jewish time. This is a space for self-identified Queer Jews and their loved ones to gather. We will be hosting hybrid Queer Shabbat INDOOR IN-PERSON and also on ZOOM. We are meeting in the Bayt B'racha (Dining Hall behind kitchen). Please come masked! Whether you are attending virtually or in person, you're invited to bring: songs, poetry, movement, creative activities, and meditations from your heart. Bring (vegetarian) food to eat yourself or to share while we chat after the service (some people may choose to unmask in order to eat together). Ritual items and challah welcome.

For any questions and zoom link, please contact queershabbatnahalatshalom@gmail.org

Led by Angelina and Nathan Lopez-Brody

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784 (No Passcode Required)

PDF Handout

Refresh your souls with shared song, worship, and learning. New and old melodies in a traditional-ish service including creative ways to make the parashah come alive - drama, storytelling, discussion. Families with children (even very young!) are especially encouraged to join - we expect your children to act like children and that is welcome! May they absorb the joy and song around them like the sponges they are. Kiddush and oneg to follow - feel free to bring something to share.

Zoom ID 282 164 5784 (no password required)

This week’s Chant Sheet

The service will be contemplative as we take time to enter the liturgy through chant, then pause in the silence long enough to allow for an unfolding of possibilities and to develop the skillful practice that allows for Shabbat consciousness to flourish.

PDF of Der Freylekher Shabes Prayer Booklet

THE VEGGIE POTLUCK DINNER at 7:45PM is BACK!!

Celebrate Shabes (Shabbat) JOY in-person in our sanctuary. The participatory klezmer Shabes service from 6:30-7:40 PM can be danced to and includes prayers from Kabbalat Shabbat and the Ma’ariv services. We will also observe the candle lighting/blessing, Kaddish Yatom, Mi Shebeirach, Kiddush and Hamotzee. The service will be followed by a Vegetarian Potluck dinner at 7:45pm and recreational Jewish dancing to a live klezmer music jam from 8:20-9 PM. Everyone is welcome to all or any part of the evening’s events.

For more information, contact Cantor Beth Cohen: cohenedmunds@netzero.net

THIS SERVICE CANCELLED FOR JANUARY!

Meeting ID: 282 164 5784
No Passcode Required

Have you wondered why we call organized prayer, “services”? We gather together in sacred space to “serve,” to do sacred work with and for each other.

The Shabbat morning “service” is not a random collection of prayers. It is a journey taking us both out of ourselves and into ourselves. Through prayer, chant, song, movement, and meditation, we will travel the path of the Jewish mystics to the sacred heart of Shabbat.

Let us welcome the arrival of the Sabbath Bride by chanting sacred phrases together, as we let go of the week that was and, in the silence after the chant, receive the blessings of Shabbat.

This week’s parsha, Beshellach, includes the Song of the Sea as the waters part to let us through, with plenty of struggle and miracles.

Chanting Kabbalat Shabbat will meet in the welcoming and spacious sanctuary at Nahalat Shalom. The service leaders, Judy Brown and Sofie Shefia Stephanie Cohen, look forward to hearing all of our voices lifting up together.

Chant sheet

Queer Shabbat is a monthly ritual space for reflection, connection, grounding in the sacred cycles of Jewish time. This is a space for self-identified Queer Jews and their loved ones to gather. We will be hosting hybrid Queer Shabbat INDOOR IN-PERSON and also on ZOOM. We are meeting in the Bayt B'racha (Dining Hall behind kitchen). Please come masked! Whether you are attending virtually or in person, you're invited to bring: songs, poetry, movement, creative activities, and meditations from your heart. Bring (vegetarian) food to eat yourself or to share while we chat after the service (some people may chose to unmask in order to eat together). Ritual items and challah welcome.

For any questions and zoom link, please contact queershabbatnahalatshalom@gmail.org

Led by Angelina and Nathan Lopez-Brody

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784 (No Passcode Required)

Refresh your souls with shared song, worship, and learning. New and old melodies in a traditional-ish service including creative ways to make the parashah come alive - drama, storytelling, discussion. Families with children (even very young!) are especially encouraged to join - we expect your children to act like children and that is welcome! May they absorb the joy and song around them like the sponges they are. Kiddush and oneg to follow - feel free to bring something to share.

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784
No password required

Download SONG SHEET AND PRAYERS

Come sing and pray and enjoy the poetry with us! Prayers are in Ladino and Hebrew and led by Sofie Shefia Stephanie Cohen. We continue our three-month series of readings from the Zohar, in English and Spanish. The Zohar is a mystical commentary on the Torah, received by the Spaniard Moses de León at the end of the thirteenth century. It is written as a series of poems. This month we will be reading “Is There Anyone Like Moses?”

Be prepared to share your response to a beautiful poems which will be read out loud in English and Spanish. If you are able, please show up early and or stay late to help set up and clean up. And bring a vegetarian dish to share!

Zoom ID 282 164 5784 (no password required)

This week’s Chant Sheet

The service will be contemplative as we take time to enter the liturgy through chant, then pause in the silence long enough to allow for an unfolding of possibilities and to develop the skillful practice that allows for Shabbat consciousness to flourish .

PDF of Der Freylekher Shabes Prayer Booklet

ZOOM ID: 282 164 5784
No password required

THE VEGGIE POTLUCK DINNER at 7:45PM is BACK!!

Celebrate Shabes (Shabbat) JOY in-person in our sanctuary --or via ZOOM. The participatory klezmer Shabes service from 6:30-7:40 PM can be danced to and includes prayers from Kabbalat Shabbat and the Ma’ariv services. We will also observe the candle lighting/blessing, Kaddish Yatom, Mi Shebeirach, Kiddush and Hamotzee. The service will be followed by a Vegetarian Potluck dinner at 7:45pm and recreational Jewish dancing to a live klezmer music jam from 8:20-9 PM. Everyone is welcome to all or any part of the evening’s events.

For more information, contact Cantor Beth Cohen: cohenedmunds@netzero.net

Led by Angelina and Nathan Lopez-Brody

ZOOM ID: 282 164 4305 (No Passcode Required)

Here is the handout for the service

Refresh your souls with shared song, worship, and learning. New and old melodies in a traditional-ish service including creative ways to make the parashah come alive - drama, storytelling, discussion. Families with children (even very young!) are especially encouraged to join - we expect your children to act like children and that is welcome! May they absorb the joy and song around them like the sponges they are. Kiddush and oneg to follow - feel free to bring something to share.

Zoom ID: 282 164 4305 (no passcode required)

Officiated by Rabbi Min Kantrowitz and Maggid Batya Podos

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Miles Tokunow and his family welcome everyone to share in the celebration of his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, December 23rd. After years of contemplation and a calling from in his bones, he decided to dedicate himself to Judaism in his 36th year. Please join in this celebration!

Let’s welcome the arrival of the Sabbath Bride by chanting sacred phrases together and, in the silence after the chant, receive the blessings of Shabbat. In this week’s parsha, Joseph reveals the truth to his brothers who had sold him into slavery.  He forgives them, and shares his views on the unintended consequences of their evil plan, which turned out to save humanity.  Embracing the paradox, Joseph’s family is reunited as his true self is revealed.

Meeting ID: 282 164 4305
No Passcode Required

Have you wondered why we call organized prayer, “services”? We gather together in sacred space to “serve,” to do sacred work with and for each other.

The Shabbat morning “service” is not a random collection of prayers. It is a journey taking us both out of ourselves and into ourselves. Through prayer, chant, song, movement, and meditation, we will travel the path of the Jewish mystics to the sacred heart of Shabbat.