Shabbat Evening Service

We welcome all to attend our Shabbat worship services.  Shabbat is a time of rest, a time to refocus ourselves spiritually, to distance ourselves from the stresses of the work week.  We hope you find peace in our prayer and joy in our music. 

Our Shabbat evening services begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary with songs and prayers which help set the mood for our worship.  On special occasions, i.e. our Scholar-In-Residence Weekend, the service begins at 7:30 p.m.  We are a “singing congregation”.  All are invited to sing or hum along with the melodies.  We use the Union for Reform Judaism’s Mishkan T’filah prayer book.  Copies for use during the service are available in the Sanctuary.  Our custom is for all the readings to be done in unison – feel free to read along out loud or to follow silently – whichever makes you more comfortable.  All of the prayers are printed in Hebrew and English transliteration with an accompanying translation.  Words to the songs are found in the prayer book as well.

After the service, we all join in blessings over wine and challah (braided egg bread) and on special occasions cookies, pastries and/or fruit and beverages are served to make an Oneg Shabbat, a joyous reception.