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Saturday morning, January 31st,
We’re thrilled to welcome Aly Halpert — multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, educator, and activist — to lead our Shabbat morning service.
Aly’s work and music speak powerfully to this moment in the world. She believes deeply in the power of music to help us hold both loss and hope, expand our sense of possibility, and connect us to one another and our collective strength.
Her wisdom around healing and connection in a broken world is both grounding and liberatory.
On Shabbat Shira — the Shabbat of Song, a day rooted in our people’s redemption, we are honored to be led by Aly in a service shaped by these themes.
From the Narrow to the Expanse
A Creative Shabbat Morning Service for Shabbat Shira
Shabbat Shira, the Shabbat of Song, marks the moment in the Torah when the Israelites crossed the Sea and sang their way from narrowness into freedom. With the sea before them and danger behind them, they moved from an impossible-feeling place into redemption, liberation, and expanse.
In our world today, many of us know that feeling of stuckness and heartbreak. On this Shabbat Shira, Aly will guide us through a creative and participatory morning service shaped by song, breath, gratitude, and crying out. Themes of loss and hope, humanity and healing, redemption and liberation will be woven throughout our prayer.
We recommend arriving on time, as the most music-centered portion of the service will take place from 10:00–11:15am, featuring participatory song and musical prayer woven into the Shabbat liturgy.
The Torah service will begin around 11:15am, when we turn together to the reading from the Book of Exodus.
Kiddush to follow.
This Shabbat will include a special kiddush, and we ask that you please RSVP so we can prepare accordingly. RSVP
Part of a full Shabbat Shira weekend
This Shabbat morning service is part of a larger Shabbat Shira weekend of music and learning.
👉 Learn more about all Shabbat Shira events taking place Friday and Saturday: