Shabbat Shira Service with Aly Halpert · January 31, 2026
This video captures our Shabbat Shira morning service with Aly Halpert.
Because this was a Shabbat service, there are no photos, videos, or recordings beyond our Zoom. While Zoom allows us to share the service more widely, it cannot fully capture the kol hakahal — the collective voice of the congregation — or the experience of being together in the room.
The Zoom audio also cannot fully pick up the sound of the congregation, which was such a central part of the morning.
Experiencing the service in person, with chairs arranged in semicircles and voices rising together in our sanctuary, was something different and deeply grounding.
As Aly describes the service:
“This is an Avodat HaLev–style service — a service of the heart. So it’s not your traditional Saturday morning service, but we are following the spiritual template of a Shabbat morning service.
Normally on Shabbat morning, we begin with pesukei d’zimra, songs of praise. That’s what we’re doing here, in an elongated way, for the bulk of the service.
We then move into moments of coming to prayer — the Shema, quiet prayer together, and an Amidah moment. All of those elements are here, even as the service looks a little different.
The songs we’re learning and singing are meant to help us let go, stop thinking, and really be in the prayer of the song itself — allowing ourselves to sink in, to be sung to, and to sing when it feels right.”
The full list of music and liturgy included in the service appears in the credits at the end of the video.
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