March | 2018 | sfhillel

This post includes two audio recordings representing the Syrian custom and musical style, sung by Hazzan Faraj Samra. The first

This hour long video features Cantor Shira Lissek leading the entire Kabbalat Shabbat service with musical accompaniment. Shira Lissek is the

This 9 and a half minute long video features the Israeli male a Capella group, Kippalive, singing harmonic versions of many of

This link takes you to the official website of the Reform movement, where you can view live streams and recorded

This poem by Ruth F. Brin describes the stillness and silence of the transition into evening, as reflected in the physical world, human

This poem by Rabbi Annie Lewis explores the cyclical, evolving nature of the physical world and human beings, focusing on the transition into

This post by Elana Bell presents a short blessing and a list of actions to add spiritual intention to the

This post presents the Hebrew, English and transliterated text of “Sabbath Queen,” a poem by Israel’s national poet, Hayim Nahman

This link opens up “An Illustrated Kabbalat Shabbat Siddur with Drawings by Daniel Nebenzahl,” a Hebrew siddur for adults full

This short animated video from Rabbi David Paskin slowly demonstrates how to sing the chorus and the first two and last