The following is information about how we celebrate Shabbat at West End Synagogue. If you'd like more information about Shabbat, or about anything else in our community, we encourage you to fill out a form right here on our web site so that we can get back to you personally with information.

Shabbat Services
Shabbat Services are held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday nights and 10:00 a.m. on Saturday mornings. All are welcome.

Saturday Morning Learning Services
Monthly congregational learning services are usually held from 10-11 am. on the second Saturday of each month, followed by the regular Torah service. Please check the synagogue calendar to see if there are variations in this schedule.

HaMinyan services
HaMinyan services are held at 8pm on the first Friday of every month. These lay-led, alternative services are one of the highlights of our community, and feature the creative and interpretive work of synagogue members.

Torah Study led by Rabbi Yael Ridberg
Each Saturday, we study the week's Torah portion. We ask: What were our Biblical ancestors trying to get across to us? How has subsequent Jewish tradition modified that message? How has our own early education clarified or (most often) obscured the meaning of the text? How can we get something out of the text today? All are welcome, from people with no Jewish learning background to Yeshiva graduates.
Saturdays at 9:00 AM

Hear, oh Israel
Hear, oh Israel
Hear, oh humans, our family:
Revel in every second, minute, hour
with every extension of your body
give thanks (were our mouths
filled with song as
water fills the sea)
to the Incomprehensible
(and our tongues abounding
with praise like mighty waves)
Live your lifetimes
as thanks for their miracles
let every mitochondrion,
every eyelash and fingernail,
every cell sing with praise and adoration
of the One
(we could not possibly thank You
sufficiently, Blesser and Blessed,
for all the wonders
-this life-
which You have given, unconditionally,
as Your gift of love to us.)
With all of your wholeness
with revelations and exultation,
with awe and wonder every second,
give gratitude, glory and love
to the Eternal
for this
the greatest gift of the seconds, minutes, hours,
days, weeks, months and years
and do not let a single one go by unheeded and
uncelebrated.

Arielle Derby

I'm only half-ready for you, Lord;
Divided from myself, but seeking wholeness.

I know the secret lies in plain sight within me, but
I'm half afraid to look for it with open eyes,
For fear that I might find it.

"Seek simplicity," you say, "The Whole can be found
in the smallest of its parts."
So when I find the single seed from which the
Universe springs anew each day,
I'll call it by your Name, and know that it was in
my hand all along.

Don Menzi