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Archive: October 2021

Nishmat Hayyim Friday AM Sit

Posted on October 8, 2021

October 8, 2021 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am – Join our Zoom Friday AM Meditation Session. For those who are joining us for the first time, the schedule for Friday AM is: chant, meditation sit, walking meditation/break, teaching, Q&A, and a closing minute of silence. Please see our weekly Happenings email or call the office (617) 566-8171 for the Zoom link.

Kabbalat Shabbat with TBZ (In-person and Live-streamed)

Posted on October 8, 2021

October 8, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Come bring each week to a close and start Shabbat together in community! Join us for spirited services with song, kavanah (intention) and celebration. We now have a hybrid option of attending Kabbalat Shabbat at TBZ or joining on Zoom/YouTube. If you are attending in-person, please follow our Covid guidelines. Please see our weekly Happenings email […]

Torah Study

Posted on October 9, 2021

October 9, 2021 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am – Join us for Torah Study on Shabbat mornings. (In-person only) Click here to see who is leading Torah Study.  

Shabbat Services – Hybrid

Posted on October 9, 2021

October 9, 2021 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Spend Shabbat morning in community. Our morning service is offered both in-person and on Zoom. Please see our weekly Happenings email or call the office (617) 566-8171 for the Zoom link.

Empowering Unconditional Compassion Through Deep Interfaith Learning – Online

Posted on October 10, 2021

October 10, 2021 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm – with Rabbi Sheila Weinberg and Lama/Professor John Makransky Please join the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Or HaLev and Nishmat Hayim: TBZ’s Breath of Life Project for a special day of inter-faith learning and practice with master teachers Rabbi Sheila Weinberg and Lama/Professor John Makransky. John will share his teachings in Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT), adapted […]

Hebrew Torah Study w/ Rabbi Sam

Posted on October 10, 2021

October 10, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:00 pm – This series will begin with the Noach stories and will focus on the root communities (generally referred to as J and E at this point of our inquiry) that came to be the Torah people. Most of the sessions from Creation to the beginning of Noach are available through TBZ.  The sessions will use Hebrew […]

TBZ Book Club

Posted on October 10, 2021

October 10, 2021 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – The TBZ Book Club provides a setting in which TBZ members come together to discuss fiction and non-fiction books with Jewish themes. Monthly meetings on Sunday evenings at TBZ feature lively discussions of books by or about Jewish people, alternating fiction and non-fiction selections. You may find yourself reading books you never knew about or […]

Men’s Group Weekly Check-In

Posted on October 10, 2021

October 10, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – TBZ’s Men’s group aims to explore men’s roles in a rapidly changing society and to examine issues of mutual concern while engaging with other men on intellectual, spiritual and emotional levels. We aim to share challenges, successes, insights and other aspects of our personal lives in a nonjudgmental, confidential, and respectful manner; creating a community of […]

TBZ Offices Closed: Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day/Marathon Monday

Posted on October 11, 2021

October 11, 2021 @ All Day – No Boker Tov today. Offices Closed.

Women of the Megillot: Ruth – Creating a Future, Renewing Faith with Rabbi Jamie Kotler

Posted on October 11, 2021

October 11, 2021 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Mondays at 10am, October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8 at TBZ (On Zoom)  The Book of Ruth speaks to the power of women to create and shape their world  through love – a love so healing that it mends their lives.  It also creates a virtuous circle of love that  begins to heal the […]