As we celebrate our 50th year anniversary, join us as we spotlight song-filled prayer in our community. The melodies may have changed a little over the last 50 years, but we remain a community that loves to sing. In recent years, our MASA process has focused our attention on the enhancing the joy, musicality, and inclusivity of our prayer services. These five programs will help us explore these issues and help us sing our way into the next 50 years.
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Prayer and Dissonance:
What if I don’t believe the words?
with Rabbi Gail Diamond
Sunday, January 29, 10:00 AM
How does one pray or sing in shul while struggling with your own personal belief about the words? Engage in conversation with us about how one prays when they are struggling with the meaning of the words. Hear different perspectives, learn the intention of prayers and gain a better understanding for how one can bring prayer into their life more fully. Rabbi Gail Diamond teaches Psalms at the Conservative Yeshiva and serves as the Yeshiva’s Associate Director. She teaches at the Fuchsberg Center for Conservative Judaism and has taught for the Academy for Jewish Religion and Bat Kol Institute. She received ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Free. Please register with Hagar Ben-Eliezer, hben-eliezer@kolshofar.org or 415.388.1818 ext. 111.
 The Kirtan Rabbi, Andrew Hahn in Concert
Saturday, February 4, 8:00 PM
This concert made possible in part through a generous grant from the Berger Family Foundation.
You
made the call — we made the response! Congregation Kol Shofar is
thrilled to bring back Rabbi Andrew Hahn who led our musical meditation
service on the High Holy Days!
Join us for a unique evening of
meditation, music and community spirit with the Kirtan Rabbi and special
musical guest artists. Hebrew chants, soothing vocals, dreamy loops,
and hypnotic world rhythms drawn from the Hebrew Bible and the siddur
(the traditional Jewish prayerbook), as well as from the language of
Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism).
Tickets: $18 Kol Shofar members/$25 public.
To purchase tickets, please call 415.388.1818 ext. 111 or email hben-eliezer@kolshofar.org. Or, mail check to 215, Blackfield Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920.
 Yoga and Otiyot Chayot with Kavannah
with Kristin Johnson and Ellen Tobe
Sundays at 10:00 AM:
January 22, March 4, April 29
Through meditative movements based on Yoga and Otiyot Chayyot, a system of gentle Hebrew-letter movements, we will start each class by ‘climbing up the ladder of the tree of life’ from malchut to keter with gentle movements. Learn a kavannah for the day, and related words and phrases with movement from both practices. We will learn a movement and breath yoga practice, and come back down the ladder as we close. To learn more, see Yoga and Otiyot Chayot.
 Singing Community Shabbaton
A Weekend with Musician-in-Residence
Joey Weisenberg, Author of Building Singing Communities
Feb 24–26
Musician, ba’al tfilah, author and educator Joey Weisenberg leads workshops devoted to developing the musical and spiritual expression of each community. Based on his experience with nigunim (wordless melodies), chazzones (cantorial music), klezmer music, and other Jewish musical styles, Joey teaches focused sessions that demonstrate the melodies, rhythms and styles that have made Jewish music exciting and accessible for many generations. Using ideas from his recently released book Building Singing Communities, Joey discusses strategies for bringing people together to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and Jewish life.
Fri, Feb 24
5:45pm Singing Warm-up session
6:15pm Traditional Spirited Kabbalat Shabbat Services
7:30pm Shabbat Dinner Followed by Study-Song session
Sat, Feb 25
9:15am Shabbat Services featuring Joey Weisenberg
1pm Singing Workshop and Discussion
Sat, Feb 25
6:30pm Musician Gathering (bring your instruments!)
7:30pm Havdalah and Musical Melaveh Malkah (escorting out the Shabbat with music)
Sun, Feb 26
10–11:30am Bringing Jewish music into your home: a workshop for parents
Please RSVP – hben-eliezer@kolshofar.org or 415.388, ext 111 – for Friday night Dinner.
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