Join as a Member or Give to Beyt Tikkun
We’d love to have you join our community. Rabbi Cat Zavis is the Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without Walls. She offers spiritual care and educational offerings grounded in a Judaism of love and transformation. You can read about Rabbi Cat here.
In addition to the modest salary for our Rabbi and the costs for our amazing musical director, we have added technical and administrative staff to help ensure that our congregation is responsive to the needs of members. We have streamlined our online services and are once again meeting in-person as well, offering engaging hybrid services so you can participate in whatever way nourishes you.
This past year, Rabbi Cat has significantly increased the number of events and activities we offer. You can find upcoming and past events on our Events page; click here. Though we are not raising our membership fees, we truly hope that old and new members alike will respond to this increased activity with a comparable increase in your financial commitment.
The primary benefit of membership is belonging to our dynamic Jewish Renewal community of prayer, ritual, custom, and study. The purpose of our congregation and community is to integrate spiritual and prophetic consciousness with social activism to create a more loving and just world. Tangible benefits of membership include:
- Shabbat, High Holiday, and festival services
- Pastoral counseling and selected life-cycle events
- Educational programs for free or at a discounted rate
- Newsletters and access to the Members-Only website
- Members-only gatherings
- Committee and leadership opportunities
- Social action project participation
Membership fees are at least 1% of your total gross income. That donation would equate to $500 for an individual with a total gross income of $50,000. We will not turn anyone away for financial reasons. We understand that young adults and older adults on fixed incomes may have difficulty meeting the expectations for dues. Please let us know what you can afford. You can call Alden at 510-644-1200 or email, Monday-Friday 9 am – 1 pm Pacific time.
We hope you will join us!
Membership 5785 (2024/25)
Your gift to Beyt Tikkun EIN# 94-3354385 is tax-deductible in the USA.
Money is not our bottom line. We believe every institution and social practice (including our economy, political system, legal system, educational system, and cultural systems) should be judged efficient, rational, and productive not to the extent that they maximize money and power (the capitalist Old Bottom Line) but rather by our New Bottom Line: the extent to which they maximize our capacities to be loving and generous, kind and empathic, actively supporting environmental sanity and social justice, uprooting racism in all its forms, capable of treating others as a manifestation of the holy (and not valuable solely to the extent that they meet our needs), and responding to the universe with awe, wonder, and radical amazement.