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Torah Study | Ki Tavo 5784
September 21 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT
We hope you will join us this Saturday, September 21st with Rabbi Cat Zavis for our Celebration of the Universe and Torah Study.
You can join us either in person or on Zoom for Shabbat services and Torah study. If you are in the Bay Area, we’d love to have you join us in person. After Torah study, we enjoy a vegetarian potluck meal together and have an opportunity to deepen our connection with one another. If you are able, please bring a vegetarian dish to share with others.
You can join us on Zoom by clicking here. To obtain the address to join us in person (Emeryville, only a short walk from the MacArthur Bart Station), please email Austin at austin@beyttikkun.org.
If you have not previously registered to join us for our services or Torah study, please register here. To invite others, please ask them to register themselves by sending them this link (rather than providing the Zoom link directly to them).
We begin our Shabbat service at 9:30am PT with meaningful prayers, balancing the awe of being alive with the call in our tradition for radical transformation of our world.
Then we turn to our Torah study at 10:30am PT.
A peek into this week’s Torah study (Ki Tavo)
This week’s parsha has a couple themes (1) it reminds us to be grateful for and to remember the miracle of liberation and the role of the Divine in helping bring forth liberation, and (2) it reminds us that there are real consequences when we either stand in our moral center or when we lose our moral center. And to help us remember that, we need to shout it from the mountain top!
High Holidays have similar themes. On one hand, it is a celebration of the miracle of life, of our agency and power, of our need to repent and make amends and do better. And on the other hand, it also asks us to embrace the possibility that we really don’t have ultimate control over our lives. That there is some Divine agency that rules the world.
We’d love to have you join us!
9:30 am Pacific Time (12:30 pm Eastern Time)
Shabbat morning prayers and celebration of the universe
10:30 am Pacific Time (1:30 pm Eastern Time)
Torah Study | Ki Tavo Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8
12:15 pm Pacific Time (3:15 pm Eastern Time)
Kaddish, Kiddush, and vegetarian potluck for those able to join us in person!
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High Holidays
If you haven’t yet registered to join us for the High Holidays, we hope you will do so! In addition to beautiful prayers and a beloved community, we will have powerful speakers who will inspire us, including an Israeli and Palestinian. You can learn more and register here. If you join Beyt Tikkun as a member, your tickets are included in your membership. We’d love to have you join us!
Many blessings,
Rabbi Cat Zavis & Beyt Tikkun
Accessibility Protocols
Shabbat Services and Torah Study are held at Rabbi Cat’s home. She has a cat and dog (the dog will not be present at services) that live in the house. We encourage people to wear a mask if that is comfortable for you. There are 4 steps to enter the house. The house is one story. There are 4 steps out the backdoor to the backyard if we decide to go out there.There are couches, dining room chairs, and a floor for seating (along with pillows one can sit on on the floor). Please try to be scent-free. Rabbi Cat is sensitive to strong scents and only uses mild scents and natural cleaning supplies, soaps, etc. in the house.