Written teachings and news from the congregation—reflections on the week's portion, announcements, and our weekly prayers for Israel. New pieces post throughout the week.
This year marks 25 years since Congregation Sha'arei Shalom began holding public Shabbat services as an organized kehillah kedoshah, and the community is marking the milestone throughout the new Hebrew year rather than in a single celebration.
Read more →It's Tuesday, and the new year is closing in fast: less than two weeks until Rosh Hashanah. This Shabbat we read Parashat Ki Tavo, and its haftarah is the sixth of the seven Haftarot of Consolation that carry us from…
Read more →Ki Teitzei means "when you go out," and this week Israel is going out on more fronts than one. Strikes on Lebanon left the deadliest toll in months, even as the US-Iran ceasefire lapses and tension rises over the Strait…
Read more →This week's prayer points for Israel—pray with us through the week for peace, for comfort, and for the believing communities in the land.
Read more →Re'eh opens with a single imperative—see—and sets a choice before all Israel, together. Some reflections as we read the parashah this Shabbat.
Read more →Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot dates and service times for the 5787 fall holiday season—mark your calendars now.
Read more →Congregation Sha'arei Shalom Prayer for Israel Parashat Re'eh | Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Torah: Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17; Haftarah: Isaiah…
Read more →It's Tuesday, and this is a heavy week before it is a comforting one. Tomorrow night we enter Tisha B'Av, the fast that mourns the destruction of both Temples. But this coming Shabbat carries two names. It is Parashat…
Read more →This coming Saturday is Shabbat Chazon, the Sabbath of Vision — named for Isaiah’s vision that we read as the Haftarah, and the last and most solemn Shabbat before Tisha b’Av, which begins at sundown on Wednesday, July…
Read more →Avinu Malkeinu, our Father and our King — You who called to Israel, “Return, and call Me your Father, the Guide of your youth” — we come before You on this holy Shabbat, in the deepening days of the Three Weeks, and we…
Read more →Avinu Malkeinu, our Father and our King — Maker of heaven and earth, Sovereign over every nation and every age, we lift our hearts to You on this holy…
Read more →We are in the week between two Torah portions that belong together like breath and flame. Nasso — which we read this past Shabbat — closes the long work of ordering the camp, crowning it all with the Birkat Kohanim.…
Read more →Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the Universe — who counted out fifty days from the barley of liberation to the wheat of Sinai, and who has never stopped counting over…
Read more →Avinu Shebashamayim (Our Father in Heaven), we stand before You in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach, the Prince of Peace and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. We lift up Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish people, weaving the words…
Read more →Israel is focusing on creating a security buffer zone in southern Lebanon. Iran's foreign minister is in Moscow today seeking support to end a war that has shaken the entire region. Negotiations between the US and Iran…
Read more →We come before You today with our eyes fixed on the mountains of Israel. You gathered Your people from the four corners of the earth, and You have promised: "I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be…
Read more →We come before You today on Yom HaShoah, with six million names on our hearts — names meant to be forgotten, and not forgotten by You. "I have engraved you on the palms of My hands" (Isaiah 49:16). We say zachor — we…
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