'Kavana Shabbat' Morning Service & Goodbye for Isaac Healey - September

Kavanah Shabbat: let’s try it out

You are invited to experiment with us in how we mark shabbat morning. This is the first of our experimental monthly Kavanah (intentional) Shabbat. Here’s the back story:

Once upon a time, before anyone had even thought about writing a siddur (prayerbook), the customs developed for Jews to recite various blessings to mark the different body postures and practices in the morning. We are also taught in the mishnah that the ‘pious ones of old’ would meditate for an hour before they began to pray. As siddurim began to be written down the first of these were written down as Birkat HaShachar (dawn/morning blessings) and the second was combined with the temple tradition of Psalm recitation and became the Pseukei D’Zimra (Verses of Song). 

Kavanah Shabbat will attempt to integrate them again with a Yoga-stretching-embodied inspired Birkat HaShachar and chanting/meditation based Pseukei D’Zimra. 

We’ll…