Once a month, TRIBE is creating our own Beit Midrash (house of study) for us to engage with Jewish text to find how we can live more fulfilling, meaningful lives as we navigate our 20s and 30s! Each session will take us on a journey of text exploration and introspective work. Part of the session will be studying in hevruta, or with a study partner, and part of the session will be taught by R’ Hannah Jensen. No previous text study required! Join us for dinner, study, and lively discussion. Timeline: 7 PM – Dinner 7:45 PM – Learning (indoor/outdoor)

We come together to prepare and serve dinner twice a month to residents at PATH, a transitional home for veterans on Cotner in West LA

Join us for a cozy home-hosted Sababa Potluck Shabbat. Our hosts will share kosher brisket, so please bring a non-dairy entree, salad, dessert, or beverage to share. All ages are welcome. SIGN UP to bring items HERE

We welcome everyone to our Shabbat morning services, no matter their level of observance, experience, or familiarity with Hebrew. Daven with us in person at Shalhevet, or join us virtually on YouTube or Zoom. Childcare is available during Services for kids ages 2-5. Stay afterward for our kosher, vegetarian community lunch. Upcoming B’nai Mitzvahs: 11/2/2024 Bodhi Sroka 11/9/2024 Leo Weiss 11/23/2024 Adar “Adi” Lev Goldman 11/30/2024 Franklin Ariel and Cassidy Bulkacz 12/7/2024 Orly Grace Creasey 12/14/2024 Caleb Eamonn Fitzpatrick

Please let us know if you’ll be joining Morah Beth, a member of our IKAR clergy, and other awesome IKAR families for our Bite Size Family Shabbes program. We meet from 11am – 12pm in Shalhevet’s rooftop classroom. Please bring a dinosaur if you have one! We hope to see your family there! For 0-5 year olds and their families.

There is a teaching in Pirkei Avot that says that the mouth of the well was made during the first Shabbat of creation. We have long accepted it to be Miriam’s well, but what if it’s the well from this week’s parsha – the one Jacob encounters after his dream, and where he meets Rachel for the first time? If it’s that well, then maybe we, like Jacob, have to find the well, roll off the stone, and discover what exists underneath.

Who is Isaac?  The man perpetually trapped by his father’s story, still bound to the altar, forever defined by the core trauma of his life.  What will it take to break free?  For the once bound to become unbound?

After a life of heartache, two estranged brothers affirmed each other’s humanity, and rediscovered their own. We, too, can make that choice. Let us push back on the encroaching darkness as a force for good—a light force—that counters the cruelty, racism, and violence poisoning our culture with compassion, tender presence, and forgiveness. This is what solidarity looks like.

Loving your neighbor, who is like you, whose identity you share, is not enough.  You must stretch the boundaries of love to wrap into its embrace the stranger, the people in our society who are furthest away from power.  To counter the frenzy of rhetoric and the aspirations of policy that demonize these human beings, we need to love them fiercely.  We need to love them fully.