First up - Weekly Torah Study

There’s a lot going on at Nafshenu in February, starting with our Thursday evening Torah study that relaunches this week. We are looking at the portion of the week (Terumah, Exodus 25:1-27:19), with a focus on what these ancient texts have to say to us today. It’s an hour of learning and back-and-forth conversation. Whether you’ve taken part before or not, I think you’ll find the Torah study session engaging. Please join us on Zoom at 7 p.m. this Thursday and the same time weekly going forward - click here to register for this week.

This Weekend - Kabbalat Shabbat Services

Nafshenu music leader Noah Levine and I will lead a song-filled Kabbalat Shabbat this Friday at 6:30 p.m. There will be lots of spirited music, plus a brief Torah talk. Click here to register and receive the Zoom link.  

Next week, we have our Torah study (Thursday the 10^th) and Shabbat morning services with Noah and me on the 14^th.  We'll include a button at the bottom of this email so you can check out our full calendar. 

Coming up - Book Club led by Debbie Ottenberg 

There’s a Nafshenu triple play the following week, starting with our book club Sunday the 20^th. Our own Debbie Ottenberg will lead a discussion of The Day That Changed Everything by Catherine Miller, a gripping story about a newly widowed woman taking on life as a single parent to teens. It starts at 2:30 p.m - please click here to register and receive the address/Zoom link. That’s followed by Torah study on Thursday the 24^th and Kabbalat Shabbat the evening of Friday the 25^th.

Sadly, the ups and down of our two-year-old Covid-19 pandemic have led Nafshenu to reluctantly shift into Zoom-only mode through February. God willing, we will be able to return to some in-person services and events as conditions ease and the warmer months approach.

And there’s a lot to look forward to in the coming months – a Purim celebration and Megillah storytelling in mid-March, a communal Passover seder on Friday night, April 22, and an adult bat mitzvah in June for our own Stacey Young.

As we begin thawing from last weekend’s winter storm, let’s keep up the warmth that has held us together in Nafshenu through these long pandemic months.

- Reb Dovid