Purim For Adults!
Our children will be learning about and celebrating Purim on Sunday, March 17 during Beit Lev. Many of us will gather on the actual night of Purim, Wednesday, March 20 at 7:00 p.m. for a megillah reading/hearing (in English) and a special Adult Education session. Please click here and read a preview about our discussion of a very old yet current concern, one of the main themes of the Book of Esther. Please join us!
March Shabbat Unplugged
Many of us are already familiar with the text of the prayer book (Siddur) also known as the “greatest hits of the Middle Ages.” However, the arc and flow of “traditional” worship can sometimes seem difficult to connect with. As one congregant shared, "prayers are as accessible to us as animal sacrifice." Shabbat Unplugged, in our “Sing Shalom Shabbat,” strives to make Shabbat worship a bit more accessible by tying meaningful popular songs to the format of the Shabbat service--making music and feeling the primary vehicles for the direction of our Shabbat worship experience. Please join with Shabbat Unplugged on Friday March 22 at 7:00 p.m. for a sing-full / soul-full evening based on folk and pop music--lots of music that you'll recognize and enjoy singing along--all presented by your Shabbat Unplugged ensemble.
Literature at Lunch
Join Gail Lipsitz at noon on March 23, 2019 (Please note: this is a new date.) for our next discussion of "INDECENT", a Play by Paula Vogel.
Follow the true story of a play, a playwright, and a plucky troupe of Yiddish theater artists from 1906 Warsaw, to 1923 Broadway, to 1943 Lodz Ghetto in Poland, to 2017 Broadway. Sholem Asch's play "God of Vengeance" moved from risky experiment to global sensation—and ultimately shattering scandal. This is the story dramatized by Paula Vogel in her 2017 play, "Indecent." The latest hit from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of A Civil War Christmas, The Baltimore Waltz, and How I Learned to Drive, Indecent pays homage to artists ahead of their time and doomed to pay the price. Read and see this fascinating play, and bring your reactions to our discussion. "Indecent" comes alive at Center Stage (including a klezmer band), directed by Eric Rosen, from February 28-March 31, 2019. We highly recommend that you see the play before our meeting on March 23. To purchase tickets for "Indecent" at Center Stage click here.
"Indecent" was published in paperback (75 pages) in 2017 by Theater Communications Group, Inc., 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156.
FYI: You can also watch the Broadway performance of "Indecent" on PBS. You have to be a Passport member, but it's only $5.
Adult Ed Class - "Practical Theology - Part III"
Part II was about living out of one's convictions and values -- sometimes referred to as "applied Judaism" as we attempt to bring our spirituality to life in the practical, pragmatic, lived world. The guiding question was, "How do my behaviors (and what specific actions?) reflect our highest moral and spiritual commitments?"
Part III is the other side of the coin, living into spirituality. There are many practices and modes of engagement to develop and nurture our spiritual lives, of exercising our spiritual capacities, with the aim of internalizing virtues, sensitizing ourselves to care for others, becoming aware of the greater unity within which we live. Through various components of Jewish life -- blessings, ritual observances, objects, study, set-aside times, prayer, etc. -- we may connect with and strengthen our attachment to our ideals.
For Part III of our exploration of the intersection between spirituality and worldly living we can avail ourselves of the experience of Rabbi Steve Silvern, a member of KHL, as a resource and teacher of prayer. You are invited to join the learning and discussion on any Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the KHL room.
Part III is the other side of the coin, living into spirituality. There are many practices and modes of engagement to develop and nurture our spiritual lives, of exercising our spiritual capacities, with the aim of internalizing virtues, sensitizing ourselves to care for others, becoming aware of the greater unity within which we live. Through various components of Jewish life -- blessings, ritual observances, objects, study, set-aside times, prayer, etc. -- we may connect with and strengthen our attachment to our ideals.
For Part III of our exploration of the intersection between spirituality and worldly living we can avail ourselves of the experience of Rabbi Steve Silvern, a member of KHL, as a resource and teacher of prayer. You are invited to join the learning and discussion on any Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the KHL room.
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We are located in The Church of the Holy Comforter (CHC), 130 W. Seminary Avenue, Lutherville 21093. All Friday and Saturday Shabbat services will now be held at CHC in the chapel. The chapel is handicap accessible.
Shabbat Music
Kol HaLev, with the guidance of Cantor George has been introducing new, exciting, stimulating, joyful music to our services. Much of this music is for Friday nights and is played by Shabbat Unplugged on the fourth Friday night of the month. Shabbat Unplugged has made recordings so that the community can learn the melodies more easily. This link takes you to the recordings and the lyrics for the songs. (You can also access them from this home page under the Program tab above). Come and enjoy guitar, drum, voices and song!
Interfaith Learning and Discussion of the Hebrew Scripture with CHC: Focus on the Prophets.
Rabbi Geoff is joining Pastor Chris Tang in co-teaching the Wednesday morning "Bible Study" class at CHC. The theme is "Prophets and Prophecy," the timeless messages of the Hebrew prophets have importance and relevance for all. (And it is a chance to familiarize ourselves with less-often read books of TaNaCh.) This promises to be good learning and, even more important, good inter-faith conversation and expansion of understanding. ALL ARE WELCOME on Wednesdays, 10:00 to 11:15 a.m. in the Parish Hall.
Learn Hebrew!
Of all the entry points into the Jewish wisdom tradition, the Hebrew language is the "Golden Gate." Join Rabbi Geoff on Wednesdays, 6:00-7:00 p.m. Materials will be provided, and in no time you will gain skills to participate competently and comfortably in services, knowledge of key words and meanings, access to the wisdom embedded in the language -- the acquisition of immensely valuable resources to connect with and use, be they blessings, prayers, songs, Torah itself, and other texts. Please join us, your religious life and identity is about to get a lot richer!
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Weather Closing Policy
It is Kol HaLev's policy that if Baltimore County Schools are closed due to weather then any KHL service or event scheduled for that day will also be canceled and/or rescheduled.
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