Kabbalat Shabbat – Friday Evening Services
Shabbat Morning – Saturday Morning Services
Daily Minyan Services
*Check calendar for times.
“More than Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews,” wrote the poet and philosopher Ahad Ha’am (Asher Ginsberg) Here at Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael, Shabbat is the joyous holiday we love to celebrate each week. Our services are filled with beautiful Hebrew davening (chanting), songs and powerful English and Hebrew prayers. Our congregants love to sing along with our Cantorial Soloist Ben Rosenbach and Rabbi Finkelstein, and some of the melodies we sing were written specially for Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael. At Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday nights, Rabbi Finkelstein delivers a D’Var Torah (word of Torah), making the weekly Torah portion relevant for our lives today. At Shabbat morning services on Saturdays, he leads the congregation in a study and discussion about one or more specific verses in the portion.
We hope you will join us in celebrating Shabbat throughout the year! All of our Shabbat services are also streamed to Zoom, so that congregants may attend from home or anywhere they are traveling.
Do you love Debbie Friedman music? Are you a cub scout, girl scout, boy scout, venturer or sea scout? Do you want to celebrate Pride month, disability awareness and inclusion? Throughout the year we have special themed Shabbat evening services, with congregational participation, special music and relevant Divrei Torah (words of Torah). Sometimes these are preceded by a congregational dinner. We invite all to join in the fun!
As a congregation, we are committed to providing a daily morning minyan service, every day, 365 days a year. These are at 7:30 a.m. on weekdays and 9:00 a.m. on Sundays and 8:00 a.m. on Federal holidays. We also provide evening minyan services at 7:45 p.m. (at Havdalah on Saturday nights) upon request. When a mourner desires to fulfill the mitzvah of reciting Mourner’s Kaddish for their loved one, we send out a minyan assurance request, to ensure that the required minyan quorum is present. Our post-B-Mitzvah teens help, as well, by serving on the TBAY Minyan Assurance Crew. Daily minyan and evening minyan services are on Zoom, so there are no dress code and no commute – and family members from anywhere in the world can and do participate.
