Shabbat at IKAR

Our services are traditional and experimental, contemplative and ecstatic.  They are a fusion of spirit and purpose, old and new, east and west, Yair Dalal and Bono.

You don’t have to be a ringer to be touched by Shabbat davening at IKAR.  You won’t be the only one who doesn’t read Hebrew, feels more comfortable in Shavasuna than Shabbes, or is wearing jeans and sneaks.  This is truly an eclectic community – the shmoozers in the back are as likely rabbis and rab students as they are comedy writers, rocket scientists (yes, we actually have one!) and barristas.  The service is designed to welcome and stretch us all – wherever we come in, we ought to leave in a different place. 

We typically meet every Shabbat morning and every other Friday night, but there are quirks and irregularities (especially over the summer) – so please always check the website calendar. 


DETAILS ON OUR SHABBAT SERVICES


 

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time." // A.J. Heschel, The Sabbath