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About Our Services

Temple Israel provides a variety of services.

The regular schedule of services is on the Home page.

Main Service (Shabbat Mornings)

We celebrate the Shabbat morning service in the main sanctuary with the leadership of the Rabbis, the Cantor, and one or more officers. Our large congregation gives us many opportunities to share simchas; bar and bat mitzvahs, baby namings, and aufrufs are frequent events. Members of the congregation typically lead Birkhot Hashachar, Pesukei DeZimra, and Shacharit, and chant the Rarasha. If you would like to participate in the service, contact Cantor Dress.

Mishpacha Minyan (Friday Nights)

Join us twice a month for a family-friendly spiritual minyan, with a fully transliterated siddur available for beginning Hebrew readers. All are welcome to this song-filled Friday night experience. We celebrate a Shabbat dinner following services (reservations required). Click here for the tunes used in this services.

This is the schedule for the 2007-2008 year:

November 30
December 14
January 11
February 8
March 7
April 4
May 9
June 13

Founder's Hall Minyan (Shabbat Mornings)

Havurah-style Shabbat morning services are led entirely by members of the congregation and offer an intimate and informal alternative to the main service. These services are offered roughly once a month; please refer to the Calendar for the schedule. If you have any questions, contact Tova Sperber.

Junior Congregation & Babysitting
(Shabbat Mornings - 10:15 am to noon)

Junior Congregation and babysitting have been developed not just for the sake of allowing parents the time for meaningful prayer, but also to bring our children to a place of significant spiritual growth.

Junior Congregation and babysitting follow the same schedule, generally meeting throughout the school year. They do not meet during the summer.

Davening Resources

Prayer can be a spiritual experience, and it can also be a challenge to approach. Click on a few of the following links for Jewish Davening Resources:

SixThirteen.org: A wonderful davennng resource created by Chavurat Kol Zimrah, to enable individuals and communities to lhave their own exuberant and melodious Friday night
services.

VirtualCantor.com: The purpose of this site is to promote the proliferation of Nusach and to make a nusach readily accessible to those who have a desire to learn and a desire to deepen their Judaism. This site is a volunteer work in progress.

Davening Files from the DC Minyan: Several MP3 files recorded (with the great help of Kehilat Hadar), that review the Friday night and Shabbat morning davenning, as well as detailed instructions for service leaders. We hope these will be valuable both to those who have led before and would like to review, as well as to those who are learning to lead for the first time.

Ellie's Torah Trope Tutor will teach you the tunes for each of the Torah cantillation marks for Torah and Haftorah, Megillah and High Holiday Torah reading.

Navigating the Bible II offers audio recordings of all Torah readings, complete with vocalized Hebrew text, a copy of the text without vocalization, transliteration, and translation.

Kabbalat Shabbat

Click on one of the following audio-links for help becoming more familiar with participating or leading Kabbalat Shabbat!

Yedid Nefesh
Psalm 95
Psalm 96
Psalm 97
Psalm 98
Psalm 99
Psalm 29
Ana BeCho'ach

Lecha Dodi

version 1
version 2
version 3
version 4

Psalm 92
Psalm 93