This Tuesday: Pray and Pub!

Chag sameah, comrades!

We are going to carry this joyous Purim / Adar energy into Tuesday evening with prayer and pub! We’ll have a ma’ariv service with snacks 7-8 at the LGBT+ Centre and then head to the closest pub afterwards. (See more: https://jaq.blessing.exchange/event/maariv-3/ )

Please invite your friends! This is a lovely way to spend a spring evening. The pub also has food.

Spring is a time for growth, and we’re hoping for both our joy and our numbers to bloom.

#daven #jewdiverse #Jewish #lgbt #mazeldon #Queer #SouthLondon #tefillah

Start Your Day with Some Blessing and Community

We now have a calendar that you can subscribe to via your phone or favourite calendar app. (The LGBTQ+ Centre’s calendar is slightly wonky and is missing a few dates).

Our next minyan is tomorrow, 11 February, bright and early. Come start your day with blessings!

https://jaq.blessing.exchange/events

Upcoming Events

Shacharit

Ma’ariv

Shacharit

#lgbtq #London #minyan #tefillah

New Minyan Times

By popular demand, we’re experimenting with some different time slots for our London-based Weekday Minyan. Our next minyan will be a maariv, on Tuesday 4 February.

If you’ve never been before, you’re very welcome, but please book so we know to look out for you.

Future February dates and times aren’t yet fixed, but we’ll have a new set pattern by March. Watch this space for news and announcements or send us an email to get added to our list.

#London #minyan #tefillah

Tomorrow Morning Minyan

Help make it a minyan tomorrow! If you have not previously been, please book so we know to look out for you: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-weekday-minyan-tickets-1105349162099

[Cross-posted to our insta account]

#daven #minyan #shacharit #tefillah

Silence is Praise - Weekly Chanting & Meditation Service

DATES: Weekly on Wednesdays
TIME: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET (8:30 - 9:30 am PT)
COST: Pay-what-you-can

Overwhelmed with stress from daily life? Join Rabbi Anne Brener for a chanting and meditation service, using the structure of the morning service, to calm our bodies and connect our souls. There will be time for some check-in afterward.

Register: https://aleph.org/civicrm/event/register/?reset=1&id=244

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Tefillah

The Blue Dove Foundation, which works with #Jewish and #interfaith communities around the world, has developed some excellent, free resources to support people experiencing emotional pain. One of their downloadable guides is named "Derech L'Tefilla ~ A Path to Prayer."

You can see it and get a free copy here: https://thebluedovefoundation.org/resource/derech-ltefilla-a-path-to-prayer/

#Tefillah #JewishPrayer #interfaithprayer

I have been meeting people who are working on their #Hebrew reading skills to become able to say traditional #Jewish #prayer (#Tefillah). There are a few good free resources on the archive.org website using #Psalms (#Tehillim) ~ here are two:

Rafi Metz's slow and clear reading of Psalms in alternating English and Hebrew: https://archive.org/details/PsalmsOfDavidInHebrew/NPS_19_Glat.mp3

Shir Yaakov Feit's musical settings of verses from Hebrew Psalms, in easy-to-follow tunes: https://archive.org/details/shir-psalms/ps14.mp3

A lovely new offering from #Rabbi BJ Thaler is posted on @opensiddur ~ part of the כוונות kavvanot tradition, named "יש חיים
- There is Life." In English and #Hebrew ~ you can read it and hear it sung by Rabbi BJ here ~ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/life-cycle/living/well-being-health-and-caregiving/there-is-life-a-healing-song-by-baruch-jean-thaler/

#Tefillah