Welcome Shabbat In Sacred Community In-Person and Virtually!
Cultivating the Wisdom of Our Hearts
with Zvika Krieger, Lior Tsarfaty, and special music guests
Friday, 7:00pm
In-Person and On Zoom
Meeting ID 826 946 797
Passcode 941869
Join Spiritual Leader Zvika Krieger and Music Director Lior Tsarfaty for embodied prayer, soulful singing, ecstatic dancing, guided meditation, sharing of ancestral wisdom, and connection in intergenerational community. Share support, care, and the sweetness of our community as we prepare to enter Shabbat. This week features special musical guests Eliyahu Sills and Rachel Valfer!
If you’re planning to attend in-person, please register in advance as COVID protocols may limit our amount of seating.
Register Here!
Event will start promptly at 7pm — please arrive a few minutes early.
Shabbat remains accessible to all via Zoom.
Eliyahu Sills is a highly acclaimed musician of many instruments and deep knowledge of multiple musical traditions, from spiritual music of the Middle East and India to American musics of Soul and Jazz and their African roots. Eliyahu studied for over ten years with the Hindaustani bansuri flute master G.S.Sachdev, one of the worlds most highly esteemed musicians in that ancient tradition. In Istanbul, Turkey, he studied with Neyzen Omer Erdogdular and Neyzen Ahmet Kaya, in Morocco with Akdii Abdelsalaam, and in Israel with Itamar Shachar.
Rachel Valfer is a passionate singer and oud (Arabic lute) player who brings depth of feeling to every song. She studied Maqam and Persian dastgah modal systems in Israel and Palestine for six years at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and sings with several ensembles in the Bay Area. Gifted in the art of language, Rachel sings in Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Turkish, Ladino, and Armenian.
Covid Protocols
For indoor events, Chochmat HaLev requires masking which covers both your nose and mouth. N95, KN95, and double surgical are acceptable. Cloth masks of any kind are not acceptable.
CHL will provide passive ventilation (e.g. open windows and doors under the supervision of security-trained personnel) and other equipment as available.
CHL will include specific guidelines for those attending in person events on our website and in announcements regarding events.
DO NOT attend an event at CHL:
- if you are experiencing any potential symptoms of COVID-19 or other illness
- if you have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days and have not had a negative antigen test on Day 6 or later
- if you have had a known exposure to COVID-19 in the past 3-5 days
- if a household member has tested positive in the last 10 days and has not had a negative test on Day 6 or later
DONATION INFO
Our Shabbat services are supported by donation. Each donation, small and large, allows us to continue with this offering.
• Donate online chochmat.org/give
• Venmo @chochmat (phone 510-704-1767)
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ZOOM INFO
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Join with video https://zoom.us/j/826946797
Join by phone 1-669-900-6833, 1-346-248-7799, 1-253-215-8782
Meeting ID: 826 946 797
Passcode: 941869
