Selichot Learning, Havdalah, Oneg, and Services
Saturday, September 28
Shabbat Morning Minyan – 9:30am-11:30am
Potluck Lunch – 11:30am-12:30pm
Mid-Day Learning – 12:30pm-2:00pm
Evening Learning Session – 6:30pm-8:00pm
Oneg & Havdalah – 8:00-8:30pm in the Sanctuary Lobby
Services – 8:30-9:30pm in the Main Sanctuary
We are excited and honored to welcome Rabbi Jonathan Slater as he joins us in our Selichot observance. You will have several opportunities to engage and learn with Rabbi Slater as he will be joining us for a day of learning and reflection. Rabbi Slater will be leading our torah study during our regular minyan service beginning at 9:30am. Potluck lunch will follow. Following lunch, Rabbi Slater will be leading a session on meditation and mindfulness from 12:30-2:00pm. We will conclude the day with our Selichot learning session with Rabbi Slater at 6:30pm, followed by our Selichot service at 8:30pm. 

We are thrilled to gather for our annual Selichot service, featuring Cantor Hass and our LBT choir, as well as a special communal ritual of changing all our Torah covers from their year-round colors to their High Holydays white! Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind evening in the Jewish year – we will study and pray and sing together like never before!

Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater, DMin, was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and has a doctor of ministry degree from the Pacific School of Religion. He is the author of Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice and codirector of programs at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, as well as an instructor in meditation at the JCC in Manhattan and other venues. Jonathan co-directed and taught in the Institute of Jewish Spirituality's Clergy Leadership Program. He developed “Open My Heart”, a podcast on contemplative prayer practice featuring leading spiritual teachers. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet and All These Vows—Kol Nidre (both Jewish Lights). He has written numerous books including, most recently, A Partner in Holiness: Deepening Mindfulness, Practicing Compassion and Enriching Our Lives through the Wisdom of R. Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev’s Kedushat Levi.