Religious Services
NOTE: May 7, 2011 — New Shabbat Morning Service Times & Format
Starting on May 7, 2011, there will be a Torah study session at 9:00 AM on Shabbat morning, followed by services beginning at 9:30 AM. Handouts from the Torah study session will be available as an introduction to the Torah reading and Haftarah during the service.
Traditional Night Friday Night Shabbat Services 7:30-8:30 PM
Congregation Ohev Shalom’s Traditional Friday night service is a very “frielich” (joyful) service in which lively congregational melodies are sung by the Cantor and the congregation actively joins in. There is also a weekly study session led by one of the rabbis. Each year a different subject is chosen and becomes the weekly theme. This year, we are currently studying “What Happened In Modern Jewish History On This Week?”, at which time we look at events that occurred 100 years ago, 75 years ago and 50 years ago during that particular week. This is a fun and entertaining way of becoming acquainted with the events of Modern Jewish history. Question and discussions are always encouraged.
Shabbat Morning Sanctuary Service 9-noon
By far the most popular and beloved of Ohev’s religious services is our main congregational Shabbat Morning Service in the sanctuary. It is a service full of singing, studying and congregational participation. The cantor leads the congregational while the Torah is chanted by both young and older members of the congregation’s Yad Squad. The Torah is explored in a Dvar Torah given by one of the rabbis and later a passionate address is delivered in the sermon dealing with the spiritual and contemporary issues of our time. It is also a service in which all life cycle events of the congregation are celebrated: Bar or Bat Mitzvah, wedding aufrufs, baby-namings, wedding anniversaries. This service is a true celebration of our Judaism: its teachings, songs and prayers and the sharing together of the joys of our congregational family.
Friday Nite CHAI Service
Friday Nite CHAI is a once-monthly Friday night Shabbat experience. It has moments filled with high energy and soft moments that will fill your soul. It is a regular Erev Shabbat service with the addition of a 4-piece band and some new melodies that you may not yet know. Friday Nite CHAI will fill your Shabbat with a new sense of spirituality. Most of the music is arranged for the congregation to sing along and it utilizes our regular Shabbat Siddur which includes a great deal of English transliteration so the words are not a barrier to your participation. The service includes all the prayers that are part of the regular Friday night liturgy, including the silent Amidah and mourner’s Kaddish. It is your chance to sing a Shir Hadash, a new song to God. The service usually takes place on the first Friday night of each month, but it does move around from time to time so watch the calendar for the schedule.
Special Hebrew School Family ‘Services’ With Senior Rabbi Aaron D. Rubinger
Once a month, there is a very unique “service” at which time Senior Rabbi Aaron D. Rubinger meets with the families and children from each of the Religious School classes. Rabbi Rubinger conducts what he calls a “Family Prayer Workshop.” Instead of a traditional service, some selective prayers are explored in depth and the spiritual messages they convey help families come to feel closer to God and to one another. Through this service our young families and Rabbi Rubinger come to know one another more personally as he seeks to help them have a keener appreciation of the underlying “love letters” between God and the Jewish people can be uncovered within the prayers.
Minyan Yashar
Rabbi David Kay facilitates a “straight-ahead” traditional egalitarian Shabbat morning service, with lots of singing and a brief d’var Torah in lieu of a sermon.
Weekday Morning Minyan
Sunday – 9:00 AM at Congregation Ohev Shalom
Monday through Friday – Orlando Community Weekday Minyan (Conservative egalitarian)
7:45 AM (9:00 AM on national holidays)
2nd Floor Beit K’nesset (chapel) – Jewish Academy of Orlando
851 Maitland Avenue, Maitland FL 32751
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