Congregation Bonai Shalom
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Marc has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder since 2004. Prior to training as a rabbi, he was an actor and storyteller in his native UK, where he devised and performed a soulful show of Jewish stories called 'The Empty Chair' with the the acclaimed 'Besht Tellers.' He was also a practitioner of various forms of healing and complimentary medicine. In 1997 and 1998, Marc was co-chair of Limmud in the UK, which has been an essential part of his Jewish journey. Marc is proud to serve on the board of Colorado's first ever Limmud.
Prayer Services - Kabbalat Shabbat
Traditional Egalitarian
Julie Geller,
Marc Soloway
Sing your way into Shabbat! Men and women are welcome to participate equally in all aspects of this minyan. The liturgy for this service will be predominantly in Hebrew.
Waking Up the Body, Waking Up the Soul
Blessings of the Dawn
Julie Geller,
Marc Soloway
How we wake up in the morning can define our whole day. Do we crawl out of bed and fumble our way to the nearest caffeine? Or do we strengthen ourselves like lions to serve the Creator? Birkot HaShachar, the Morning Blessings are a Talmudic, spiritual prescription for waking up with awareness, describing conscious, waking steps. We will explore these blessings in a fresh way, including movement, meditation, study and singing. We will stretch our bodies and our souls.
Keva and Kavanah
Tensions between the Structured and the Spontaneous
Gavriel Goldfeder,
Marc Soloway
Oy, there are so many words to say in traditional Jewish prayer! Do we really need them all? Isn't our intention and feeling more important than saying everything in the right order? The delicate dance between structure and spontaneity has been at the core of understanding what it means to pray for over 2000 years. Using rabbinic, contemporary and Hassidic texts, Gavriel and Marc, an Orthodox rabbi and a Conservative rabbi from Boulder, will explore this dynamic tension and perhaps even help our love life with the Divine.
