Shabbat

All Har Zion services are offered online. We are reintroducing in-person participation in limited services, with confirmed reservations.

SHABBAT

Friday Evening Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:30 PM

Live on Zoom; Meeting ID# 230 955 304; you must enter the standard Temple Har Zion password.

We warmly welcome Shabbat each Friday evening with Kabbalat Shabbat services. At this time, Friday evening services are only available streaming via Zoom.

Click here to download a PDF of the Siddur we use for Friday evening services. (If a Siddur PDF does not open immediately for you, try clicking on the Login button and login to your Google account. Contact the office if you need help.)

Saturday Morning at 10:00 AM

Meeting ID# 242 651 284; you must enter the standard Temple Har Zion password.

We continue our observance of Shabbat on Saturday mornings. 

Click here to download a PDF of the Siddur we use for Shabbat morning services. (If a Siddur PDF does not open immediately for you, try clicking on the Login button and login to your Google account. Contact the office if you need help.)

The Shabbat Morning services are streamed three ways:

• Live, on Zoom, with the usual password; ask the temple office for the Zoom password if you need it.
• To the temple’s Facebook page, no password required.
• To Temple Har Zion's YouTube, no password required.

Recordings of the Saturday Shabbat Services and some of the special programs are available on the temple’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. (See above for links.)

In Person Attendance on Shabbat Morning

We are permitting a limited number of members to attend the Shabbat Morning Services in person, in the temple, with adherence to strict Covid protocols.

You must complete this mandatory form to request to attend a service in person. No one will be admitted without express written confirmation from Har Zion. This form must be  submitted before 12 Noon on the Friday before the service that you wish to attend.

SHOHET DAILY MINYAN

Weekdays 8 AM
Sunday 9:30 AM

Live on Zoom; Zoom Meeting ID# 799 405 500; you must enter the standard Temple Har Zion password.

Click here to download a PDF of the Siddur we use for the Daily Morning Minyan services. (If a Siddur PDF does not open immediately for you, try clicking on the Login button and login to your Google account. Contact the office if you need help.)

Our daily morning minyan is named in honor of long-time temple members Leon and Frannye Shohet (z”l).

Learn to lead or follow the Shohet Morning Minyan!  

✡︎ Click here to hear Cantor Figa chant the service.

Honors, Readings, and Aliyot

While many prayers are recited in Hebrew at Shabbat morning services, there are many English readings to allow everyone’s participation. Pulpit honors are accorded equally to men and women. At Shabbat morning services, children are welcome to sit with their parents or to attend regularly scheduled Junior Congregation services.

Members desiring an aliyah or other honor at the Shabbat morning service (to commemorate a Yahrzeit, special birthday, or other milestone) may contact the Temple office. Even when we have a b’nai mitzvah or other special Shabbat, we reserve honors for the congregation.

Temple Decorum

To help you derive the most from our services and to help us maintain our traditions, please observe the proper decorum of our service:

• Attire in the sanctuary should be modest and appropriate for a house of worship; no strapless, bare shoulder dresses; no torn jeans or pants; no bare midriffs or shorts, etc.

• Cell phones should be silenced in the sanctuary.Do not enter or leave the sanctuary when the Ark is open or when the rabbi is speaking.

• All males should wear a kippah (head covering) while in the building; these are available in the rack in the front foyer.

• Do not take tallit or prayer book into the restroom.

• Do not smoke anywhere in or near the building.

• Writing is prohibited on Shabbat and holidays; it’s considered a creative act and thus is not allowed on sanctified days.

• Refrain from chewing gum in the synagogue building.

• Pocket-sized hearing amplification devices are available; see an usher or the executive director.

• Photography is prohibited in the sanctuary during services.