Allan Schwarz Music Shabbaton with Guest Artist Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz. November 18th – 19th, 2022.

We are delighted to welcome Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz to be our musical artist for the Annual Allan Schwarz Music Shabbaton, November 18 – 19.  Rabbi Sacks Mintz will lead Kabbalat Shabbat services along with our musicians, on Friday evening at 7PM and following services will speak with our community about Boi Kallah, Shabbat HaMalka: Singing in the Divine.

Boi Kallah, Shabbat HaMalka: Singing in the Divine. Shabbat is characterized by the call to sink into oneg – delight – through delicious food, prayer and study, and joyful song. Through an exploration of singing as a spiritual practice, we’ll deepen our connection to the ritual of raising our voices together, connecting to melodies and texts, new and old.

To join us for dinner, please watch your email for sign-up information; all are welcome to Kabbalat Shabbat Services beginning at 7:00PM.

Please return on Saturday morning when she will again join our musicians and lead our Shabbat services.  Saturday afternoon, Rabbi Deborah will speak with our community about Singing at the Sea, Lamenting by the River.

Singing at the Sea, Lamenting by the River. How has music expressed both power and joy, and suffering and loss, throughout the Jewish people’s narrative? Where do we see our own experiences embedded within these stories? In this text-based class, we’ll explore two key Biblical narratives centering the outpouring of song – punctuating our own learning with moments of melody and mindfulness.

About Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

An educator, practitioner, and facilitator of Jewish communal music, Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz supports those seeking to deepen a practice of empowered song and connective prayer – with curiosity, skill, and heart. Through workshops, song-circles, and tefila experiences, Deborah strives to use song as a tool in the process of unearthing the grassroots creative spirituality of the Jewish and global people.

As a performer and composer, Deborah deeply treasures the process of artistic partnership; in addition to collaborating on over two dozen albums with a diverse array of voices in the Jewish soundscape, Deborah released her first album of original spiritual music, The Narrow and the Expanse, in 2020 and is currently working on her second, to be released in 2023. Beloved ongoing artistic projects include Joey Weisenberg’s Hadar Ensemble, Rabbi Josh Warshawsky’s Chaverai Nevarech, and New Moon Rising with Elana Arian and Chava Mirel.

Deborah serves the Hadar Institute as their Director of Tefillah and Music. She received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and holds degrees in music and religious anthropology from the University of Michigan.  

Learn more about Deborah’s work at www.deborahsacksmintz.com