Unlocking the Soul of the Shabbat Service – Session 2: Aleinu | Chosenness
Wed, Oct 28
|In-Person + On Zoom
Join Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Rabbi Elana Rabishaw for three sessions exploring three prayers — Kaddish, Aleinu, and Mi Shebeirach — that help unlock the meaning of the Shabbat service. Come for one session or all three. Come with your beliefs, your doubts, and especially your questions.
Time & Location
Oct 28, 2026, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
In-Person + On Zoom
About the event
Unlocking the Soul of the Shabbat Service
Three Wednesday Mornings | 8:30–9:30 am
10/14, 10/28, 11/11
In-person or sign up for Zoom (A Zoom invitation link will be emailed to you prior to the session)
Every Shabbat, we encounter prayers that have become so familiar we may barely stop to wonder what they are really saying. Kaddish. Aleinu. Mi Shebeirach. We sing them. We stand for them. We recite them together. Some comfort us. Some carry memories. Some have accompanied Jews for generations. But why are they there? What do they actually mean? And what might happen if we understood them differently?
Join Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Rabbi Elana Rabishaw for three sessions exploring three prayers that help unlock the meaning of the Shabbat service. Together we’ll uncover their origins, wrestle with their theology, discover the stories and ideas hidden within their words, and explore why they continue to speak…