Please mark your calendars! On Shabbat, February 3rd and 4th, we will be welcoming Rabbi Sam Feinsmith to Kol Sasson as part of our series bringing in individuals with unique and provocative perspectives on emerging movements and contemporary issues facing observant Jews.
**Learning & Kiddush for this Shabbat is sponsored by Roz and Oren Conway and family to commemorate the ending of Shloshim in memory of their beloved mother & grandmother, Dorothy Weinberg z”l. They would like to thank the Kol Sasson Community for the outpouring of care during the Shiva period by helping to make the minyanim and providing much of the food. May the memory of Dorothy Weinberg z”l serve as a blessing.**
Schedule:
To welcome Shabbat, please join us for a beautiful, spiritual davening Friday night, beginning with Mincha at 4:50 p.m. at the Katz house, 9315 Central Park. Please come on time! Immediately following Mincha, Rabbi Feinsmith will be leading Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv.
On Shabbat morning, Rabbi Feinsmith will be leading musaf and giving a d’var torah in connection with Shabbat Shira entitled, “Four Songs: Four Divine Spheres of Responsibility,” exploring Rav Kook’s Fourfold Song as a map for charting a path towards our personal spiritual evolution along a spectrum from self, to community, to humanity, to all of Creation. Each realm of experience will serve as a locus for revealing the Divine. These widening spheres of spiritual awareness frame an exposition of ever-expanding spheres of human responsibility.
Sam Feinsmith teaches Judaic Studies and coordinates Jewish life at Chicagoland Jewish High School. He holds degrees from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Passionate about prayer and contemplative Jewish practice, he served as a consultant on a number of innovative prayer and minyan-related projects, and has conducted Jewish meditation workshops for teens and adults. As a tikkun olam ambassador, he served as an AJWS Kol Tzedek Fellow and volunteered in Asia and Central America. He lives in Evanston with his wife, Sarah-Bess Dworin.