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SONG AND SPIRIT
A weekend dedicated to using song and spirit to uplift and transform people and build community is planned for the weekend of November 10 – 11 at the Myerberg Center by a group of Baltimore Jewish congregations and organizations featuring the voice and teachings of Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute.
Sponsored by Chevrei Tzedek Congregation with cosponsorship from Hinenu and the Jews of Color Mishpacha Project, the weekend’s goal is to draw people close together to participate, to learn, and to grow in spirituality through the transformative power of grassroots energy and the work of musical-spiritual artists. Facing the tragic news from the Middle East, music can help unlock heavy hearts and encourage therapeutic expressions across a wide emotional spectrum.
Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz is an educator, practitioner, and facilitator of Jewish communal music. Her
beautiful voice can be heard on many albums and videos. She serves the Hadar Institute as Director of
Tefillah (Prayer) and Music, supporting those who seek to deepen, sharpen, and unlock their practice of
empowered song and prayer. Rabbi Sacks Mintz interweaves song and Torah as integrated tools to
unearth the grassroots creative spirituality of the Jewish and global people.
As a performer and composer, Rabbi Sacks Mintz deeply treasures the process of artistic partnership.
Through her work on the founding team of the Rising Song Institute, she has collaborated on over two
dozen albums with a diverse array of voices in the Jewish soundscape, including two albums of her own
of original spiritual music, The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) and Yetzira (June 2023).
Highlights of the weekend will include:
◼ Friday evening with Rabbi Sacks Mintz leading a participatory Ma'ariv and Kabbalat Shabbat
Service followed by a festive Shabbat dinner.
◼ An intimate after-dinner participatory learning experience led by Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz:
“Communal Song, Communal Leadership: A Collaborative Workshop.” The workshop will
facilitate members of the community contributing to the process of hiddur mitzvah -
beautification of the mitzvah of prayer. Rabbi Sacks Mintz explains “How do we unearth the
potential textures of sound and empower ourselves and one another in the real-time act of
prayer and communal song? We’ll explore strategies and tools in the cultivation of empowered
spiritual musicality in our community. Come ready to learn, sing, and dream.”
◼ Saturday morning services led by Rabbi Sacks Mintz followed by a kiddush luncheon.
◼ Saturday evening performance by Rabbi Sacks Mintz that encourages participation and learning.
Reservations for the events may be made at chevreitzedek.org/songspirit
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2019197-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2019197-2
