Every 7th day. 52 weeks a year. Since Creation.
Our doors are open for lively communal worship in the sanctuary, alternative services and programs for all ages, music, and more.
SANCTUARY SERVICES
Kabbalat Shabbat / Fri / 6:15 pm
Recharge your spirit with a musical, lively, family-friendly service. Come for the community, stay for the oneg!
Shabbat Morning Service / Sat / 9:45 am
A musically uplifting morning service with Torah reading, meaningful prayer, and words of inspiration from our clergy. Schmooze and nosh afterward at our community kiddush.
We continue to provide our world-class broadcast on Livestream. And PAS CONNECT from our main sanctuary, so that wherever you are, you will be with us.
THE FULL SHABBAT EXPERIENCE
Below you will find the wide range of services and activities PAS offers during Shabbat. It is highly recommended that you check the calendar for specific dates and times and additional details for all services and programs, as our Shabbat schedule can change week by week.
PAS SHABBAT BLESSING BOOK
This book contains the rituals and blessings for a Friday night Shabbat celebration, and includes guided instructions, intentions for each blessing, and ways you can make the rituals your own.
Shabbat Opportunities
Youth and Family
RITUAL LAB
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 9:30 am / 87th Street
Ritual Lab will create an opportunity for students and their families to explore the rituals connected to Shabbat. This program is designed for families with children grades K–2 and their parents.
SHABBAT SHELANU
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 10:30 am / 87th Street
A musical morning service geared for families with children ages newborn–2nd grade. Experience a morning when your family will sing, pray, and learn together.
TEEN AND PARENT LEARNING WITH RABBI COSGROVE
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 3:30 pm / Register for location
Post-Bnei Mitzvah learners and their caregivers are invited to meet with Rabbi Cosgrove for Shabbat Torah study, schmoozing, and fun! This event is for all PAS Teens and their parents. Register to join.
YFE HAVDALAH
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 5:00 pm / 87th Street
Cantor Reisner
Say Shalom (goodbye) to Shabbat with your YFE friends. In addition to havdalah, we will do a special art project. Register to join.
GRADES 5 & 6 HAVDALAH PROGRAM
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 5:00–6:00 pm / 87th Street, Third Floor Chapel
Havdalah is a very special ceremony that marks the end of Shabbat. We will come together to smell the spices, light the many-wicked candle, and taste the wine/grape juice.
Something for All Ages
SHABBAT B'YACHAD
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 10:00 am / 87th Street
Find the joy of Shabbat music and liturgy but in a smaller, more intimate setting where you can participate and engage in Jewish learning and find community together – B'Yachad!
For Adults
HASHKAMAH MINYAN
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 7:30 am / 87th Street, First Floor Chapel
Please join us for our lay-led early Shabbat Service – now fully egalitarian! We will gather as a community of committed daveners to celebrate Shabbat, and feel the joy of in-person community!
PARASHAT HASHAVUA
Sat / Check calendar for listings / 9:00 am / 87th Street and Online
PAS Clergy
Study the week’s Torah portion and discover a new angle to our annual parashah cycle. Join via Zoom.
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SHABBAT SHALOM, FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VALERIE RUSSO
In this week’s Torah portion, Moses and Aaron are told by God that they will not enter the Promised Land. Further, God instructs that Aaron’s vestments be put on his son Eleazar prior to Aaron’s death.
As I read this passage, I could almost picture Aaron taking his vestments and deliberately, carefully, with honor and with love, literally passing them down. I wondered, what might those vestments hold? What lessons, what wisdom, what history and tradition, what encouragement, is Aaron passing down to his son, to the next generation, in that moment? How will Eleazar use these gifts?
This passage leads me to think about the gifts, the love, the traditions, the support, the sense of responsibility that have been passed down to me by my parents, and the opportunities I’ve had recently to once again, but with ever deeper understanding and appreciation, express to them my gratitude, in words and in actions, for those gifts. The parashah also offers a reminder to focus, with heightened intentionality, on the opportunities to pass down the present-day equivalent of those vestments to our own children, to our loved ones, to the next generation.
What lessons, what wisdom, have been passed on to you? How have you used those gifts? How has your appreciation for them deepened over time? How might you use those gifts going forward? What lessons are you passing down to your loved ones and to the next generation, to those who look up to you? What lessons should you be passing down, but haven’t yet done so?
Shabbat Shalom.
Valerie Russo
Executive Director of PAS