Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Community Passover Seder: A Journey to Freedom
Ruach HaMaqom Presents
Community Passover Seder: A Journey to Freedom
Led by Rabbi Lee Moore
Join Our Earth-Conscious Vegetarian Potluck Seder!
Experience a soul-stirring ritual where ancient wisdom meets song, story, and joy. Guided by Rabbi Lee we’ll explore dimensions of liberation and reinvigorate our commitments to end oppression. We'll use "The Promise of the Land" Haggadah by Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, weaving together the themes of freedom and ecological connection.
Eco-Conscious Potluck Contributions (Vegetarian Only)
Please bring a dish based on the first letter of your last name:
A-J: Bring a main dish
K-O: Bring a dessert
P-Z: Bring an appetizer
Earth-Honoring Dietary Guidelines:
Strictly vegetarian (milk, eggs, cheese allowed)
NO chametz: wheat, rye, barley, oats, or spelt
Gluten-free options welcomed
Locally-sourced and organic ingredients encouraged
Consider bringing your own reusable plates, cups, and utensils
Bring an ingredients list to place beside your dish
As we invite liberation from narrow places, we call in the Divine presence in all Creation. Bring family, friends, and open hearts to journey through the Red Sea together and beyond, traversing our ancient freedom songs along with contemporary visions for wholeness and justice.
RSVP by April 5th
Questions?: [contact@ruachhamaqom.org]
Please consider carpooling or using alternative transportation if possible
No one turned away for lack of funds - please contact us for accommodations
Ruach HaMaqom welcomes everyone regardless of background, identity, or familiarity with Jewish traditions.
Kabbalat Shabbat & community potluck
First Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi Lee! Friday, April 18th, 6:30 at the UU. Join your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for a lively, familiar Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious veggie pot luck!
Kabbalat Shabbat and community potluck
Join your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for a lively, familiar Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious vegetarian pot luck! Please make a description card to go with your dish, indicating ingredients.
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Shabbat Salon: Silence & Song
Salon means living room in Hebrew! Gather with community members and Rabbi David at the home of Yepeth Perla Rubin (and Panther) to share niggunim/wordless melodies, lightly guided meditation and a light kiddush. Bring some snacks for a light kiddush.
To respect our host’s privacy, please RSVP for address!
Kabbalat Shabbat & community potluck
Another Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi David! Friday, Feb. 14th, 6:30 at the UU. Join your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for a lively, familiar Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious veggie pot luck!
Creating the Upside-down: a pre-Purim creativity bash
Join Rabbi David and RhM member Cheryl Carmi for an evening to welcome in the energy of Purim. Bring your favorite musings (writings, songs or art!) about courage, truth, care—or hamantaschen! They can be your creative responses or those of others. We’ll take time to share and see where the conversation takes us in these dynamic times. On Zoom only, see RhM email for link.
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Shabbat Salon: Parsha Study
Salon means living room in Hebrew! Gather with community members and Rabbi David in a living room near you (could it be yours?) to share some light movement practices to open up this week’s text on revelation on Sinai! Bring some snacks for a light kiddush.
Kabbalat Shabbat & community potluck
Another Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi David! Friday, Feb. 14th, 6:30 at the UU. Join your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for a lively, familiar Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious veggie pot luck!
Preparing for Tu Bishvat: Songs, Stories, and Local Eco-Wisdom
Join Rabbi Lee and Rebecca Mack for inspiration, background and tools for celebrating Tu BiShvat, which will occur this year the evening of February 12th. We will sing together, share insight about what’s happening for the trees in Vermont during this season and offer ways you might celebrate this Jewish New Year of the Trees.
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Shabbat Salon: Silence & Song
Salon means living room in Hebrew! Gather with community members and Rabbi David in a Lani Ravin’s living room to share niggunim/wordless melodies, lightly guided meditation and a light kiddush. Bring some snacks for a light kiddush.
Note: in order to respect their privacy, please RSVP for address!
Kabbalat Shabbat & community potluck
Another Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi David! Friday, Jan. 10th, 6:30 at the UU. Join your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for a lively, familiar Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious veggie pot luck!
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Chana-Kava
Ruach HaMaqom and Ohavi Zedek join together in the celebration of the darkness, as the Winter night and the lighting of the menorah flames our source of hope.
BYOM – Bring Your Own Menorah, and we will light them together!
Kava tea and sufganiyot/donuts will be served. Bring a story, and song and some snacks!
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Gratitude Song Circle (Grief allowed)
Start your day with a Jewish gratitude practice over Zoom.
Rabbi Lee will lead us in a Jewish Renewal chanting and meditation service that loosely follows our Shacharit/morning service format.
If there is a minyan, we will say Kaddish. Even if there is not a minyan, we will hold space for grief—whether we are mourning the loss of a loved one or any other kind of loss.
To obtain the Zoom link or for any other questions, email RabbiLee@ruachhamaqom.org
Shabbat Salon: Parsha & Nosh
Salon means living room in Hebrew! Gather with community members and Rabbi David in Dov and Cheryl’s cozy living room (RSVP for address) to study Parshat Vayishlach, where Jacob wrestles with an angel and gives Esau a love bite. Intrigued? Come learn! And bring some snacks for a light kiddush.
Kabbalat Shabbat & community potluck
It’s our first solo Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi David! Friday, Dec. 13th, 6:30 at the UU. Join your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for a lively, familiar Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious veggie pot luck!
Standing Together: a gathering of artists and activists from Gaza and Israel
Join us for an inspiring evening with A Chance to Meet, a collective of artists and activists from Gaza and Israel who have been working in secrecy to connect and create art since 2019.
Their mission is to foster understanding and bridge the divide between Gaza and Israel/Palestine through art and storytelling.
This event will allow us a unique opportunity to engage directly with their artwork, listen to their stories, and create art together.
What to Expect:
Community Engagement: Connect with others in a safe, supportive environment dedicated to peace, solidarity, and social justice.
Artists’ Dialogue: Hear firsthand experiences and the challenges faced by artists working across barriers of conflict.
Interactive Art Creation: Bring your favorite portable art materials, like markers or Fimo clay (some materials will be provided).
Event Guidelines:
To ensure the safety and privacy of the artists, please note:
In-Person Only: No recordings or photography are allowed.
Donations Welcome: 100% of monetary donations go directly to support the artists, especially those in Gaza who face severe survival challenges. Contributions are accepted in cash, checks, or via PayPal.
Refreshments:
Light snacks and tea will be served.
Limited Seating — Register at: A Chance to Meet: RSVP for Art and Activism Event at UVM Interfaith Center
In Person Only: No recordings or photography allowed, for artists' safety.
Want more details? Go to registration link above, and/or write to: VTFoST@gmail.com
Kabbalat Shabbat to honor Rabbi Jan and Rebbiztmon Loredo.
Kabbalat Shabbat to honor R. Jan and Rebbiztmon Loredo. Friday, November 22nds 6:00pm- at its ‘womb’, the Old Red Brick Synagogue, on Archibald Street.
After 7 long and wonderful years, it’s time for R. Jan and Loredo to step aside and into Emerita status in the RhM community. We’ll gather to welcome the Shabbas, then PARTY!
Please join us as we mark this moment in the history of RhM. And make a donation in honor of this moment!
You can park at 274 N. Winooski Street, next to the Vermont Law Line building. Please do not use the parking lot at 294!
3rd annual Northern Nosh
3rd Annual Jewish Food Festival, aka Northern Nosh. Sunday, November 10th, 11-3 at Ohavi Zedek. From children’s programming to an epic array of “Jewish food”, this is a celebration of culture and community. Ashkenaz, Sefardi, Mizrachi, and other culinary traditions will be available.
Havdallah and the Re-weaving of RhM
Havdallah and Re-Weaving of RhM , Saturday, November 9th, 6:30 pm. Rhm needs YOU to braid together the next version of our progressive Jewish community. Rabbi David Curiel and Rabbi Lee Moore will lead havdallah and begin a conversation with YOU as to what you envision as the next iteration of RhM.
During this shift, RhM also seeks your financial support. PLEASE make a donation to RhM! Honor someone you love! Honor someone’s memory! Show your gratitude for the past and eagerness for the future! Give RhM the resources it needs to move forward.
Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbis Jan, David and Lee
Kabbalat Shabbat, Friday, November 8th, 6:30 with Rabbis Jan, David Curiel and Lee Moore.
As Rabbi Jan steps into her Emerita role, we welcome R. David and R. Lee to join her in leading a rousing, profoundly spirit-infused welcome of Shabbas, followed by our epic pot luck veggie dinner. Let us gather to reweave our tapestry of progressive Jewish Renewal! On Saturday, we’ll come together for a havdallah and begin to hold a conversation about the next steps for RhM (see separate listing for details).