About Our Artist-in-Residence, Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz:
An educator, practitioner, and facilitator of Jewish communal music, Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz serves the Hadar Institute as their Director of Tefillah and Music, supporting those who seek to deepen, sharpen, and unlock their practice of empowered song and tefillah. Both within the beit midrash and out in the community, Deborah strives to interweave song and Torah as integrated tools in the process of unearthing the grassroots creative spirituality of the Jewish and global people.

As a performer and composer, Deborah 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 original spiritual music, The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) and Yetzira  ( 2023). 

Deborah received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she also earned her masters in women and gender studies, and holds degrees in music and religious anthropology from the University of Michigan. 
Learn more about Deborah's work at www.deborahsacksmintz.com

Artist-in-Residence Weekend is made possible by Rob & Lisa Honig and managed by the Lifelong Learning Committee.

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Artist-in-Residence Weekend Programs:

Friday, February 28
Introduction & Shabbat Service | Sanctuary
7:30 PM
Celebrate Shabbat in a special service led in part by Rabbi Sacks Mintz.

Saturday, March 1
Artist-in-Residence Torah Study
Singing through the Sea, Lamenting at the River: Narratives in Tanach |  Library
9:30 AM (in lieu of standard Torah Study)
How has music expressed both power and joy, suffering and loss, throughout the narrative of the Jewish people? Where do we see our own experiences embedded within these stories? In this text-based class, we’ll explore two key Biblical narratives centering the outpouring of song - building out our own continued stories of powerful prayer from within.





Havdalah Concert Gathering | Social Hall & Sanctuary 
7:00 PM Nosh & Havdalah, 7:45 PM Concert Doors Open
Starting at 7:00 PM, we will share a light nosh and then Havdalah in the Social Hall.
Then, at 7:45 PM, doors will open for the concert portion:
Join Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz for an evening of rich harmony, deep groove, and heart-opening communal song. Deborah invites all to raise their voices in this participatory concert - rooted intraditional texts, contemporary melodies, and the meditative power of the nigun - wordless spiritual song.


 

Sunday, March 2
Singing in the Divine: The Lift of Communal Song 
10:00 AM
Through an exploration of singing as a spiritual practice, we'll deepen our connection to the ritual of raising our voices together, connecting to melodies and texts, new and old.