A message from Rabbi Fred Elias

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Kol HaNeshamah!  As our synagogue's name implies, both as individuals and as a kehilah kedosha (holy community), we have the opportunity to create a transformative community here rooted in the Jewish ideals of Torah, Avodah (worship), and Gemilut Chasadim (acts of lovingkindess). 

There is a beautiful midrash that when God created the world, God made everything a little bit incomplete. Instead of making bread grow out of the earth, God made wheat grow so that we might bake it into bread. Instead of making the earth of bricks, God made it of clay so that we might bake the clay into bricks. Why? So that we could become God's partner in the task of completing the work of creation. 

I hope you will take the opportunity to visit with and become an active member of our community.  Through Ahavat Yisrael (Love of the Jewish people) Limud Torah (Torah study) and Tikun Olam (Social Action), we strive to be a community with a variety of entrypoints that will enable you to feel like Kol HaNeshamah is your second home.  My family and I look forward to meeting you at KH soon.

Best Wishes for a Shanah Tovah U'Metukah,
Rabbi Fred Elias