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Our Caring Community Room

How awesome is this place! This is none other than a Beit Elohim!

(Gen . 28:17)

Transforming our building from stone and steel into a makom, a sacred space.

About Our Caring Community Room

Our caring community room is designed as a place to comfort and care for each other. It provides a comforting space for bereaved families to gather before a funeral. Families with young children often step into this room during Shabbat services, where little ones can play freely while adults watch the live stream from the sanctuary. Brides prepare here before their wedding ceremonies. We find comfort in this space for both our lifecycle moments and our daily lives.

Our caring community room also serves as a home base for our many Caring Connections programs and initiatives. Our leaders come here to coordinate support for families experiencing illness or bereavement, plan mental health educational programs, welcome new babies, and more as we care for our entire community.

Art, Iconography & Judaica

Community Commentary

Discover the many ways we provide comfort and care for our community, from delivering homemade meals to those recovering from illness to visiting with homebound congregants, providing rides to the building for services and classes, making phone calls to check in, and more—and learn how you can get involved!

TBE Professional Networking

Our TBE members represent a potentially tremendous resource for people job networking.

Lev Echad: One Heart

Lev Echad was established to let people know they are not forgotten.  Lev Echad will reach out.

Engaging with TBE As An Intern

Early in my student internship, a congregant asked, “What is it like working with the clergy?” To which I said, “It’s a masterclass in how to be a human.”

Are You There G-d? It’s Me, Glenda

A mantra from one of my favorite books from much younger days. Are you there G-d? It’s me, Glenda.  We really need one of your epic saves!

Receiver and Giver

My TBE volunteer activities have provided me with an opportunity to fulfill the Jewish values of visiting the sick and working for justice.

Singing in the Adult Choir: Bringing solace & joy to others and to myself

In 1995, when I was 10 years old, I joined the junior choir at TBE. I loved singing and spending Sundays with our beloved Cantor, Jodi.

Fat Torah with Rabbi Minna Bromberg

Through it all, I find support and solace in our tradition’s teachings on the inherent and infinite worth of every human being.

Bringing Comfort through Song

Our group is joined by a common intention not to perform but to give comfort in the form of song.

Teen & Senior Connect for (Tech) Support

During quarantine, there’s nothing better for the youngest generation than to help someone else without face-to-face contact being necessary.

Sharim Singers attend Naturalization Ceremony at Faneuil Hall Welcome New Citizens with Song

Peter and Barbra Marx reminisce on their time singing for new citizens at Faneuil Hall.

Supporting Our Seniors Through Song

When a colleague suggested that we entertain our hardest hit community from their courtyard, we jumped into action.

Welcome, Daphna!

Daphna Bernstein joins TBE as our new Mental Health Clinician Facilitator. We are excited to welcome her to our community!

Volunteering for Caring Community

Bereavement outreach provides the chance to enact our Jewish values and to give back to a temple that gives so much sustenance to our families.

Comfort & Care: When To Seek Help

It has been a pleasure to meet some of you and get to know the wonderful programs at TBE. I am looking forward to working with and supporting you.

Wednesday Yoga: A sacred spot to strengthen & stretch body & soul

For an always welcoming group of us, the Caring Community offers the opportunity to balance, stretch and strengthen our bodies and souls.

A New Perspective on Caring

When I saw the sign-ups to become a part of the Caring Community, I couldn’t resist joining.

Members Supporting Members

At one of the assembly sessions, a member asked, “When this is done, can we have another project?” That really says it all.

Delivering Love & a Home-Cooked Meal

I’m honored to provide meals to celebrate a new baby, mourn the passing of a loved one, or deliver extra TLC from the community.

Resources

Watch the healing service Cantor Jodi Sufrin, Cantor Shanna Zell, and Noah Aronson led during Yom Kippur.

Resources for coping during Covid and other difficult times from our Darchei Tikvah initiative.

Presentations from mental health specialists and songs from our TBE Youth for us to turn to as we find hope and strength.

Reading Our Caring Community Room

Reflect on the Jewish text that inspired the design of our caring community room and how we live our values here.

“God is in this place, but I, I didn’t know it. How awesome is this place,” he said, “this indeed is a Beit Elohim, a House of God.”

—Genesis 28:17

Our beit midrash reflects the understanding that the act of learning is powerful, offering the opportunity for change and transformation through a dynamic relationship between past and present, personal and communal.

How do you experience learning?

What role, if any, does learning play in your growth? Your communal connections? Your connection to Judaism?

What is a time when you had a realization of the sacred and it awakened you?

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