Sat, Nov 21
|Address provided upon registration
Havdalah-at-Home (1)
Please join us on Saturday, November 21 at the home of Francie & Jon Nobleman at 7:30 pm for an Havdalah service and special talk by Rachel Colwell. Topic: Jewish Music: Paradoxes and Tensions. Please bring a dairy or pareve snack everyone can share.
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2026, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Address provided upon registration, Edmonton, AB, Canada
About the event
The address will be provided upon registration. Please bring a dairy or pareve snack everyone can share.
In this lesson, we will explore key issues in defining the concept of "Jewish Music" and explore paradoxes and tensions concerning its ritual necessity and, at times, questionable permissibility. From tuneful chanting of Torah and prominent Jewish musicians world-wite to "Kol Be'Isha Erva", (legal restrictions on men hearing women's singing) and controversies over instrument usage on Shabbat, Judaism if full of paradoxes and sticky questions about music.