Shabbat Morning Service & Kiddush
Join us for a Shabbat morning unlike any other, as we welcome Rabbi Shefa Gold into the heart of our community’s weekly gathering.
Services begin at 10:00 AM. We encourage you to arrive a little early, so we can gently settle in and co-create the spiritual container together. Please register in advance, and if you’re able, consider contributing toward the cost of the event.
Congregation Darchei Noam is Toronto’s only Reconstructionist synagogue, and our Shabbat morning services are built on the same foundations that animate Shefa’s work: sacred sound, embodied prayer, and the conviction that spiritual practice is meant to crack us open rather than close us down. We pray from Kol Haneshamah, the Reconstructionist siddur, with joyful singing accompanied by instruments, moments of genuine contemplative stillness, and a d’var Torah rooted in honest engagement with our tradition.
Shefa’s presence will weave through our morning, bringing the transformative power of Hebrew chant into a living, breathing community at worship. Whether you are a longtime chanter or brand new to this practice, whether you have davened every Shabbat of your life or this is your first time in a synagogue in years, you will find a place here.
Stay after the service for our communal Kiddush lunch, where the conversation, the connection, and the singing tend to continue well past noon.
The service will also be available via Zoom for those joining from a distance.
Location: Darchei Noam, 864 Sheppard Avenue West