Guest Sermon: With an Outstretched Arm: Allyship in the Journey Towards Liberation
Services at 9:15 am. Sermon at approximately 11:00 am.

Rather than respond to God's promise of freedom with joy and celebration, the people are unable to hear the message. What does this story offer to teach us about the process of liberation, the assumptions and the pitfalls, and the role of allyship in this complicated moment as we navigate towards a post-10/7 world?

Text Study: But By My Name I Did Not Make Myself Known: The Ineffable Name of God
After Kiddush at approximately 12:45 pm.

In this week's Torah portion, Moses is introduced to God with the ineffable, unpronounceable tetragrammaton. Together, we will explore this text closely as we attempt to understand why Moses has earned this new name of God, what it means to "know" God, and what this name of God demands of us in this world. 

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Rabba Rori Picker Neiss serves as the Senior Vice President for Community Relations at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). Prior to that she was Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis, an organization committed to a vibrant and secure Jewish community in a thriving and just St. Louis region, after previously serving as a member of the clergy team at Bais Abraham Congregation, a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue in University City, Missouri. Rori is one of the first graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, a pioneering institution training Orthodox Jewish women to be spiritual leaders and halakhic (Jewish legal) authorities. She is a David Hartman Center fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, a CLAL Rabbis Without Borders fellow, and co-editor of “InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook”. She serves on the Board of Directors for HIAS and the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Rori is married to Russel Neiss, a software engineer for Sefaria, and they have three children.