Sabbath Queen 5782

A monthly ritual circle of live music, mindfulness and poetic intentions welcoming your Sabbath Queen.

Welcome back to Sabbath Queen! Led by the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and beloved collaborators, artists, teachers, healers, and musicians our season of 5782  Sabbath Queens will take place in person across Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as online.

This month’s Sabbath Queen, is led by Founding Ritual Leader Naomi Less together with beloved friend, Rev. Derrick McQueen (Pastor, St. James Presbyterian Church), guest ritual artist Marques Hollie and Associate Clergy Ben Freeman and Rabbi Noam Lerman. We will be invited to sing and soar by our incredible ritual musicians: Zafer Tawil (violin and kanun), David Meer (bass) and Dan Aran (percussion).

This month we invite in love – not romantic love, as Hallmark wants us to believe, but the kind of love that radically helps to heal. Love as an action, as a verb, as a way of being in deep solidarity with others and with ourselves. bell hooks (may her memory be a blessing), in All About Love, shares, “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” Joined by an all-star team of guest ritualists, we will sing, learn, breathe and celebrate Black History Month as we exhale into Sabbath. 

Coming in person? Joining virtually? Bring an offering to our Shabbat altar – something that represents deep and radical love you have experienced in the world.

Schedule

• 6:00 Doors Open at Judson Memorial Church
• 6:30-7:00 Happy Half Hour with the Feast Team (on Zoom)
• 7:00-8:30 Shabbat Ritual on Zoom and In Person

COVID INFORMATION: PLEASE READ

We are thrilled that it is safe enough for us to gather. In order to keep everyone safe, please follow these guidelines if you register to come in person.

• There will be no food or drink on the premises.
• All participants above the age of 2 must wear a mask at all times.
• If you are able, please provide your own K/N95 mask. If you do not have access to your own K/N95, we will have access to medical masks, and we ask that you replace your mask with two medical masks upon entering the ritual space.
• People ages 5 to 12 are required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and people 12 and older must show proof of two doses and a booster (except for Johnson & Johnson recipients) to enter the ritual space.
• Please complete an at-home COVID test the day of Sabbath Queen, and be prepared to show negative results at the entrance. (New Yorkers can walk into any NYC Health COVID testing site and request a free KN95 mask and/or at-home test with no ID requirements)
• For those unable to take a COVID test at home, we will be providing on-site rapid antigen tests at no cost due to the generous support of MedRite Urgent Care. You must either provide proof of a negative result or take a new COVID test to enter the ritual space.