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Welcome to Beit Ahavah

Together we nourish the soul, heal the world, and build Jewish community.

For over 25 years, Beit Ahavah has been a progressive Reform Jewish community committed to spiritual enlivenment. 

We strive to create a sacred community, recognizing there are many ways of connecting with Judaism.

Rabbah Riqi blends tradition and deep spirituality with her radically progressive consciousness.

To give is a profoundly spiritual act, allowing our collective dreams to become reality.  

Ketubahs of Love!

Ketubahs of Love Art Exhibit & Reception brings together dozens of partners’ ketubot (the illuminated marriage contract) to celebrate our diversity, creativity, art, commitments, families, and most of all LOVE!

Ketubahs of Love Art Exhibit in the Peacock Room at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, February 1-28, 2025, with a festive community-wide Reception on Sunday, February 9, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. 

The illuminated art Ketubah of Love!  An ancient, artistic and proto-feminist Jewish tradition for marriage, signed at the wedding, witness by close friends, propped up on an easel at the celebration, and eventually hung in the home (like the four poles of a chuppah wedding canopy) as a daily reminder to the couple to manifest their loving partnership.  At every Jewish wedding, the couple, rabbi and witnesses sign a document whose words have the power to protect, and whose customized art has the power to soar with the couple’s symbolic and heart-centered intentions.  Every “Ketubah” tells a unique story of love.  Every Ketubah is designed with intentionality to express the beloveds’ inner joy and yearnings, to support and share who they are and who they become when interwoven in a life of loving audacity amidst a broken world.

In this first-ever community Ketubahs of Love Art Exhibit, we invited community members to share their own framed Ketubah art with us – from off the wall of their home and into our gallery for the February/Shvat month of Love, with a festive wine and cheese Reception on Sunday, February 9, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.  All welcome to see, learn, contribute, mingle and delight in the variation of Ketubah Art designs.

You can be part of this creative and meaningful installation, by sharing your framed illuminated Ketubah and your story.  Submit your ketubah here by January 30!  Contact Rabbah Riqi or Peter Nabut with questions or arrangements, beitahavah@gmail.com, and find/share more information hereMazel tov! 

New & Returning Partners & Membership Renewal is live! 2025 ~ 5785 / Partnership & Gifts of the Heart

Welcome!  The forms for New, Returning & Sustaining Partners & Membership Renewal are live.  As “Partners” we share the hope to nourish the soul, partner to build creative Jewish community in Jewish time, and heal the world.  Beit Ahavah has a simple Online Partnership Form to renew or join for the first time; you can also download and print the BA Partnership Packet 2024-25 ~ 5785. We are building and strengthening meaningful Jewish community this year when we need it more than ever.  Thank you for being part of Beit Ahavah!

raise your voice

And You Shall Be a Blessing!

June 2020 – L’chi Lach, presented by the Beit Ahavah Singers

Thank you to all who shared their voices and hearts!

“Our creative, innate Jewish ability and the history of Reform, Renewal and Progressive Judaism is to survive, adapt and thrive in the changing and urgent needs of our time, and we believe our community is needed now more than ever.”
- Rabbah Riqi

Location

130 Pine Street

Florence, MA  01062

Contact Us

(413) 409-2602 (new number)

TUES 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

THURS 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

FRI 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

and by appointment with Rabbah Riqi

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