At Beit Issiyim | House of Essenes, we extend a warm welcome to everyone – families, singles, seniors, young adults, community, and households with mixed ethnic, racial, religious, and/or cultural backgrounds.
Our spiritual home is open to anyone who is interested in celebrating, exploring, and growing in the Hebrew faith in any dimension, from attending our traditional Shabbat services to religious study programs, concerts, lectures, and more.
Our Value is divided into four sections:
Beth Tefilah (House of Prayer)
- We provide a traditional worship service that insipire a deeper relationship with G-d.
Beth Midrash (House of Study)
- We provide a formal or informal Hebrew education regardless of age and background.
Beth Knesset (House of Assembly)
- We welcome and strive to be a caring community and supportive to the needs of the community.
Tikkun Olam (To Heal the World)
- We are an active community that serve the needs of the community locally and internationally.
As our Hebrew people have immigrated from the old world to the new world and have been dispersed to all across the globe. While in America, a great spiritual awakening began in the mid-1700s to the mid-1800s. Within the era of so-called Enlightenment and Modernity, Community of Jewish people decided to abandon certain customs and principles of Hebrew faith and laws, often doing away with practices that they could not easily explain to secular communities; while others decided to ignore secular studies in their entirety and only study Torah and our sacred books.
Our community was borne out of this context, believing that it was possible for Hebrews to maintain the Torah Instructions, ritual observance, and customs while exposing themselves to secular knowledge, science, and modern ideas. This was to bridge our Hebrew Community to modernity.
In the late 18th to early 19th century, a formation of knowledge of pillars of faith, health, the diet of strict vegetarianism, education, Hebrew lifestyle, and agriculture. These foundations let to the establishment of the preservation of our customs, traditions, worship, and our acts of kindness through community service.
