Kol Sasson Congregation is an observant community in Skokie, Illinois that strives through halakhah to enhance each individual's religious experience. Our minyan embraces including both men and women in leadership and ritual participation. We strive for spiritual, serious, and enthusiastic tefillah, and thoughtful intellectual inquiry. We invite you to join us.
Our minyan has been holding weekly Erev Shabbat services in private homes since December 2003. We held our first High Holiday services in 2006, We now meet regularly every Shabbat morning, one Friday night per month, and for most holiday services. Please visit our calendar for details. We are grateful to Temple Beth Israel for allowing us to use their beautiful facility for our Shabbat morning and holiday services.
At Kol Sasson, women lead kabbalat shabbat, pesukei dezimrah, the Torah service, and fully participate in the Torah reading. This is done in the context of a traditional minyan with ten men and a mechitza. For a detailed discussion of the halakhot surrounding women's participation in Torah reading and in leading some parts of the service, please visit the links on our site.
Rabbi Feigelson is our rabbinic advisor. He will join us for four to six shabbatot throughout the year. Preliminarily, each shabbaton will consist of an oneg with singing and learning, a shabbat morning d'var torah, private sessions shabbat afternoon where congregants can learn davening skills, and a formal shiur before mincha.
Members may contact Rabbi Feigelson (rabbijosh@northwestern.edu or 847-467-4447) regarding personal halachic questions.
Rabbi Feigelson grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1998 with a BA in Music. As an undergraduate, he was the principal tuba of the Yale symphony orchestra and conducted a student orchestra for two years. He also served as president of the Young Israel House at Yale and chair of the Yale Hillel steering committee. Rabbi Feigelson was a Wexner Graduate Fellow and served as a Rabbinic Intern at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and at the Hebrew Institute of White Plains. Ordained in 2005 by YCT Rabbinical School in New York which has a philosophy of "open Orthodoxy," he currently is the Campus Rabbi at Northwestern Hillel.