Musical Prayer Leader
“I am filled with gratitude to have the opportunity to bring the TBZ community together in song.”
Noah Weinberg has been a part of the TBZ community since 2017 when he began leading Shabbat Nariya and he continues to nourish the vibrant song culture at TBZ. On weekdays, you can find Noah with his hands in the soil at Gann Academy, working as the Jewish Life and Farm Education Coordinator, building a Jewish community farm and accompanying students on their Jewish journeys.
Noah’s musical life began at an early age, growing up in a family of Jewish educators and songleaders outside Chicago, where his extended family would sit together after Thanksgiving dinner, playing guitars and singing folk songs. He began to play guitar at camp in the summer before 7th grade, becoming eager to play along at family Thanksgiving and songlead at his summer camp and day school. In high school, he bought a folding backpacker guitar so he could be ready to lead singing anywhere he traveled.
Noah’s time interning in the Nava Tehila Levites musicians’ circle and learning with Joey Weisenberg at Hadar’s Rising Song Institute taught him the value of singing songs over and over, of allowing them to really unfold and move through us as we sing. Noah loves to bring music to TBZ from across the Jewish world, from the Debbie Freidman songs of his childhood at camp, to wordless nigunim, to a new song a friend wrote just days earlier. Noah’s role at TBZ is grounded in the intention that our communal songful prayer will stir us and spur us to live out our most authentic selves, and to build a world of peace and justice.
Noah came to the Boston area to attend Tufts University to study Peace and Justice Studies and Education and is an alum of the Adamah Jewish Farming Fellowship. Noah is a member of Kavod, and lives in Jamaica Plain where he can often be found wandering among the trees in the Arnold Arboretum.