At an offbeat service on Sunday night at the Jewish Museum of Florida, organizers were trying an innovation that few if any rabbis have embraced: using the language of the tech generation instead of the Torah to keep the crowd of 20- to 30-year-olds, mostly unmarried and transient, connected to their Jewish roots and to one another.

It is the age cluster least likely to attend synagogue. “For young Jews in America, we are a demographic different from our parents and our grandparents,” said Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman, the director of congregational engagement for Synagogue 3000, an organization that seeks to re-energize synagogue life and re-engage young professionals. “We’re more educated, we move many more times and live further away from our family of origin, and we are single much longer, for years after college, which was never the case before.”

Enter Rabbi Morrison, 33, an ebullient, unconventional cleric at Temple Beth Sholom, a Reform synagogue in Miami Beach, who is as comfortable belting Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” as she is reciting Mi Chamocha, a Jewish prayer of redemption. She is also a lesbian, something that she revealed to the group in an attempt to foster openness and honesty at the gathering.

“For my generation, the generation that the service is for, prayer is not something you can find in your own life until someone helps you wrestle with it,” said Rabbi Morrison, who works with the Tribe, the group that organized the event and tries to find novel ways to reach the younger generation. As a rabbi, she added, she is committed “to making prayer as accessible as possible.”

So, “I recommended texting,” she said. Semantics were important, too. The Tribe billed the event as “an experience,” not as a service.