Shabbat-Sukkot-O-Gram, Sept. 20, 2002 and Tishrei 15 5763
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, Temple Beth El, Stamford, Connecticut
J SHABBAT SHALOM J
And Hag Sameach
This week, a real cornucopia of information and links!!!!
Following an exhausting, exhilarating Yom Kippur and an enlightening Hoffman Lecture (attended by nearly 600 people), we now turn our attention to Sukkot. Visit our incredible, unbelievable Beth El Sukkah (which, I hear, will be featured in the next issue of “Better Homes and Sukkahs”) designed by Jeannie Kasindorf, with the help of Linda Simon, Denise Greenman (and Sisterhood), Diane Arditti, Joan Katz, Linda Simon, David Katz, Julie Arditti, David Warnock, Suzanne Cohen, Jackie Schechter and all the students of our Religious School. Also thanks to Richard Cohen for his help in supplying the veggies.
And don’t forget our spectacular lulav parade on Sunday morning (service starts at 10). I’ve been told that 50 lulav sets have been purchased by Beth El families – a RECORD!!
Previous Shabbat-O-Grams can now be accessed directly from our web site (www.tbe.org), or more directly at www.tbe.org/sog/index.htm -- and keep checking our web site for High Holy Day sermon postings and Sukkah photos – coming soon!
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JUST THE FACTS: Services and Such (note – 6:30 Friday evening!)
Friday Night: Candles: 6:37 PM, Services at 6:30 PM OUTDOORS (Note special time!!!!) (Final outdoor service)
Tot Shabbat Services with Nurit are BACK!!!!! 7:15 PM, for students in younger grades and their families. In the lobby. And look for Nurit and Annie Nirschel, soon to appear in a special on HBO!
Shabbat, First Day Sukkot: Kahal (Congregant led) Services at 9:30 AM, in the sanctuary, children’s services at 10:30 AM – An EXTRA SPECIAL Lunch follows services! We’ll also be hearing from a special guest, Elaine Erichson, who will tell us about the Reading Partners program of the Stamford Jewish Coalition for Literacy.
Torah Portion: Sukkot readings; in the afternoon, we read from V’zot Ha’bracha, the final portion of the Torah
Read the Masorti commentary at http://www.masorti.org/mason/torah/index.asp. JTS commentary is at: http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/parashah/. USCJ Torah Sparks can be found at http://uscj.org/item20_467.html. UAHC Shabbat Table Talk discussions are at http://uahc.org/torah/exodus.shtml. Other divrei Torah via the Torahnet home page: http://uahcweb.org/torahnet/. Test your Parasha I.Q.: http://www.ou.org/jewishiq/parsha/default.htm. CLAL's Torah commentary archive: http://click.topica.com/maaaiRtaaRvQhbV2AtLb/. Nehama Liebowitz archives of parsha commentaries: http://www.torahcc.org/nechama/gilayonarchives.htm. For a more Kabbalistic/Zionist perspective from Rav Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, go to http://www.geocities.com/m_yericho/ravkook/index.html.
Mincha, Ma’ariv: 6:15 PM
Mazal Tov to Alyssa Schwartz, who becomes Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat afternoon
Sunday, Sukkot Day 2:
SPECIAL FAMILY-STYLE SERVICE FOR EVERYONE. Note special starting time of 10:00. Nurit will have a service for young children also beginning at that special time. All students in older grades (approx 3rd and up) are invited to the main service, which will include lots of singing, a Sukkot story, participation by the students, and a great big lulav parade. After services, our Kesher and Atid youth groups will have a special Sukkah party. So much excitement – I can’t take it!
If you bought a lulav set, you can pick it up on Sunday morning before or during services.
Morning Minyan: Daily at 7:30
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Spiritual Journey on the Web – I i Luis and Etrogs
Since we’ll be having a parade of dozens and dozens of lulavim and etrogim this Sunday (thanks to Barb Moskow, our expert L&E shopper) and using them throughout the festival after that, it behooves us to understand what it’s all about. These ancient agricultural symbols were undoubtedly THE most popular in in the Jewish world during the time of the Second Temple, and beyond. The evidence is in the written literature and especially in the ancient coins and mosaics archaeologists have uncovered. Some of that can be found below. First, an excerpt from an article by my colleague Rabbi David Seidenberg, found in the book “Trees, Earth and Torah: a Tu B’Shevat Anthology” (JPS 1999), focusing on the Kabbalistic meaning of these ritual objects; then a list of Web sites to visit.
From the Introduction
Jewish mysticism imagines the cosmos to be a manifestation of the divine which unfolds through ten powers or qualities, which are called the s'firot. The world of the s'firot is pictured in terms of two forms: a cosmic tree and a primordial human body....
The Central Column
Sefer HaBahir_, the Book of Brightness, which was redacted in the 12th century but includes much older parts, is the earliest document to explore these themes, earlier even than the codification of the s'firot. In its beginning paragraphs, it describes a king playfully discovering a spring of flowing, living water as he begins to cut out the stone from which to build his palace. What does he do? Plant a garden, and a tree, to "delight the whole world"...
Using the verse "Tsadik founds the world" (Prov. 10:25), the Bahir explains that "[there is] a single column from the earth to the firmament, and Tsadik, The Righteous One, is it's name, and when there are righteous people/tsadikim in the world, it becomes strong, and if not it becomes weak." (Bahir, sec. 100) The image the Bahir uses, "a single column from the earth to the firmament", emphasizes that the tree, the column, the tsadik and man are all images in the Bahir of what connects the upper and lower worlds, and of what is dependent upon both the upper and lower worlds.
To the human eye, no creature embraces heaven and earth more than a tree. A tree is poised in-between-worlds, its roots dividing out smaller and deeper into the earth beneath until they seem to dissolve in it, its branches soaring above us, full of leaves like hands holding the sky. This same sense of stretching characterizes human experience in our most wakeful moments: the sense of being between, of stretching to embrace physical and spiritual. This sense is expressed in the working of our minds and in our physical posture, stretched from earth to heaven. The tree and the human body both become symbols for what unites the divine and the mundane, and for how the worlds depend upon each other and flow towards one another.
Root and Branch.
Kabbalah is not only interested in the cosmic tree as a symbol of divine connection. It also tries to understand this connection by reflecting on the anatomy of trees and of the human body. The Bahir continuously weaves together images of the tree and the human body, as we have already seen in the d'rash on the word "ish" above. The "single column" we have read about is not just the trunk of a tree; it is also the spinal chord, one vertebra upon another, as is hinted at in the phrase "the powers of the Holy One, this one on back of this one, [which] resemble a tree". (Bahir, sec.118-119) In this metaphor, the source of water or wisdom is the brain, and the spinal cord the channel, which carries the water to every part of the body.
The dynamics and dimensions shared by the tree, the human body, the world and God, are especially closely examined in the ritual of waving the lulav, which is so strongly connected to both the human body and to trees. According to Sefer Bahir, the myrtle, willow and lulav become like a human body when they are bound together:
[I]t says, "take.. a branch of a tree thick-interlaced/`anaf `ayts `avot" (Lev. 23:40). It must be that his branches are stretched around/over his main part... A mashal, to what does it compare? To a person, who has his arms and protects his head with them, and here his arms are two and his head makes three: "`anaf" to the left [=willows], "`avot" to the right [=myrtle], and "`ayts" is found in the middle [the lulav]. And why is he [the lulav] called "a tree" [when he is only a single branch]? Because he is the root of the tree. (Bahir, sec. 176)
The three-word phrase from the Torah, `anaf `ayts `avot, is traditionally understood to refer to myrtle branches, but the Bahir reads it as referring to all three species which are bound together. The binding of myrtle, willow, and lulav turns them into a single body. The lulav branch stands for the whole tree because it is its "root" (the place from which all new growth occurs), and so it is like a person's head, which stands for the whole person.
The cosmic axis is not only represented as a tree and a human body, but the symbols of the tree and the human are images which converge together in a single picture of the body. The Bahir identifies the fruit, heart, spinal cord, body and root together in the following passage:
Israel, holy ones, carry the body of the tree and his heart. As a heart is majesty/hadar, the fruit of the body, even so Israel bears the fruit of the tree of majesty (pri `ayts hadar = etrog). As a date palm, its branches around [the crown] and its lulav in the middle, even so Israel carries the body of the tree: this is its heart. And corresponding to the body is the cord of the [spinal] column in a person, which is the root/`ikar of the body. And just as lulav [can be] written, "lu layv/to him a heart", even so the heart is tied to him [the spinal cord]. (Bahir, sec. 98)
This is reminiscent of the well-known midrash that also maps the ritual of the lulav to the human body (lulav branch to spine, etrog to heart, willow to lips, myrtle to eyes), but it is far more complex. Because the Jewish people carries the symbols of the heart, the lulav and etrog, in our Sukkot prayers, we collectively become the body of the divine Tsadik who carries the heart. By the same token, we become the cosmic tree because we bear its fruit and branches...
A brief botany lesson: the lulav is the only place from which new branches grow in a date tree, though sometimes a baby lulav will grow from the base of the trunk to form a new tree. To take the central lulavim from a tree is to kill the tree (the lulavim we use on Sukkot are offshoots taken from the base). The main lulav is therefore like a heart: it contains all the vitality of the tree and all of its vulnerability...
The Bahir emphasizes that the heart is tied to the spine (we might understand this to mean: tied by the nerves to the spine), as the fruit is tied to the root by the tree trunk. This is important because according to Kabbalah, the sin of the Garden of Eden is not eating from the tree of knowledge, but separating the fruit from the tree; this separation is what brings death. Israel repairs this sin when when we unite the etrog with the lulav. We reconnect the fruit to the source of its vitality every time we do a mitzvah.
Now: some great sites to see, on the lulav and on Sukkot in general:
Plants and Judaism: http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/botany/judaism.htm
The handbook of Biblican Numismatics: http://www.amuseum.org/book/page14.html
More ancient lulav coins: http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1BCoins.cgi?36747
Modern Israel – Jerusalem through coins: http://www.pinn.net/~sandy/Jerusalem/confIsrael.htm#palmbranch
Sukkot Through the Ages - http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/tish/30.html
Beliefnet section on Sukkot - http://www.beliefnet.com/features/jewishholidays/
UAHC Jewish Parent Page (family education on Sukkot) - http://www.uahc.org/educate/parent/0203.shtml
Mish-Mash – Lots of Sukkot Links: http://www.mish-mash.ca/sukkot.html
Virtual Jerusalem lulav site: http://207.168.91.4/vjholidays/sukkot/lulov.htm
Sukkot family and educational activities - http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/tish/sukkot.html
OU Sukkot Site (basic and “advanced” information) http://www.ou.org/chagim/sukkot/default.htm
Rabbi Schneierman’s Sukkot Page (with a link to the award winning MIT Sukkah) http://scheinerman.net/judaism/hhd/sukkot.html
JTS Sukkot Site http://learn.jtsa.edu/sukkot/
www.myjewishlearning.com -- Great new Web site devoted to Jewish learning. Check it out.
Required Reading and Action Items
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0912/p01s04-ussc.html -- From the Christian Science Monitor: How America Prays: "On the cataclysmic morning of Sept. 11, as Courtney Cowart fled her office building a block south of the World Trade Center, she experienced a moment so profound that it changed the way she has prayed ever since. As she and a colleague ran hand in hand, the ground began to shake and the air to crackle. Turning, they saw a huge black ball of debris flying toward them. "You tried at one level to figure out where to go, but realized there wasn't anyplace," Ms. Cowart recalls. As the cloud enveloped them, "I just stopped and offered my life to God."Today, she says, "I always go back to that moment of surrender to start my prayer."..."
Eyewitness Accounts of the Tel Aviv Bus Bombing
(Jerusalem Post); (Ha'aretz)
The victims: Yaffa Shem-Tov Hanoun, 49, from Tel Aviv; Ofer Zinger, 29, from Paza'el in the Jordan Valley; Yossi Mamistbolov, 40, from Or Yehuda, the bus driver; Solomon Honig, 79, from Tel Aviv; Rosanna Siso, 63, from Gan Yavne.
Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner, 19, from Glasgow, Scotland, was the sixth casualty who died this morning. A former head of the religious Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva in Scotland, Jesner planned to attend medical school in London after finishing his second year at Yeshivat Har Etzion, a hesder yeshiva in Gush Etzion, near Jerusalem.
U.S. Reluctant to Take a Hard Line with Damascus - Nathan Guttman (Ha'aretz)
Shoulder to Shoulder: Israelis Strongly Support Bush on Iraq - Yossi Klein Halevi
Israeli intelligence takes for granted that a cornered Hussein will unleash his nonconventional arsenal on Israeli cities. Those of us who sit on the front line of this imminent war have little patience with the appeasers who urge caution even as Hussein approaches nuclear capability. After all, we've been in this scenario before. We, who alone confronted Hussein's nuclear ambitions in 1981 and who must now contend with his chemical and biological arsenal, say to Washington's wavering allies: If not now, when? (Los Angeles Times)
The Arabs' Crocodile Tears for Saddam - Amir Taheri (Jerusalem Post) The Arabs have now concluded that Washington is no longer bluffing and that President Bush is determined to topple Saddam Hussein. Washington's Arab allies have assured it in private that, as long as a diplomatic fig leaf is provided by the United Nations, they would do nothing to oppose military action against Saddam Hussein.
The War on Campus: by Daniel Pipes, New York Post September 17, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/465
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/57135.htm “Last week, two prominent Middle Easterners traveled to two North Americancampuses to deliver speeches mainly about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Both met protests. One succeeded in giving the speech; the other did not. Therein hangs a tale….”
Rumsfeld: Paths to Iraqi Regime Change
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Jim Lehrer of PBS: "Saddam Hussein and his family [could] decide that the game was up and go live in some foreign country...recognizing that...they'd run their term. It's entirely possible that the people in that country...could decide that it was time, the time was up, and change the regime from inside. It's a very repressive regime....Clearly, the overwhelming majority of people, even in the army, don't want Saddam Hussein there." (Department of Defense/PBS)
U.S. Plans the "De-Nazification" of Iraq
The Bush administration is drawing up plans for the "de-Nazification" of Iraq after the defeat of Saddam as a way of ensuring that there is a new democratic regime in the heart of the Middle East. America wanted Iraqis "to participate in their own liberation" and a new government in Baghdad would be made up of a coalition of indigenous and exiled opposition figures representing the different ethnic and religious elements in the country. (Telegraph - UK)
Israel Ads Air Despite CNN Snub
CNN's refusal to run two pro-Israel ads has Jewish officials steaming. "It's outrageous," said Ken Bandler, a spokesman for the American Jewish Committee, whose 30-second spot, part of a $500,000 advertising campaign, emphasizes Israel’s shared democratic values with the U.S. CNN originally said it was turning down the ads because they might endanger their correspondents around the world. It later issued a statement saying the network "is not airing advocacy advertising regarding international issues from regions in conflict." (New York Jewish Week)
Address by Foreign Minister Peres to the UN General Assembly - September 18, 2002 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
This letter was received from Israel:
Hello,
We are the family of 22 year old Shiri Negari who was one of 19 people killed in a Jerusalem bus suicide bombing on June 18th 2002. We cannot allow Shiri's death to become just another statistic. We send you this message because we think Shiri's story must be heard. Please help us distribute Shiri's story (locally, media and around the world), and preserve Shiri's memory using any means you may have. We want Shiri to be remembered for who she was, and we know that anyone who will get to know Shiri through the web site will realize that there is absolutely no justification for suicide bombings. On the following web site you can find Shiri's story (In 5 languages), view her pictures and listen to her singing http://www.Shiri.us
Thanks for your time,
Shiri's family - Jerusalem, Israel.
Naming the War: Two Years of Violence (Jerusalem Post)
Naming the war the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" has proved a Palestinian stroke of genius, with its adoption by much of the Western press helping to cast the conflict internationally in Arafat's terms. Here are some views of what to name the current conflict:
CLAL's new Audio CD: "9/11/02 A Ritual for Beginning to Remember" (Download a copy today!!) (I used some of this material during the sermon on Yom Kippur, including the cell phone messages)
From Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Palestinian Violence and Terrorism and The International War against Terrorism
Chicago’s Jewish community has created "Israel Advocacy: A College Student’s Handbook."
Israel Faxx – a great selection of links http://www.israelfaxx.com/links/themeindex.html
For comments on how Sept. 11 changed people’s outlook on Judaism, check the Moment magazine survey at http://www.momentmag.com/survey/index.html
http://www.ujafedny.org/911remembrance/ -- New York UJA-Federation’s Site commemorating the anniversary of 9/11 – lots of excellent material
http://www.hillel.org/hillel/newhille.nsf/0/ED898FC2A8598A2C85256C1B004927C9?OpenDocument 9/11 program from the Hillel web site
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=Zone Israel Insider Online Magazine
http://www.israelsg.com/ Israel Support Group: News, History, Documentaries, good news links
Other Useful Websites
Israel Goverment Gateway
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Israel Defense Forces
Jewish Agency for Israel
N.Y. Consulate
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli News Sources
Ha'aretz
Jerusalem Post
Kol-Israel Radio
Media Monitoring Sites
Camera
Honest Reporting
MEMRI
Palestinian Media Watch
For those interested in the latest trends in Jewish feminism, check out the Women of the Wall at http://www.womenofthewall.org/ -- check out this link to see the heroic attempts of this group of women who have been trying to gain access to pray in a dignified manner at the Western Wall. It’s a beautifully designed site, and you can also purchase a gorgeous “Four Mothers Tallit.”
A Great Site devoted to Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe. Lots of documentary photos and slide shows: http://www.centropa.org/mainpage/main.asp
http://www.walk4israel.com/honey.cfm “Sweets of Solidarity,” Send holiday gift packages to terror victim families, Israeli soldiers, or someone in your own family.
A wealth of information that I post here comes from the Daily Alert of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in association with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. To subscribe directly to the Daily Alert, please send a blank email message to: daily-subscribe@jcpa.org
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information that is remarkably relevant today.
http://www.hasidic.storypower.com/stories1.html Collection of classic Hasidic stories, articles and resources
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Quotes of the Week:
At our Yom Kippur service, Jan Gaines wrote read this beautiful prayer that she had written. As she returns to Israel this coming week, we pray that she go in peace, return to us in peace, and that a Sukkah of peace may cover the entire nation during this festival, and beyond…
A WEEK FROM TODAY I'LL BE BACK IN NETANYA, ISRAEL, MY OTHER HOME. I'LL BE CHECKING MY GAS MASK, GETTING IODINE PILLS, BUYING MORE TAPE AND PLASTIC FOR MY SEALED ROOM AND MAKING SURE THE SHELTER IN MY APARTMENT BUILDING IS READY.
AND THROUGH ALL OF THIS I WILL BE PRAYING, NOT FOR PEACE, BUT ONLY FOR NORMALITY.
WHERE AN EXPLOSION IS ONLY A SONIC BOOM.
WHERE I CAN HAVE A PEACEFUL LUNCH OUTDOORS IN THE TOWN SQUARE
WITH FRIENDS.
WHERE A 7;00 A.M. PHONE CALL IS ONLY A FRIENDLY '"WAKE UP, LET'S
WALK, CALL.
WHERE A TRIP NORTH TO THE GALILEE IS NOT ALWAYS INTERRUPTED BY
ROAD BLOCKS.
I WILL PRAY FOR A TIME WHEN I DON'T HAVE TO WALK TO THE POLICE STATION, PUT ON MY POLICE VEST, AND PATROL FOR 3 HOURS IN THE CIVIL GUARD.
I WILL PRAY FOR A BUS TRIP TO JERUSALEM WHEN I CAN DOZE AND NOT
CAREFULLY WATCH FACES AND BAGS OF PASSENGERS.
FOR WALKING BY A SCHOOL AND NOT SEEING SECURITY GUARDS.
FOR A SHABBAT WHEN MY FRIEND'S CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN COME HOME SAFELY FROM THE ARMY JUST TO GET THEIR LAUNDRY DONE AND SLEEP.
BECAUSE TODAY IN ISRAEL, PEACE DOESN'T MEAN PEACE. IT ONLY MEANS WE CAN LIVE ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER '"HODESH".
IT MEANS WE CAN GO TO THE MOVIES, TO THE MALLS, TO THE RESTAURANTS, TO CONCERTS., LIKE WE USED TO.
JUST NORMALITY. JUST NORMALITY.
IT MEANS EVERYONE CAN GO BACK TO WORK FULL TIME.
IT MEANS WE CAN LOOK AT AN ARAB FACE WITHOUT WONDERING.,. . . . . .
IT MEANS SEEING YOU, OUR DIASPORA FAMILY, BACK AT MASSADA AND THE KOTEL.
IT MEANS THAT NORMAL IS SOMETHING WE CAN GET USED TO AGAIN.
THAT JERUSALEM NEXT YEAR AND FOR ALWAYS WILL BE OURS,
SECURELY.
SO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM. PRAY FOR ALL OF YOUR
EXTENDED ISRAELI FAMILY.
PRAY THAT TOMORROW WILL BE NORMAL, AND THE DAY AFTER THAT, AND THE DAY AFTER THAT, , , , , , , , , ,
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS…..
Learning and Latte: “Journeys Through Genesis” at Borders
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and Rev. Dr. Douglas McArthur, Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church, both of Stamford, will be leading an engaging monthly dialogue on the ageless stories of Genesis. These groundbreaking conversations will take place at Borders on High Ridge Rd in Stamford, beginning on Tues. Sept. 24th from 7:30 - 8:30 PM, with subsequent sessions scheduled for Oct. 22 and Nov. 26. People of all faiths and affiliations are invited to these exciting series, which is co-sponsored by the Temple Beth El, the First United Methodist Church and the Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut. Rabbi Hammerman and Rev. McArthur both have extensive experience in interfaith dialogue and are particularly active in community affairs. They serve large, diverse congregations and have worked together on many projects ranging from AIDS awareness to Hospice.
The series will be based on the noted book and TV series produced by PBS several years ago, "Genesis: A Living Conversation," by Bill Moyers, which brought together authors, theologians, artists and other thinkers to explore Genesis from a variety of perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to use the Moyers book as a springboard for our own interpretations. The emphasis will be on honest inquiry, intellectual openness and spiritual growth. The book will be available for purchase at Borders. No reservations are required.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING, IT WILL GREATLY ENHANCE THE DISCUSSION FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE READ, IN ADVANCE OF THE FIRST SESSION, THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE MOYERS BOOK (ENTITLED, “IN GOD’S IMAGE”). DISCOUNTED BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT BORDERS.
Rev. McArthur is chairperson of AIDS Interfaith Stamford and was recently recognized by the State of Connecticut for his work on behalf of those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. He has chaired and served on numerous boards and commissions and is a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
Don’t Miss Next Week!!!!!
For Shmini Atzeret and Simhat Torah there are all sorts of surprises planned, and we’ll again have extensive involvement by our students (including teens)
Simhat Torah night (Sat night) at 7:30 PM (Not 6:30, as was in the bulletin). We’ll have a Klezmer duo to spice up the celebration.
On Simhat Torah morning (Sunday, Sept. 29), services begin at 9:30, and the Hakkafot at about 10:15 AM. Plan to get here BEFORE the Hakkafot, or you’ll miss out on all the singing and dancing! Then the little kids will have more fun with Nurit, while older children participate in the Torah reading, as we finish the scroll and immediately begin again. Our special honorees on Simhat Torah morning will be:
Hatan Torah (the last aliyah of the Torah); Frank Rosner (who two weeks later will be celebrating a very special birthday)
Kallat Bereisheet (the first aliyah of the new Torah): Jeannie Kasindorf.
Those kids interested in having a part in Simhat Torah services should contact myself, or Cantor Jacobson (cantor@tbe.org)
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