Have you seen the news?This is huge!
Four brand new safe and in person programs to keep kids engaged and socially involved in community life, having fun and making a difference.
All these are available to you complimentary! Just click on a link below and reserve your child's spot!
Your community calendar is currently in the mail, you should be receiving it next week.
Your High Holiday edition of Exodus Magazine is currently at the printer and will be mailed early next week for you to receive it in time for entertaining and educational Holiday reading.
WIth the new school year about to begin, we are working hard to open a new Jewish Kids Club which will support remote learning and offer socialization, extracurricular and educational activities, hot lunch, outdoor play, Jewish culture and lots of fun!
The Jewish Kids Club- assisting remote learning, will open on September 8 for one month as a trial with very limited enrollment. We are working hard to be able to make more space and offer this service to the entire community in October for as long as kids have to engage in online learning.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon for Rosh Hashanah at outdoor services in the tent we have rented especially for your safety and comfort. See more information and reserve a seat below.
It will be extra special to see each other this year, when we join together as a community for the New Year, safely, happily and in good health.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Mendel & Elke Zaltzman
As in person Synagogue services continue safely and successfully, with more people beginning to join, we will continue to offer our online services for those who are still not able join in person.
Supporting our community
As we open Synagogue, we continue to provide online resources for you, and for those who are not ready to join Synagogue just yet.
Hebrew School registration is now open for the 2020-2021 year! Options are available for full in-person classes or virtual online classes which will have a dedicated fully present teacher fully engaging children just like in persson classes.
Our Hebrew school offers engaging and interactive lessons, dedicated and energetic teachers, and individualized learning where children grow and flourish in Jewish life!
Join us for a delightful Mother and Daughter outdoor evening making your own traditional round challahs in honor of the High Holidays.
Reserve your table with family and friends. All supplies will be individually packed and ready for you.
This year's Challah bake will be outdoors under our huge tent.
We are excited to annouce some awesome new programs for kids and preteens!
Click below for more details.
Kids Holiday Library
Wednesday, September 16 4pm-5pm
Join for a live puppet show, book reading and craft learning about Rosh Hashanah in an exciting and interactive way.
Spend quality time with your child, as they have fun experiencing the holiday, while meeting and interacting with other moms.
Geared for children ages 2-5
Math Teacher: “If I have 5 bottles in one hand and 6 in the other hand, what do I have?”
Student: “A drinking problem.”
WEEKLY eTORAH
Can one plan to be blessed? Obviously, we believe that when we live life as G‑d intended us to, we will find or lives blessed in many ways. Even if we do not always see the results tangibly or immediately, we certainly are aware of many blessings that come with the territory of leading a G‑dly life. But there is a verse in our Parshah, which promises us blessings we never even dreamed of.
If you will listen to the voice of G‑d... and observe the commandments... All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you... (Deuteronomy 28:2)
What does it mean that blessings will overtake you? Rabbi Ovadia Sforno, one of the classic Biblical commentators, suggests that it means you will be blessed even when you made no effort to seek those blessings. It will come out of the blue, an unexpected windfall.
"The story is told of the saintly Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev that he once saw a young man running down the street. The Chassidic master stopped him and asked, "Where are you running?" The fellow answered, "To make a living, rabbi." To which the Berditchever responded, "So how do you know that your living lies in that direction and you're running after it? Perhaps your livelihood is to be found in the opposite direction, and you're running away from it?"
Do we ever know for sure? How often do the best laid plans of mice and men come to naught? Haven't we all had the experience of trying our hardest to do a deal, and yet with all the planning and strategizing nothing whatsoever materialized? And on the other hand, there may have been times when we put no work into it at all and suddenly from nowhere we landed the deal of the year? The truth is we don't know where the blessing of our livelihood lies.
And so it is with spiritual blessings. There are times when we make the effort and remain uninspired and there are times when we become inspired effortlessly. According to the Baal Shem Tov, our unconscious soul may hear something on a higher plane and it filters down to our conscious soul and we are touched, moved or inspired.
We live in an era of much confusion. Many are lost, floundering about in spiritual wildernesses. But many are finding themselves too. There have been many who didn't necessarily go looking for G‑d but G‑d found them. "How did you get inspired?" "To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure. I was minding my own business and I bumped into this Rabbi." Or, "I was sitting next to this fellow on the plane..." Or, "I was just a tourist at the Western Wall but something moved me." Everybody has a story. In some stories we went looking for G‑d, in others He came looking for us.
So if you feel the spirit overtaking you, don't speed up. Slow down. Let it catch up with you. May the blessings of G‑d overtake you and transform your life.
