With Rosh Hashanah rapidly approaching, we are preparing to ensure comfortable and safe outdoor services for everyone. Our spacious and festive tent is already up and we look forward to beautiful and inspiring holiday services!
Holiday care packages for College students that are away at school for Rosh Hashanah have been sent, Jteens joined to make honey cakes to be delivered to senior homes, and we are getting ready for our Outdoor Mother/ Daughter Challah Bake which will take place on September 12.
Hebrew School enrollment is in full gear as we are excited to begin a new year of Jewish learning and fun!
We encourage you to enjoy wonderful Jewish experiences with us as we begin the New Year with great events and programs.
With wishes for a very happy and sweet new year!
Sincerely,
Rabbi Mendel and Elke Zaltzman
Shabbos Times
Friday, September 3
Candle Lighting: 7:07pm Evening service: 7:15pm
Saturday, September 4
Morning service: 10:00am
Kiddush Brunch: 12pm Evening service: 7:10pm
Shabbos ends 8:05pm
High Holidays 5782
Services will be held this year outdoors in a large, beautiful tent. To guarantee a seat in the sanctuary tent, please make a reservation by clicking below. Seat reservations are currently open to the entire community.
Hebrew School enrollment is now open for the 2021-22 school year! First Day: Sunday, September 12
Our Hebrew school is the place for your child to learn and experience Jewish life in a non-judgmental, interactive, exciting and warm environment.
Hebrew reading, Jewish history, traditions, mitzvot, Israel and holidays come alive with creative, engaging and hands on lessons!
Rosh Hashanah Teen Service in our High Holiday Tent
Tuesday, September 7 at 4:30pm
Discuss what Rosh Hashanah means in a modern world.
Group activity, Shofar, Torah reading service and sweet treats.
Please join us for this meaningful program!
Open to all Jewish teens grades ages 13 - 18.
Join us for a delightful Mother/Daughter outdoor evening making your own traditional round challahs in honor of the High Holidays. Reserve your table with family and friends.
This year's Challah bake will be outdoors under our huge tent in order to keep you safe and comfortable.
Berkowitz and Rabinowitz were business partners, and both were avid golfers.
"Rabinowitz, listen up, "exclaimed an excited Berkowitz. "Those buyers we have been schmoozing-up called to say they got a reservation for us to meet them for golf at their exclusive country club this Saturday at 8 A.M."
"Sorry, replied Rabinowitz, I can't go. It's Shabbos and I will be in shul."
"Shul, shmool, what are you talking about? This is a BIG deal! And, anyway, YOU in shul? Since when? As long as I've known you you've been an atheist. When we were kids you were a communist."
"That was all before Goldstein came to town. You remember, when he came as a refugee without a penny in his pocket. And now, he's a multi-millionaire. Some say he may be worth billions. Well, Goldstein tells me that it's all because he goes to shul and talks to G-d."
"Rabinowitz, you expect me to believe that YOU are going to shul to talk to G-d??? You are a radical atheist. Common, stop selling me babbe masos…"
"No!” says Rabinowitz. “Goldstein goes to shul to talk to G-d. I go to shul to talk to Goldstein."
WEEKLY eTORAH
This week's Torah reading begins Atem nitzavim, "You are standing here today, all of you... from the heads of tribes... to the woodcutters and water-drawers."
The commentaries explain that nitzavim in Hebrew means "standing firm." This verse teaches us that our standing firm is conditional upon it being all of you standing together. Each of us, from the highest to the lowliest, has our part to play and our own potential to fulfill.
The Talmud's Ethics of the Fathers tells us, "Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot." Rather than worrying about why we are not standing in somebody else's shoes, our task is to fulfill our potential at the level we are at, in the situation where we are now, knowing that even if it may seem insignificant, each of us contributes on our own level and in our own way to the greater picture. In order to "stand firm" as a nation, we need the contribution of each person, on every level.
The story was told of Rabbi Aryeh Levin (known as "the tzaddik from Jerusalem') who informed the doctor that "my wife’s leg is hurting us." This idea applies to all of us, as a community. When one person suffers, another feels the pain, even at a distance. When an event takes place in a distant country, this affects us as much as if it were to happen next door.
There is no "us and them." Anything which undermines decency and the sanctity of human life, the very fabric of our community, has an effect on all of us, whether we are directly involved or not. Each person needs to be intact, in order for us to achieve our communal potential. If one person is suffering or is otherwise affected by something, this has an impact on all of us.
