MVP Mitzvah Volunteer Program, begins this Friday, September 13 at 4pm. Our young teens will meet at the Maple Glen Center in Fair Lawn and enjoy a pre-Shabbat program with the senior residents.
See below for more info.
Hebrew School begins this Sunday, September 15! We are very excited to welcome all our students and begin a new year of learning, fun and living Judaism!
See below for upcoming Jteen Opening Night, and Moms and Kids Challah Bake!
If you did not yet reserve a seat for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, please do so today, see below.
Shabbos Times
Friday, September 13
Candle Lighting: 6:51pm
Evening Service Mincha: 7:00pm
Saturday, September 14
Morning Service 9:30am
Torah Reading and Sermon: 10:30am Kiddush Brunch: 12:00pm
Evening Service: 6:55pm Shabbos ends: 7:49pm
Kiddush Sponsored by
Maxim Bakalyenik and Miriam Natovich
in honor of the "Ufruf" being called to the Torah
in honor of their upcoming marriage
Mazel Tov!
Schedule of Synagogue Services
September 15 - September 20
Morning Service: Sunday-Friday: 8:15am followed by breakfast
Evening Service: Sunday- Thursday: 6:55pm
Cett Hebrew School
First Day: Sunday, September 15
Our popular Hebrew School offers Sunday morning classes to children in Pre-K thru 6th grade. Our interactive, hands-on, and relevant classes give children a positive, and warm taste of Jewish life, and covers Hebrew reading, prayers, Jewish holidays, Jewish history, Israel and Mitzvot.
Join us for a delightful evening with family, friends and community, making your own traditional round challahs in honor of Rosh Hashanah! Step by step instruction, holiday inspiration, wine, and light refreshments. By reservation only.
MVP Mitzvah Volunteer Program
We are very excited to launch our "MVP" Mitzvah Volunteer Program, a brand new program for our youth community!
Geared for boys and girls ages 11-13, MVP is for volunteering and Mitzvah madness, while connecting to others and having a meaningful impact!
MVP is open to all junior teens! Please reserve below to join!
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur 5780
Join us for an inspiring and meaningful High Holiday experience! The prayers are warm, the melodies are timeless, and the atmosphere is welcoming. Children's participation in the main service! All are welcome!
Complimentary seats for Partners in Pride.
September 30 and Oct. 1 at 4:30pm Join Jteens for a special teen Rosh Hashanah service.
Complete with Shofar, Torah Reading, Apples & Honey galore and more Rosh Hashanah treats!
Saturdays 11am-12pm Give your child an opportunity to explore, learn and discover with songs, story time with Russian language, and kiddie play area! Bond with your little one while connecting with other moms in our area.
A Biselleh Humor....
In a history class the professor asked the students, "What is the difference between an engagement and a battle?" No one in the group offered any answer. The professor was frustrated. “Didn’t anyone read the material in the book?” he thundered.
Finally, one guy said that he knew the answer. "An engagement is what comes before marriage," he said, "while the battle is what followed it."
Weekly E- Torah
Among the many laws in the Torah that command us to treat those less fortunate with dignity, we are instructed to allow an employee to eat from the produce he is harvesting:
"When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you desire, until you are sated, but you shall not put [any] into your vessel."
"When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pick the ears with your hand, but you shall not lift a sickle upon your neighbor’s standing grain..."
Why does the Torah repeat the idea, mentioning both an employee working in a vineyard and one in a grain field? Is it not enough to state the principle once?
The repetition indicates that the Torah seeks to tell us more than the straightforward meaning of the verse. On a deeper level, the two employees refer to two very different attitudes toward man’s work and purpose on this earth.
G‑d created a beautiful but imperfect world. At the conclusion of the six days of creation, we are told, “G‑d rested on the seventh day from all His work which G‑d created laasot,” which means to correct and perfect. The world is an often chaotic field; we were placed on this earth to “work” it—to create order out of the chaos, to discover the fertility hidden within the earth, to plant and to harvest, and ultimately to bring the world to perfection.
There are two ways to look at our “work,” Some see the world as a field of grain, while others see it as a vineyard. The torah considers grain a staple—necessary for survival, while the vine and the wine it produces represent pleasure and enjoyment.
A person can be G‑d’s employee—he can understand that he has a purpose in life, a goal he must achieve in order to perfect the world and fulfill his responsibility toward his maker—yet he is working with grain. He does what he needs to, but his work is void of passion and pleasure. Or, one can see the world as a vineyard. This person also recognizes his responsibility as an employee of G‑d, but he sees the work as a source of pleasure and satisfaction.
Both of these people work for the same Employer, in the same line of work, but one is in the field and the other in the vineyard. Both are entitled to “eat on the job,”—to benefit from G‑d’s blessing, both physically and spiritually. There is, however, a fundamental difference between them. The employee working the field, the one who has no pleasure and just does his obligation, receives a limited flow from Above. The employee working the vine, the one who invests his pleasure and essence into the work, going above and beyond the call of duty, receives an infinite flow from Above as he connects to the essence of G‑d.
That is why, explain the Kabbalists, when talking about the employee in the vineyard, the Torah says “You shall not put [any] into your vessel.” In the literal sense, this refers to taking grapes home. The inner meaning is that the Divine blessing the vineyard employee will receive—the level of G‑dliness he will reach—will be infinite. As such, it will be unable to be contained in the limited confines of a vessel.
