Elul
14, 5778 /August 24-25, 2018
Parashat Ki Teitzei
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1- 55:5 (Double Haftarah – Fifth Shabbat of Consolation, followed by Third Shabbat of Consolation – it’s complicated)
Parashat Ki Teitzei
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1- 55:5 (Double Haftarah – Fifth Shabbat of Consolation, followed by Third Shabbat of Consolation – it’s complicated)
Calendar
and dedications follow below. For a full calendar of events and other info
about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, check out:
Rosh
Hashanah begins the evening of Sunday, September 9. Please get
you membership and ticket orders in to the office ASAP. Also, if you want to
remember your friends and loved ones in the Book of Remembrance, contact
the office ASAP.
For
the past few years, I have created a Cheshbon Hanefesh Worksheet,
to help get us all ready for the spiritual side of the High Holy Days (sorry,
no recipes or floral arrangements!). You can pick up a hard copy at TBH/CBM, or
download it from my blog at:
Also,
some excellent on-line resources are available for your Rosh Hashanah
preparations at:
Please
feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source.
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LOST
AND FOUND
"Do
not watch your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them;
you shall surely return them to your brother." Deuteronomy 22:1
Rabbeinu
Bachya (Spain, 13th-14th C.) compares this verse with a similar verse at Exodus
23:4: "If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall
surely bring it back to him again.”
What
great insight! This mitzvah of returning lost property, like every other, is
not properly observed if one does it grudgingly or with bad feelings. And it's
not simply about returning lost property - it's about good fellowship. Even
more, it's about repentance. For the words "hasheiv t'shivem"
- you shall surely return them - come from the same root as "teshuvah"
- repentance. In losing one's hatred, one performs teshuvah and finds
friendship in the performance of the simple mitzvah of returning lost property.
Try it – you have nothing to lose but your animosity!
Have
a wonderful Shabbat!
Rabbi
Richard A. Flom
Temple
B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier
"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"
Silence
in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”
BT
Yevamot 88a
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Candle lighting: 7:11 pm
Friday: Cool Shabbat Evening Service with Steve
Pearlman and Rabbi Flom – A Guitar-Accompanied Service – It’s a
GAS! – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.
Saturday: Torah study/breakfast –
8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch
follows.
Sunday: TBH/CBM Membership Open House and Religious School Registration:
11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Come on down with your family and friends who might be
interested in joining our growing community. Schmooze with old friends and make
new ones! Get the kids signed up for Religious School this year.
Tuesday: Lunch and Learn –
12:00 noon.
Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable
canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.
This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Elisheva bat
Malkah, Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Susan
Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr.
Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Bernard Garvin, Leah Granat, Brandon
Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah
Emanu), David Marks, Janice Ross, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya
Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Barbara Shear-Hill, Irwin
Silon, and Jonathan Woolf.
Please let me know if there is anyone you would like to add to this
list or if there is anyone who may be removed from this list.
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