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Tishrei 5779 / 14-15 September 2018
Parashat Vayeilekh
Shabbat Shuvah - The Sabbath of Return
Torah: Deuteronomy 31:1-30
Haftarah: Hosea 14:2-10; Micah 7:18-20 (some add Joel 2:15-27)
Haftarah: Hosea 14:2-10; Micah 7:18-20 (some add Joel 2:15-27)
Important note: If you have no place to worship for
the High Holy Days, or any day of the year, or if you think you cannot afford
tickets or membership, please, please join us for services. You can pay
whatever you can afford later. No one is turned away! Ever!
Yom Kippur begins Tuesday evening! Kol Nidrei Service is at 6:15 pm SHARP. If you have not already done so, please submit your Membership/High Holy Day forms ASAP! Or call the synagogue office!
Dedications and Calendar of Events follow. For our complete High Holy Day schedule, and lots of
other info about our community, please check out our web site at: http://bnaihayim.com
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 Yom
Kippur preparations at:
Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the
source.
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THIS IS AWESOME!
“And that their children who have not known may hear and learn to
fear (to hold in awe) the Lord your God, all the days you live in the land
where you go over the Jordan to possess it.” Deuteronomy 31:13
The word translated as “to fear”, l’yira, might also
be translated as “to hold in awe”. Indeed, these days between Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur are known as “Yamim Nora’im” - the Days of Awe,
not the Days of Fear, even though nora’im and yira share
the same root.
Note 1: The verses immediately preceding our verse instruct all
the Jewish people to gather together to hear the reading of the Torah - to
learn how to practice Judaism. We do this now in the synagogue, on Shabbat,
Mondays and Thursdays, New Moons and Holy Days.
Note 2: Since the dispersion following the destruction of the
Second Temple in 70 C.E. until 1948, few Jews lived in the Land of Israel -
i.e., “over the Jordan”. Yet, they continued, even to today, even though most
Jews still do not live in the Land of Israel, to hold God in awe and to hear
and to learn, and to practice Judaism. I want to suggest that it is not only
God that is awesome, but that the verses mean to tell us that the Torah and
Judaism as we know it (and as it is still developing) are also awesome! Our
ancestors knew this – and so should we all!
The best way, perhaps the only way, to hear and learn how to
practice awesome Judaism is to come together, in synagogues and in study halls
and in living rooms, and study Torah. We don’t have to be over the Jordan, in
the Land of Israel; we can be anywhere, and these days, thanks to the internet,
we don’t even have to be in the same time zone, let alone the same room.
Go to a synagogue; join a Jewish learning program; gather together
with other Jews, and experience the awesomeness of it all!
Shabbat Shalom! Wishing you a g’mar chatimah tovah umetukah -
May you be completely sealed for a good and sweet new year!
Rabbi Richard A. Flom
Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier
"From the place where we are absolutely right, flowers will
never grow in the spring."
"מן המקום שבו אנו צודקים לא יצמחו
לעולם פרחים באביב"
Yehuda Amichai
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Candle lighting: 6:42 pm
Kol Nidrei: 6:37 pm
Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Minimal oneg
Shabbat follows.
Saturday: NO Torah study/breakfast this Shabbat. Shabbat Morning
Service – 9:30 am. Minimal kiddush follows – no lunch
Sunday: Religious School – 9:30 am. Sukkah Construction
– 9:30 am. Tashlikh – 11:30 am at Los Encinos State Park – 16756
Moorpark St., Encino. Bring a dairy/pareve bag lunch and drink, and a shofar if
you like – rangers will provide duck food.
Tuesday: NO Lunch and Learn – resumes October 9. Kol Nidrei
Service – 6:15 pm SHARP.
Wednesday: Yom Kippur Services – 9:00 am. For full schedule for
Yom Kippur and Sukkot, see: http://www.bnaihayim.com/calendar.html
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, Liora bat Sarah, 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), Stuart Lytton, David Marks, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah
bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Barbara Shear-Hill,
Irwin Silon, William Sragow, 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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