Elul 14, 5779 /
September 13-14, 2019
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 29. 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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GOOD VERSUS EVIL
“When you go out to battle against your enemy, and the Lord your God delivers him into your hands, and you take him captive.” Deuteronomy 21:10
Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 5a: R. Levi ben Chama teaches in the name of R. Shimon ben Lakish - A person should always stir up the good inclination (yetzer hatov) against the evil inclination (yetzer hara).
R. Isaiah ben Abraham Halevi Horowitz, in his "Shnei Luchot Habrit", says that God helps those who seek to purify themselves. When one challenges his yetzer hara (which is his enemy), God delivers him, by returning his sins to him (which he “captures”).
The word for
"capture", shavah, is used as a play on the word
"teshuvah”, which means repentance, or return (to God). This is the
verse, he says, from which our Rabbis teach: “Great is teshuvah, through
which sins are transformed into merits.”
We are well into the month of Elul. Now more than ever is the time for us to confront and resist the evil inclinations within us, to seek to purify our souls, to gird ourselves for the great day of the shofar. Capture your enemy now! Rosh Hashanah is less than three weeks away!
We are well into the month of Elul. Now more than ever is the time for us to confront and resist the evil inclinations within us, to seek to purify our souls, to gird ourselves for the great day of the shofar. Capture your enemy now! Rosh Hashanah is less than three weeks away!
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Richard A. Flom
Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation
Beth Meier
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הַלּוֹמֵד מִכָּל אָדָם ?אֵיזֶהוּ חָכָם
Who is wise? The one who
learns from every person.
Ben Zoma - Pirkei Avot 4:1
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Candle lighting: 6:44 pm
Friday: Shabbat Evening Service –
6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.
Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat
Morning Service – 9:30 am. Junior Congregation – 10:00
am. Kiddush lunch follows.
Sunday: Religious School – 9:30 am.
Tuesday: NO Lunch and Learn
– resume September 24.
Friday, September 20: Shabbat
Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg
Shabbat follows.
Saturday, September 21: Torah
study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat
Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows. Selichot
Service – 9:00 pm.
Sunday, September 22: Religious School – 9:30 am. TBH/CBM Open House – 10:00
am – noon.
This d’var torah is offered in honor of
Julia Lytton and David Russak, who are marrying this Sunday – Mazal Tov! May
they live happily ever after!
The congregation extends condolences to
Barbara Levy on the passing of her sister, Carol Perry, in Florida on Monday.
Y’hi zekherah barukh – may her memory be a blessing.
This d’var torah is offered for
a refuah shleimah for Leah bat Sarah Imanu, Sarah bat Devorah, Susan
Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Elsbet Brosky, Mark Brownstein, Jerry Daniels, Maya
Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel),
Annabelle Flom (Channah Bella bat Kreina), Bernard Garvin, Leah Granat, Carol
Herskowitz, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Philip Kronzek, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata
Malkah bat Sarah Imanu), Marilyn Lee, David Marks, Sandra Raab, Josef Sands,
Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat
Kreina), Bernie Seeman, Anne Signett, and William Sragow.
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.
Next time you come to TBH/CBM,
please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items
(no glass) for SOVA.
And be sure to tell your neighbors,
friends, and relatives about our warm and welcoming community and our programs!
We are looking
for volunteers for services: chant Torah or Haftarah, daven, lead
English readings, deliver d’rashot, and have aliyot and other Torah/bimah
honors. Training available! Contact Rabbi Flom by e-mail for details and to
sign up!
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