Tishrei 6, 5780 / October 4-5, 2019
Parashat Vayeilekh
Shabbat Shuvah - The Sabbath of Return
Torah: Deuteronomy 31:1-30
Haftarah: Hosea 14:2-10; Micah 7:18-20
Haftarah: Hosea 14:2-10; Micah 7:18-20
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!
Tashlikh – Sunday, 10:00 am at Los Encinos State Park – 16756 Moorpark St., Encino.
Yom Kippur begins Tuesday evening! Kol Nidrei Service is
at 6:00 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 us all get 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
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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: 6:15 pm
Kol Nidrei: 6:10 pm
Friday: A Cappella Shabbat
Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Minimal oneg Shabbat follows.
Saturday: NO Torah study/breakfast this
Shabbat. Resumes October 19. Shabbat Morning
Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.
Sunday: Tashlikh –
10:00 am at Los Encinos State Park – 16756 Moorpark St., Encino. Bring a
dairy/pareve bag snack and drink, and a shofar if you like – NO crumbs, please,
we will provide duck food.
Tuesday: NO Lunch and
Learn – resumes October 15. Kol Nidrei Service – 6:00 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 in memory of my uncle, Sidney Schugar, whose yahrzeit falls on Yom Kippur. His memory is a blessing.
This d’var torah is offered in memory of my uncle, Sidney Schugar, whose yahrzeit falls on Yom Kippur. His memory is 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, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac,
Philip Kronzek, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Imanu), Stuart Lytton, David
Marks, Sandra Raab, David Russak, Josef Sands, Shirley Sands, Debra Schugar
Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Anne
Signett, Hadassah Simani, and William Sragow.
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