October 20, 2006 – Tishrei 29, 5767
Synaplex is
coming – NEXT WEEK!!!!!
Come for part or all of a new way to spend Shabbat at TBE, BUT BE SURE TO COME!!
Friday evening Oct. 27, 2006
7:30 pm ●
Tot Shabbat
● Shabbat Unplugged
Candlelight
Oneg and “Rebbe’s Tish” Following services
Saturday Oct. 28, 2006
8:45 am
Kabbalistic Yoga (Teens, Adults)
9:00 am ●
Continental Breakfast (All)
●Body-Mind-Spirit Bike Ride (Teens, Adults)
● Study Session on
Heschel’s “The Sabbath” (Adults)
●Babysitting (Tots,Children)
9:45
am
Traditional Service with
10:00
am ●Meditative
Service led by Dan Klipper (Adults)
●Tot Shabbat Morning with Nurit (Tots and Parents)
●Teen Service, run by our teens and assisted by Youth Advisor Edoe
Cohen (Teens from 8th grade and up)
●Family Learner’s Service, led by
11:10
am KIDDUSH
11:20
am
STORAHTELLING, including the celebration of an UFRUF! (All)
Performance of Torah portion Noah, with live original music and audience
interaction.
12:30
pm
Luncheon (All)
1:30
pm ●“Backstage
with Storahtelling” Learn the art of ritual theater (Teens, Adults)
●Family Communication Workshop with Mara Hammerman and Elissa
Stein (Adults)
●“Communication about Medication: Dealing with Doctors and
Drugs” with Bob Katz
(the AARP crowd)
●Israeli Dancing with Shmulik (Children)
2:30
pm ● “Backstage
with Storahtelling” continues (Teens, Adults)
●Family Scavenger Hunt (Children, Teens, Adults)
●“Rosner Bowl” Touch Football Game (Children,
Teens, Adults)
●Israeli Dancing with Shmulik (Teens, Adults)
3:30
pm
Pet Pallooza Pet Show and Blessing over the Animals - Hammermans’
front lawn (All)
We thank all our sponsors and supporters,
including Jackie Tepper and David Robinov, and Greg and Benjy, who are
sponsoring this month’s Shabbat Unplugged, in honor of David and
Benjy’s birthdays. We also thank Gary Gladstein in particular for his
support of Synaplex and wish him Mazal Tov on the ufruf of Jeff Gladstein and
Theresa Eickman on Synaplex Shabbat.
And we thank all our volunteers and participants as well!
Yashar Koach to Alison Wolff, who donated her
hair to Locks of Love.
Here
she is with Guy Sasson, in the “after”
photo.
Check our website at www.tbe.org for more photos, the complete
Synaplex schedule, along with NEW super photos of our spectacular TBE Sukkah
and mp3 files of the High Holidays sermons.
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Please
give generously to our High Holy Day Appeal!
Thus
far the response has far exceeded expectations – we are most grateful to
all who have given. For those who
have not as of yet, please give TBE extra consideration this year as we
continue to try to bring the spirit of excellence and warmth to our Jewish
Village and to service the needs of our congregants.
Contents
of the Shabbat O Gram:
(Click
to scroll down)
Just
the Facts (service schedule)
The (Occasionally) Ranting Rabbi
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunities
Required Reading and Action Items (links
to key articles on Israel and Jewish life)
Announcements (goings on in and around
TBE)
Quote for the Week
“The reason a dog has so many
friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue”
-Anonymous
Friday Evening
Candle
lighting: 5:49pm pm on Friday, 20
October 2006. For candle lighting times, other Jewish
calendar information, and to download a Jewish calendar to your PDA, click on http://www.hebcal.com/. To see the festivals of other faiths as
well, go to http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/
Shabbat service: 6:30 PM– in the chapel
Tot Shabbat: 6:45 - in the lobby
This week, Tot Shabbat will be hosted by Liam and Forrest Timmons and their parents, Jeanette and Mike. Liam is 8 and Forrest is 6. Both attend
For those who can’t get enough of Tot Shabbat, Nurit conducts
Tot Shabbat Morning at 10:30am every Saturday morning.
Mark your Calendars!!! On Friday, October 27, all
are welcome to attend our first Synaplex
Shabbat. A special Tot Shabbat
will be held at 7:30pm that evening.
Please see below for a list of events during our Synaplex Weekend, October 27 and 28. Hope to see all of you there! Please bring your friends!
Shabbat
Morning: 9:30 AM– We celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of Alex Heyison. Mazal tov to him and to his parents Joe
and Leslie.
Children’s services: 10:30 AM – Jr.
congregation service in the chapel, Tot Shabbat morning downstairs.
Torah Readings
Portion: Beresheet
– The Creation Story and what follows…
We begin reading the
third part of the triennial cycle
1: 5:1-5
2: 5:6-8
3: 5:9-14
4: 5:15-20
5: 5:21-24
6: 5:25-31
7: 5:32-6:8
maf: 6:5-8
See a weekly commentary from
the UJC Rabbinic Cabinet, at www.ujc.org/mekorchaim. Read the Masorti commentary at http://www.masorti.org/mason/torah/index.asp. University of Judaism,
JTS commentary is at: http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/parashah/.
USCJ Torah
For online Parsha quizzes from Pardes in Israel, go to http://www.pardes.org.il/online_learning/parsha_quizzes/ Torah for Kids: http://www.torah4kids.net/ Weekly Lesson of Popular Israeli Rabbi Mordechai Elon: http://www.elon.org/archives/archives.htm - and his parsha sheets: http://www.mibereshit.org/special/download_eng_pdf.htm From Bar Ilan University: http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/; http://www.torahproductions.com/weekly_article.jsp
THE ENTIRE
HEBREW BIBLE (AS WELL AS OTHER JEWISH SOURCES) CAN BE FOUND WITH SIDE-BY-SIDE
TRANSLATION AT
Morning Minyan: Weekdays at 7:30, Sundays at
9:30 AM
TO ENSURE A “GUARANTEED MINYAN” FOR
THE DAY OF YOUR YAHRZEIT – GO TO THE ROSNER MINYAN MAKER AT WWW.TBE.ORG
AND ALSO CONTACT ME AT RABBI@TBE.ORG.
We’ve had several people coming lately
who are saying kaddish following recent deaths in the
family. We want to make sure we
have a minyan each day. Your presence any morning is greatly appreciated!
Please sign up at the Rosner Minyan Maker at www.tbe.org (for those who have had problems,
it’s been fixed).
The
(occasionally)
My Annual
World Series Prediction
First
of all, my deepest sympathies to all Mets fans. I’ve been there, in 2003
(7th game – lose on last inning homer) and it ‘aint fun. But
it was a great year for the Mets.
Now,
onto the Series. Tigers vs.
Cardinals. I search my Jewish
sources for inspiration in making this annual never-wrong prediction. Tiger in Hebrew is namer “nah-mare”
(which also can mean “leopard,”) coming from the root N-M-R meaning
“shine” or “gleam.” Certainly the Tiger’s have been
shining lately. The animal is
mentioned in the bible about a half dozen times, the most famous being Isaiah
11:6: “The wolf will live with the lamb; the namer lie down with the kid; calf, young lion and fattened lamb together,
with a little child to lead them.”
If anyone has seen the Tigers’ starting pitching lately, they are
almost all “little children,”(with one notable exception). This utopian prophecy would seem to bode
well for the Tigers, unless we take it to mean that they will end up lying
down, placid, passive - and pasted by the redbirds.
Take a look at Daniel
7:6 : “After this, I looked; and there was another one, like a namer with four bird's wings on its sides.
The animal also had four heads, and it was given power to rule.” Daniel is having a horrible nightmare,
with visions of deformed animals.
But if this Tiger was also a winged bird, and there four wings, not two,
one would think that the number 4 is significant here: indeed, it takes four
victories to win the Series – perhaps this indicates a
Of course, you say, Jewish sources have
to support the team that once employed the mighty Hank
Greenberg, the team that in 1968 came back to win against this same
opponent, named for a city beginning with a “Saint,” a team named
for a team called “Cardinals,” as if they came straight out of
Vatican central casting. There is a
Jewish-born cardinal, BTW: Jean-Marie Lustiger (http://www.888webtoday.com/lustiger.html)
who could someday become pope.
But there’s another side to this
tale. Apparently there are no
cardinals (the bird, not the clergy) in
More importantly, the Cards do have a
Jewish player, pitcher Jason
Marquis.
So let’s see, Hank Greenberg or
Jason Marquis? Gotta
go with Hank
Greenberg: Baseball's First Jewish
Superstar.
Tigers
in Six.
Mazal Tov
Mazal Tov to
TBE’s Denise Greenman, who will be honored at the Connecticut Region
Biennial of the USCJ this weekend!
She has helped our congregation in so many ways, as Sisterhood past
president, cantorial search chair, bar-bat mitzvah chair, and so much
more. No one could be more
deserving of the honor!
Joan Katz – the
“Bride of Genesis”
Last Sunday morning we
honored Joan Katz with the first aliyah for Genesis as we began the Torah cycle
anew. Each year we ask our Hatan Torah and Kallat Bereisheet (the Bridegroom of the Torah and Bride of
Genesis) to make a statement about their ties to TBE and the importance of
volunteering. Here is Joan’s
beautiful statement:
Thank you so much for
this very special honor.
I grew up in
My husband and I have now
been members of
The turning point of my
TBE volunteer “career” was an evening when I attended a Sisterhood
book discussion. I had a wonderful time talking about a book with a multi-aged
group of women. While we might have
all been Jewish, we held diverse views and life experiences which lead to
interesting conversation. Continued book club attendance led to Sisterhood
involvement, Sisterhood board positions, chairing Break Fast, leading a group
that reorganized the kitchen closets and cabinets and now Youth Commission and
Synaplex committee work.
I get satisfaction
accomplishing tasks through my volunteer work, but I most enjoy meeting new
people and making previous acquaintances into friends. I’ve gotten to
know so many hard-working volunteers here at Beth El who also deserve
recognition. Like my family,
they’ve been great role models.
I’d like to thank them as well.
Minyans To Go
Last week, we honored, as
our Hatan Torah, Peter Weissman, who has been
instrumental in sustaining our morning minyan. His words, recalling the passing of his
son Adam, were most moving:
When Adam passed away eight years
ago, I began my attendance at morning minyans and ushering at the
holidays. While these are bittersweet, they provide me with opportunities
to think of and talk to Adam as if he were still here, and indeed, in my heart
and memory, he will always be here. So I thank
Morning Minyan is the time
when one sees the true face of TBE, all the caring and concern that go into the
creation of a warm, embracing community.
For those who are there, that statement is self evident. For those who might be reluctant to
come, please know that you will be warmly welcomed. Our new weekday prayer book is pretty
easy to follow, but for those who want more background, check out our
website’s gude, Minyan
Mastery.
If you find yourself
elsewhere in the state, know that you will be welcomed at Conservative
congregations throughout the state.
The USCJ Connecticut region has put together the following chart of
minyan places and times.
Please check directly with the synagogue before
attending daily minyan, to ensure the time listed here is accurate.
|
City |
Congregation |
Mon-Thurs |
Fri |
Sat |
Sun |
Public |
Jewish |
|
|
7:00 am |
7:00 am
8:00 pm |
9:30 am, sundown |
9:00 am |
x |
9:30 am, sundown |
|
|
|
7:30 pm |
7:00 pm |
9:00 am |
7:30 pm |
. |
9:00 am |
|
|
|
The earlier
of sunset or 6:00 pm, |
7:10 am |
9:00
am |
8:00 am 6:00 pm |
8:00 am 6:00 pm check web site or call 203-334-0159 for official holidays |
9:00 am and same as Saturday Evenings |
|
|
|
Tuesday:
6:00 pm (when school
is in session) |
7:30 am |
9:00 am Torah Study / 10:00 am services |
x |
x |
X |
|
|
|
7:30 am |
7:30 am |
9:00 am summer |
8:30 am summer |
call for
schedule |
call for
schedule |
|
|
|
x |
5:30 pm (First Friday only Pot Luck Dinner) |
10:00 am |
x |
x |
X |
|
|
|
7:15 am |
7:15 am |
x |
9:00 am |
x |
X |
|
|
|
Sons of |
7:30 am |
|
10:00 am |
|
|
|
|
|
6:45 am |
6:00 pm |
9:30 am |