March 30-April 7,
2007– Nisan 12-19, 5767
Shabbat Ha-gadol
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And
remember…Next week is Our Family Skating party on Sunday the 8th
And on Shabbat the 7th…
“Matza and
Mitzvah”
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FEATURING JEWISH JOURNEYS OF
A LIFETIME …AND BEYOND
ADULT BAT MITZVAH
NO-HATE-BUT-HARMONY,
NESHAMA YOGA,
MIND-BODY-SPIRIT BIKE RIDE, AND GOOD PASSOVER FOOD!
LEARNER’S, TRADITIONAL
AND MEDITATIVE SERVICES;
SESSIONS ON
“THE ETHICS OF
EATING,” NUTRITION, KEEPING KIDS HEALTHY,
RAISING YOUR ADULT CHILD;
COLLEGE-TALK FOR TEENS,
CHESS, TOUCH FOOTBALL
A CHOCOLATE SEDER FOR THE
KIDS!
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
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Contents
of the Shabbat O Gram:
(Click
to scroll down)
Just
the Facts (service schedule)
The (Occasionally) Ranting Rabbi (History Made at JTS)
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunities
The
Beth El Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary
Required Reading and Action Items (links
to key articles on Israel and Jewish life)
Announcements (goings on in and around
TBE)
See photos of our TBE teens at
our new USY
website:
Check out www.tbe.org for photos from our recent
Cantors’ Concert,
Plus Purim photos, Passover
downloads, April’s Synaplex Schedule
and our extensive library of
photo albums,
articles, sermons, info about
the temple,
Shabbat-O-Grams and links to the
Jewish world.
Quote for the Week
There is one who
sings the song of one’s own life,
And in it, finds
personal satisfaction…
There is another
who sings a song of his people.
He leaves the
circle of his own individual self
Because he finds it
without sufficient breadth…
There is another
who reaches toward the more distant realms,
going beyond the
boundary of
to sing the song of
humanity…
Then there is the
one who rises toward the wider horizons,
until she links
herself with all existence.
With all
God’s creatures….
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Mark your calendar for something very special:
Passover festival services
on days 2 and 7 this year will be held in unison with Temple Shalom of
Greenwich
Day 2 will be in
Days 1 and 8 will be held
here, as usual.
Children’s Service
with Nurit will be held at 10:30 on days 1,7 and 8.
Even though we won’t have junior
congregation during the weekday festival days (e.g. this coming Tuesday, the
first day of Passover), services will be especially family-friendly and
everyone will have the chance to participate!
Also, remember that Shabbat morning
service credit is given for attendance at any festival morning service.
Candle lighting: 6:58 pm on Friday, 30 March 2007. For candle lighting times for
Passover, Havdalah 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/. The United Synagogue has updated its
candlelighting information. To learn more, click here.
Friday Evening:
Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:30 PM
(NOTE LATER TIME) – in the sanctuary – with our 4th
graders!
Next Friday night it will
be at 6:30 PM in the chapel.
No Tot Shabbat this
Friday, but NEXT Friday it returns, and so does Matzo Man!
At 6:45 PM – in the
lobby
Shabbat and Festival
Mornings:
Service begins at 9:30 AM
Mazal Tov to Steven lee, WHO BECOMES
bAr MITZVAH THIS SHABBAT MORNING!
Children’s
Services: 10:30 AM
Shabbat Mincha: 5:45
PM
MAZAL TOV TO LAUREN SCHAPIRO, WHO BECOMES BAT MITZVAH THIS
SHABBAT AFTERNOON!
Our Torah Portion
for Shabbat Morning
שבת
הגדול
Parashat Tzav
פרשת צו
1: 8:1-5
2: 8:6-9
3: 8:10-13
4: 8:14-17
5: 8:18-21
6: 8:22-29
7: 8:30-36
maf: 8:33-36
Haftarah: Malachi 3:4 - 3:24
If
you liked Storahtelling, you’ll LOVE Storahtelling’s new weekly
blog about the Torah portion Find it at http://storahtelling.blogspot.com/. ORT
Navigating the Bible; Rashi
in English; BibleGateway:
Useful for comparing different translations: Note- this is a Christian site.
What’s
Bothering Rashi (Bonchek) Each week, one example from the parashah is
deconstructed. 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://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/.
USCJ Torah
THE ENTIRE
HEBREW BIBLE (AS WELL AS OTHER JEWISH SOURCES) CAN BE FOUND WITH SIDE-BY-SIDE
TRANSLATION AT http://www.mechon-mamre.org/
100
Blessings: Download information about the grace
after meals (see Birkat
Ha-mazon explained in Wikipedia and in the Jewish
Virtual Library) The actual
prayer can be downloaded at Birkat
Hamazon [pdf]
Morning Minyan
7:30 Weekdays, 9:30 Sundays
Monday, April 2 - Ta'anit Bechorot – Fast of
the First Born
A Siyyum will take
place at the end of the minyan
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!
Passover Resources
(see Spiritual Journeys section below for more Passover
material)
Download our TBE Sale
of Hametz Form (due Sunday!!!)
My own Passover guide A Guide for the Perplexed
Keeping the
Story Alive: Questions and Reflections for the Seder Table
COMMUNITY SEDER
Second Night of Passover
Tuesday, April 3 at 7PM PROMPTLY (come at 6:45)
OVER 120 PEOPLE WILL BE
ATTENDING!
Those high school students wishing to attend services on Passover,
April 3, 4, 9 and 10, may obtain an absentee letter for their school’s
attendance office by contacting Ellen at 322-6901, ext. 308 or TempleSec@tbe.org.
Passover: Guided
Learning from MyJewishLearning.com
Guided Learning
presents the content for this section by level of depth, and offers you a
specific order by which to read through the articles at each level. You can go
directly to one of the four levels by clicking below, or take a quiz that will
suggest the appropriate level for you based on your results. Or, you can opt to
start at the Primer and work your way through all four levels of Guided
Learning one by one. Quiz
on Passover Level
I: Primer Level
II: Topical Overviews Level
III: Deeper Explorations Level
IV: Analysis & Interpretation
For a host of other Pesach links:
And finally…
Two nice links if you are interested in getting rid of the
“hametz of the soul” http://hillel.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Passover/TO_Pesach_Home/Isaacs_Leaven_717/SpiritualHamezt_555.htm
http://www.rebgoldie.com/pesachrituals.htm
The
(occasionally)
History Made
at JTS
This
week’s historic decision by the Jewish Theological Seminary on the issue
of inclusiveness and homosexuality has taken the Jewish world by storm. Later this week, the movement’s
Israeli seminary decided to uphold the ban on gay and lesbian students. See coverage in the Forward http://www.forward.com/articles/conservative-judaism-s-flagship-seminary-opens-d/. Rabbi Joanna Samuels wrote in the
Forward http://www.forward.com/articles/make-jts-proud-to-be-pluralistic/, “Far
from weakening the movement, this will strengthen the convictions of
Conservative Jews to teach and live as Jews committed to the balance between
tradition and change.”
The Jewish Week (http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13854)
states that…
The movement’s Rabbinical
Assembly has also become proactive about addressing the implications of these
major policy changes. In February it established an Ad Hoc Committee on
Implementation of the CJLS Teshuvot on Homosexuality. Its seven members have
already met several times, says chair Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlberg, senior rabbi at
Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C.
“We want to be of service to the members of the Rabbinical Assembly by
helping explain how the teshuvot are to be applied, how to deal with the
questions raised because of those teshuvot, among rabbis and from members of
congregations to their rabbis,” he said.
Those
answers will be forthcoming from the movement. Meanwhile, our own ritual committee had
its regularly scheduled meeting, coincidentally, on the evening after the JTS
news broke. We are also exploring
in a systematic way the implications of last December’s Law Committee
decisions. For congregations and
rabbis, a key question involves the performance of commitment ceremonies, but
the main matter is one of how we define ourselves as a community with regard to
inclusiveness.
Over
the past several years we’ve become more inclusive in welcoming
interfaith families, for example, inviting non Jewish parents of b’nai
mitzvah to have greater participation in their child’s bar/bat mitzvah
service. Just last week one such
family celebrated a bat mitzvah with us, and it was one of the most stirring
services in recent memory. Read
Joelle’s speech in The Beth El Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Commentary below to get a sense of what I mean. I am extremely proud of how we have
staked out a position of warmth and inclusiveness without sacrificing the
integrity and authenticity of Jewish practice and belief.
Now we are called upon once again to make decisions – and these are decisions that we must make together. While my own views on the matter of inclusiveness for gays are widely known (both Cantor Littma