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Service Schedule
May 14th – May 20th |
| Mon. — Thurs. Evenings |
6:00pm |
| Wed & Thurs Mornings |
7:00am |
| Sunday Morning |
8:00am |
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| Friday, May 18th |
| Drum Circle |
6:00pm |
| Candlelighting |
7:41pm |
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| Saturday, May 19th |
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| Shabbat Services |
9:15am |
| Havdallah |
8:41pm |
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| Upcoming Events |
| 5/14 |
Israeli Dance |
| 5/15 |
Meditation Group |
| 5/16 |
Limmud |
| 5/17 |
Lunch and Learn |
| 5/18 |
Drum Circle |
| 5/19 |
Anniversary/Bday Shabbat |
| 5/13 |
Men's Club Minyan |
| 5/19 |
Anniversary/Bday Shabbat |
| 5/20 |
Tora Fund Brunch |
| 5/26 |
Tikkun Leyl Shavuot |
| 5/27 |
Shavuot |
| 5/28 |
Shavuot |
| 6/2 |
Starbucks Shabbat |
Archived Articles:
Good and Evil
Psalms On Our Tongues
Memorial
Torah
Ties That Bind
Happy Birthday Rabbi!
Sderot Journey
Shabbat Hachodesh
Seder 09
June 20, 2009
July 4, 2009
July 18, 2009
August 5, 2009
August 07, 2009
August 14, 2009
August 28, 2009
September 4, 2009
October 22, 2009
November 4, 2009
November 15, 2009
November 19, 2009
November 24, 2009
December 4, 2009
December 10, 2009
December 17, 2009
December 24, 2009
December 31, 2009
January 8, 2010
January 15, 2010
January 21, 2010
January 29, 2010
February 5, 2010
February 12, 2010
February 18, 2010
February 25, 2010
March 5, 2010
March 11, 2010
March 19, 2010
March 26, 2010
April 2, 2010
April 9, 2010
April 14, 2010
April 22, 2010
April 30, 2010
May 7, 2010
May 13, 2010
May 21, 2010
May 28, 2010
June 3, 2010
June 9, 2010
June 18, 2010
June 25, 2010
July 6, 2010
July 9, 2010
July 15, 2010
July 22, 2010
July 29, 2010
August 5, 2010
August 13, 2010
August 19, 2010
August 27, 2010
September 2, 2010
September 7, 2010
September 16, 2010
September 22, 2010
September 29, 2010
October 7, 2010
October 14, 2010
October 22, 2010
October 29, 2010
November 4, 2010
November 11, 2010
November 19, 2010
November 26, 2010
December 3, 2010
December 10, 2010
December 17, 2010
December 22, 2010
December 31, 2010
January 7, 2011
January 21, 2011
January 25, 2011
February 3, 2011
February 9, 2011
February 18, 2011
February 22, 2011
March 3, 2011
March 10, 2011
March 17, 2011
March 24, 2011
March 31, 2011
April 8, 2011
April 14, 2011
April 18, 2011
April 28, 2011
May 5, 2011
May 12, 2011
May 19, 2011
May 27, 2011
June 2, 2011
June 10, 2011
June 16, 2011
June 24, 2011
July 1, 2011
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July 14, 2011
July 21, 2011
July 28, 2011
August 4, 2011
August 11, 2011
August 18, 2011
August 25, 2011
September 2, 2011
September 8, 2011
September 15, 2011
September 22, 2011
October 12, 2011
October 27, 2011
November 4, 2011
November 18, 2011
December 1, 2011
December 8, 2011
December 16, 2011
December 22, 2011
December 29, 2011
January 5, 2012
January 12, 2012
January 20, 2012
January 27, 2012
February 3, 2012
February 12, 2012
February 17, 2012
February 23, 2012
March 1, 2012
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March 19, 2012
March 23, 2012
March 29, 2012
April 5, 2012
April 12, 2012
April 18, 2012
April 26, 2012
May 3, 2012
May 10, 2012
May 17, 2012
RH
Day 1 Sermon - 2011
RH
Day 2 Sermon - 2011
Kol Nidre Sermon - 2011
Yom Kippur Sermon - 2011
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A FEW PRE-SHABBAT WORDS FROM RABBI AARON
Blessings and Wishes of Chesed and Metta
First, a quick greeting to everyone in the Beth Sholom family:
I pray that we all journey forth into a year of blessings. May we find comfort in friends and in community and in God - HaMakom - the ultimate place of comfort and consolation. May all of God's children, all of Creation find release from suffering and confusion, and may each of us find a way to bring blessings to others. May we merit the privilege of lovingly connecting with each other and with God through mitzvot.
Words and Pictures as Food for Thought
Below you'll find the lyrics to Leonard Cohen's Story of Isaac (with some lyrics I added for a choral setting for the second day of Rosh haShannah) juxtaposed with a famous (masterful and disturbing) painting of Isaac's Binding, done by Caravaggio.
Drashot
In shul, on the first day of the Rosh HaShannah I'll be talking about a spiritual ailment called bitterosity. Referencing a charming and humorous piece by Adam Gopnik (a writer for the New Yorker) called Bumping into Mr.Ravioli, I explore "bitterosity" as a form of (spiritual) disease, and I suggest that all of us are quite susceptible. The good news: there is a readily available cure...
On the second day of the holiday, I focus on the ties that bind. We revisit the powerful and spiritually thorny challenge of Isaac's binding by juxtaposing Leonard Cohen's haunting Story of Isaac with the traditional Torah reading. A simple Libyan folktale suggests that the strings that connect us to God present us with multiple metaphors for alienation and reconciliation.
A Poem from My Vault
Finally, here's a famous poem from Yehuda Amichai, of blessed memory. He manages, with a lyricism that feels biblical, to combine so many images - Abraham and Isaac, Job, and the terrifying power of words and deeds... What else is hidden in this gem of a poem? An illusion to the ritual washing of the dead (tahara), vows (think of Kol Nidre), Yizkor (O Lord, What is Man...), day versus night, and a powerful warning against objectifying our fellow human beings.
The Eve of Rosh Hashanah
The eve of Rosh Hashannah. At the house that's being built,
a man makes a vow: not to do anything wrong in it,
only to love.
Sins that were green last spring
dried out over the summer. Now they're whispering.
So I washed my body and clipped my fingernails,
the last good deed a man can do for himself
while he's still alive.
What is man? In the daytime he untangles into words
what night turns into a heavy coil.
What do we do to one another -
a son to his father, a father to a son?
And between him and death there's nothing
but a wall of words
like a battery of agitated lawyers.
And whoever uses people as handles or as rungs of a ladder
will soon find himself hugging a stick of wood
and holding a severed hand
and wiping his tears
with a potsherd.
L’Shanah Tova,
Rabbi Aaron
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