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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 |
RH 1 - The Battle Against Bitterosity
Strings Attached, 2nd Day RH 2010
KN 2010
YK Day 2010 Justice & Change
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Psalms On Our Tongues
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Ties That Bind
Happy Birthday Rabbi!
Sderot Journey
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Day 1 Sermon - 2011
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Day 2 Sermon - 2011
Kol Nidre Sermon - 2011
Yom Kippur Sermon - 2011
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A FEW PRE-SHABBAT WORDS FROM RABBI AARON
Ten Years Later - Remembering
This Shabbat Ki Tetz opens with these words: "כי תצא למלחמה על אויביך - When you engage your enemies in war..." Most of us can vividly remember where we were and what we were doing ten years ago as the Twin Towers collapsed, as over three thousand men, women, and children were murdered by a cruel enemy seeking to inflict great pain and destruction upon our nation. In so many ways the events of that fateful day impacted our culture along with the lives of many millions around the globe. Just as December 7 served as a touchstone for an earlier generation, 9/11 has left a deep imprint upon all of us. Much has been written and spoken about the resolve to take the battle to our enemies, about our citizenry standing shoulder to shoulder [all-too-briefly], about struggling with a "new normal."
Ten years is both a long time and a short time. You think you have found words to wrap around it all, and yet, when the the burning towers flash before your eyes, when you recall the seemingly countless posters of missing people, their desperate families, the weary and driven firefighters and other rescuers - when it all comes back coursing through your veins and beating in your heart and welling up in your eyes - the wounds are raw, the feelings run deep. Ten years is a short time. The larger American narrative of 9/11 is being collectively assembled [in its conscious and subconscious multi-layered ways] over many years.
I do not wish to add to the punditry that, unfortunately, sometimes slips into cheap the political manipulation of our grievous loss. Instead, I offer a few words written by Great Ones.
Questions
Yehuda Amichai, in his final book, left us a poem called "Who Will Remember the Rememberers?" Here is a short excerpt...
What is the correct way to stand at a memorial ceremony?
Erect or stooped, pulled taught as a tent or in the slumped posture
of mourning, head bowed like the guilty or held high
in a collective protest against death,
eyes gaping frozen like the eyes of the dead
or shut tight to see stars inside?
And what is the best time for remembering? At noon
when the shadows are hidden beneath our feet, or at twilight
when shadows lengthen like longings
that have no beginning, no end, like God?
A Resolution (courtesy of President Lincoln)
...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Both writers guide us with respect to how we frame experiences whose enormous scope makes us feel so small, so overwhelmed by the loss. I take great comfort in wisdom of Amichai and Lincoln. The Torah also points to a third response, which rings very true today.
Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke of when he said: “‘Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.’
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Aaron
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