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From the President from the Rabbi La pid Monthly Newsletter Volume 1: Issue 3 Congregation Agudas Achim OCTOBER 2008 FOUNDED 1881 TISHREI / CHESHVAN 5769 2767 East Broad Street Bexley, Ohio 43209 614.237.2747 614.237.3576 FAX www.agudasachim.org FROM THE RABBI GERALD B. ZELERMYER FROM THE PRESIDENT GREG ADAMS Point of order! [email protected] …As I was saying… Steppin’ Out In a few weeks we will step out of the Point of order! That means comfort of our homes and into our all discussion stops until you Sukkot, in part as a fulfillment of the hear me. Any parliamentarian commandment from Leviticus Chapter will tell you that! 23 “In Sukkot you shall dwell seven days, every citizen in Israel they shall …OK, big mouth. What’s your point of order? dwell in Sukkot, in order that your generations shall know, that I think there should be a second YOM KIPPUR! in Sukkot did I cause the children of Israel to dwell, when I brought them forth from the land of Egypt.” What are you talking about? How does that qualify as a point of order? There can only be one tenth of As you walk around the neighborhood you will see sukkot of TISHRI (the Hebrew calendar slot for atonement). all sizes – from the very large sukkah in the Agudas Achim How many times do you expect even the most parking lot to small sukkot just large enough to accommodate fastidious to fast and be so good even the Holy a small table and chair. Some will be very simple in design One above is impressed with their annual display and decoration, while others will be more elaborate. Some of repentance plus? Let’s return to what I was families actually move out rugs, wall hangings, cots and their saying… best china – all in order to truly dwell in their sukkah. No matter how low the temperatures may dip, you will find families sitting Point of order! I demand a second YOM KIPPUR! in their sukkot until late in the evening. At which point the young children begin to ask which adults are going to actually What are you? A screwball? If you want to be a spend the night and sleep with them in the sukkah. small print reader, there already is more than one YOM KIPPUR. Get yourself an old style Jewish My favorite time to enjoy our sukkah at home is very early in calendar and you can find a designation so tiny you the morning. With the sun rising, I step outside with a cup of practically need a magnifier to see it. There it says: coffee and begin my day by picking up a lulav and etrog. And YOM KIPPUR KATAN. That is for the fixated saints whether I am off to the synagogue or the office, I know I have (assuming there are any among us!) who consider started my day off right. their moral standard more demanding than the conventional Day of Atonement to close out the While in our house we welcome guests to our Shabbat table intense repentance with all the bells and whistles on a regular basis, the holidays give us special incentive to and ram’s horn scenario. Now can we get back to do so. At the Pesach Seder in addition to being commanded what I was trying to say before I was interrupted? to see ourselves as if we were among the slaves redeemed at Sinai, we invite the prophet Eliyahu to join with us as a Point of order! I demand a personal YOM KIPPUR! harbinger of Messianic times. During the joyous festival of Sukkot, it is customary to “share” our meals with seven of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 a pid SYNAGOGUE DIRECTORY GERALD B. ZELERMYER, Interim Rabbi 237.2747 EXT 10 [email protected] IN MEMORIAM EDWIN R. FRANKEL, Ritual Director 237.2747 EXT 22 [email protected] MANUAL KAUFMAN MITCHELL S. GILBERT, Executive Director 237.2747 EXT 11 [email protected] May his family and CAROL L. COHEN, Preschool Director 237.2747 EXT 28 [email protected] friends know of no further NAOMI KURLAND, Academy Administrator 237.2747 EXT 17 [email protected] sorrow, and may they find consolation in their DEBBIE ROBINSON, Controller 237.2747 EXT 12 [email protected] hour of grief DINA VINAR-CIEPLINSKI, Office Manager 237.2747 EXT 14 [email protected] NANCY CLIFFORD, Receptionist 237.2747 EXT 10 [email protected] SISTERHOOD GIFT SHOP 237.2747 EXT 19 [email protected] THE AGUDAS ACHIM LAPID OFFICERS IS PUBLISHED BY: MAZEL TOV TO GREG ADAMS President Congregation Agudas Achim BRETT KAUFMAN Vice-President Steve and Jennifer 2767 East Broad Street ALAN LEVINE Vice-President Siegel on the birth Bexley, Ohio 43209-1864 ALFRED FRIEDMAN Treasurer of their son, Brandt Malcolm Siegel. Mazel DONALD GARLIKOV Assistant Treasurer AND IS PRINTED ON A tov to the grandparents, NATALIE COHEN Secretary 10-ISSUE ANNUAL CYCLE Arthur and Ellen Pollack SANFORD LICHTENSTEIN Chairman, Chevra Kadisha FEBRUARY JULY/AUGUST and Richard and Karen STEVE SHKOLNIK Chairman of the Board MARCH SEPTEMBER STEVE SCHOTTENSTEIN Vice Chairman of the Board APRIL OCTOBER Schwartz and to the MAY NOVEMBER great-grandmother, ARI DESHE Vice Chairman of the Board JUNE DEC/JAN Betty Ziskind LESLIE WEXNER Honorary Vice Chairman of the Board DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO THE NOVEMBER LAPID IS Ken, Lori, Ian, Mia and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 Amy Greenblott on the GAROLD BEIM RON RUDOLPH Bat Mitzvah of daughter GALINA DASHEVSKY SCOTT SCHIFF PLEASE DELIVER, FAX and sister, Zoe, and to ELIE DESHE DR. JOSEPH SCHLONSKY OR E-MAIL ALL ARTICLES the grandparents, Elsie HERBERT GLIMCHER MICHAEL SHAPIRO AND/OR PHOTOGRAPHS TO Oppenheimer Krause and THE SYNAGOGUE OFFICE JASON GOLDBERG KAREN SHERMAN Lois Greenblott ALAN KATCHEN BRUCE SOLL BEFORE THE DEADLINE. LEV KUCHERSKI ELIZABETH TREDLER FAX DANA LEVINE ELLEN WEIDEN Michael and Brenda 237.3576 LAURENCE G. RUBEN JIM WINNEGRAD Shapiro and family on the KATHY WORLY E-MAIL Bat Mitzvah of daughter LIFETIME TRUSTEES [email protected] and sister, Gabriella SANFORD LICHTENSTEIN DAN WAITZMAN Megan Shapiro. Mazel STEVE SHKOLNIK Tov to the grandparents, Robert and Sheila HONORARY LIFETIME TRUSTEES Shapiro and Melvin and ROBERT A. SHAPIRO Janice Younger AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS Daniel and Natalie Cohen and family on the Bat Mitzvah of daughter and sister, Ariel Cohen. Mazel Tov to the grandparents, RON FEERER Brotherhood President Bernard and LaJune Cohen and Gerald and Miriam Cohen TRIXIE FREIND & LAURA BERGER Sisterhood Co-Presidents Mildred and Harry Topolosky on the graduation of their grandson, Jonathon Solove, son of Jeffrey and Phyllis Solove CONGREGATION AGUDAS AC HIM for the degree of Bachelor of Science and Engineering at The IS AFFILIATED WITH Ohio State University Rick and Dana Levine and Talia on the Bat Mitzvah of daughter and sister, Roni Gal Levine. 2 3 Congregation Agudas Achim CONTINUED FROM THE RABBI If you don’t shut down this filibuster of It became too much for him physically, but yours, I will have the sergeant at arms he did not want to refuse the honor. His remove you from the premises. Here I am brother, who rarely comes to synagogue, conducting business… just happened to be there. Bear in mind, they had not exchanged a syllable in 18 That’s the reason for my point of order! years. The Officers, YOM KIPPUR is more than an ordinary business transaction. A kind of yearly body The brother holding the scroll now asked language intended to convince ourselves to be relieved of the responsibility. He told and Heaven that an empty tummy and somebody, “Give the honor to my brother Board of Trustees, a pledge of money and a repetition of over there. Let it remain in the family.” So melody will rivet the attention of Ultimate now the other brother took over. The two Authority favorably! There needs to be brothers sat next to each other. Neither an additional YOM KIPPUR… Harder looked in the other’s direction. But they and Staff because it is not a ritual. Not a formula began to talk. with a warranty attached to it. The people in the congregation noticed with a kind of disbelief at what was of Agudas Achim Give me an example. happening before their eyes. Many started to cry. The two siblings were A vignette. I spent three years on a actually communicating and the TORAH Caribbean island. was the facilitator. wish you a Its magical climate is liable to convince anyone that relationships are as noble as A miracle? No! A personal YOM KIPPUR, they can get. Not so, I was to learn. a coming together. Is that not what next Two brothers, who live on the same street, week’s Atonement Day is for? You bet! Shanah Tova had not spoken to each other in eighteen years. That’s right: 18! An old quarrel Here’s to an easy fast and a personal YOM KIPPUR to make the New Year less eighteen YOM KIPPUR pageants could Umetukah not settle. Then one of them got sick. generic and more pertinent than ever. We Went to the USA to see the best doctors. could all use that sort of a holiday. After an anxious few months, he returned. G’MAR HATIMA TOVA! Weak, but better. He came to synagogue on a Saturday. That was his practice. Was offered a big honor to carry the TORAH, and, when it was dressed after TASHLICH the reading, to sit and hold the scroll until SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 it was ready to be returned to the ark. A body of water becomes the symboic vehicle for cleansing us from the corruptions that LAST-MINUTE ORDERS OF intrude on our better instincts A Sweet New Year! LULAV AND ETROG ARE “And Thou wilt cast all their sins into BEING ACCEPTED the depths of the sea.” Michah (7:19) Prices have increased for Agudas Achim orders placed after October 1 We will meet at 11:45am at the synagogue, and then proceed Sisterhood Please call 237-2747 together to Alum Creek to place your order immediately for Tashlich.
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