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April 2019 Adar 2 - Nisan 5779 Passover 2019 Update Pre-Pesach Programs Services “Selling” Your Chametz Candle Lightings Siyum Hab’Khor Page 4 ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE THE הקול ENDOWED IN MEMORY OF HARRY AND SH IRLEY NAC HMAN Vol. 76 No. 3 April 2019 Adar 2 - Nisan 5779 Passover 2019 Update Pre-Pesach Programs Services “Selling” Your Chametz Candle Lightings Siyum HaB’khor Page 4 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES The Sisterhood of Adat Shalom Mornings: Sundays. 8:30 A.M. Monday - Friday . 7:30 A.M. 77th Annual Shabbat . 9:00 A.M. Evenings (Minchah-Maariv): Donor Day Event Sunday - Friday . 6:00 P.M. Saturdays: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 April 6 . 8:00 P.M. April 13 . 8:00 P.M. April 20 . Minchah immediately following Unique Boutiques the Shabbat Pesach Kiddush April 27 . 8:15 P.M. Luncheon Program SHABBAT TORAH PORTIONS April 6 April 20 Woman of Distinction Tazria Pesach Shabbat HaChodesh Day 1 Honoree Beve ly Yost April 13 April 27 Metzora Pesach Shabbat Hagadol Day 8 Page 7 PEOPLE & PROGRAMS Meditation Mazal Tov to our AND MINDFULNESS April Bar Mitzvah with Rabbi Bergman April 13 Sundays, April 14 & 28 at 9:30 A.M. April 14 is Pre-Pesach Learning with Henry Jacob Nathan is the son Rabbi Bergman and Hazzan Gross of Alyse & Howard Nathan; the see page 4 grandson of Sheila z”l & Sidney z”l Find your internal spirituality Cohen, and Audrey z”l & Herbert and realize that Judaism z”l Nathan can make you happier. A refreshing hour for all ages. Sessions will continue throughout the year. There is no charge Shabbat Rocks Soulful Yoga This ser vice is a par ticipator y, with Rabbi Shere engaging and spirited ser vice and skilled yoga instructor for all ages, with instr umental Mindy Eisenberg accompaniment backing the beautiful Saturdays, April 6 & 13 at 10:00 A.M. and memorable melodies. April 13 is Pre-Pesach Learning Connect body and soul as we apply the wisdom P M of Torah to the gentle practice of yoga. Friday evening, April 12, at 6:00 . No experience necessary. Dress comfortably. Please bring a mat if you have one. Join us in the Youth Lounge. Celebrate Shabbat For additional information contact Jodi Gross at 248.851.5100 or [email protected] Grief Support Group Healing in Harmony Service Dealing with Loss at Pesach Saturday, April 27 - 9:45 AM with Rabbi Shere Led by Rabbi Shere and Hazzan Gross Sundays, April 7 & April 14 at 10:30 A.M. There are powerful and beautiful prayers that we recite silently The Pesach holiday season can be very difficult when you and many that we sing out together. This is an opportunity to share your own personal prayers with others in a safe and loving have lost a loved one. Please join Rabbi Shere as she environment. There is no obligation to speak; simply being present explores the specific challenges of Pesach, including empty can bring comfort and healing to others as well as yourself. seats at the Seder table and responding to well-intentioned condolences that sometimes hurt more than they heal. APRIL SHABBAT TORAH STUDY Open to the community. There is no charge. LEARN ABOUT THE WEEKLY PARASHA AND ENHANCE YOUR SHABBAT EXPERIENCE April 6 April 20 THE with Ruth Bergman No Shabbat Torah Study (USPSV62O2-I46C0) E April 13 April 27 published monthly except February and July by with Rabbi Joseph Krakoff No Shabbat Torah Study ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt Road Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334 Phone: 248-851-5100 l Fax: 248-851-3190 9:45 A.M. Periodicals Postage entered at the Farmington, Michigan Post Office FINISHING IN TIME FOR THE RABBI ’S SERMON Postmaster: Send address changes to: The VOICE, 29901 Middlebelt Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334-2319 2 MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT , FROM RABBI AARON BERGMAN SANFORD VIEDER Pesach is the holiday of questions. From my childhood, I have joyous The children ask the four questions at the memories of Passover. I recall the furious seder. The adults ask if it is really possible cleaning my mother would undertake in that they just ate that much, a question they preparation for the big “dishes changeover.” All will repeat the following evening. Everyone the chametz needed to be cleared out, which asks questions of each other about the often led to me eating many bowls of cereal, meaning of the holiday and freedom. packages of cookies or other similar food items so mom would not I think it is important to ask ourselves some challenging have to throw out perfectly good food otherwise! The holiday questions, too. dishes, silverware and glassware looked quite different and to this These are examples I came up with based on the Pesach day, triggers something so different about Pesach in my mind. I story, but feel free to develop your own. These questions are not also recall how my father would love to have the Detroit Tigers easy, and you are not obligated to share your answers with spring training games either on the TV or radio, while we were all anyone, though it may open some helpful and insightful busy getting the house ready for Pesach. To this day, that discussions with your loved ones. association remains in my mind, as we would all be so hopeful for Pharaoh wants everyone to obey him unquestionably. a great baseball season and maybe even a World Series Moses wants to serve the needs of the people. Pharaoh appearance for our feline favs! never admitted he was wrong. Moses looked to others As time goes on, I find that each Jewish holiday brings along for their input. Are you more like Pharaoh or Moses certain associations from my early years. Perhaps what they do when it comes to your friends and family? What do is bring me comfort from the great memories of nice times with my you think your loved ones would say? parents, friends and family that often joined us for holidays. As we Look at the ten plagues. The Egyptians suffered from approach yet another spring season and the Passover holiday, my them because of their stubbornness and their inability family and I wish you a very Happy, Healthy and Kosher Pesach. to work with others. They only cared about their own We hope the season will bring many new memories for each of well being. The Hebrews worked together during them you! and helped each other. What do you do in difficult Sandy times? Who do you help and why? Who do you not help and why? The Hebrews were afraid to leave Egypt? What fears ROM AZZAN ANIEL ROSS F H D G do you have that are preventing you from living your ELIJAH AND HIS MANY NAMES best life? When I was a child, I fully believed Pesach is a time to confront ourselves honestly and fearlessly, that Elijah visited our Pesach Seder. Every because that is what brings true liberation for ourselves and the year the level of wine in his cup would world. mysteriously go down, as soon as we opened I wish all of us a Pesach of sweetness, joy and freedom. the door for him to enter. It wasn’t until I was about 8 years old that I purposefully kept my eyes fixed on his cup ROM ABBI ACHEL HERE and, of course, being watched, the level of wine never diminished. F R R S It was at that moment that I realized that Elijah wasn’t “real.” (My “A RE YOU RELIGIOUS ?” dejection must have been how my Christian friends felt when they Albert Einstein, who passed away learned that Santa Claus wasn’t “real.”) Despite the broken spell sixty-four years ago this month, once received of childhood wonderment, the invitation of Elijah continues to be a letter from a school girl named Phyllis in a highly anticipated and climactic moment of the Seder. which she asked him if it was possible for a So who was Elijah? Elijah the Prophet, known in Hebrew as scientist to also be religious. While Einstein Eliyahu HaNavi, lived in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th was certainly Jewish, he is not known for century B.C.E during the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. being particularly “religious.” In fact, at one point he wrote, "The He is first introduced in 1 Kings 17:1 as word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product – Eliyahu haTishbi mi’toshavei (or of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but אליהו התשבי מתשבי גלעד mi’Tishbi) Gilad. Thus, Elijah is also referred to as Eliyahu still primitive legends…. For me the Jewish religion like all other HaTishbi, frequently translated as Elijah the Tishbite. Tishbite religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.” derives from toshav, which means dweller or inhabitant. He was Based on this, it would seem Einstein had no religious from the region of Gilead, hence another one of his names, inclinations. However, as much as atheists wanted to claim the Eliyahu HaGiladi. esteemed scientist as one of their own, he certainly was not, Elijah was said to be the forerunner of the Messiah because he, writing, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of unlike any other prophet before him, battled the pagan foes of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and Israel who sought to discredit God. Elijah insisted that Israel must connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and not forsake God so that the holy covenant made between God inexplicable. Veneration for this force, beyond anything we can and Abraham might endure. For this reason, Elijah is thought of comprehend, is my religion.” as the guardian angel of the Jewish people.
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