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The Bulletin Riverdale Temple Y:Y} Μve Ll;Hum] /Abom] D[' Vm,V, Jræz]Mimi The Bulletin Riverdale Temple y:y} μve lL;hum] /abom] d[' vm,v, jræz]Mimi From the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof, the name of the Eternal One is to be praised. Vol. 73 June 2020 (5780) No. 10 THE RABBI’S COLUMN When I was a student at Hebrew Union College, I took a few classes with Worship Services and Other Rabbi Nancy Wiener. She once gave us an interesting assignment: we were Temple Events asked to write up what we did to recharge our batteries, what each student did when feeling stressed. Of course, she didn’t really care what we did, At this time, all services and only that we should know what we could do when we, inevitably, needed events at Riverdale Temple, to recover from the rigors of life. There were a number of things I listed, from playing backgammon to including Adult cooking. Cooking for others is something not so easy to do in a pandemic. Education, are being offered On the other hand, I recently came across something, almost by accident, remotely via Facebook Live or that gives me quite a bit of comfort in these troubled times. I have an old autoharp that I found to be a bit out of tune when I brought Zoom. it up from Louisiana. Unfortunately, I could not find the little wrench that tunes it. For the past five years, I have been expecting that wrench to turn Please consult the e-blasts for up, but so far, it has not. Recently, I went to a music supply website to buy the latest information and Zoom a new one. When I did so, I decided to buy a new set of strings for the and Facebook Live links. autoharp. An autoharp has thirty-six strings, and replacing them is more like To subscribe to our e-blasts, replacing piano strings than guitar strings. Most of my strings were original, please email administrator@ and this autoharp may have been made anytime between the 1920s and riverdaletemple.org. 1950s. I usually have time only to replace one or two strings at once, but I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to see the tarnished, old strings gradually replaced by the gleaming new ones. It is not hard to figure out the source of my satisfaction. When the world seems chaotic and out of control, it is soothing to the soul to slowly, methodically, put even a small part of it back into order. In fact, this is true with many things we do in life, and it is true not only during a pandemic. There are many small things we do, for ourselves or others, that are deeply satisfying because we are fixing the world. It may only be in the smallest way, but it is nonetheless a step in the right direction. Annual Congregational Meeting The Hebrew phrase tikkun olam, which means “fixing the world,” first made its appearance in the Talmud. There it referred to rabbinic decrees Sunday, June 21 that solved problems caused by biblical commandments. One example often given is the prozbul. Because of the commandment to forgive loans in 10:00 a.m. via Zoom the shmita year, people would often refuse to lend at all as that shmita year approached. Hillel established the prozbul, a document that would assign the debt to the court, making it enforceable even in the shmita year. Thus, continued on p. 3 1 Riverdale Temple Bulletin Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 9th of Sivan 5780 10th of Sivan 5780 11th of Sivan 5780 12th of Sivan 5780 13th of Sivan 5780 14th of Sivan 5780 4:00 pm Survey of Noon Lunch and 4:00 pm Learn with the 7:00 pm Shabbat Parashat Nasso Jewish History with Learn with Rabbi Rabbi Evening Service 10:30 am Shabbat Rabbi Franklin Gardner Morning Service Deanna Sherman’s Bat Mitzvah celebration 1 2 3 4 5 6 15th of Sivan 5780 16th of Sivan 5780 17th of Sivan 5780 18th of Sivan 5780 19th of Sivan 5780 20th of Sivan 5780 21st of Sivan 5780 4:00 pm Survey of Noon Lunch and 4:00 pm Learn with the 7:00 pm Shabbat Parashat Beha’alotcha Jewish History with Learn with Rabbi Rabbi Evening Service 10:30 am Shabbat Rabbi Franklin Gardner Morning Service *June 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 22nd of Sivan 5780 23rd of Sivan 5780 24th of Sivan 5780 25th of Sivan 5780 26th of Sivan 5780 27th of Sivan 5780 28th of Sivan 5780 4:30 pm Together with 4:00 pm Survey of Noon Lunch and 4:00 pm Learn with the 7:00 pm Shabbat Parashat Sh’lach Cantor Sharett-Singer Jewish History with Learn with Rabbi Rabbi Evening Service 10:30 am Shabbat in Jewish Song (FBL) Rabbi Franklin Gardner Morning Service 12:30 pm Chavurah 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 29th of Sivan 5780 30th of Sivan 5780 1st of Tamuz 5780 2nd of Tamuz 5780 3rd of Tamuz 5780 4th of Tamuz 5780 5th of Tamuz 5780 10:00 am Annual 4:00 pm Survey of Noon Lunch and 4:00 pm Learn with the 5:00 pm Tot Shabbat Parashat Korach Congregational Jewish History with Learn with Rabbi Rabbi 7:00 pm Shabbat 10:30 am Shabbat Meeting Rabbi Franklin Gardner Evening Service Morning Service 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 6th of Tamuz 5780 7th of Tamuz 5780 8th of Tamuz 5780 4:00 pm Survey of Jewish History with Rabbi Franklin 28 29 30 *All events/courses listed above are being offered via Zoom or Facebook Live. Please note that the rabbi’s Noon Lunch and Learn classes now meet on Wednesdays. Services will resume in September. Consult e-blasts for further information. The temple itself is closed until further notice. people began to lend money once again, and the economy did not whether a minority had the same rights as the majority to live and freeze once every seven years. work, might be political questions, but they are also very much The Kabbalists took tikkun olam to mean the esoteric restoration ethical ones. And ethical questions, as Hermann Cohen would tell of the broken pieces of the universe, through meditation, prayer, us, are religious questions. the keeping of mitzvot, and mystical practices. Under the influence Restringing my autoharp is more satisfying than sending a check of the philosopher Hermann Cohen, Reform Judaism began to see to Mazon, or calling my congressman to support his stance on the repair of the world as the goal of religion. Cohen, a scholar immigration, because I can see the progress before my eyes, and of the works of Immanuel Kant, saw ethics as the center of all also because it will soon be done, with no need to do it again for a religion. long time. But although less satisfying, trying to help the world in When I was in Louisiana, many of my congregants were big ways is much more important. Tikkun olam remains one of the politically conservative. They would sometimes complain to central pillars of our religion. me when the Reform movement was in the news for advocating I hope you can find a way, while cooped up by the pandemic, a higher minimum wage, or was in favor of same sex marriage, to repair the world, in ways both large and small. And I hope that or immigrant rights. “Why can’t they stick to religion and leave doing so gives you a great deal of satisfaction as well. politics alone?,” they would say. Of course, the answer was that —Rabbi Tom Gardner the question of whether a working person could afford to live, or THE CANTOR’S COLUMN Those Who Sow in Tears Shall Reap in Joy I was asked for my impressions by one of my teachers, and I Shalom Chaveirim, remember I replied, “Overwhelming.” When we later all sat in a large circle and introduced ourselves, I said my name, and one We have just completed the celebration of the holiday of Shavuot of the professors called out, “I know an Inbal Sharett”—and (Weeks), which is one of the Three Festivals in Judaism, together apparently, she knew my father’s cousin in Israel (there is another with Sukkot and Passover. Exodus 34:22 tells us: “And you shall Inbal Sharett, believe it or not!). At the conclusion of the retreat, observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and we had to wait for about five hours for a dog to come and sniff the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.” Shavuot is the holiday our belongings because of an outbreak of bed bugs found in some of the wheat harvest, when we sacrificed a special bread offering rooms. And just when I thought we are going home, our bus had at the Temple, and is also identified as the time when we received a flat tire. It was truly an overwhelming retreat from beginning to the Torah on Mount Sinai. end! When our bus was finally fixed, we approached NYC, and There are many wonderful traditions during this time. Leading its magnificent skyline appeared. It was definitely a Hallelujah up to Shavuot, we are in the period of the Omer, when we are moment of coming back home. commanded to ritually count seven weeks from Passover to Shavuot—to take us from the time when we left Egypt, not yet There is a truly fitting traditional Shavuot musical text, especially at this time: “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy,” Psalm as a nation, to the time when we received the Torah.
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