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Kol Hadash Iyar/Sivan 5769 asj kue NEW VOICE MAY 2009 KOL HADASH IYAR/SIVAN 5769 . Se Arregla Con Alambre (It Is Fixable With Wire) RABBI MARCELO R. BRONSTEIN This is a very common expression in Argentina. It means that if we put our ingenuity to work, anything can be fixed. The most common metaphor for this is the picture of the mechanic working in his garage, hundreds of miles away from any city and possibility of getting auto parts, and a gentleman arrives Maybe we can do more with a totaled car and the mechanic says: Don’t worry, we can fix it with wire. with less because we can do it differently—because I grew up with that type of mentality; it became an amazing discovery for me later in life to know that things could be done with resources, help and planning. In those days, with constantly changing politi - we are bold enough to “ cal winds, planning was a luxury. To plan with too much anticipation would have meant a total discon - reshuffle the cards again.” nection with reality. I remember when I came to the United States for the first time and I saw a TV set sitting out in the street, or a refrigerator. In shock I learned that people were paying the trash collector to take it: why? Because fixing it was more expensive than replacing it. We developed the culture of the disposable. To throw away became accepted; to change things, just for the sake of change became accepted; not fix - ing became accepted; to buy when we didn’t have the money to buy became accepted; to be in debt became a way of life. To play with the future became accepted. Today it is accepted to bail out the past, putting the burden on future generations. But we are beginning to pay for our social mistakes. We The Fourth Annual Concert are experiencing an earthquake. The structures are shaking in the present and they bring uncertainty of the BJ Musicians for the future. Our BJ is part of this reality. Today we confront the need to reduce our budget, to reduce our spending, to reduce our programming. We will not be able to keep doing the same with less. This time calls for a recalibration of our values. We will have to fine tune what is important and what is not so important. We will all have to do our share to make our community work. We will have to relearn how to do things with fewer resources. We are looking into every crevice of our budget to decide what can be let go. We will have to be patient enough to postpone some programs. We will have to prioritize that which helps us to be together in order to pass this storm while holding on to each other in a more hon - orable and possible way. This is a message that we need to understand. The majority of the world lives with this type of uncer - tainty, and much worse. They live with fewer resources and a lack of social and economical stability. In reality, we have yet seen very little of what others are experiencing. PHOTO: CYNDI SHATTUCK PHOTOGRAPHY Singing along onstage on March 15. The man that fixed it with wire was also the Hasid in the shtetl who was used to sharing what he had. We have the opportunity to get out of the individualistic ethos and move towards the community one. 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ADASH NEW VOIC E•MAY 2009 Social Action/Social Justice How Should We Count Our Days? For the social justice activists among us ... our eginning on the eve of the second have developed a model of environmentally preparation for receiving day of Pesa h, we are instructed by sound practices that is emulated by other con - the Torah can be linked to our tradition to count the days of the gregations, it represents a minuscule effect on “the values and spirit of Omer until the fiftieth day, which is the current state of our environment—the bulk when the first barley crop would be of the work is yet to be done. We need to tikkun olam (repair of harvested. This day is also the holi - advocate for cleaner air and water, safe and the world).” bday of Shavuot when the Jewish people sustainable agricultural practices, as well as received the Torah at Mt. Sinai. The counting of renewable energy sources. For Omer Week the most vulnerable amongst us by providing the Omer is a bridge between Pesa h and Two, let us renew our personal connection with homeless guests a calm, comfortable, safe envi - Shavuot—between a moment of liberation and the earth and also engage in the advocacy work ronment. We know that direct service is not an a moment of self-definition as a religious com - needed to stem the tide of our environmental end in itself. During Omer Week Five let us munity. It is an opportunity to deepen our com - degradation. Let us choose Life! devote our efforts to building strong partner - mitment to the tenets of Judaism and to close ships with communities that address homeless - the gap between ideas and action for the tikkun According to midrash, every Jew was present at ness and the lack of affordable housing. (repair) of the challenges we face in our world. the moment of revelation at Mt. Sinai. Each one of us shares equally in the covenant between In the ancient rabbis’ portrait of the world, each Traditionally, the counting of the Omer referred God and the Jewish people—regardless of our person was respected and perceived as a bearer to the sheaths of barley that were offered in the gender, gender identity or sexual orientation. of a divine spark. One could never be sure if Temple in Jerusalem. The idea of counting each During the Omer, we refrain from celebrating one of the beggars sitting at the gates of the day represented spiritual preparation and antic - weddings. However, during the middle of the city was the messiah, or if the prophet Elijah ipation for the giving of the Torah. So, how do counting, on Lag B’Omer, is a day of joyful was the stranger knocking at the door. If each we, as contemporary Jews commemorate this release, a time when many Jews marry. Yet, beggar might have been either of the two, then process of spiritual preparation? those who identify themselves as LGBT Jews no beggar could be coldly dismissed. Today, we are not able to experience this day of release. are willing to write checks and work for organi - For the Jewish mystics among us, each of the Omer Week Three should be dedicated to the zations that help poor people. We prefer, how - seven weeks of counting the Omer correlates to unrelenting advocacy and educational work ever, not to be “assaulted” by the raw sight of the seven kabbalistic Sefirot or emanations of required to guarantee that same sex couples destitute people who live on the edge. During the divine. For the social justice activists have equal rights to marriage. Omer Week Six, let us pledge to examine our among us (one is not mutually exclusive from behavior and attitudes towards the “other.” the other), our preparation for receiving the Our tradition holds that all human beings are Torah can be linked to the values and spirit of fashioned in the image of the Divine—even the It is time, once again, to work for government tikkun olam (repair of the world). stranger in our midst. The stranger is guaran - policies that will reduce poverty. But let us not teed the same divine protection under the law rely on the government, as benevolent as it may Our work for tikkun olam combines direct serv - as is extended to the native. The spirit of com - seem, to shield us from those who are less for - ice with community organizing campaigns passion and kindness, concern for the welfare tunate. During Omer Week Seven, let us recall which address the root causes of systemic and recognition of the stanger’s godliness is llu - the divine spark in all of us and act for econom - inequity. We use the Congregational Based minated in at lease eight passages of our Bible. ic justice. That spark does not diminish when Community Organizing model of activism to Omer Week Four is dedicated to the struggle of our bank accounts are empty. Remembering sustain our social justice efforts. Through this domestic workers who struggle for dignity and that should fire us into action. model, we cultivate relationships which decent working conditions under civil law. We strengthen our community and develop new join that struggle as Jews and as employers of In today’s understanding of counting the Omer, leaders. Omer Week One is dedicated to a domestic workers to make sure that there is we prepare ourselves spiritually to receive the deeper commitment to faith based social justice justice for the people who help keep our homes teachings of the Torah—the teachings that activism.
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