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Ha Layla Ha Gadol Big Night Fundraiser November 12 at 6 Pm NOVEMBER 2011 CHESHVA N / KISLEV 5772 BETH AMI 'S SUKKOT CELE B R A TION Ha Layla Ha Gadol Big Night Fundraiser November 12 at 6 pm Join us for an evening of food, fun and friendship at Congregation Beth Ami’s HaLayla HaGadol.Inspired by the film The Big Night, various members of our Congregation are preparing spectacularly- themed dinners in the hope that Shaking the Lulav and Etrog you, their honored guests, will join them. Peruse the menu of three incredible event experiences, hosted at Ramekins Culinary School, Double Decker Bowling Alley and a congregant’s Making pizza in the Beth Ami kitchen home. Events are priced at $18 to $144, which are in multiples of 18, the numerical value of chai (life). All events are being generously donated by hosts Ivan Barta, Michael and Ellen Mundell and the Beth Ami Board and all are either “kosher style” or dairy. Seating is limited! Mail your reservation and payment to: Congregation Beth Ami 4676 Mayette Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 Or you can call Beth Ami and charge your reservation: (707) 360-3000. Creating decorations for the Sukkah Congregation Beth Ami Office Hours We’re on Facebook! 4676 Mayette Avenue Monday-Thursday 10 am-4 pm Please join our online Friday 10 am-2 pm Santa Rosa, CA 95405 community at Library Hours www.facebook.com then Telephone: 707/360-3000 Sundays, 9:30 am - 12 pm search for Congregation Beth Fax: 707/360-3003 when Religious School Ami, Santa Rosa Email: [email protected] is in session. Website: www.BethAmiSR.org Gift Shop Hours Hours by appointment. Personnel Officers and Board of Mission Statement Directors 2011-12 Through celebration, learning, prayer and community, we seek to enrich Rabbi Joel Rembaum Arnold Drake, President our lives, transform our hearts, 360-3004 [email protected] help heal the world and sustain our [email protected] Barbara McGee, Treasurer Jewish heritage. Carolyn Metz, Executive Director [email protected] 360-3011 Betty Boyd, Secretary [email protected] [email protected] Vision David Ballo, Past President A vibrant, growing campus for Elizabeth Jarlsberg, Admin Support [email protected] Jewish living where the joys of 360-3000 Stan Feingold, VP of Facilities Jewish values and rituals are made [email protected] [email protected] accessible and relevant to the Diane Lennox, Bookkeeper Mark Sutter, VP of Ways & Means everyday lives of our members. 360-3012 [email protected] A flourishing, prospering [email protected] Erik Uriarte, VP of Youth Education congregation enjoying the Caroline Calvert [email protected] wholehearted support, commitment Robyn Fisher-Tachouet and involvement of all our members. Nursery School Co-Directors Members at Large 360-3030 [email protected] Esther Baruch Jennifer Hayes, NS Assistant [email protected] Deadline for Dec. Shofar: 360-3030 Russ Gurevitch November 17 [email protected] [email protected] All editorial submissions must be re- Gary Highland Rick Concoff, JCC Teen Program ceived in the Shofar box in the Beth [email protected] 823-3916 Ami office or via email on or before Richard Kahn [email protected] the deadline. All submissions are [email protected] Karen Gould, Shofar Newsletter subject to editing for clarity, brevity Alan Krubiner 360-3000 and content. Please submit articles as [email protected] [email protected] Microsoft Word documents via email Lyla Nathan Pnina Loeb, RS Director attachments. Contact Karen Gould, [email protected] 360-3000 360-3000 or newsletter@bethamisr. Leanne Schy Torah/Haftarah Readings [email protected] org with corrections, concerns or [email protected] Gabor Por, Librarian questions. 360-3006 The Shofar is published by [email protected] Congregation Beth Ami, 4676 Mayette Members Ex Officio Bonnie Boren, Gift Shop Avenue, SR, CA 95405. All members 360-3022 Caroline Calvert in good standing receive the periodical Andrea Nett, Robyn Fisher-Tachouet free. Yearly subscriptions are $25.00. Friedman Center Director Pnina Loeb 360-3021 Carolyn Metz This month’s issue is: [email protected] Rabbi Joel Rembaum Volume 17, Issue 2 Edythe Smith, Invitations, 538-3698 Issue Date: November 1, 2011 November 2011 • CONGREGATION BETH AMI SHOFAR • page 2 • www.bethamisr.org Rabb I ’S REM A RKS Rabbi Joel Rembaum Choosing to Limit Choice: A Post-Sukkot Reflection During the first part of Sukkot, Fredi and I were with our Many Jewish thinkers suggest that marriage is a good children and grandchildren in Denver. I attended services in metaphor for the covenant (b’rit) that God and human beings two shuls, one Conservative and one Orthodox, and to my make with each other. God, who acted independently and surprise and delight, the rabbis of the two shuls made the powerfully in calling the cosmos into existence, can be said same point, albeit in somewhat different ways. Their point to have infinite power and absolute free will. Yet, God freely was: The Jewish autumnal holidays begin with our making chooses to limit that power and will and to create a space, choices regarding our relationships with God and with the as it were, in which humans can operate with free will and people in our lives in a context of judgment and anxiety; and power and with whom God can establish a relationship. The they end with our making such choices out of love and in an covenantal document (Torah) sets forth mutually agreed atmosphere of joy and celebration. The ten days that include upon rules and guidelines as to how best to manage life in Rosh Ha-shanah and Yom Kippur are the yamim nora’im, that space (mitzvot). Torah and our sages – like the S’fat “days of fearsome awe;” and Sukkot through Simhat Torah is Emet – consider God’s love and compassion to be primary in z’man simhateinu, “the time of our rejoicing.” As important the covenant. God is, as it were, first and foremost a loving as the first experience is, the second is the ultimate goal. parent who evolves into a loving covenant partner. One of the rabbis, a former student of mine, Rabbi And, God expects the covenant partners, people, who, Salomon Gruenwald, cited the S’fat Emet, the compendium knowing the covenantal stipulations, exercise their free will of writings on law, ethics and mysticism of Rabbi Yehudah in entering into the partnership with God, to do the same as Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim. God – namely, restrain their power and free will and follow The S’fat Emet notes that in the Musaf service on Rosh Ha- the rules they accepted. And, reflecting the language of the shanah we find a passage from Jeremiah (2:2) in which God Shema – “You shall love the Lord your God with all your remembers the Jewish people for their loving betrothal to heart, with all your soul and with all your might (Dt. 6:5),” God during the forty years of wandering in the wilderness. the rabbis teach that God expects that humans will enter the This, R. Alter suggests, points ahead to Sukkot, which covenant with love of God (and love and compassion for celebrates God’s protection of Israel during its wandering each other) in their hearts. in the Sinai wilderness. The S’fat Emet teaches that Israel So, imagine that the Sukkah, in which we celebrate made a free will commitment to bond with God in love, Sukkot, is a wedding huppah, and the Torah, with which we and implies that this is of greater significance than a bond joyously dance on Simhat Torah, is a ketubah, and then the grounded only in fear. spiritual anxiety and judgmentalism of the High Holidays I found this metaphor of love and betrothal to be very morphs into unconditional love and joy. And so we celebrate appropriate. In marriage each partner makes a free will our collective “marriage” to God, and because that loving commitment to limit her or his freedom because each seeks relationship means more to us than unbridled free will, we something even more precious than free will – a loving freely choose to limit our choice. relationship with another person who, likewise, has power and will. November 2011 • Congregation Be t h am i SHOFAR • page 3 • www.bethamisr.org EVENTS & ANNOUN C EMENTS Welcome to our new members Seminar on Modern Anti-Semitism Nancy Daniels In January and February, Congregation Beth Ami Rabbi Jerry & Joy Danzig is offering an exciting Seminar on Modern Anti- Judith Goleman Semitism, open to the entire Jewish community. All David and Sherri Kahn events will take place in the Sanctuary. All begin at 2 pm, except Akiva Tor on January 25, which begins at 7:00 Yizkor Book 5772 correction pm, and will be followed by onegs in the Social Hall. Flora Brown Stern Irving Stern Jan. 15: Modern Anti-Semitism: Overview: From David Sommer California to the World. Rabbi Jerry Danzig Remembered by Judy Stern Jan. 25: Consul General of Israel Akiva Tor - 7 pm Mazal Tov u’siman Tov Jan. 29: Modern Anti-Semitism: On California Parents Barry & Heidi Friedman and Campus. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin & Prof. Leila grandparents Bill & Suzie Friedman on the Beckwith of the Amcha Initiative to rid California birth of Madison Friedman. colleges of its increasing anti-Semitism Feb. 12: Modern Anti-Semitism: Anti-Defamation Misheberach League responds to US Anti-Semitism. ADL Speaker Bless those in need of healing with refu'ah sh'layma Nancy J. Appel, Associate Director, Anti-Defamation The renewal of body, the renewal of spirit League, Central Pacific Region Helen Margolese, Lydia Ross, Warren Levin, Feb. 26: State Sponsored Sources of Modern Anti- Ruth Weiss, Susy Raful, Betty Kale Semitism.
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