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February 4, 2017.Pub CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL SHABBAT PARSHAT BO DAF HASHAVUAH FEBRUARY 4, 2017 / SHEVAT 8, 5777 Weekday Morning and Evening Services — February 5‐9 feelings, and connect with each other. Morning: Sun 8:00 am • M‐F 6:30 am Mondays, 7:30‐8:30 p.m. • Starbucks, 2128 Oxford St, Berkeley Evening: Sun‐Th 5:25 pm MONDAY Friday night, February 3 Maimonides & Modernity w/Bernie Steinberg: Northside Minyan @ Sudikoff home ........................................... 5:05 pm Halakhist, philosopher, court physician, local and world 1209 ShaƩuck Ave (east side of street, past Oak Park, near Eunice) Jewish communal leader, the Rambam (Moses Shabbat Candle Lighng .............................................................. 5:17 pm Maimonides, 1138‐1204) inhabits diverse intellectual, Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat ....................................................... 5:20 pm social and polical spaces. His teaching is parcularly Saturday, February 4 relevant to the modern condion when Jews move Morning Service .......................................................................... 9:15 am between a mulplicity of worlds, when they reject Childcare ..................................................................................... 9:15 am simplisc views of God, ethics, and polics yet seek a life Torah Reader: Ariel Pla of purpose, and when the ancient aspiraon of Jewish sovereignty has Haorah Reader: Yonim Schweig been actualized in unancipated and complex ways. Sha’daf ‐ Service Page Caller : Benjamin Epstein During these sessions, we shall explore the relevance of Maimonides’ Formal Group Time: .................................................................. 10:30 am thought to pressing themes of the modern condion: The problem of Kedma (3‐5 years old): Natan Kuchar modern identy; the relaonship between theology and ethics; the Tzafona (K‐2): Chani Levenberg and Hadassah Zenou tension between faith and polics. Negba (3rd‐5th): Ari Weber Bernie Steinberg, Director Emeritus, Harvard Hillel, teaches at the Parent Supervisors: Delphine Sherman & Philip Tendler Graduate Theological Union, and Kevah in Berkeley, and M2 The Instute Sermon by Jennifer Kamenetz for Experienal Jewish Educaon, based in Chicago. He recently wrote an CBI Board Representave: Benjamin Epstein essay on Maimonides for Oxford University Press Bibliographies. Shabbat Mincha ........................................................................ 12:50 pm Bernie Steinberg — Tuesday, February 7, 14, 21, 28 • 7:30‐8:30 pm Seudah Shelishit .......................................................................... 5:15 pm sponsored by the Green‐Heda Family in honor of the shloshim of their WEDNESDAY dear mother, Edythe Heda, Ita Basha bat Moshe, of blessed memory. Midrasha’s Tanach and Talmud (for Teens): This course is an informal The Seudah is also in honor of their dear father's yahrzeit, Dr. Burton but intensive study group focusing on close themac readings of the Heda, Chaim Tzvi Hirsch, ben Ephraim, of blessed memory. Tanach and Talmud in translaon. Ma’ariv, Havdalah & Shabbat ends ............................................. 6:17 pm Mickey Davis • Wednesday • 4:15‐5:45 pm Mishmash ........................................................................... 6:45‐7:45 pm Open Sources ‐ Beit Midrash: Learn independently with a hevruta (study KIDDUSH LUNCH SPONSORS partner) OR Study the weekly Torah poron with Maharat Victoria Suon Michael Sopher, Ruth Sopher, and Debbie Sopher and their families in Learners of all levels welcome ‐‐ Savor the Soup of the Week as you learn honor of Joan Sopher Want to study with a partner, and not sure where to begin? Contact Jane Turbiner, in honor of the 4th yahrzeit of her father, Meir Ben Maharat Victoria Suon [email protected] with any quesons, Shlomo Mordechai v' Malka, Milton Turbiner and we will help you find a partner and get started! Maharat Victoria Suon — Wednesdays, 7:30—9:00 pm Beth Israel Classes Jewish philosophers: The class is currently reading "A Living Covenant: The Innovave Spirit in Tradional Judaism" by world‐renowned MONDAY philosopher and social acvist, Dr. David Hartman (z"l), the founder of the Daniel & Ezra with M. Victoria Suon: These narraves tell the story of Shalom Hartman Instute in Jerusalem. the Jewish people between the First and Second Temples. From the Muni Schweig — Wednesdays @ 8:00 pm @ the Schweig home wring on the wall to the lion's den, we will explore the life and mes of the prophet Daniel in the Babylonian court. Next, we turn to Ezra haSofer, FRIDAY the pivotal figure in returning the people, and Torah, from the Babylonian Talmudic Wisdom @ 9:00 AM: Join us for a weekly class that explores exile to Jerusalem. As we journey through this crical me in Jewish key sugyot (talmudic units) that discuss major Jewish quesons of history, we will learn about these amazing figures, their challenges and pracce and thought. choices, and how they can inform our own experiences both in the R. Zac Kamenetz • February 10, 17 Diaspora and in Israel. M. Victoria Suon — Mondays @ 12:00 pm. SATURDAY Study of Kima Kima (Step by Step) by Rabbi Chaim Drukman: Kima NCSY LNL – Lae & Learning (for Teens; Grades 9‐12): Lae & Learning examines the sources that deal with the redempon of the Jewish people brings Judaism to local coffee shops and serves up Torah in a relaxed and from the Bible, Talmud, Midrashim and the early Rabbinic sources. Kima fun seng. LNL is the place for teens to ask quesons, voice their Kima provides deep insights into modern Israeli Orthodox thought and Please refrain from wearing perfumes or scented products as there are congregants for whom these products are an irritant due to allergies or as a result of chemotherapy or other medical treatment. Thank you. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THIS SHEET FROM THE BUILDING ON SHABBAT סדר ט"ו בשבט philosophy of delivery from exile to redempon and the important part Tu B'Shvat Seder that the State of Israel has played in this process. A feast for the senses and the spirit R. David Rue • Saturdays @8:30 am‐9:15 am Friday, February 10 The CBI community is warmly invited to a A one‐on‐one parent‐child learning program. Children in Tu B’Shvat Shabbat Dinner and Seder Four Cups of Wine ארבע כוסות * .grades 1‐8 and their parents are invited to parcipate Seven Species of the Land of Israel שבעת המינים * Guidance available in choosing learning materials best suited An Evening of Song and Reflecon ערב שירים וספורים * to each individual need. Mishmash will meet twice a month through March, on Motzei Shabbat, 45 minutes aer Shabbat ends. Food and 5:15 pm Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat snacks will be served. 6:15 pm – Tu B’Shvat Shabbat Dinner and Seder Feb 4 6:45 ‐ 7:45 pm • Feb 18 6:45 ‐ 8 pm • Mar 4 Siyum! 7‐8 pm $10 per child, student, & young professional, $18 per adult, $50 maximum per family. Register by Tuesday night, February 7 to reserve Saturday Night Live With Chassidic Masters, as taught by Rabbi Eliahu your spot. Wine generously donated by Covenant Wines Klein. Master seminar group text study on the verses of Bo, centered on the teachings of: Rebbi Nachman of Breslov, Rebbi Natan of Breslov, Reb Jewish Summer Camp Scholarships: We are pleased to share that an Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, Reb Mordechai of Ishbitz, Reb Chanoch of anonymous donor made a generous gi to our community to offer Radzin and the Baal Shem Tov. This is an ongoing shiur [class] that will scholarships for CBI children who wish to aend Jewish sleep‐away meet every other week through the winter months. We will focus on summer camps. Scholarships will be made available to every CBI family Chassidic commentaries on the weekly Torah poron (this week: Parshat that applies with a special focus on first me camp parcipants. Please Shemot, beginning of Exodus) and Jewish holidays. Meets at R. Klein’s contact M. Suon directly for scholarship informaon or if your family home. Refreshments will be served. Come. wishes to learn more about opons for Jewish Summer Camps. R. Eliahu Klein • Saturday @ 7:30 pm SHABBAT SHALEM WITH DINA AND R. NAFTALI BRAWER EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS FEBRUARY 17‐18 Registraon for the Friday dinner will open next week. In Beth Israel Dina Brawer holds a BA in Hebrew and Jewish studies from London School of Jewish Studies and an MA in Educaon (Psychology) from the Instute Welcoming the Oppressed ‐ Orthodoxy's Response: As leaders in the of Educaon. For close to fieen years she has worked alongside her Jewish community, guardians of God's Torah and keepers of Jewish husband, a congregaonal rabbi, and in that capacity she taught history, and also as immigrants or descendants of refugees and numerous kallahs, ran adult educaon programs, led strategic community immigrants ourselves, we join our voices to other Orthodox clergy and development among other roles. Dina has recently been appointed as organizaons who vehemently cricize and condemn the recent Execuve JOFA’s UK ambassador and in this role she is seeking to amplify Order Concerning Entrance to the United States from Muslim‐Majority the voices of Orthodox feminists and create a movement for posive Naons. Below we include a selecon of statements from the IRF, our change. own rabbinic organizaon, the OU and the RCA, Yeshiva University, as Rabbi Naali Brawer is a values theorist, ordained Orthodox rabbi and well as England's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. Finally, we include a recent Chief Execuve of Spiritual Capital Foundaon, an organizaon that is creave response by R. Cohen posted in Times of Israel, reminding us all dedicated to inslling values and purpose in the workplace. Naali of our spiritual and moral debt. Brawer was ordained as an Orthodox Rabbi at the age of twenty two and IRF: hp://www.internaonalrabbinicfellowship.org/news/irf‐ has ministered to two London congregaons over the course of fieen statement‐execuve‐order‐concerning‐entrance‐united‐states‐muslim‐ years. He holds a PhD in Hebrew and Jewish studies and is a published majority‐naons author, columnist and broadcaster. He has wrien and lectured OU/RCA: hp://www.rabbis.org/news/arcle.cfm?id=105904 widely on theology and Jewish myscism.
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