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Shabbat Mishpatim – February 1 & 2 Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 Friday, February 1 9:00 am Tot Shabbat Activity 9:00 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service B’nai Mitzvah of Samantha Schreiner and TEMPLE RODEF SHALOMOMO BULLETIN Aaron Lipsey 5:00 pm Shabbat Afternoon Service FEBRUARY 2008 | SHEVAT-ADAR I 5768 B’not Mitzvah of Elizabeth Fink and Jazz Shabbat Jennifer Kleinknecht with New York’s Afro-Semitic Experience Shabbat Terumah – February 8 & 9 Exodus 25:1 – 27:19 February 8 | 8:00 pm Friday, February 8 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Service – See page 7. Jazz Shabbat Saturday, February 9 9:00 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service TRS Family Bar Mitzvah of Elliot Greene Game Night Shabbat Tetzaveh – February 15 & 16 Exodus 27:20 – 30:10 Friday, February 15 Saturday, February 23 | 7 pm 6:30 pm Tot Shabbat See page 9. 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Worship with SERVICES & OTHER SHABBATOT FEBRUARY Rabbi Tamar Kolberg Saturday, February 16 9:00 am Torah Study A Very Special Shabbat 10:30 am Parallel Shabbat Morning Service Honoring Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits, Thursday, February 21 6:45 pm Service of Strength, Comfort TRS Founding Rabbi, on his 80th Birthday & Healing Friday, February 29, 2008 Shabbat Ki Tisa – February 22 & 23 Exodus 30:11 – 34:35 Friday, February 22 8:00 pm 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Service – Shabbat Rocks Guest Speaker Saturday, February 23 Rabbi David Ellenson 9:00 am Torah Study President, Hebrew Union College- 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service Jewish Institute of Religion B’nai Mitzvah of Andrew Bogorad & See page 4. Elizabeth Oden Shabbat Va-Yakhel – February 29 & AN INSPIRING WEEKEND WITH March 1 Exodus 35:1 – 38:30 Danny Maseng Friday, February 29 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Service and our Temple honoring Rabbi Berkowits Community Saturday, March 1 9:00 am Tot Shabbat Activity 9:00 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service MARCH 7-9, 2008 B’nai Mitzvah of Melissa Aronson & See insert. Matthew O’Donnell Worship Schedule FIRST SHABBAT OF THE MONTH FRIDAY 6:45 PM - BO’I SHABBAT - The “Welcome Shabbat” is a shorter, one hour adult oriented service with an emphasis on music. This is an adult alternative to the Family service. Rosh FRIDAY 7:30 PM - FAMILY SHABBAT EVENING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This warm and welcoming service includes prayer, music and a story. There is Israeli dancing at the Oneg after the service. SATURDAY 9:00 AM - TOT SHABBAT ACTIVITY - Join Mrs. Chisholm from our preschool in a special Shabbat Chodesh activity just for preschoolers. There will be Shabbat singing too. There’s no RSVP required for this program. Just bring your preschoolers and be ready to enjoy some Shabbat fun. Women of TRS are invited to celebrate Rosh Chodesh, SATURDAY 10:30 AM - SHABBAT MORNING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This service is led by the TRS clergy and the New Moon Festival, at a by young men and women who are becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah. All are welcome. monthly gathering. Women SATURDAY 5:00 PM - SHABBAT AFTERNOON MINCHA WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This service is led by the TRS of all ages get to know one clergy and by young men and women who are becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah. All are welcome. another, sing, dance, study and SECOND SHABBAT OF THE MONTH create opportunities for our FRIDAY 8:00 PM - SHABBAT EVENING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This warm and welcoming service includes personal and spiritual growth prayer, music, and usually a sermon or d’var Torah, speaker, and/or a Torah reading. with different activities each month. There is no charge for SATURDAY 10:30 AM - SHABBAT MORNING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This service is led by the TRS clergy and by young men and women who are becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah. All are welcome. this event but reservations are very helpful for planning pur- THIRD SHABBAT OF THE MONTH poses. Please RSVP online for FRIDAY 6:30 PM - TOT SHABBAT SERVICE - A 30 minute Shabbat Service just for preschoolers led by one of our an upcoming Rosh Chodesh clergy. Join us for Shabbat prayers, music and a story, followed by a potluck nut-free Oneg. Festival by going to Upcoming FRIDAY 8:00 PM - SHABBAT EVENING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This warm and welcoming service includes Events on the TRS website: prayer, music, and usually a presentation of sorts - a sermon or d’var Torah, speaker, and/or a Torah reading. www.templerodefshalom.org. SATURDAY 10:30 AM - SHABBAT MORNING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This service is led by the TRS clergy and by young men and women who are becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah. All are welcome. SATURDAY 10:30 AM - PARALLEL SHABBAT MORNING SERVICE is led by members of the congregation and • Thursday February 7, 2008 includes a Torah reading, d’var Torah and other personalized shared thoughts. A pot-luck vegetarian luncheon follows the service and all are encouraged to celebrate Shabbat in an intimate and informal way. • Thursday March 6, 2008 Shabbat activities supervised by parents are available for younger children, who are also welcome. Please • Thursday April 10, 2008 contact Rabbi Jeff Saxe if you would like to have a part in the service. • Thursday May 8, 2008 FOURTH SHABBAT OF THE MONTH FRIDAY 8:00 PM - SHABBAT EVENING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This warm and welcoming service includes • Thursday June 5, 2008 prayer, music and usually a sermon or d’var Torah, speaker, and/or a Torah reading. SATURDAY 10:30 AM - SHABBAT MORNING WORSHIP in the Sanctuary. This service is led by the TRS clergy and • Thursday July 10, 2008 by young men and women who are becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah. All are welcome. • Thursday August 7, 2008 SERVICE OF STRENGTH, COMFORT, AND HEALING THIRD THURSDAY OF MONTH 6:45 PM - This intimate service is designed to provide respite and comfort to all those who need strength and support during bereavement, illness, stress, etc. 05 Adult Education 19 Library 17 ARZA-Bridge to Israel 08 Membership 12 B’nai Mitzvah 22 Men’s Club 30 Calendar 13 Nursery School 15 Our Caring Community 20 Outreach 03 Clergy 10 Religious School 07 Cultural 21 Sisterhood 23 Donations 16 Social Action 14 Fund for the Community 11 TRSTY & Jr. TRSTY TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE 16 Green Corner | 2 | Temple Rodef Shalom February 2008 Bulletin www.templerodefshalom.org From the Clergy Understanding the New Prayerbook’s Unique Layout by Cantor Michael Shochet If you came to services last week (Jan 25) you would have had an left side were put opportunity to try our new prayerbook, Mishkan T’fi lah, for the fi rst time. in by the editors for It’s different than any prayerbook our movement has created, and it will “both metaphor and take some adjustment to feel comfortable with the new siddur. Each theological diversity. month we will be using Mishkan T’fi lah on the last Friday of the month so The choices were you can become comfortable with its format and learn how worship can informed by the become even more meaningful with it. In addition, our clergy team will be themes of Reform teaching a course on becoming comfortable with the new prayerbook once Judaism and life: a month starting this month, and continuing through May. The class will social justice, be the same each month, so if you can’t come this month, try to come to feminism, Zionism, distinctiveness, human one of the other dates that is more convenient. In addition, each one of us challenges, etc,” according to editor Rabbi is writing about the siddur in each monthly bulletin. Elyse Frishman. Because of the range This month I want to explain the unique layout of the prayerbook. of choices in the siddur, the editors hope that As Rabbi Schwartzman mentioned last month, the prayerbooks of our great care is taken to make sure the spoken movement since 1896 have all featured one prayer, right after the other and sung prayers fl ow together in terms of context and mood. on a page, in a linear fashion. With Mishkan T’fi lah, each prayer takes a At the conclusion of each of the four choices (Hebrew text and the full two-page spread, called a folio. Using the accompanying illustration, three English readings) is the fi nal line of the Hebrew prayer, called the you can see how it works. Knowing this format will help you feel more Chatimah, or fi nal blessing or “signature” of the prayer. These last few comfortable when you use the book for the fi rst time. words of every prayer, beginning with the formula “Baruch Atah Adonai,” The prayer below is one recited in the morning service, Yotzier Or, a restates the theme of the prayer. Every brachah has one. In this case, prayer about praising God for creating the universe, us, and specifi cally “Praised are You, O God, Creator of light.” If you notice, the Chatimah light. The traditional Hebrew text is always on the right side page, appears at the end of each of the Hebrew and English readings, illustrated illustrated by the #2 bracket. The transliteration of the Hebrew (Hebrew by #6 in the picture below. The editors envision that when the congregation words in English letters) is always next to the Hebrew text. What makes hears, chants or reads the Chatimah, whether at the end of the Hebrew this prayerbook different from others is the editors’ intention to have prayer, or following an English reading, the congregant will turn the page the rabbi or cantor lead the prayer ONLY in Hebrew OR English, but not and go on to the next prayer.
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