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TBTST CONGREGATIONAL MEETING TUESDAY, MAY 10 AT 6:30 PM The Scroll MAY 2016 NISSAN / IYAR 5776 Temple Beth Torah Sha’aray Tzedek Vol. XXVI • No. 9 Temple Beth Torah Presents: Sha'aray Tzedek 5700 N.W. 94 Ave. YOM HASHOAH Tamarac, FL 33321 954.721.7660 • www.TBTST.org COMMEMORATION Service Schedule Thursday, May 5th, 2016 @ 7:00 p.m. Minyan Services Monday - Thursday 7:45 am & 6:00 pm Friday - 7:45 am Sunday 8:30 am & 5:00 pm Check Calendar for Saturday evening times Shabbat Services Friday Evening - 6:30 pm Saturday Morning - 9:00 am Orthodox Services Shabbat and Yom Tov Minyan 9:00 am There are no Orthodox evening Min- yans. Those wishing to attend evening Minyans are welcome at the egalitarian combined service in the Chapel, daily at 6:00 pm. Friday evening Mincha/Maariv services begin at 6:30 pm. Membership Meeting Tuesday, May 10. Light food at 6:00 pm, followed by meeting Led by: TBTST Hebrew School and Youth Group at 6:30pm. Sponsored by : Sisterhood & Men’s Club MAY 2016 TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA'ARAY TZEDEK NISSAN / IYAR 5776 Shabbat Services RABBI'S MESSAGE Saturday Morning - 9:00 am By Rabbi Michael Gold Dear Friends, May 7 The Jewish calendar has been fixed for thousands of years. Acharei Mot Nonetheless, new commemorations and celebrations have been May 14 Kedoshim added to the calendar in recent months. Two of these fall over May 21 the coming month. th Emolr On the 27 of Nissan, shortly after Passover, Jews commemorate May 28 Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. This year the commemoration begins Behar Wednesday evening May 4. (Light your Men’s Club memorial candle that night. We will have our synagogue commemoration the next evening, Thursday, May 5 Torah Discussion/ at 7 pm.) The date was chosen because it was near the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Bible & Bagels which began during Passover. Those who set the date believed that we ought to Immediately following remember not simply Jews as victims but Jews as resisters. Services I believe that Yom HaShoah has a profound religious meaning. The Nazis did Daily Minyan and not simply begin sending Jews to the death camps. They began with the Nurem- Fresh Brewed Coffee burg laws, a series of enactments meant to take away the humanity of Jews. A fundamental teaching of our religion is the preciousness of every human life; every Become a Minyanaire person is created in the image of God. The Holocaust teaches the horrors that can Do the Mitzvah of assisting happen when we begin to take away people's humanity. That lesson is vital in this your friends and family as they say Kaddish. Wake up and day where so many people are treated as less than human. smell the coffee at TBTST Certainly the memory of the Holocaust has been kept alive by survivors. But Monday - Friday at 7:45 am each year we are losing more and more people who lived through those dark days. followed by coffee and Programs that reach out to younger people such as The March of the Living and a shmear our own Six Million Steps program can make a difference. But it is vital that all Brief Mincha at 6:00 pm Jews recognize this important day. Sunday - 8:30am and 5:00pm Approximately one week later, on the fifth of Iyar, Jews celebrate Yom Atzmaut Saturday evening – check – Israel Independence Day. (This year, because the fifth of Iyar falls on a Friday, calendar Israel Independence Day will be celebrated the previous day, Thursday, May 12. The celebration actually begins on Wednesday night May 11, and the previous day is Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day for soldiers who died in defense of Israel.) Join our Greeters Broward County will be celebrating on Sunday, May 22 with an all day program Corps at C.B.Smith Park in Pembroke Pines. Consider volunteering Israel has been forced to fight its enemies since the state was founded in 1948. to be a Greeter. We But today there is a debate about the very legitimacy of the state of Israel. Col- need warm and friendly lege campuses have become the centers of arguments on whether Israel even has members of our a right to exist as a Jewish state. Students and professors have argued for the congregation to greet our members, guests dismantling of Israel. With this in mind, is vital that we Jews stand by Israel on and potential members. this very important day. Being a Greeter is fun and In our liturgy we have given religious meaning to the founding of the state of rewarding! Israel. We call it reishit tz’mikhat geulatenu - “the beginning of the flowering of Greeters are needed for our redemption.” Redemption may not have come yet, but Israel is a step along Shabbat Services on Friday the way. Its founding is a day worth celebrating. nights, Saturday mornings We have two new days on the Jewish calendar, one very sad and one very joyous. and for Holidays. May we see the religious meaning of both of these days. Please call Stew Klawsky Shalom, 954-547-1928 or email Rabbi Michael Gold [email protected] 2 MAY 2016 TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA'ARAY TZEDEK NISSAN / IYAR 5776 CANTOR'S MESSAGE By Cantor Jonathan Angress Yahrzeit Dear Friends, Yahrzeit is a Yiddish word, “L’dor Vador Nagid God’lecha – From Generation to Genera- which literally means “time tion We Will Declare Your Greatness.” This prayer is one of of year” or memorial. Jews the most well-known prayers in our liturgy. It is recited at of Ashkenazi descent use least once a day, sometimes 3 times a day, and on Yom Kippur: this term. Sephardim call 4 times that day. There are many different musical ways in this commemoration nahala, which this prayer can be chanted and sung. Two of the most in Ladino. This custom is famous melodies are written by modern day hazzanim, Sol widely observed and based Zim and Meir Finkelstein. The Zim melody is the one most on the Jewish tradition of often referred to as the “traditional” melody for L’dor Vador commemorating the death with the Finkelstein melody not far behind. In case you are wondering which melody of a relative. is which, the Finkelstein melody is the one I use almost every Shabbat. All the Yahrzeit rituals When Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbat as well as on the three festivals: Sukkot, are deeply ingrained in Passover, and Shavuot, neither the Zim nor Finkelstein melodies are used. Instead, Jewish life. The common a special nusach (chant mode) is utilized that is exclusive to Rosh Chodesh and the rituals that are performed three festivals. On the High Holidays, the special High Holiday nusach should be in the honorable memory used but in most places, one or both of the melodies mentioned above are used in of the departed soul include order to engage in congregational singing and participation. In several weeks we reciting the Kaddish prayer will be celebrating Shavuot and I urge you to join us for services so you can hear and lighting a Yahrzeit the special nusach for L’dor Vador. candle. L’dor Vador also has special meaning because of the text. The words “L’dor Vador” Yahrzeit also includes the themselves mean “from generation to generation.” When we think about it, the action of donating to charity concept of generation is the fundamental backbone of Judaism. Without previous in memory of a deceased generations we would not have a rich history and tradition. And without the next loved one. Through the generation, we would have no future. This is why in the most recent weeks, TBTST performance of the mitzvah has taken the next step in engaging the future generation of our community with of tzedakah in the name of regular programming for young families and young professionals. Shortly before the departed, the merit of the Passover we had a very successful Shabbat dinner for young families and young deed is shared with the soul professionals as well as a Shabbat afternoon pool party for young families. This of the late relative, as their month alone we have two great events: a “Chametz-fest” post-Passover bowling memory is enhanced. night for young professionals and another young family/young professionals Shab- bat dinner. TBTST has recently engaged and partnered with JConnect of South Florida (a well-established group of young Jewish professionals) to help expand, engage, and foster the next young generation of Jews within our community. Due to this partnership, you can expect both Shabbat and secular programming for our younger Jews on a regular basis. I certainly hope that as a congregation we will all be collectively supportive of welcoming and embracing the next generation of Jews for generations to come. Todah V’Zimrah, Cantor Jonathan Angress 3 MAY 2016 TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA'ARAY TZEDEK NISSAN / IYAR 5776 Why Not Join a Committee? Simcha Section As it happens, much of the “work” of TBTST and most of the planning takes place in MAZEL-TOV TO OUR BAR/BAT MITZVAH committees. So, committee mem- Grandparents: Carmen & Daniel Vitenson bership is a great place to begin of Panama City, Panama becoming involved in synagogue Andrea & Joel Bender life. Every congregation relies on of Philadelphia, PA its volunteers both to work and to Brother: Joel Sky Bender lead. Most committees are open to School: Indian Ridge Middle School all who are interested and willing Special Awards: Multiple Reading Awards, Honor Roll, to participate. Straight A Student, Writing Awards, Two committees that are very in- Biblical Scholar, PianoAwards for Best terested in finding new, enthusias- Deborah Naomi Bender Daughter of Student.