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e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.cbi18.org RELIGIOUS SCHOOL CALENDAR & SYNAGOGUE EVENTS LISTED HIGH HOLY DAYS Selichot: Saturday, Sept. 24 Kol Nidre: Friday, Oct. 7 Service, Main Sanctuary: 8:00 PM Service, Main Sanctuary: 6:00 PM Vol. XX, No. 1 Additional Service with Dan Kaiman, Elul ~ Cheshvan Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday, Sept. 28 Family Life Center: 6:00 PM September~October 2011 Service, Main Sanctuary: 8:00 PM Yom Kippur: Saturday, October 8 Rosh Hashanah, Day 1: Thursday, Sept. 29 Service, Main Sanctuary: 8:00 AM Service, Main Sanctuary: 8:15 AM Family Service, Family Life Center: 9:00-11:00 AM Family Service, Family Life Center: 9:00 – 11:00 AM Parallel Service with Dan Kaiman, Aldersgate: 9:00 AM Jr. Congregation, Grades 4-7: Rm. 201-202: 10:15 AM Jr. Congregation, Grades 4-7, Rm. 201-202: 10:15 AM Jr. Congregation, Grades K-3, Rm. 201-202: 11:30 AM Jr. Congregation, Grades K-3, Rm. 201-202: 11:30 AM Prayer & Text Study with Dan Kaiman, Family Life Center: After Sermon Yizkor, Main Sanctuary: 11:30 AM Tashlich Walk from CBI: 4:00 PM Mincha, Main Sanctuary: 4:00 PM Tashlich Service, Tustin Ranch Golf Course: 4:45 PM Family Mincha, Family Life Center: 4:00-5:00 PM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service, Main Sanctuary: 6:00 PM Neila/Ma’ariv/Havdalah/Final Shofar Blast, Main Sanctuary: 5:30-7:30 PM Rosh Hashanah, Day 2: Friday, Sept. 30 Service, Main Sanctuary: 8:15 AM A HUGE WELCOME TO OUR NEW RABBINIC INTERN Teen Service with Dan Kaiman & Barbara Sherman, Family Life Center: 10:00 AM Dan Kaiman Jr. Congregation, Grades K – 7, Rms. 201-202: 10:30 AM Get to Know Dan by Studying and Praying with him during the High Holy Days! Fast of Gedalia: Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011: Shacharit Service: 9:10 AM More Details inside this Edition! Sukkot Service Schedule Thursday, Oct. 13: 9:30 AM • Kiddush Lunch in Sukkah Wednesday, Oct. 19: 7:30 AM Hoshanah Rabbah Service Friday, Oct. 14: 9:30 AM Kiddush Lunch in Sukkah Thursday, Oct. 20: 9:30 AM Shabbat Service: 6:00 PM • Shabbat Dinner in Sukkah; Shimini Atzeret (Yizkor) Service: $15/adult, $5 Children, 2-11 Kiddush Lunch Immediately Following RSVP to CBI Offiice SIMCHAT TORAH Selichot Weekend Scholar-In-Residence Thursday, Oct. 20: 7:15 PM Ma’ariv and Big Celebration September 23-24 Singing and Dancing with the Torah! Friday, Oct. 21: 9:30 AM Rabbi Daniel Mehlman Simchat Torah Services Friends of the Torah Lunch See Inside this Edition for immediately following More Information! The Shofar page 1 other L’shanah tovah, May it be a good new year. The Hebrew root for Rabbi’s Message the word “year” is also found in the Cantor’s Notes word for “change.” We are therefore Rabbi Elie Spitz Cantor Marcia Tilchin also wishing each other, May it be a good change. With the sound of the Shofar, we are called to awake, to see new possibilities. In the Torah reading of first day Rosh Hashanah, Hagar is desperate for water in the desert. The text says, “Her eyes were opened and she saw a well” (Genesis 21:19). The miracle was not the well, but her ability to suddenly see what was already Renewal before her. BEE PART OF THE HIVE Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without learned a new word today, a Country (p.132) describes an uncle hy do we dip apples into I “febrile.” It was in a headline whose chief complaint about people W honey as our symbolic describing the financial markets. was that they did not appreciate gesture of hope for a sweet new Febrile means feverish: a description what they already had. The uncle year? Why not dip orange slices into of the wide swings in the Dow. As would regularly pause and exclaim, chocolate syrup – the perfect sabra we move toward High Holydays, our “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what treat – or pears into maple syrup? Before reading on, try to answer this economy is unsteady and some of our is.” Vonnegut writes that he has question yourself. I will give you one congregants are challenged with job continued to do the same and so hint – no matter what reason you come have his sons. searches. Know that our synagogue up with, you are correct. In Jewish is committed to never letting finances As we reflect during these Days discourse, every opinion has a place be a barrier to synagogue belonging. of Awe, may we remind ourselves of at the table. I tell prospective congregants who are our blessings, and find the courage Let’s return to preindustrial Europe in need of special consideration in to make changes that renew and – say Polish farmland in the1840s. meeting membership dues that there strengthen our bonds with our Apples become obvious – they are a is a time to accept support and G-d family, friends, our community, and hearty fall fruit with multiple varieties willing a time later to offer that support the Divine. May our economy gain that grow well and in abundance in for others. Among our High Holyday traction, for finances do weigh heavily Western, Central and Eastern Europe. prayers is the request for parnassah upon us. May we reach out to friends While the luscious pear may also find tovah - a good living. In the words and let them know of their personal a seasonal home in cold climates, of Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah (Pirkei worth to us. And may we know that perhaps pears were not as plentiful Avot: 4:21) - Em ein kemech ein pausing to appreciate what we have is or robust and, yes, they had no bananas. Why honey? It is ready- Torah - “If there is no flour [no dough], the underpinning of a life well lived. made by the bees. Tapping trees On behalf of my family and myself, let there is no Torah.” And yet, there is a for maple syrup requires time and A second half to the quote: “If there is me wish you a Shanah Tovah. several stages of preparation before it no Torah, there is no flour.” can be consumed. Hersheys did not High Holydays is a time for Please Join us in Observing the have wide distribution in the markets Torah, a time to gain perspective. Fast of Gedalia! outside of Warsaw or Bialastok. The Perspective does not solve all of great thing about unprocessed honey our problems, but it does allow us Sunday, October 2, 2011 is that bees do the lion’s share of to appreciate what we have and to Shacharit Service at 9:10 AM the work and these hard-working look forward with renewed strength. in the Bet Midrash manufacturers are very efficient and During this time of year, we wish each This is a Daylight Only Fast flexible about where they set up shop. The hive and honeycomb are one of THE SHOFAR is published bi-monthly by Congregation Come learn with us about Gedalia creation’s stunning achievements. B’nai Israel, 2111 Bryan Ave., Tustin, CA 92782. Deadline ben Achikam, the Do apples and honey have for articles is the 8th of the month. wisdom of Jeremiah, anything to teach us about self- Editor: scrutiny and forgiveness? Again, try Jean Kravitz e-mail: [email protected] and why fleeing to answer this question on your own Egypt at this time Call the B’nai Israel In-The-Family Hotline (714) 730-9693 before reading on… A lovely image - whenever there’s a major event in your life. was such a bad idea! cont. on next page page 2 The Shofar CANTOR, cont. from previous page other ritual items are ready for each once shared with me by a colleague of these services. So, when you is that the honey produced in any The President 's Corner next see one of our Ritual Committee members, please thank them for all given hive is made by scores of Joel Kuperberg bees drawing nectar from countless of their hard work. flowers. It is a communal effort if ever Two special committees have there was one. When Jews gather to started work this summer. The worship and reflect on the Days of Nominating Committee, chaired by Awe, our prayers and petitions are Phyllis Abrams and composed of all written in first person plural: Annie Shugarman, Terry Ginsburg, AvinNU MalkeiNU, kawtveiNU Heather Katz and Scott Cross, b’sefer geualah vishuah – OUR parent is already busy evaluating and OUR sovereign, inscribe US in the recruiting prospective officers and book of deliverance… Board members to serve in 2012. AshamNU, BagadNU, GazalNU And a Bylaws Committee, with –WE abuse, WE betray, WE are Wendy Kottmeier as chair and cruel… NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS members Uri Elzur, Neila Bernstein, Marissa Waldman and Michael Al chate shechataNU l’fanekha (and other shul business) b’owness u’v’ratzone, v’al chate Vishny, is redrafting the CBI bylaws shechataNU l’fanekha bivli da’at s you read this, summer to modernize our basic governance –WE have sinned against You A vacation is ending, kids (and instrument. Both the Nominating unwillingly and willingly, and WE have some adults) are returning to school, Committee’s slate of candidates sinned against You by misusing our and we are all preparing for High Holy for the 2012 term, and a “new minds… Days. While things may appear to and improved” set of bylaws, will Judaism praises daily a God slow down at CBI over the summer, be presented for approval at the who listens to and hears the prayers the synagogue is surprisingly busy.
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