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Purim Passover Shavuot ! Beth Sholom Congregaon Newsleer AdarRNisanRIyarRSivan 5778! MarchRAprilRMay 2018! ! Purim! holiday! Join us for a communal Hametz HOL HARMOEDV INTERMEDIATE DAYS Thursday, March 1! burning, public sale of Hametz, and OF PASSOVER! 7:00 am Morning Minyan! roasng & eang marshmallows. Bring Hol HaRmoed Passover IRIV! 10:00 am Early Learning Purim Shpiel your Hametz, a sck and Passover Monday, April 2RThursday, April 5! and Carnival! songs. ! 7:10 am Morning Service! ! 7:00 pm Evening service! ...And the party’s not overVsee page 25 Locaon: Beth Sholom parking lot, CONCLUDING DAYS OF YOM TOV! for our Neshama Shabbat Purim weather perming. Friends and family Erev 7th Day Passover Thursday, April 5! celebraon! are welcome!! ! ! 7:00 pm Evening service! Passover! Hametz may not be eaten a er three ! 7th Day Passover, Friday, April 6! Bedikat Hametz Thursday, March 29 hours (from sunrise) into the day, nor 7:00 am Early Service at BSC! a er sunset! stored away / sold to a nonRJew / 9:30 am Joint Service at AJ! Bedikat Hametz (search for leaven) is burned a er four hours (from sunrise) ! customarily done on the night before into the day. This year, all Hametz must Erev 8th day Passover, Friday, April 6! Passover immediately a er sunset. The be eaten by 10:30 am and stored away / 5:45 pm Neshama Service! “Kol Hamira” (“All the Hametz…”) sold to a nonRJew / burned by 10:30 am. 7:00 pm Passover Dinner (rsvp needed)! formula for nullifying unseen Hametz is The symbolic “burning of the Hametz” ! 8th Day, Saturday, April 7 (Yizkor)! recited at this me; it can be found in should be completed by this hour. A er 9:15 am Service at BSC! the beginning of the Haggadah.! this hour, no Hametz may be used and ! 7:45 pm Evening Service at BSC! all Hametz should be out of the house Siyyum Bikhorim Friday, March 30 ! or stored away. The synagogue’s sale of 7:00 am! Hametz will take place prior to this Passover concludes on Saturday The Fast of the FirstRBorn ! hour.! Night, April 7 at approximately 8:15 Sisterhood Sanctuary, followed by Find the Proxy Form to sell your Hametz pm. Please allow 30 minutes a er breakfast ! this me for Rabbi GlanzbergRKrainin ! on page 25.! A firstRborn (whether of the mother or to buy back the Hametz before using.! the father) should fast on the day If you would like to be a guest at a before Passover, in commemoraon of seder, or if you would like to host Shavuot! people at your seders, please call the deliverance from Egypt. It is the Erev Shavuot! Stacey Salsman at 215.887.1342 custom for synagogues to make a Saturday, May 19 at 5:45 pm at A J T ext. 109 by March 20.! siyyum (the public compleon of the The Shabbat Experience: Ain’t No large secon of study) on the morning ! FIRST DAYS! Mountain High Enough; Minhah and before Passover. Since the siyyum is ! 1st Seder, Friday, March 30! Tikkun Leyl Shavuot followed by a seudat mitzvah, a fesve ! Erev Passover! Shavuot Day 1 R Sunday, May 20! meal that follows the performance of Evening service at AJ 6:15 pm! 9:00 am Morning Service! certain Mitzvot, a first born who is ! ! 7:00 pm Joint Minyan at BSC! present may eat as part of the 1st Day Passover, Saturday, March 31 ! celebraon, and having eaten does not 9:15 am Morning Service at BSC! Shavuot Day 2 Yizkor R Monday, May 21 ! fast that day. ! 12:30 pm A ernoon service at BSC! 7:00 am T Service at BSC! ! ! 9:30 am T Joint Service at AJ! Biur Hametz Friday, March 30 8:30 am! 2nd Seder, Saturday Night, March 31! Biur (burn) Hametz at Beth Sholom RR No evening service! ! and then roast some marshmallows! 2nd Day, Sunday, April 1! Beth Sholom's 13th Annual Hametz 9:15 am T Joint Service @ BSC! Burning is a great way to start the 7:00 pm Evening Service at BSC! ! ! ! In Sholom! ! ! Rabbi David GlanzbergRKrainin ! ! ! Here is my guess for the top three universal comments ! as we prepare for Passover sedarim this year:! ! 1. “Wow, Passover comes early this year!” Yes and no. ! ! ! March 30 does feel early but it’s sll the 14th of Nisan. ! 2. “Are we finally going to eat rice this year and claim honorary Beth Sholom Congregaon ! Sephardic status?” It’s up to youVthere is good grounds in Jewish law 8231 Old York Road! that the Ashkenazic prohibions are about creang fences around Elkins Park, PA 19027R1595 ! fencesVbut maintaining family customs is a powerful Halakhic Phone: 215R887R1342! raonale as well.! www.bethsholomcongregaon.org! ! 3. “Is Relave X going to kill Relave Y when we go from the David GlanzbergRKrainin ! commentary of the Haggadah to a discussion of polics?” Hopefully Raymond & Ruth Perelman ! notVespecially when we remember that the Passover seder was Senior Rabbinic Chair! [email protected]! actually intended as a vehicle for passionate disagreement!! ! Andrea L. Merow, Rabbi How do we know that the Passover seder was never intended to be a [email protected]! conversaon only for those who share the same points of view? Just ! Hazzan Jeffrey Weber remember the rabbis of B’nai Brak about whom we read in the [email protected]! Haggadah. Today B’nai Brak is an ultraROrthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, ! Harvey Friedrich, Execuve Director but 2,000 years ago it was the site of one of the most diverse groups of [email protected]! Jews ever to assemble. The rabbis who are menoned in our Haggadah ! Eileen Weingram, Director of Early Learning consciously sought to live out the famous Talmudic dictum: “Both [email protected]! these and those are the words of the living God” (Talmud Eruvin 13b). ! Julie Atchick, Director of Programs and Whether they agreed or disagreed, they sat together engaging Membership Services! in!mahloket l’shem shamayim!(arguments for the sake of heaven), a [email protected]! ! Jewish tradion that requires deep respect for other human beings, Sarah Leowitz, Director of Family and Youth evenVand especiallyVwhen those viewpoints are fundamentally Engagement! opposed to our own.! [email protected]! ! Who were these rabbis? Rabbi Eliezer was the elder statesman whose Karen Sandler, Facility Coordinator! & Administrave Assistant views were usually in deep disagreement with the prevailing norms of [email protected]! the me. He is famously remembered for arguing against the majority ! Stacey Salsman, Administrave Service about the ritual fitness of the “Oven of Achnai,” a dispute that led to Coordinator, Center for Spiritual WellRbeing his excommunicaon. Other Bnai Brak rabbis included Rabbi Joshua, a Coordinator! R [email protected]! man of lile financial means but whose understanding of the non ! Jewish community made him deeply valued among his peers. There David F. Tilman, D.H.L ., Hazzan Emeritus! ! was also Rabbi Eleazar Ben Azaria, a younger rabbi who came from a Officers of the Board 2017 R 2018! family of wealth but who challenged the elism of the rabbinic Arthur Frankel, President ! academies. There was also Rabbi Akiva the scholar who began his Larry Cutler, Vice President! Michael Ferman, Vice President ! Jewish studies at the age of 40 and called for rebellion against Rome. Jeffrey Gordon, Vice President ! And finally, there was Rabbi Tarphon, best known for disagreeing with Jay Bornstein, Treasurer! Robert Cohen, Assistant Treasurer ! almost every opinion his friend Rabbi Akiva ever offered! These rabbis June Feith, Secretary! held profoundly different opinions and worldviews, yet we connue to Emma Raymont, Assistant Secretary ! Richelle Hinger, Esq., Immediate Past President! learn from their debates. ! ! Connecons! The key to these Sages being remembered in our Haggadot, despite Julie Atchick, Editor! their profoundly different points of view, is that they held each other in ! Sylvia Pomerantz , Proofreader deep respect even though they had profound differences. If they were all alive today, I have lile doubt that they would be having passionate conversaons not only about whether to eat rice and beans, but about Israeli polics, immigraon reform, and what we have learned from the #MeToo movement as well. (cont. pg. 4)! Connecons page 2 In Blessing! Rabbi Andrea Merow Happy 70th Birthday Israel!!! State. And we must celebrate the reality ! From the moment of the first exile of our People from the of 70 years. Israel is no longer a new, land of Israel in 586 BCE we as a People have mourned for fledgling place; Israel is a highly the destrucon of Jerusalem, and yearned for it to be industrious, successful, Western country. rebuilt and for us to return to the Holy Land.!!The pain of And we joyfully celebrate Israel and pray and work for her connued good welfare.! our exile from Jerusalem was recorded in Psalm 137: “By ! the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, sat and wept, as we Our community engages with Israel in so many ways. In the thought of Zion. There on the poplars we hung up our lyres, coming months join us in celebrang Israel 70!! ! for our captors asked us there for songs, our • Help us Buy An Ambulance!!R The Kehillah (community) ! tormentors, for amusement, “Sing us one of the songs of of Old York Road is working to purchase a Magen David Zion.” How can we sing a song of the God on alien soil? If I Adom Ambulance for Israel from our community. The forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither; let my goal is $100K and every donaon is important. In Israel tongue sck to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do there is a great need for many more ambulances.
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