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HOTTY Service Outline (February 24, 2017) HOTTY Service Outline (February 24, 2017) Welcome – Ilana Mermelstein Shabbat Shalom! Thank you for joining us tonight for a Shabbat service that was planned and will be led by the teens of HOTTY, our temple’s high school youth group. And thank you to Casey Elinger and his family for sharing his Bar-Mitzvah weekend with us. The theme for tonight is “Moments that Bring us Together,” a theme we chose to remind you all of the power of community, what can happen when we all come together. Please join us in Hineh Ma Tov. Songleaders – OPENING SONG Rabbi – Welcomes everyone, invites Casey Elinger’s (bar-mitzvah) family up to light candles. Cantor will lead Kiddush. Reading – Drew Baker (for Zach Eagen) For tonight’s service we were told to find an instance in which people or communities came together in strength, comfort, or kindness. How did they make a difference? What did they change or impact and what was the result? When I think of a time when people came together to make a change, I think back to the story of the American Revolution. It is a story in which people were fed up with the restrictions and tyranny that had presided over them for many years. The heroes that we think of today as patriots, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, were ready for change and ready to make it happen. So, what did they do? They rose up together. Yet, these leaders knew that they could not be the only ones to rise up and fight against the oppression facing them. They needed their friends and neighbors, fellow Americans to rally in support around them as well. These leaders inspired the people of the colonies to rise not just against the rulers, but to rise together as one new nation. In our modern era, there have been few causes that have been fought for with the strength, will, determination, and commitment that our forefathers fought with some two hundred and forty years ago. We must learn from our ancestors that if we wish to bring about change in our world today, we can, but we must fight for it. And we can’t do it alone. We must inspire others to rise alongside us, as one community. Please join us in L’cha Dodi on page 138. Songleaders – L’CHA DODI Reading – HOTTYite (If people are standing: Please be seated.) "Community becomes even more powerful when it ​ ​ includes the entire community. When all members of the community pull together for a united cause, the power becomes unlimited. The change, or transformation, that occurs from the entire community is something greater than just what a small group of the community or an individual can achieve.” -Tim McDonald. Please (rise and?) join us on page 144 for the Chatzi Kaddish. ​ ​ Songleaders – CHANT CHATZI KADDISH 1 Reading – Emma Kremer Please be seated. Last month there was a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada. Six people were killed. A few days later when the congregants of the mosque went back to pray for the first time, hundreds of people of all ages, races, backgrounds, and religions joined together to create a “ring of peace,” not only around the mosque that was attacked, but around other mosques in the community. The “ring of peace”, the people who joined hands and created a circle around the mosque, sent the message that no matter what our background is, we will join together to protect houses of worship and those going inside.” This is not the first time that people have come together to create a “ring of peace;” there have been “rings of peace” around synagogues in Norway, Paris, and Copenhagen as well. In 2012, hundreds of Texas A&M students formed a human wall around the funeral service of a soldier to protect his family from protesters. Last June, a group of staff and volunteers from the Orlando community worked together to build "Angel Wings" to block Westboro Baptist Church members protesting the funerals of the Orlando shooting victims. It's truly amazing to hear about all sorts of people coming together to help others in the community during a time of tragedy. These moments show the strength and power that comes from us uniting together. Reading – HOTTYite We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility. -Dorothy Height. Please rise and join us on page 146 for the Barchu. Songleaders – BARCHU Reading – Robby Scott You may be seated. You may have heard a story about a teen named Noah Van Vooren, an 18-year-old football waterboy with Down Syndrome from Little Chute, Wisconsin. Noah had grown accustomed to serving the football team water and gatorade on the sidelines, but in his final game of the season, he donned a helmet and pads, and with the help of his teammates, promptly scored a touchdown. With just 1.2 seconds left on the clock, Little Chute called time out and put Noah in the game. Noah received a handoff, and surrounded by members of his school’s football team, protected and encouraged by them, he ran the ball 35 yards, and scored his first ever touchdown. Regardless of what side people were sitting on or what team they were rooting for that night, for a moment, everyone in the stadium came together to chant: Noah! Noah! Noah! After the game, Noah’s father said “He was born eighteen years ago, and the doctor’s told us he would never be able to walk, talk, or do anything, and then to see him 18 years later is amazing. And to have a community such as Little Chute to back him up and help him the way they do is breathtaking.” Please join us in Ahavat Olam on page 150. Songleaders – AHAVAT OLAM & MAARIV ARAVIM Reading – Leah Faupel [This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Szoldra.] 2 At approximately 9:28 a.m. on Sep. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was hijacked by four al Qaeda terrorists. The terrorists killed the pilot and a flight attendant and then told the passengers that a bomb was on the plane and was heading back to the airport. "They are hijacking planes," Deena Burnett told her husband Tom, a passenger on United 93, in a cell phone call. "They are taking them and hitting designated targets. They've already hit both towers of the World Trade Center and another plane hit the Pentagon.” "We have to do something," Burnett told his wife. "I'm putting a plan together." Other passengers were learning similar details in their own phone calls. The passengers then voted to fight back against the hijackers. Led by Tom and three other men, the passengers rushed the cockpit, with one of the men rallying them in his last words: "You ready? Okay, let's roll." After some long minutes of fighting, the passengers seized control of the cockpit. And instead of the plane hitting its intended target - believed to be The White House or the Capitol Building - it crashed into an empty field in Pennsylvania, killing all passengers onboard. The passengers on this plane were brought together by their shared fear and courage. If they had feared for their own lives only, there probably would have been fighting over parachutes and phones, and they wouldn’t have had the courage to come together and revolt, saving hundreds, maybe thousands of lives. Even though they barely knew each other, they knew nothing good would happen if they didn't come together to fight. So, they died, together, as heroes and friends. Jacob hand motions the congregation to stand. Songleaders – SH’MA AND V’AHAVTA Reading – Katie Hurwitz This story is about a girl, named Malala. She was born in Pakistan, a country with strict rules with regard to women and what they can and cannot do. Yet, Malala was a strong supporter of allowing girls to have access to an education. Advocating for her own rights, she acted as a voice for all woman, and her passion for standing up for what she believed in spread. The Taliban decided they didn't like the change this girl was trying to make, so to stop her, they shot her in the head on October 9, 2012. The truly amazing part of her story is that it could have, but didn’t, end there. Not just her local community, but the world community, rallied in order to save her life: Doctors from around the world immediately offered to treat her. The Pakistani government paid for all of her transport, accommodation, and medical fees. It was because of these people who came together that she is still alive today and has become an inspiration of courage, passion, and women’s rights. In an interview, she once said, “On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala.' They did not say 'I am Taliban.’” The banners that were lifted showed support for all that Malala was fighting for, instead of supporting terrorism. The people of Pakistan realized that after Malala took a stand, together, they could too. Please join us on page 158 in the singing of Mi Chamocha. Songleaders – MI CHAMOCHA & HASHKIVEINU Reading – Sloan Salinas 3 Sometimes it only takes one person to bring an entire community together. In 2009, Charlotte resident Caitlyn Boyle began putting positive sticky notes in public girl’s restrooms.
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