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ELAINE SERLING “Kosher Style” ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE THE ENDOWED IN MEMORY OF HARRY AND SHIRLEY NACHMAN Vol. 69 No. 9 October 2012 l Tishrei - Cheshvan 5773 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SHABBAT ROCKS Mornings: N Sundays . 8:30 a.m. X Monday – Friday . 7:30 a.m. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5 6 PM Shabbat . 9:00 a.m. WITH ABBI ERGMAN AZZAN ROSS AN HERE AND ARTY IEBMAN Evenings R B , H G , D S , M L Sunday – Friday . 6:00 p.m. (See Sukkot and Simchat Torah service schedule inside) Saturdays (Minchah-Maariv) October 6 . 7:00 p.m. MEET OUR NEW MEMBERS AND CELEBRATE SUKKOT October 13 . 6:45 p.m. October 20, 27 . 6:30 p.m. AT ADAT SHALOM ’S SHABBAT TORAH PORTIONS FESTIVE FAMILY SHABBAT-SUKKOT OCTOBER 6 SERVICE & DINNER Chol Hamoed Sukkot Friday, October 5 following Shabbat Rocks OCTOBER 13 Bereshit Members who have joined since November 1, 2011 are invited to gather with “seasoned” Adat Shalom families OCTOBER 20 for Shabbat Rocks and a Sukkot dinner. Noah - Complimentary for all new members - OCTOBER 27 For everyone else, the cost is $20 for adults and $10 for children. Lech Lecha If you have not already responded, please call the office immediately, 248-851-5100. Living & Learning OUR NEW CONG–REGATIONAL – SEE MORE SUKKOT AND SIMCHAT TORAH INFORMATION ON PAGE 2 LEARNING SECTION FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN ADAT SHALOM IS PLEASED TO PRESENT OF ALL AGES SINGER /S ONGWRITER ADULT EDUCATION RELIGIOUS SCHOOL ELAINE SERLING FAMILY EDUCATION EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS “Kosher Style” COMMUNITY OFFERINGS A P OTPOURRI OF YIDDISH , H EBREW , B ROADWAY AND ORIGINAL SONGS AND MORE SUNDAY , N OVEMBER 4 D 7 P.M. SEE PAGES 7-11 THE COMMUNITY IS WELCOME L DESSERT AFTERGLOW p NO CHARGE Services for Sukkot Mazal Tov to our & Simchat Torah First & Second Days October B’nai Mitzvah Sunday, September 30 6:00 p.m. Monday, October 1 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. October 6 Family Service 10:30 a.m. Jonathan Brasch is the son of Tuesday, October 2 9:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Faith & Jeffrey Brasch, the grand - Chol Hamoed son of Elizabeth Tam & the late Wednesday, October 3 7:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Robert Tam, Gladys Brasch & the Thursday, October 4 7:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. late Charles Brasch, and the late Friday, October 5 7:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Blanche Brasch, and the great- Saturday, October 6 9:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. grandson of Mildred Simon Jonathan Markus Hoshana Rabba Sunday, October 7 8:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Brasch Shemini Atzeret Monday, October 8 9:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. (Yizkor) Tacos & Torah 5:30 p.m. October 27 Hakafot 6:45 p.m. Ben and Jessie Fisher are the chil - Simchat Torah dren of Lisa & Jay Fisher and the Tuesday, October 9 9:00 a.m. 7:15 p.m. grandchildren of Susan & Edward “Blessing of the Babies” 10:30 a.m. Cherniak and Lorraine & Arnold Fisher. Join the Benjamin Jessica Zachary Fisher Paige Fisher Simchat Torah Parad e! Monday evening, ocTober 8 Minchah 5:30 PM ~ Healing from Loss ~ - TacoS & Torah - OCTOBER BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT hakafoT , J r. 5:30 PM A bereavement support group will be held on oPTional dinner 6 PM Sunday morning, October 14 at 10 a.m. “Healing from Loss” will be facilitated by Rabbi Rachel Shere everyone iS inviTed To Join our and Ruby Kushner, M.S.W. young faMilieS for dinner. These support groups are open to the communi - $5/ PerSon . a dvance reServaTionS required . ty. There is no charge. The next group will meet on November 4. Questions? Please email Rabbi Shere at [email protected]. eMail dbanooni @adaTShaloM .org TradiTional hakafoT 6:45 PM SHABBAT CARE and TueSday , o cTober 9, 9 aM Sweet celebrations for the young EVERY SHABBAT and young-at-heart! FoR Young CHildREn - Finding a Spiritual beginning at 10 am in Room 110 Place for Yourself - Blessing our new Babies The youngsters will be Join Rabbi Aaron Bergman at on Simchat Torah Morning brought upstairs 10 a.m. on these Sundays this fall: to join the congregation October 28, November 18, e look forward to the congregation’s annual for Adon Olam December 2 & 9 “Blessing of the Babies” ceremony on the W at the conclusion of the morning of Simchat Torah, when parents are Shabbat Morning Service. n Find your internal spirituality and invited to bring to the bimah children who have realize that Judaism can make you been born during the past year for a special happier. blessing by the clergy. The ceremony will take T H E V O I C E n A refreshing hour for individuals of place at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, ( U S P S 6 2 2 - 4 6 0 ) October 9. published monthly except February and July by all ages Certificates will be given to those parents ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt Road Farmington Hills, n Sessions continue throughout the who have pre-registered. Michigan 48334 year. If you would like to participate with your new Phone: 248-851-5100 l Fax: 248-851-3190 Periodicals Postage entered at the Farmington, Michigan Post Office baby in this ceremony, please call Sheila Postmaster: Send address changes to: n Attend any one or all – each Lederman, 248-851-5100, ext. 246, no later The VOICE, 29901 Middlebelt, session is an individual experience. than October 3. Farmington Hills, MI 48334-2319 There is no charge. 2 Messages FROM THE PRESIDENT FROM RABBI BERGMAN LOOKING FORWARD IF WE ONLY JUST LISTEN… s I write this column in early September, Rosh here is a story from our tra - A Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching and, by dition that I used to find the time you read it, I will have already had the opportuni - kTind of puzzling. King David, ty to wish you and your families a happy and healthy new who was known as a great year, though I’ll happily use this column to reiterate those musician and poet, asked God, good wishes. “What do you think of my DAVID I also want to thank our clergy and professional staff, music?” God said, “It is good, who always work hard, but perhaps never more so than SHERBIN but not as good as the croaking when planning our beautiful, spiritual and meaningful High Holiday servic - of a bullfrog.” I thought God was es, which they actually began working on last spring. being harsh to David, trying to RABBI The High Holidays are a time for personal reflection, when we think keep his ego in check. about changes in our personal lives and changes in our community. We also My understanding of this BERGMAN think about our accomplishments as well as the goals we have set for our - changed when I was at a retreat in the Catskill selves, cognizant that we are all striving to be CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Mountains. It was late at night, and I was sitting by myself at the edge of a lake. I soon realized that I was listening to some of the most beautiful FROM RABBI YOSKOWITZ “music” I had ever heard. It was the croaking of bullfrogs and the rustling of the water and the WHAT ARE IN YOUR POCKETS? swaying of the trees, all in perfect rhythm and uring Sukkot, it is customary to study the Book of harmony. This was the music God was talking DKohelet - Ecclesiastes . This book is linked with the about. It was a true psalm, a true prayer to God. Book of Job which several of us studied as preparation for Rabbi Nachman tells us that the entire world Rosh Hashanah. J. Alberto Soggin states it this way: and the universe itself makes wonderful music, if “Ecclesiastes concludes the work of limiting wisdom we would only listen CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 which Job had begun; it deprives man of the vain hope of being able to recognize the supposed order of the uni - RABBI verse.” YOSKOWITZ FROM RABBI SHERE The Rabbis caution us not to despair about our limitations. Rather, they say that there is a need for balance. In one pocket, they tell us, keep L’CHAYIM – TO LIFE a note that reads “I am but dust and ashes.” In the other pocket, keep a his fall Adat Shalom is note that reads “I am but little lower than the angels,” thus reminding us unveiling a new and exciting that we, like the patriarch Abraham, can fulfill God’s commandment: You hTealth and wellness program for shall be a blessing – Veheyeh berakhah (Genesis 2:12). the body and soul, beginning What are in your pockets? October 15. Based on the suc - Is there a note of courage such as that CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 cess of the Christian communi - ty’s Daniel Plan , we have created our own program called FROM HAZZAN GROSS L’Chayim . Along with Rabbi RABBI SHERE Bergman and myself, Drs. Joel THE HAPPIEST HOLIDAY Kahn and Stacey Francis will be t’s no wonder that my head always spins like crazy at facilitating each of the five weekly sessions based this time of year. One needs a Ph.D. just to keep track on the following principles: 1. CONNECT for Success - Get in touch with oIf all of the late summer and early fall Jewish holidays. In your health and with others! the span of twenty-three days, there are five different 2. RELY on God’s Power - Willpower is not Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, enough.
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