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Ernpe 'Srae COLUMBUS, OHIO APRIL, 1995 VOL ernpe 'srae COLUMBUS, OHIO APRIL, 1995 VOL. 66, NO.4 BUI 1 EI1N The Sixth Question (or Passover's Virtual Reality) In a fall clays we will again pose the HaggMah's ancient questions. Ask any Jail and ~u will be told that there are four questions. But in reality there are six. Three questions concern the food we eat, one is about the way we recline, the first asks about the differences of the night itself, and there is one at the end of the HaggMah that appears as a statement, but is a question in disguise. Next Year in Jerusalem, the eternal expression of our people's bnging is recited lJy Jews in fNery comer of the gbbe, but its exclamation hides its true intent. As a statement it expresses the universal hope for an ingathering of Jews to Israel, and as a pronouncement for peace it directs our attenfun to the city of peace, Jerusalem. And yet, wh~ we pose this phrase as a question, it takes on an entirely nail dimension. NEXT YEAR IN JERUSAIEM? The answer to this question is not based upon some cosmic cycle of events, the collision of worlds in an otherwise ordered universe or fNen the approaching tum of the millennium, but rather on the everyday actions of each of us . If we personalize this question, we make its meaning transcend the hope forresidence in a physical Jerusalem to existence in another J erusalern, the spiritual,] erusalem, the virtual reality of the Jerusalem of the mind, a state of contentment that can be our residence wherever we may Uve. Next Year in Jerusalem merely recited is little more than a nostalgic pronouncement that warms our hearts. But asked as a question, it impUes an answer that only we can supply. Will this be the year I break a bad habit? Mend a friendship? Destroy a myth? Bind a wound? Grow more content with my daily tasks or trade them for greater satisfaction? Is this the year that I will bring peace and harmony to my world or will I continue to deny the responsibility I have 'for my life and my actions? The value of Passover and perhaps its most enduring quality lies in our own ability to go from slavery to freedom, from darkness to Ught, to transform pronouncements into questions which then become the impetus and the guidelines for positive action. At this Passover season, how will we say Next Year in Jerusalem, as a statement or as a question? Let it be for you and for me a question on the Seder night that demands a reply. It is not a matter of why we act, but of how we would act that makes Passover as meaningful today as it was in Egypt for Moses and our ancestors. To pronounce or to question, this is how we make our Seder eve different from all other nights. The rabbis of old predated the computer age by two thousand years as they sought to identify and compel us to seek not just the actual reality of Jerusalem, half a world away from Columbus, but the virtual reality of the city of peace right here in our own minds. Merrie and the children join me in wishing all of you a happy and joyous Passover filled with your own questions and answers. Rabbi Bradley N. Bleefeld ( On Sunday afternoon, March i9th, Rabbi BleejeId assembled a flock and led them onto a plane at PorT Columbus, bound for Israel & Jordan. There were 27 Temple Israel-Ites making The ii-day journey.) 1 ,lEWISI I LEADEHSI lIP . BIBLICAL HABBINIC, MEDIEVAL, AND MODEHN VISIONS Under the auspices of the Northeast Lakes CounciVUAHC, one of our Regions leading scholars and teachers will lead an adult study retreat in the Cleveland area. The Our Spring luncheon and book review topic " ill be Who Is a Jewish Leader: Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval, and Modem with Rabbi Bleefeld will be at the Park Visions. Towers on Tuesday, April 18, 1995, at 11:45 AM. The cost oflunch is $5 . The Dr. klein. Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Cleveland College of Jewish book to be reviewed is The History of Studies, and Rabbi at The Temple-Tifereth Israel, will lecture and lead discussions. God by Karen Armstrong. Mark the Topics will include: Why We Know So Little About the Man, Moses; The Tough­ date on your calendar and join us for Minded Realism of the Talmudic Sage; Moses Maimonides: Mediating Two an enjoyable afternoon. Worlds ; and Charisma, Statesmanship, and Torah Learning in Contemporary Judaism. The arumal retreat will be held at Punderson Manor House, Novelty, Ohio (just east ofCleveland) on June 9-11 . In addition to group study and discussion, there will be time to enjoy the beautiful surroundings ofPunderson State Park. Temple Israel congratulates our The total cost for the weekend is $160 per person, double occupancy, and $195 per congregant Donald E. Garlikov and person single occupancy. This includes two nights lodging and all meals. Because civic leader Gary A Glaser on the space is limited. reservations should be sent as soon as possible to Judith Lichtig, occasion of their recognition by the Northeast Lakes CouncillUAHC, 25550 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 108, Beachwood, OH Central Ohio State oflsrael Bonds New 44122. A deposit of$50 is required. Leadership Division. BROTHERHOOD NEWS The Temple Israel Brotherhood Nominating Committee for Officers and Directors is pleased to announceits 1995-1996 slate of Officers and Directors: omCERS ELECTION The election ofi()fficers and Directors for 1995- PRESIDENT Ted Smiley 1996 will occur at the regular monthly Brotherhood EXECUI1VEVICE-PRESIDENT Gary Cooper Board of Directors Meeting on Tuesday, April II, VICE-PRESIDENT Bernard Yavitch 1995, at 7:30 PM in the Temple Israel Library. The VICE-PRESIDENT John Sostrom meeting is open to all Brotherhood members. VICE-PRESIDENT Paul Dicker TREASURER Bruce Hartman BROTHERHOOD SABBATH SECREfARY Sydney Greenwald IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Jeffrey Langer A full evening of Brotherhood activities is set for Friday evening, April21 st beginnng with a Champagne BOARD OF DIRECTORS Reception at 7:15 PM in the Temple social hall. The annual Brotherhood Sabbath Service begins at 8:00 PM Jay Agranoff Michael Kravitz in the Sanctuary. At the service, Ira Hattenbach will IrwinBain Stuart Levine receive the Leon 1. Goodman Award for service to Clark Berman Alan Lichtcsien Judaism through the Temple, and Bruce Hartman will Roger Blair Henry Saeman receive the Allan Tarshish Memorial Young Leadership Stanley Cooper Neil Shnider Award. Rabbi Bleefeld will install and bless the new Greg Feldman-Hill Marc Simon Brotherhood officers and directors . Incoming HowardGabe Theodore Simson Brotherhood President Ted Smiley will outline his Jeff Glassman Ron Tannenbaum plans for Brotherhood. Following Services, the Ira Hattenbach Paul Wolfson Brotherhood will sponsor an Oneg Shabbat in the social hall. All Temple members are invited to attend the festivities on April 21 s1. 2 NOTEWORTHY T<) 111-1: Mah Nishtana? Why is this night different from all other Jewish Community Blood Drive nights. Because on this night, Thursday, April 6, 1995, we In Cooperation with the celebrate a Women's Seder. For centuries, Jewish history American Red Cross ofCentral OH has been told through the voice of men; a Women's Seder is an opportunity to reveal our history through the voice of When it comes to giving a gift of women. meaning and versatility, nothing Women's Seders began in the 1970's when women's surpasses the gift of life through a pint issues were being ex-plored. Every year since 1976 parallel of blood. That is because different Seders have taken place in New York and Israel, Seders components of blood have different written by the feminists of the 1970's. And since then, many uses and just one pint ofblood provides communities across the country have held Women's Seders. invaluable help to people with medical Each Seder is a culmination ofmonths to years ofstudy : study of the texts, study ofthe needs. history, study of the prayers, and study of prayer language. As spring and the Passover holiday At Women's Seders we remember the five women of the Exodus. We remember approach, please consider a gift by Shifrah and Puah, the midwives who disobeyed Pharoah's order to kill all first born participating as a blood donor. You Jewish sons. We remember Yocheved, Moses' mother, who defied maternal desires may donate at Congregation Beth and gave up her baby so that he might survive. We remember Pharoah's daughter who Til-vah,6121 OlentangyRiver Road on disobeyed her father's decree and adopted a Hebrew baby marked for death. Sunday, April 2, from 12:30-6:30 PM And we remember the prophet, Miriam, Moses' sister who was a leader and a or at Agudas Achim Synagogue, 2767 visionary. A famous Midrash says that when Pharoah condemned all Jewish babies East Broad Street on Wednesday, April to die and Miriam's father lost all hope for the future, it was Miriam, then seven years 5, from 12:30-6:30 PM. Blood is old, who dissuaded him from divorcing her mother, Yocheved. It was Miriam who sorely needed for hospital patients and convinced her parents to stay together and continue having children. The result. of . emergency situations. course, was the birth of Moses. Then it was Miriam who watched over Moses in the Donors must be at least 17 years of bullrushes and, when Pharoah's daughter found him, it was Miriam who offered age, weigh at least 110 pounds, be in Moses' own mother as a wet nurse. Years later, after crossing the Red Sea, it was good health, and have no history of Miriam who led the Hebrews in dance and in song.
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