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Tbs-Ev Times TBS-EV TIMES Tevet 5781 - Nisan 5781 January 2021 - March 2021 (1st Quarter) Herschel ‘Brodie’ Aberson, Rabbi Rabbi’s Message Dennis Aust, President t has been a long winter. While the times we live in Core Values are not unprecedented, they are unique for us. Welcoming: Actively invite I Pandemics, a difficult election cycle, the economic, and engage the community mental and physical pressures these have produced, (internal and greater) could easily leave us all in the darkness. Inclusive: Respectful of all individuals and their unique This is where our calendar and holidays come to help gifts us fight back against the dark. I know for me, Shabbat Caring: Ensuring for well- has been a haven and anchor making otherwise being of others in the identical days in identical places have distinction and community difference. I work hard for Shabbat, and in turn a Learning: Foster the journey special day every seven works hard for me. Rabbi Brodie for Lifelong Jewish Education. We provide an The light of Hannukah literally and figuratively helps push back the darkness. excellent religious education Eight days filled with fried foods, bright lights and a sense of joy and pride in in a lifelong learning ourselves and our people makes a powerful corrective to the heaviness of Winter curriculum, from Pre-B’nai and the last year’s discontents. Like the Maccabees, we could draw strength from Mitzvah through Adult within and use it to help make the world better without. education. Between Hannukah and Passover, we have Tu Bishvat. A celebration of the new Persevering: The Little Shul year for trees, and a reflection of the coming newness of Spring. Even from that Could (70 years +) home, the chance to celebrate with the natural world longer days, temperate Safety: Congregate in peace weather and the visceral joy of growth gives us hope for better times ahead. Purim, the most explicitly joyful holiday of our tradition, needs no further Mission Statement description. Whimsy is wisdom and play is medicine when everything else fails. Temple Beth Sholom is an And finally, the ultimate holiday of freedom and liberty- Passover. I look to this inclusive East Valley holiday in the month of Aviv, of Spring, marking the official start of a new cycle Conservative Congregation. of rebirth as my rock in time. Retelling the Exodus from Egypt is the loaded, We are egalitarian and enrich most powerful reminder that God is with us, that our suffering is not unending, Jewish life by promoting that we will again and always be able to pursue freedom from false gods and growth spiritually, ritually, oppression in any time and any place. educationally, and socially May we be blessed to witness and participate in the holidays and traditions of our while serving the greater ancestors and our friends now and in the future. community. With love and blessings, Vision Statement We strive to be deeply Rabbi Brodie connected to each other and IN THIS ISSUE: to the greater community through meaningful Rabbi’s Message collaborations to both enrich President’s Message Contests and newsletter items for all to enjoy and elevate Jewish life while 2020 in review serving others. Good worldwide things to come out of the Corona Virus Thank You’s and more. President’s Message CONTEST: inter can be a challenging time have opportunities to engage with each Attached to of adversity, in many places. other as a community like that in the this issue are W Thankfully in central Arizona future. some fun we don’t have to worry too much about pages for all the kind of adversity that winter brings to With Rosh Hashanah and the secular New to enjoy. some places. That being said, I think we Year behind us, many of us have thought can all agree we’ve all been suffering the at least twice so far this year, about how The coloring adversity of a long winter this year and we can be better Jews and better people in pages in this we’ve all been virtually snowed in, in so general. I believe 2021 is destined to be a issue can be colored in and sent through the many different ways. The good news is, year of rebirth and new beginnings in TBS-EV website for a chance to win a spring is on the horizon everyone. Hang more ways than we could possibly Sweeties Candy gift card. (One contest for on for another few months and hopefully anticipate. Together we can use the Purim and one for Passover) we’ll start to see the snow melt and we lessons we’ve learned from this past year can all go outside and play again. to build a better Ark for next time. May it Scan / Take a picture on your phone of your be another 100 years or more. As the artwork and submit your contest entries by: I was pleased to see all of the smiling flood waters recede, the rains stop and the 3/18/20. faces at our annual Hanukkah celebration. sun shines again, I look forward to once In a time when there is so much darkness again seeing the beautiful white and For contest rules and to submit entries and depression in many of our lives, the yellow flowers that will bloom on the please visit: https://tbsev.org/tbsev-contests/ lights were truly refreshing and uplifting. Saguaros and the Palo Verde trees. Most Those lights also reminded me of how of all, I am looking forward to eventually Jason Hecht has the answer key pages for hard working our community is. Often seeing everyone’s warm faces in person some of the puzzles and will be happy to burning the candle at both ends, to put again. provide them if you e-mail the secret word such good programming together, always “MOSES” in the subject line to getting the job done. The Kahoot game [email protected]. Please put your was very fun and I hope we continue to Dennis Aust request in the body of the e-mail. Year in Rewind 2020 Good and interesting things that have come out of the Corona virus (By Jason Hecht) ack in March of 2020 no one would Israeli dance marathons, dance camps picture and places an Israeli dance title ever have imagined our world spanning over weekends, and weekly along with the photo into her Facebook B turned upside down. Through the dance sessions most being hosted and led photo album. This might inspire some bad things there have been some really online at no charge. We have donated and people to see the dance or hear the song wonderful events and experiences that I supported many of the dance leaders and want to remember or learn the dance felt would be worthy of sharing with because they are basically doing this out and laugh at the funny photo. She did one everyone. I know many of us want to of the goodness of their heart and at a cost for me in September that made it special. forget 2020 existed, but we should all take to them. The dance leaders are used to Besides the dancing there have been FREE away something from the experience. receiving $10 - $15, per person and now concerts in Israel where the best of the I know I will and that is why I decided to they are doing it all virtually. Here is a best is singing to empty chairs. Many of share with you all: small video of Dance Marathon #2 these are available to be watched even In January and February of 2020 Elaine featuring leaders and choreographers today on You-tube for free. Singers from and I attended two Israeli folkdance camps worldwide. https://vimeo.com/479385102 Achinoam Nini, Eyal Golan, Ishay Levi, and no one had any idea about the (raising money for worldwide charities) Moshe Perez, Shiri Maimon, and many pandemic. We visited with many of our During Thanksgiving I celebrated “Erev more. I would have never been able to see friends from California, all over the US Thanksgiving” by dancing. This is a them in concert unless they traveled to the and abroad that attended these events. tradition that I have been doing for years US or if I went to visit Israel. A front row Dance camps consist of incorporating but since moving to Arizona I couldn’t get seat in your own home is a pretty good Shabbat and all of the rituals that go along to Los Angeles to see my friends. This deal considering the price. with it. To me the camps give everyone year the dance marathon had to be virtual Every weekday during my lunch hour I time to see people whom you may not see so session leaders from Canada and have been watching, commenting, sharing, often, learn fresh new Israeli dances, and throughout the USA collaborated together and enjoying a wonderful program that dance some of the old but great dances. to play and dance with us throughout the spawned from a Sunday Jewish Radio Sometimes even dig deep and find that evening. This allowed me to attend so I program out of New Jersey, “The Israel favorite dance or two lost and forgotten stayed up to the end (7+ Hours) and it was Hour”. This music community suggests about. very memorable and fun. I hope that we songs and videos to play throughout the After the pandemic started folkdance can figure out a way to join together week and Josh Shroan plays whatever he leaders worldwide had to scramble and around the globe in future years by can in the 30 or so minutes.
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