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High Holiday Schedule 5778-2017 Vol. XLV No. 1 THE NEWS OF DELAWARE’S SEPTEMBER 2017 FIRST CONGREGATION HIGH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE 5778-2017 SELICHOT SERVICES FAST OF GEDALIA Saturday, September 16, 2017 Sunday September 24, 2017 Pre-Selichot Dialogue 9:30 PM Fast begins 5:39 AM and concludes at 7:25 PM Refreshments 10:00 PM Shacharit 8:00 AM Selichot Services 10:30 PM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:15 PM MEMORIAL SERVICES Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:00 PM EREV (EVENING OF) YOM KIPPUR Alan Schoenberg Building , Jewish Community Cemetery Friday, September 29, 2017 Candle Lighting before 6:28 PM EREV (FIRST EVENING OF) ROSH HASHANAH Fast begins 6:47 PM Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Kol Nidre PROMPTLY at 6:30 PM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Sermon: “The Western Wall Controversy” Candle Lighting 6:43 PM FIRST DAY OF ROSH HASHANAH YOM KIPPUR Thursday, September 21, 2017 Saturday, September 30, 2017 Birchot Hashachar 8:00 AM Birchot Hashachar 8:00 AM Shacharit 8:30 AM Shacharit 8:30 AM Torah Service 9:30 AM Torah Service 10:00 AM Awarding of Endowed Honors 10:15 AM Sermon : “Enough about the law” 11:00 AM Sounding of the Shofar 10:45 AM Yizkor Memorial Service 11:45 AM Sermon : “You too can practice medicine” 11:10 AM Musaf Service 12:30 PM Musaf Service 11:30 AM Rabbi’s Teach-In 3:00 PM Mincha Service 6:00 PM Mincha Service 4:35 PM Tashlich 6:30 PM Ne’ilah 5:50 PM Ma’ariv Service 7:00 PM Sounding of the Shofar & Candle Lighting after 7:41 PM Ma’ariv Service 7:27 PM SECOND DAY OF ROSH HASHANAH Break the Fast 7:40 PM Friday, September 22, 2017 Birchot Hashachar 8:00 AM Details re the tradition of Break the Fast at AKSE Shacharit 8:30 AM can be found on page three. Torah Service 9:30 AM Awarding of Endowed Honors 10:15 AM Please also see page three for Succot and the Sounding of the Shofar 10:45 AM other Holiday times Sermon : “Shame is bad, guilt is good” 11:10 AM Musaf Service 11:30 AM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Candle Lighting for Shabbat 6:40 PM SEPTEMBER, 2017 SHOFAR 1 Shalom Chaverim, ADAS KODESCH On August 14, at Rodney Square, I had the honor of opening SHEL EMETH the Mariano Rivera Foundation’s Backpack Give Away to children 4412 Washington Blvd. in need with a blessing. Mariano Rivera is a legendary Yankee Wilmington, DE 19802-1226 who is considered the to be the greatest closing pitcher ever and was instrumental in the Yankee's five most recent World Series Synagogue Office (302) 762-2705 E-mail to [email protected] wins. Please see my remarks below which were directed towards FAX (302) 762-3236 the elementary school children. AKSE Website www.akse.org Steven Saks, Rabbi Shana Tova, Yehoshua Redfern, Cantor Rabbi Saks OFFICERS All of you can be a Mariano Rivera, perhaps not on the mound, Jonathan Jaffe, President but in your own way because you can be the best person you Max Rosenberg, Executive VP were meant to be. In other words, you can be your best self just as Mariano is his best self. We are giving away backpacks with Neil Rosen, VP Finance school supplies because all children are created in the image of Harriet Ainbinder G-d and should be given the opportunity to make the most of VP Education their lives. We cherish the concept of equality. Yet, we are Vivian Goldberg distinctively created in G-d's image so I want you to put VP Religious Affairs something of your own into your backpack - yourself. Make sure Wendy Shlossman, VP Administration that at school you are taking advantage of the opportunity to improve yourself and turn yourself in to the person that G-d has Kerry Shweiki, VP Facilities given you the potential to be. Though you may not be a Mariano Lena Elzufon & Dianne Seidel VP Membership on the mound you can be a Mariano, by working hard, getting Mark Wagman, VP Community Affairs good grades and being kind to others. Through hard work as an adult you can become the Mariano of your chosen career path! Jerry Kritz VP Ways & Means Work hard and strive to succeed! Max Rosenberg, Treasurer Eleanor Weinglass & Lisa Elliot Secretaries Len Seltzer Men’s Club President Sylvia Wagman Sisterhood Advisor STAFF Sharon Marshall, Office Manager Arlene Mac Laren, Office Assistant Kathleen Taylor, Bookkeeper Cliff Packer Maintenance The Shofar is published 11 months: September through July/August. Jonathan Jaffe, Shofar Editor E-mail to [email protected] 2 SHOFAR SEPTEMBER, 2017 HIGH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE continued EVENING OF (EREV) SUCCOT HOSHANAH RABBAH Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Shacharit 8:00 AM Candle Lighting 6:20 PM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Candle Lighting 6:09 PM FIRST DAY OF SUCCOT Thursday, October 5, 2017 SHEMINI ATZERET Thursday, October 12, 2017 Shacharit 9:00 AM Shacharit 9:00 AM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Yizkor Memorial Service 10:30 AM Candle Lighting: after 7:19 PM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:15 PM SECOND DAY OF SUCCOT Hakafot 6:45 PM Candle Lighting after 6:50 PM Friday, October 6, 2017 SIMCHAT TORAH Shacharit 9:00 AM Friday, October 13, 2017 Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Shacharit 9:00 AM Candle Lighting 6:17 PM 6 Hakafot 10:00 AM Mincha/Ma’ariv Service 6:00 PM Candle Lighting 6:06 PM Join us for AKSE’s 10th annual Break the Fast. Stay to break the fast at the synagogue along with your fellow congregants at the conclusion of Yom Kippur services on Saturday September 30, 2017 Break the fast with your Adas Kodesch family. Sisterhood invites you to enjoy a light meal following Yom Kippur services. There is no fee for the Break the Fast, but monetary contributions to defray expenses would be appreciated. Please send the office a check made out to AKSE Sisterhood with “Break the Fast” noted on the memo line. SEPTEMBER, 2017 SHOFAR 3 4 SHOFAR SEPTEMBER, 2017 Rabbi Steven Saks and Cantor Yehoshua Redfern flanked by members of the High Holiday choir. High Holy Day Greeting from Cantor Redfern Monday August 14, 2017 To all my friends at AKSE: Roberta and I want to wish all of you a wonderful, sweet, and happy New Year’s greeting. K’tivah V’chatimah Tovah: May you and your families be written and sealed by the Ribono Shel Olam: Our blessed G-d, into the Book of Life for this coming New Year 5778 Wednesday September 20, 2017. This September I will be back leading the davening as your Shaliach Tsibur, Cantor. I will be singing with our AKSE choir not only Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur but also on the First night on Selichot this September 16. I am very excited to once again be leading the davening for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and singing with the choir again and greeting all of you during the services. To conclude my High Holyday greeting I want to share with you one of my mentor’s Cantor Macy Nulman of blessed memory, sayings of the Jewish people related to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In his last book, The Encyclopedia of the Sayings of the Jewish People (Jason Aronson; Northvale, New Jersey Jerusalem 1997) Cantor Nulman’s discussion of the reason for adding in the Kaddish prayer, from Rosh Hashana through Yom Kippur, the repetition of the word “L’eayla”. L’eayla means ‘higher or “above’. Ashenazic Jewry doubles the word in every Kaddish because, in this period G-d’s exalted place is far above and beyond all hymns and blessings uttered in the world. When doubling L’eayla, the contracted form, mikol, which follows, is used instead of min kol in order to keep the number of words at twenty-eight from Yhei Shmei until B’almah. Twenty eight is the number from the Hebrew word “Koach” which means strength. The Divine full force of G-d is typified by the 28 days of the moon’s complete cycle. In popular parlance, the phrase L’eayla L’eayla, is used to describe a situation or something that is of the highest degree or exceptional. Its tonal inflection is usually said with forceful utterance or strong feeling. SEPTEMBER, 2017 SHOFAR 5 SISTERHOOD NEWS This is YOUR Sisterhood!! Make it what YOU want it to be!! We are once again beginning this new Sisterhood year with sweetness (see the infor- mation on how to send honey to friends and relatives elsewhere in this Shofar) and a re- quest for you to get involved and take on a program. If you have an idea for a program, want to help with a Friday night dinner, or work on an existing project, just let us know. We will give you the support you need to follow through. Start the new year off right… watch for your dues bill to arrive in the mail and return your dues payment in the enclosed envelope… work on a Sisterhood event or project… shop at the Sisterhood Gift Shop. You’ll be glad that you did!! With your help, we can give the synagogue a sizeable contribution like we did this past year. Sylvia Wagman [email protected] AKSE SISTERHOOD TENTATIVE CALENDAR Honey Fundraiser Order by September 6, 2017 Saturday, September 30, 2017 Yom Kippur 10th Annual Break the Fast Sunday, October 8, 2017 Informational Meeting @2pm (refreshments in the Sukkah) Friday, October 13, 2017 36th Annual Women’s Simchat Torah service Saturday, January 20, 2018 Community Event @ Temple Beth El Friday, January 26, 2018 Federation Shabbat @ Beth Shalom March 2018 Purim: Mishloach Manot/Hamantashen WOMEN’S SIMCHAT TORAH SERVICE: THE TRADITION CONTINUES!! The 36th annual AKSE Women’s Simchat Torah service will take place on Friday morning, Oct, 13, 2017 in the Centennial Room.
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