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Kedushah: the Different Meaning ◾◾ Order Your Shalach Manot Baskets of Jewish Spirituality JANUARY 2018 | TEVET / SHEVAT 5778 VOLUME 84 NO. 5 RABBI’S NOTES INSIDE: by Rabbi Michael Mishkin ◾ Scholar in Residence ◾ Hanukkah at TBI Kedushah: The Different Meaning ◾ Order Your Shalach Manot Baskets of Jewish Spirituality Kedushah This issue of the TBI Tablet The middah (character trait) of the month is , which means holiness or can refer to spirituality. What is sponsored by do you think of, when you see the word “spirituality?” BETH & LOUIS Spirituality has many different meanings according to many SILFIN different groups. Jewish spirituality also has many different meanings. One word associated with Jewish spirituality is in honor of the Bar Mitzvah yirah (pronounced, year-ah), which means awe. Awe is a of their son good place to start when thinking about spirituality. Rabbi ZAC Abraham Joshua Heschel believed that awe was a natural response to the beauty and intricacies of the world. He wrote, “Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes noth- ing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life This issue of the TBI Tablet Rabbi continued on page 2 is sponsored by RANDI & MARK SPARBER in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter GEORDAN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE For the Holiday Season, Preschool and Religious School students purchased and donated Friday, January 19–Sunday, January 21 new toys from funds collected through weekly Tzedakah contributions. Toys were given to the JCC to distribute to underserved children in Nassau County. Visit us online at www.tbiport.org Contact us at 516-767-1708 Rabbi continued from page 1 casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.” Once we feel awe from experiencing the world, then we feel gratitude. These feelings can lead us to a recognition of God’s goodness and God’s presence in the world. One who maintains the virtue of yirah, Temple Drive, Port Washington NY 11050-3915 T: 516-767-1708 F: 516-944-6461 is someone who can take a step back and get a sense of the big picture. It’s about www.tbiport.org understanding our place—as humans—in the world. We are powerful. We have a great capacity to think, we have needs and dreams, and we are creative. Our power sometimes leads us to believe that we are the center of the universe, but we are Rabbi Michael Mishkin not. We—like everything else in the world—are created by a Creator. The Creator Hazzan (God) is at the center. Baruch Blum Spirituality is not just a feeling, it’s an understanding or a perspective that im- President pacts how we behave in the world. For example, in the Passover story, the Egyptian Matthew Engel midwives, Shiphra and Puah, were directed by Pharaoh to murder the Israelite baby Executive Vice President Rita Shumsky boys, as they were being born. However, these two courageous women did not Vice President, Ritual follow Pharaoh’s decree, even though that meant they were risking their lives. Why David Volpe did these women defy Pharaoh? The Torah tells us that they had yirah—a sense of Vice President, Fundraising Stacey Delich-Gould awe about God and this helped shape their values. If we understand the world to Vice President, Administration be good and beautiful; then that understanding has the power to direct us to act Louis Silfin in ways which are consonant with good living and beautiful behavior. If we believe Vice President, Education (or understand) the world to be a gift from a moral Creator, then we can find great Dale Gindi strength to behave morally, even in defiance of an evil decree. Vice President, Education Eden R. Kasle Thinking about a Creator and the creation of the world serves as spiritual ex- Vice President, Membership ercise on many levels. One of those levels is that it can help us value each day and Betsy Golan each moment. If the world—including humanity, including each and every one Treasurer of us—was created with purpose—then each of our lives has meaning. This is a John Teeger primary message of Shabbat. Financial Secretary Steve Castar All of this overlaps with another aspect of spirituality, which is transcending Corresponding Secretary our focus on ourselves and thinking about other people—family members, friends, Andrew Silver community members, and strangers. In Leviticus, chapter 19, God, speaking Recording Secretary through Moses, tells the Israelites, kedoshim t’hi-yu ki kadsoh Ani Adonai Eloheichem. David Cooper “You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy,” (19:1). We have the ability Trustees Julie Greenblatt Mitch Rosen to be holy, to be spiritual, because God is holy and spiritual. What does it mean to Halona Gropper Jaffe Lon Seidman be holy/spiritual? The rest of the chapter explains how we achieve holiness, how we Beverly Hazelkorn Jeff Siegel Meridith Krell Andrew Sollinger live spiritually. Some of the most important elements of holy living is to treat others Laura Landau Susan Stein Jennifer Latner Andrew Schwartz with dignity, protect people in danger, and not exploit the vulnerable. Susan Levin Scott Tashlik Every human being has a great resource for tapping into spirituality—and that Lane Palmer is his or her soul. In one of the first prayers which is recited in the morning, we say, Trustees Emeritus Elkan Abramowitz “My God, the soul You placed within me is pure. You created it, You fashioned it, Joel Greenblatt You breathed it into me . As long as the soul is within me, I gratefully thank you, Saul Muchnick Adonai, my God, and the God of my ancestors.” Sisterhood Co-President Alisa Schindler Rabbi Naomi Levy, our scholar in residence January 19-21, recently wrote Sisterhood Co-President a book called, Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul. (I will be leading Michelle Mondschein a book club, discussing the book on Thursday, January 11.)It’s a moving book, Men’s Club President which talks about the power of our souls, how to listen to our souls, and how to Jon Brooks nourish our souls. Rabbi Levy writes, “What is the soul? The rabbis tell us the soul Immediate Past President Andrew Abramowitz is a mirror of God within us. The soul fills the body, just as God fills the world. The Synagogue Director soul outlasts the body, just as God outlasts the world. The soul is one in the body, Cathy Seldin just as god is one in the world. The soul sees but is not seen, just as God sees but is Religious School Principal not seen,” (p. 31). Our souls call out to us, full of wisdom and insight, but listening Alice Talmud to our souls is not easy. Why is it so challenging? Rabbi Levy explains with the fol- Preschool Director Diana Snaider lowing parable, which she heard from Rabbi Harold Schulweis, of blessed memory. When God was creating the world, God shared a secret with the angels: human TBI Tablet is published monthly by TBI. Submissions must be received by the tenth of the beings will be created in the image of God. The angels were jealous and outraged. Why month prior to the issue in which they will appear. Rabbi continued on page 3 PAGE 2 | TBI TABLET JANUARY 2018 PRESIDENT’S NOTES US Recognizes Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel By Matt Engel Just a few short weeks capital of the Modern State of Israel December 8, 2017 | 20 Kislev, 5778 ago, President Trump since 1949. Jerusalem is Judaism’s holiest city announced that the By demonstrating that we stand by and the capital of the state of Israel, as United States would our closest ally, Israel, we stress to the the Conservative movement has long recognize Jerusalem Palestinians and the world that the only maintained in resolutions and public as the capital of Israel way to establish a Palestinian State is statements. We are pleased, at the and would begin through non-violent means. President’s initiative, that the United plans to move its I believe we should applaud the States government will now recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and begin embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Although administration for standing up for the process of moving the American there have been countless critics what is right, and as Jews we should be diplomatic mission there from Tel Aviv. throughout our own country, and of incredibly proud that the United States The state of Jerusalem is a matter to course, throughout the World, I believe has stood up taller than all other nations be settled in direct negotiations between we should applaud the President for this to affirm Israel’s right to determine its Israel and the Palestinians. But in bold move. It has been longstanding US capital. From a religious and spiritual recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital law that the United States recognizes point of view, this move is significant and planning to move the American Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but the because Jerusalem has served as the embassy to a location under uncontested President moved forward on what his eternal capital of the Jewish people for Israeli sovereignty, the U.S. government three recent predecessors failed to do: over three thousand years. acknowledges the age-old connection that officially initiate the embassy’s move. This move does not preclude the Israel and the Jewish people maintain with Many have said the United States negotiation of borders and Jerusalem as the holy city. We urge the U.S., Israel, the Palestinian should not have made this move because final status issues.
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