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Adas Israel Congregation Adas Israel Congregation October/Elul–Tishri Highlights: ChronicleL’Shana Tova 2 The Adas Fund Campaign 3 High Holy Day Schedule 4 Simchat Torah Honorees Ma Tovu: Linda Yitzchak for 50 years of Service 22 Chag Sameach from your Adas Israel Family! Chronicle • October 2016 • 1 The Chronicle Is Supported in Part by the Ethel and Nat Popick Endowment Fund clergycorner From the President By Debby Joseph Senior Rabbi Gil Steinlauf In the Talmud, Rabbi Isaac makes a fascinating assertion. He says, “Blessing is only found in that which is samui min ha’ayin—hidden from the eye.” The Talmud goes on to explain: if you’re about to go and measure your grain harvest, it’s okay to pray to God that it be a bountiful harvest. If you are in the midst of measuring the grain, you can still pray for God’s blessing. However, if you have finished measuring and you know the exact amount, you can no What a year this has been for the longer pray for your harvest because “blessing is not found in that which is congregation, the country, and the world! weighed, measured, or counted, but only on that which is hidden from the When I look inward to our Adas Israel eye, as it is written, ‘God will command blessing to you in your hidden places community, I feel extraordinary pride [ba’asamecha]’ (Deuteronomy 28:8)”. in the many ways we are defying the Now the rabbis of the Talmud are doing something very interesting here. statistics describing Jewish communal and In its original context, the verse in Deuteronomy uses the word ba’asamecha congregational attachments and observance. to mean “in your storehouses” or “in your barns.” In other words, it promises In contrast, when I look outward, I am that God will give us blessings in our storehouses and barns. But here in the overwhelmed by the vitriol and acts of terror Talmud, the rabbis notice that the root of the Hebrew term for storehouse perpetrated against people within our own is the same as the root for the word samui, which means “hidden.” They are country and abroad. If ever there is a time for therefore able to broaden the meaning of the original verse to a teaching humanity to take stock of itself, it is now. about how we find blessings in life. The High Holy Days always signal This teaching reminds me of quantum mechanics. Apparently, when opportunities to begin anew. They provide you get to the subatomic level, matter itself seems to exist only in potential. us with time and space to consider what we As far as we human beings can tell, the only time matter settles down and may do to make things better in the next becomes something that we can measure and quantify is the moment when year. The liturgy’s dramatic reminders of the we humans observe it. Prior to that moment of conscious measuring, matter fragility of life and relationships provide us and energy—reality itself—contains a range of possibilities. I feel like the with a chance to contemplate the delicate ancient rabbis were onto this idea when they applied the notion of hidden balance between what we can control and blessing to the act of measuring grain. what we cannot. When I look back on this continued on page 27 past year, it would be easy to feel defeated. However, the essence of these High Holy L’Shana Tova from Your Adas Israel Family! Days for me has become an inherent optimism that what I do, and what we all do, Adas Israel High Holy Days 2016/5777 can make a positive difference for each other With warmth, sincerity, gratitude, and faith, we and the world beyond. invite you to share the holiday season with the As I contemplate the year ahead, I look entire Adas Israel family. May you be inscribed to the abundance of talent, commitment, in the book of life for another wonderful year. energy, and inspiration that Adas Israel’s And may you find much meaning, warmth, and members bring to our community. We are THE DAYS OF AWE 5777 connecting the threads: personal renewal throughout this year’s High ADAS ISRAEL Congregation our home, our heart, our world taking care of each other both within our L’Shana Tova Tikatevu! Holy Day services at Adas Israel. immediate congregation and in the broader Please turn to page 4 for a complete High Holy Day Schedule continued on page 23 and Guide. d 2 • Chronicle • October 2016 The Adas Fund Campaign, Seeking 100% Participation! As you’ve all seen by now, Ryna Cohen and Rita Segerman, longtime champions of the Adas community are chairing this year’s Adas Fund High Holy Day campaign. We are also proud to announce that the following group of Adas Fund champions are partnering with Ryna and Rita as we seek 100% participation in the congregation’s only annual campaign. We hope you will join with them as we all demonstrate our gratitude for the many personal and family journeys Adas Israel’s members, clergy, and staff inspire. Adas Israel cannot function in the wonderful way we have come to count on without this critical support, so we are appreciative of all contributions; truly, no amount is too small. Please share Ryna, Rita and the Champion's good example as we support this campaign, and together, build our spiritual home at Adas Israel. Nancy Weiss, joined 1993 — “There Laurie Aladjem, joined 2001 — “Adas are way too many things I could say as is home to all of us. It started with our to why Adas Israel is my home! When I children. They went to the Gan and had first moved to the DC area from a close- their first taste of having a home away knit Jewish community in Montreal, I from home. But over the years we have all didn’t know how I’d find that supportive, grown closer to Adas, and to our Judaism, close community feeling again. Before in ways we never would have imagined long, I found it at Adas! The community when we first walked through the doors.” embraced us, my daughter joined the Gan, and the rest is Jennie Litvack, joined 1998 — history. Adas is the focal point of my spiritual and communal life “Through 20 years of navigating our and I couldn’t imagine the last 22 years without it.” hectic DC lives, Adas Israel—from Gan Rachel Rosenthal, joined 2008 — “I through b’nai mitzvah to confirmation feel very welcomed at Adas, and I want trips to Israel— has been a warm and to help everyone else feel like Adas is a welcoming home for me, my husband, welcoming home, too—with vibrant com- Rob Satloff, and our three boys, Benji, William, and David. Each munity, spiritual growth, caring support one of us has had our own meaningful channels at Adas that throughout life’s ups and downs, and more.” bring us into community and our Judaism. For me, the founding of the Jewish Mindfulness Center of Washington opened a whole Erin Claxton, joined 2008 — “My new dimension of Judaism—spirituality—and synagogue life family was once asked to describe Adas transformed from a family affair to include a profoundly personal Israel in six words. We chose: Tradition. experience of connection to God and community. That experience Sanctity. Community. Belonging. is most intense for me when I have the honor of blowing shofar. Love. Home. This says it all. Our family And Adas’s remarkable clergy have become like extended family continues to grow and learn together in as they have accompanied me through life’s joys and challenges.” the wonderful, peaceful, and engaging environment that is Adas.” Dennis Yedwab, joined 2011 — “Adas Israel is the place our family comes to be David Waskow, Ketura Persellin & with its community. Adas Israel has been “Adas is our Family, joined 2000 — a touchstone for our family to celebrate family’s second home, the shul where important events and to solidify our our kids have grown up and learned connection to the larger community, to read Torah, lead services, and— whether at Tot Shabbat, the Gan, High most important—be part of a close Holiday Services, or the Purim Shpiel.” community. Since the week we moved to DC, we’ve been steadfast members of Adina Mendelson, joined 1971 — “Adas the Traditional Egalitarian Minyan. Our Adas family extends far is the place where we have davened beyond the minyan—to the inspiring and thoughtful clergy; to with family and friends, where we have the brilliant and welcoming administrative staff; and, never to be learned and grown Jewishly, and where forgotten, to the maintenance and security staff who organize we have led and participated fully in this our prayer spaces, prepare prayer books and Torahs for shiva community. Our connections to Adas— minyanim and happy occasions, and have brought smiles to our our spiritual home—are deep and broad, kids’ faces during all our years at Adas.” totally intertwined with our lives.” d Chronicle • October 2016 • 3 THE DAYS OF AWE SERVICES SCHEDULE holidays@adas EREV ROSH HASHANAH Sunday, October 2 KOL NIDRE Tuesday, October 11 COMMUNITY SUNSET SERVICE 7:15-8:15pm MINCHA 5:45pm Community Service w/ Full Clergy • Charles E. Smith Sanctuary Community Service w/ Hazzan Goldsmith • Biran Beit Midrash KOL NIDRE 6:30pm 1 FIRST DAY ROSH HASHANAH Monday, October 3 Led by Rabbi Steinlauf & Cantor Brown • Charles E. Smith Sanctuary Led by Rabbis Alexander & Rotenberg • Kay Hall SHACHARIT 8:15am Lay-Led, Traditional Egalitarian Minyan • Gewirz Beit Am Community Service w/ Full Clergy • Charles E.
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