ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE THE הֵקוֹּל ENDOWED IN MEMORY OF HARRY AND SHIRLEY NACHMAN Vol. 78 No. 4 July - August 2021 Tammuz - Av - Elul 5781 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Mornings : Our Adat Shalom. Sunday - Friday. 8:00 AM Shabbat . 9:00 AM Evenings (Minchah-Maariv): A warm and welcoming Sunday - Friday . 6:00 PM community nurturing Saturdays: July 3, 10, 17. 9:00 PM the Jewish soul for July 24, 31 . 8:45 PM generations. August 7, 14 . 8:30 PM August 21 . 8:15 PM August 28 MINCHAH FOLLOWING MORNING SERVICES Led by distinguished MAARIV & SELICHOT AT CONG. BETH SHALOM 10 PM clergy, educators, and Please read your weekly Shabbat@Adat email or visit adatshalom.org/calendar for video and staff. We are a phone login instructions and any schedule changes. congregation where opportunities for SHABBAT lifelong spiritual July 2 - 3 August 6 - 7 PINCHAS RE’EH exploration, cultural 8:56 PM 8:28 PM growth, friendship, Shabbat ends 9:56 PM Shabbat ends 9:28 PM and learning are July 9 - 10 August 13 - 14 MATOT-MASEI SHOFTIM encouraged. Rosh Chodesh Av 8:18 PM 8:53 PM Shabbat ends 9:18 PM Shabbat ends 9:53 PM We are happy to August 20 - 21 July 16 - 17 KI TEITZEI be back at the DEVARIM 8:08 PM synagogue. Shabbat Chazon Shabbat ends 9:08 PM Erev Tisha B’Av 8:49 PM August 27 - 28 Shabbat ends 9:49 PM KI TAVO 7:56 PM July 23 - 24 Shabbat ends 8:56 PM VA’ETCHANAN Shabbat Nachamu Our doors are open! 8:43 PM Shabbat ends 9:43 PM July 30 -31 EIKEV High Holy Days 8:36 PM 5782 information Shabbat ends 9:36 PM is in this issue! MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT, FROM RABBI AARON BERGMAN JOAN CHERNOFF EPSTEIN I look back on the origins of Adat As the world starts to reopen it is Shalom - even before Rabbi Segal - when our important for each of us to spend some time founders sought a more inclusive, open, and thinking about who we are and who we aspire transparent approach to Conservative Judaism. to be. The High Holidays ask important Those early members came from all over Detroit questions: What matters the most and what and with family origins from many countries. are we doing about it? The time leading up to They brought with them different ideas, the Holidays is an opportunity for us to customs, and languages, but shared a belief in the power a diverse reevaluate and recalibrate our lives, to make sure that we are living group can bring to a synagogue for it to thrive, adapt, and grow. in the best and most meaningful ways possible. Today, as I speak with members I have known for years, and as I The farewell speech by President Shimon Peres, z”l, from July 2014 meet so many new members, I see that same wonderfully uniting, resonated very deeply with me. He talked about the greatness of inclusive philosophy amongst the congregation. And I see the same which Israel is capable, but also what the entire Jewish people commitment to openness. Not only are we open to new ideas and could be. As you begin your own preparations, I hope these words new ways of doing things, but we also welcome members old and are a source of inspiration for your own spiritual journey: new with open arms - figuratively over the last year and a half, but Farewell Address to the Knesset by Shimon Peres physically too very soon, God willing! Israel, this small country, became a truly great state. I offer my sincere thanks to those of you who helped us by completing your questionnaires. I am also grateful to the reopening I know of no other country on the face of the earth or throughout committee who worked in conjunction with the clergy and the board history, which amazed and surprised so much. to determine how and when we can be together. With our Gathering in its people. Making its wilderness bloom. Resurrected “yesterdays” behind us, today we have cautiously and slowly begun from the ruins, surviving a terrible Holocaust. Fighting back in the process to re-enter the life that we all crave. The CDC, along seven wars. Bringing a language back to life. Respecting its with national and local governments, has guided us all along this traditions and adopting modernity. path. With the upmost consideration of a carefully crafted opening, And at the same building a country which continues to develop. A in June we opened our doors for morning minyan and Shabbat, and country which carries values and practices democracy. A country for meetings and gatherings. We will also continue our beautiful without natural resources, which utilized instead the Outdoor Kabbalat Shabbat services on August 6. We are grateful to resourcefulness of its people. Our human resource is far more be planning in-person High Holy Days services and will continue to precious than wells of oil or mines of gold. A country which was make services available via Zoom. You can read more about the established upon a historical core and became an outstanding services and programs being offered in this issue of The Voice. state in the new scientific world. A country of song. A country of Weekly emails will provide more details throughout the summer. literature. A country which seeks peace day and night. This pandemic time has been a struggle for me and for you, and I We are a people that experienced unimaginable agony. And we are feel a moral responsibility to you to re-open in a responsible way. a people that reached the lofty heights of human achievement. We Events and restrictions seem to change by the minute, but our made great efforts. We paid a heavy price. leadership is committed to ensuring your safety and comfort as we inch our way back to more familiar ways of doing things. We will never forget our brothers and sisters who perished in the Holocaust. We will remember those who fell in battle, who brought Adat Shalom has been a place where we feel comfortable and new life to a redeemed people. where we are comforted. A place where we have had roots planted by those before us, and where we have planted our own roots. We returned. We built. We fought. We prayed. Until we began to see Throughout this pandemic we have held out our hands even though contours that even surprised us. We are an ancient people who are we have not been able to touch one another. We have watched and getting older. We are a people, first and foremost, that rebuilds itself time and again. listened and participated from afar. I feel excitement and gratitude building into a sense of renewal for Israel was born as a precedent and created precedents. Despite all of us. We have so much to look forward to this summer: being small in number among the nations, our people carried a welcoming Rabbi Horwitz and Director of Spiritual Care, Rabbi faith as great as any. The first to rebel against prejudice was Nosanwisch and their refreshing approaches to traditional ideas; Moses. A nation that rebelled against Pharaoh. That smashed offering outdoor services and activities to participate in; and seeing idols. That shattered illusions. A nation that walked through the one another’s smiles emerge from face coverings! I encourage you desert to reach its home, its destiny. to read Rabbi Horwitz’s article in this Voice, or drop into one of his We climbed the mountains and came down with the tablets, with Lunchtime Learning sessions; and do some learning and cooking the Ten Commandments which became the foundations upon with Rabbi Nosanwisch’s Pickle Torah, exploring the balance which our nation was built and which were adopted by Western between tradition and progress, while making your own pickles too. civilization. Here we are in the summer of 2021, and we thought we’d be We continue and will continue with this great legacy. There are still together much sooner. We can all cheer now that the doors are idols to be smashed, slaves to free, lives to save and justice to up- again thrown wide open! hold. There is still a world to fix. Even if we remain the minority among the nations. Even if we serve as a target for evil - we will not deviate from our moral heritage. Continued on page 3 2 MESSAGES FROM HAZZAN DANIEL GROSS FROM RABBI DANIEL S. HORWITZ TU B’AV - ISRAEL’S VALENTINE’S DAY GREETINGS ADAT SHALOM FAMILY! According to the Mishna (Tractate It’s a pleasure to have the chance to Ta’anit), the two most festive days of the year share a few words with you via The Voice for were considered to be Yom Kippur and Tu B’Av. the first time. Hard to believe, right? How can Yom Kippur, the For so many of us, the HiHos (as I like to call Day of Atonement, be a happy holiday? the High Holidays) seem to just appear out of According to our sages it was because this holy nowhere. We’re living our daily lives, and then day symbolized God’s forgiveness of Israel for the sin of the golden suddenly it’s “Oh my! Rosh Hashanah is only a few days away!” calf, resulting in the happy occasion of Moses receiving the second And then, we scramble to menu prep and cook, and maybe pick set of tablets containing the ten commandments.