Temple Shomer Emunim April 2018 The Temple Bulletin, USPS #537-680, April 2018 Vol. 114, Issue 4 Published monthly by the Temple Shomer Emunim, 6453 Sylvania Ave., Sylvania OH 43560. Periodicals Postage Paid at Sylvania Ohio. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Temple Bulletin, 6453 Sylvania Ave., Sylvania OH 43560 Join us Friday, WRJ Area Day Shabbat th April 13 at Saturday, April 28 th 6:00PM 9:30AM-1:00PM For a Special A Very Special Shabbat Morning Evening See Page 3 for details in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Dr. Samuel Adler, April Worship Schedule Our congregant and world-renowned composer Friday, April 6th Passover Yizkor Service Begins at 10:30AM Join us for this very special musical evening as we celebrate a Rabbi Weinstein will officiate remarkable man who has shared so much with all of us. Dr. Adler is a world-renowned composer, scholar, conductor and teacher and Shabbat Service Begins at 6:00PM considered one of the most influential composition teachers of the Rabbi Weinstein will speak: twentieth century. Joining in this tribute to Dr. Adler are: Poland’s New Holocaust Law Mikel Kuehn, Professor of Composition, BGSU Deborah Norin-Kuehn, Assistant Professor of Voice, Friday, April 13th Heidelberg University Shabbat Service Begins at 6:00PM th Andrew Pelletier, Professor of Horn, BGSU Special Evening in Honor of the 90 Birthday of Dr. Samuel Adler, our congregant and world- David Saltzman, Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium, BGSU renowned composer Robert Rae, Musical Director and Accompanist of Shabbat Dinner following services Temple Shomer Emunim & Blessed Sacrement Kol Zimrah-Temple Shomer Emunim Volunteer Choir Friday, April 20th Temple Children’s Choir Shabbat Service Begins at 6:00PM Cantor Jen Roher will officiate And More. th A traditional Shabbat Dinner will follow Friday, April 27 Adults $14 | Children 10 & Under $7 Shabbat Service Begins at 6:00PM RSVP to [email protected] or 419/885-3341 Healing Shabbat by Monday, April 9th Rabbi Weinstein will speak Dr. Samuel Adler was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2001, and then inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in October 2008. He is the composer Temple Office Hours of over 400 published works, including 5 operas, 6 symphonies, 12 Tuesday-Friday, 9:30AM-5:30PM concerti, 9 string quartets, 5 oratorios and many other orchestral, The Office will be closed Friday, April 6th Continued on page 5 Rabbi Sam Weinstein Making Chametz Cease! The preparations for the Passover Seder meal, I am often told by those cooking the meal, are arduous. Setting the table for guests, preparing the festival meal, ensuring that the Seder plate has its special symbolic foods from charoset to salt water to maror, Passover is a holiday associated with planning and preparation. Our rabbis reinforce this message of necessary planning if we are to observe the dietary imperatives of Passover. According to our sages and adhering to the stringent biblical mandate that requires us to “make leaven cease from our houses,” they created a strict process to ensure the fulfillment of this imperative. To help guarantee the removal of chametz, food products unfit for Passover from our homes, the Talmudic sages not only decreed (Pesachim 29b) that any food with leavening still remaining in our homes are forever forbidden for consumption, but they also instructed that food fit for Passover, even if contaminated by chametz only to the proportion of one/sixtieth, made the item entirely inedible! The first step in “making leaven cease” from our homes is called “bedikat” chametz, the “search” for chametz. While Biblical law simply requires the “bitul,” the simple annulment of chametz, and not necessarily the removal (Pesachim 4b), the stringency of the Torah was for the rabbis an opportunity add additional observances and this is exactly what they did with the “search” for chametz. Just prior to the beginning of Passover, the rabbis instructed that the home be searched by candlelight, which enabled a thorough search of the cracks and crevices in the home. Once the chametz was gathered, it was to be burned. In this fashion, and with an additional blessing annulling ownership of any chametz not seen, chametz was made to “cease from our houses.” While the emphasis on Passover preparation is primarily depicted in rabbinic literature as the physical removal of the chametz, the rabbis did not overlook the spiritual ramifications of chametz removal.They were quick to teach that chametz, representing the impure, must clearly be removed from the house, but remind us that spiritual chametz, those negative inclinations, also be eliminated from our lives. Clearing out these spiritual impurities, making these “cease” from our lives, was for our sages a component of Passover observance that was not to be ignored. Can we be truly free, can we experience the redemption of Passover if we are enslaved by hatred, by detrimental behaviors, by attitudes that make us suspicious of others? Can we be free if we refuse to jettison the spiritual impurities that perpetuate family fractures? Can we be free if we cling to ideas that hinder our growth as human beings? Smugness, detrimental memories, greed, gossip, bitterness and the desire for retribution, blaming others for our inability to be successful or fulfilled—this spiritual chametz needs to be eradicated, this chametz needs to “cease” if Passover is to be properly observed and personal freedom realized. As we begin the process of searching our homes for unwanted chametz, we traditionally recite the blessing, “Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who has commanded us concerning the removal of chametz.” The search for chametz in our homes is an integral part of our Passover commemoration. More important, though, is making sure that we observe the command to do the difficult work of searching for and removing the spiritual chametz that keeps us chained to everything that is deleterious in life. Bible & Bagels Coffee with the Clergy A very happy, sweet and spiritually liberating Passover to you and your dear ones. Sunday, Wednesday, April 29th April 4th Rabbi Sam Weinstein at 9:30AM at 11:00AM TEMPLE SHOMER EMUNIM IS PLEASED TO HOST A VERY SPECIAL SHABBAT MORNING AREA DAY CENTRAL DISTRICT WOMEN OF REFORM JUDAISM SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH Experience the energy during a key-note speech, panel, and in-depth discussions from our own inspiring women who will share their stories and insights with us. 9:30am–10am KEYNOTE SPEAKER Bagels and Coffee Sharon S. Speyer, J.D. President of the Northwest Ohio Region 10am–10:30am for Huntington National Bank Shabbat Service PANEL Dr. Susan Federman, M.D. 10:30am–11am Dr. Jeanine Huttner, M.D Keynote Address CLOSING SPEAKER 11am–12noon Judge Connie Zemmelman Panel Discussion 12–1pm Lunch 1pm–1:30pm Closing Speaker SHARON S. SPEYER, J.D. JUDGE CONNIE ZEMMELMAN DR. JEANINE HUTTNER DR. SUSAN FEDERMAN April Religious School News April Religious School News Rescheduled: Temple Tots th Jewish Disability Awareness and Sunday, April 15 9:30AM Inclusion Month Program Celebrate Israel’s 70th Birthday with Miss Jodie and Miss Sunday, April 8 Rochelle at Shomer Emunim Don’t forget to turn in your Camp This program is for students and parents Kayitz forms! Camp is June 11-15! *our preschool students will have regular class that day. Parents are encouraged to attend program! SAVE the DATE! Woodlawn Cemetery Clean-up Confirmation is Sunday, May 20 at 9:30AM Class composite will be taken May 17 at 5:15 Sunday, April 22 Mandatory Rehearsals: May 6 and May 17 Family Participation Day! Hebrew School Graduation is Wednesday, 10:00-11:00AM May 16 at 5:00PM Grab your rakes, clippers, gloves, and trash bags and meet Rabbi Weinstein and the Save the Date for Israel at 70! Religious School staff at section 38 of Sunday, April 29, 2018 Woodlawn Cemetery and help us spruce up 11:00AM-1:00PM (after Religious School) the Jewish section. Join us to celebrate the 70th birthday of the state of Israel! Kosher falafel truck, bounce This is the day of the Glass City Marathon. houses, rock wall and more! No classes at the Temple! Please let me know if your family will be joining us no later than Contact Hallie Freed at [email protected] for Friday, April 20! more information! Yom HaShoah April Calendar Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday, April 4: No Hebrew School Sunday, April 8: Religious School 9:15-11:30AM Jewish Religious School Observance Disability Awareness3 Program Sunday, April 15 Wednesday, April 11: Hebrew School 4:20-6:00PM 10:30AM (during Religious School) Sunday, April 15: Religious School 9:15-11:30AM; Religious School will begin and end at the normal time 9:30AM Temple Tots Wednesday, April 18: Hebrew School 4:20-6:00PM We are having a trio of musicians come to play, speak, Sunday, April 22: 10:00-11:00AM cemetery clean-up at and interact with our religious school students. The Woodlawn-meet at Woodlawn No classes at Temple program will take place in the Chapel and last Wednesday, April 25: Hebrew School 4:20-6:00PM approximately 45 minutes. Sunday, April 29: 9:15-11:30AM Religious School Continued from front page American String Quartet, to name only (1975-1976); he has been a MacDowell a few. His works have been performed Fellow for five years and; during his band, chamber and choral works and by the St. Louis Symphony, the Los second trip to Chile, he was elected songs, which have been performed all Angeles Philharmonic, the Berlin to the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts over the world.