4 Upcoming Events 6 The Buzz 7 Chai-er Learning 8 The Game Plan 9 Cantorial Corner 10 Simcha Station 11 Yahrzeits 12 Presidential Address 14 Donations Announcements! While the temple building is closed, you can still reach all of our staff members. Call the temple line and it will ring through to our cell phones. Zoom Instructions Or www.zoom.com 4 May Events - Everything ‘s Online! Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat ALL ZOOM 1 2 LINKS AND 9:30am— 6pm— Shabbat Songs w/ Havdalah w/ PASSWORDS Marc WILL BE 3pm— the Bar-Lev SENT VIA Parents: 6th-8th Family 3:30pm— EMAIL! Parents: 9th-12th 6:30pm— Shabbat Services 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 11am— 10:30am— 9:30am— 6pm— Virtual Religious Yoga w/ Songs w/ Shabbat Songs w/ Circle Time Superheros II Marc Havdalah w/ School Rachel Rabbi B w/ Rabbi L 2:30pm— w/ Emily 11am— the Bar-Lev Drs & Nurses 3pm— 3pm— 3pm— 3pm— Parents: Pre-K Family 3pm— What are you Self Defense 2 Book Folding Check-In with 11:30am— Essential Workers reading? 7:30pm— 8:30pm— the Rabbis Parents: 1st-5th 4pm— 6:30pm— Foodies Trivia Night Healing Service Shabbat Services 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 9am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 3pm— 9:30am— 6pm— Virtual Yoga w/ Songs w/ Nerd Round Check-In with Shabbat Songs Havdalah w/ Religious Rachel Rabbi B Table w/ the Rabbis w/ Marc the Bar-Lev School 8pm— 3pm— Rabbi L & 7:30pm— 6:30pm— Family 4pm— Lag B’Omer Making a Bobby Gail Rose in Shabbat Healing Campfire w/ Family Tree w/ 3pm— Song! Services Service Amanda Rabbi B Pictionary! 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 9am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 9:30am— 6pm— Virtual Yoga w/ Songs w/ Pet Meet-Up Unorthodox Shabbat Songs Havdalah w/ Rabbi B 3pm— Discussion w/ Marc the Bar-Lev Religious Rachel TBS Building School 3pm— 3pm— History & Tour 3pm— 6:30pm— Family 4pm— Singing the Cooking w/ 7:30pm— Check-In with Shabbat Healing ‘60s w/ Nick Kids Pastels & Pinot the Rabbis Services Service w/ Jodi 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 4pm— 10:30am— 10:30am— 10:30am— 3pm— 10am— 6pm— Healing Service Yoga w/ Shavuot Morning Songs w/ Disney Movie Check-In with Service Havdalah w/ Rachel Rabbi B Reviews the Rabbis 11:30am— the Bar-Lev 3pm— 2pm— 3pm— 6:30pm— Shabbat Songs w/ Family 31 Veteran Shavuot Ruth Mask Making Erev Shavuot Marc 4pm— Stories w/ Text Study w/ Judy Services 6:30pm— Shabbat Services Healing Service Rabbi B 5 TBS CONNECT DESCRIPTIONS Welcoming Shabbat in Song with Marc, The Marvelous Toy! - Join Marc for some uplifting songs to welcome in Shabbat. Affinity Group: Quarantine Parents of Middle Schoolers (6th-8th Grade) - Join other Middle School parents from our congregation on Zoom to connect and recharge Affinity Group: Quarantine Parents of High Schoolers (9th-12th Grade) - Join other High School parents from our congregation on Zoom to connect and recharge Erev Shabbat Services - Shabbat Services via Facebook Live Havdalah with the Bar-Lev Family - Join the chaos as we say goodbye to Shabbat and welcome in the coming week. Affinity Group: Doctors & Nurses - Join other healthcare professionals in our congregation on Zoom to connect and recharge Affinity Group: Essential Workers During Corona - Join other essential workers in our congregation on Zoom to connect Congregational Healing Service - A brief healing service on Zoom! We will sing our way into healing and comfort. Yoga with Rachel Murray - Join Yoga instructor Rachel Murray for a mind-clearing Yoga session What Are You Reading Zoom Meeting - Join us on Zoom to discuss what you have been reading during quarantine Morning Song Session with Rabbi Benjy - A window into the Bar-Lev craziness as we sing songs and tell stories. Self Defense 102 with Jill Will - Learn self defense with retired NA Police Officer Jill Will! Clear some space to move around and follow along. Affinity Group: Foodies in the Time of Corona - Join other foodie congregants on Zoom and connect over food! Circle Time with Emily Hartman - Emily will be leading songs for our youngest friends The Art of Book Folding - Follow along with Rhona Jacobson, Gail's sister, to learn the art of book folding! TBS Trivia Night - Join us for a fun night of Virtual Trivia! Jewish Superheroes Part 2 with Rabbi Lenette - Join Rabbi Lenette as she talks more about the world of Jewish Superheroes! Weekly Check-In with the Rabbis - Join Rabbi B and Rabbi Lenette for a good old fashioned hang out session. We can discuss what's happening and support one another! Affinity Group: Quarantine Parents of Pre-K - Join other Pre-K parents from our congregation on Zoom to recharge Affinity Group: Quarantine Parents of Elementary Schoolers (1st-5th Grade) - Join other Elementary School parents from our congregation on Zoom to connect and recharge Lag B’Omer Campfire with Rabbi B - Join Rabbi B around a virtual campfire as we learn about Lag B’Omer Intro to Making a Family Tree with Amanda - Interested in Genealogy but don’t know where to start? Join Amanda as she helps you get started with resources and tips for both beginners and experienced family historians Nerd Round Table with Rabbi Lenette and Bobby - Join the nerdiest of the TBS staff in a discussion of comic books, Star Wars, and all things nerd culture! Zoom Pictionary - Join us on Zoom for a fun and silly game of Pictionary! Gail Rose in Song - Come listen to Gail Rose put on a show! Singing the ’60s with Nick - Join Nick Ciranni for a great sing-a-long with some groovy tunes! Cooking with Kids - Learn how to get your kids (safely) involved in the kitchen! Pet Meet-Up on Zoom - Join us on Zoom and show us your fur-kids! TBS Building History & Tour - Join Rabbi B as he takes you on a behind the scenes tour of our building… who knows, you might get to see the view from the roof! Pastels & Pinot with Jodi - Jodi Benningfield will teach us how to blend and work with pastels...grab a glass of wine and join in! Unorthodox Discussion - Have you watched Unorthodox on Netflix? Come join in the discussion. Veteran Stories - Rabbi B will share some inspiring stories of Veterans Shavuot Ruth Text Study - Join Rabbi Lenette for a great text study and lighthearted complaining about lactose intolerance Disney Movie Reviews - Find out what’s hot on Disney+! Mask Making with Judy - Mask Maker, Mask Maker, make me a mask! Judy Ankerman will teach how to sew our own masks! Erev Shavuot Services Shavuot Morning Service 6 The Buzz with Rabbi B Running (or walking) the Omer Marathon A few days ago, during his daily press conference, I heard Governor DeWine yesterday remind us that right now we are in a marathon, not in a sprint. Things aren’t going to magically be all better when the first businesses are allowed to open during the beginning of May. And just because we are showing good results so far, it doesn’t mean we should ease up and go back to how we’ve always done things. I have never run a marathon. I would probably make it a mile or so and then be searching for La Croix. But Lauren has run many half-marathons, as have my brother and sister in law. And from them I’ve learned some important lessons. When you’re beginning a marathon, it’s much better to focus on a couple miles at a time. Think about your breathing. Focus on your stride. If there’s any way to enjoy the journey, now’s the time to do it. That is the same in this pandemic. We can’t focus only on when things will be back to normal, because we have likely a long road ahead. But we can focus on here and now. We can focus on the good that we can do even from inside our homes. Just as this time should be thought of as a marathon, Jewishly, we are in a marathon as well. You have likely heard us talk about the Omer period, the time between the second day of Passover, and the holiday of Shavuot, where we celebrate receiving the Torah, there are 49 days. We are instructed to count each of those 49 days and acknowledge them. An Omer is a measurement of grain that was brought to the Temple after the second day of Passover. The Torah instructs us to count each day from the Omer offering to Shavuot. The big question is why? Why do we specifically mark this time? There is a great explanation from Rabbi Jacob Milgrom who writes the answer lies in the number of days that the Torah tells us to count. Shavu’ot is observed on the fiftieth day. The Hebrew word for fifty: Hamishim. The Arabic Word for fifty: Hamsin. In Israel, a Hamsin is also a weather pattern. It is a rapid drop in the humidity, followed by a ferociously hot desert wind, so destructive that it can wipe out a crop overnight. Nowadays, meteorologists can predict a hamsin before it arrives. Now imagine a time when there were no meteorologists, and the dreaded hamsin could not be predicted. Farmers held their breath for the entire hamsin season, counting each day as a blessing if the hamsin did not come and their crops were not suddenly destroyed.