6930 Alpha Road / Dallas, Texas 75240-3698 / 972-661-1810 / FAX 972-661-2636 SEPTEMBER 2007 ELUL 5767/TISHRI 5768 VOLUME 42 NO. 3 High Holy Days Services Schedule 2007-5768 May the New Year bring you and yours health, happiness and peace. Selichot Saturday, September 8 8:00pm Study Program - Chapel and Library 9:00pm Dessert Reception - Adult Lounge 9:45pm Music Program - Adult Lounge 10:30pm Service - Sanctuary Rosh Hashanah Wednesday, September 12 5:00pm Family Service (1) (Open to the community) 8:00pm *** Evening Service (2) Thursday, September 13 10:00am *** Morning Service (3) 2:00pm Family Service (1) 3:00pm Tashlich Service Kever Avot Sunday, September 16 11:00am Memorial Service Our Rabbis and Cantor will conduct this service at the Temple Shalom (south) section of Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park. Yom Kippur Friday, September 21 5:00pm Family Service (1) (Open to the community) 8:00pm *** Evening Service (2) Saturday, September 22 10:00am *** Morning Service (3) 12:30pm Symposium - Epstein Chapel 1:45pm Musical Program - Epstein Chapel 2:00pm Family Service (1) 3:00pm *** Afternoon Service 4:30pm *** Yizkor Service 5:15pm *** Concluding Service Sukkot Wednesday, September 26 7:30pm Festival Service Thursday, September 27 10:30am First Day of Sukkot Service Simchat Torah Wednesday, October 3 7:30pm Festival Service Thursday, October 4 10:30am Service – Yizkor will be recited (1) Family Services are designed for families with children infants through 3rd grade, and are open to all members and their families. These services will be led by clergy, using a prayer book and a liturgy that is age appropriate. (2) Evening Services are designed for adults, and are open to their children 4th grade and older. (3) Morning Services are designed for adults, and are open to their children 4th grade and older. *** Child care is available during this service for children of members only. Reservations are required. SHABBAT SERVICES New Shabbat Service Times for Friday Evenings SATURDAY SUNDAY September 1 September 16 Begin This Month 10:30AM – Epstein Chapel 11:00AM Kever Avot Service It has been our practice at Temple Shabbat Service Sparkman Hillcrest Shalom for many years now that, (Northwest Hwy just east of Hillcrest) throughout the summer until Labor FRIDAY Day, the Friday Evening Services begin September 7 FRIDAY at 6:30 PM and end at 7:30 PM. Many Nitzavim-Vayelech September 21 of our congregants have expressed a Deuteronomy 31:7-30 Kol Nidre desire to have the wonderful 6:30 PM 6:30PM Service – Epstein Chapel 5:00PM Family Service 8:00PM Service – Epstein Chapel 8:00PM Evening Service services continue throughout the year, not just during the summer months. SATURDAY SATURDAY After considerable discussion with the September 8 September 22 Clergy, Worship and Ritual Committee 10:30AM – Sanctuary Yom Kippur Day and the Board of Trustees, I am happy Bat Mitzvah of Kimberly Kooker 10:00AM Morning Service to announce that a schedule of services Daughter of 12:30PM Symposium – for Friday evening that includes a 6:30 Kirk Kooker and Jill Weinberg Epstein Chapel PM service and an 8:00 PM service 10:30AM – Epstein Chapel 1:45PM Musical Program – has been created which will commence Shabbat Service Epstein Chapel this month. Selichot 2:00PM Family Service st 8:00PM Study Program – 3:00PM Afternoon Service 1 Friday – 6:30 PM and 8:00 PM nd Epstein Chapel 4:30PM Yizkor Service 2 Friday – 6:30 PM rd 9:00PM Dessert Reception – 5:15PM Concluding Service 3 Friday – 6:30 PM and 8:00 PM Adult Lounge Break Fast 4th Friday – 6:30 PM 9:45PM Music Program – 5th Friday – 6:30 PM Adult Lounge WEDNESDAY Tot Shabbat Services will continue 10:30PM Service - Sanctuary September 26 to be on the 2nd Friday of specified Sukkot months at 6:00 PM. In addition, Sukkot, WEDNESDAY 7:30PM Festival Service - September 12 Sanctuary Simchat Torah, Hanukkah, Passover, Erev Rosh Hashanah Shavuot and Synaplex (more on this 5:00PM Family Service THURSDAY one soon!) services will begin at 7:30 8:00PM Evening Service September 27 PM. 10:30AM First Day of Sukkot We look forward to worshipping with THURSDAY Service – Epstein Chapel you and sharing in the joy of song and September 13 praise. Please join us and bring a friend Rosh Hashanah Day FRIDAY as our spirits are lifted Heavenward. 10:00AM Morning Service September 28 Rabbi Paley 2:00PM Family Service 6:30PM Service – Epstein Chapel 3:00PM Tashlich Service SATURDAY FRIDAY September 29 Adult Choir September 14 10:30AM - Sanctuary Rehearsals: Ha’azinu Bar Mitzvah of Austin Lapensohn Deuteronomy 32:1-52 Son of Tuesdays, 7:30-9:00pm Tot Shabbat Service David and Michelle Ditzenberger September 4, 11, 18 6:00PM – Epstein Chapel 10:30AM – Epstein Chapel Youth Choirs Adult Service Shabbat Service Rehearsals: 6:30PM – Epstein Chapel 5:00PM - Sanctuary Sundays Bar Mitzvah of Harrison Bleiberg September 9, 16, 30 SATURDAY Son of September 15 Lawrence and Elizabeth Bleiberg Shir Joy 10:30AM – Epstein Chapel (3rd-6th graders) Shabbat Service 11:20am BABYSITTING is available Kol Shalom for ages 1 yr. – 5 yrs. at all (7th-10th graders) All Regular Friday Services are Friday Evening Services 1:00pm followed by a lovely Oneg Shabbat. except Tot Shabbat. Page www.templeshalomdallas.org September 007 I Was Just Thinking... I’ve heard it said, “I’m not 5. Pikuach Nefesh – Saving a soul. We believe that as really religious but I like to think of long as one is healthy there is reason to celebrate. myself as a good Jew.” This line We toast, “L’Chaim!” “To life!”. We do not take references an unarticulated code health, the number one blessing, for granted, and that many Jewish Americans try to we feel the miraculous nature of every recovery. follow – even judge themselves by 6. Mensch – Being a really good person. We aspire to – a code that overlaps but is not be a mensch, someone who acts with compassion synonymous with the requirements toward others. In ourselves and in others, we of Jewish law or traditional practice. value the human qualities of being attentive, I call that code “The Ten Jewish empathetic, and discreet, and of making sacrifices Sensibilities.” These are particularly when necessary. We try to be good friends and Jewish ways of thinking about what it means to be neighbors. human, ways that guide and orient a person’s actions and 7. Shalom Bayit – Keeping the peace. Certain choices. Knowing decisions or gestures the code can help us are made not only anticipate how we’ll “The Ten Jewish Sensibilities…are particularly because they are lead our lives and Jewish ways of thinking about what it means to appropriate but also make decisions. As be human, ways that guide and orient a person’s because they serve we begin this new actions and choices. Knowing the code can help to keep the peace, year, and begin to us anticipate how we’ll lead our lives and make settle differences, make real changes decisions.” keep a family in our lives, perhaps together, and create the following will harmony instead of begin to help narrow divisiveness. the distance between what we hope for and what we do 8. Tikkun Olam – We hold that each person should in our lives. I would like to thank my teacher Dr. Vanessa find ways to make the world a better and more just Ochs for her thoughts in this matter. place. Engaging in world repair, we may feel as if we are “doing a mitzvah,” doing something that we The Ten Sensibilities for a New Year are divinely ordained to do even though it is our choice. We feel that doing good works justifies our 1. Havdalah – Making distinctions matters to us. They having been put on this earth. may be temporal — such as making a distinction 9. Yesh Tikvah – Maintaining hope. We try to hang between special times and everyday times. We on to hope and resist despair. In romance, we take calendars seriously: we honor vacation time, believe we will meet our intended one. We dream family time, and birthdays. While we celebrate expansively and even set off on uncertain journeys the blessings of everyday life, we understand that with feelings of promise on the horizon. At the same special occasions have a holy dimension that we time, we accept that some things seem fated not to mark. be. 2. Kavod – Honor. We are aware that we do not 10. Zechut Avot – Memory of our ancestors. We feel live in a social vacuum and that our actions have connected to the people who came before us. We consequences. We want to be respected, thus draw insight and wisdom from the experiences of we aspire to act in ways that will bring honor to our ancestors and seek to honor them with our ourselves, our families and our people. actions. 3. Teshuvah – Turning. We believe it is possible to reflect upon one’s life, turn it around, and experience These are just a few. There are many more and I forgiveness from others while also feeling a sense pray that this year will be a year filled with happiness, of renewal for ourselves. We give ourselves and wholeness and peace. Debbie, Molly, Samuel and I wish others the opportunity for change. you and yours a Shanah Tovah – a sweet new year. 4. B’tzelem Elohim – Created in God’s image. We seek ways to conduct ourselves and to treat others Rabbi Andrew Paley with the greatest of respect in order to preserve our [email protected] own dignity and the dignity of each individual and to prevent humiliation.