TEMPLE TIDINGS MEMBER UNION for Volume 38, Issue 3 September 2017 Elul-Tishrei 5777 REFORM JUDAISM September 2017 Elul-Tishrei 5777 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat JUDAICA SHOP IS OPEN Student Cantor Daniel Geigerman in HHI 1 Candle Lighting 7:44 PM 2 Parashat Ki Teitzei October 13-15 February 23-25 EVERY WEEKDAY FROM 7:30 PM Shabbat 10 AM Bar Mitzvah / Shabbat 1:00-3:00 PM November 3-5 March 30-April 1 Service Service Call for appointment at other times December 15-17 April 20-22 Elaine Lust: (843) 837-1639 January 26-28 May 18-20 3 4 5 6 7 8 Candle Lighting 7:34 PM 9 Parashat Ki Tavo 10 AM Sisterhood 3 PM The Hunger 6 PM Kabbalat P&P Meeting Coalition Shabbat Service 3 PM Endowment Trustees 7PM MOTL with Rabbi 4 PM Music Meeting Guttman 6:45 PM Reserved 7 PM High Holy Day Choir Rehearsal 10 11 12 13 14 15 Candle Lighting 7:25 PM 16 Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech Leil Selichot 9 AM Religious School 10 AM Ritual 10 AM Interfaith 4 PM Music Meeting 10 AM Sisterhood Board 6 PM Family Shabbat 8 PM Selichot Dessert 9:15 AM Parent Brunch Committee Convocation 6:45 PM Reserved 3 PM Fund Raising Service Reception & Learn 2 PM Executive Committee 7 PM High Holy Day Committee 9 PM Selichot Discussion led 11 AM BeachBrunch Committee Meeting Choir Rehearsal 7 PM Task Force on by Rabbi Bloom 11:30 AM Boker Tov 4 PM Board 11 AM Men’s Club Financial Structure 10 PM Havdalah and Selichot 12:15 PM Hebrew Meeting Board Meeting Service School 7 PM High Holy Day 12:15 PM Men’s Choir Rehearsal Club Luncheon 17 18 19 20 Erev Rosh Hashanah 21 Rosh Hashanah 22 Candle Lighting 7:15 PM 23 Parashat Ha’Azinu OFFICE CLOSED Rosh Hashanah Shabbat Shuvah 9 AM Religious School 7 PM High Holy 8 PM Erev Rosh 10 AM Rosh Hashanah 10 AM Rosh Hashanah 10 AM Torah Study with SC 9:30 AM Religious Day Choir HaShanah Service Morning Service with Morning Service - Geigerman School Committee Rehearsal with HHD Choir w/ HHD Choir with SC 2nd Day with SC 11:30 AM Boker Tov SC Geigerman Geigerman Geigerman 12:15 PM Hebrew 10:30 AM Rosh Hashanah 7:30 PM Shabbat School Youth Service with Shuvah Service with 4 PM Teshuvah Adriana Urato Torah Discussion Walking Meditation at 2 PM Rosh Hashanah with SC Geigerman Dolphin Head Rec Family Service with SC area in HHP Geigerman HHD Food Collection 3:30 PM Tashlich at Jarvis September 21-30 Creek Park with SC Geigerman 24 Tzom Gedaliah 25 26 27 28 29 Candle Lighting 7:05 PM 30 Yom Kippur Erev Yom Kippur 9 AM Religious School 4 PM Music Meeting 8 PM Erev Yom 10 AM Yom Kippur Morning 11:15 AM Boker Tov 6:45 PM Reserved Kippur / Kol Nidre Service with SC Geigerman & with SC Geigerman 7 PM High Holy Day Service with SC HHD Choir Choir Rehearsal Geigerman and HHD 10:30 AM Yom Kippur Youth Service with Adriana Urato Choir 2 PM Yom Kippur Family Service with SC Geigerman 3:30 PM Yom Kippur Afternoon Service with SC Geigerman (Including Torah & Haftarah- Service) 5 PM Yom Kippur / Yizkor & Ne’ilah (Concluding) Service with SC Geigerman (MOTL) 6:30 PM Yom Kippur / Break the HHD Food Collection September 21-30 Fast with SC Geigerman-All 2 Saints Episcopal Church Temple Tidings Save The Date for October Date Time October Events 13 6:00 PM Simchat Torah Service & Consecration with 1 9:00 AM Religious School SC Geigerman Sukkah construction 14 10:00 AM Torah Study with Rabbi Bloom & with SC 11:15 AM Boker Tov with SC Geigerman Geigerman 12:15 PM Hebrew School 15 9:00 AM Religious School 2 10:00 AM Ritual Committee 11:15 AM Special Boker Tov Service with SC 3:30 PM Set up for the Executive Committee Geigerman–Torah/Creation 6:00 PM High School Seminar 12:15 PM Hebrew School 3 2:00 PM Women’s Prayer Service 16 9:00 AM Men’s Club Golf Tournament 7:00 PM Sisterhood Game Night 3:30 PM SAC Meeting 4 10:00 AM Sisterhood Executive Board Meeting 7:00 PM Shabbat Choir Rehearsal 1:00 PM Care Committee 18 4:00 PM Music Meeting 3:00 PM Endowment Trustees 7:00 PM Shabbat Choir Rehearsal 4:00 PM Music Meeting 19 10:00 AM Sisterhood Board Meeting 6:00 PM Dine Around–The Cottage 1:00 PM Membership Committee 5 ALL DAY OFFICE CLOSED 3:00 PM Sisterhood Book Club 10:00 PM Festival of Sukkot Service 20 7:30 PM Shabbat Service with Torah Discussion 6 7:30 PM Shabbat Service–Chol HaMoed Sukkot 22 9:00 AM Religious School (Intermediate Sabbath) 11:00 AM Blessing of the Animals 8 9:00 AM Religious School 12:15 PM Hebrew School 9:15 AM Religious School Committee 24 10:00 AM Aging Thoughtfully 10:00 AM Rabbi & Students in Sukkah with Lunch 7:00 PM Educational Program: Anti-Semitism 9 1:00 PM Communications Committee 25 4:00 PM Music Meeting 4:00 PM Board Meeting 26 7:00 PM Comedy Club Evening 10 12:00 PM Men’s Club Luncheon 27 7:30 PM Shabbat Service 11 4:00 PM Music Meeting 29 9:00 AM Religious School 12 ALL DAY OFFICE CLOSED 11:15 AM Special Boker Tov Service–Abraham 10:00 AM Yizkor Service–Last day of Sukkot 12:15 PM Hebrew School The Journey to Teshuvah Begins… Selichot Service join us for an enriching experience 8:00 PM Selichot Dessert Reception, sponsored by CBY Sisterhood Days of Awe 9:00 PM Selichot Discussion led by Rabbi Bloom “Reflections from Germany– Saturday, Is repentance real in Germany today?” 10:00 PM Havdalah & Selichot Services featuring poetry by Rabbi Bloom, September 16 Soloist Adriana Urato, Accompanist Tom Tiehel & poetry readers 3 Temple Tidings Rabbi ’s Message A congregant once said to me that they wanted me to speak from the pulpit about spiritual issues and not about history. I interpreted the sentiment to reflect a need to hear about matters of the soul or the inner world that we all face every day inside ourselves. I am sympathetic with the request because I too explore the deep recesses of my own soul with all my flaws and disappointments as well as the progress I see in myself on issues in my personal life. The high holy days should direct us to address those issues and no doubt I too shall give them their due during this upcoming high holy days season. What I take issue with is that history is all about spirituality. We need history and we need to face history as we face ourselves in a larger context of being a community let alone a nation. I have always loved the study of history since I was a child and then went on to major in history at the University of Wisconsin. I studied history throughout my rabbinic education at Hebrew Union College and on to doctoral work. The years of studying Jewish history have given me a sense of deep spirituality with God and my people. This is one of the reasons I see the importance of sending our teens to the March of the Living Program where they visit Auschwitz Concentration Camp and then off to Israel. Doesn’t that deserve our attention during the high holy What Judaism has taught me is that history is our theology days and during the rest of the calendar year? as much as theology is our history. My recent trip to When, for example, I entered Berlin’s Pergamon Berlin provided Linda and me a unique opportunity to Museum and beheld the gates of Ishtar, which were the visit a city with a great deal of Jewish history besides the royal gates into the Babylonian kingdom, I imagined the obvious horror of the Nazi period. Standing in the middle Jewish exiles from Babylon entering them after their exile of Ravenbruck concentration camp while I was watching from Jerusalem. When I celebrated Shabbat at the the Nazis march in Charlottesville was a spiritual moment, Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin, I imagined the Jews of not in the inspirational sense of the term. It reminded me Berlin sitting in those seats, celebrating the same holidays, of the importance of remembering our history and singing the same songs and worrying after Hitler’s rise to invoking it as part of our learning to be more aware of the power. This is all part of my spiritual life as well. Sermons place of the Jewish people in America and around the during the high holy days or the rest of the year should world. balance different kinds of spiritual moments. The inner This, too, has a place in our reflections during the high soul and the history of our people which also can impact holy days. We are facing unique challenges again from our spiritual life as well. hate groups who use history against the Jewish people On behalf of Linda, Leah, Michael and myself, L’Shana today. Our spiritual moment demands that we educate Tova Tikatevu v’ Tikatemu, may you be written and ourselves and see the connection to that history of our sealed in the book of life. forbearers with our own lives. How we live and act as a result of the role of history in our lives is going to matter, Rabbi Brad L.