Shabbat Service, 6:00 pm Our Shabbat service in the comfort of your own home! Grab your computer and candles, and we'll join together in virtual community. Services will be hosted on Facebook Live and Zoom.
Bat Mitzvah of Genevieve Marchand Saturday, August 22, 10:00 am
Please join us on zoom as Genevieve Charlotte Marchand, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Marchand, is called as a Bat Mitzvah. Genevieve is a 7th grader at Nova Middle School and loves to read, dance and play with her dog, Barkley. When she is not in school you can find her doing ballet, in a musical theater production, deeply engrossed in a book, participating in her online geography group or laughing at the Simpsons. As a mitzvah, and in the spirit of the times, Genevieve chose to create COVID Shabbat boxes for our TBH elders which she will delivering to homes. Genevieve’s goal is to ensure the people stay safe. Family and friends will be travelling from all over the Internet to share in the celebration.
Rosh Hashanah Is Coming! A Family Elul Workshop Sunday, August 23, 9:30 am
Enjoy a story time, featuring the book Rosh Hashanah is Coming!, followed by a peek at what preparation for Rosh Hashanah looks like in Israel. We'll finish up by making apple prints for Rosh Hashanah cards. Please have an apple, paper and tempera paint available when logging in.
Yubba Dub Dub - Thanks For The Grub: Special foods & how we bless them for Rosh Hashanah A Family Elul Workshop Sunday, August 23 at 11:00 am
Join Sara Eve Sarliker to learn about (and eat) some special foods for Rosh Hashanah, beyond apples and honey. We will learn about Jewish foods from around the world that are used to bring sweetness, success, and plenitude into our lives, and help us express gratitude for our blessings. We will also prepare a holiday recipe or two together.
Sara Eve Sarliker has been providing quality Jewish Education since her Bat Mitzvah in 1982. She has taught at Temple Beth Hatfiloh’s Beit Sefer since the mid-late 2000s.
**This workshop requires pre-registration. The earlier Zoom information shared in the Elul email has changed.
A Mussar Elul Program Monday, August 24 at 6:30 pm
Facilitated by Michele & Richard Jackman. Elul is called “the month of repentance,” “the month of mercy,” and “the month of forgiveness.” We are offering two Mussar opportunities this month in preparation for the High Holy Days at Temple Beth Hatfiloh.
On August 24, we will explore Forgiveness. Forgiveness is a step we can take toward healing ourselves and our relationships from the inevitable wounds that come our way. Join us on Zoom as we study and practice together.
Advancing in Hebrew: High Holiday Edition! Tuesday, August 25, 6:00 p.m.
Our regularly scheduled Hebrew classes will focus on aspects of the Mahzor (High Holiday prayer book). Advancing in Hebrew assumes a reading ability (decoding), but all are welcome regardless of Hebrew level as Rabbi Seth guides us through a close look at the language, grammar and meaning of the High Holiday liturgy.
The Shofar Project: An Elul Intensive Thursday August 27, September 3, 10, 17 at 7:00 - 8:00 pm
A Free Four-Week Online Program from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and its Partner Organizations
TBHers are encouraged to register for The Shofar Project to deepen their Elul experience. Rabbi Seth will host a weekly Thursday night group from 7-8 p.m. to correspond with the program and be a local support and facilitation group.
From IJS: “The upcoming High Holidays will be unlike any most of us have known. We have woken up to our deep interconnection to all people and our own fragility. We have seen more clearly the deep injustice of systems and power structures in our country. We have heard voices pleading for life. Perhaps we are awake in a way we have not been before. How can we maintain and even deepen this awareness as we enter a new year?
“The Shofar Project is a free program open to people of all backgrounds who want to make this a year of continued awakening, responsiveness, renewal, and transformation. It takes place during the Hebrew month of Elul, the month preceding the Jewish High Holy Days, a traditional period for intensive spiritual reflection, introspection, and moral accounting (August 21 – September 18, 2020).”
Week 1: Opening the Heart Week 2: Hearing the Pain of the World Week 3: Returning to Compassion Week 4: Becoming an Instrument of Justice
LIFE & LEGACY Havdalah Saturday, August 29, 7:00 pm
Legacy donors to TBH have chosen to sustain our Jewish community for generations to come! Join us as we honor our LIFE & LEGACY participants, celebrate TBH, and welcome in the High Holidays for a Zoom Havdalah and gathering.
Elul Workshops at TBH
See the full slate of upcoming Elul offerings here. Reminders will be posted in the weekly email as each workshop approaches.
Purchase or Download a Mahzor for the High Holidays
Reconstructing Judaism has made the Mahzor available in advance of the High Holidays. See more here.
Children’s Blessing: Call for Photos
For our children’s blessing this year, we will honor our TBH kids with a slideshow! If you want to participate, please send a photo of your children, grandchildren, etc. to tbh@bethhatfiloh.org. Children will not be identified in the slideshow.
CHRONICLING OUR SHARED EXPERIENCE
Call For Submissions!
This section of the weekly is dedicated to sharing member creativity and experiences during this time of separation! If you have a recipe, piece of art, poem, short story, photo, etc. that you would like to share, send it to tbh@bethhatfiloh.org. If we receive enough submissions, we hope to compile them after this crisis has passed.
AROUND THE CONGREGATION
Yahrzeits
Jerome Parker Mannie Paroff Dorothy Bamberger Kenneth Heptner Ann Ostrer Edward Ferber Victoria Cohen Sam Shapiro Lawrence J Bornstein Colleen A. Schumann Lum Jay Goldstein Max Esfeld Eva Carr Mitchell L Cohen Arnold Goldstein Kenneth W. Strange Donald Stedman Edna Shecter Marianne Neff Ben Rome Claire Paroff Sydney Rubin Carol Shivel
Happy Birthday!
20 Nancy Snyder 20 Eleanor Kinn 22 Joel Sacks 23 Linda Rubin 24 David Stern
FROM THE OFFICE
TBH COVID-19 Phase II & III Guidelines
Visit the TBH COVID-19 Webpage for other updates and resources. The TBH Board has set for Guidelines for Phase II & III to promote the health and safety of our community. Read the full document here>>
Growing Shabbat! at Camp Solomon Schechter Friday, Apr 19th 5:30p to 8:00p Everyone is welcome to join us for dinner and a service at Camp Solomon Schechter.
Registration is free, but required for dinner plans and access codes.
Please put any dietary requirements in the notes when registering.
