Shabbat Service, 7:30 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. In honor of parasha Noah, we will have a blessing of the animals! At a point during the service you will be invited to bring your pets on screen for a special blessing for our animal companions!
Talmud Study, 10:00 am The Talmud is an ancient compendium of Jewish law and lore, and provides the basis upon which biblical interpretation and contemporary Jewish practice rests. Hardly a monolithic document, the Talmud contains investigation and argumentation on all the facets of life. No background required!
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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.
Smoke & Fire Submitted by David Hanig 9/14/2020
Current events present like so many potent metaphors! Plagues of disease, fire, smoke and politics step on each other's toes as they crowd in on our doorsteps. Our lives become more circumscribed: First, we learn to distance ourselves from our physical community; Next we hide our faces and our smiles; Now, even the neighborhood stroll is off limits to us. Our ever-shrinking world ignites our deepest fears Our mortality becomes imminent.
And, yet, is there something more to see here? Perhaps some subterranean message we are meant to decode? Our collective energies have, to no small extent, created these plagues. And clearly, they are designed to herd us toward our inner landscape – To look within and harvest certain lessons. But . . . what are these lessons?
In Judaism, this is the month of Elul, the time of turning. The Hebrew word for repentance - "tshuvah" - means "return". Go within and then turn and turn and turn until we can return home – A place that we always searched for outside of ourselves But now seems to dwell somewhere within.
May we all find our way home . . .
AROUND THE CONGREGATION
Yahrzeits
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Happy Birthday!
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FROM THE OFFICE
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COMMUNITY EVENTS Note: These are not officially sponsored or endorsed by TBH, but they are listed as they have Jewish content and/or may be of interest to our community.
Olympia Zen Center: Professor Donovan Johnson Wednesday, October 28, 7:00 p.m.
Professor Donovan Johnson, author of the new book on Martin Buber, Turning to the Other, will emphasize the path of “Turning” (Hebrew, teshuvah) one can take to emerge from the modern crisis of alienation, “the reduction of the human power of relating,” into a life of relation, a life with Thou, realized in a life of authenticity in dialogue. I and Thou is a summons calling us to dialogue today. Like the call Buber himself received, the book invites us to encounter the Other, our counterparts both human and eternal. If we follow Buber into his study, into the struggle of his inner life, into his achievement of dialogical existence—he opens up the wonders of I and Thou to us as his testament and his call to us to turn to dialogue, and he shows us the path to the fulfillment of that life.
During his time as governor of Washington, John Rogers publicly spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and blamed the Jewish people for the world’s economic problems.
A group has formed to address the Rogers statue in Sylvester Park.
Should a plaque be added? Should the statue be taken down? Should the statue be relocated? What do you think?
