Shabbat Salon@Home, 6:00 pm Our Shabbat service in the comfort of your own home and featured presenter! See more information below. Zoom information: Join Meeting >> Meeting ID: 822 1265 3173
We will study B’midbar - Numbers 1:1–4:20. The middah/soul trait for this parashah is Seder / Order. Please plan on joining Michele & Richard Jackman on zoom for an intriguing Mussar discussion of this Torah portion and a practice for you.
Services begin at 6:00 pm and our speaker will follow at approximately 7:15 pm. This month's presenter will be architect Solomon Cohen, on "Towards a Kosher Architecture: the Intersection of Jewish practice, art, place, design and function."
Meal pick-up will take place prior to services in the TBH parking lot. Registrants will receive a reminder email and time slot tomorrow. Don't forget to bring down your jam & jelly when you pick up your meal (see below)!
Jam & Jelly Drive for Thurston County Food Bank Friday, May 14, 4:00-5:30 pm
TCFB’s Summer Lunch program serves on average 300 fresh lunches to children in low-income neighborhoods every week day through out the summer. This year they will expand the program to reach 400-500 children each day! One of the lunches they serve is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Without the Letter Carriers’ Food Drive the Food Bank has no jelly! Together lets restock the summer lunch shelves with jams and jellies! Swing by the TBH parking lot Friday evening before and during Salon pick-up. Volunteers will be on hand to assist. Other food donations and checks made out to the Thurston County Food Bank will also be accepted. Can’t make it on the 14th? Call Elie 360-357-8160.
Family Life & Learning: Shavuot Sunday, May 16, 2:00 pm
Join our Family Shavuot celebration at the park on May 16th. We'll be at Pioneer Park (5801 Henderson Blvd SE, Tumwater) at 2pm for games, crafts and ice cream. Please email Catherine if you're planning to attend so she has the right amount of supplies.
Ma'amad Sinai: Reconstructing Pathways to Justice & Peace Sunday - Monday, May 16 - 17, 4:00 PM to 7:00 AM
TBH will be joining the Reconstructionist movement for a Leil Shavuot! Maamad Sinai translates as ‘Standing [at] Sinai.’ Centuries ago, the sages linked the Feast of Weeks [Shavuot] and First Fruits [Biqurim] to the mythic event of standing together at Mt. Sinai to receive the Torah. This year, let us extend the metaphor, hearing in the phrase maamad sinai a renewed calling to take a stand, up-standing rather than by-standing.
Join us in honoring Chag HaShavuot with 15-hours of communing through story, study, shared silence and song, celebrating the ‘first fruits of the flourishing our redemption,’ and continuing the pilgrimage in pursuit of justice and peace near and far. Read the full schedule here.
When: 1st Thursday & 3rd Monday of every month What: Come join us for conversation and if so inclined bringing a project of your choosing to work on during our time together. Where: Zoom Hosts: Leslie Goldstein, Melinda Holman, and Gail Pollock
Apeirogon: A Novel- Colum McCann. The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart.
TBH Reopening Survey Closes Tuesday, May 18, 4:00 pm
Thank you to everyone who has completed this survey already, and if you have not, we invite your participation.
The survey is a means to capture a picture of where the community is in the moment and your level of comfort regarding reopening that will allow the rabbi and others to better plan services in the next few months. As guidelines change and virus numbers go down (or up), we will modify. (We are not going to hold indoor services, for example, if most people are not comfortable attending.) By asking these questions, we seek to live into our values of communal decision making at a time of uncertainty, as we confront an unprecedented time that challenges the health and safety of many.
The survey is not a vote. We are not going to automatically do what a majority of survey respondents say. It is another piece of data that informs decision making that also includes State and CDC guidance, Jewish values, TBH values, etc. Indeed, we strive to create community that is inclusive and welcoming that strives to balance individual choice with communal responsibility. Many institutions such as faith communities, colleges and universities, schools, etc. are asking and wrestling with these same questions. TBH staff has been attending meetings and workshops with other congregations
This is not the first time we have asked for your feedback, nor will it be the last. We anticipate entering into a period of experimentation as we take our next steps. Click here to take the survey>>
ICYMI: Share Our Harvest
In case you missed the Share Our Harvest from the Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice NW, check out the video here. Rabbi Seth gives a talk at the 24:00 minute mark and the TBH Immigrant and Refugee Task Force was honored with the inaugural Tzedek Justice Award.
AROUND THE CONGREGATION
Yahrzeits
David Goldstein Alan (Allie) Goldberg John Raymond Clow June Bean Lee Hollander Constance Shapiro Sidney Rubin Lawrence Scheier Betty O'Shinsky Perry Jean Medley Shirley Bornstein Eva Goldberg Max Blustein David Levy Asher Jacqueline Rosenkrantz John William Fay Robert Brockman Pauline Snyder Estelle Grant David Wedogsky
Happy Birthday!
13 Charles Shelan 13 Daniel Farber 14 Robert Carmel 15 Joseph Selwitz 15 Andrew Gaines 16 Melissa DiFilippi 16 Nicole Moulton 16 Kay McKenzie 17 Arielle Lewis 18 Vincent Schwent
Yahrtzeit Updates & Additions
Members are able to view, edit, and add Yahrtzeits on the member portal of the TBH website here. If you need assistance, please feel free to send any updates to tbh@bethhatfiloh.org.
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Shavuot Lunch & Learn: Climate Justice & Upheaval Monday, May 17, 12:00 PM with Temple de Hirsch Sinai
Can we view climate change not as an inevitability, but as Paul Hawkins of Project Drawdown frames it, an “invitation to build, innovate and effect change”? There’s no hiding the fact -Climate Change (Upheaval) is an emergency for life on Earth; it is an emergency of public health, safety, agriculture, species survival, and more. Climate Change will exacerbate existing inequalities and worsen vulnerabilities of already marginalized populations, particularly communities of color. As Jews we are instructed to steward creation wisely (l’avodah ul’shamrah), choose life not death (uvarachta bachayim), love our neighbor as ourself (v’ahavta l’reacha kamocha). In this Season of Shavuot, we renew our covenant with the Creator. Will you accept this “invitation” and share your vision of renewal? Presented by TBH member and Green Team lead, Barak Gale.
LEARNING TO BELIEVE AGAIN with Neshama Carlebach and Rabbi Menachem Creditor Sunday, June 6, 7:00 PM with Havurah Shir Hadash
Belief can be understood as cultivating the ability to hope for better days, building the strength to hold onto faith, and holding on to the Holy One. Join Rabbi Menachem Creditor and Neshama Carlebach for an intimate, musical conversation of healing and hope. After a year unlike any other, join these renowned spiritual leaders for an experience of song, text and spirit designed to uplift your hearts and inspire your souls. Register>>
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