Shabbat Salon@Home, 6:00 pm Our Shabbat service in the comfort of your own home and featured presenter! See more information below. Shabbat service will be on Facebook live and zoom, presentation on Zoom only following the service.
Torah Study, 10:00 am Prayer and study are equally holy activities. All are invited to join in these highly participatory discussions on Zoom. No experience necessary!
CHESED + TZEDAKAH = LEAVENED MITZVAH Pesach Donation Drop Off Friday, April 8, 5:00 - 6:00 pm at TBH parking lot during the Salon dinner pickup
Sponsored by the TBH Homelessness Task Force Just before Pesach it is traditional to give charity to those in need so they can celebrate the seders and holiday. This is called ma’ot hittim, literally “money for wheat.” As part of our monthly tzedakah project to support our neighbors we are collecting household cleaning products. As we clean out our homes let us help those who do not have enough resources after buying food to purchase cleaning products. The Other Bank which is a program of the Thurston County Food Bank will be the recipient of our Pesach household cleaning product drive.
Donations may be dropped off on Friday April 8, from 5-6 at TBH (this coincides with the Shabbat Salon dinner pickup). If you have a donation and are unable to make this time, contact Kayla to drop off at TBH prior to Pesach.
Our monthly Salon@Home returns on Friday, April 8th! Our speaker is Brandon Block, reporter for Crosscut and previously the Olympian. He spent nearly two years covering housing and homelessness in Olympia as a Report for America fellow, and now focuses on following the federal relief money flowing into Washington State.
Meal pick-up for those who placed an order will take place prior to services in the TBH parking lot. Registrants will receive a reminder email and time slot tomorrow. Those who didn't order a meal are most welcome at services or the presentation--join for all or part! Services start at 6:00 pm, presentation at approximately 7:15 pm.
Passover Community Seder Meal Orders Due Ordering closes Saturday April 9, 11:59 pm
Once again we will be hosting TBH’s Community Passover Seder virtually on Zoom. To complement our virtual gathering, we are accepting orders for full take-home Seder meals provided by Nineveh, including a Seder foods add on and an invitation to become a Seder Plate Sponsor!
Blintzapalooza Sunday, April 10, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Almost sold out! We're not fully back to the indoor festival, but we'll have frozen blintzes for pickup again this year and we're bringing back books for sale.
HOW: Pre-order online for drive through pickup. COST: $20.00 per dozen BOOKS: Walk-up book sale 10:00 until 1:00 pm with coffee available. There will also be aprons available for $15. Please bring cash or check if you plan to participate. BENEFITS: All net proceeds to Interfaith Works homeless services QUESTIONS? Email tbh@bethhatfiloh.org *TBH community members are encouraged to come earlier between 10:00 and 11:00 am for better traffic flow control. Others can come earlier if needed.
Family Life & Learning: Pesach Learn & Play Sunday, April 10, 10:00 am
It is almost Passover! Our Pesach Learn and Play is Sunday, at the same time as the mini-Blintzapalooza. We'll have a story, craft and activity all designed to be setting up anticipation for Passover. Please register if your family will be participating. There's no cost involved, but we need to have the right amount of supplies.
Is there Someone You Would Like Remembered in the Historic Cemetery? Reduced Rate Deadline: April 11
The Cemetery Committee is having two granite benches installed in the Historic Cemetery. The primary purpose is to provide a place for family and friends to sit while they remember a loved one residing in our cemetery or elsewhere.
Each of the two benches has 18 lines available where the name of a loved one buried elsewhere can be inscribed. The cost of a name being inscribed before the bench is installed is $250. There is a limit of 22 spaces for the inscribed name. Prefixes and suffixes are considered part of the 22 spaces. We need to have commitments by April 11 if you want to have a person remembered as part of the original installation of the benches.
The cost of having names inscribed increases to $350 for inscriptions to be added after the benches are installed. Why the increase? An on-site visit is required to do the engraving of the name or names once the benches are installed.
The Rabbi, through the Cemetery Committee, has the obligation to review inscriptions before engraving to insure appropriate content.
Again, we are working on a tight timeline. We recently learned how tight. With names to be inscribed by April 11, the benches will be installed by mid-June at the earliest.
If you wish to have the name of a loved one installed, contact Russell Lidman at lidmanr@seattleu.edu. Provide the spelling of the name(s) you want inscribed on a bench. Make out a check to the TBH Cemetery Committee in the amount of $250 for each name and mail the check to TBH.
COMING UP AT TBH
Passover Community Seder + Volunteers Needed Saturday April 16, 6:00 pm
Join us as we celebrate the Festival of Freedom together with song and story on Zoom.
Passover Volunteers Needed! Please email Kayla if you are willing to help:
Drivers (deliver a few meals to folks that can't make it to pick up)
Meal pick-up assistance at TBH before the seder begins
Omer Oracle Class April 17 - June 4, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Join Kohenet Nomy Lamm for an 8-week class, with weekly songs, blessings, teachings and reflections throughout the 2022 / 5782 Omer period, extending from Pesach to Shavuot.
Immerse yourself in the resonance of each week’s sephirah on the kabbalistic tree of life as we prepare for the revelation of Shavuot. Reflect in community on the experience of cultivating the essences of the sephirot in our lives.
Class will take place over Zoom on Saturdays from 5-6:30 Pacific Time, except for the first week which will be on Sunday so as not to conflict with seder. All classes will have ASL interpretation and auto-captions. Recordings will be made available after each session.
TBH members can use discount code TBHSPECIAL at checkout to pay only $100! Cost of class includes the Omer Oracle deck.
Support the TBH Team for the Thurston Hunger Walk Sunday, May 1, 3:00 pm at St. Martin's
TBH is once again supporting Thurston's Hunger Walk - an annual fundraiser to help two local agencies (The Community Kitchen & The Thurston County Food Bank) get food to those in need. Your donations are now more important than ever! This year’s walk will take place at the athletic track at St. Martin’s University, Sunday May 1st. Enjoy camaraderie and live music while you walk as little or as much as you like. Give What You Can - Walk If You Want!Visit our "team" site to donate to our page and support our hungry neighbors.
Check out this short video to see what the walk is all about.
AROUND THE CONGREGATION
Yahrzeits
Ronald Philip Denitz Joseph Shill Al Levinson Daniel Koledin Jules Bank Sue Endres Elizabeth Brocha Edith Mollan Samuel Brinn Jonathan Michael Oren Dave Alexander Nathan Schwartz Robert Mann Blanche Lieber Ruth Samsky Hartley Goldman Irving Glickman Leah Herenzon Yakimovsky
Happy Birthday!
8 William Gallin 8 Dahlia Proffitt 10 Judith Barnes 10 Andrew Iverson
Yahrtzeit Updates & Additions
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The Mussar Institute: Count the Omer 5782
This year we are Counting the Omer through a Mussar lens! Sign up for this free program from The Mussar Institute and on each of the 49 days from Pesach to Shavuot, you will receive the blessing of the day, a brief teaching from an authentic Mussar source, and practices that offer insight and wisdom concerning the middah or trait of the day.
