This Labor Day Weekend, we mark the final Shabbat of 5781 and prepare to welcome a New Year on Monday night. During our service, we will raise a series of questions for us to think about during the days ahead. What we are taking from the year that is ending? What do we wish to leave behind? What have we learned this past year as individuals and as a community? What are our hopes? What can we do to makes those hopes become reality? Join us for candle lighting, blessing one another, kiddush, motzei and invoking an angel to bless us during the YEAR ahead.
Our Friday night services are on Zoom and begin at 6:00 PM. Zoom Link Meeting Id: 978 470 037 Passcode: 183618
Shabbat Morning: Preparing the Holidays
Our Torah portion, Parshat Netzavim, contains Moses’ sermon on the meaning of the covenant, the brit, concluded between the children of Israel and God. Moses declares that the bonds created at Sinai are everlasting and include future generations. Every Jew, including everyone alive today, are understood to have been present at that founding moment. Everytime we gather in prayer, train the next generation, or observe a mitzvah we are affirming that we accept that connection as our own. The covenant, the bond, is eternal; but the content of the covenant and how it is observed changes continuously.
Services will be on ZOOM and begin at 10:00 a.m. We begin with checking in around 9:50 and services end around 11:30 with kiddush and motzei and a chance to wish each other a Happy New Year!
We will not be screen sharing so if you want to follow the service from home, please arrange with the office to borrow a prayer book and humash, purchase a set on line, or download the siddur PDFs, availabe by clicking here.
Zoom Link Meeting Id: 865 3190 1552 Passcode: 183618
Rosh Hashanah
Services begin on Monday evening at 6:00 p.m. continuing Tuesday and Wednesday morning starting at 8:45 a.m. Please go to our website for times and the High Holiday hour by hour schedule. Cantor Grossman and I look forward to joining with you in person and on line.
www.bnaitikvahma.org/high-holidays Shabbat shalom and best wishes from me and my family to each of you for a year of health, safety, enjoyment and many opportunities to celebrate together, Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Leonard Gordon
