This Coming Shabbat: September 23-Parshat Nitzavim and Rosh Hashanah Highlights
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This Coming Shabbat: Sept 23rd
Parshat Nitzavim and Rosh Hashanah Highlights
Kabbalat Shabbat: Entering Shabbat rest on a busy weekend
Our Friday night service begins at 6:00 p.m. and concludes around 6:50 p.m. This week Reb Lisa will be leading the davening and offering a teaching based on the week’s torah portion. Nitzavim resonates with themes of the High Holidays that begin on Sunday night. What lessons can it offer us as we make final preparations for the holiday.
Our service is designed to create a buffer between the work week and Shabbat rest. We aim to make the atmosphere like a family shabbat table complete with Candle Lighting, Blessing one another, Kiddush, Motzei and Angel Cards. Before and after the service we take time to check in with one another and share greetings (feel free to log on early). Our service has been abridged for ZOOM but includes familiar and new melodies, readings from the margins of the siddur, and some learning.
This week we welcome our oldest religious school students back to the Sanctuary for the new school year. Reb Lisa will lead the davening and she and I will lead an interactive learning on the idea of God. God as among us; God as beyond us. How do we make these living metaphors as we approach the High Holidays and the Mahzor (special prayer book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). Unlike the Friday night service where we meet God as beloved, during the holidays, the Mahzor is filled with images of God’s grandeur and human weakness. How do you imagine God? When have you felt God’s presence? Which image of the divine speaks to you most powerfully? Our service begins at 10 a.m. in our sanctuary (and sitting in our new,
comfortable, chairs). Services conclude around noon, and are followed by kiddush luncheon.
You can also join us on live stream.
Shabbat shalom,
Rabbi Leonard Gordon
A PDF of the Shabbat morning siddur is available by clicking the pic to your right, so you can follow from home if you do not have a siddur.
If you need a bible, please be in touch with our office or consider purchasing a copy of Siddur Lev Shalem and Humash Etz Hayyim for your home library.
Services are streamed and in person, as follows
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Friday, 6:00 PM, Kabbalat Shabbat Services on Zoom
Saturday, 10:00AM, Shabbat Morning Services
Join us in person if fully vaccinated; masking is optional but recommended;
TASHLICH
Monday at 4:00 p.m. at the Canton Town Pool
In addition to our services in the Sanctuary and on line, we will be meeting on Monday at a
body of water to cast away bread crumbs from lunch in a symbolic act of cleansing as part of
making this a truly New Year. We will also recite a short afternoon service together in nature.
SOME SERVICE HIGHLIGHTS
In addition to the blowing of shofar and the recitation of familiar prayers we will once again this year hear diverse voices from our community throughout the services. Leaders of many of our committees and auxiliaries will be offering introductions to our readings and a few words about the variety of programs that will punctuate our year. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah Reb Lisa Feld will offer the sermon. On the first day of Rosh Hashanah our Israel Bonds Appeal and my sermon will focus on our evolving relationship as individuals and as a community to the land, State and peoples of Israel.
EXPLORING JEWISH SPAIN: May 4-14, 2023 Please consider joining members of B’nai Tikvah and Temple Beth Emunah, led by our rabbis
and Kayla Ship.
For more information, visit our website.
