SHABBAT SERVICES
October 23-24, 2020
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Rabbi Baum's
Weekly Message
Shabbat Noach
Shalom Congregation Shaarei Kodesh,
This Shabbat, Shabbat Noach, is a Shabbat of yet another example of new beginnings. After the deluge that wipes out life on earth, Noah, his family, and all the animals they bring with them on the ark, are the seeds of a fresh start for the world. It is no coincidence that Parashaht Bereshit and Noah come immediately after the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when we meditate constantly on these themes. We say in our morning prayers that God renews creation each and every day. Every year, every week, every day, every moment, is an opportunity for a fresh start. This Shabbat is a fresh start, in a sense, for our congregation. We will be together, in person (and on Zoom) for both our Friday night Drive-In Shabbat service, where we will sing and pray together, and I will give a sermon on Parashat Noach, based on the Synagogue Vegan Challenge, an exclusive national program our congregation was chosen for through Shamayim, a Jewish Animal Advocacy nonprofit organization that runs programs, campaigns, and educational opportunities to teach the Jewish community about animal advocacy and veganism.
On Shabbat morning, a small group (around 10 - 15 Jewish adults) will stream our Shabbat morning service in our Chapel as we celebrate and honor Jayda Poller, who will become a Bat Mitzvah. The Poller family will be reading Torah for us. Jayda will lead us (along with Cantor Hadash) in prayer, Torah reading, Haftarah, and teach her Torah to us. This is our first in-person Bat Mitzvah ceremony since the pandemic began, the first time we will be gathering indoors for a formal service! We have done this with careful planning, research, and advice from our phenomenal Covid-19 Task Force, led by Ariella Reback. We extend our gratitude to our leadership and staff who have brought us to this point.
God establishes the new beginning of the world, not with words as God does in Bereshit, but with a sign, a rainbow.
“When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures, all flesh that is on earth. That,” God said to Noah, “shall be the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and all flesh that is on earth.”
A rainbow is a symbol of unity, without uniformity, each color is distinct and yet, they stand together as one. The rainbow is also a sign of a bridge from one reality to the next. May we all take these lessons to heart as we experience a new beginning for our community.
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi David Baum
Click on the video below to watch Rabbi Baum's Video Message from Last Week on Bereshit, and the bridge from High Holy Day season to Election season.
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More Resources On Renewed Life and Vegan Judaism
Podcasts From
Rabbi Baum:
I share the recent discovery that life was found in this solar system in the unlikelist of places: Venus. There was a quote in the article I read about this discovery: “Venus has been ignored by NASA for so long. It’s really a shame.” That last line really hit me hard - Venus has been ignored by NASA for so long, it’s really a shame. When there’s so much life around us, there’s a lot to overlook. What parts of your life that you want to breathe new life into?
When we think of the Bible, we think of sacrifices- ancient Israel was a really bloody place, but if we look back earlier, we see a different version. There are two points of view that have coexisted within the Jewish tradition down through the centuries: eating meat, and being a vegan.
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Introducing Hartman @ Home - Judaism, Citizenship and Democracy
October 18 - 30, 2020
Two weeks of Jewish learning during the 2020 election season
Between the end of Sukkot and Election Day, the Hartman Institute will kick off their Hartman@Home fall learning with a two-week symposium that will bring calm and reason -- along with passion and insight -- to the key civic issues facing the Jewish community today.
Join us as we bring a Jewish lens to the civic obligations, issues, and leadership needed in this moment of global pandemic and unprecedented polarization.
Highlights of the 2-week symposium leading up to the US elections:
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Lila Corwin Berman will discuss how she sees money shaping the community in her new book, The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
- Mijal Bitton will consider how to cultivate truth and trust in the age of Twitter
- Avi Helfand will lead a discussion on American Jewish advocacy for religious liberty
- Eitan Hersh will discuss how we can use our time more constructively for democracy, whatever our beliefs, the subject of his book on “political hobbyism”
- Plus opportunities to learn with Dahlia Lithwick, Tomer Persico, Christine Hayes, Elana Stein Hain, Rivka Press Schwartz and a special opening keynote on October 19 with Yehuda Kurtzer
- And much more to be announced over the next two weeks!
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New Class with Rabbi Baum:
What does it mean to be a Jewish-American in 2020?
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Tuesday night, October 27
7:30 8:30 pm ET
What does it mean to be a Jewish-American in 2020?
With Rabbi Baum
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Topics of discussion will include:
- Is it a ‘mitzvah’ to vote in an election?
- Jewish Americans and Israel - Does ‘Israel’ have a vote, a veto, or none of the above?
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Friday Morning Minyan and Pirkei Avot/The Ethics of Our Fathers Class Led by Rabbi Baum
Friday, October 23, 8:30 am ET
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Meeting ID: 819 7656 6468
Password: 6132020
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MINCHA/KABBALAT SHABBAT/MAARIV
Drive-In Shabbat
Friday, October 23, 6:15 pm ET
D'var Torah by Rabbi Baum -
From Adam to Noah - Vegan to Omnivore
When human was first created, we were on a plant based diet. Why does that change with Noah's generation, who God allows to eat meat? What can we learn from this change and how can it give us guidance to how we eat today?
This Sermon, written by Rabbi Baum, is part of the Shamayim Institute Animal Welfare Sermon Contest
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Meeting ID: 819 7656 6468
Password: 6132020
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Please Join Us (virtually) and Congratulate Our
Bat Mitzvah,
Jayda Poller.
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SHABBAT SERVICES
Parashat Noach
Saturday, October 24, 9:30-11:45 am ET
D'var Torah by Jayda Poller
Genesis 8:15 - 8:22 -Ed Poller
Genesis 9:1 - 9:7 - Jacob Poller
Genesis 9:8 - 9:17 - Cantor Hadash
Genesis 9:18 - 9:29 - Cantor Hadash
Genesis 10:1 - 10:14 - Rabbi Baum
Genesis 10:15 - 10:17 - Angela Poller
Genesis 10:18- 10:32 - Fred Berkowitz
Genesis 10:26 - 10:32 - Jayda Poller
Haftarah - Isaiah 54:1 - 55:5 - Jayda Poller
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Meeting ID: 819 7656 6468
Password: 6132020
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,81976566468#,,,,0#,,6132020# US (Germantown)
+13126266799,,81976566468#,,,,0#,,6132020# US (Chicago)
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SPONSORS FOR OCTOBER
Virtual L’Chaim Sponsors
Patty & Matt Weiss
Virtual Challah & Wine Sponsors
Challah
Nan Berkowitz, in honor of her son Steven Zbarsky’s engagement to Katina Fabrikarakis
Angela & Ed Poller, in honor of Jayda becoming a Bat Mitzvah
Wine
Janet & Harvey Fine, in honor of the naming of their second grandson, Kobi Meir Karpeles
Kemach Torah Nadiv Sponsors 5781
Rachel & Alexander Baum
Nan Berkowitz
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CSK BLOOD DRIVE -
GIVE A MITZVAH BY DONATING BLOOD
Sunday, October 25, 9:00-2:00 pm
Appointments are encouraged. Please click here to make an appointment.
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