Once again, we are all watching with disappointment as COVID-19 cases continue to climb, with ever-more infectious variants and an increasing risk of reinfection. Therefore, we believe it is best to continue our current guidelines as updated below.
CSFA’s COVID-19 policy is as follows:
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If you test positive for Covid or are living with or are in close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid, please do not attend services or synagogue activities for a period that includes at least one Shabbat. Please stay home the required Shabbat and be tested with negative results before you return to the synagogue.
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All CSFA members, visitors, and program attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, including with boosters if eligible.
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Masks are required for all indoor services and programming.
We recognize that many of us are feeling enormous fatigue around masking, while for others continued masking creates a stronger feeling of safety. We feel compelled to protect one another by maintaining our policy in this way, as we begin to navigate this next wave of COVID-19.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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Friday, August 5, 2022
6:00 PM
Shabbat Evening Services will be led by
Rabbi Rosenberg. Weather permitting services will be outdoors in the CSFA Garden
Shabbat Candle lighting is at 7:48 PM
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Friday, August 5, 2022 - Friday, August 12, 2022
8 - 15 Av 5782
Parshat Devarim
Shabbat Chazon
Shabbat Chazon ("Sabbath [of] vision" שבת חזון, also Shabbat Hazon) is named for the "Vision of Isaiah over Judah and Jerusalem" (Book of Isaiah 1:1-27) that is read as the Haftarah on this Shabbat at the end of the three weeks between dire straits, which precede the mournful fast of Tisha B'Av.
Erev Tisha B'Av
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Saturday, August 6, 2022
9:00 AM
Live and In Person Shabbat Morning Services
Please join us for Shabbat morning services. Services will be led by Sam Swartz and Rabbi Rosenberg. Torah will be read by Bob Winograd, and the Haftarah will be chanted by David Oppenheim. This Shabbat morning we will also be observing the Aufruf of Harlan Green Taub and Emily Shulan.
Immediately following services there will be a Shabbat Kiddush in the Garden (in the event of bad weather, we will meet in the Social Hall). Kiddush this week is sponsored by Les Taub and Melissa Green in celebration of Harlan and Emily.
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To view a synopsis of this Shabbat's parsha
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To view a this week's D'var Torah,
by Ilana Kurshan
"Moshe's Memoirs"
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To view a commentary on this week's haftarah,
"On Dialogue"
by Bex Stern Rosenblatt of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem,
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CSFA Rosé
Join us this Shabbat
afternoon,
August 6, 2022 as we come together to "shmooze" in the
CSFA Garden.
4:00 - 6:00 PM
(weather permitting)
NOTE EARLIER TIME THIS WEEK.
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Saturday Night, August 6 and
Sunday, August 7
Tisha B'Av
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CSFA Tisha B’Av
Live and In Person
תשעה באב
Saturday Night, August 6, 2022
9:15 PM
Maariv and Eicha
איכה
(Book of Lamentations)
Sunday,
August 7, 2022
8:30 AM
(see below)
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Sunday, August 7, 2022
Tisha B'Av
Services at 8:30 AM
We need a Minyan for services on Sunday morning that includes at least 6 people who are fasting at the time of davening. Please try to join us and fast at least until lunch on Sunday.
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Sunday, August 7, 2022
Tisha B'Av
7:00 PM
CSP
"Ancient Art Comes to Life" Event
with Sharon Keller
Dedicated in memory of Richard Freund, z"l
“The Entire Face was Covered in Gold”
The Rediscovery of a Colorful Ancient World
Sunday August 7, 2022
7:00-8:00 PM EDT
CSP Partners: Beth Israel (San Diego, CA), Brotherhood Synagogue (Gramercy Park, NYC), Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Elkins Park, PA), Congregation Beth Shalom (Seattle, WA), Congregation B'nai Tzedek (Fountain Valley, CA), Congregation B'nai Israel (Tustin, CA), Jewish Collaborative of Orange County, Shomrei Torah Synagogue (San Fernando Valley, CA), Temple Bat Yahm (Newport Beach, CA), Temple Beth David (Westminster, CA),Temple Beth El of South Orange County (Aliso Viejo, CA), Temple Beth Emet (Anaheim, CA), Temple Beth Ohr (La Mirada, CA), Temple Beth Tikvah (Fullerton, CA), Temple Beth Shalom (Needham, MA), Temple Beth Sholom (Santa Ana, CA), Temple Emanuel (Newton, MA), The Boston Synagogue (Boston, MA), Temple Judea of Laguna Woods, CA, Town & Village Synagogue (NYC, NY), University Synagogue (Irvine, CA), Valley Beth Shalom (Encino, CA) & Walnut Street Synagogue (Chelsea, MA)
To learn about upcoming events this month, visit www.occsp.net. To view past CSP events, check out our YouTube channel as well as our podcast and enjoy many sessions at your leisure
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When we think of temples, statues, and monuments we envision a pristine white surface whether the sides of a building or the face of a statue. Museums show off their collections of these elegant artifacts, and governmental and financial buildings hark back to the assumed gravatas of the neo-classical monochrome white. But the ancient world was much more colorful than we were taught in art classes – the temples, statues, and monuments were embellished and emboldened in colors that to us, today, may seem garish! In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s special exhibit “Chroma: Ancient Sculptures in Color”, and in commemoration of the destruction of The Temple on Tisha B’av we will look at what it may well have looked like to see these artifacts in their original environments.
Sharon Keller, who served as CSP's 15th Annual One Month Scholar in residence in January 2016 and who earned her doctorate at NYU in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in the area of Bible and the Ancient Near East, is a member of the Classics faculty at Hofstra University. She has been an Assistant Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at The Jewish Theological Seminary and at Hebrew Union College; she has also held appointments at NYU, and New York City’s Hunter College—teaching biblical text courses as well as more general courses in biblical literature and history, as well as the courses in the art and archaeology of the lands of the Bible and the ancient Mediterranean world. She has written and edited numerous scholarly articles and academic books, most of which relate to the interplay between biblical Israel and ancient Egypt. Her most popular book, Jews: A Treasury of Art and Literature was awarded the prestigious National Jewish Book Award. Known for the enthusiasm and humor that she brings to all of her talks that make otherwise esoteric subjects easily accessible, Sharon is an in-demand lecturer and adult education course instructor throughout the United States.
Celebrating our 22nd year, the Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program shares the joy of Judaism, builds community, and celebrates our Jewish heritage with a rich adult education program and unique family experiences. Whether we are picking apples for Rosh Hashana, celebrating Shabbat while camping, clapping along with Jewish Blues or Rock musicians, hosting a community-wide Shabbat Alive outdoors, learning with internationally-known scholars, making life-long Jewish friends at family and adult retreats, or providing distance learning programs during a pandemic, CSP has programs to offer for all ages. We ignite passion for Judaism! CSP live-streams programs on our CSP Facebook site and shares recordings on our new CSP YouTube Channel (please visit and subscribe!). If you are interested in our I-tunes archive of over 200 programs, you can listen at this LINK. You can reach us on the web at www.occsp.org and by phone at (949) 682-4040.
CSP participates in the community-wide Create a Jewish Legacy initiative, in partnership with the Jewish Community Foundation Orange County and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. Contact CSP at (949) 682-4040 to explore the many ways you can leave a legacy to CSP.
Inspire future generations with your generosity by creating a Jewish legacy today!
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MONDAY, August 8, 2022
Mah Jongg WILL meet this week.
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Tuesday afternoons at 2:00 PM
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
2:00 PM
A CLASS ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS
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THE BOOK OF PSALMS
with
Rabbi Samuel Rosenberg
The book of Psalms is one of the most popular books in the Bible.
Chapters of it appear every day, several times a day in Jewish prayers.
Jews of all generations recited Psalms as a way of expressing their prayers before God.
In the coming classes, while reading selected chapters from it, we will examine the Psalms from a literary point of view, learn about the different interpretations given to it over the generations and examine its influence and importance on the Jews throughout history.
EVERY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT 2:00 PM
NEXT SESSION IS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022 AT 2:00 PM
THIS CLASS IS MEETING IN PERSON AND LIVE AT THE SYNAGOGUE
(VACCINATIONS AND MASKS REQUIRED)
AS WELL AS ON ZOOM ONLINE.
TO JOIN US ONLINE ON ZOOM AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
6:30 PM
A CLASS WITH RABBI ROSENBERG
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THE DUTIES OF THE HEARTS
(CHOVOT HALEVAVOT)
The book “The Duties of The Hearts” (Chovot HaLevavot) by Rabbi Bahya ibn Paquda was written in the early Middle Ages. This book deals with Jewish ethics and sees Jewish ethics as the main and most important part of religious life (unlike Maimonides, who emphasized the rational intellectual aspect).
In these classes, we will study the general background of the author and the environment in which the book was written. We will review the text and will focus on the fourth chapter "The Trust Gate ''.
Among the topics we will consider are
- the duties of the heart of a Jew
- the duties of recognition and of the feelings
- the commandments of faith and moral requirements
- the duty of the Jew to believe in God and to trust in him
- to have a search of ones soul and repent
- and in particular the duty to love God.
Join Rabbi Samuel Rosenberg on
Wednesday evenings
at 6:30 pm
August 10, 2022
IN PERSON
AND ON ZOOM
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022
TU B'AV SHABBAT DINNER
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Tu B'Av - טו באב, the 15th Day of the Hebrew month of Av, was celebrated in the time of the Second Temple period (before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.) marking the beginning of the grape harvest.
It also served as a matchmaking day for unmarried women. The unmarried girls of Jerusalem dressed in white garments and went out to dance in the vineyards.
Today in Israel, it is celebrated as a holiday of love, Hag HaAhava (חג האהבה), similar to Valentine's Day.
Join us for a
Tu B’Av Shabbat Dinner at CSFA
Friday, August 12, 2022
Immediately following services
Suggested contribution: $36 per person
We cannot promise you that you will find your beshert, but we can promise you a lovely Shabbat dinner in the company of good friends.
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