Friday, January 28, 2022
3:45 PM
The Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue
invites you to
Friday Night Kabbalat Shabbat Service -
led by
Rabbi Samuel
Rosenberg
Friday, January 28, 2021 at 3:45 PM
Online at ZOOM ONLY.
Zoom link:
or
(Please see message below explaining the current precautions being taken by the synagogue and the plan to return to in person services in February.)
Candle lighting is at 4:50 pm.
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Weekend Activities
Friday, January 28, 2022 -
Friday, February 4, 2022
26 Shevat - 3 Adar I , 5782
Parshat Mishpatim
This Shabbat Morning We Bless the New Month of Adar I, which arrives this coming week.
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Friday, January 28, 2022
Candlelighting is at 4:50 pm
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With the health of our community as our top priority, and after considering the newest information on the spread of the Omicron variant, we have decided NOT to have in person services
through the end of January 2022.
In Person services will resume next Shabbat,
Friday February 4 - Satudary, February 5, 2022
The synagogue leadership will continue to meet regularly and will advise you of any changes to this plan..
This Shabbat we will continue to have online Zoom Kabbalat Shabbat services and Divre Torah approximately one hour before Shabbat candle lighting.
This week services will begin at 3:45 pm.
The Zoom link follows:
As mentioned in earlier emails, Rabbi Rosenberg's classes will continue to meet online via Zoom. We will return to a hybrid of in person classes that are also available on Zoom in February. Watch for the announcement..
Please watch your email for additional information and guidelines for when we reopen, along with announcements of new online and in person gatherings and programs.
The office continues to be open and, should you need help or assistance please, call us at 212-929-6954 or email us at csfa11e11@aol.com
Thank you and Shabbat Shalom.
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A Message From Rabbi Rosenberg
Dear Friends,
Unfortunately we do not meet in person this Shabbat. The Torah commands us that in everything related to the health of our body and mind we must be especially careful.
Please remember that even if we are not together in person, we are always together in our spirits and that is the more important thing.
I am available to anyone at any time, by phone 347-562-8547 or
Please do not hesitate to contact me even if just to talk for a few minutes.
Keep yourself safe and healthy.
In Hebrew there is a famous phrase that says
"We have passed Pharaoh, we will pass this too".
Shabbat Shalom to all,
Samuel
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To view an aliyah by aliyah synopsis of this week's
parsha
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To view a this week's D'var Torah,
"The Baby in the Brick" by
Ilana Kurshan
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To view a commentary on this week's haftarah entitled "Freedom" by Bex Stern Rosenblatt of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem,
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Saturday Night
January 29, 2022
6:15 PM
PLEASE NOTE
TIME OF
6:15 pm.
Join Sam, Sarah, Rabbi Rosenberg and members of the congregation as we gather online via Zoom to recite Havdalah and say goodbye to Shabbat.
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Tuesday afternoons at 2:00 PM
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
2:00 PM
A NEW 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, FEBRUARY 1, 2022 AT 2:00 PM
TO JOIN US ONLINE ON ZOOM AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Rosh Chodesh Adar 1, 5782
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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REMEMBER! THE PASSCODE IS 2022 |
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
6:30 PM
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Written in the 12th century in Arabic by a faithful Jewish man, “The Guide for the Perplexed” is a work that explores the contradiction a very intelligent mind clearly saw between the tradition in which he was raised to believe and the growing philosophy of Arabian and Western culture. In Maimonides’ time, there was an emerging disparity between the Law and a new level of philosophical sophistication, which he attempts to bridge in this work, primarily through the use of metaphor, though also acknowledging this method’s limitations.
“The Guide for the Perplexed” follows the form of a three-volume letter to a student, which was quickly translated to Hebrew and spread throughout the known world and carefully read by Jews and non-Jewish philosophers alike well through the Middle Ages. This work was so successful in its organization and arguments that it has long been a classic of the Jewish religion and of the secular world of philosophy.
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Join Rabbi Samuel Rosenberg on an exploration of this foundational text of
Jewish philosophy.
Wednesday evenings
online on ZOOM
February 2, 2022 at
6:30 pm
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The Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue
welcomes you to
MOVIE CLUB DISCUSSION
OF A FILM
YOU WATCH AT HOME.
The way it works is you watch a movie at home between today and the time the Movie Club meets, and then we get together to talk about the film.
It is kind of like a Book Club for Movie Buffs.
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
7:30 PM
our third film, also available on
amazon prime video,
is
"THE CHOSEN"
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Brooklyn 1944. Despite being the same age, having grown up within blocks of each other, and both being Jewish, late teens Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter don't really know each other - knowing each other only by name and by sight - as Orthodox Danny stays largely within his own Hasidic community, which is just fine in Reuven's mind. An incident between the two which on the surface threatens to tear them even further apart instead blossoms into a friendship between the two. They begin to learn more and more about the other and their lives, which for Danny includes becoming a rabbi, solely as it is a several generations old family calling. In Reb Saunders' mind, he who rules his family by strict Hasidic traditions, Danny becoming the next rabbi in the family is not even a question, despite Danny, deep in his heart, wanting other secular pursuits which he has not told his father. Conversely, Reuven has modern sensibilities, being raised in a two-person household by his widowed academic father, Professor David Malter. Ultimately, the views of each father may tear Danny and Reuven's friendship apart, regardless of whether each son believes wholeheartedly in what his father espouses. Professor Malter is a confirmed Zionist who believes in a secular Jewish state in Palestine, while Reb Saunders believes such thinking against Judaism, with only the Messiah being able to lead his people into such. As they grow into adulthood, Danny and Reuven becoming his own man may further alter their relationship |
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We will meet to discuss the movie on
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
7:30 PM
AT THE FOLLOWING ZOOM LINK:
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While Rabbi Rosenberg is always available, at any time of day, to meet or talk with members of the community, he would like people to know that he is planning on the following office hours at the synagogue going forward:
Tuesdays, 12 noon - 2 pm
Wednesdays, 3 pm - 5 pm
Thursdays, 2 pm - 4 pm
Please call the synagogue office if you would like to meet him during these hours.
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To pay your membership dues online:
Single Dues for June 2021 - May 2022 $1350.00 CLICK HERE
Family Dues for June 2021 - May 2022 $1950.00 CLICK HERE
To pay by mail, please mail your check to
Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue
11 East 11 Street
New York, NY 10003
Thank you.
TO READ A MESSAGE FROM CSFA PRESIDENT, BETH FARBER, ABOUT THE SYNAGOGUE, MEMBERSHIP AND DUES, PLEASE
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