GEMILUTH CHASSODIM NEWSLETTER
ON THE TEMPLE CALENDAR

For This Week of May 7th, 2021

Rabbi Raina Siroty is inviting you to join us in the sanctuary and on Zoom at 6pm for

Shabbat Services 

Friday May 7th at 6pm Central


Meeting ID: 251 868 1038 

Password: 001859 


This Weeks Torah Portion

The Eternal One spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: "Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Eternal." - Leviticus 25:1-2 ​If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, I will grant your rains in their season, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit. - Leviticus 25:1-27:3423

Summary:

  • God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites that in every seventh year, the land shall observe a Sabbath of complete rest: Fields should not be sown and vines should not be pruned. (25:1-7)

  • After forty-nine years, a jubilee year is to be celebrated when all the land that had been sold during that time should be returned to its original owners and slaves are to be freed. (25:8-55)

  • God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites not to make idols, to keep the sabbath, and to venerate the sanctuary of the Eternal. (26:1-2)

  • God promises blessings to the Children of Israel if they follow the law and warns about the curses that will befall the people if they do not observe God's commandments. (26:1-46)

  • Gifts made to the Sanctuary whether by conditional vows or by unconditional acts of pious gratitude are discussed. (27:1-34)



Our Congregation Lovingly Remembers...

WEEK ENDING MAY 8
 
Sophie Geismer
Jeanne Greene Malsin
Bertha Gilberg Broida
Edard Levy
Mark Mykoff
John Nathan Weil
Berta Schreiber-Birnbaum
Samuel Schreiber
Bernard Weil
Rosalie Riesenbach-Rosenfeld
Samuel Riesenbach
Meyer Haven
*Flora Nachman
*Caro Joseph
Frieda Jaffe
Benjamin H. Schmalinski
*Nurit P. Wahlder
*Erle A. Firnberg
Thiby Eissman
Daniel E. Mann
Lillie Weil
Abraham Greenwood
Jean Strull
*Sadye Blum Birge


*A light will burn on our bronze Memorial board

May their memories be for a blessing


OUR TEMPLE COMMUNITY PRAYS FOR
THE HEALING OF BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT

For all those infected and affected by Coronavirus,

and for,

Marla Banta
Robert Banta
Phyllis Berenhaus
Mary Beth Caplan
Gayle Brignac
Randy Brigs
Abby Furco
Susan Israel
Viola Jonson
Sara Kerr
Buddy Lipsey
Michael Myers
John Texada

Please visit our website section 'HEALING PRAYERS' linked below for the prayer for healing, Mi Shebeirach as recorded by our Rabbi Cantor Raina Siroty. https://www.jewishtemple.org/healing-prayers

*If anyone knows of someone who is in need of a Mi Shebeirach prayer, please email the rabbi and she will mention their name in our bulletin, as well as at Friday night services. Their names will continue to be mentioned and listed until it is requested that their name be removed.
Jackson Noles • May 1
Joseph P. Beck IV (Pershing) • May 12
Julie Borrel • May 23
Laurie Wahlder • May 24
Rabbi Raina Siroty • May 25
Belle Fine •  May 26
Trish Zeichner • May 26
Cohner Rubin • May 30

Judy & Martin Heyman • May 21
Shelley & Meyer Kaplan • May 22
Ann & Ted Silver • May 24
COMING UP
COMING UP
SUNDAY MAY 16th 10:30am
TORAH TOTS, RELIGIOUS SCHOOL & KEHILLAH HIGH
END OF RELIGIOUS SCHOOL YEAR
CERAMIC PAINTING PARTY at
QUIRKY ARTZ
3447 JACKSON STREET
SUNDAY EVENING MAY 16th - MONDAY MAY 17th
SHAVUOT ZOOM

On the evening of Shavuot, we honor the gift of Torah at Mt. Sinai. Traditionally, we do this through an all-night study session called Tikkun Leil Shavuot. 

Join congregations and rabbis from all around the country via ZOOM for a unique set of online study sessions including music, TV shows, and a celebration of Torah for all ages!

Programs run from 7 pm ET until 8 am PT.

For more information, please register at the following link.




SUNDAY MAY 23rd at 11am
Celebrate with the Temple


Great news, our Torah has been restored.

Soferet Linda B. Coppleson is one of only two dozen female Jewish Torah Scribes in the world. She will be at Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim on Sunday morning, May 23rd at 11 am.

 Linda Coppleson has done repairs on our Torah scrolls and will be doing a live demonstration of the Torah scribal arts with time for questions and answers with a Congregational brunch following. 

 As part of this small, international community she completed the writing of the first sefer Torah commissioned entirely for sofrot. Her participation in the Women’s Torah Project afforded her the honor of writing twenty of the sixty-two four column pages which comprise every Torah. Linda Coppleson also designs ketubot.
 
For more information or to rsvp, contact the synagogue office at 318-445-3655



 
Saturday May 29th at 10:30am
OUR TREE OF LIFE



A leaf on our Tree of Life is a wonderful way to honor family and friends.

BIRTHDAYS-BAT/BAR MITZVAHS-ANNIVERSARIES-BABY NAMINGS-SPECIAL LIFE EVENTS

A leaf is $150.00 and can be given by one or more people. 

  Contact: Kim Bindursky
  318 613-1647 


 krb@bestmetalrecyclers.com

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HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is to guarantee patient privacy, which is good for the patient because it protects their confidentiality, but not very helpful when the Temple is trying to find patients. Please do not assume that we know you are in the hospital or that the Chaplains Office has contacted the Temple or the Rabbi, even if a chaplain has visited you. PLEASE, I want to be able to visit you. I want to be able to offer you the solace and perspective of our tradition. The Temple wants to let you know that we care, but that can only happen when we know where you are. 

Thank you,

Rabbi Raina Siroty
Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim | Rabbi Cantor Raina Siroty | 318.445.3655