GEMILUTH CHASSODIM NEWSLETTER
ON THE TEMPLE CALENDAR

For This Week of May 14th, 2021
Shabbat Services in the Sanctuary and on Zoom
Friday May 14th at 6:00

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

Shabbat Services 

Friday May 14th at 6pm Central


Meeting ID: 251 868 1038 

Password: 001859 


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.



Our Rabbi Raina will be presenting
PRAYER THROUGH MUSIC FOR HEALING
Sunday, May 16
10:00pm ET/9:00pm CT/8:00pm MT/7:00pm PT
This Weeks Torah Portion

On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Eternal One spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying: "Take a census of the whole Israelite company…" - Numbers 1:1−4:20


Summary:

  • God commands Moses to take a census of all the Israelite males over the age of twenty. (1:1-46)

  • The duties of the Levites, who are not included in the census, are detailed. (1:47-51)

  • Each tribe is assigned specific places in the camp around the Tabernacle. (1:52-2:34)

  • The sons of Levi are counted and their responsibilities are set forth. (3:1-3:39)

  • A census of the firstborn males is taken and a special redemption tax is levied on them. (3:40-51)

  • God instructs Moses and Aaron regarding the responsibilities of Aaron and his sons, and the duties assigned to the Kohathites. (4:1-20)





Our Congregation Lovingly Remembers...

WEEK ENDING MAY 15
 
Agnes Levy Levin
Ernest Dampf
Bertha R. Bussoff
M.I. Berger
Hilda Blotner
Nachim Weil
*Alvin D. Rosenblum
*Bessie Lippman
Abraham Fuhrer
*Meyer Marx
*Dr. Isadore Brickman
Salie Levy
*Theodore Morrison
Clara Simon


*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
Karen Klein
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
TORAH BRUNCH
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



 
B'nai Mitzvah
Emma Abrams
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