A joyous community of Jewish women engaged in prayer,
study, and spiritual growth
|
|
The month of November presents the opportunity to reflect on
gratitude.
Besides the big Thanksgiving meal itself, we look at the people with whom we are breaking bread.
Let us be grateful for loving family and for devoted friends. Let us know we have more than we need and we can provide and share with others. Let us always take the time to recognize all that enlivens our lives and the lives of those we care for.
Join Rabbi August, Cindy Paley, Sharon Alexander, and Robin Winston for Lev Eisha Shabbat services, still on Zoom until we can meet safely in person. Participate in uplifting opportunities to
reflect on, sing about and pray for those holy moments of gratitude.
JOIN US ON ZOOM!
Saturday, November 6 10am-Noon PT
|
|
Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! |
|
Many thanks to our donors, whose contributions are helping provide Zoom events during these challenging times. Also thank you to those who are donating in honor and memory of loved ones, and those who donated to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund.
Your generosity is most appreciated!
Helen Budin
Suzanne Gallant
Leslie Geffen
Judith Golden
Karen Kaplan
Sheryl Melendez
Pam Neshkes
Cindy Paley
Ellen Retting
|
|
New and Returning Members |
|
If you haven't already renewed your membership, you can add your name to our long list of Lev Eisha sisters who have renewed. It's easy to renew online at leveisha.org. Or mail back your paper application with your check.
Thank you to these members who have renewed this month:
Craig Singer
Vivian Feintech
Roz Hendlish
Kate Rosloff
Looking for a gift for a special person? A Lev Eisha membership is the perfect gift! Let us know if you'd like an acknowledgement sent to the recipient.
|
|
Please note we now have a new mailing address:
11270 Exposition Blvd., Box 64256, Los Angeles, CA 90066-9998
|
|
Being Grateful on Thanksgiving
Excerpts on Gratitude – edited by Rabbi August
From Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, by David Whyte.
Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, but rather, it arises from paying attention and being awake in the presence of everything within and around us.
Gratitude is not necessarily something that is shown after the event. It is a deep state of attention that shows we understand and are equal to and a part of all life.
Gratitude is the understanding that many millions of things come together and live and breathe together in order for us to take even one more breath of air. Being a participating human being is a privilege –that we are miraculously part of something, rather than nothing. Even if that something is temporarily pain or despair, we inhabit a living world, with real faces, real voices, laughter, the greens of the field or the tawny hue of winter landscape.
To see the colors of the universe, sit among friends and strangers, intuit inner lives beneath the surface…to make conversation without saying a word, is to deepen our sense of presence and therefore our natural sense of thankfulness that we are witness to it all.
When our sense of presence meets the inner and outer worlds of all presences, Thanksgiving happens.
Gratitude is when we pay attention.
AMEN
Rabbi Toba August
|
|
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of
Hilda Mills, z'l, long-time Lev Eisha member. Hilda was mother to Stacey (John) and Michael (Jodi), and grandmother to four beloved grandchildren: Ryan, Ethan, Emma, and Jase.
Shiva will be held via Zoom
on
Saturday, October 30th at 7:00pm
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 874 2840 7411
|
|
A moment from last month's service. Please join Robin, Cindy and Sharon on November 6 for more musical moments! |
|
We will let you know when we may safely return to Beth Shir Shalom for in-person services. Watch for a message in your email, hopefully soon!
(DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
November 6, 2021
December 4, 2021
January 8, 2022
February 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
April 2, 2022
May 7, 2022
June 4, 2022
|
|
Lev Eisha Travel Totes: Free with donation of $36 or more!
These fashionable totes pack into pocket-sized pouches so you can show your love for Lev everywhere you go, if you've made a donation of $36 or more. Until we can meet in person, we will be glad to mail your tote to you.
Limited one tote per donation.
|
|
2021-2022 Board of Directors
President: Carolyn Wispe Burns
Treasurer: Ruth Grossman
Recording Secretary: Wendy Aleman
Corresponding Secretary: Leslie Geffen
Membership: Robin Winston
Catering: Lynn Beliak
Ritual: Judy Fishman
Hospitality: Joan Spiegel
Newsletter: Rose Ziff
Outreach: Gail Heim
Past Presidents: Barbara Brown, Susie Yuré
Advisory Council
Janis Cohen
Linda Zweig
Holly Zucker
|
|
Shop on Amazon and Support Lev Eisha! |
|
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. You use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.
To sign up, visit smile.amazon.com/. You will be prompted to select Lev Eisha from a list of eligible organizations. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make at AmazonSmile will result in a donation. You only have to sign up once.
|
|
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING FRIENDS WHO ARE CELEBRATING NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS:
Muriel Dance
Diney Shulman
Ellen Retting
Susie Yure
Francine Biren
Judith Bloch
Zena David
Carole Easton
Helen Fishman
Hannah Ganezer
Deena Gordon
Marian Kornicki
Shifra Raz
Maxine Silverberg
Ida Unger
Do you have a birthday and we didn't acknowledge it? Please send us your birth month and we will be glad to wish you a Happy Birthday!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
