October 16, 2006
AT PARDES LEVAVOT
- Thank
You!
- Events This Week
- Chanting and
Meditation
Shabbat Morning Service;
Rachel Joyce Bat Mitzvah
- Events Coming Up
- The Joy of Meditative
Kabbalah
- Bar/Bat
Mitzvah celebrations!
- Getting Involved
- Sharing Our Sacred
Space
- Thanksgiving Baskets
For Community Infant Program (CIP) Families
- Adult Hebrew Language
Class
- Host an Oneg
- From the Shepherd of
the Hills Bulletin
- Tikkun Olam: Repairing The
World
- Tell McDonald's to
ensure fair wages and working conditions for farm workers!
- Righteous work for
these Awesome Days
- Flatirons Habitat for
Humanity
PARDES
CALENDAR
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
- At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town... week of 10/15/06 - 10/21/06
- Conscious Learning
Community, October 2006
- Mystic Breezes in the
Garden of Eden: Jewish Mysticism and Sacred Storytelling
- Assessing and
Addressing the Iranian Threat
- Spiritual Exploration
- New Mexico
- Am HaZikaron Institute
PRAYERS
AT PARDES LEVAVOT
Thank
You!
Congratulations to Grace
Naama Kohler, daughter of Marcia and Will Kohler, who received her
Hebrew name on Yom Kippur. Naama is "grace" in Hebrew, and is very
appropriate for a little one so filled with grace.
Simchat Torah was an amazing
climax to Tishrei, a month filled with holidays. Thank you to Reb
Victor, Reb Nadya, Shirly Pugatzy and Amitai Gross for leading us. And
congratulations to Tamar Chava on her baby naming, and
proud parents Lael Har and Greg Greenstreet. Thanks to Michael Har
(proud grandparent!) and Jim Wright for staying late and finishing the
cleanup. Congratulations also to
everyone who attended and may your Torah oracle bring you happiness and
fulfillment in the coming year.
Events
This Week
Chanting and Meditation
Wednesday, October 18,
7-9pm
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/chant.html
Shabbat Morning Service;
Rachel Joyce Bat Mitzvah
Saturday, October 21,
9:30am-noon
Bereshit
This Shabbat we
celebrate the Bat Mitzvah of Rachel Joyce, daughter of Janet and
Matthew Joyce. As our cycle of Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations continues,
we remind you of our special tradition. While many congregations have a
practice of presenting a gift from the Synagogue to the Bar/Bat Mitzvah
such as a Kiddush cup, prayer book, or Bible we created a new practice
when Pardes was formed.
We invite the adult members of Pardes Levavot to, collectively, offer a
community gift basket to each Bar/Bat Mitzvah - filled with notes,
blessings, poems, small objects, or any piece of wisdom you'd like to
share. Since many young people have limited relationships with adults,
outside their parents or teachers, we're hoping that this special gift
basket will help the Bar/Bat Mitzvah to feel welcomed and cared for,
not only by their parents, but by their spiritual chevra as well. We
encourage you to participate even if you do not know the Bar/Bat
Mitzvah personally. In fact, we're hoping that each contribution to
the basket will plant a seed for a new "adult" relationship and invite
curiosity from this new young-adult: "Who IS this person who gave me
this message?" Please join in creating this heart-filled bridge for
each of our B'nai Mitzvah as they begin journeying toward becoming a
full adult. Bring your gift Saturday morning, and give it to Sylvia
Fibich, who will present the basket on your behalf at the end of the
Torah Service.
Events
Coming Up
The Joy of Meditative
Kabbalah
Mindy Ribner
Thursday, October 26, 2006. 7pm at Pardes Levavot
Requested donation: $10
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/mindy_ribner.html
Bar/Bat
Mitzvah celebrations!
Anna Yulsman Bat Mitzvah - Saturday, January 13 (MLK weekend)
Getting
Involved
Sharing Our Sacred Space
Everything in our building is
supplied, maintained and repaired by volunteers from Pardes Levavot and
Shepherd of the Hill. In even-numbered months Pardes Levavot is asked
to restock our supplies. This month we need the following donations:
toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, plastic ware, dish soap, liquid
hand soap and reams of pastel copier paper. Please drop off any
donations to the office - and if it is locked, please leave items on
the floor outside the office's sliding glass door. Thank you and
blessings!
Thanksgiving Baskets For
Community Infant Program (CIP) Families
Our goal is to provide 125
baskets filled with the ingredients for a Thanksgiving dinner. We will
be collecting food every Sunday. Each week we will ask you to bring
different food items (or a cash donation if you prefer). The baskets
will be assembled on Sunday, November 19, and they will be picked up by
caseworkers the next day. Food items for this week: Canned Yams
& Cranberries.
Other items needed: green beans, peas, corn; potato buds and gravy mix;
soup mix, beans/rice for leftovers; stuffing, powdered milk, canned
meat or fish.
Adult Hebrew Language
Class
Are you interested in
attending an adult Hebrew language class? Please email info@pardeslevavot.org if you
are. We are looking to see if there are enough interested individuals
for a class this fall.
Host an Oneg
We have plenty of openings
for people to host an Oneg Shabbat or a Kiddush. Interested? Write info@pardeslevavot.org.
From the Shepherd of the
Hills Bulletin
SAVE THE DATE! Our Jazz
concert to benefit the Community Infant Program will be held on Sunday,
October 29, 7:00 p.m. at Shepherd. There will be great music to benefit
a worthy organization. More details will be forthcoming. Admission is a
donation for CIP or disposable diapers.
Meanwhile, CIP CLIENTS ALWAYS HAVE A SERIOUS NEED FOR DIAPERS. You can
bring them to the church where case workers will pick them up.
Some (small, gray) expensive speakers are missing from the “Hebrews”
room (across from the water fountain, upstairs hallway). They belong to
the French Class which rents that space. If you should see them
anywhere, please bring them to the office.
Tikkun Olam: Repairing The World
Tell McDonald's to Ensure
Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Farm Workers!
"You shall not abuse a
needy and destitute laborer.. but you must pay him his wages on the
same day, for he is needy and urgently depends on it." (Deuteronomy
24:14-15)
Tomato pickers for Florida-based tomato companies earn 40-50 cents for
every 32-lb bucket of tomatoes they pick, a rate that has not risen
significantly since 1978. A worker must pick 2 TONS of tomatoes to
earn $50 in one day. Farm workers often work 10-12 hour days with no
overtime pay, no right to organize, no sick days or other benefits.
There is hope for change. In March of 2005, the CIW and Taco Bell
reached an historic agreement to directly increase farm worker wages
and enforce a code of conduct for human rights in Taco Bell's tomato
supply chain. Since then, the CIW has asked McDonald's to take similar
steps in its own tomato supply chain. Instead of doing so, McDonald's
has responded with public relations schemes that do not make meaningful
change in the fields.
Take action- YOU can encourage McDonald's to do the right thing!
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/mcd-tomato.html
Righteous work for these
Awesome Days
I am writing to urge you to
participate in our new Phone Home campaign! It's a campaign to
mobilize fair-minded people everywhere in the fight against the
anti-LGBT constitutional amendments that will be on the November ballot
in eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. If you come from or know
anyone in any of these states - and surely you do - then you can take
action today.
Just go to the campaign Web site, www.PhoneHome2006.org, where
you'll find all the tools you need to quickly and easily contact your
relatives, friends, classmates and former co-workers in these states
and tell them you need them to do the right thing on November 7. You
can also donate to the state campaigns through this site.
Your LGBT community members back home need all the help they can get so
take action today. Please also forward this message to everyone you
know. There's no time to waste.
Thanks for doing your part to stand up to bigotry and intolerance.
Sincerely,
Matt Foreman
Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Inc.
Flatirons Habitat for
Humanity
Flatirons Habitat is still
enocuraging churches and faith communities to go shop at Vitamin
Cottage for the month of October fundraising event where Vitamin
Cottage will match donations DOLLAR for DOLLAR. Flatirons is also
always looking for more great volunteers to help with a variety of
different aspects such as committee involvement, administrative work,
or working at the Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store. For more
information on any of these, call (303) 447-3787 or email Laura Webermeier, Family Services/
Faith Relations Americorps, Flatirons Habitat for Humanity at laura@flatironshabitat.org.
PARDES
CALENDAR
October 2006
18, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
21, Saturday - Shabbat Morning Service, Bat Mitzvah - Rachel Joyce, 9:30am-noon
25, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
26, Thursday - The
Joy of Meditative Kabbalah, 7pm
27, Friday - Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 7-9pm
28, Saturday - Circle of
Family Education Program, kids only!, 3-4:30pm
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town... week of 10/15/06 - 10/21/06
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/BJCC-2006_10_14.html
Conscious Learning
Community, October 2006
Rabbi Gershon Winkler:
“The Jewel, the Staff, and the Mantle:
Moving Our Lives from Stagnation to Fruition”
Ancient Jewish Wisdom
for…Whatever… November 16-18, 2006.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/clc-2006_10_12.html
Mystic Breezes in the
Garden of Eden: Jewish Mysticism and Sacred Storytelling
This weekend sponsored by Naropa University Extended Studies
includes a storytelling performance on Friday night and a weekend
workshop that explores the Jewish mystical tradition. Yitzhak Buxbaum
is a maggid (a traditional Jewish inspirational speaker and
storyteller), who was ordained as such by the legendary Rabbi
ShlomoCarlebach and by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. He specializes
in Jewish mysticism and Hasidic tales, and also teaches ecumenical
subjects. November 3-5.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/naropa_buxbaum.html
Assessing and Addressing
the Iranian Threat
A Conversation with B'nai
B'rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin.
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 7pm. JCC/Mizel Center - Shwayder Theatre,
350 S. Dahlia Street, Denver.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/bbi-2006_10_05.html
Spiritual Exploration -
New Mexico
Jewish Pathways Vacations is
operating a sightseeing tour of New Mexico that includes Shabbat with
Rabbi Gershon Winkler. The tour will take place October 22 - 29, 2006.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/nm-tour.html
Am HaZikaron Institute
Our organization is a
non-profit Israeli institution which purpose is to
stimulate, popularize and support family research among Jewish families
worldwide. Our team includes specialist in several scientific areas
which
are useful in such research - linguists, historians, genealogists and
specialists for information processing.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/amhazikaron.html
PRAYERS
Each newsletter contains
names of people in our community, or friends of our community, who need
prayers for healing, support, et cetera. Please send names in Hebrew
and/or English, with other details as desired, to info@pardesleavavot.org.
Will Kohler
Lila Greene
Shirley Elaine Garfinkle
Alter Shoresh ben Zion v'Shoshana
HaRav Devorah Rut bat Tamar (Rabbi Deborah Ruth Bronstein)
Rut bat Miriam
Lior
bat Esther Masha
Dov Baer Ben Yehuda ha Kohen v'Devorah
Jonah Miller
David Sapper
Jackie Lewis
John Silverman
Leslie Weidner
Mimi Ito
For information about Pardes Levavot or our events please visit our
website at www.pardeslevavot.org
or write info@pardeslevavot.org.
To contact Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross write rabbis@pardeslevavot.org.
If you would like to post something on our Pardes Levavot mailing
lists, or if you have questions about our mailings, lists,
communications, etc., contact info@pardeslevavot.org.
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