October 22, 2006
AT
PARDES LEVAVOT
- Thank
You!
- Events This Week
- Community Council
Meeting
- Chanting and
Meditation
- Kabbalat Shabbat
Service
- Events Coming Up
- The Joy of Meditative
Kabbalah
- Community Meeting
- Bar/Bat
Mitzvah celebrations!
- Getting Involved
- Sharing Our Sacred
Space
- Building and Grounds
Areas Needing Attention
- Thanksgiving Baskets
For Community Infant Program (CIP) Families
- 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
SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
- Chanukah Donation Request
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
- At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town... week of 10/15/06 - 10/28/06
- Center for Judaic
Studies, October 2006
- ADL, October 2006
- Conscious Learning
Community, October 2006
- Sparks of Light in
Times of Darkness
- Mystic Breezes in the
Garden of Eden: Jewish Mysticism and Sacred Storytelling
- Am HaZikaron Institute
PRAYERS
AT PARDES LEVAVOT
Thank
You!
Congratulations to Rachel
Joyce on a fabulous Bat Miztvah. Family from as far away as London came
to help celebrate as Rachel led us in services and gave a great d'var
Torah. And welcome to Rachel, as she is now a full member of Pardes
Levavot!
Events
This Week
Community Council Meeting
Tuesday, October 24, 7:30pm
Chanting and Meditation
Wednesday, October 25,
7-9pm
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/chant.html
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Friday, October 27, 7-9pm
Noach
We need an oneg sponsor!
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
Community Meeting
As your Rabbis, we would like
to invite all members to attend our community meeting. Please mark your
calendars for: November 12, 2006 from 3-5 PM at the shul. This is your
opportunity to offer input and support for our growing community. We
want to know what programs you want or need and how we can improve
those programs that are currently offered. It is important for you to
know the financial status of Pardes Levavot, to review the budget, and
to discuss ways to achieve financial stability. Finally, a small and
youthful organization should be able to look at how it governs itself
and to consider the best possible means to achieve it's desired goals.
This meeting will be taking place one month before our election process
for new council members. Now is the time to consider any improvements
to our organization's structure and functioning.
We look forward to a fruitful meeting,
all the blessings,
Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross
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!
Building and Grounds
Areas Needing Attention
If you have any expertise in
any of these areas and would like to perform any of the repairs or
would like to volunteer to assist, please contact Wendall Borchert at wendallborchert@comcast.net
or 303-530-0188.
- Front Doors: The sweep
is missing from one of the doors and the lower edge is starting to
delaminate. Both doors need to be refinished. We might want to
consider installing brass kick plates to the bottom of each.
- Air Conditioning: The
A/C units for the sanctuary both need attention. One of the units is
leaking and needs to be repaired and recharged. The compressor is bad
in the other unit and the entire unit needs to be replaced.
- Exhaust Fans For The
Sanctuary: The concrete pads for the exhaust fans have settled. The
fans have been supported on temporary blocks but the pads need to be
repaired or replaced and new flexible couplings installed on the
ductwork.
- Fascia At South Side Of
Gym: Woodpeckers have destroyed some of the fascia on the south side of
the gym. Need to repair, replace or cover the fascia and repaint it.
- Fire Exit From Lower
Level: One of the steps on the lower level emergency fire exit has
rotted. Needs to be replaced. This is one of the railroad ties in
large window well at the south side of the shul.
- Hole in Soffet:
Woodpeckers have punched a hole in the soffet on the west side of the
sanctuary.
- Roof Leak Over The
Nursery: There is a roof leak when we have periods of heavy rain. This
is leaking through the ceiling into the nursery.
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. Items needed: green beans, peas, corn; potato
buds and gravy mix;
soup mix, beans/rice for leftovers; stuffing, powdered milk, canned
meat or fish, canned yams, cranberries; aluminum baking pans for
turkeys.
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.
Upcoming event – mark your calendars: we will have a FALL CLEAN UP DAY
ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 9:00 a.m. TO NOON. We are fortunate to have
the assistance of members of Boy Scout Troop 377.
Meanwhile, CIP CLIENTS ALWAYS HAVE A SERIOUS NEED FOR DIAPERS. You can
bring them to the church where case workers will pick them up.
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
Organist, jazz ensemble will
present a benefit concert for Flatirons Habitat for Humanity on Friday,
November 10 at 7:30 p.m. The concert, to be held at the First
Presbyterian Church (1820 15th), will feature church organist, Dr.
Martha Sandford along with a piano, flute, string bass and percussion
ensemble. Admission is by a free will auction. Event organizers, Bob
and Beth Wettergren, invite all to arrive at 6 p.m. to shop at the
silent auction before the concert. For further information and posters
to advertise, call 303-447-3787, ext. 30.
Also we are always looking for office volunteers and Thrift
Storevolunteers. Call (303) 447-3787 ext. 29 to schedule a time to come
in and help out with all the great things going on at Habitat.
PARDES
CALENDAR
October 2006
24, Tuesday - Community
Council Meeting, 7:30pm
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
November 2006
1, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
4, Saturday - Shabbat Morning Service and Torah Study, 10am-noon
8, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
10, Friday - Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 7-9pm
11, Saturday - Circle of
Family Education Program, including Havdalah and potluck dinner,
3-6pm
12, Sunday - Community
Meeting, 3-5pm
15, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
18, Saturday - Family Shabbat Morning Service and Torah Study
22, Wednesday - Thanksgiving Service
24, Friday - Thanksgiving! Celebrate Shabbat with Family and Friends!
29, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
Chanukah Donation Request
Greetings, as many of
you know I am volunteering and working for Hospice Care Center and
Hospice Care and Share Thrift Shop. We at the thrift shop are asking
for you to please consider donating any Chanukah items to the Hospice
Care and Share Thrift Shop located at 5290 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO.
The phone number is 303-604-5353 and you may ask for me or feel free
to bring them in between 10:00- 5:30 any day but Sunday and tell
someone these are items to be used for the Chanukah display. Suggestions of items include the
following:
candles
cards
books
menorahs
dreidles
games
gift wrap
Thank you very much!
Ed Kletzky
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town... week of 10/22/06 - 10/28/06
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/BJCC-2006_10_21.html
Center for Judaic
Studies, October 2006
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/cjs-2006_10_19.html
ADL, October 2006
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/ADL-2006_10_09.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
Sparks of Light in Times
of Darkness
Rabbi Moshe Aharon. Known to
many as Rabbi Miles Krassen, Rabbi Moshe Aharon is considered one of
the world's foremost interpreters of Hasidism and Kabbalah in English.
Hazzan Richard Kaplan. A dynamic ethnomusicologist, Cantor, teacher,
and accomplished composer of sacred Jewish music, Richard will help us
integrate exquisite niggunim into our practice. Joining Rabbi Moshe
Aharon in this week-long intensive will also be Rabbi Naomi Hyman,
deeply versed in Rabbi Moshe Aharon's interpretation of Hasidic
practice and teachings — all working together to create a deep
experience that you can integrate into your daily life.
December 19-25, 2006
www.gishmeybrachah.org
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
Shlomo Carlebach 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
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.
Dr. Howard Goldstein
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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