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Pardes Levavot

Pardes Levavot, “Orchard of Hearts,” was formed in the spirit of creating conscious holy community. Our name expresses the spiritual blossoming of each individual heart within an inspiring and nurturing orchard.

For information on our congregation please call (303) 563-2110 and leave a message or send email to info@pardeslevavot.org. To join our congregation, please print a copy of our membership form, fill it out, and send it to our Synagogue.


Pardes Levavot gratefully acknowledges Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado for their support of our Circle of Family Education program. Thank you!

January 8, 2007

AT PARDES LEVAVOT
PARDES CALENDAR

SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
  • Moving Into Kavanah: Prayer and the Body
  • An Invitation to the Congregation
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
  • At the Boulder JCC and Around Town.week of 01/07/07 - 01/13/07
  • Jewish Family Service, January 2007 newsletter
  • Allied Jewish Federation, January 2007 newsletter
  • Center for Judaic Studies, January 2007 newsletter
  • Paper Clips at the Boulder International Film Festival
  • Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
  • JFS Para-Chaplain Training
PRAYERS


AT PARDES LEVAVOT

Thank You!

Thank you to all the Rabbis, Rabbinic Pastors and Cantors, plus their students, from around the world who have come to Boulder for the OHaLaH conference and have welcomed us to their Shabbat services and other events. It is quite a blessing and a treat!

Thanks again for the great response to our end of year donation appeal. Your gifts will help keep the work of Pardes Levavot moving forward. If you couldn't get your donation in before the end of year - how about a new year's donation!

Events This Week

Chanting and Meditation

Wednesday, January 10, 7-9pm.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/chant.html

Kabbalat Shabbat Service

Friday, January 12, 7-9pm
Shemot

Shabbat Morning Service and Anna Yulsman Bat Mitzvah

Saturday, January 13, 9:30am

Events Coming Up

Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations!

Ari Saponar Bar Mitzvah - Saturday, January 27

Esther's Feast

Find out what secrets will be revealed at Esther's Feast: A Pre-Purim Gala Honoring Rabbis Victor and Nadya Gross and to Benefit Pardes Levavot: A Jewish Renewal Congregation. Saturday, February 24, 6:30 - 10:30pm at the home of Michael and Jackie Lewis, 8625 Portico Lane, Longmont. Creative Black Tie. Food, cocktails, live music, tarot and Torah readings and special surprises! Tickets: $108/individual; $180/couple.
Coming soon... tickets can be purchased online. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation. For more information and to RSVP: contact info@pardeslevavot.org or call (303) 563-2110.

Getting Involved

Helping Ari and Shirly

Ari Saponar is feeling better, recovering from his shattered femur and the surgery.  However his mother Shirly Pugatzy is feeling sick. They need your help!  Shirly has asked for people to contact her directly.  Their long term needs are becoming  clear.  Some days they will need help and other days not.  Especially needed are people to help Ari with his homework, since he can't leave home and go to school.  Their phone number is 303.443.1589, or cell phone at 720.987.5592.

From the Shepherd of the Hills Bulletin

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: As of January 20, 2007, Shepherd will have a new email address. Please note the following: shepherdboulder@gmail.com.


PARDES CALENDAR

January 2007

10, Wednesday - Chant and Meditation, 7-9pm

12, Friday - Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 7-9pm

13, Saturday - Bat Mitzvah - Anna Yulsman, 9:30am-noon

14, Sunday - Tea with Rabbis Nadya and Victor, 2pm

17, Wednesday - Chant and Meditation, 7-9pm

20, Saturday - Shabbat Morning Service and Torah Study, 9am-noon
20, Saturday - Circle of Family Education Program, including Havdalah and potluck dinner, 3-6pm

24, Wednesday - Chant and Meditation, 7-9pm

26, Friday - Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 7-9pm

27, Saturday - Bar Mitzvah - Ari Saponar, 10am-noon
27, Saturday - Circle of Family Education Program, kids only!, 3-4:30pm

31, Wednesday - Chant and Meditation, 7-9pm


SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS

Moving Into Kavanah: Prayer and the Body

What is your relationship to your body in prayer? Is it one of integration or of separation? In this workshop, gently explore joyful ways to include your body-felt senses in your spiritual practice with two leading bodywork practitioners, Liz Stewart, Advanced Practitioner of Structural Integration and Movement Awareness and Lisa Trank, Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. We will work together as a group and individually to discover what it means to move into and within the space of Kavanah. Saturday and Sunday, January 27 and 28, 2007.
www.MovingIntoKavanah.com/

An invitation to the congregation

Please join Barbara Wilder at an Open House Party to celebrate the opening of her new meditation and healing center. RSVP to Barbara Wilder at barbara@barbarawilder.com or by phone 303-444-2367. Please come and celebrate with me.  Beverages, Food, and Fun.

Sunday, Jan 14 - 4:00 - 7:30
Transformational Light Center. 
3333 Iris Ave. Suite 207
Boulder 80304


AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND

At the Boulder JCC and Around Town.week of 01/07/07 - 01/13/07

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/BJCC-2007_01_06.html

Jewish Family Service, January 2007 newsletter

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/JFS-2007_01_04.html

Allied Jewish Federation, January 2007 newsletter

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/ajf-2007_01_05.html

Center for Judaic Studies, January 2007 newsletter

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/cjs-2007_01_05.html

Paper Clips at the Boulder International Film Festival

The Boulder International Film Festival is showing Paper Clips on a NO school day, Friday February 16th at 1pm in the auditorium of Boulder High School, for FREE. We hope many youth will take advantage of
this opportunity. There is no school that day and no tickets are necessary.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/biff-paperclips.html

Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail

Dr. Jeanne Abrams, director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society & Beck Archives, was interviewed on Colorado Matters (KCFR AM1340) on "Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail" Friday, January 5 at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. This interview covers fascinating information featured in her new book, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. Visit www.kcfr.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94 and click the calendar for January 5 to hear her interview. For information about purchasing her new book, please call the Center for Judaic Studies at 303.871.3020.

JFS Para-Chaplain Training

Jewish Family Service (JFS) will hold its 2007 Bikur Cholim (visiting the sick) para-chaplain training on January 7, 17 and 23 in Denver.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/JFS-para-chaplain.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.

Ari Saponar
Dr. Howard Goldstein
Will Kohler
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
David Sapper
Jackie Lewis
John Silverman
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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