January 22, 2007
AT
PARDES LEVAVOT
PARDES
CALENDAR
SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
- Moving Into Kavanah:
Prayer and the Body
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
- Boulder JCC Events and
Classes, February 2007
- At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town.week of 01/21/07 - 01/2707
- JFS Connections,
January 2007
- Sacred Garment: Women
and Tefilin
- Renewal wants to keep
same spirit while standardizing rabbis' training
- Rafael Spiritual
Healing Center to offer bereavement support group
- ALEPH Passover in
Israel!
- Paper Clips at the
Boulder International Film Festival
- Joshua Nelson in Concert
- Walking the Appalachian
Trail
- Perek Shira: The Song
of Creation
PRAYERS
AT PARDES LEVAVOT
Thank
You!
Thank you to the
Stewart family - Liz, Larry and Lily - for hosting our oneg on Friday
night. The oneg was held in honor of Joy Myers Silverman, Liz's mother,
on her fifth yahrzeit. A wonderful tribute to Joy, and a feast for
everyone present.
Pardes Levavot is honored to announce the creation of the Leslie Ann
Weidner Memorial Scholarship Fund. Leslie and her husband John have
been members of Pardes Levavot since shortly after our founding, and
have attended as Leslie's health allowed. She died on Dec 30th, after a
courageous battle with cancer, and was an inspiration in her life to
those who were privileged to know her. The Leslie Ann Weidner Memorial
Scholarship Fund will make scholarships available to our teens who wish
to attend Jewish leadership programs, summer camps and Israel trips.
Leslie's own Jewish identity was rooted in her participation in Jewish
summer camps and her trip to Israel when she was 17 years old. Please
write to info@pardeslevavot.org
if you would like to contribute.
A Mazal Tov to Amitai Gross on his election as Rocky Mountain Region
'Gadol' (President) of AZA (BBYO). Amitai has benefited greatly from
his participation in the kinds of summer and youth programs that the
new scholarship fund is designed to support. We encourage all our post
B'nai Mitzvah teens to talk with Amitai about the programs available to
them in our area.
Events
This Week
Chanting and Meditation
Wednesday, January 24,
7-9pm.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/chant.html
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Friday, January 26, 7-9pm
Bo
Shabbat Morning Service
and Ari Saponar's Bar Mitzvah
Saturday, January 27, 10am
Circle of Family
Education Program, kids only!
Saturday, January 27, 3-4:30pm
Events
Coming Up
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.
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) 530-4422.
Seeking goods and services valued at $400 and up for the LIVE AUCTION
at Esther's Feast - please contact ltrank@comcast.net
if you have something you would like to donate.
Getting
Involved
From the Shepherd of the
Hills Bulletin
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: As of
today, Shepherd has a new email address: shepherdboulder@gmail.com.
A YOUNG CIP MOTHER has seven week old twins and needs some help. If you
are interested, please leave your name with the church office and we’ll
connect you with her CIP case worker.
Tikkun
Olam: Repairing the World
Help Farm Workers in
California
ALEPH's Sacred Foods Project
holds out fair and just treatment of farm workers as one of its
fundamental principles. Please consider supporting the farm workers in
California who will be suffering greatly as a result of this year's
freeze. The news is full of stories about the freeze and how
California's multimillion dollar citrus crop is being hit hard. The
harsh January freeze that ravaged California citrus also damaged
strawberries, avocados and possibly other crops. It could also ravage
the lives of an estimated 20,000 farm workers and their families in
citrus alone. While growers are assessing the situation, the United
Farm Workers is already hearing from citrus workers who are out of
work. Workers have told us they think it will be almost a total loss.
News reports talk about the negative effects of this disaster on
growers. However, growers can apply for relief under emergency
declarations and many have insurance to cover some of their losses.
There is little or no aid for the farm workers who pick the crops.
Please help the UFW fight for these farm workers. Contact California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein. Thank
the governor for calling a state of emergency and ask Sen. Feinstein to
work to get the federal government to declare a national emergency, as
she did after the 1998-1999 freeze. Ask them to make sure emergency
assistance provides unemployment insurance; rent or mortgage
assistance; utilities assistance; and organized food distribution to
farm workers and their stricken families. When the assistance comes in,
the UFW will be there to get it to all those who need it - just as we
did back after the last freeze. Every e-mail sent makes a difference.
Please help us spread the word about this campaign. Visit the UFW's
"Freeze page" to see the latest news clips and press releases.
www.ufwaction.org/campaign/freeze11707/
PARDES
CALENDAR
January 2007
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. Sunday, January 28,
2007.
www.MovingIntoKavanah.com/
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
Boulder JCC Events and
Classes, February 2007
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/JCC-2007_01_11.html
At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town.week of 01/21/07 - 01/27/07
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/BJCC-2007_01_20.html
JFS Connections, January
2007
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/JFS-2007_01_23.html
Sacred Garment: Women and
Tefilin
Tefilin are called in our
holy sources, a sign, “ot.” Even though the Torah exempted women from
wearing them, there is no prohibition against it. The Talmud says that
if women wish to put on tefilin, we should not stand in their way.
Moreover, the women are rewarded for it. What are Tefilin? May women
wear Tefilin? What is prayer? Can Tefilin help us to pray? How can
Tefilin contribute to our spiritual practice? Come! Learn and
experience how Tefilin can help you to connect heart, mind and soul to
divine energy.
When: February 18, 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Where: Bonai Shalom, 1527 Cherryvale Road, Boulder, CO 80303
Fee: $10
The class is taught by
Ori Har, spiritual director and rabbinic student. If you are interested in
participating, please RSVP to Sara Hollander. E-mail: sandiji2@yahoo.com Phone:
303.499.0312
If you have a set of Tefilin at home please bring it to class.
Renewal wants to keep
same spirit while standardizing rabbis' training
From "JTA - The Global News
Service of the Jewish People", an article covering the ALEPH smicha
(ordination) program. Much of the content was gathered at the OHaLaH
conference here in Boulder in early January, including quotes from our
own Reb Victor!
www.pardeslevavot.org/articles/jta-2007_01_15.html
Rafael Spiritual Healing
Center to offer bereavement support group
Rafael Spiritual Healing
Center, a program of Jewish Family Service of Colorado (JFS), will
offer a Spiritual Healing Bereavement support group on Thursday, Feb.
8, 2-3:30 p.m. at the Healing Center, located in the JFS building at
3201 S. Tamarac Dr.
www.pardeslevavot.org/articles/jfs-rafael.html
ALEPH Passover in Israel!
Rabbis Victor and Nadya
strongly urge folks to consider this amazing opportunity to see Israel
through the spiritual lens that is Rabbi Marcia Prager's and Hazzan
Jack Kessler's special gift.
Have you been yearning for an experience of Israel that speaks to your
body, heart, mind and soul? Have you been longing to participate in a
community of travelers who are open to an honest encounter with the
timeless teachings of a living Torah? Have you been planning on going
to Israel when the time is right, but haven't yet found it?
The time is now! Sunday, March 25 to Thursday April 5
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/aleph-israel-2007.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
Joshua Nelson in Concert
"This is the annual
fundraiser for
the Boulder JCC and this guy is AMAZING, an African American Jewish
Gospel singer, young and incredibly talented. Tickets are really
reasonable - $18/$25/$36 and all the proceeds go toward operational
costs at the Boulder JCC." -- Lisa Trank
Information at the
Boulder JCC, purchase
tickets at the Boulder Theatre, visit Joshua's web site, hear
Joshua Nelson sing: Adon Olam
or Mi
Chamocha.
Walking the Appalachian
Trail
"In a nutshell, my wife
(Chava) and I plan to walk the 2,175 mile Appalachian Trail from
Georgia to Maine next year to raise money for Meir Panim (www.meirpanim.org) in Israel. You
will find out more about this project on my website walkingforisrael.com. Meir
Panim has produced a webpage on their site dedicated to our project. We
are hoping to raise $250,000 for Meir Panim." -- Shlomo ben Avraham
Perek Shira: The Song of
Creation
A special learning for women
entitled Perek Shira: The Song of Creation will be lead by Rachel
Trugman on Tuesday morning February 6th at 11:00AM at the home of Leah
Mehler, 101 Grape Street in Denver. Perek Shira is a mysterious and
beautiful midrash describing the song of each creation. Each person
also has a song. Come and learn how to tap into your inner song and the
song of the Creator. All proceeds to benefit Ohr Chadash.
Ohr Chadash, Rabbi Avraham Arieh & Rachel Trugman, tel:
972-8-9265-247, fax: 972-8-9265-448, trugman@netvision.net.il, www.thetrugmans.com
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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