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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) 530-4422 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!

June 4, 2007

AT PARDES LEVAVOT
  • Thank You
  • Events This Week
    • Chanting and Meditation
    • Community Council Meeting
    • Shabbat Family Potluck Dinner
    • Boulder Jewish Festival
PARDES CALENDAR

SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
  • Making Parenting A Spiritual Practice
  • Holy Office Space Needed
  • An Evening of Cabaret Music
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
  • At the Boulder JCC and Around Town.week of 05/27/07 - 06/02/07
  • Jewish Family Service, June 2007
  • ADL, June 2007
  • ALEPH, May 2007
  • Stepping Stones, June 2007
  • ALEPH Kallah
  • Rabbi Leah Novick's New CD
  • Special Presentation at Bonai Shalom
  • Boulder Jewish Festival
  • Stilling the Mind, Opening the Heart: Where Science Meets Spirituality
  • Coming Home: Danya and Eyal's CD Release Party!
  • Summer Magic Camp for Children with Special Needs is June 20 and August 2
PRAYERS


AT PARDES LEVAVOT

SPECIAL NOTE:

Dear friends:

Reb Leah's long awaited CD featuring seven guided meditations, with great keyboard and flute music by "Desert Wind", has just been completed. This recording takes you on wonderful journey through history with
Shekhinah, the Cosmic Jewish Mother. The meditations are related to different time periods, and are based on Reb Leah's teachings over the last twenty years. They will also be included in her upcoming book, to be published by Quest Theosophical Publishers in the fall of 2008. The CDs wil be available at Pardes Levavot. Kindly make your checks payable to "Spirit of the Earth" (tax deductible). Your contibution will help support Reb Leah's work.

Thank You

Thanks to Fred Berkelhammer for bringing a wonderful kiddush for us all this past Saturday, and for the special effort to have everything set up before anyone arrived. Thanks Fred!

Events This Week

Chanting and Meditation

Wednesday, June 6, 7-9pm
www.pardeslevavot.org/chant

Community Council Meeting

Thursday, June 7, 6:30-9pm

Shabbat Family Potluck Dinner

Friday, June 8, 6:30-8pm
Join us in the Fellowship Hall for a community potluck dinner. Bring your favorite main course, side dish or desert and join us for our meal. The meal will be "milkich" - vegetable or dairy, no meat please.

Parashat Sh'lach
Sh'lach Torah Journey

Boulder Jewish Festival

Sunday, June 10, 11am-5pm


PARDES CALENDAR

June 2007

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

7, Thursday - Community Council Meeting, 6:30-9pm

8, Friday - Shabbat Family Potluck Dinner, 6:30-8pm

10, Sunday - Boulder Jewish Festival, 11am-5pm

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

16, Saturday - Shabbat Morning Service and Torah Study, 10am-noon

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

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

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

30, Saturday - Torah study, Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, Havdalah, 4-6pm


SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS

Making Parenting A Spiritual Practice

A very special class at Elat Chayyim, August 20-26 - Family Week, taught by Rabbis Victor and Nadya Gross.

Children come into this world bearing the wisdom gained in lifetimes lived before and the memory of God breathing life into them once again. Their greatest gift to us is to open our eyes to the unlimited potential and purity of the universe. Our greatest gift to them is to overcome our controlling need to shape them in our image.

The spiritual practice of parenting seeks to create a safe, loving and supportive environment where these young beings can grow in conscious partnership with their Divine intention. When we learn to parent in this way, our homes are defined by love, authenticity and meaning.

Come learn this practice, sourced in our rabbinic and mystical tradition, and find new joy and purpose in your relationships with your children.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/spiritual-parenting.html

Holy Office Space Needed

Hanalei Laner needs a holy office space to teach Hebrew and Jewish studies to be used 15 - 20 hours weekly, during business hours. She's looking for an inexpensive place, perhaps in someone's home. West Boulder, or near downtown, would be ideal.  Please call her at (303) 447-3974.

An Evening of Cabaret Music

An Evening of Cabaret Music  with Debra Greene McCloskey & Julie Scott. Please join us Wednesday June 13th, 7:30 - 9:30pm at Nissi's - Live Music and Bistro. Limited Seating - Tickets $5 / $7 at the door. 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, CO 80026 303-665-2757  www.nissis.com


AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND

At the Boulder JCC and Around Town.week of 06/03/07 - 06/09/07

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/BJCC-2007_06_02.html

Jewish Family Service, June 2007

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/jfs-2007_05_30.html

ADL, June 2007

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/adl-2007_06_04.html

ALEPH, May 2007

www.pardeslevavot.org/aleph/2007_05.html

Stepping Stones, June 2007

www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/stst-2007_06_01.html

ALEPH Kallah

Beginning July 2 the 12th International Kallah will be held in Albuquerque, NM. The ALEPH Kallah is a week of great learning, davvenen, food, and community. Every morning there are a dozen minyans to choose from. The teachers are fantastic, and it's really quite a fun, Jewish-tribal experience that is beyond words. We hope you will join us. Brochures with class offerings and frequently asked questions are now available on line at www.aleph.org/kallah.html. Please note: Apartment and Suite housing is moving fast - if you want your first choice of accommodations, be sure to register asap!

Special Presentation at Bonai Shalom

Friday, June 8, following Shabbat Services and Dinner
21st Century mame-loshn: The resurgence of Yiddish
Presenter: Lou Cove, Vice President, National Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/bonai-yiddish.html

Boulder Jewish Festival

The Boulder Jewish Festival celebrates its Bnei Mitzvot on Sunday, June 10 from 11-5 this year.  Don't miss it.  When else will you find Jewish food, Jewish music and Jewish art all together on the Pearl Street Mall? Stop by the assortment of community booths, food vendors, and Judaica artists while you relax with a stage packed with  engaging musicians.  Blue Fringe, a hot new rock group, is featured on the Coors Main Stage.  Kids are not forgotten with entertainment and crafts planned throughout the day.  New this year is Bonai Shalom kugels, a delicious addition to our food fare you'll want to try.  Silent auction baskets in the main tent support the Cathy Adler Scholarship fund for Jewish educators.  For a complete listing of entertainment, times and food vendors go to  www.boulderjewishfestival.org.

And don't forget - Pardes Levavot will have our booth again this year, and we'll need volunteers to help get our message out to the Jewish community! Write to info@pardeslevavot.org if you'd like to get involved.

Stilling the Mind, Opening the Heart: Where Science Meets Spirituality

With Adam Engle. Tuesday, June 19. 7 p.m. At the City Club 885 Arapahoe Ave. (This City Club is in the Historic Highland Building on the NW corner of 9th and  Arapahoe. Additional parking is available at the Boulder Public Library.) $10 for talk and wine and cheese reception

How do we create and maintain a healthy mind? Can happiness be learned? Does meditation cause changes in the brain? How are thought and feeling connected? Is the ability to focus something that can be improved through practice like playing an instrument? Join us as Adam Engle talks about the research being done by the Mind and Life Institute of Boulder, which is pioneering a new field known as contemplative neuroscience, inspired by a dialogue Engle organized between neuroscientists and the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India, in 2000. The Dalai Lama asked the scientists to take the practices developed by Buddhists and other contemplative traditions and test them in labs, and, if they were determined to be beneficial, to see if there were ways to teach them in secular environments. Adam Engle is chairman and cofounder of the The Mind and Life Institute, which brought the Dalai Lama to Denver for last year’s talk at the Pepsi Center, "The Science of a Compassionate Life."

Coming Home: Danya and Eyal's CD Release Party!

Mazal Tov! The long awaited debut album of Danya Uriel and Eyal Rivlin , has been released by the international cutting edge label Sounds True! Join us for a hypnotic and soulful musical journey offering a fresh look at ancient Hebrew mantras. Come celebrate, sing, dance, and deepen with Eyal, Danya, and an incredible line-up of musicians.

When: Sunday, June 24th 7:30 pm
Cost: $12, please register in advance, this event will sell out. Contact 303-443-3796 or joyandhealth@msn.com for tickets.
Where: The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Rd. for directions www.thestarhouse.org
To sample the CD and for more info please go to www.myspace.com/HebrewChanting

Summer Magic Camp for Children with Special Needs is June 20 and August 2

Campers and Teen Buddies Needed! Summer Magic, a program that provides day-trips for campers with special needs and volunteer teen buddies, seeks participants for its two upcoming sessions. Children with disabilities are invited to spend the day at Shwayder Camp near Idaho Springs on Wednesday, June 20 or at JCC Ranch Camp in Elbert on Thursday, August 2. The JCC Ranch Camp is a new location for this year's program.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/magic-camp-2007.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. And remember to let us know when our prayers have been effective!

David Sapper
Miriam Fields
Marcia Kohler
Vicki Penna
Reb Victor Gross
Shoshana Nejman
Rav Benyamin Eliyahu ben Etel Alka (Rabbi Jamie Arnold)

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
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.