October 22, 2007
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PARDES LEVAVOT
- Thank
You
- Events
This Week
- Chant and
Meditation
- Kabbalat
Shabbat Service
- Events Coming Up
- New Format for
Shabbat Services
- CIP
Thanksgiving Basket Donations Needed
PARDES
CALENDAR
AROUND
TOWN AND BEYOND
PRAYERS
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AT PARDES LEVAVOT
Thank
You
Thanks to Jim Wright
for providing our Kiddush on Shabbat.
Events
This Week
Wednesday, October 24,
7-9pm
Friday, October 26,
7-9pm
Parashat Vayera
Vayera
Torah Journey
Please join us for Shabbat services. We will be celebrating our newest
Pardes Levavot members as well as welcoming the 8th graders from Har
Hashem Congregation who will be visiting Pardes Levavot to experience
Jewish Renewal.
Events Coming Up
We're making changes in
our Shabbat morning format to include more
opportunities for interactive learning and special attention to
families with small children. We introduced our new format on Saturday,
October 6 with great success! Adults and children alike were fully
engaged and loved the learning, the praying and the "up close and
personal" Torah service. Ariela Gill is back, teaching our younger
members. Be sure to attend our next "learner's
Shabbat" on Saturday, November 3 at 9am. Bring your friends -
especially those with children.
CIP Thanksgiving
Basket Donations Needed
It's that time again!
Shepherd of the Hills and Pardes Levavot have begun collecting food and
monetary donations for the annual CIP Thanksgiving Baskets. Our goal is
to feed 120 families. Please bring your donations to the display table
in the narthex (welcome room). Food donations can be placed under or
around the table
– monetary donations can be placed in the turkey basket on the table or
mailed to the shul. This is a synagogue-wide and church-wide service
project, everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate.
The following items are needed: canned green beans, canned corn or
other vegetables, canned yams, canned cranberries, boxed stuffing,
boxed instant potatoes, packaged gravy mix, rice, canned soup or broth,
packaged cookies, aluminum roasting pans. We also need cash donations
to purchase turkeys, milk and eggs.
SAVE THE DATE! Everyone is invited
to pack the food boxes on Sunday,
November 18th at 11:30am. Packing all the food we have gathered is a
fun an extremely rewarding experience for the entire family. Be sure to
attend!
And finally, we need volunteers to be at the shul Monday morning,
November 19th to help pick up the perishable goods and to load the
boxes into social workers' cars for delivery to family homes.
Thank you all for contributing and for participating.
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PARDES
CALENDAR
October 2007
24, Wednesday - Chant
and Meditation, 7-9pm
26, Friday - Kabbalat
Shabbat Service, 7-9pm
31, Wednesday - Chant
and Meditation, 7-9pm
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AROUND TOWN
AND BEYOND
View additional
information from the local community on our web site by following the
links below.
For over 30 years, the
Dances of Universal Peace have been a sacred practice for many world
wisdom traditions. Seeking to enrich the Hebrew collection of this
form, Eyal Rivlin and Timothy Dobson have been collaborating over the
last 3 years to create a rich and powerful new repertoire of dances
inspired by ancient Hebrew prayers. Through simple, deep, and heart
opening dances we dance ourselves to an experience of Oneness! The
circle dances are accessible and require no previous experience or
partner. If you are searching for new and meaningful ways to "em-body"
your Jewish practice be sure to check it out.
When: Saturday, November 10th, 9-5. Since we will be
filming this event
please plan to be there for the whole time. Where: Boulder
Mennonite Church, 3910 Table Mesa Dr (1 block East of Broadway) How
Much: Free! Also, in gratitude for your participation in the
filming we will be offering lunch.
Please RSVP to Eyal Rivlin at 303-443-3796
A Seven-Day Jewish
Meditation Retreat. December 2-9, 2007 with Rabbis Diane Elliot, Burt
Jacobson, and Jeff Roth at the Ralston L White Retreat in Mill Valley,
Marin County, California. Sponsored by The Awakened Heart Project and
Ruach Ha'Aretz.
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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!
DOvid BOruch ben Rachel and Raphael HA Levi
Magdalena Merovingia
Gershom ben Leah v Avraham
Yehoshua Mishulim ben Sarah Leah
Shoshana Nejman
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
John Silverman
Mimi Ito
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Reb
Menachem Schneerson
is being driven to a Chabad retreat in the Catskills by a young student
chauffeur. He suddenly requests of the driver a wish to try driving
himself
after many years of being driven by others. The young driver feels he
cannot refuse the beloved Rabbi and lets him into the drivers seat
while
he gets into the back seat. Reb Schneerson, having last driven a
stickshift
in Europe, is having a ball with the advanced automatic, power
steering,
power brakes and all the luxuries. He soon makes like Richard Petty and
comes down the NY Thruway at 95 mph. A NY State Police car soon pulls
him over. The jackbooted cop ambles over with the ticket book. As soon
as he spots the driver, he freezes and mumbles a "wait here a minute,
please."
The cop hurries back to his car, gets on the radio to his area
supervisor,
and reports a very serious problem, "I just pulled over a very
important
person!"
The captain on the other
end asks; "Did you pull over Senator D'Amato again?"
"No, this guy is more important!"
"You didn't stop the governor?"
"No."
"The President?"
"No, but this person is
real important, although I'm not quite sure who he is."
"How do you know then that
this person is so important?"
"Well, he has the Lubavitcher
Rebbe for a chauffeur!"
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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