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October
29, 2007
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PARDES LEVAVOT
Thank
You
Thanks to Vicki
Penna
for providing our Oneg on Shabbat including a wonderful home baked
challah, and to Miriam Fields for wine and juice.
Welcome to all our new families!
Events
This Week
Wednesday,
October 31,
7-9pm
Saturday,
November 3, 9am-12:15pm
Parashat Chayei Sara
Chayei
Sara Torah Journey
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. Bring your friends -
especially those with children!
Events Coming
Up
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.
We have enough green beans and other vegetables to feed 120 families.
We still need the following items: 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.
Getting
Involved
From the
Shepherd of the Hills Bulletin
Fall clean up! On
Saturday, November 10th, we will have our Annual Fall Clean-up Day from
9:00a.m. - noon. The Scouts will be here to help us do our work. Any
help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. A large
turnout is more fun and makes the job much easier for everyone! Join us!
Do you need a table? There are currently 15 large brown tables stored
downstairs. They could serve many purposes for the right home, and the
legs fold easily. If you're interested, contact Kay Werpy:
393-530-5154, kaywerpy@msn.com.
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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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PARDES
LEVAVOT
CALENDAR
October
2007
31, Wednesday -
7-9pm
Chant
and Meditation
November
2007
3,
Saturday - 9am-12:15pm
Learners'
Shabbat Morning Service for All Ages
7, Wednesday
NO Chant
and Meditation
9, Friday - 7-9pm
Kabbalat
Shabbat Service
11, Sunday - 3pm
Congregational Meeting
14, Wednesday - 7-9pm
Chant
and Meditation
17, Saturday - 9:30am-noon
Torah
Study, Davenen and Torah Service
18, Sunday - 11am
Pack Thanksgiving Baskets
21, Wednesday - 7-9pm
Thanksgiving Service with Shepherd of the Hills
23, Friday
Celebrate Shabbat with Friends and Family!
28, Wednesday - 7-9pm
Chant
and Meditation
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AROUND
TOWN
AND BEYOND
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.
2008
Chidush Awards
Are you
a creative thinker? An inspiring teacher? We're looking for you.....
Consider submitting your innovative teaching ideas for a Chidush Award.
Award winning lesson plans will be included in the new Teacher Resource
Center at HaSifria and winners receive a cash prize, donations made in
their honor and recognition at the Chidush Awards reception on April
17, 2008.
For information on how to apply please visit www.Chidush.org.
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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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A Rabbi was walking,
slowly,
out of a shul in New York, when a gust of wind blew his hat off and
down
the street. He was an old man, who walked with the aid of a cane, and
who
wasn't able to fetch his hat. Across the street, a young gentile man
saw
what was happening, rushed over and grabbed the hat. He then returned
it
to the Rabbi.
"I
don't think I could have retrieved my hat by myself," said the Rabbi.
"Thank you very much!" He then placed his hand on the man's shoulder
and said, "May God bless you."
The
young man thought to himself, "I've been blessed by the Rabbi, this
must be my lucky day!" He decided then and there to go to the
racetrack. In the first race he noted a horse named 'Stetson' at 20 to
1. He bet $50 and, sure enough, the horse came in first. In the second
race, a horse named 'Fedora' was at 30 to 1, so he bet all his money on
that horse. Fedora came in first, as well.
At
the end of the day the man returned home to his wife. She asked him
where he'd been. He explained how he caught the Rabbi's hat, and how he
was blessed by him, and how he then went to the track and bet on horses
which were named after hats.
"So where's the money?" she said.
"I lost it all in the ninth race. I bet on a horse named Chateau and it
lost."
"You fool, 'chateau' is a house, 'chapeau' is a hat!" exlaimed his wife.
"It doesn't matter," he said, "the winner was some Japanese horse named
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