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June
8, 2009
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AT
PARDES LEVAVOT
Of Special
Note
Boulder
Jewish Festival
Thank you to all
our members who helped at our booth at this year's Boulder Jewish
Festival. We'd like to especially thank Darlene and Anthony Massey,
Debbi Foster, Miriam Fields, Fred Berkelhammer, Jack Greene and Erin
Massey. For creating the most colorful and
fun booth at the festival, hanging out most of the day, (or all of the
day for Darlene and Anthony),
greeting visitors and taking their pictures. You can find photos
of the fun at our web site.
Events
This Week
Share Shabbat
with Friends and Family
Friday, June 12
Coming Up
The Sabbath:
A Taste Of Eternity
Friday and
Saturday, June 19-20
The Shabbat
services on Friday evening and Shabbat morning are open to all. We hope you'll join us
for the full experience - register by calling 303-776-1460 or
303-684-9397. $50 includes lunch. Please
see full flyer below.
Tahara /
Shmira Training
Boulder
is fortunate enough to have a wonderful Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial
Society) that reflects the diversity and spirit of our community.
Loving volunteers care for the dead from the time of death until
burial. First, the body is washed and purified in a ritual called
Tahara. Then a vigil, called Shmira, is maintained until burial, with
Chevra Kadisha members praying, reading psalms, or meditating, to help
the soul's transition.
We
serve any Jew, regardless of affiliation, in the Boulder community.
Although we are an all-volunteer group, we do have operating expenses
and we depend on donations from families and the community to keep
going. We recommend a donation of $108/family for these services, but
no one is ever turned away. Please consider the Boulder Chevra Kadisha
when providing donations to the Jewish community.
We are actively seeking new
volunteers to help us with these mitzvot. A training for Tahara and
Shmira is just around the corner. On June 14, from 10AM-12PM we will
have a training and practice Tahara at Howe Mortuary, 1701 W. South
Boulder Road, in Lafayette. All potential volunteers are strongly
encouraged to participate. All
seasoned volunteers are invited to visit Howe Mortuary at the same
time, as we will soon be using this mortuary in addition to Crist
Mortuary in Boulder. The Tahara training will be followed by a short
introduction to sitting Shmira. For more information and to sign up,
please contact Carol Navsky at 303-499-4432 or how.car@comcast.net.
Member's
Special Requests/Offerings
Stephanie Bryan,
LCSW, CAC III, is a clinical social worker and parent
coach who is passionate about helping parents raise healthy kids. She
teaches 5 different parenting classes. Starting June 1, she will be
teaching morning and evening Love and Logic Early Childhood
Parenting Made Fun! classes (for parents pregnant or with kids
through age 6) and an evening Becoming a Love and Logic Parent
class for parents of elementary through high school kids. Each class
has 5 sessions. Details are at www.REALparenting.net.
Getting
Involved
From the
Shepherd of the Hills Bulletin
Items needed for the
Boulder Homeless Shelter: Blankets, Vitamins, Cough
Drops, Jelly, Maple Syrup, and Ground Coffee. You may bring donations
to Shepherd.
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June
2009
19,
Friday
The Sabbath: A Taste of Eternity
20, Saturday
The Sabbath: A Taste of Eternity
July
2009
18,
Saturday
Sara Berkelhammer's Bat Mitzvah
Mary's Lake Lodge, Estes Park
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AROUND
TOWN
AND BEYOND
Body
as Temple: An Embodied Kabbalat Shabbat. Welcome Shabbat through
movement with Eyal Rivlin and Timothy Dobson. All are welcome, no
previous knowledge necessary, the circle dances are accessible to all.
Friday, July 24th, 7:15 pm, Boulder Mennonite Church, 3910 Table Mesa -
one block east of Broadway. $10 at the door. For more info and for a sneak peek.
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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. Names will cycle off the list after
one month - please let us know if you wish for it to remain longer. Please send names in
Hebrew
and/or English, with other details as desired, to info@pardesleavavot.org.
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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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In the little Jewish towns of eastern Europe before World War I, it was
quite customary to make marriage arrangements without consulting the
young folks most intimately concerned. The marriages so arranged had
many material advantages, but love (if the old folks thought of it at
all) was irrelevant.
In any case, young Samuel had been told to dress up because he and his
father, together with a few other male relatives, were to travel to a
neighboring town to sign a marriage contract, and this would afford
Samuel a chance to meet the family of his future wife for the very
first time.
Dressed in their finest and most formal clothes, the party of the groom
made its way over the snow to the village in question and reached the
home of the future in-laws. There a group of some twenty grave men,
relatives of the bride, were gathered for the signing.
Once inside the house, Samuel's father whispered to him on impulse,
"Tell me, Sammy, can you guess who, of all these fine-looking men, is
going to be your father-in-law?"
"Of course I can," said Samuel, and he pointed.
His father was astounded. "You are quite right," he said, "but how did
you know?"
"Easy," said Samuel. "One look at all of them and that one in
particular I already can't stand."
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