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September
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PARDES LEVAVOT
Events
This Week
Please join
Pardes Levavot for the High Holy Days. Again the members of Pardes
Levavot invite the community to celebrate with us free of charge. Child
care will be available Erev Rosh HaShanah and Rosh HaShanah first day.
Donations for child care will be accepted. Details on this weekend's
services are below.
Erev Rosh
HaShanah
Friday, September
18, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Please
join us on Erev Rosh HaShanah as we enter the High Holy Days with
Rabbis Victor and Nadya Gross, Rabbi Ori Har and Pastor Marty Lettow of
Shepherd of the Hills.
Rosh HaShanah
1st Day
Saturday,
September 19, 10:00am - 2:00pm
Rosh HaShanah
2nd Day
Sunday, September
20, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tashlich
Sunday, September
20, 11:00am
Pot Luck Lunch
Sunday, September
20, noon
We will be
having a
VERY amazing second day service - the community of Shepherd of the
Hills
will join our service, which will focus on the three part Shofar
service. Next we'll have our Tashlich service
at Twin Lakes as we've done in the past. Back at our synagogue we will be
sharing with Shepherd an open house in the Fellowship Hall followed
by a pot luck lunch.
Join our
Orchard of Hearts!
Our membership
drive ends soon. If you have not yet received a form in the
mail, please let us know. Or, download
the membership form here. If your contact information is unchanged
and you don't wish to submit the form, please send an email to info@pardeslevavot.org!
Getting
Involved
Learn
Hebrew at Pardes Levavot
We are so blessed
that our own member, Debbi Foster,
is one of the most creative and fun Hebrew teachers in Boulder.
Our
children have been loving her classes for over
a year now. Debbi is presently teaching a 2nd year class for
elementary age children – with room to add more students. They are
working on
reading skills and building a vocabulary, with a focus on prayerbook
Hebrew.
We will offer a beginning Hebrew class for
children, right after Rosh HaShanah. Please contact us if you are
interested in
giving your child this wonderful gift of a creative, fun learning
opportunity
in a small, focused group.
And, for all you adults out there who have always
wanted to learn to read Hebrew, understand enough to participate fully
in
Jewish life in the Synagogue and home….and maybe even celebrate the
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
you missed as a child. A beginning Hebrew class for adults will form
shortly
after the High HolyDays, and may grow into an adult B’nai Mitzvah
program.
Looking ahead – Reb Nadya will offer a Torah
chanting class in the winter or spring of this coming year.
Debbi’s classes meet on Thursday
afternoons/evenings – and we are open to making other options available
as
needed.
Please contact us at Hebrew@pardeslevavot.org
with
any questions you may have, or to sign up for one of our classes.
May this be a year of growth and joy in learning
for all of us.
Come join Pardes
Levavot on our Facebook
page. Engage in discussion, hear of new events, and lend us your
support. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join.
From the
Shepherd of the Hills Bulletin
Community
Infant Program (CIP)
– Bring baby items to help struggling parents and single mothers. There
is an ongoing need for disposable diapers for young families with
children. You can bring them to the church. Thank you!
Items needed for the Boulder Homeless Shelter: Blankets, Sunscreen,
Fresh Fruit, Jelly, Sugar, & Oatmeal. You may bring donations to
Shepherd.
Torah Yoga ®
- starting 3.Sep.2009
The Center for
Spiritual Friendship is offering a Torah Yoga ® class
for fall 2009. The NEW time and location:
Thursday, 9:00-10:30 AM at the Skylight Room, Solstice Center, 302
Pearl St. (enter on 3rd St.)
Torah Yoga is an integrative activity of
body/mind/soul in which
participants experience Yoga poses, Hebrew chanting and Jewish
meditation. It is a weekly program developed and co-led by Rabbi Ori
and Rabbi Nadya. Torah Yoga is open to all ages, genders and religions.
No background in either Torah or Yoga is required, only willingness to
move in new ways, and pray with your body.
Contact us about our on-going programs of Torah of Sage-ing and
Spiritual Direction (both individual and group sessions). www.conscious-learning-community.org
or call 303.563.2114
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September
2009
Friday,
18, 7:00-9:30pm
Erev Rosh
HaShanah
Saturday, 19, 10:00am-2:00pm
Rosh
HaShanah 1st Day
Sunday, 20, 10:00am-11:00am
Rosh
HaShanah 2nd Day
Sunday, 20, 11:00am
Tashlich
Sunday, 20, noon
Pot luck
lunch
Sunday, 27, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Kol Nidre
Monday, 28, 10:00am-3:00pm & 5:00pm-7:45pm
Yom Kippur
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AROUND
TOWN
AND BEYOND
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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.
-
Chana
Leah bat Dora v Yaacov
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HaRav
Avraham Yitzhak Yishmael Yam ben Hanoch V'Chana Z"L V'abu
David V'Shoshana
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Shulamit
Ahuva bat Tom Ora
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Dick
Werpy (from Shepherd of the Hills)
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Grace
Kohler
- HaRav
Devorah Rut bat Tamar (Rabbi Deborah Ruth Bronstein)
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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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On the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, there is a ceremony called
Tashlich. Jews traditionally go to the ocean or a stream or river to
pray and throw bread crumbs into the water. Symbolically, the fish
devour their sins.
Occasionally, people ask what kind of bread crumbs should be thrown.
Here are suggestions for breads which may be most appropriate for
specific sins and misbehaviors:
For ordinary sins: White Bread
For erotic sins: French Bread
For particularly dark sins: Pumpernickel
For complex sins: Multi-Grain
For twisted sins: Pretzels
For tasteless sins: Rice Cakes
For sins of indecision: Waffles
For sins committed in haste: Matzoh
For sins of chutzpah: Fresh Bread
For substance abuse: Stoned Wheat
For use of heavy drugs: Poppy Seed
For petty larceny: Stollen
For committing auto theft: Caraway
For timidity/cowardice: Milk Toast
For ill-temperedness: Sourdough
For silliness, eccentricity: Nut Bread
For not giving full value: Shortbread
For jingoism, chauvinism: Yankee Doodles
For excessive irony: Rye Bread
For unnecessary chances: Hero Bread
For telling bad jokes/puns: Corn Bread
For war-mongering: Kaiser Rolls
For dressing immodestly: Tarts
For causing injury to others: Tortes
For lechery and promiscuity: Hot Buns
For promiscuity with gentiles: Hot Cross Buns
For racist attitudes: Crackers
For sophisticated racism: Ritz Crackers
For being holier than thou: Bagels
For abrasiveness: Grits
For dropping in without notice: Popovers
For over-eating: Stuffing
For impetuosity: Quick Bread
For indecent photography: Cheesecake
For raising your voice too often: Challah
For pride and egotism: Puff Pastry
For sycophancy, ass-kissing: Brownies
For being overly smothering: Angel Food Cake
For laziness: Any long loaf
For trashing the environment: Dumplings
For those who require a wide selection of crumbs, we suggest a Tashlich
Mix available in three grades (Taslich Lite, Medium, and Industrial
Strength) at your favorite Jewish bookstore.
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