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September
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PARDES LEVAVOT
YOM KIPPUR
highlights at Pardes Levavot
Reb Zalman at
Kol Nidre
Reb Zalman
will join us for Kol Nidre, Sunday evening, and will offer his teaching
and blessing for our New Year.
Salaam Shalom
Educational Foundation
We welcome
our guests from the Salaam Shalom Educational Foundation who
will share their work that is "Growing Peace" in Israel/Palestine and
lead a Way of Council Circle at Mincha on Monday afternoon at 5 pm. See
the flyer below for a special program with them on Tuesday, September
29.
POT LUCK BREAK THE FAST
This
year, we invite you to contribute to our break fast meal and stay to
share in the afterglow of a deeply intimate Yom Kippur observance.
Bring
a dish for the pot luck: vegetarian, dairy or fish. Enough to feed 8-10
others. Something you can prepare in advance and store in our kitchen
during the day.
- bagels and
cream cheese
- salads:
green, pasta, grains, fruit, egg, tuna...
- beverages:
juice, sparkling water
- sweets
- etc.
PLEASE
RSVP so we know how many tables and chairs to set out, paper goods to
have in stock, and to help us coordinate food. Send an email to: markel6@mac.com.
Tell us how many
people you're bringing and what you intend to contribute to the pot
luck meal. We
may ask you to consider something else, if we already have an abundance
of the same dish. If you don't hear back from us, consider your offer
graciously accepted, and bring it with you to services on YK day.
Tzedaka for
Community Food Share
Don't forget
to bring your grocery items for our Community Food Share
donation. Items will be gratefully accepted at Kol Nidre or YK
morning. The
bags will be picked up during our midday recess. These are
the items most needed this year:
- Canned
meat or fish
- Canned
fruit
- 100%
Fruit juice
- Peanut
Butter
- Cereal
Kol Nidre
Sunday, 27, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Yom Kippur
Monday, 28,
10:00am-3:00pm & 5:00pm-7:45pm
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.
Oktoberfest
wurde am Samstag, 26 September kommen! (Oktoberfest is coming on
Saturday, September 26th!) Oktoberfest
will be held on Saturday, September 26 at the Schreier’s home in
Gunbarrel. It will be from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Beer, food and wine are provided along with German music. Many of you
are aware of this fellowship event. In an effort to get a better count
of the number of actual attendees (sorry, adults only), would you
please email the Schreier’s at terry@transitionpartnersltd.com
by Wednesday, September 23. Alternatively, you
may sign up at the church where there is a post for Oktoberfest. There,
you can also sign up to bring food. This will be a great event and we
look forward to everyone coming.
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
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
-
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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It's Erev Rosh HaShanah and services are about to begin. The synagogue
is packed. As the congregants are milling around shmoozing before
services, everyone seems to be distracated by man who has brought with
him a St. Bernard dog. "What chutzpah!" an elderly woman whispers
aloud.
Services begin, and everyone is fascinated by how well the dog behaves.
The next morning the man and his dog arrive early and promptly begin
davening. This time the dog is wearing its own little tallis and
yarmulke, and even appears, upon closer inspection, to be shuckling
back and forth as the hazzan intones the prayers. The congregation is
amazed.
The week goes by and Kol Nidre arrives. The solemn worship service
begins. The man and his dog are back, and this time, just as the hazzan
is about to begin the prayers, the dog stands up on its hind legs and
howls "Ba-Roooooooch.......!" more melodically than the best hazzan.
After the service, everyone is clamoring to meet this man and his
remarkable dog. Finally the rabbi comes up to him and says, "That's one
talented pooch you have there. You know you should really consider
sending your dog to Rabbinical School."
The man looks down, shakes his head, throws up his hands in disgust and
says, "You talk to him! He wants to be a doctor!"
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