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October
5, 2009
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AT
PARDES LEVAVOT
Events This
Week
Celebrate
Shabbat at Home
Friday, October 9
Simchat Torah
Saturday, October
10, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Boulder Unity Church, 2855 Folsom
Street
southwest corner of Folsom and Valmont
Join Pardes Levavot and Nevei
Kodesh for a joyous and mystical evening as we celebrate the completion
of
the annual Torah cycle with music and dance embodying the kabbalistic
Tree of Life. We will include a "Torah I-Ching" ritual to help us find
personal guidance for the coming year. This is a family oriented event.
Please bring a dessert, juice or spring water to share!
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.
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 September 3, 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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October
2009
Saturday,
10, 7:00-10:00pm
Simchat Torah
Saturday, 17, 10:00am-noon
Contemplative Shabbat Service
Saturday, 17, 12:15-1:45pm
Rebbes' Tisch
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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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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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A young Jewish mother is preparing a brisket one Friday for Shabbat
dinner.
Her daughter watches with interest as the mother slices off the ends of
the brisket before placing it in the roasting pan.
The young girl asks her mother why she did this.
The mother pauses for a moment and then says, "You know, I'm not sure.
This is the way I always saw my mother make a brisket. Let's call
Grandma and ask her."
So, she phones her mother and asks why they always slice the ends off
the brisket before roasting.
The Grandmother thinks for a moment and then says, "You know, I'm not
sure why, this is the way I always saw MY mother make a brisket."
Now the two women are very curious, so they pay a visit to the
great-grandmother in the nursing home.
"You know when we make a brisket," they explain, "we always slice off
the ends before roasting. Why is that?"
"I don't know why YOU do it," says the old woman, "but I never had a
pan that was large enough!"
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