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August 16, 2010
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AT PARDES LEVAVOT
Contemplative
Shabbat
Service
Saturday,
August 21, 10am-noon
Parashat
Ki Tetzei
Ki
Tetzei Torah Journey
Rebbes'
Tisch for Elul
Saturday,
August 21, 12:15-2:30pm
This Shabbat will be the 11th day of the
Hebrew month of Elul - the month preceding the
Jewish New Year. Traditionally, we begin our
Teshuvah work in this month, so that when we
arrive at Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, we are
fully prepared.
Please
plan to stay with us, after our
contemplative Shabbat service, for an
extended Rebbes' Tisch to learn about
Teshuvah from Reb Zalman's teachings and
others, and begin to walk our shared path
into the New Year.
Bring
a lovingly prepared vegetarian or dairy dish
to share with all of us at lunch, and your
openness to the areas in your life and
relationships that invite your deep inquiry
and repair.
Events
Coming Up
High
Holy Days
Keep
an eye on your weekly News From Pardes
Levavot and www.pardeslevavot.org.
We are deep into planning a very special
High Holy Days experience. We will continue
our tradition of inviting all to attend free
of charge. This year we will be in a very
special venue with a very special
experience. Due to size constraints, we can
only host a limited number of attendees.
Pre-registration will be required. Look for
more news soon!
Getting
Involved
An
Invitation to Share Your Favorite Recipes
with Shepherd of the Hills
On
behalf of the cookbook committee, I thank you
for submitting your favorite recipes for the
project. And, as with any project, questions
have been submitted as well; questions such
as, What is the name of the cookbook? Why is
Shepherd doing a cookbook? How will the
proceeds be used? With an especially tight
church budget this year, will this project be
an expense? What will be the selling price?
Are we allowing individuals or businesses to
place sponsor ads? When will the cookbooks be
for sale?
The name for the cookbook is simply:
The Gunbarrel Community Cookbook
Lovingly assembled by Shepherd of the Hills
Lutheran Church.
This cookbook project is about raising funds
for future Shepherd youth programs and
providing cookbooks as gifts for the CIP
Thanksgiving baskets. We also pray that
through this cookbook project, more people
will re-discover Shepherd and find that we are
fun, warm and welcoming!
SHEPHERD YOUTH PROGRAMS: The goal is to
sponsor more community-invited Shepherd youth
events in 2011. We now have an awesome
volunteer youth leader who has some great
ideas for events.
CIP THANKGIVING BASKET: The inclusion of the
cookbook as a gift will hopefully convey that
we all are still finding our way in the
kitchen and in life! Sharing old family
favorite recipes is a very loving, personal
connection. It is our hope they simply enjoy
the cookbook and proudly share their own
recipes and traditions with family and
friends.
BUSINESS PLAN: The plan is to collect 300 or
more recipes and produce a quality cookbook
for sale in November. There is no cost to
Shepherd as the selling price will cover
printing expenses. The TBD selling price will
be either $5.00 or $7.50 each, as we are still
looking for a few advertising sponsors to help
defray some of the printing cost. Please
review the Sponsor
Ad Form for more details.
I hope this answers many of your concerned
questions. We absolutely do need you! Please
feel welcome and called to join us on this
exciting project. The more variety in the
collected recipes, the more treasured the
cookbook will become to the people we hope
will buy it. If you know of any businesses or
individuals who may be interested in
sponsoring the cookbook, please do forward
this message to them.
Again, thank you all so much for your help
with this exciting cookbook project. Please
hurry - all recipes are due by the end of
August!!!
Many blessings,
Joyce Wuebker, Co-Editor with Nina Soltwedel
& Lisa Prosch
gunbarrelcookbook@hotmail.com
www.shepherdboulder.org
Members'
Special Needs and Offerings
Apartment
for Rent
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Built in cabinets and bookcases in living
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bike ride on the path to Pearl Street Mall and
downtown Boulder.
Rent is $1200/month plus some utilities. Lease
terms flexible, available now. Wireless
internet also available at no extra charge.
Bedrooms are 12 x 12 and each has a roomy
closet. Living/dining area is approx. 16.5 x
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Looking for quiet, non-smoking, pet-free
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August 2010
21, Saturday, 10:00am - noon
Contemplative Shabbat Service
21, Saturday, 12:15 - 2:30pm
Rebbes' Tisch for Elul
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AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
Woven
Hearts - a cross-fertilizing retreat with
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Aging
Issues from the Elders' Perspective: Struggles
and Resources
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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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Yeshayahu Ovadyah
ben Shlomo u’ Nechama
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Moshe Yosef b. Esther v'Shlomo
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Tamar bat Luba
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Chana Leah bat Dora v'Yaacov
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Shulamit Ahuva bat Tom Ora
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Grace Kohler
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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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Meyer,
a lonely widower, was walking home one day,
wishing something wonderful would happen to his
life when he passed a pet store and heard a
squawking voice shouting out in Yiddish:
"Quawwwwk...vus macht du...yeah,
du...outside, standing like a putzel...eh?"
Meyer couldn't believe what he was
hearing. Suddenly, the proprietor came out of
the shop and grabbed Meyer by the sleeve. "Come
in here and check out this parrot..."
Meyer was soon standing in front of an African
Grey. The parrot cocked his little head and
said: "Vus? Kenst reddin Yiddish?"
Meyer turned excitedly to the owner. "He speaks
Yiddish?"
"Vuh den? Chinese maybe?"
In a matter of moments, Meyer had written out a
check for $500 and carried the parrot, still in
his cage, out of the shop and into his car. All
night he talked with the parrot in Yiddish. He
told the parrot about his father's kosher
butcher shop; about how beautiful his mother was
when she was a young bride; about his family in
Israel; about his years of working in the City.
The parrot listened and commented. They shared
some nuts and raisins. The parrot told Meyer of
what life was like living in the pet store and
how he hated the weekends. They then both went
to sleep.
Next morning, Meyer began to put on
his tefillin, all the while, saying his prayers.
The parrot demanded to know what he was doing,
and when Meyer explained, the parrot wanted to
do likewise. So Meyer went out and bought a
hand-made miniature set of tefillin for the
parrot. The parrot wanted to learn to daven and
learned every prayer. He wanted to learn to read
Hebrew so Meyer spent weeks and months sitting
and teaching the parrot, teaching him Torah. In
time, Meyer came to love and count on the parrot
as a friend and a Jew.
One morning, on Rosh Hashanah, Meyer
rose and got dressed and was about to leave when
the parrot demanded to go with him. Meyer
explained that Shul was not place for a bird but
the parrot made a terrific argument and was
carried to Shul on Meyer's shoulder.
Needless to say, they made quite a
spectacle and Meyer was questioned by everyone,
including the Rabbi and Cantor. At first they
refused to allow a bird into the building on the
High Holy Days, but Meyer convinced them to let
him in this one time, swearing that the parrot
could daven. Some bets were made with Meyer.
Thousands of dollars were bet that the parrot
could NOT daven, could NOT speak Yiddish or
Hebrew, etc. All eyes were on the African Grey
during the service. The parrot perched on
Meyer's shoulder as one prayer and song passed -
Meyer heard not a peep from the bird. He began
to become annoyed, slapping at his shoulder and
mumbling under his breath, "Daven!"
Nothing.
"Daven... parrot, you can daven, so daven...
come on, everybody's looking at you!"
Nothing.
After the Rosh Hashanah service was over, Meyer
worked out that he owed over four thousand
pounds. He marched home, angry, saying nothing.
Finally several streets away from the Shul, the
bird began to sing an old Yiddish song and was
happy as could be. Meyer stopped and
looked at him. "You miserable bird, you cost me
over four thousand dollars. Why? After I bought
you your own tefillin and taught you the morning
prayers and taught you to read Hebrew and the
Torah. And after you begged me to bring you to
Shul on Rosh Hashanah, why? Why did you do this
to me?"
"Don't be a schmuck," the parrot
replied. "The odds will be much better on Yom
Kippur."
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