"Know Before Whom You Stand"
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"Know Before Whom You Stand" |
Adas Yehuda v'Shoshana |
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2548 Jasper
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Schedule of
Services Weekday Morning Beit Midrash 6:30 AM
Rosh Hashana
שנה טובה! May you be inscribed in the Book of Life. Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 8: Kol Nidre: 6:00 P.M. Thursday, October 9: Shachrit: 9:00 A.M. Yizkor: 12:00 Noon Mincha: 4:30 P. M. Neila: 5:45 P.M. Youth Services: Yom Kippur October 9 11:30A.M.
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From Rabbi Sherbill Whenever, the Jewish people are in need of Heaven’s help, we invoke the reverential wonderment of “Who is like you, among the mighty, L-rd?” The Hebrew is also familiar to us. “Mee Kamocha Ba-Elim Hashem” Following the destruction and exile of both land and people, the sages asked in lament.
Mee kamocha Ba-elilim Hashem” There were so many dangers to a powerless, landless Jewish people of long ago. G-d seemed silent to those who needed at least some measure of salvation. When none came, the people did not despair of G-d’s hastening salvation. Rather, the exile and destruction occurred when G-d took up the cause of one who had been humiliated and shamed. At the time, the rabbinic dignitaries looked on with everyone else at the public embarrassment of the man Bar Kamtza. The silence of the authorities was pretext for revenge by the aggrieved Bar Kamtza. In the face of allowing the Temple to be destroyed, G-d seemed to pointing to the cause of one person who was hated for no reason with none to raise a concern. We will soon be asking for a new year filled with pece and prosperity. We do not want our requests to be met with silence. Perhaps the midsummer commemoration of Jewish exile has lessons for us. When we speak out against senseless hatred and unnecessary conflict, we are asking that G-d not be silent to the suffering of our people. In the Katz Family Sanctuary, Shabbat and Festival services begin at 9 A.M. The community is invited to hear Rabbi Sherbill before Musaf. Women’s T’filah Group The Women’s T’filah Group meets again on November 22 at 1P.M., following the Shabbat Kiddush. For women and girls only, this unique program of AYSH is a great model. Experience the worship and study as we celebrate another Bat Mitzvah. Hashana Tehi-yeh Shanat Siman Tov. May this be a year of good fortune.
Rabbi Daniel Sherbill
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