KAY BULLETIN: August 31, 2007 Parshat Ki Tavo
Israel update Sep 6th 7.30 pm
Join us for a special joint program with the San Diego Jewish Academy. Dynamic Israeli diplomat Gilad Millo will speak on "Current challenges in the Middle East and their effects on the global agenda". Don't miss this fascinating talk!
For catering purposes, please RSVP to Barbara Lurie at (858) 792-7942 or email barblurie@san.rr.com Thursday, August 30.
Selichot Sep 8th 8.30 pm
Save The Date: Saturday eve, September 8th is KAY's Musical Selichot evening. Join us as we spiritually prepare for the High Holiday season. 8:30 pm; Rav Menashe and Donna's home: 3905 Carmel Brooks Way, 92130. Bring instruments and sweaters.
Pre-Rosh Hashanna Kids Program
@ Rav Menashe and Donna's house. All 2-6 yr olds are invited for a day of Arts and Crafts and Pizza to create a special Rosh Hashanna project with Morah Donna. Date: Sunday, September 9th. Time: 11:15am. Cost: $5 Location: 3905 Carmel Brooks Way 92130
Sunday. Please RSVP
Sukkah Decorating for Kids
@ Rav Menashe and Donna's Sukkah. Tuesday afternoon, September 25, 4pm. come play music, eat great food and get ready for sukkot. Cost: $5 Location: 3905 Carmel Brooks Way 92130 Sunday. Please RSVP
KAY"s Trip to the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit Oct 21st
Save the Date: KAY"s Trip to the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit in Balboa Park will be after the High Holiday season. Sunday October 21st, at 11am-1pm. Please RSVP to Rav Menashe to let us know how many tickets we need to order.
Kid's Services for September
All Tot's are invited to KAY programming in the Moadon over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And to the Sukkah in preparation for Sukkot
KAY's Torah Study Opportunities
Advanced Talmud Class: Men and Women are invited to study high level Talmud. We will be starting this Class after the High Holiday Season. Please speak to Rav Menashe to inquire further and to vote on what will be this year's Talmud tractate for the Kehilla.
KAY Chavurot: Join an informal, social Chavurah study group this year. Please speak to Rav Menashe on which Chaburah you'd like to join or create.
Work Person's Shiur: Join us every third week for a lunchtime Torah class at Aubrey Meyerowitz's office. 9863 Pacifc Heights Blvd. Suite E SD 92121
Virtual Beit Midrash
Join Jewish communities from all over America for a
monthly study seminar in conjunction with The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Please contact Rav Menashe for this very special learning opportunity.
Community events
The Museum of Man – Copper Age Exhibit, featuring Archeology in Israel, runs through February.
Museum of Natural History- Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit- runs through December.
Jewish and Single? A new group of San Diego Jewish Singles has formed. Contact Rose to be included at shoshilender7@sbcglobal.net.
Refuah Sheleima
Please contact Rav Menashe to let him know of any family or friends who are ill.
Member news
New members - we are delighted to welcome our new members Craig & Irene Gavson & Family.
Happy birthday to Debbie Rosen (Sept 2), Odessa Max (Sept 3), Rael Morris (Sept 5), Benny Zingerevich (Sept 5), Reeva Myerson (Sept 6) and Marlene Stanger (Sept 6)!
Wedding anniversary - mazal tov to Darren & Kim Aires (Sept 5)!
Yahrzeits - we wish a long life to Merle Gaylis (for her father) and Kim Lazarus (for her father).
Kiddush
Kiddush will be sponsored by Michael & Vanessa Lurie (on the occasion of their wedding anniversary) - mazal tov!
Please contact Barbara Lurie at barblurie@san.rr.com or 858/792-7942 if you would like to sponsor kiddush on Shabbat morning.
Membership registration
Your support is vital! Please complete and send in your membership form as soon as possible. To discuss your monthly contribution in strict confidence, please contact Geoff Patz at 858/733-3777. All donations are tax deductible and should be made payable to Kehillat Ahavat Yisrael and mailed to 13030 Brixton Place, San Diego CA 92130-1325. Thank you for your support!
Shabbat services
Friday night services: afternoon services 6.05 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 6.15 pm. Shabbat morning: 9.30 am. Children's service 10.30 am. Services are held every week in the Bet Midrash of the San Diego Jewish Academy's Carmel Valley campus. Please see our web site for more information and directions.
Shabbat times
- Fri Aug 31: Candle lighting 6.57 PM
- Sat Sep 1: Shabbat ends 7.57 PM
Thought for the week
A Judaism of Song
A large segment of this Shabbat's Torah portion, Parshat Ki Tavo, constitutes the curses that G-d vows to bring upon Israel should they stray from the path. In the middle, the crux of this section, we get a brief glimpse of a reason for the sworn calamities: "Since you did not serve G-d with joyfulness and a good heart at the peak of your abundance." (Deut. 28:47)
What manner of joyfulness could be lacking that its absence brings upon such severe punishment? The Talmud suggests it is the lack of song in our service. (TB Eruvin 11a)
It is hard to imagine that a sober service would be so costly. Let us examine the first instance of song in the Torah to understand the Talmud's message.
When the Jews cross through the Reed Sea, saved from the Egyptians, they break into song, the song at the sea: "Then Moses and Israel sang this song…" (Exodus 15:1) At that very moment of their salvation, the entire community spontaneously explodes, in unison, into song. That shared moment of joy surges in every member of Israel so that song emerges.
And the whole of the community can sing along, together.
Now we can better make sense of the Talmud's suggestion of the importance of song. When a community sings, a power of unity fills all it participants. The barriers of literacy, knowledge and prayer book expertise fall away.
Song becomes the antidote to curse. The curses are aimed at a community of individuals; lonely souls who, through detachment and indifference, magnify the loneliness of others close to them. Such a community, if we could even call it such, is fundamentally flawed. But the community that overlooks the differences, while embracing the, more apparent, likenesses, that community celebrates all the blessings the Torah promises.
Shabbat Shalom Umevorach,
Rav Menashe
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