The Last Shabbat of the Year
Celebrate the last Shabbat of 5767 with KAY
Selichot Sep 8th 8.30 pm
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
Ordering Arba Minim for Sukkot
The absolute deadline to order your set of Lulav and Etrog for Sukkot is Monday, September 10th. Contact Rav Menashe to place your order.
Rosh Hashana Services
Wednesday, September 12th
– 6:15pm Mincha / ma'ariv
Thursday, September 13th
– 9.00 am Shacharit
- 10.00 am Torah Reading
- 11.30 am Children's Service
- 12 noon Shofar – 12pm,
- 6.15 pm Mincha
– 6.30pm Tashlich
- 7.00 pm Ma'ariv
Candle Lighting – After 7.57pm (from an existing flame)
Friday, September 14th
– 9.00 am Shacharit
- 10.00 am Torah Reading
- 11.30 am Children's Service
- 12 noon Shofar – 12pm,
Shabbat Shuva Services
Friday, September 14th
– 6.15 pm Mincha / ma'ariv
Shabbat Candle Lighting – 6.38 pm (from an existing flame)
Saturday, September 15th
– 9.30 am Shacharit
- 11.30 am Shabbat Shuva Lecture Topic: "Our Attitude Towards Sinners."
Saturday night Havdalah – 7.56pm
Yom Kippur Services
Please wear white in honor of the Chag
Friday, September 21st
– 6.00 pm Kol Nidrei
Candle Lighting – 6.30 pm
Saturday, September 22nd
– 9.00 am Shacharit
- 11.30 am Children's services
- 12 noon Yizkor
- 4.30 pm Afternoon services
- 6.15 pm Neilah
Yom Kippur Ends 7.45pm
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
JCC Jewish Book Fair. November 1-10 and the 27th
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
Happy birthday to David Ellman (Sept 7), Naomi Esserman (Sept 8), Gary Shkedy (Sept 9) and Darren Aires (Sept 10)!
Wedding anniversary - mazal tov to Sol & Debbie Kempinski (Sept 13)!
Yahrzeit - we wish a long life to Freda Swersky (for her husband and for her father).
Kiddush
Kiddush will be sponsored by Darren & Kim Aires (on the occasion of Darren's birthday) - 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 Sep 7: Candle lighting 6.48 PM
- Sat Sep 8: Shabbat ends 7.56 PM
Thought for the week
What's Mine is Mine
This is the season of introspection and repair. Every year we battle any and all internal or external negativity or bad habits in order to live more fully for the coming year. But, often, we become so consumed by our own internal work that we lose sight of the community around us.
Thankfully, in current Jewish life, we often cite the phrase: "Every Jew is a guarantor for his fellow." We share a collective responsibility for the type and quality of our brothers' and sisters' behavior. When they err, we err; when they achieve, we achieve. (TB Shavuot 39a, cited by Rashi Deut. 29:28)
But how far do we take this message? We can become infatuated with the way others behave, ignoring how we ourselves are behaving. The High Holiday season can change from the age old self-inquiry into a season of other-inquiry. Could this, in an extreme case, lead to a KGB of Jewish observance?
This week's Torah portion, the double reading of Nitzaviim-Vayelech, teaches us an important message as to the limits of communal involvement in the lives of others. "The hidden matters belong to G-d, but the revealed matters are for us and our children forever." (Deuteronomy 29:28) When the matter is clear, visible and objective, we have a moral and social imperative to intervene in the lives of our brothers and sisters. We are moral guarantors for our community. However, when the matter is hidden, secretive and subjective, then we must abstain; those are matters that rest in G-d's hands, in the divine realm.
This model sets boundaries on the conditions of our social contract: Perhaps, when an act or behavior adversely affects others, it would be inhuman to sit back. But when a thought or ideology affects the individual, involvement would be trespass.
This holiday season, we try to carry this message, a message of humility: honoring the reality that we must be vigilant of a loosening of our own fundamental moral grasp and trust that G-d will do the rest.
Shabbat Shalom Umevorach,
Rav Menashe
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Contact information:
Rabbi: Rav Menashe and Donna East 858/605-1111
Board:
- President: Michael Lurie 858/794-8278
- Marketing: Ian Aires 858/481-2706
- At large: Barbara Berkovich 858/353-1420
- Programs: Gary Lewis 858/538-2330
- Programs: Jeff Max 858/481-7627
- Finance: Selwyn Lurie 858/792-7942
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- Membership: Geoff Patz 858/733-3777
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