Sukkot services
Wednesday, September, 26th – 6:15pm
Thursday, September 27th – 9:30am (Lulav and Etrog)
Thursday, September 27th – 6:15pm
Friday, September 28th – 9:30am (Lulav and Etrog)
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.
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 Chavurah 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
Bat Mitzvah - heartiest mazal tov to Kelly and all the Gavson family!
New members - we are delighted to welcome our new members Linda Oz and Eli Berman & Family!
Happy birthday to Sari Esserman (Sept 28), Tali Aires (Sept 30), Andrew Max (Sept 30), Larry Neugarten (Sept 30), Israel Zingerevich (Oct 1), Yaniv Guelman (Oct 2) and Craig Gavson (Oct 3)!
Kiddush
Kiddush is sponsored on lst day Sukkot by Gary & Daniella Lewis (on the occasion of Daniella's birthday) and on 2nd day Sukkot by Rav Menashe & Donna (to thank the Myerson, Patz and Matus families for helping to build the Easts' sukkah).
Kiddush on Shabbat is sponsored by Craig and Irene Gavson & Family in honor of Kelly's Bat Mitzvah! 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: 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.
Yom Tov and Shabbat times
- Wed Sep 26: Candle lighting 6.22 PM
- Thu Sep 27: Candle lighting after 7.21 PM
- Fri Sep 28: Candle lighting 6.20 PM
- Sat Sep 29: Shabbat ends 7.20 PM
Thought for the week
Sukkot: Two Sides of a Coin
With the holiday of Sukkot approaching, we look for the meaning of the second most significant holiday on the Jewish calendar. In its earliest description, Sukkot, the festival of Booths or Tabernacles, is described as the "festival of gathering." (Exodus 23:16) Agriculturally, the holiday is observed during the fall season, after the year's crop had been fully collected and gathered into the home.
Spiritually, what are the messages that we attribute to the theme of Gathering?
The first approach would be to look at gathering as a celebration of abundance. We have been gifted with our crop, our physical and spiritual harvest, after the long months of toil and effort. This calls for a celebration.
This theme of the celebration of our muchness, our bounty is evident in a number of our observances and symbolic rituals. The four species, held as one bundle, represents the variations and richness of the yield of our crop; the wildly celebratory middle days of Sukkot, the Simchat Beit Hashoeiva. Even the language used in the Bible writing focuses on the description of Sukkot, as opposed to any other of the major Biblical holidays, as a holiday of particular joyousness.
But alongside our celebrations of bounty, we recognize the paradoxical message of the realities of our lack. The other major symbol of the holiday of Sukkot is the Sukkah, the booths which Jewish families dwell in for the seven or eight days of the holiday. Rabbinic language describes the Sukkah as an impermanent, temporary house. During the Shabbat of Sukkot, we recite the sobering megillah of Ecclesiastes, which focuses on the musings of an aging king, nearing death.
Alongside the joy of our abundance is the reality of an end to the abundance. Fall season moves into winter. The goods we have now must hold us until the next spring, when the earth will thaw and growth will be possible again. The holiday of Sukkot reminds us that life is tenuous; highs and lows abound all around us. Now we have, later we will have not.
Perhaps, our greatest Sukkot message is learning to balance the two sides of our reality: our joys and our sorrows, our pain and our freedom
Chag Sameach,
Rav Menashe
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- Marketing: Ian Aires 858/481-2706
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