Shmini Atzeret / Simchat Torah services
Shmini Atzeret
Wednesday, Oct 3 – 6:15pm
Thursday, Oct 4 – 9:30am (Yizkor)
Simchat Torah
Thursday, Oct 4 – 6:15pm (Kids Hakafah Circle dance with the Torah and candies at approximately 7:00 pm)
Friday, Oct 5
– 9:30am
- 10.30 am Kids Hakafah Circle Dance
- 11:00 am Kids Simchat Torah group with Morah Donna. See the inside of the Torah with your children
- 11.30 am Kol Haneariim Kids Aliyah to the Torah
Shabbat Bereshit
We start the Torah from the beginning, again, this Shabbat. Start the year off right and please join us and become part of your history. In addition it is Shabbat Mevarchim – this Shabbat we bless the coming new month of Cheshvan.
Missing machzor
Please note a Yom Kippur machzor was inadvertently taken home by a congregant - please return it as soon as possible. Many thanks!
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.
Israel - interesting slide show
http://www.rufus.greenbaum.com/doc/LiberalsMidEast.pdf
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
Plugged in Parenting – An exciting new program for Parents to learn how to more effectively parent. There is still time to sign up. Register online at www.lfjcc.org or contact Glenda Jaffe at Glenda@ajesd.org
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.
Refuah Sheleima
Please contact Rav Menashe to let him know of any family or friends who are ill.
Member news
Mazal Tov to Ali and Isaac Ciechanover on the birth of a little baby girl, sister for Gabriel!
Happy birthday to Dion Saks (Oct 8), Ronald Lubesnick (Oct 11) and Bev Pamensky-Murray (Oct 11)!
Yahrzeits - we wish a long life to Ian Aires (for his father) and Carmela Kramer (for her mother).
Kiddush
Kiddush is sponsored Shemini Atzeret by Ian & Dina Aires (on the occasion of Tali's birthday) and on Simchat Torah by Carmela Kramer (in memory of her mother).
Kiddush is sponsored on Shabbat by Alain Luxembourg (on the lst anniversary of his taking part in KAY's shul services).
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 Oct 3: Candle lighting 6.13 PM
- Thu Oct 4: Candle lighting after 7.10 PM
- Fri Oct 5: Candle lighting 6.10 PM
- Sat Oct 6: Shabbat ends 7.09 PM
Thought for the week
Shmini Atzeret: Facing the New Year
In our Torah reading liturgy, we've been following a sacrificial course that had been decreasing each day of the holiday Sukkot. In total, the sacrificial requirement calls for us to offer seventy sacrifices. According to rabbinic tradition, this number seventy is significant, as it represents all the nations of the world.
Sukkot is a time of connection to the great, global community; a time when we step out of the comforts and shelter of our own homes and put our lives and our destiny in the same hands as the rest of the world.
Then what do these last days of Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah represent?
If Sukkot is the connection of all peoples of the world to G-d, then Shmini Atzeret is the connection one people to G-d. These last days of this most intensive holiday season, conclude with the highest celebration and rejoicing in the most intimate fashion. Over Shmini Atzeret, we, Israel, find ourselves face to face with G-d. Over Sukkot, we remember our shared destiny with all people; over Shmini Atzeret, we remember our unique destiny.
Most interesting that our sacrificial demands for Shmini Atzeret is to offer one, lone sacrifice. The Shmini Atzeret would be analogous to bride and groom, going through the most rigorous, strenuous preparations to arrive at their wedding day. After the Chupah, the canopy, the couple finally has a moment to breathe, together, in their Yichud room, their secluded chamber. With all the guests and loved ones, celebrating the holy union from outside the secluded room, the bride and groom share their most loving and meaningful first moments together. But, after a few short moments, the couple charges back to the throng of adoring guests.
Shmini Atzeret is our secluded room. The time we connect to G-d in the most meaningful way, dancing with our wedding contract, the Torah. But the moment is fleeting. And soon after, we all go back to the throngs of the rest of our lives and our year.
May we use time to reconnect to our most intimate hopes and carry them with us and each other as we face this New Year.
Chag Sameach and Shana Tova,
Rav Menashe
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- Marketing: Ian Aires 858/481-2706
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- Programs: Gary Lewis 858/538-2330
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