Shabbat Lech Lecha Oct 19 - 20, 2007 / Cheshvan 8, 5768
KAY's Trip to the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit Oct 21st
KAY's Trip to the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit in Balboa Park will be Sunday October 21st, at 11am-1pm. Tickets may be available at the door. Cost is $24 per person. We meet at the front of the museum at 10:45 am. For artifact preservation, the museum is kept cold, be sure to take a sweater. Email Rav Menashe for more reservations: eastmenashe@hotmail.com
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. We are looking for 4 families to volunteer, to make a guest list and to form a rotation of hosts for once a month social Torah meetings about whatever area of Jewish life you are interested in. Please contact Rav Menashe to volunteer.
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
Happy birthday to Gabriel Ciechanover (Oct 19), Russell Meyerowitz (Oct 21), Isaac Engel (Oct 24) and Bryan Gurwitz!
Yahrzeit - we wish a long life to Neville Stanger (for his mother).
Kiddush
Kiddush is sponsored by Isaac & Ruth Engel (on the occasion of Isaac's birthday) and by Alex Novokolsky (on his mother's yahrzeit).
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.
Shabbat times
- Fri Oct 19: Candle lighting 5.53 PM
- Sat Oct 20: Shabbat ends 6.53 PM
Thought for the week
A Tradition of Courage
So far, the book of Genesis described two beginnings. The first, with the words: "In the Beginning," showed us the creation of universal, global and human existence. (1:1) The second beginning, "These are the generations of Noach," showed us beginning anew; life restored after the flood. (6:9)
This Shabbat we encounter the third beginning, "Go for yourself from your land, your birthplace, your father's house to a land I will show you." (12:1) Now, we witness the start of Judaism, carried by its first adherents, Abraham and Sarah.
Abraham's first act of devotion is his willingness to abandon his birthplace and to travel to an unknown land. It seems a fitting start to Abraham's life and the destiny of Jewish history. Abraham begins his adventure into ethical monotheism by taking a great, courageous risk. He willingly follows a path with an uncertain end.
In the life of commitment to Jewish tradition, we uphold the system of Halacha, Jewish law. Its very name, Halacha, means the path. When we choose to lead a life of devotion, as Avraham had, we travel a path with an uncertain end. Often the path will become rocky, winding and muddy. How are we to traverse the unexpected and the unknown? Our father Abraham teaches us that we keep moving on. True. It is not always clear the best way to proceed, but we go "to a land I will show you." Or as Sforno comments, we go to a place where G-d will show Himself to us. (See verse 12:1)
The question that a community of tradition must ask itself, constantly:
Are we sincerely adhering to the tradition or are we adjusting the dials of tradition to rid the static? The Talmud answers simply: look at the end result.
If Abraham were to have remained in Ur Kasdiim, his birthplace, he and Sarah would never have had children. But by deciding to leave, Abraham and Sarah earn G-d's promise that they will be "made into a great nation." (ibid 12:2, see TB Rosh Hashanah 16b) If we challenge ourselves, if we commit ourselves to growth, then we have G-d's blessing and promise that we will birth positive ends.
Shabbat Shalom Umevorach,
Rav Menashe
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Contact information:
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- Marketing: Ian Aires 858/481-2706
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