Shabbat Tetzaveh Feb 15-16, 2008 / 10 Adar 1, 5768
KAY's Torah Study Opportunities
Talmud class
Talmud class resumes - studying in room D106-7 at the SDJA, Tuesday evening, 7:30pm. All are invited.
KAY Chavurot: Join an informal, social Chavurah study group this year. Meet once a month for social Torah meetings about whatever area of Jewish life you are interested in. Please contact Rav Menashe.
Women's Megillat Esther Reading
If you would like to read for the women only reading, please speak to Donna at 858 605 1111
Community events
SD Jewish Film Festival
Hosted by the Center for Jewish Culture at the LFJCC. Begins February 7th thru February 17th. For more info, go to www.lfjcc.org/sdjff
David Broza in Concert at the KEN
Thursday, Feb 21st, 730 pm, see Israel's greatest folk musician. For further details: http://www.kenjc.org/Events/2008/feb-08-david_broza.html
SCY High's SCY 2unes Concert
Featuring Eitan Katz
March 23, 2008
7:00 p.m. at the
Lyceum Theatre Downtown
Give generously and enjoy!
For tickets contact scyevent@gmail.com
858-658-0857
AIPAC brunch fundraiser - Mar 30
Tickets $50 to March 3, thereafter $65. Please contact Daniella Lewis 858/603-7553.
JCC Maccabi Games
The JCC Maccabi Games are coming to San Diego next summer, August 3-8, 2008. This Olympic-style event provides a unique combination of sports, cultural and social activities and will be the largest Jewish event in San Diego's history. The JCC Maccabi Games offer a transforming and powerful experience to Jewish teens by integrating sports with Jewish identity and values. The Games will welcome over 1,500 Jewish teen athletes, their families and friends, more than 1,000 volunteers and 650 host families. To learn more and to get involved as an athlete, host family, coach or volunteer, visit www.sdmaccabi.org or contact Gill Hoffman at Gillianpt@hotmail.com.
Kef Li San Diego
Connect to Israel from San Diego. Check out this website for Israel-inspired programs for the whole family, year round. www.keflisandiego.org Contact Jennie Starr for more
info 858-245-9375 or jennie@keflisandiego.org.
Refuah Sheleima
Please contact Rav Menashe to let him know of any family or friends who are ill.
Member news
Wedding - heartiest mazal tov to the Slome and Shadel families on the forthcoming marriage of Brian and Tova!
Happy birthday to Shaya Fainman (Feb 17), Iselle Slome (Feb 18) and Yahaloma Lotzof (Feb 19)!
Kiddush
Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by Ernest & Linda Slome on the occasion of the marriage of Brian & Tova - mazal tov!
Please contact Barbara Lurie at 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 Feb 15: Candle lighting 5.15 PM
- Sat Feb 16: Shabbat ends 6.16 PM
Thought for the week
Honor and Pride
In this Shabbat's Torah portion, Tezaveh, the first half of the reading deals with the priestly vestments. When serving G-d as a communal messenger, the outward persona and image that the priest carries says much about the role he plays and the attitude that he brings as he approaches the holy sanctuary. But the Torah uses an interesting, though vague, language to describe the priest's outward appearance: "Lichavod U'litifaret," which we might translate as ‘honor and pride.' What does the Torah mean to teach about the priest and his role in the community when using these words to describe the garments?
These two words, ‘kavod' and ‘tifaret', carry distinctly separate meanings and implications. Similar to the fifth commandment, ‘Kabed et Avicha v'et Imecha,' honoring our parents, which connotes a reverential attitude: the title of parent demands a child's respect, irrespective of the quality of parenting, so too the priest holds a position of reverence in the community simply by his title and position in the community; the clothes make the priest. And the mere presence of the priest would impress upon the community an attitude of reverence and import for his honored role.
Quite opposite, though, from the sense of Kavod, is the second descriptive word, ‘tiferet.' The priest cannot rely solely on the status of his status, nor can he view himself with too much self importance. Tiferet, Pride must be earned through a realistic self understanding and through the quality of his conduct. Rebbi writes in the Mishna Avot: "Which path should a person choose to follow? That which brings pride, tiferet, to the one who acts and that which brings pride, tiferet, to those around him." (Avot 2:1) With this value, the clothes serve as reminder of the integrity and uprightness that his post demands; the clothes make the man.
This then becomes an important message and challenge for us too. We live with titles: Parent, spouse, teacher, manager, foreman, CEO and official.
Our titles give us power, but do our titles give us pause?
Shabbat Shalom Umevorach,
Rav Menashe
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