Shabbat Ki Tisa Feb 22-23, 2008 / 17 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
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.
The JCC MAccabi games website is now open for registration for all volunteers and/host families. Go to www.jccmacreg.org to register.
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
Happy birthday to Justi Aires (Feb 22), Alex Gaylis (Feb 24), Liran Braude (Feb 25), Hannah Rappoport (Feb 25), Cloe Ratner (Feb 28) and Sean Shevel (Feb 28)!
Wedding anniversary - mazal tov to Craig & Irene Gavson (Feb 23)!
Yahrzeits - we wish a long life to Debbie Kempinski (for her father) and to Robyn Rapoport (for her mother).
Kiddush
Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by Ian & Dina Aires to wish Justi a happy birthday - 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 22: Candle lighting 5.21 PM
- Sat Feb 23: Shabbat ends 6.22 PM
Thought for the week
G-d's Relationships, Our Relationships
When Israel betrays its relationship to G-d, in this week's Torah portion, by worshipping the Golden Calf, the rupture sends violent tremors throughout the fragile, nascent nation. A reparative healing must ensue. Through Moses' intervention and leadership, G-d, the scorned lover, turns to fully reaccept His people.
The crisis leads to vulnerability and a sharing of emotion between G-d and man unseen in the Torah. The barriers between the divine and human realms become hazy. At the height of the rapprochement, Moses turns to G-d with an incredible request: "Let me see Your glory." (Exodus 33:18)
The classic medieval commentators, Rashi and Ibn Ezra, interpret this as a literal request: Moses wants to see, to know and to understand G-d's ‘essence.' (See Ibn Ezra on Exodus 31:18) This appeared as an opportunity for Moses to deepen his relationship with G-d, so he asked for the incredible. (See Rashi, ibid) As we try to deepen the relationships with those closest to us, sometimes we need to find the courage to help the relationship transcend its current state.
Rashbam offers a different interpretation entirely. Moses would not dare ask to see G-d's presence, but he was looking for an assurance of G-d's commitment to the Jewish people. (See Rashbam, ibid) Following the theme of human relationship, this would then be another model of interrelationship. While the first explanation offers a risk taking courage as the natural outgrowth of the evolving relationship, this model is much more cautious. We want to run and fly with those we love, but we keep looking over our shoulder to be sure that our beloved will run and fly with us.
Anytime is good time to take stock and consider the quality of our relationships. Let this Shabbat be a time that we invest the care and the time toward the people that mean the most to us.
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
- Ladies: Barbara Lurie 858/792-7942
- Membership: Geoff Patz 858/733-3777