Shabbat Tzav Mar 21-22, 2008 / 15 Adar 2, 5768
Purim
Purim Night - Megillah Reading and Party, Thursday night, March 20th, 7:00 pm. The whole community is invited to come to KAY to hear the Megillah reading at the Shul. Bagels, fruit, cakes, cookies and snacks will be served. Come in your costumes, join in the parade, music and dancing!
Purim Morning – Morning Service and Megillah Reading, Friday, March 21st, 7:00 am
Men, Women and children are invited to hear the Megillah reading, held in the Moadon (purple room) at the SDJA. The gate should be staffed, in case of need the entry number is 5831#.
Women's Megillah Reading, Friday, March 21st, 11.15 am at the Max's home for women who cannot make the earlier time.
KAY's Torah Study Opportunities
Talmud class
Talmud class in room D106-7 at the SDJA, Tuesday evening, 7:30pm. All are invited.
Workperson's Class
Next Workperson's Class will be held Wednesday, March 26th, at 1245pm at Aubrey Meyerowitz's office.
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.
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 $65. Please contact Daniella Lewis 858/603-7553.
Yom Ha'atzmaut Festival
Join the Yom Ha'atzmaut Festival on Sunday May 18, 2008 from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. …celebrating Israel's 60th birthday. Over 6,000 members from the community will attend this FREE event and enjoy entertainment, a special Israel@60 performance, an Israel photo exhibition, Walk the Land Program, a visit from Mayor Jerry Sanders, delicious kosher food, children's activities and more! To learn more visit http://israelat60sandiego.com/event/31 or call 858-571-3444.
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 Tanna Myerson (Mar 21), Dalia Shkedy (Mar 23), Ami Gires (Mar 24), Jesse Neugarten ( Mar 24) and Stan Rapoport (Mar 27)!
Wedding anniversary - mazal tov to Doron & Suki Lurie (Mar 27)!
Kiddush
Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by by the kehilla to wish everyone Chag Sameach and Shabbat Shalom!
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 Mar 21: Candle lighting 6.43 PM
- Sat Mar 22: Shabbat ends 7.43 PM
Thinking Small
"Who is a wise person? One who learns from all people." (Avot 4:1)
Often, a negative example can teach us a great deal about how we ought to act. As we celebrate the holiday of Purim, the villain, Haman, teaches us a valuable life lesson. At the start of the story, Haman's resentment for the Jewish people begins when the hero, Mordechai, will not bow down to Haman. The easiest solution, and perhaps even justifiable by Persian law, would have been for Haman to execute Mordechai for his treasonous behavior. Instead, Haman "disdained to lay hands on Mordechai alone…Haman plotted to do away with all the Jews." (Esther, 3:6) As a result of his enlightened rage, Haman does not waste his efforts on one person; he plots the annihilation of the whole of the Jewish people.
Let us turn to the heart of the drama. Haman leaves the banquet that Queen Esther has thrown for himself and king Achashverosh, feeling on top of the world. When he exits the palace, Haman notices Mordechai, as always, sitting and not bowing. Haman returns home, incensed by Mordechai's affront and tells his family "all this [honor] means nothing to me every time I see that Jew Mordechai sitting in the palace gate." (5:13)
With the encouragement of his family, Haman goes that night to visit the king and share his plot to kill Mordechai.
What happened to Haman? At the start of the story, killing one Jew was beneath a statesman of Haman's caliber; after all, he had bigger fish to catch. But as the story progresses, Haman loses his self control and becomes a common thug, constructing a seventy five foot tall gallows pole to boot.
This change of direction symbolizes the cause of Haman's demise. When he turned his attention from the big picture, he lost his own sense of purpose. Petty gripes and personal honor solidified as a wall between himself and his dreams. Though the message comes through one of our people's greatest enemies and his wicked plot, the value should not be lost. We, too, confront challenges and opportunities all the time. Haman teaches us of the perilous place that the small mind, the doubting heart and the petty spirit lead us.
Shabbat Shalom Umevorach and Freilichin Purim,
Rav Menashe
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