Shabbat Acharei Mot / Pesach Apr 18-21, 2008 / Nisan 14 - 16, 5768
Pesach 5768
Sale of chametz
Mechirat Chametz forms should be filled out and returned to Rav Menashe, preferably in person. 3905 Carmel Brooks way, 92130. Please visit our website next week to download the form www.kaysandiego.org.
Thursday, April 17th
The Fast of the first born; complete the sale of Chametz with Rav Menashe; Bedikat Chametz Search with the Blessing in the evening.
Friday, April 18th
Burn all Chametz, except for Challah for Hamotzi on Shabbat eve and day. Completely Kosher for Pesach Shabbat meals, but no Matzah yet. Services at 615pm.
Shabbat, April 19th
Early Services - 7:45am; Shabbat Hagadol; Hamotzi and meal in Shul; Last Chametz eaten at 10:36am; Bitul Nullification of Chametz at 11:41am;
Services at 6.30 pm with full Hallel in shul;
Candle Lighting for Pesach night 8:03 pm from existing flame; 1st Seder.
Sunday, April 20th
Services at 9.30am - Tefillat Tal and Birkat Kohaniim; Services 6.30pm; 1st Night of the Omer; full Hallel in shul; 8:04 pm Candle Lighting from existing flame; 2nd Seder.
Open Pesach Seder at Donna and Rav Menashe's home, for the 2nd night of Pesach. All are invited and please bring a friend! RSVP to eastmenashe@hotmail.com or 858 605 1111. Volunteer help with set up would be most appreciated. Address:3905 Carmel Brooks Way, 92130. This event has been generously sponsored by the Meyerowitz and Deleima families in honor of their children's recent wedding.
Monday, April 21st
Services 9:30am ; Havdalah at 8:04 pm, leaving out Spices and Candle.
Tuesday thru Friday
Intermediate days; Chol Hamoed
Friday, April 25th
Services 6:15pm; Abbreviated Kabbalat Shabbat; 7th day of Pesach
Shabbat, April 26th
Services 9:30am; Candle light from existing flame 8:08 pm
Services at 6.30 pm
Sunday, April 27th
Services 9:30am; Yizkor; Yom Tov ends at 8:09 pm
KAY's Torah Study Opportunities
Talmud class
There will be no tuesday night talmud class for the next two weeks
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
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.
Walk the Land - Sunday, May 18, 2008 at the Lawrence Family JCC (4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla 92037)
Kick off the Yom Ha'atzmaut Independence Day Festival with a one-mile walk in support of Israel! Join local San Diegans as you pass by beautiful murals of Israeli cities in this first-time-ever global event! Each participant will receive a unique Israeli "passport" to be stamped along the path. The General Walk begins at 11:00 a.m. and an alternative Youth Walk begins at 2:00 p.m. departing from the JCC's baseball diamond. Register in advance: $5/person includes an official hat, water and original passport. Proceeds benefit the building of a new safe Regional High School in Sha'ar Ha'Negev, San Diego's partnership region in Israel. To register for "Walk the Land" go to http://israelat60sandiego.com/event/56
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 Tayla Neugarten (Apr 21), Vanessa Lurie (Apr 23), Daniel Lurie (Apr 24) and Freda Swersky (Apr 24)!
Yahrzeit - we wish a long life to Clive Gurwitz (for his father).
Levaya - our deepest condolences to Craig & Irene Gavson and family on the loss of their brother-in-law.
Kiddush
Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by Selwyn & Barbara Lurie to wish all congregants a happy and healthy Pesach.
Kiddush on 1st day Pesach is sponsored by Michael & Vanessa Lurie on the occasion of Vanessa's and Daniel's birthdays - mazal tov!
Kiddush on 2nd day Pesach is sponsored by Ian & Dina Aires on the safe return of Ian and David from Manchester.
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 Apr 18: Candle lighting 7.03 PM
- Sat Apr 19: Candle lighting after 8.03 PM
- Sun apr 20: Candle lighting after 8.04 PM
- Mon Apr 21: Yom tov ends 8.05 PM
Thought for the week
The Holy of Holies
It is interesting that as we are about to celebrate Pesach, we read from the Torah this Shabbat, Achrei Mot, which deals with the service of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. There is a deeper connection of these two events than chance alone.
When the high priest ascends for the intricate Yom Kippur worship, we see a heavy emphasis on his two sets of adornment. The first set is the more ornate, golden vestments, worn when doing the service around the Temple. But for his rare entrance into the Holy of Holies, the priest must don the simple linen garments. (Leviticus 16:4)
The text offers an interesting connection of Holy of Holies and the linen garments. G-d tells Moses and all priests: "Do not enter at any time lest you die…for as a cloud I appear over the cover." (ibid, v. 2) Since the presence of G-d is manifest in the Holy of Holies, presumably at all times, the priest would breech the boundary between himself and G-d, where he to enter on a whim. However, on Yom Kippur, while wearing the linen, the priest offers no affront to the Divine. Rabbi Levi suggests that the priest must wear the linen, as opposed to golden garments, in order to feel humility at the awesome moment when facing G-d. (Leviticus Rabba 21:10)
This practice of wearing the simple white garment finds expression in a number of areas in traditional Jewish life. Naturally, we mimic the priest's white garments during the high holidays as an act of spiritual introspection; the bride and groom wear white, perhaps as a sign of the humility they will need to help them make room for each other as a new family; a corpse is adorned with the simple white shroud as a sign of the ultimate humility when we confront mortality; and there is a tradition of wearing this white garment on Passover too.
Pesach is the night of telling our story of exodus, teaching our children.
Great care must be taken when we teach. Education needs to be filled with a deep sense of humility. In the classroom or on Pesach night, we enter a sort of Holy of Holies; the subject is holy, the dialogue is holy and, most importantly, the students are holy.
Shabbat Shalom Umevorach and Chag Kasher V'sameiach,
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