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"I wish it were Sunday School!"
Charly (Shaya) Bombardier
...on Monday morning.
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The
Temple Or Olam Shmoozeletter
October 14, 2008 - 15 Tishre, 5768
Volume
VI, Issue 1
[Note
from Reb Barbara] [Sukkah
Singalong] [Simchat Torah] [School]
[DVD] [Yahrzeits]
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HHD's and
the New Year
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High Holy Days were reflective this year. We
heard Reb Zusia’s message about becoming more of our best selves. We
watched the innkeeper who worried about his prayers magically glide
across a river on a handkerchief. We discovered Moses digesting a tad
too much literature in the heavenly library, and we accompanied the
exiles from a ruined Jerusalem. We fasted and prayed and wrote about our
own journeys. We ended the last service with a relieved and happy circle
dance.
One mitzvah leads to another, the rabbis
say, so just after praying Neilah and our break fast Ralf Thiede and
Stan Mace hammered two pieces of wood together in front of happy and
well-fed congregants and guests. No time to waste, when it comes to the
next good deed – building Cabarrus County’s first full-size sukkah (at
least, as far as we know).
October is filled with celebratory
opportunities. Feel free to glance through those described here, and
join us for a beautiful start to our new year.
L’shalom,
Reb Barbara |
October 18
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Seen our sukkah yet? Head to the address
above for a gorgeous and inspiring video produced by Jody and Kyla Mace.
You’ll get to see just how Cabarrus County got its first full-sized
sukkah. Many, many thanks to Stan Mace for creating the design and
supports and our Utterly Amazing and Totally Talented schoolchildren for
making the decorations and helping us hang and place them.
Feel free to let us know if you’d like to
join us at the Thiede residence this next Shabbat for a singalong
morning service under (and around) our most beautiful sukkah. If you are
coming, you need to
R.S.V.P. because parking is limited.
Please bring something for our brunch after
the singalong. Bagels? Lox? We’ll nosh on the deck and on the grass and
do a little of what comes naturally on Shabbat – relaxing! |
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Shabbat Singalong Under the Sukkah |
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October 18, 2008 |
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10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. |
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Thiede Residence, Concord
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October 24, 2008
It’s Fourth Friday and Simchat Torah.
Very cool combination, so we’re going to take advantage of that fact.
This service celebration will be entirely
family-friendly, so guests with young children should feel welcome to join
us. We’ll read from the last bit of Torah and the first bit, unwrap our
Torah (carefully) and parade her around the sanctuary. We’ll have sweet
activities available for the kids, a little Israeli dancing, and lots and
lots of music.
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Fourth Friday Family Service - Simchat Torah |
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October 24, 2008 |
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7:00 p.m. |
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McGill Baptist
Church
5300 Poplar Tent Rd.
Concord NC 28027 -9757
map
directions
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What a year we are having!
Pages of self-created midrash, discovering suffixes
and prefixes, journaling, bibliodrama, practicing how to ask each other our
Hebrew names, singing prayers and songs, making welcome banners for the
congregation and and and…
Golly, we just started school a little over a
month ago!
And what’s in store is awesome, from field trips to
festival dramas to all manner of all things fun and wonderful and real.
Just imagine such a school -- our kids learn so much
more than Hebrew (and their Hebrew learning is includes more hands-on activities
and games than ever – from memory games to build-a-word fun to tossing our own
aleph bet dice in a game of alphabet chance).
A reminder: Our school has extended its reach. We
are holding a weekly Torah discussion designed for teens and adults. If
you’re interested in learning more about this class, please
let Parent Liaison Jody Mace know (jody@jodymace.com) or
write Reb Barbara at rabbi@or-olam.org.
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Temple Or Olam’s
band, Musika Olam (Hebrew for Music of/for/to the
world/universe/eternity), has created a DVD recording from our first Beatles
Service.
So if others want a copy, we’re ready for a mere
$18. Let us know
if you’re interested by replying to this email and we’ll be happy to oblige.
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We would like to acknowledge donations made
in memory of Pearl Commike, who died October 4. Pearl was a loving wife
and mother and we know her name will be for a blessing. Our heartfelt
condolences to the Commike family.
If you would like to make donations in the
memory or in honor of someone you love, please send them to: |
Lena Shapiro (Harriet Commike’s mother)
Esther Handelman (grandmother of Julie Gardner)
Jeanette Lillian Jacob Horowitz (mother of Alexander Horowitz) |
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Julie Gardner
5339 Bendix Ct.
Harrisburg, NC 28075-3902 |
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