Breakfast Schmooze for March
Join us Wednesday, March 14 any time between 7—9 am at Select for the monthly Breakfast Schmooze.
Join us Wednesday, March 14 any time between 7—9 am at Select for the monthly Breakfast Schmooze.
Just a reminder that tomorrow night’s service is at 7:30 with ONEG to follow. Reverend Snoddy and friends from Mt. Moriah Baptist Church will be joining us for this traditional service.
1 Purim
2 Purim Dinner
3 Saturday Service
4 Sunday School
7 Hebrew School
9 7:30 Service
10 Saturday Service
11 Sunday School
14 Breakfast Schmooze
14 Hebrew School
16 Kabbalat Shabbat
17 Saturday Service-Haddasah Tisch
17 Movie Night
18 Sunday School Speaker-TBA
18 Temple Board Meeting
21 Rabbi’s Brown Bag Lunch
21 Hebrew School
23 Soup & Salad
24 Saturday Service
25 Sunday School-Model Seder
25 Sisterhood General Meeting
28 Hebrew School
30 Erev Passover-NO Service
31 Passover Day 1-9:30 Service
March Sunday School Dates
March 4: 9:20 Hebrew, 10:00 Class
March 11: 9:20 Hebrew, 10:00 Class
March 18: Sunday Speaker Series
March 25: 9:20 Hebrew, 10:00 Class Model Seder
3/7 School at 3, 4, & 5:00 pm
3/14 School at 3, 4, & 5:00 pm
3/21 School at 3, 4, & 5:00 pm
3/18 School at 3, 4, & 5:00 pm
March 2018 Worship Schedule
March 2 & 3
Friday: Purim Dinner All That Jazz
Saturday: Morning Service 9:30 am
March 9 & 10
Friday: Service at 7:30 pm
Saturday: Morning Service 9:30 am
March 16 & 17
Friday: Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Refreshments at 5:30
Saturday: Hadassah Tisch 9:30 am
March 23 & 24
Friday: Soup & Salad 6:00 pm
Saturday: Morning Service 9:30 am
March 30 & 31
Friday: Erev Passover No Service
Saturday: Passover Day 1 Service at 9:30 am
Wickedness comes into the world because of justice delayed! (Midrash)
Dear friends,
The spring holidays are seemingly on the way! Why seemingly? At this time of writing late February many trees have come into bloom and beautifully so. More than one member of our community has said with some trepidation, “I sure hope we will not have a late freeze or snowstorm.” Such an event may postpone growth or alter its healthy spring trajectory. I am reminded of the old wine commercial, “We will serve no wine before its time!”
In explaining the Shoah there is a most unhappy midrash called “the bones of the Ephraimites.” Briefly, it first explains why Moses led the Israelites round about the land of the Philistines after the Exodus for fear of war. They might get frightened and turn back to Egypt. This Midrash fancifully imagines that an earlier Exodus which was not sanctioned by God was attempted by the tribe of Ephraim. Good idea, but bad timing. As such, God brought death upon them by the Philistines as a punishment. How does this apply to modern theological grapplings with respect to Jewish suffering?
Many Ultra-Orthodox Jews, included among them Hassidim, maintain that the Holocaust was God’s way of punishing the Jewish people for the unsanctioned efforts of Zionists. They had the chutzpah to settle the land before the Messiah had arrived i.e. before God thought it was the right time. It is an ugly Midrash zealously appropriated to find a facile explanation for the horrors of the world. The reason that the Ephraimites were killed was the evil of the Philistines just as the fault of the murder of the six million is to be laid at the door of Hitler and “his willing executioners.”
I have been thinking and feeling a lot about Parkland Florida and the 17 who are no more and the glib supercilious claim that “this is not the time to discuss gun control or gun safety.” It is more than the right time to cry out “Enough!”
Yossi J Liebowitz, Rabbi
This Friday’s service, February 23, will be a Kabbalat Shabbat beginning with refreshments at 5:30. We have changed it from soup and salad because Friday, March 2 is the Purim dinner! Please be sure to RSVP for the dinner. Hope to see you on both dates!