Monthly Archives: October 2011 - תשרי / חשון תשעב
Rabbi Mark Winer TE Scholar In Residence November 18-19
| October 28, 2011 - ל תשרי תשעב | Posted by P. Simon under Featured, Uncategorized |
Rabbi Mark Winer, TE’s first rabbi, will be coming as our Scholar-in-Residence on Friday, November 18th-Saturday, November 19th. On Friday night at 8pm he will speak about how TE helped shape who he is as a Jew and as a Rabbi. Saturday morning Torah study at 10.30 am will be “The Bible According to Rabbi Winer” with a discussion of some of his favorite Bible quotes. Bring some of your favorite biblical quotes as well! more
Simchat Torah 5772 at Temple Emanuel
| October 24, 2011 - כו תשרי תשעב | Posted by P. Simon under Featured |
They say a picture is worth a thousand words – so here’s a collage worthy of an article! more
TE participates in Cook and Care Walk-a-Thon
| October 18, 2011 - כ תשרי תשעב | Posted by P. Simon under Uncategorized |
Nineteen TE members – children and adults – participated in the annual Cook and Care Walk-a-Thon on October 16, sponsored by the Interfaith Cooperative Ministries. It was a gorgeous fall day. Bagpipers led the walkers as we left Edgerton Park for our three-mile walk through the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven. At the end, walkers returned to Edgerton Park for yummy soup, apple crisp and ice cream, which we enjoyed while listening to a local steel drum band. The Walk-a-Thonraises funds to benefit four community service organizations that provide services for the needy in New Haven: The Community Soup Kitchen, Downtown Evening Soup… more
Sukkot and Simchat Torah at Temple Emanuel
| October 11, 2011 - יג תשרי תשעב | Posted by P. Simon under Featured |
The Hebrew month of Tishrei is filled with special days – the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) are behind us, but the week of Sukkot is here – and the Temple Emanuel sukkah is up in all its glory! Sukkot lasts all week, so make sure you stop by to share some food in the sukkah, shake the lulav and smell the etrog! The festive season concludes with Simchat Torah celebration on Wednesday, October 19th at 6.30 pm – we conclude the annual cycle of Torah readings, only to start all over again! We dance with the scrolls… more
Building the community…
| October 5, 2011 - ז תשרי תשעב | Posted by Rabbi Farbman under Featured, Rabbi's page |
If God does not build the house, the workers labor in vain… (Psalm 127). There is an ancient Jewish tradition: when building a house, to leave one corner, one tiny bit unfinished. To let a little bit of brick show through plaster in the corner, to have something left not fully painted. Our ancestors did so in order to remind ourselves that the world is not complete, that there is far too much suffering and destruction in the world for us to sit comfortably in our home and think that all is good… Over the course of this summer there… more
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