High Holiday Cards!
Still need Rosh Hashanah cards? Shabbat cards to bring with your wine bottle or flowers when you’re invited to a Shabbat meal? A Sukkot card to thank the friends who invite you to eat in their Sukkah? How about Sukkot cards to use as invitations when you invite others to your sukkah? We have even added Bar/Bat Mitzvah and thank-you cards to our collection.
Get your cards from Beth El and help our children raise money for child-size tallitot, story books, and costumes for Shabbat and holiday Junior Congregation programming.
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The kids have been busy, and so have I. Here are 55 of the designs we have created, and there are samples available at shul entrance. No cards will be sold on Shabbat, but if you order by email, I will leave your cards in the shul in an envelope for you. Remember also that we can custom paint, draw, or create a collage. Children’s Services Fundraiser PO 2 page, or just email me.
The kids have assembled a wish list for Shabbat/holiday children’s services:
WISH LIST:
- child-size ark & Torah scroll (We are already dancing with and reading from our scroll! Thanks Mr. Arthur!)
- child-size tallitot
- costumes for kids & puppets
- materials for holiday crafts
- Torah books & stories
For more info, contact MorahBetsy@gmail.com.
Shabbat Re’eh, Friday evening services, and high holiday planning
Congregants,As we do every Friday night, we will have services tonight at 7:00 pm.
Cantor Ben Moshe’s Message The week to come marks the beginning of the month of Elul, when we begin to think about the upcoming High Holidays. We turn our thoughts inward, toward self-improvement and repentance. The shofar is sounded in the morning, calling us to wake up and examine our ways. Currently, our sanctuary here at Beth El is being renovated. Come Rosh Hashanah, we will be meeting in a renewed and revitalized space. This is also a time to renew and revitalize ourselves. Unlike the synagogue building, though, we humans have the privilege of being able to renew ourselves every year, and indeed every day. While we temporarily pray in the social hall, let us remember that renovation is not only for physical space, but for the spirit as well.
High Holiday Schedule
Rosh Hashanah is a little over a month away and we have begun preparations for our services. See attached schedule for times and dates for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.
You can also prepare for the high holidays by buying the high holiday cards children created. More information here: Cards
We look forward to seeing everyone at services tonight at 7pm.
Shabbat shalom,
Congregation Beth El
8902 Mesa Drive
Beth El Updates and Services Tonight and Tomorrow
Congregants and Friends,
A reminder of our regular Friday night and Saturday morning services this weekend, August 19th and 20th. Friday night services start at 7:00 pm and Saturday morning start at 9:00 am.
SANCTUARY RENOVATION – Beginning Monday, August 22, we will take our sanctuary out of service while we install new chairs, new carpet, a new ark, and other improvements. During this renovation, we will continue to hold Friday night services in the social hall. If all work goes as scheduled, services will resume in the sanctuary on the weekend of September 16 and 17.
Thank you to everyone who have generously donated, invested time, and helped on these improvements.
Cantor’s Message – This week’s parashah, ‘Ekev, contains the famous words “Man does not live by bread alone”. The Torah is teaching us that material things, while important, are not of ultimate importance. We also need the metaphysical, the spiritual. In a similar vein, the sad observance of Tish’ah B’Av teaches us that the Temple in Jerusalem was not as important as God, to Whom the Temple was dedicated. As we prepare to celebrate our last Shabbat in the current configuration of Beth El’s sanctuary, let us remember that a congregation is much more than the building in which it meets, and that a congregation’s ultimate purpose is the worship of God. Still, we also rejoice in the opportunity to fulfill the hopeful words read at the end of the Book of Lamentations-“renew our days as of old”. Shabbat Shalom.
55 Greeting Card Designs!
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The kids have been busy, and so have I. Here are 55 designs we have created, and there will be samples available at shul this weekend. No cards will be sold on Shabbat, but we will begin taking orders by phone, email or in person, beginning next week. Remember also that we can custom paint, draw, or create a collage. More info and order forms are here.
—Betsy