Shannah Tova 5775
Shanna Tova to all our Congregants and friends,
We look forward to seeing you these High Holidays. Please remember to check out the schedule of services at www.bethelaustin.org/highholidays
Lots of announcements this week! Please read below. Also, please let Kevin Koeller or Cantor Ben-Moshe know if you would like to help with English readings throughout the High Holiday services.
Thursday afternoon, September 25 at 4pm we will have taschlich at Bull Creek. This year, there will definitely be water there thanks to the recent wonderful rains.
Sunday morning, September 28 we will have Sunday school at Beth El at 10 am.
Concurrently, Sunday at 10 am please plan to join us as we go as a congregation to Austin Memorial Park on Hancock Lane to honor our departed congregants. Please consider attending this beautiful service which is so integral to the High Holidays.
Intro to Judaism class this Sunday afternoon at 3:30 pm. This is a great class given by our very own Cantor Ben-Moshe and all are welcome to join.
Wednesday evenings at 7pm, we have mid-week evening services which we invite you to participate in. They are short and sweet and a meaningful way to break up the week.
Please also let us know if you could help with the Break the Fast for Yom Kippur. We would appreciate any help with this. Contact us at bethelaustin@yahoo.com.
Wednesday October 8th we will have a sukkot service and pot luck dinner in the sukkah!
Saturday evening at 6:30 pm on October 11, we welcome back Rabbi Tarlow to give a fascinating talk. Rabbi Dr. Peter Tarlow of Texas A&M has given some fascinating talks at Beth El on the topic of Crypto Judasim and the classes are very popular!
October 22 at 7:30pm, we start for the first time ever at Beth El a national program called Read Hebrew across America. This crash course in Hebrew reading will be offered free of charge and we welcome you all to attend this amazing five week program.
Hazzan Yitzhak Ben-Moshe weekly message:
As the weather finally turns cooler, a welcome time of year in Texas, we usher in another welcome time of year-the High Holiday Season. Our synagogues are decked out in their beautiful holiday white, we eat apples and honey and honey cake to wish ourselves and each other a Sweet New Year, and we hear once again the lovely and majestic music of the High Holiday liturgy. As we celebrate this season of renewal, let us remember that there are some in our congregation for whom all this is literally new-they may be new to Beth El, or indeed new to the Jewish People and to the celebration of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Let’s take the time this holiday season to look for new faces, faces that perhaps look a bit uncomfortable or lost, and extend a hand, a wish of “Shanah Tovah”, an invitation to sit with us, and help in finding the elusive correct page in the mahzor. Let’s renew ourselves by welcoming those who are new in our midst.
Ilan and Eden join me in wishing a Shanah Tovah U’m’tukah, a Good and Sweet Year to the entire Beth El family.