So much going on – parashat Toldot
Shalom Chaverim/ Dear Friends,
We would like to wish you all a Shabbat shalom and hope you can join us tonight at 7pm for Friday night services. Tomorrow, Saturday November 22, we are having our Shabbat morning services at 9 am, with the Torah service at about 9:45, and of course a lovely Kidush lunch following. Happy birthdays to Claudia and Juliette.
Upcoming Beth El Events: Join us for one or all of these events!
** Sunday school will be at 10 am this week and concurrently, Intro to Judaism will be at 10:30 am.
**Sisterhood Walk : This Sunday, November 23, 2014 – 12:30–2:30pm – The sisterhood will be meeting at Schlotzsky’s deli at 218 South Lamar at Riverside Dr., Austin, Texas. (It’s between Barton Springs Road and Riverside Drive). Their telephone number is 512-476-2867 if you get lost. We will be having an informal get together to walk the trail at Lady Bird Lake. You can bring your children. We will get a bite to eat or beverage before starting our walk at 1:00 pm. We will park at Schlotzsky’s.
** Wednesday evening davening continues at 7pm.
**Friday November 28th, we will have special early services at 6:30 P.M., followed by a lovely kosher Friday night dinner – cooked at Beth El. Thank you to the Jacobs family for sponsoring the event. We hope you all can make the services and join us for dinner after.
**Mah-Jong and games: Sunday, December 14 – 12:30–2:00pm – We will be having an informal get together and a “Mahjong 101” Class, as well as play other games. No children this time. Please RSVP to Elaine Jacobs at (jaqel@yahoo.com) or 512-261-0112 by Wednesday, December 10, 2014. Please bring a healthy dairy, parev desert or little nosh (like cut up fruit, veggie plate, cheese platter, etc.) if you can.
Sunday, December 21, 2014 – HOLD THIS DATE: We are celebrating our Annual Beth El Chanukah Latke Party at 5:00 p.m. Please join us in the fun.
There will be a delicious kosher meat BBQ:
Here is what we need volunteers to bring: please let us know if you can help with these items
Drinks – Lemonade and orange juice
Fruit salad – just fruit
Green Salad – no dressing
Parev kosher deserts
Non-dairy Chanukah gelt
Paper plates, cutlery and napkins
To help celebrate the holiday, please bring your own Menorah and candles to light when we say the prayers!
Cantor Ben-Moshe’s weekly message:
This week’s parshah, Toldot Yitzhak, tells the story of the Patriarch Yitzhak, or Isaac. Unlike his father, Avraham, or his son Ya’akov, Yitzhak never leaves the Land of Canaan, only going as far as G’rar in the territory of the Philistines. Yitzhak is sometimes regarded as a placeholder-he is not a trailblazer like his father, nor yet the ancestor from whom our people take our name-Israel. Yitzhak, though, exemplifies the virtue of persistence, of endurance. When Yitzhak has conflicts with his Philistine neighbors over wells, he persists until he finally succeeds. May we be inspired by the example of our ancestor, and persevere to overcome the conflicts in our lives. Shabbat Shalom.