|
|
|
|
Services & Events
|
September 14 Yom Kippur
September 27, 6:30pm
Consecration and Simchat Torah Service
Canterbury Clubhouse
Details to come
October 11, 7:00pm
Traditional Shabbat Service
We are in need of a host and Location please email Robert Goldstein if you are interested
October 25, 7:00pm
Traditional Shabbat Service
at the West Smyrna Swim & Tennis Club
Details to come
Adult Education
Sunday Morning Class on Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
Details Below
Women's Group
October - High Tea in Kennesaw
Details to come
November 12 - Womens Community Event about Domestic Violence in the Home Click for Details
Youth Group
September 28th 9-1:00pm
Carwash at Chick-Fil-A
More details to come
|
| | |
Shabbat Candle Lighting
7:31 pm
Friday, 09/13/13
Havdalah Candle
Lighting
8:59 pm
Saturday, 09/14/13
|
| | |
Yom Huledet Same'ach
Happy Birthday
September
1-Hyla Barker
3-Shane Haney
4-Geoffrey Doleys
6-Maleina Flaherty
7-Carole Steele
7-Ryan Schwartz
8-Jen Harriman
9-Laura Catlin
10-Raelyn Seitel
14-Robert Huebsch
17-Samantha Ficarro
20-David Hall
23-Ethan Goldstein
24-Christina Katz
26-Gillian Ribner
27-Thomas Liebschutz
27-Jessie Segal
27-Gito Nunez
27-Julia Teren
Mazel Tov
Happy Anniversary
September
1-Julie and Ken Segal
4-Beth & Tom Ficarro
5-Stuart & Evelyn Napshin & Orenbuch
6-Susie & Andy Armstrong
17-Molly & Noah Torch
23-Laura & Shawn Catlin
27-Jennifer & Brad Seitel
Refuah Shleima
Please keep Leah Ashe in your prayers for a return to health
Please keep Ellen Gutenstein, mother of Michael Gutenstein in your prayers for a return to health.
Please keep Sheldon Lustgarten, father of Elaine Gutenstein in your prayers for a return to health.
Please keep Sue Goldstein in your prayers for a return to health.
Please keep Hal Schwartz, husband of Enid and father of Charlie Schwartz in your prayers for a return to health
|
|
|
|
|
|
On Rosh Hashanah the Decree is written; on Yom Kippur it is sealed.
-Yom Kippur liturgy
|
Ten days after the New Year, we observe Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In these Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition holds that the Book of Life is open and our fate for the coming year is decided.
We hope you are able to join our CNT Family for Services and wish you g'mar chatimah tovah, that you will be sealed in the
Book of Life.
Thank you to those of you that have already registered for our Yom Kippur Services, we look forward to seeing you. If you have not yet registered, there is still time.
Click here for online registration
Just as a reminder, the service schedules are included below. They can also be found at
http://www.mynertamid.org/
where friends and relatives can still register, if they haven't done so already.
Babysitting is available at each service for those children ages 2-6.
Parents will need to sign their children into and out of the nursery. Please indicate when you register if you will be in need of babysitting services. Cost will be $25 for Yom Kippur.
We have two Discussions for the Afternoon Session at 2:30pm.
- Rabbi Liebschutz will lead a discussion of the G-d Survey
Last year's discussion on this subject was just peaking when time ran out. This year we'll continue that discussion. One does not have to attended last year to be fully a part of this year's discussion. Among other things it will cover: Does G-d exist? What does G-d do or not do? What does Jewish tradition teach about G-d? What options, if any, do liberal Jews have about G-d belief? What do theists, finite theists, Reconstructionists and religious existentialists believe about G-d? How does belief affect our actions?
- Matt Berenson will lead a discussion in regards to expanding our community ties and involvement.
Please join us after Havdalah and before Break Fast for an emotional journey as we have a Procession of the Torah's leaving the building symbolizing our exit from the house of worship.
Following Havdalah, we hope you join us for CNT's Family Break Fast. It will be a dairy potluck. Please click below to RSVP.
CLICK TO RSVP
Service Schedule
|
Kol Nidre
|
Sept 13, 7:00 PM
| |
Shacharit (Morning Service)
|
Sept 14, 10:00 AM
| |
Afternoon Discussions:
|
Sept 14, 2:30 PM
| |
Yizkor (Memorial Service)
|
Sept 14, 4:00 PM
| |
Ne'ilah (Closing Service)
|
Sept 14, 5:00 PM
| |
Havdalah (Separation)
|
Sept 14, 6:00 PM
|
|
This Week's Torah Portion
|
Parashat Haazinu [Listen]Parashat Yom Kippur [Holidays]
Deuteronomy 29:9-14, 30:11-20 (Morning) and Leviticus 19:1-4, 9-18, 32-37 (Afternoon)
Surely, this Instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. - Deuteronomy 30:11
Summary:
Yom Kippur morning: In the final address by Moses to the Children of Israel, we are reminded that each and every one of us is a member of the Covenant. From our ancestors at Sinai to this very day, each of us is the heir to this sacred tradition. Our tradition is neither too difficult to learn nor too cumbersome to follow. Regardless of our station in life, Torah belongs to all of us. Finally, we are exhorted to "choose life," to love God, to walk in God's ways, and to keep God's commandments. By doing so, we open our hearts to God and to each other.
Yom Kippur afternoon: In the climactic chapter of the Book of Leviticus, we read that each of us can be holy. Each of us has the capacity to bring holiness into our lives and into the lives of those around us. Every act, great or small, can bring us closer to the sacred. We are instructed to leave something from our fields for the poor and for the stranger. We are told, "You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind." We are reminded that we were once strangers in the Land of Egypt and so we must love the stranger. As the Torah reading on Yom Kippur reminds us, each of us is capable of doing this. The way to a life of holiness is by sanctifying each moment of our lives.
Torah Lessons My Father Taught Me
D'var Torah By: Rabbi Stephen Karol
I was a student in my father's ninth grade religious-school class. What I remember the most all these years later is learning Torah from him and, most important, the practical ethical lessons we can apply to our lives from our most sacred text. In particular, studying the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26), which includes the Torah reading for Yom Kippur afternoon (Leviticus 19:1-4, 9-18, 32-37), has had a lifelong influence on me.
The Holiness Code is a great selection for that day because it tells us that when many people are so focused on the ritual of coming to pray on one day to the exclusion of others, it is their behavior that truly makes them holy. This includes our praying and attending services, but it also includes our ethics. It applies to everyone-not just rabbis and cantors and "regular" service attendees.
The eleventh-century commentator Rashi wrote on Leviticus 19:2: ". . . this section was proclaimed in full assembly ('all the congregation of the children of Israel') because most of the fundamental teachings of the Torah are dependent on it" (see Sifra; Vayikra Rabbah 24:5). And Rabbi Levi points out "because the Ten Commandments are included in this section (therefore, it was proclaimed to the full assembly)" (Vayikra Rabbah 24:5). Rabbi Levi specifically mentions the repetition of commandments regarding recognizing the Eternal as our G-d, not worshiping other gods, not swearing falsely, observing Shabbat, respecting parents, not taking the life of another or standing idly by, not committing adultery, not stealing, and not being a talebearer (similar to "false witness'"). Finally, he matches up not coveting with loving "your neighbor as you love yourself." In The Torah: A Women's Commentary,1 Tamara Cohn Eskenazi stated: "Connections . . . define the holy community: the connection to parents whom one must honor, to the poor and the disadvantaged whom one must protect, to the neighbor and stranger whom one must love, and of course to G-d" (p. 716).
My father understood the importance of connections and he, too, believed that holiness can be exemplified in different ways and at different times. Like the Rabbis of the Midrash and Talmud, Dad took the ethical statements of the Holiness Code and gave specific examples of how they should relate to us. The most memorable was based on the commandment: "You shall not . . . place a stumbling block before the blind" (Leviticus 19:14). He told us of a time he was sitting in traffic and saw another car blocking the crosswalk. At that very moment, a blind woman-walking with a white cane and without a companion-attempted to cross the street safely where the law and common decency would say she had the right to do so. The woman bumped into the car and fell down, and was helped up by other pedestrians (who did not stand idly by). There was no help at all from the driver, who left the scene quickly.
Just as quickly, we students condemned the driver, but my dad allowed for the possibility that maybe he or she was unaware of what had happened. We talked about intentional and unintentional sin, and the fact that the Yom Kippur liturgy uses more than one word to describe our human failings. I think of that Torah lesson whenever I am in a crosswalk or in my car near a crosswalk. And I remind myself never to assume that someone else is always wrong and I am always right, and vice versa. What we perceive to be reality may not be reality, or maybe it is. There are stumbling blocks-objects and human beings-and there is blindness-literal and figurative. That is applying learning to life.
And that is the way learning Torah is supposed to be. According to the Holiness Code: "You shall be holy, for I, the Eternal your G-d, am holy" (Leviticus 19:2). The Torah teaches us that we should behave as God would want us to behave and that we-created in God's image-should strive to be like God. Bernard J. Bamberger2 wrote, "Taken literally, the law forbids the ugly practice of making fun of the disabled. Sifra takes this precept figuratively: Do not give self-serving advice to one who is ignorant and inexperienced. And to later interpreters, this law forbids various deceitful practices." The Jewish Study Bible3 goes beyond the basic words and says: "the second (verse), speaking metaphorically and not of those literally deaf or blind, extends the principle to include exploitation of others by capitalizing on their ignorance or vulnerability."
Reading from the Holiness Code on Yom Kippur afternoon is both appropriate and meaningful. Appropriate, because it is the holiest day of the High Holidays and of the entire year. Meaningful, because it reminds us that holiness is not just revealed in how we pray to G-d and in what we promise to others, but also in what we do as G-d's partners and in how we treat G-d's creatures.
My congregation has developed the custom of having laypeople trained to read Torah on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. But I have reserved the right to read the Holiness Code on Yom Kippur afternoon, and will do so this year once again. I read those verses proudly in tribute to the lessons I learned from my father that are as important and relevant to me on Yom Kippur and throughout the year as they were when I was his student.
1. The Torah: A Women's Commentary (New York: URJ Press and Women of Reform Judaism, 2008), p. 716
2. The Torah: A Modern Commentary, Revised Ed. (New York: URJ Press, 2005), p. 799
3. The Jewish Study Bible, ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 254
Rabbi Stephen Karol serves Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook, New York, and was his father Joseph Karol's student at the Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah in Kansas City, Missouri.
Links for full Articles:
|
|
Yahrzeit |
With fondness and affection we recall those
whose Yahrzeits are in September
We remember ...
Sophie Perlman, Grandmother of Robin Flake
Edward Kahn, Grandfather of Linda Kamisher
Arthur Katz, Father of Brian Katz
Morrie Landsberg, Father of Joel Landsberg
Fredric Morse, Father of Chad Morse
Morton Schwartz, Father of Hal Schwartz
Robert Steele, Father of Mike Steele
Jack Steele, Brother of Mike Steele
Della Applebaum, Grandmother of Joan Stuart
Yehi zichronam l'vracha - may their memories be for a blessing;
may they rest in peace. Amen.
Observe the tradition of giving tzedekah (charity) to commemorate
the annual Yahrzeit of a loved one's passing by making a
donation in his or her memory.
Click to donate |
|
Contributions |
Contribution Opportunities
Whether it is in honor of a Bar Mitzvah, birthday, anniversary, or in memory of someone special there are several lifetime events to consider a donation towards
Did you know that we have the following funds in place?
Rabbi Thomas and Marilyn Liebschutz Scholarship Fund
Education Fund
General Fund
High Holiday Fund
Future Building Fund
CNT Summer Camp Grant
Sunshine Fund (for assisting those in need)
We would like to acknowledge the following for their
generous gifts to Building fund in honor of 50th anniversary of
Marci and Ernie Zied
Kristine and Michael Goldstein
Please consider a donation towards Congregation Ner Tamid as a way to honor or celebrate those that you care about.
Recognition letters are sent for all donations and contributions made.
Click to donate |
|
Todah Rabah
|
THANK YOU
Matt Berenson and Elaine Gutenstein for all their hard work in crating the Yizkor Book
Alex Goldstein for blowing the Shofar at Kol Nidre
Harvey Rosenberg for his participation in Kol Nidre
|
|
Facebook |
Congregation Ner Tamid is now on Facebook
Visit our page and Like Us!
There is a wealth of information on Judaism, dates for events around town, current articles and more.
Visit often to be the first to know!
|
|
New Online Blog for CNT! |
Follow us on our new Blog in the Westcobb Patch online! Get the latest news!
|
|
|
Check out our Gift Shop!!
Available Gifts
The Gift Shop offers a wide variety of gifts found on Amazon.com, including:
Hanukkah
Judaica
Cookbooks
B'nai Mitzvah Items
Once you purchase anything through our store, Amazon.com Gives Back a percentage to CNT! |
|
|
|
|
What's Happening in the Religious School
| |
We will see all the students and families back in class
this coming Sunday, September 15th
|
|
Upcoming Community Events
Anyone interested in attending any of these events as a group,
|
Canned Food Drive for Yom Kippur
As we embark on the year 5774, prepare to fast and become more spiritually connected to G-d and our surroundings, lets take a moment to reflect not only on what we are fortunate enough to have but on what many around us do not have. Please take a few minutes this week to go through your pantry and find some canned goods to donate to the food pantry at JF&CS. These canned goods will go to those in the Jewish Community who are in need of a good meal.
Please bring your canned goods to Yom Kippur Services - either Kol Nidre or the day services.
Shana Tovah,
CNT Social Action Committee
|
|
|
Congregation Ner Tamid's Women's Group Function,
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Please join us for a Women's Group Community Event regarding domestic violence in the home:
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta's Women & Philanthropy Division and Jewish Family & Career Services' Shalom Bayit Program are proud to present a women's community event to educate Jewish women about domestic violence in the home.
The program will include a dramatic production of the play, "Not So Happily Ever After, .the very real stories of some American Jewish families" written by Mira Hirsch for Shalom Bayit of Jewish Family & Career Services, and performed by local Jewish actors in our community. The 30
-minute performance will be followed by an informative discussion about the signs of domestic violence and ways to support family and friends who may be struggling with this important issue. Congregation Ner Tamid Women's Group is proud to be a Host Committee Organization
When:Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Where: GreenfieldHebrewAcademy's Performing Arts Center
5200 Northland Drive, Atlanta, GA 30342
Registration and Refreshments: 6:30 pm
Theatre doors open - open seating: 7:00 pm
Program begins: 7:30 pm
For more information, please go to this website: www.jewishatlanta.org/shalomevent
You will need to sign up on line for $25 to reserve your spot, or tickets will be $36
at the door.
|
| |
Ruach Relay for Life is October 13th and the deadline for Tshirts will be this weekend. Please sign up as soon as possible if you want to participate and receive an event Tshirt.
The Relay is on October 13, 2013 from 1:00PM to 8:30PM at Riverside Park - 575 Riverside Road, Roswell.
Click below for the direct link to sign up for the TNT! Temple Ner Tamid Team.
This will be Ner Tamid's second year to participate in the Ruach Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society. We all know someone who is a cancer survivor or who has lost the battle to cancer. We just lost our mother-in-law, Carol Cyganek to lung cancer. So, please join us in the fight against cancer.
Our team has already raised over $1300, but we need everyone's support. Please sign up and get ready for a fantastic Relay Event! Please email Lisa Meyer - lisamew@gmail.com with any questions.
Click here for a direct link to sign up for the TNT! Temple Ner Tamid Team.
|
|
Adult Education |
Adult Education Announces New Class!
Sunday Morning Class on Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
Congregation Ner Tamid's Adult Education Committee has arranged a six part series led by Rabbi Liebschutz that will explore and discuss the thoughts of some of the major thinkers of the last
100 years in modern Jewish life.
These will include well known names such as Martin Buber, Mordecai M. Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel and lesser known but equally important names of Franz Rosenzweig, Eugene Borowitz, Emil Fackenheim, Arthur A. Cohen and Jacob Agus.
We plan to meet in each other's homes until our new spiritual home is ready. The first class will meet at the home of Marilyn and Rabbi Tom on September 29th from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Everyone is invited but please RSVP in advance to CNT's Adult Education Chairperson, Jule Kagan, at jule88@juno.com or by phone770-499-1950.
The Class text by William E. Kaufman is: "Contemporary Jewish Philosophies." The text is in paper -back. With shipping from Amazon it costs less that $7.00. Those who sign up for the Class will have the text ordered in advance for you by CNT's Adult Education Committee
The dates of this exciting series for the year are:
Sept. 29 - Franz Rosenzweig
Oct. 27 - Martin Buber
Dec. 02 - Eugene B. Borowitz and Emil L. Fackenheim
Feb. 09 - Leo Baeck
Mar. 09 - Abraham J. Heschel
May 04 - Mordecai M. Kaplan |
|
|
William Breman Museum adds concert series
The debut season of the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series will be presented in partnership with the Atlanta Opera to celebrate key role Jews have played in music.
On its face, a concert series celebrating the role Jews have played in different music forms would seem business as usual for a Jewish heritage presenter. But since the Breman's opening in 1996, the belated outgrowth of a 1983 exhibition on Jews in Georgia that suggested the need for an institution to interpret the Jewish experience in the capital of the South, it has largely focused on history and culture exhibits.
Launches Nov. 9m the series is made possible by a grant of an undisclosed amount from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and is named for the opera-loving mother of the Atlanta Falcons owner.
The Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series, featuring Atlanta Opera artists performing in the Breman Museum's 330-seat auditorium, will include:
Nov. 9, 8pm:"Music of the Holocaust: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht."Honoring Jews who lost their lives as a result of the Kristallnacht series of coordinated attacks throughout Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938, the concert will be conducted by Atlanta Opera music director Arthur Fagen, whose parents were saved by Oskar Schindler. The program will feature chamber music interwoven with a selection of visual images and readings prepared by the Breman Museum's Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education. It will include Gideon Klein's String Trio (1944) and Hans Krása's Passacaglia and Fugue for string trio (1944) as well as songs by Isle Weber, Adolf Strauss and Martin Roman.
Jan. 19, 2014, 3pm:"Jewish Composers of the 19th & 20th Centuries." Fagen leads a program (featuring a singer, pianist and string quartet) that includes compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler and Leonard Bernstein.
March 9, 2014, 3pm:"The Best of Broadway,"featuring music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin and Steven Sondheim, conducted by Fagen. A reception with the performers will follow each concert. 1440 Spring St. N.W., Atlanta.
Tickets, $65, available via 678-222-3700, www.thebreman.org/events-n-programs .
|
| |
Save the date!
URJ Camp Coleman announces its first annual 3rd- 6th Grade Retreat for New and Returning Campers to be held October 25-27, 2013.
It will be a weekend of fun, friendship, and memories packed with all kinds of exciting camp activities.
Registration can be found on the homepage of our website under "Quick Links"; register by September 20 for the Early Bird rate!
Visit www.campcoleman.org or email aglass@urj.org for more information.
|
| |
Registration for Taglit-Birthright Israel: Hillel Trips Now Open
Hillel has brought thousands of students to Israel as part of Taglit-Birthright Israel: Hillel trips. We are commited to ensuring the trip is a one-in-a-lifetime Jewish experience!
When participants return from their free trip with Hillel, they can continue their journey - with a myriad of meaningful Jewish experiences all year round.
Trip registration is NOW OPEN.
Please encourage the Jewish 18-26 year olds in your life to register for their free trip today.
http://www.birthrightisrael.com/visitingisrael/Pages/Hillel.aspx
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
