Community-Wide
Selichot Service
Parshat
Nitzavim-Vayelech
Some look to religion to transmit a sense of the majesty of the past.
Traditions, because they come to us from a purer time, embody fragile vessels carrying remnants of a lost insight.
Such a view of Judaism correctly perceives the treasures of our ancestors' seeking and recording their relationship with God. But it errs in transforming the record of that search into a type of fossil, a brittle relic that can only be passed from hand to hand, without any direct contribution from the viewer.
Such an idolization of the past removes God from the theater of our own lives, and threatens to trivialize the worth of our own continuing journeys, to ignore the harvest of our own insight and response. The Torah itself rejects this excessive veneration of the past.
In clear terms, Moses tells the Jewish People, "You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God . . . to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is concluding with you this day . . . that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God."
Three times, Moses stresses the phrase, "this day," emphasizing the contemporaneity of God's outreach to the Jewish People. Rashi notices this repetition, and comments that the chorus of "this day" indicates that, "just as this
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May Their Memories Be For a Blessing
SEPTEMBER YAHRTZEITS
Lawrence Sklar
Mary Friedman
Lawrence Sklar
Ida Goode
Sophie Blau Konek
Robert Nusholtz
Malkah Muchkies
Nathan (Bob) Crone
Tillie Kershenbaum
Abraham Lewis
Louis Glazier
Moishe Haar
Ruth Elbling
Paul Feiner
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SHABBAT SHALOM!
Shabbat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Friday, September 19th
6 p.m. SANCTUARY
9 a.m. Services,
Sanctuary
10 a.m. Supervised Youth Room, lower level
This Shabbat we celebrate with Benjamin Rosenberg and his family as he becomes a bar mitzvah. Benji is the son of Karen and Howard Rosenberg, and brother of Jeremy, Maya and Elan. Benji is also the grandson of Sheryl and Milton Gordon and Pessie and Al Rosenberg.
Kiddush Lunch is sponsored by Karen and Howard Rosenberg in honor of their son Benjamin becoming a bar mitzvah. Kiddush Lunch is also sponsored by Benji's grandparents, Sheryl and Milton Gordon and Pessie and Al Rosenberg.
Learn High Holiday melodies this Shabbat in the chapel, immediately before minha.
*Kiddush Lunch is available through donations to the Kiddush Lunch Fund, the generosity of weekly sponsors, and volunteer efforts of our congregants and regular attendees. Please e-mail or call the synagogue office if you would like to sponsor a kiddush lunch. To sponsor as part of a "group," please e-mail Joanna Abramson or Mindy Shuback. You may also make a donation to the Kiddush Lunch Fund by clicking here.
FINAL SATURDAY NIGHT LEARNING. Making Sense of the Mahzor (part III oF III), September 20th, 5:30-7 p.m. at the home of Mindy and Fred Shuback. Please rsvp here.
HIGH HOLIDAY SET UP BEGINS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1 p.m. at Covenant Baptist Church.PLEASE E-MAIL JOHN MARCOTTE if you can assist in set-up, or to sign up for additional help that is needed.
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Upcoming Youth and Family Activities
ATTENTION PARENTS:
Your help is needed in our youth rooms for the high holidays. PLEASE
E-MAIL VICKI FREEDMAN to assist in the youth rooms on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Thank you in advance for your participation.
D'var Torah Cocoa Cafe (8-12 graders) and Shabbat Children's Workshop (ages 7-12) have returned!
11 a.m., lower level.
Future dates: 10/18, 11/8, 12/76, 1/10, 2/7, 3/7, 4/11, 5/9
To stay current on all youth and family activities, contact Ilana Glazier to join the B'nai Israel Families Facebook Group.
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Adult Education
"Making Sense of the Machzor"
A 3-Part Series as part of SNL, Saturday Night Learning
Shabbat, September 20 - 5:30 pm
Prepare for the Yamim Noraim as we wrap up the season's Saturday Night Learning sessions.
Adult Shabbat morning study with Dr. Mitch Parker
"Reflections on the Siddur: Hallel, Birkat Hamazon and Beyond" 11 a.m., lower level
Future dates: 10/18, 11/8, 11/22, 12/6, 12/20, 1/10, 1/24, 2/7, 2/21, 3/7, 3/21, 4/11, 4/25, 5/9, 5/23.
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Mazel Tov

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS
18 Daniel Chudnow
19 Carol Wiseman
19 Karyn Zeff
20 Madeline Jacobson
20 Edith Kozlowski
20 Samuel Saperstein
23 Allan Lovinger
25 Frances Chudnow
27 Erika Finn
27 Warren Lada
If your birthday or anniversary information is not listed, please email the synagogue so we can update our records.
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Caring Community Information
Refuah Sh'leimah/Wishing a Speedy Recovery.
Please e-mail Michael Golob or call the synagogue: 248-432-2729 to add a name to our communal mishebeirach list.
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