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January 24th, 2015 - 4th of Sh'vat, 5775
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Candlelighting: 4:49 pm Havdalah: 5:52 pm
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Saturday after kiddush there will be a brief presentation on how the Ruth Fund program worked last year at the summer school for immigrant workers. Brett Frayseth, a teacher in that school, will describe how the program worked, how it was received, and our hopes for the future.
We anticipate that the farmers from My MN Farmer, the CSA that partnered with us, will be there to give their perspective on the backpack program, and talk about their farm and CSAs in general.
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An Introduction to Classic Jewish Texts
 Want to jump-start your knowledge of basic Jewish learning? Discover the foundations of Judaism? Come to learn about classic texts. You may come to just one, some of them, or all of them. No need to register- just show up! - Jan. 25 The TALMUD (Mishna/Gemara) - Emily Filler
- Feb. 1 The MIDRASH - Louis Newman
- Feb. 15 The HAGGADAH - Earl Schwartz
- Feb. 22 The SIDDUR - Rabbi Shosh Dworsky
This class is free and open to the community.
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Last Shabbat of the Month!
After Kiddush at 12:45 pm
Everyone truly is welcome! Sing to praise G-d, to open your heart, to make something beautiful together, or all of the above. The focus is on liturgical songs with harmony, chants, rounds, and niggunim.
Please volunteer to lead a song or make a song request a week and a half ahead of the date, so Aaron Hodge Silver, our songbook designer, can get it ready. Questions, comments, requests, and to VOLUNTEER TO LEAD A SONG, call or e-mail Pam Winthrop Lauer: wpdj@usfamily.net, 952-432-7038.
Childcare will be available.
*Ozi v'Zimrat Yah = G-d is my Strength and my Song.
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Contemplative Chanting
With Sara Lynn Newberger & Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman
Second Thursdays of the Month | 7-8 PM at Beth Jacob
(2/12, 3/12, 5/14, and 6/11)

Singing is a physical experience, involving breath and muscles, ears and mouths. When we are touched by the music, the whole of our bodies come into play. When we sing with others, we are connected by and within the music. In chanting, we sing a melody multiple time giving us time to enter the chant as its melody (and words) enter us, feeling ever more deeply the effect of the music in each repetition. Chanting is a form of meditation that opens the doors of the heart, it focuses attention on the present moment, the place where the Divine Presence can be experienced. Whether wordless or with words, repetition of the chant helps clear the mind of chatter, and connects us to each other and the Divine. Allowing some quiet between the chants or niggunim enables us to absorb the energy of the chant.
Join us on Thursday evenings as we ready our hearts for Shabbat. No experience or prior knowledge is required. Co-sponsored with Hineini, A Center for Adult Jewish Learning and Contemplative Practices at the Talmud Torah of St. Paul. There is no set cost for these sessions, though donations will be accepted.
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Sunday, February 8; Sunday, February 15
10 am - 1 pm
Help bake Hamentaschen for Purim- we need your help! No experience necessary!
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We need you for this year's Purim Shpiel! First rehearsal is January 22 from 7-9. No experience or skill necessary, just a desire to have fun!
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Calling women who wear kippot:
Want to participate in a large-scale survey for women who wear kippot? Email Helana Darwin with "kippah" in the subject line (helana.darwin@gmail.com) and she'll send you her survey.
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Introducing Tefillah Notes
Tefillah Notes: a project of the Beth Jacob Tefillah Team

Our community yearns to learn about tefillah. To deepen our understanding of Jewish prayer, we are launching Tefillah Notes as an ongoing initiative this February. Each week, someone in our community will choose a particular prayer or psalm from the Shabbat morning service, explore it, and then put together Tefillah Notes with commentaries that will allow all of us to consider that prayer from multiple perspectives (you'll fill in a straightforward online form to set it all up). We'll collect the Tefillah Notes online and distribute them in shul, so all of us will have the opportunity to learn each week (look for the Tefillah Notes corner in the weekly email). With the new addition of a tefillah section to our library (take a look, and remember: library use only!), any one of us can put together a source sheet or deepen our own learning on the liturgy we say together every week. We hope you'll join this initiative- by picking up the Tefillah Notes to read or by volunteering to create one (or more!) yourself. Want to learn more? Or get involved? E-mail Ann Silver and Jonathan Ehrlich at tefillahnotes@beth-jacob.org.
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 Adult Jewish Learning
Ongoing Classes
 Monday Night Talmud Class With Rabbi Allen
7:00 Pre-learning Schmooze and Munch
7:15 Class Begins
Study the words and thoughts of Rabbinic tradition as a living text in our modern world.  Parashat HaShavuah: Tuesday Afternoons With Rabbi Allen from 3-4 pm Study of this week's Torah portion.
 Bracha and Bagel: Wednesday Mornings With Rabbi Kippley-Ogman after Minyan Our learning chug (circle) meets for half an hour over breakfast, digging into rabbinic text related to the cycle of the Jewish year.
Jew in the Pew: Saturday Mornings With Rabbi Lynn Liberman - 9:15-10 am
Join Rabbi Lynn Liberman to discuss the weekly Torah portion through the lens of thought-provoking commentaries.
Class meets on 2nd & 4th Saturday mornings in the chapel.
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