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*Registration opens each week on Tuesday and closes Friday at 12 PM
HIGH HOLY DAY INFORMATION
REGISTER NOW FOR YOUR HIGH HOLY DAY SEATS
In order for your request to be considered for High Holy Day seats you must fill out the survey entirely.
Click below to fill it out HIGH HOLIDAY SEATING REQUEST FORM
REGISTRATION ENDS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 AT 5:00 PM
Please visit - www.beby.org/hhd for all High Holy Day service times, as well as the Shofar sounding schedule Please note: if you are attending services in person - you must either wear your tallit or bring it in a clear plastic bag. Please be prepared to open your purse for inpsection.
BEBY LIVESTREAM You are encouraged to try to log in to your personal account through our website at beby.org. This is how you will access the livestream for the high holidays so it is important that you are comfortable doing so.Click here for instructions to log into your account
Also, we want your feedback. If you have followed our livestreamed services and have feedback you'd like to share please contact the office.
8:30 PM - Kolot Nashim (Women's Voices) Workshop - A Journey to the Days of Awe Click here to register Where: Zoom link will be made available to registered attendees only
6:00 PM - Kabbalat Shabbat service featuring Cantor Glantz Mincha, Reading of the Shabbat Yahrzeits, and Kabbalat Shabbat (up to and including L'cha dodi) Where: FACEBOOK LIVEorZOOM
7:25 PM - Mincha/Maariv Where: FACEBOOK LIVEZOOM Sponsor:Mincha/Maariv is sponsored this evening by Gail & Howard Bergman, Sam Borenstein, and Jack Borenstein and families in loving memory of our dear mother, wife and grandmother Tiffy Borenstein ז״ל
3:30 PM - Virtual Coffee and Conversation Join us in our virtual cafe. What are you doing during the day? Did you watch any good movies or TV series? Did you make a great recipe? How are you feeling? Say hello to your friends. Where: ZOOM
7:30 PM - Continuing Education and Music Committees presents Howard Mednick The Classical Music DJ - Leonard Bernstein Part 1 – Conductor, Teacher, Performer, Composer Click to register Where: ZOOM Sponsor: Bernice Levine in honour of her children and grandchildren
9:30 AM - Tefillah Training with Rabbi David Where: ZOOM
12:00 PM - Rabbi Morrison's Study Class - Navigating The High Holy Day Machzor During The Pandemic Where: ZOOM
1:30 PM - Virtual Book Club - So What Are You Reading Now? Join us for an informal chat about what you're reading. Share the author, title, and a few words about your book. If you're not reading anything you can still join us for inspiration. Where: ZOOM
3:30 PM - Virtual Coffee and Conversation Join us in our virtual cafe. What are you doing during the day? Did you watch any good movies or TV series? Did you make a great recipe? How are you feeling? Say hello to your friends. Where: ZOOM
8:00 PM - Stand With Us - Combating Anti-Semitism Click to register An online workshop and discussion for students in grades 11, 12 and university Where: Zoom Link will be made available to registered attendees
6:00 PM - Kabbalat Shabbat service Mincha, Reading of the Shabbat Yahrzeits, and Kabbalat Shabbat (up to and including L'cha dodi) Where: FACEBOOK LIVEorZOOM
7:15 PM - Candle Lighting
Click here for a version of kaddish that can be said without a minyan
FROM RABBI MORRISON
A Rabbinical Memory
Dear Congregational Family,
Thirty-four years ago this week, I celebrated a special occasion in my rabbinical life. My alma mater, The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), had a particular practice for last year rabbinical students. Each one had to deliver a sermon on a Shabbat morning before faculty, fellow students, and family. Called the "senior sermon," this was an initiation right of passage leading to eventual ordination as a Rabbi.
During the preceding Spring and Summer weeks, the school administration placed the names of the weekly Torah portions in one basket and the names of the senior class students in another basket. A lottery decided the parsha assignment for each student.
While Parshat Ki-Tavo appears toward the end of the Torah, it was the first Shabbat portion of the 1986-87 academic year. My name was selected with this Parsha.
Ironically, Ki-Tavo begins with a ritual containing baskets. Upon entry to the Promised Land, the Israelites would express gratitude for the Spring harvest by bringing bikurim, first fruits, in a basket to the Tabernacle.
Now, thirty-four years after delivering my senior sermon, I continue to be grateful for all the baskets of gifts in my life, which include my health, my family, my friends, my acquaintances, and for the last twenty years, my Beth Emeth community.
Literally, Ki-Tavo means, "When you enter." In less than three weeks, we will enter a new year. I encourage all our members to renew your memberships now and make arrangements to join our High Holy Day services either in person and/or via livestream.
Let us express our gratitude for being part of our sacred congregation by doing our part in ensuring our community's future.
We would like to clarify that members over 65 are welcome to join in-person services, as long as they pre-register and meet the health criteria established
This year we will be using the Birnbaum Machzor for services during the High Holy Days. You may pick up a copy outside of the Wilmington (parking lot) entrance Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm and Friday 9am - 2pm.
Weather permitting. PLEASE NOTE THESE BOOKS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED
Volunteers Needed
We are looking for volunteers to assist during services to ensure compliance with our COVID protocols. In order to ensure the safety of those attending services we require two to three volunteers at each service. If you have time and are looking for a way to help out in these times, please email Eric at ritual@beby.org
Training will be provided to our volunteers. For high school students who volunteer, community service hours are also available.
Rona Priemer and family on the loss of her father Sollie Finklestein ז״ל
Sandy Silver and family on the loss of her father Sollie Finklestein ז״ל
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
Rosh Hashanah is fast approaching!
This year it falls on September 18-20.
Please make arrangements to renew your membership! Call the office or renew online.
Visit our membership pagefor instructions on how to log in to your account. You are then able to view your balance and pay your membership dues.
OUTREACH COMMUNITY PROJECT
We hope to provide access to our livesteam to seniors in our community, as well as retirement residences. If you have working tablets, laptops or can donate airmiles for us to purchase some, please contact the office at 416-633-3838
JOIN THE BEBY BOARD Interested in getting involved?
We're looking for fresh faces and new ideas.
Contact Allan Snow pastprez@beby.org
if you'd like to discuss standing for election.
Do you have photos or video clips of events or simchas that took place at Beth Emeth? Please share with us at marketing@beby.org
Would you like a misheberach said for someone who is ill?
Please email Rabbi David
BECOME A SPONSOR
In our new norm with online Clergy led private services, Divrei Torah, Torah Readings, Cantorial Music, Rabbi Lectures and Classes, you too can also sponsor one of these weekly online live sessions in honour of your Simchas or in memory of your loved ones for a donation of $54.
Your generous sponsorship will be included in the weekly e-blast, as well as mentioned by the clergy at the beginning and end of the online live session you are sponsoring. While we are temporarily closed due to this health crisis, it is imperative we continue to keep our synagogue operating at this time thereby ensuring we are able to once again open our doors to you - our dedicated members, and to the Jewish community when it is viable to do so.
The Executive, Board and Clergy thank you for your continued support during this difficult time. Best wishes for a healthy and safe Shabbat.
