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| Sukkot Starts Sunday Night!
Complete schedule below
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READ MORE ABOUT SUKKOT
Note: holidays start on the evening before the secular date listed
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This is a busy time of year. There is so much to cram into the few days between Yom Kippur and Sukkot. We build a sukkah, purchase and prepare our lulav and etrog sets, and make sure that everything else is ready for the holiday, which our sages refer to as “the time of our rejoicing.”
What is so joyful about Sukkot? A lot of it had to do with an ancient ritual our ancestors would carry out in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, in which they would pour water onto the altar. The chassidic masters explain that the water celebration signifies a joy caused by a connection to G‑d so deep and so true that, like water, it has no describable taste. And like water, it sustains all life.
So let’s be happy, and bask in the loving embrace of the Sukkah with joy!
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Order your Lulav and Etrog Set asap! |
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Purchase your own Lulav and Etrog set!
Call 703-426-1980 and order yours today
or, order it on-line!
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Torah Discussion - Thursday Nights - Will Resume October 11 |
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Thursday Nights - 8:00 pm
An inspirational weekly discussion on the Torah portion including both captivating insights into the parsha, and practical advice, led by Rabbi Deitsch
These classes will resume after the holidays, October 11
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Shabbat Times
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Friday, Sep 21
6:50 pm
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Shabbat, Sep 22
7:45 pm
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Sunday, Sep 23
6:46 pm
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Monday, Sep 24
7:42 pm
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Tuesday, Sep 25
7:41 pm
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Kiddush Sponsor
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This week's kiddush is sponsored by Melinda and Eric, in honor of Melinda's first grandchild, Eitan Zalman named for Melinda's father, Zalman been Dov; and Jean Herskowitz on the occasion of her father's yahrtzeit
Consider marking an occasion! Go online here, or call the office!
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What's Happening?
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Kiddush Sponsor: Rozenman & Herzkowitz
Sep. 22, 2018
The birth of Melinda's first grandson, Eitan Zalman, named for Zalman ben Dov, Melinda's father; and Jean Herskowitz on the occasion of her father's yahrtzeit
Mind2Mind Learning
Oct. 10, 2018 - 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join one of our personalized study groups and maximize your learning potential. Groups focused on Jewish Mysticism, the weekly Torah portion, Intro Talmud, Advanced Talmud, and a special women's class.
Torah and Tea
Oct. 11, 2018 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join Raizel to dive into the ancient holy words of the Torah to discover insightful and contemporary lessons on how to direct the struggles and challenges in our lives into reservoirs of strength and inspiration.
Weekly Parsha Discussion
Oct. 11, 2018 - 8:00 pm
Join us for an insightful torah discussion relating the parsha of the week to our daily lives— led by Rabbi Deitsch
JLI: Wrestling with Faith
Oct. 15, 2018 - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Most people, even the devout, struggle with beliefs about G‑d. It is easy, e.g., to affirm the basic tenets of Judaism during a prayer service, but when it comes to trusting G‑d with our daily decisions, many share a secret, painful fear that G‑d isn’t really looking out for them. Many of us have been brought up under the assumption that mainstream science is incompatible with our Jewish faith. So, e.g., when we see compelling evidence for biological evolution, we feel forced to choose between science and our faith. Wrestling with Faith was created to tackle questions like these—the “big issues” that keep people from an intimate relationship with G‑d. The course acknowledges the unspoken doubts and fears that all people share, and seizes their invitation for us to dig deeper for answers.
More Info »
Mind2Mind Learning
Oct. 17, 2018 - 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join one of our personalized study groups and maximize your learning potential. Groups focused on Jewish Mysticism, the weekly Torah portion, Intro Talmud, Advanced Talmud, and a special women's class.
Torah and Tea
Oct. 18, 2018 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join Raizel to dive into the ancient holy words of the Torah to discover insightful and contemporary lessons on how to direct the struggles and challenges in our lives into reservoirs of strength and inspiration.
Weekly Parsha Discussion
Oct. 18, 2018 - 8:00 pm
Join us for an insightful torah discussion relating the parsha of the week to our daily lives— led by Rabbi Deitsch
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Real Meaning
In the end, have you actually changed the past?
The events of the past have not changed and neither has their sequence. The objects, the subjects—all remains as all was.
But their meaning is now vastly different. And that is all that really matters. Because nothing is real in this world, all is transient, here only for now, vanished in a time later, all except for meaning.
The meaning of each event, that is forever. And according to where you take those events, so will be their meaning.
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Sukkot |
 13 Facts About Sukkot Every Jew Should Know
Sukkot in a weeklong festival celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the lulav and etrog and joyous feasting.
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Parshah |
 Finding Our Song
Life, as we all know, is not a Disney movie, and home is not a Disney resort. With all of its suffering, stresses and tests, however, real life is still one colossal ride.
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 Sukkot: Oneness in Many
The "four kinds" taken on Sukkot are each very different, yet in their different-ness they teach us a profound lesson in oneness.
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Parshat Ha'Azinu
The greater part of the Torah reading of Haazinu (“Listen In”) consists of a 70-line “ song” delivered by Moses to the people of Israel on the last day of his earthly life.
Calling heaven and earth as witnesses, Moses exhorts the people, “ Remember the days of old / Consider the years of many generations / Ask your father, and he will recount it to you / Your elders, and they will tell you” how G‑d “found them in a desert land,” made them a people, chose them as His own, and bequeathed them a bountiful land. The song also warns against the pitfalls of plenty—“Yeshurun grew fat and kicked / You have grown fat, thick and rotund / He forsook G‑d who made him / And spurned the Rock of his salvation”—and the terrible calamities that would result, which Moses describes as G‑d “ hiding His face.” Yet in the end, he promises, G‑d will avenge the blood of His servants, and be reconciled with His people and land.
The Parshah concludes with G‑d’s instruction to Moses to ascend the summit of Mount Nebo, from which he will behold the Promised Land before dying on the mountain. “For you shall see the land opposite you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the children of Israel.”
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