The synagogue office closes at NOON today, Friday, September 15th We are making every effort to ensure that all our members receive the information they need to participate in the Rosh Hashanah services. Please be aware that no new arrangements can be made once the office is closed.
🕯🕯Candlelighting Friday September 15 at 7:10 pm 🕯🕯 Candlelighting Saturday September 16 at 8:08 pm 🕯Yom Tov Ends Sunday September 17: 8:07 pm
Click here for the full High Holy Day Service Schedule. Click here to download a pdf. The High Holy Day Livestream link has been emailed to all members. It is also available in the Member's Portal in your ShulCloud account.
Kabbalat Shabbat/Erev Rosh Hashanah Day I Friday, September 15 at 6:00 pm • In-Person & Livestream
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Shabbat Rosh Hashanah Day I Main Services Saturday, September 16 at 9:00 pm • In-Person & Livestream
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Minhah-Ma'ariv Saturday September 16 at 6:00 pm In-Person & Livestream
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Rosh Hashanah Day II Main Services Sunday, September 17 at 9:00 pm • In-Person & Livestream
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Minhah-Ma'ariv-Havdallah Sunday September 17 at 7:30 pm In-Person & Livestream
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💦TASHLICH💦Thursday, September 29th at 6:30 pm
Tailgate Tashlich and Minha-Ma'ariv at the Don River: !Pizza & Snacks! Click here for details and registration.
Rosh Hashanah Message from Michael Rubin
Dear Beth David Family,
Although we will not read the entire Parashah of Haa’zinu until Shabbat Shuvah, next week, I find something wonderfully relevant about the nature of the text and its format as we are about to begin the New Year. Ha’azinu is written as a song – “shira” – and structured in two narrow columns in the same place as the usual single column for the Torah text. No less significant, there is a beautiful metre to the verses, as in many traditional poetry formats, and the reading flows smoothly and mantra-like...but for only so long. Every few verses, there is a halting element of trope/chant, forcing us to pause before continuing with the comforting rhythm. It is as if the Torah is suggesting that, while the song encourages us to ease into its flow, we shouldn’t get too comfortable, and neglect the requisite focus on content and the need to explore.
With Rosh HaShanah on our doorstep, or as we stand on the threshold of the New Year, we would do well to find a sustainable balance between remaining in the comfort and familiarity of our High Holy Day traditions, chants, and melodies, and the potential of pausing every so often to consider how we might renew our experience with a new rhythm, a fresh tune - perhaps a temporarily jolting moment - yet one with the promise of a new and no less meaningful and satisfying pace and path.
Wishing you all a New Year of good health, peace, and just the right measure of displacement.
Michael, Iris, and Elah
We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.
George Abrahamson Bella Abramson Melanie Aronowich William Ash Baruch Bardenstein Ida Bidnowitz Carmel Bloom Albert Bossin Menashe Brodsky Ida Charney Morris Chelsky Jack Chinsky Rayna Collin Ben Cooper Howard Davis Faiga Don Gittel Don Hannah Rivka Don Abraham Hershel Don Nachman Don Arieh Don Chaya Don William Dunn Evelyn Estrin Raymond Feiler Margaret Feldt Harold Feuer Mordechai Feuerwerker Elizabeth Fine-Gagne Rosalia Finkelstein Martin Fisher
Albert Freedlander Fanny Fried Sylvia Friedman Ruth Goldbloom Temy Goldhar Samuel Goldmintz Alex Gordon Goldie Hammer Rose Heisel Ena Herman Sidney Hoffman Harold Holtzman Robert Iseman Lawrence Kabot Sonia Kagan Jack Kruger Eliasz Kupinsky David Lester Latowsky Gedaliah Lazar Gussie Leiberman David Asher Lewis William Lightman Michael David Lockett Hirsh Wolfe Luft Harry Mandelbaum Bertha Manilla Karin Lee Missulawin Fanny Noble Miriam Ofseyer Esther Elise Pasternack William Pearl
Jack Podatt Lillie Resnick Annabelle Salzberger Aaron Samson Blanche Schwartz Charles Shacter Rachel Shapiro Marc Sherman Anne Shub Ruth Shulman Ted Shute Minnie Silverberg Morris Silverman Annie Smith Imre Jack Smith Pearl Soloway Rivka Sonshine Yitzchak Sonshine Solomon Spring Edith Stillman Wolf Tenenbaum David Title Eva Tozman Bea Tytel Sheldon Vanek Jacob Vanek Nettie Wasserman Samuel David Wasserman Jeno Weisz Max Wosnick Marco Zevy
WEEKDAY SERVICES (Monday, Sept 18 to Friday, Sept 22)
Mornings: Mon to Fri at 7:30AM • Evenings: Monday to Thursday at 7:00PM
MINYAN SPONSORS
Monday, September 18th afternoon minyan Linda & Alan Ennis in memory of Linda's beloved father Wolf Tenenbaum & Jacquie & Harold Oppenheimer in memory of Jacquie's mother Fanny Fried
Tuesday September 19th morning minyan Linda & Alan Ennis in memory of Linda's dear father Wolf Tenenbaum
Sukkot begins the evening of Friday, September 29th. Shemini Atzeret begins the evening of Friday, October 6th and ends the evening of Saturday, October 7th. Simhat Torah begins the evening of October 7th and ends the evening of October 8th, 2023.
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Sukkah Decorating with our Shinshinim Elay and Tamar: Wednesday Sept 27, 3:30pm Beth David Women “Tea for 2” in the Sukkah Tuesday Oct 3, 2:00pm Shemini Atzeret Dedication of Memorial Plaques: Saturday morning Oct 7: 9:00am Kids Shabbat Program with Shinshinim: Elay and Tamar Simhat Torah Honouring our Hatan & Kallat Torah/Breishit: Saturday morning Oct 8, 9:00am
More details about Sukkot 5784 at Beth David coming soon.
CONTACT THE SHUL For emergencies please call the office at 416-633-5500 and listen to the instructions.
Philip S. Scheim Rabbi Emeritus rabbischeim@bethdavid.com
Marshall Loomer Cantor cantor@bethdavid.com
Michael Rubin Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual mrubin@bethdavid.com
Ian Borer, Executive Director 416-633-5500 ext. 22 ian@bethdavid.com
Rebecca Joffe, Program and Communications Manager 647-632-9156 rebecca@bethdavid.com
Adina Krupnik, Youth and Family Engagement Coordinator 647-278-4259 adina@bethdavid.com
Helene Jacobs, Administrator 437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com
Silvia Lulka, President president@bethdavid.com Heather Goldberg, VP Finance & Administration | Isaac Szpindel, VP Programming and Ritual Bram Zinman, VP House & Property | Rosalie Selick, Secretary | Greg Tugg, Treasurer Marty Feldman, Chair of the Board | Igor Ellyn, Past President
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