Upcoming Events for October

Thursday, October 4:
9:45 p.m. Shemini Atzeret services - Yizkor
6 p.m. Midrasha students help lead Simchat Torah services.
6:30 p.m. Erev Simchat Torah services; Consecration of new Hebrew school students. Followed by vegetarian⁄dairy potluck dinner in the sukkah.

Friday, October 5–9:45 p.m. Simchat Torah services

Sunday, October 7 through Wednesday, October 10
10 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Beth Shalom's Gently Used Women & Children's Designer Clothing Sale–Social Hall

Wednesday, October 10:
7:00 p.m. Eastern European Trip Meeting at the JCC. Anyone interested in going on the Eastern European trip, May 25 through June 4, 2008, please attend this meeting. We will be visiting Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest and Prague. Itinerary and pricing will be discussed at this time.further information please call Minda Miller at 788-1280.
7:30 p.m. Board of Directors meeting in the library.

Sunday, October 14:
10:00 a.m. 6th Grade Family Education program, “B’nai Mitzvah Nuts and Bolts.”
6:00 p.m. TRADITIONS DINNER. Plan to be with your Beth Shalom family as we honor Rose and Harold Kline and as we celebrate our traditions of old and some, not so old. This will be a wonderful evening at the Embassy Suites Hotel, full of favorite music, special foods, and an additional surprise. We come together to celebrate and honor the contributions given to Beth Shalom by Rose and Harold Kline over their many years here at Beth Shalom. You will not want to miss this occasion, so be sure to mark you calendars with the date, OCTOBER 14, 2007 and more information will be forthcoming.

Wednesday, October 17–7:00 p.m. Jewish Women’s Book Club meeting in the library.

Friday, October 19–6:30 p.m. Evie Needle Bat Mitzvah

Saturday, October 20–9:45 a.m. Evie Needle Bat Mitzvah

Sunday, October 21–10:00 a.m. 1st & 2nd Grade Family Education program.

Thursday, October 25:
5 p.m. Harvest Hope Food Bank project-Volunteers will staff the emergency food pantry (2220 Shop Road).
6 p.m. Midrasha

Friday, October 26–6:30 p.m. Shabbat evening family services following by a Family Shabbat dinner. Details are in your October bulletin to RSVP….

Tikkun olam:

Through the Kol Nidre Appeal this year, we raised approximately $1500 in charity. Our contribution went to “Mazon: A Jewish response to hunger,” which supports groups here and abroad, Jewish and non-Jewish, that fight hunger and poverty. In our own community, Mazon supports Harvest hope as well as the Appleseed legal justice Center. Yashar Coah!

Polar bears are facing possible extinction from rising temperatures, and the EPA continues to block global warming controls on tailpipes. California and 14 other states – accounting for more than 40 percent of new car sales – are prepared to fight global warming by putting cleaner car standards in place. Tell the EPA to give California permission to lead the way! www.nrdconline.org⁄campaign⁄EPA_Global_Warming.
Airlines expose children to horrifically violent and otherwise inappropriate (and downright scary) movies during commercial flights. Visit www.kidsafefilms.org, and sign their petition to get kid-inappropriate films off of commercial airline flights. Please pass along the link to anybody you know.
Happen to have an extra car? Northeast Wheels is seeking automobiles to transport seniors and adults with disabilities who reside in the Northeast. Volunteer drivers will transport them to places in the Northeast so that they can remain independent. Please call Roger Cranford at 779-1971 x 17.

Texts:

The six days of creation embody the whole of history, for the world shall exist six thousand years (Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 31a); which is why it is said that "G-d's day is a thousand years" (Midrash Rabbah).

Zohar I:30a: “The world was created in two modes, by the right and by the left, by six transcendent ‘days’. Six days were fashioned to radiate, as it is said: Six days YHVH made, heaven and earth (Ex 31:17). These dug pathways and drilled sixty holes into the immense abyss–hollows conducting the water of streams into the abyss [i.e. the Shehina]. So we have learned: “The hollows were formed from the six days of creation,” constituting peace for the world.