- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…I’m speaking, of course, about our continuing inability to maintain a twice-daily minyan. Without a quorum of ten, it is not possible to recite qaddish for a loved one and without a minyan, members cannot mark with communal tefilla (recitation of the Amida) the beginning and ending of each day. Imagine it is you that has come to synagogue to observe a Yahrzeit for a loved one, only to find that there are not even nine fellow congregants willing to…
…-haven-synagogue/ http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20170102/police-id-2-killed-in-crash-after-chase-carjacking-in-new-haven http://wtnh.com/2017/01/02/2-dead-in-new-haven-after-carjacking-ends-in-crash/ http://www.wfsb.com/story/34164686/names-of-2-men-killed-in-stolen-suv-synagogue-crash-released http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-new-haven-carjacking-crash-20170102-story.html WTIC (Fox 61). Courant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNj9…
…Hanukat HaBayit LeDavid https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/PdZ-Weekday-1-of-3.mp3 Pesuqei deZimra – Weekday – Part 2 – Yehi Khavod https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/PdZ-Weekday-2-of-3.mp3 Pesuqei deZimra – Weekday – Part 3 – Barukh Adonai Le`Olam https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/PdZ-Weekday-3-of-3.mp3 Rosh Hodesh & Festival Pesuqei deZimra — Psalms & Poetry of Praise Pesuqei deZimra – Shabbat & Festival Additions – Part 1 https…
…She was fit all of her adult life. A person of steady habits, she was well-organized and frugal. Ida also enjoyed being a center of attention, and she was proudly independent. She didn’t need anything. She wouldn’t take medications or use a hearing aid, and she might well not follow the doctor’s orders. Ida was blessed with people who cared about her, and in particular her nephew Richard (& Susan) who maintained a life-long loving relationship, a…
…tion Beth El–Keser Israel. The Congregation’s previous longest-serving full-time rabbi was Rabbi Andrew Klein (at right), of blessed memory, who served from 1951 until his death in 1967, although Rabbi Aaron Shuchatowitz served B’nai Israel (predecessor of Beth El) in an ad hoc capacity for twenty-five years. This past year has been one of continuing development for our Congregation. Here are some of the highlights of the year. For a more extensiv…
…d ask where any blessings began. The first brocha of the Torah comes from G-d. G-d blesses “the great sea monsters, and every living creature that crawls, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged fowl.” G-d blesses them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply,” P’ru urvru. Whatever blessing is, it does not need a human being on either side, as subject or object. G-d repeats this blessing of fruitfulness A few lines later…
…oesn’t tell us whether or how Jonah responds. * * * If the cycle of talking-to-God-about-punishment stories culminates in the Book of Job, what lessons does that book offer for atonement? One lesson hearkens back to the Yom Kippur injunction to become at-one with other people before seeking to become at-one with God. Our central prayer, the Shema, proclaims that God is One. That means not only that God is singular but also that God is all. If we c…
…one tale, for example, the Besht goes out of his way traveling to meet face-to-face with a doctor who had sworn to shoot him.7 In the story about the priest noted above, the Besht takes the initiative, and is careful to confront the problem, and not the person per se. But the dangers of using confrontational tactics for purposes other than reconciliation are suggested in a case in which a decree of martyrdom had been issued in heaven against a cer…
…fairs. For large map see “http://www.passia.org/ palestine_facts/MAPS/ 1923-1948-british-mandate.html”. Notes 1 Abraham Granott, The Land System in Palestine — History and Structure, translated by M. Simon, (London) 1952, p. 87. 2 Granott, 1952, p. 88. 3 Granott, 1952, p. 87. 4 Granott, 1952, p. 90. 5 Granott, 1952, p. 88. Apparently Granott means the dominant form of productive land. 6 Robert H. Eisenman, Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel: A…
…of Syria, who had to execute Gaius’ plan.” Prof. Mulford Q. Sibley, a long-time proponent of nonviolence, has questioned the value of the statue incident as an example of nonviolent resistance on the grounds that the Jews were in such a position of weakness that they had no other realistic choices of responses to Gaius Caligula’s provocation. (In Mulford Q. Sibley, ed., The Quiet Battle — Writings on the Theory and Practice of Non-violent Resista…
