- 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
…e Day of God, and that God created everything in all its potential on that Day. From that day on, it follows that, as my daughter Sarah has recently begun quoting Martin Buber in the tag line to her email messages — To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover. **************** In addition to learning and teaching, I also increased my involvement in various BEKI projects. I would like to focus on two – the removal of…
…ced on its own roof-top arrays. The breadth and quality of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, as the number of minors in the Congregation grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morning includes simultaneous programs or services for children and youth, as well as youth participating in the main service and Shabbat Shalom Torah Study. George G. Posener with Leah z”l A significant gift by S…
…The rabbi, who is leading me through this meditative journey, says to me, “Look inside. What do you see?” I look through the windows, the panes are dusty, but I can see a group of maybe five or six old men. They have long beards and long black coats and they are all huddled over a big book. “Can they see you?” she asks me. “Do they know you’re there?” Yes, they know I’m there. But they won’t look at me and they don’t let me in. “Listen to them the…
…travel by any means can be accomplished safely. Federal Holidays & Special Days Sunday and weekday morning services 9:00a (not 7:00a) on the following Federal Holidays: 1 January (observed day), Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day (Fourth of July), Labor Day Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday, and 25 December (observed day). No Afternoon or Evening services on Thanksgiving and first and second nights of Passover unless otherwi…
…h the functions of the priests; that is to say, it deals with the tangible day-to-day reality of the Jewish religion while the Temple stood. The rest of the Torah has historical, philosophical, and legal interest to Jews of the Temple period, but VaYiqra, as a guidebook to sacrifice and the atonement of sin, contained an immediate, practical, concrete blueprint for how to get right with God. This was the owner’s manual of the Jewish way of being i…
…(Deuteronomy 29) – It does not say, “that are not here standing with us today,” but rather “with us today.” Those future souls who weren’t yet created weren’t actually standing. Although they did not yet exist, still each one received their share of the Torah…and not only all the prophets received their prophecy from hbhx rv but even the scholars who arise in every generation, each one of them received theirs from Sinai. All the people – all Jews…
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…le to carry the effort to the finish. I also think we need to realize that day-to-day decisions we make, attitudes that we express, actions we take play a role in this effort. What decision do we make if we are asked to help make a men’s only Minyan in a shul with a mechizah separating the genders? That is a tough call when someone needs that Minyan to say kaddish, or that shul is where your cousin’s son’s bar-mitzvah celebration is occurring, bec…
…their own Hanukia, and each lights a number of lights corresponding to the number of the day of the holiday. We are fortunate that we are able to do this mitzva in such a complete and beautiful way. But what of the poor person who can not afford all of this “hidur mitzva” but must struggle to light even one lamp? The Mishna Berura, written at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Hafetz Hayim, comments on the section of the Shulhan Arukh c…
…acknowledge the feelings and let them pass. But let me return to the first days and tell you what else helped me with my feelings – this Congregation. From so many of you we received an immediate outpouring of expressions and acts of lovingkindness. My family and I felt surrounded with love and support. Thank you all. Please help us again, this time by passing along our thanks to the number of congregants who are away this weekend of Thanksgiving,…
