- 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
…o correspond? Would that not strengthen the hint we have of connection? In search of correspondence, I looked around a bit and found an illustration in my edition of the medieval mystical text of the Zohar. The illustration is of the Ten Sefirot – mystical attributes of the one God. The uppermost level, from which all else emanates, is the Divine crown of Keter, the place of more Being than any other being. At the next level appear two Sefirot, Ho…
…30 Jun Pride Month Schmooze with Miryam Kabakov June 30, 2021 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Miryam Kabakov, a former BEKI member and now the executive director of Eshel, which supports and advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Orthodox Jews, […] More Info…
…ng open about something that might be hard depending on context – a Google search turned up coming out as Canadian, as a cancer-survivor, as a neo-con, as an atheist. So this is the meaning of the text: be honest with yourself in all that you do. Lying with a man as with a woman is a metaphor for lying to yourself, (perhaps the English resonance of lying is not coincidental!), for not facing the truth of your life and sharing it with others. If we…
Phone: 203.389.2108 Fax: 203.389.5899 Postal Address: Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel 85 Harrison St. New Haven CT 06515-1724 Office Manager Peggy Hackett Ext. 114 Education Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 President Russell Epstein Rabbi Eric Woodward Ext. 120 Ritual Committee Chairperson Bruce Spierer Youth & Family Programming Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 BEKI Bulletin bulletin@beki.org Cemetery Association cemetery@beki….
…e third Temple and restoring the sacrifices. Unfortunately for some, a few months ago the cow grew two white hairs in her tail, demoting her from the miraculous to the status of mere curiosity. Others, myself included, breathed a sigh of relief that the red heifer didn’t pan out, thus removing the immediate temptation among the faithful to make mischief on the Temple Mount. Nonetheless, there is a deep poignancy to me in the commandments that we,…
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…congregation, and the bulletin editor will include a mazal tov in the next month’s edition. If either of those is a problem for you, just tell us. Rachel Greenberg, the volunteer coordinator of BEKI’s Lotsa Helping Hands program, will consult you about delivery of twice weekly dinners for the two months following birth. Eric Woodward, Rabbi 203-389-2108 x120, rabbi@beki.org Peggy Hackett, Office Manager 203-389-2108 x114, office@beki.org Harriet…
…of all the people. Imagine if the parshah has told us, tribe by tribe, the number of people in each tribe, and separately, the number of males, 20 and up, who were fit for service. Would that kind of census send a different message to us, a message saying, “everyone counts”, including all the women? The second census, what I’ll call the redemption census, I find a strange one. It requires counting of all the male Levites who were at least a month…
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…rip to Israel. There’s really no end to what we can do. I know that in the months and years ahead, under the leadership of our next president Donna Levine and those who follow her, BEKI will thrive and grow, because we will continue to take upon ourselves sacred obligations and pass them to one another. Before closing, I want to express my gratitude to our full-time staff, which is small, dedicated and very gifted. We could not manage without the…
