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FROM WEEPING TO DANCING
October 1, 2019
Rabbi Linda Potemken
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These holidays invite in a wide range of human emotions. We began on Tisha B’Av, sitting on the floor in tears over historic and contemporary tragedies - encountering the destruction of the Temple through Lamentations and the calamity of injustice to migrants through empathy and protest. The High Holidays, the days of awe, are just that - awesome days to engage existential questions, hopes, fears and to continue to right our wrongs. We pray, we confess, we aspire, we mourn. By Sukkot, after working hard on teshuvah, we are invited to celebrate. These are happy days where we engage nature, hospitality and gratitude. We conclude with Simhat Torah where we dance joyfully with a Torah in our arms and get ready to begin again - to move into a new year, refreshed by prayer, catharsis, thoughtful engagement, caring community and provocative Torah. Psalm 30 teaches that God turns our weeping into dancing. This season is a model for how to do just that.
Fri, May 17 2024
9 Iyyar 5784
Today's Calendar
Shabbat Services with Rabbi Nathan (on Zoom) : 7:30pm |
Candle Lighting : 7:54pm |
Upcoming Programs & Events
May 17 Shabbat Services with Rabbi Nathan (on Zoom) Friday, May 17 7:30pm |
May 18 |
May 19 Hebrew School Closing Session Sunday, May 19 9:30am |
May 19 Congregational Meeting (in person in the sanctuary) Sunday, May 19 10:00am |
May 19 Rosh Chodesh Meeting (in person at Beth Israel) Sunday, May 19 12:00pm |
This week's Torah portion is Parshat Emor
Shabbat, May 18 |