Thursday, February 20, 2014

SHABBAT CELEBRATIONS:From New Members to Birthdays

Dear Haverim:
*Tomorrow night, Friday, February 21, 6:30 p.m., New Member Shabbat (preceded by a special, extended Happy Hour beginning at 5:45 p.m.).  Please celebrate our New Members, who will each be given honors in our service, and be presented with the gift of a mezuzah, along with the offer to have the rabbi or cantor make a house call to help affix it and bless their respective homes.  We are counting on veteran members to come in large numbers to properly welcome the newest segment of our CBS community.
*Saturday, February 22, 9:30 a.m., Shabbat services (10:15 a.m. Torah service).  We will continue our celebrations with February birthday merrymakers who will be sponsoring Shabbat lunch. Sermon topic: Parshat Veyakel: Getting Your Priorities Straight.
Looking ahead…
*Next Friday, February 28, 7:30 p.m. (following 6:30 p.m. Teacher Recognition and Student Consecration), Rabbi Elie Spitz, my mentor visiting from California, will be our Kraft Shabbat Scholar-in-Resident.  Topic: Jewish Imagination.
*Next Saturday, March 1, 9 a.m. Rabbi Spitz leads a pre-service Jewish Meditation Session.  11:30 a.m., Rabbi Spitz speaks on “Does The Soul Survive?” – Jewish views on the afterlife.(His book on this subject is now available for purchase in the Gift Shop).
Please join us both this Shabbat and next, for some wonderful programs.
Shabbat shalom!

Rabbi Michael

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