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H desh December 2019 – February 2020
From Rabbi Lerner Walking With God
“Lekh-Lekha – go forth from your land, from the land of your birth, from your father’s house to the land that I will show you,” is the initial divine command issued to Avram/Abram that starts his journey and that of our people. And then Avram goes, he journeys, he walks. Walking is a large part of our tradition. In fact, the Torah opens with God walking through the Garden of Eden before the confrontation with Adam and Eve after they have consumed the forbidden fruit. Just a few chapters later, we learn that their descendant Enoch walked with God. Walking with God is what we are supposed to do as Jews. In Deuteronomy (10:12), we are told “lalekhet b’khol d’rakhav” – to walk in (God’s) paths. And, perhaps most famously, when the prophet Micah asks “what is good? What does Adonai demand of us?” The answer is simple and succinct: “do justice, love goodness and to WALK modestly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) Now, walking with God can be understood to be a metaphor, to walk on a moral or just or kind path or to walk with modesty is not to show off, not to brag about ourselves, but it also works literally. It can literally shape the way we actually move. There is something so powerful about walking. Walking upright is something fairly unique to humans. Usually, we learn (continued on page 18)
COMMUNITY BREAKFAST Sunday, December 15 at 9:45 am Welcome to America – and thanks for bringing the Bagels! Guest Speaker Joni Schockett Join us for breakfast and a talk by Joni Schockett, food writer for The Jewish Advocate in Boston and The Jewish Star in New York. Cost: $8.00 per person RSVP to Janet Goldberg: janet.goldberg2@verizon.net
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Glatzer Memorial Weekend With Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Elie Kaunfer February 7-9, 2020 Every year we honor the memory of Dr. Nahum Glatzer and his wife, Anne Glatzer, beloved active members of Temple Emunah for more than 25 years.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer is President and CEO of the Hadar Institute. Elie has previously worked as a journalist, banker, and corporate fraud investigator. A graduate of Harvard College, he completed his doctorate in liturgy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was also ordained, receiving smicha from his long-time teacher, Rav Daniel Landes. A Wexner Graduate Fellow and Dorot Fellow, Elie is a co-founder of the independent minyan Kehilat Hadar and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the top 50 rabbis in America. He was selected as an inaugural AVI CHAI Fellow, and is the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities (Jewish Lights, 2010). Elie serves on the board of Natan and on the advisory board of Upstart. Watch a short video of Elie as scholar-in-residence at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America: https://www.hadar.org/jfnaga2011#first_plenary.
Look for your invitation in the mail in January. For further information, and to help with the weekend, please contact Terri Swartz Russell (terrisrussell@yahoo.com) at (781) 861-6399 or Lois Bruss (lois.bruss@gmail.com ) at (781) 861-9270.
Inside: President................................... 2 Emunah 60................................ 3 December 7 Program................ 4 Religious Services...................... 5 Minyan Story............................. 6 Family Programs/Hineni........... 7 Adult Education......................8-9 Religious School/Youth.......10-11 Pre-school/Hineni Connect......12-13
בתוך Sisterhood............................... 14 Brotherhood.............................15 Library/Ladle.......................16-17 Yahrzeits............................. 19-22 Family Table............................ 22 Donations................................ 23 Sustainers................................ 24 Calendar............................. 25-27