Bulletin THE BETH TFILOH
Celebrating the Joy of Judaism, Embracing all Jews. TAMMUZ-ELUL 5778 JULY-AUGUST 2018
SPOTLIGHT raises $1 million for school scholarships
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg and Dr. Zipora Schorr congratulate honorees, Kenny and Debbie Vogelstein
Co-Chairs Cindy and Harvey Kasner with sons, Andrew ‘18 and Matthew ‘15.
Jason Alexander displayed his great humor and musical talent.
SPOTLIGHT 2018 was an outstanding evening in support of Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School. A sell-out crowd paid tribute to master teacher, Mr. Paul Bolenbaugh, and to honorees, Kenny and Debbie Vogelstein. Jason Alexander delighted with his humor and musical talents.
Mr. Paul Bolenbaugh was honored for his distinguished teaching career, spanning over five decades.
The Three Weeks & Tisha B’Av: Old Mourning and New Mourning By Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe Beth Tfiloh Community Educator
Many of us have experienced the timeline of mourning for a parent — the year of avelut. It begins with a week of intense mourning during shiva, followed by shloshim – finishing 30 days of diminished mourning when the mourners rejoin the outside world while keeping their social interactions and rejoicing with music to a minimum. For a parent there is one more phase which is the Year of Mourning. During the rest of the first year, the mourning restrictions are again stepped down. The mourner refrains from attending public musical gatherings, such as weddings, and Kaddish is said in a minyan, three
times a day until the end of the eleventh month. Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, one of our greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers of the 20th century, explains that these mourning practices give structure and shepherds the mourners through a year of new mourning. The grief is most sharp and tangible right after the loss and the mourners are cocooned and held as they slowly transition back to their everyday life and try to make sense of their loss. However – what do we do with old mourning -- the centuries-old mourning of the collective Jewish people? Each year during the summer months, we mourn the destructions of our two Continued on page 5
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