THIS MONTH HaHodesh AT CHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION AND SCHOOLS Engaging Jewish Life & Learning JUNE/JULY 2017 | Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5777
RABBI’S COLUMN “L’HITRAOT” At the end of this month Robin and I will be moving to San Diego, CA where I will serve as Senior Rabbi RABBI RON SHULMAN of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla. As a result, our relationships with so many of you and with Chizuk Amuno Congregation will change. They will not end. The Rabbinic Office will have our contact information should you wish to be in touch. We welcome your visit if you’re ever nearby. I am grateful to so many of you for your gestures of kindness and appreciation over the last months. Your calls, letters, emails, comments, and visits are gratifying and meaningful to me. The real privilege of our thirteen years together has been your gracious invitation to share in so many life experiences and sacred moments. My special opportunity has been to meet you as individuals and families, each one of you offering me new insights about life and being Jewish. Thank you.
The Talmud teaches that when rabbis and students took leave of one another they offered this prayer: “May you see the dreams of your world fulfilled in your lifetime. May you inherit the world to come and may your hope last for all generations.” I pray you know the blessings of life, health, and goodness. I wish you many more years of personal and communal celebration at Chizuk Amuno Congregation. I often sign my letters and columns with the Hebrew phrase, B’Shalom Rav. It means, “With abundant peace.” I also use it as a word play. The word rav, meaning great or abundant, is also the title, rabbi or teacher. The word shalom is, of course, the word for peace we use as a greeting. My desire in using this phrase is to wish you peace and wellbeing in your life and to say, shalom, greetings from your rabbi. Yet, in this particular case as I say good-bye, I close with a different Hebrew word. L’hitraot – Until we see each other again,
kabbalat Shabbat
MUSICAL KABBALAT SHABBAT
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 6:30 P.M. Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Amphitheater Hazzan Emanuel C. Perlman will be leading a lively instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat Service in the Ben & Esther Rosenbloom Amphitheater. The lively instrumental service will enhance our voices through the strings of a guitar, voices of children through an electronic keyboard, wind instruments, and percussive clapping. Please join us in welcoming the Shabbat in this special outdoor service. *Traditional services will also be held as usual in the Chapel.
KSDS TEACHER RETIREMENT CELEBRATION Sunday June 4 at 7 p.m.
Thank you to everyone with whom I have worked here at Chizuk Amuno, clergy, educators, staff members, and lay leaders, for your devotion and dedication. To all of our generous volunteers, supporters, and synagogue participants, thank you for the goodness of your efforts and involvements. Three Pillars of Faith by Zipora Masel
Join us at as we honor Daniela Eyal, Yehudit Kesselman, Brina Pintzuk, Rita Plaut, Michal Reichman, Dafna Tasch for combined 180 years of dedication to KSDS. A musical celebration will be held at Chizuk Amuno at 7 p.m. followed by a dessert reception. Please RSVP to mgolob@ksds.edu if you would like to join the celebration.