WEEKLY Insider Welcome to the updated Weekly Insider! We value your feedback and welcome any suggestions to enhance our offering. APRIL 15TH 2024 ISSUE
UPCOMING TIME OFF Change in timecard approvals. - With JFS offices being closed on Tuesday 04.23.24 payroll will need to change its processing timeline. All employees and management will need to have their timecards approved for the Friday 04.26.24 pay date no later than 3pm on Friday 04.19.24. Please plan accordingly.
By: Rabbi Yonina Foster
A PASSAGE ON PASSOVER
When have you been in a narrow place? What did that feel like? Maybe it was a relationship that didn't feel quite right, or a job that didn't allow you to shine (of course, not at JFS!) or the place you were living was too small. Many narrow places exist in our lives. We have to become aware of them to make a change, to then improve our situations, and create something with more breadth. Sometimes it means leaving one place for another. Why is Rabbi bringing this up now? Because of Passover. Passover? Indeed. That's part of the story. This year Passover begins the night of Monday April 22nd, in the Hebrew month of Nisan, the beginning of the 14th day. It lasts through Tuesday April 30th, or Nisan 21st. We were slaves in Egypt, "Mitzrayim," which we translate as "narrow places." Narrow places existed and still do. Then we cried out in pain and God heard us and remembered the relationship promised to our ancestors. God determines through Moses to redeem, rescue us, and take us out, to serve as free people. It's a message for our lives today as we continue to cry out from narrow places. Some of your clients share stories of those narrow places and what it took to come to America. In ancient days we had to leave the confines of slavery to become free people and create places of justice with a moral compass for something new. We complained, celebrated, made mistakes, and continue to strive towards justice and freedom. That's only part of the Passover story. Look for more in the next Insider.