Shabbat Blast

Shabbat Blast!!!

Erev Shabbat – October 28, 2016

Candle Lighting: 5:37 pm

Maariv: 8:00

Shabbat, October 29, 2016

Parshat Bereshit

Parshat Mevarchim

Nosh and Drash 9:00

Services 9:30 am

Junior Congregation 10:00 am

November 4, Hot Cocoa and Ice Cream Shabbat!!! Join us at 6:30 for a wonderful family service followed by Hot Cocoa and Ice Cream Sundaes.

Blessing of the Animals has been moved to NOVEMBER 20!!!! Stay tuned for details!

Dear [first_name]

This past week on Simhat Torah, we rolled our beautiful Torah scroll all the way back to the beginning, ready to start reading Bereshit again.
 

In our Creation story, at the end of the sixth day, God sees everything that God has created, and behold! It was very good.

Gordon Lustig set these words from Genesis 1:31 to a really catchy melody. I learned this song in my Hebrew school choir in fourth grade, and we loved it, and would walk out of class singing the canon in many voices. Last year at my previous synagogue, in Boston, I sang the song for our Nursery School kids' Shabbat program, and it was a big hit. They learned the words tov me'od (very good), and clapped along. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a Nursery School here?

I've attached a recording with my banjolele, which I hope will carry you into Shabbat Bereshit with song and dance. 

CLICK HERE to listen to Vayar Elohim
Text: Genesis 1:31

God saw all that God had done, and it was very good. There was evening, there was morning, the sixth day.                

      וַיַּ֤רְא אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה וְהִנֵּה־ט֖וֹב מְאֹ֑ד וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם הַשִּׁשִּֽׁי׃ 

Music: Gordon Lustig
Performer: Cantor Sarah Myerson, voice and banjolele

Shabbat Shalom,

Cantor Myerson

The New And Improved Junior Congregation! Join us for our next great Junior Congregation on October 29, 10AM in the Muraskin Room. There will be learning, there will be noshing.  Our talented Educators will be explaining the Saturday Morning Service, discuss the prayers in depth and how they pertain to each of us, and of course, bagels.  Parents are welcome (Encouraged) to come to the Sanctuary during this time.  Stay for a lovely kiddush with the entire congregation.  Click here for a printable flyer with the dates.  

SHABBAT PROJECT!!!! Thursday November 10 is The Great Challah Bake at the Sands in Atlantic Beach.  Saturday November 11, we will have an afternoon in the park, and Havdallah and Seudat Shlishit at Congregation Ohav Shalom.  The Afternoon in The Park will have lots of fun and games led by the Broder Family!!! Come have fun!!!

Upcoming Hazak programming:  

     Nov 9 - Kristalnacht Program.

Sisterhood Programming:

     November 7, Annual Membership Dinner!

     December 12, Night of Jewish Learning

Rabbi's Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class! Starting November 7 at 6pm, join the Rabbi for an informative class to learn all about the Torah/Haftorah Service, the prayers and tunes associated with it, and the history of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah service.  This is geared toward those who do not have any background in the Torah Service.  Flyer is available here.