Bet David, Morningside Ad Kan עד כאןPage 1 Rabbi Adrian M Schell ………… .Rabbi Julia Margolis Rabbi Hillel Avidan, Emeritus Bet David Weekly News Ad Kan עד כאןShabbat B’midbar [03/04 June 2016 – 26/27 Iyar 5776] Thursday 02 June - 18.00 – Shavuot and Pentecost in the Jewish and Christian tradition. Together with Rev. Michael Diezun from the Midrand Lutheran at Bet David. Friday 03 June – 18.00 Kabbalat Shabbat Service includes the blessing and induction of the incoming Management Committee of Bet David and Bet David Kehillah; L’chaim follows in the foyer sponsored by Desmond and Ashley Sweke Saturday 04 June – 08.30 Cheder; 08.45 Torah Breakfast with Rabbi Schell; 10.00 Shabbat Morning Service and Parallel Yoga-Shabbat Service, followed by a brachah sponsored by Barry and Val Sinclair in honour of their 64 th wedding anniversary. 10.00 Children’s Service and Activities (Youth Centre/Rondavel) This Saturday, 04 June, we continue with our Yoga-Shabbat-Service parallel to our regular Shabbat morning service at 10.00. Join Rabbi Margolis and Karen Turis for this special service. Please wear warm clothes and bring a yoga-mattress or blanket with you. Thursday 09 June - 18.00-19.30 Thursday evening class with Rabbi Schell (Foyer) Friday 10 June – 18.00 Kabbalat Shabbat Service; 18.00 Youth Activities with Kendyll (Youth Centre). Saturday 11 June – 08.30 Cheder; 08.45 Torah Breakfast with Rabbi Schell; 10.00 Shabbat Morning Service; followed by a brachah sponsored by Margaret Fish and Glynnis Kanar for their birthdays. 10.00 Children’s Service and Activities with Kendyll (Youth Centre/Garden) Please take note of the attached invitation from TEMPLE ISRAEL for its 80 th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS Last Shabbat we had the great pleasure to celebrate Jarod Wolman’s Bar Mitzvah. Shavuot Saturday 11 June – 18.00 Festival Evening Service followed by our cheesecake contest – 19.15 Tikkun Leil Shavuot – 1 st session led by Madeleine Hicklin – 20.00 Break with Soup and more – 20.15 2 nd session led by Rabbi Margolis and Rabbi Schell (End 21.00) Children’s and Youth Activities (Youth Centre): – 18.00 Youth service with Kendyll, followed by our Cheesecake competition – 19.15 Movie Night (please bring your sleeping bag and wear warm clothes) Sunday 12 June – 9.30 (!) – Festival Morning Service at Beit Emanuel, 38 Oxford Rd., Parktown Bet David’s traditional Cheesecake Contest takes place this year on Erev Shavuot (Saturday night, 11 June). Bake your favourite recipe! All entries welcome. Register at the Bet David Office by 09 June. Prize-winning recipes will be published in future weeks. Submissions are expected to include the recipe used. Sponsors also welcome. Return entry below to [email protected] or place in ‘Correspondence Box’ in the foyer. Shavuoth Cheese Cake Competition Entry – Saturday 11 June, following 18.00 services. Baker(s) Name_________________________________________________________________________ Type of Cheese Cake: ____________________________________________________________________ Phone ____________________________E-mail _______________________________________________
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Bet David, Morningside Ad Kan עד כאן Page 1
Rabbi Adrian M Schell ………… .Rabbi Julia Margolis Rabbi Hillel Avidan, Emeritus
Bet David Weekly News
Ad Kan כאן עד
Shabbat B’midbar [03/04 June 2016 – 26/27 Iyar 5776]
Thursday 02 June - 18.00 – Shavuot and Pentecost in the Jewish and Christian tradition. Together with Rev. Michael Diezun from the Midrand Lutheran at Bet David. Friday 03 June – 18.00 Kabbalat Shabbat Service includes the blessing and induction of the incoming Management Committee of Bet David and Bet David Kehillah; L’chaim follows in the foyer sponsored by Desmond and Ashley Sweke Saturday 04 June – 08.30 Cheder; 08.45 Torah Breakfast with Rabbi Schell; 10.00 Shabbat Morning Service and Parallel Yoga-Shabbat Service, followed by a brachah sponsored by Barry and Val Sinclair in honour of their 64th wedding anniversary. 10.00 Children’s Service and Activities (Youth Centre/Rondavel)
This Saturday, 04 June, we continue with our Yoga-Shabbat-Service parallel to our regular Shabbat morning service at 10.00. Join Rabbi Margolis and Karen Turis for this special service. Please wear warm clothes and bring a yoga-mattress or blanket with you.
Thursday 09 June - 18.00-19.30 Thursday evening class with Rabbi Schell (Foyer) Friday 10 June – 18.00 Kabbalat Shabbat Service; 18.00 Youth Activities with Kendyll (Youth Centre). Saturday 11 June – 08.30 Cheder; 08.45 Torah Breakfast with Rabbi Schell; 10.00 Shabbat Morning Service; followed by a brachah sponsored by Margaret Fish and Glynnis Kanar for their birthdays. 10.00 Children’s Service and Activities with Kendyll (Youth Centre/Garden)
Please take note of the attached invitation from TEMPLE ISRAEL for its 80th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Last Shabbat we had the great pleasure to celebrate Jarod Wolman’s Bar Mitzvah.
Shavuot Saturday 11 June – 18.00 Festival Evening Service followed by our cheesecake contest
– 19.15 Tikkun Leil Shavuot – 1st session led by Madeleine Hicklin – 20.00 Break with Soup and more – 20.15 2nd session led by Rabbi Margolis and Rabbi Schell (End 21.00)
Children’s and Youth Activities (Youth Centre):
– 18.00 Youth service with Kendyll, followed by our Cheesecake competition
– 19.15 Movie Night (please bring your sleeping bag and wear warm clothes) Sunday 12 June – 9.30 (!) – Festival Morning Service at Beit Emanuel, 38 Oxford Rd., Parktown
Bet David’s traditional Cheesecake Contest takes place this year on Erev Shavuot (Saturday night, 11 June). Bake your favourite recipe! All entries welcome. Register at the Bet David Office by 09 June. Prize-winning recipes will be published in future weeks. Submissions are expected to include the recipe used. Sponsors also welcome. Return entry below to [email protected] or place in ‘Correspondence Box’ in the foyer.
Please take a seat! Would you like an idea of how the new Sanctuary is going to look? Now you can have a glimpse. We have placed two of the new shul seats inside the existing Synagogue. Take a seat and get an impression. We are well on our way to making the new Sanctuary a place where we will all feel at home and a place where we can encounter God. However, we are aware that, to achieve our common goal, we need support from you, our congregants. We are inviting you to have a first look at the new seating in the synagogue and we also, quite literally, ask you please to take a seat. Please sponsor a seat for R3 000 in our new sanctuary. A plaque behind the back rest of the seat will
acknowledge your contribution. Please contact the Bet David Office if you would like be a part of this historic process of furnishing the new shul. Thank you
The new Bet David Campus is rising rapidly with the majority of the Nursery School (Zone A) and the Mitzvah School/Religion School/Kehilla/Youth block (Zone B) ground floor at roof height. The eco slabs for the first floor of both these buildings will be put in place by crane in the second half of June. The sub surface storm water pipes and main water reticulation pipes have been laid. The excavation for the attenuation dam has been completed. The large rock (mountain) under Zone B has
been broken down and the pieces of rock have been put aside for the new water feature and stream. The paving for the parking area on the eastern side of the new Shul Block (Zone C) is 90% complete. Twelve percent of the construction programme has now been completed.
Weekly Yahrzeits Joan Alexander remembered by Peter Alexander; Joe Levinson remembered by Celeste Kann; Israel Cooper remembered by Sonny Cooper; Wilfred Rubin remembered by Tony Rubin; Colman Rosen remembered by Martin Rosen; Philip Borstein remembered by Martin Borstein; Anne Blumberg remembered by Jock Blumberg; Margot Kann remembered by Gerald Kann; Anna Gertrude Furman remembered by Sandra Beswick. Condolences to Michaela and Len Gordon on the passing of her father Giorgio Bossi.
Zichronam livracha, may their memory be for a blessing
Speedy Recovery-Refuah Shleimah Arthur Kruger; Brett Steingo; Carol Leibov (cousin of Myrna Margo); Cliff and Ann Paine (parents of Janine
Tobin); Fred Plein; Garth Sueltz; Geoff Cotton (father of Kimberley Craul); Ruth Jordan; Leah Livni; Margaret Fish; Sharon Sack (mother of Jacqui Sack); Michelle Eliason; Mick and Sonya Leiman;
Sandra Myerson (mother of Candice Woolf); James Kinloch (Radio Today). Please contact Glynnis to report illness and advise whether you would like a visit from one of our Rabbis.
Ambassadors in conversation: Dealing with a complicated past, creating a common future 160 guests, including many members of Bet David followed Rabbi Margolis and Rabbi Schell’s invitation to listen to a very special and inspiring conversation between Ambassador Arthur Lenk, Ambassador Walter Lindner and Tali Nates last Sunday at the new Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Truly Israel and Germany can be role models in owning one’s own past and creating a common future. The Shoah shaped the setup of both countries in any aspect one can imagine, but the way Israelis and Germans encounter each other as friends today is an inspiration for all who seek a better tomorrow for all. Thank you to both Ambassadors for opening their hearts and for sharing their ideas and visions. The event was generously supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and SACRED.
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End of June / Beginning of July
there are two great chances to get out of Jozi if you are in Grade
7+. Please contact Kendyll to learn more about the
two camps.
Mazal Tov to Ron Michelle Klipin on the birth of their grandson, son to Josh and Natasha Happy birthday to all who have birthdays during the week 30 May to 05 June – Rabbi Sa’ar Shaked (29/5.); Caitlin Stransky; Ross Beerman; Martin Bailey; Margaret Fish; Glynnis Kanar; Karen Lob; Trevor Jankelow; Jason Maselle; Jessica Carpel; Jessica Dagnin; Daniella Dagnin Children under 14 years – Yonatan Fine; Jessica Williams; Jesse Smith; Nathan Sandler.
Thank you for recent donations Yahrzeit – Martin and Sylvia Borstein in memory of Philip Borstein; Helen and Steven Kaplan in memory of Lawrence (Lawrie) Bengis.
RABBI MARGOLIS’ WEEKLY COLUMN
True Interfaith Support I’d like to share with you an open letter to Rabbi Goldstein I received from Dr Nontando Hadebe, supporting us in our efforts to achive real equality for women in public Jewish events. Warm Regards Rabbi Julia Margolis
Dear Rabbi Goldstein Shalom! Sawubona! I greet you in the name of peace and a shared African and faith
tradition. I am writing in both my personal capacity and that of Coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in support of Rabbi Julia Margolis with regard to her court cast against the Jewish Board of Directors and in opposition to the decision to ban her from this board. The issue that Rabbi Margolis raised namely women singing in a public space in commemoration of a public historical event namely the memory of the holocaust/Shoa is not an intra-religious issue that excludes the concern of outsiders. If you can recall that it took the intervention of outsiders in this case the allied forces who shared the same values of the dignity of all human persons as the basis of their being willing to risk their lives in waging a war against Germany. This historical interference based on violation of human rights is what turned the war around and also helped in establishing the declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations as a global commitment signaling a new era where the world will no longer tolerate any form of discrimination against any human being based on sex, ethnicity, race etc. Equally important is the decision to respect the rights of religions to practice their faith. The issue that Rabbi Julia raised is not an intra-religious issue but the expression of this in a public sphere that is committed to the equal rights of all citizens. As women who are part of this public space we are profoundly affected by this decision against Rabbi Julia Margolis and register our opposition. I personally was so traumatized and hurt by the statements about women and the intent to exclude women from singing in a public event that is part of the shared history of humanity. The historical events are already traumatizing without also adding the exclusion of women from singing and banning Rabbi Julia. I appeal to you honorable Rabbi in the name of Ubuntu, equality, democracy to act justly towards Rabbi Julia Margolis as a celebration of our shared values of the dignity and value of all of humanity. Looking forward to a favourable response Yours in Ubuntu and equality Dr Nontando Hadebe Coordinator of Southern African Chapter of The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
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Coming Sunday (5 June/28 Iyyar) we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim, one of several Jewish holidays com-memorating events of war in the modern State of Israel. This one recalls Israel's regaining of the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in
1967. Despite these modern memorial days, it seems safe to say that we Jews generally don't think of ourselves as military people. Yet the coming together with our annual reading of the opening portion of the Book of Numbers, beginning with a census of all Israelite men, might give us pause to question our assumption. Our parasha begins with God's instruction to Moses to count the people: s'u et-rosh kol-adat B'nai Yisrael, "take a census of the whole Israelite company". The commentators notice the way God describes the head count: s'u et rosh, "lift the head." Nachmanides (a rabbi from the thirteenth century) points out that the phrase can be positive or negative. Joseph uses the same phrase positively back in Genesis when interpreting the dream of the imprisoned cupbearer: "in three days’ time, Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your post." But Joseph also uses the phrase negatively a few verses later while interpreting the baker's dream: "in three days’ time, Pharaoh will lift your head from your body and hang you on a pole . . ." Imagine our scene, though, Moses and Aaron lifting each young man's head, gently touching the chin of each soldier-to-be, looking him in the eye -thus acknowledging the humanity of each one - and recognising the real "risks" of war. Will this young man's head be lifted up to greatness or fall in battle? S'u et-rosh, "Lift up the head" of each one, says God to Moses, as if to say, touch them, look them in the eyes, write down their family names, because even though you are counting them, these men are not just numbers. A wise man once taught that if you look deeply into the eyes of another, you will find there the Presence of God. Would we really be able to send people into battle if we spent the moments before looking deep into the eyes of our soldiers? As we shall see in the weeks to come, despite its stories of fighting, rebellion and violence, the Book of Numbers also delivers the message that God would rather encourage the people Israel toward a gentler way of being, and to realise that the price we have paid in any war was more than just a soldier. She or he was a human being, created in the image of God. Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Adrian M Schell (Source: Rabbi Lisa Edwards.)
KIDS’ CLUB YOUTH ACTIVITIES 18:00 - 19.00 for ages 3–10 weekly with Kendyll, excl. Family Services
BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS—Last Friday of every month 24 June FAMILY SERVICE 18:00— 17 June; 1 July
SHABBAT MORNING: 08:30 - 12.00 CHEDER – Term 2: 09 April – 18 June
08.45 TORAH BREAKFAST WITH RABBI SCHELL — every Saturday 10:00 SHABBAT SHACHARIT SERVICE, B’rachah follows in the Rondavel
10:00 YOGA-SHABBAT SERVICE: 04 June
10.00 - 11.00 CHILDREN’S SERVICE; 11.00 - 12.00 YOUTH ACTIVITIES every Saturday with Kendyll
THURSDAY NIGHT LITURGY CLASS with Rabbi Schell – Thursdays at 18.00 – 19.30; 2 June Rabbi Adrian M Schell – [email protected]; Rabbi Julia Margolis – [email protected]
Emergency: CSO 0861800018; Hatzolah Medical Rescue 0832221818/[email protected]; Shalom Bayit 011 6452591; CAP 0861 227 227 / 0861 CAP CAP, to report any suspicious activity
Torah Reading for Shabbat B’midbar Numbers 1:1-4:20
(Reading Num 1:1 - 35; P p.899; H p.568) Haftarah Hosea 2:1-22 (P 917, H 581)
The first portion of Numbers, which shares the name of the book itself, takes up where Exodus left off, beginning with a census of
men of military age and a description of tribal encampments and priestly clan assignments. Torah Study this Shabbat morning at 08h45
Podcast of Rabbi Schell’s weekly Sermons Tuesdays on Radio Today (10h30) or:
http://goo.gl/LsHQrY. Rosh Chodesh Sivan occurs on Tuesday in the coming week.
