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Voice of Emanu-El September 2013 / Tishrei 5774 ~ Volume 1

Shana Tova5774

DIRECTORY

Rabbi Marc PhilippeRabbiMarc@tesobe.org ext.232

Executive DirectorJoan WinogradJWinograd@tesobe.org ext.224

Finance Director Hector Privenhector@tesobe.org ext. 222

Office AdministratorPaula Ariaspaula@tesobe.org ext.221

Marketing & Media DirectorAna Bergerana@tesobe.org ext.242

Facility ManagerGlen Gillinghamglen@tesobe.org ext.234

Programming DirectorArielle Shimkoashimko@tesobe.org

Chairman of the BoardDr. Phillip Frost

Co-PresidentJoel Hoppenstein

Co-PresidentJerry A. Jacobs

1st Vice PresidentJacqueline Simkin

2nd Vice PresidentBrian Heller

Immediate Past PresidentJeffrey A. Rynor*

Board of Directors

Geoffrey AaronsonSandra AaronsonBetty ClarickDedee CohenHoward CohenAnn-Lynn Denker, PH.D.David GreenbergTibor Hollo*Richard LehrmanRosalind Lehrman, PH.D.Raul Moncarz, PH.D.Paul Riemer

Lawrence Schantz*Joy SpillShayna SirkinLeah SternLeon Tenenbaum*Brenda VargasGeorge WeissJanet WolkJudith Wurtman, PH.D.

Advisory Board

Amanda AdlerMichael Adler*Arthur AndermanArthur Barr*Hon Elaine BloomIrving CowanBarton GoldbergChristopher GrowaldLucero LevyJoan MussMartin Nash, z"l*Jerry PotashnickHoney Revitz

*PAST PRESIDENTS

Dr. Irving Lehrman, z"l, Founding RabbiMr. Sam Friedland, z"l, Chairman Emeritus

A Gutte Yohr!

The prayer service in a synagogue is notoriously long. The Prayer Book has page after page of Hebrew that few people u n d e r s t a n d ,

and the English translation often seems archaic and formal. How can we have a meaningful experience? How can we get a sense of fulfillment and spirituality? Here is a suggestion: don’t try. Don’t try to follow the whole prayer service page after page.

A different way to follow the service, and even get something out of it, is to close your eyes and simply listen. Listen to the words, even if you don’t understand them. Their magic still works. Listen to our melodies, some ancient, others new. They are meant to propel you. The service is like a symphony that brings a whole range of emotions. However, the experience does not have to be a passive one. You can be actively engaged in introspection, looking inward and forward into the New Year. You can definitely be active by participating. The power of hundreds of people chanting “Shema Israel!” is so inspiring. Hearing a full room singing “Avinu Malkeinu” can bring tears. Good tears. You may also want to sing along with any part of the service. You don’t quite know the words? You sing off-key? Who cares! This is your time to get strength and inspiration from your synagogue.

You may decide to look at one paragraph; think about it and meditate on it. Consider why it is there. What does it mean when it says “The great shofar is sounded and a still, small voice is heard?” What do the words “May you be inscribed in the Book of Life” mean to you? Take the time to breathe and take in positive energy that emanate from the ancient prayers and melodies.

Consider a seed. An apple seed for example. Our Creator put a biological genetic program into this little seed. It knows what nutrients to take from the soil, water, and sunlight. It takes in those elements and uses them to build itself into a beautiful tree that bears fruit. This is like Rosh Hashanah. This holiday is like the “seed” from which the whole year sprouts. And why is it called “Rosh Hashanah?” Rav Chaim Friedlander, of blessed memory, answers this question by explaining that just like the head guides the whole body, so too the ‘head’ of the year, Rosh Hashanah, guides the whole year. Just like the seed that guides the tree which sprouts from it.

This season, take the time to think what “seeds” you wish to plant. Seeds of peace, seeds of harmony. Seeds for personal growth. Only you know what needs to be planted. Plant the seeds, nurture them, and watch them grow this year into wonderful blessings in your life.

May you have a sweet and happy New Year, written and sealed for the most beautiful blessings!

Rabbi Marc Philippe

SelichotAugust 31 9:00 PM

Erev Rosh HashanahSeptember 4 7:00 PM

Rosh Hashanah ISeptember 5Morning 9:30 AMTashlich 5:15 PMAfternoon 6:30 PM

Rosh Hashanah IISeptember 6Morning 9:30 AM

Shabbat of RepentanceSeptember 6 7:00 PMSeptember 7 10:00 AM

Kol NidreSeptember 13 6:30 PM

Yom KippurSeptember 14Morning 9:30 AMYizkor 12:00 PMAfternoon 5:45 PMNeilah 6:45 PMShofar Sounding 8:10 PM

Erev SukkotSeptember 18 Sukkot ISeptember 19 10:00 AM

Sukkot IISeptember 20 10:00 AM

Hoshanah RabbahSeptember 25 7:30 AM

Shemini AtzeretSeptember 26 10:00 AMYizkor 11:00 AM

Simchat TorahSeptember 26 7:00 PMSeptember 27 10:00 AM

Schedule of High Holy Days

Dear God,

Moses, placed in the basket by the river, kept silent, too frightened to cry.

Abraham, walking up the mountain with Isaac, kept silent, refusing to give way to the wild sounds of his own grief.

When Aaron’s children were taken from him, Aaron was silent for there were no words.

Ruth walked without a sound to the fields for she could give no voice to her loss and her hope.

We, too, are fearful. We stay hidden behind our respectable masks, our tears dried, our faces composed. Our fears are unexpressed, our cries buried deep within.

Like Moses, Abraham, Aaron, Rachel, we are too awed or too timid or simply too self-conscious to open our wounds to the world.

You have given us a way to cry. Behind the thicket Abraham found the ram and the instrument of our expression.

The shofar will cry for us.

In the shevarim, the brokenness that afflicts our hearts.In the teruah, the blasts of pain or hope or recognition that sometimes sear our souls.In the tekiah, the hope for wholeness. We cry out from healing as we do from hurt.We cry in supplication, in loss, in love.

Dear God, help us learn the sounds of the shofar. The sound of our history. The sound of our sorrows.

Let it draw us closer to You with each blast, with each whispered promise, with each unspoken prayer.

TEKIAH GEDOLAH. For ourselves, our ancestors, our children, let us listen to the cries of the shofar. In each note is the secret, ancient anguish of the Jewish heart.

In its sound is our awakening and hope for redemption.

Rabbi David Wolpe

PRAYER FOR BLOWING THE SHOFAR

Your life’s a blur.You can’t control the way you feel anymore.You’ve got no clue Of what to do.And you’re tired of being confused.Everyone needs a new beginning.New Year’s for me and youThis year you’ll light up your world like nobody elseGo on and lift up your life to another realmBring out the ultimate you for show and tell.The Shofar blows.This Rosh Hashana’s beautiful.If only you saw what God can see.You’d know He wants you to grow so incredibly.The new beginning to be who want to be.The Shofar blows.This Rosh Hashana’s beautiful.Your life can be so beautiful.So come on We’ve all been wrong.Don’t think you’re ever too far gone.This is the time

To hit rewind.New Year is here, leave the old one behind.So take a look at your roots and you’ll surely find,What really counts in this world is what you see in-side.Because your soul is way brighter than skin can shineRosh Hashana’s beautiful.Once you’ve embarked on the journey beyond your-self.You’ll also lift up the world to another realm.Rejuvenation so sweet, it ain’t hard to tell.The Shofar BlowsThis Rosh Hashana’s beautifulLift up your vision to what God can see.When you are true to yourself you set your soul afree.To be one with the world and humanity.The Shofar blows.This Rosh Hashana’s beautifulYou really are so beautiful.

From a music video by students of Aish Jerusalem.

What makes Rosh Hashana Beautiful

Our Young Leadership division is growing quickly and we are very excited about creating a strong group of young, Jewish leaders, who will make an impact on Temple Emanu-El spiritually and intellectually.

If you know of anyone who would be a great fit as a Young Leader (preferred ages 21-35), please make a connection! I can always be reached at ashimko@tesobe.org and can also set up time to talk via phone.

Temple Emanu-El’s Young Leadership group launched this past week at the Jewish Museum-FIU! We had a beautiful reception sponsored by West Avenue Café and L’Chaim Vodka. We are so grateful to our sponsors and to all our wonderful guests.

Following the reception, we watched the Miami Jewish Film Festival’s screening of “Stealing Klimt,” showcasing the recovery of Gustav Klimt paintings from a prominent Jewish family. We want to give A HUGE thank you to Jo Ann Arnowitz, the Director of the Jewish Museum-FIU, and to Jamie Giller, the Marketing Director of the Jewish Museum and to Chaim Lieberperson, Director of Education for being so helpful before and during the event.

If you know of a Young Leader who needs a place for the High Holidays, please do not hesitate to be in touch!

Arielle ShimkoProgramming DirectorTemple Emanu-Elashimko@tesobe.org or arielleshimko@gmail.com917-509-7528

Temple Emanu-El Young Leadership Update

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How Annie Leibovitz changed my life -

I remember when I took my first photography class a couple of years ago, and my teacher told all the students that Photoshop would

not be accepted in that class. In fact, critique pictures were to be brought free of any computer editing tools. I was always very much into image editing, so it was hard to simply show my pictures without a little editing. That obligated me to get better, because I was forced to take a picture that looked great from as far as composition, light, contrast are concerned, and, of course, be creative at the same time.

After that I started feeling embarrassed showing my pictures with Photoshop. I felt as if I was not a real photographer if I had to use editing tools to have a good final product. This feeling persisted until I “met” Annie Leibovitz.

With a strong Jewish heritage, Annie Leibovitz was born in Connecticut in 1949. Having a modern dancer as a mother, Annie grew up very interested in the arts, and in school she was involved in activities such as music, painting,

and photography.

She developed most of her photographic skills while working several jobs in Israel. When she returned to the United States, she started working as staff

photographer for “Rolling Stone” magazine,

which was just beginning. For “Rolling Stone” she took pictures of the most important artists of that time, including Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and other significant musicians. Annie became a recognized photographer and it wasn’t long before other magazines wanted her as part of their team.

During all the time she worked for “Rolling Stone”, she was photographing with film cameras that included medium and large format. Once she started working for “Vanity Fair” magazine, her style changed completely. While watching a documentary about her life, I learned the exact moment when Annie decided to try Photoshop, and afterwards she started creating magic. Her pictures can be seen on the most important covers of “Vanity Fair”.

When asked what style of photography she embraces, she answered, “I don’t have a style. I take many different types of photography – photo-journalism, fashion...”. Of course that explains why after learning about her, I started accepting myself as an artist with no specific style. That question “What type of photographer are you?”, that kept haunting me for so many years, suddenly disappeared, and now I am just Ana Berger, the photographer who loves photographing digital, film, people, architecture; it all depends on my mood.

Ana BergerMarketing & Media Directorana@tesobe.org

Judaism and the Arts

There was once a young man who inherited a great deal of money. With this money he bought great tracts of land. To plow this land, he needed oxen. So one day, taking a full purse of gold coins and mounting his finest horse, this landowner started for the marketplace in a nearby town to buy the oxen.Elijah the Prophet, who was also on his way to the fair disguised as a merchant, met the young man and asked him, “And what will you buy at the fair?”“I will buy the finest oxen to plow my land,” answered the young man with great pride in his voice.“Say, ‘If it please God,’” cautioned Elijah.“There is no need for that!” replied the young man. “Since I have the money in my purse, I will buy the oxen I choose, whether it pleases God or not.” And he spurred the horse to go faster.Elijah, catching up with him, called out, “But not with good fortune”, and he rode off.

When the young man arrived at the fair, he chose a fine pair of oxen. But when it came time to pay their price, he discovered that his purse was missing. He searched everywhere but could not find it. With great annoyance, he had to return home to get more gold. He filled a purse with money and once more set out for the marketplace. Again Elijah met him, but this time Elijah was disguised as an old man. As the young man stopped to let his horse drink from a stream in the woods, the old man, Elijah, approached and asked the young man where he was going.“To buy some oxen at the fair,” he replied without courtesy.“Say, ‘If it please God,’” said the old man.But the young man gave the same reply as before and rode off in haste. And again Elijah called out, “But not with good fortune.”And when the young merchant arrived at the marketplace to pay for the oxen, he again discovered that his purse was missing.

For the third time, he had to return home for more money to purchase the oxen. But this

time, when he started riding to the fair, he began to think what had happened to him along the way – twice.“Perhaps this was because of my arrogance, thinking I could do whatever I wanted just because I have the money. Maybe there is a power greater than that. Maybe the power to do what I wish depends on God.” And so he decided to add, “If it please God, then I will succeed in purchasing the oxen.”As he was deciding this, in his mind and his heart, there suddenly appeared a poor boy who asked the young merchant, “Can you use a strong helper? I need work and I will be glad to help you.”“I am going to the fair to buy some oxen, if it please God. Perhaps you can help me bring these oxen back to my lands. I can offer you some good pay for this service,” answered the young man. And so the two of them arrived at the fair, completed the sale, and started on their return trip with their pair of oxen.

As they were returning through the forest, the oxen suddenly broke loose and started to go in a different direction, off the path. The man and the boy started running after them through the forest as fast as they could. Then they saw that the two oxen had stopped in front of a huge, flat rock. When they reached this place, the young merchant saw, on top of the rock, his two lost purses and his money.Amazed and grateful, but also filled with wonder, the merchant took his purses, saying softly to himself, “If it please God.”Afterward they brought the oxen safely home. The hired boy, who was Elijah, may his name be remembered for good, disappeared.

Later, when the King heard about the fine pair of oxen, he offered the young man a handsome price for them. And so the young man became even wealthier. But whatever he did from that time on, whether he sold or bought, he always remembered to add, “If it please God.”

As told by Peninnah Schram

Tales of Elijah the Prophet:

The Proper Response

We are filled with pride for our soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces.

We love them as they defend and protect with courage the Land of Israel.

We pray for your safety every day.

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September

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The sanctity of every Shabbat and Holy Day begins with the candles that the women and girls light.

This is a most beautiful tradition that brings blessings of light and peace in the home.

This year, Temple Emanu-El will offer a safe opportunity for candle lighting during the High Holy

Days during the evening Services. The blessings, with transliteration, will be provided for you.

Shanah Tovah!

There are so many new events coming up at Temple Emanu-El – Rock Kabbalat, Chanukah Party, Movie Night, Young Leadership events, and so much more. We will be posting updates in our website – www.tesobe.org, and in our monthly magazine “Kol Emanu-El”. Make sure to be our friend in Facebook, to receive the most up to date news about these events and other special Temple Emanu-El happenings – www.facebook.com/tesobe Be prepared for a 5774 full of greatness.

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On August 31st, the Rabbi and his family celebrated Itai’s Bar-Mitzvah.

Havdallah before Selichot

The Rosh Hashanah cooks!

“Getting married at Temple Emanu-El, the best place in Miami!”

Rosh Hashanah RecipeClassic Honey Cake

3 Eggs1 1/3 cups honey1 1/2 cups sugar1 cup strong black coffee2 tsps. Baking powder3 Tbsps. Margarine, softened1 tsp. Baking soda4 cups flour1 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 325.

Grease and flour a 9 by 13-inch cake pan.

In a large mixer bowl, beat eggs and honey together. Add sugar and mix again. Mix coffee with baking powder, and then add with marga-rine to the egg mixture. Add baking soda, flour, and cinnamon and beat together well.

Pour into greased cake pan. Bake for 55 minutes to an hour.

USE: 9 X 13-inch cake panYIELDS: 1 cake

Note: As we all know, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was twice destroyed -- by the Romans in the year 69 CE, and by the Babylonians on the same date in 423 BCE. One wall remains standing as a living symbol of the Jewish people’s ownership over the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem -- the Kotel HaMaaravi or “Western Wall.”

What follows is an excerpt (translated from the Hebrew) from the memoir of Rabbi Moshe Segal (1904-1985), a Chassid who was active in the struggle to free the Holy Land from British rule.

In those years, the area in front of the Kotel did not look as it does today. Only a narrow alley separated the Kotel and the Arab houses on its other side. The British Government forbade us to place an Ark, tables or benches in the alley; even a small stool could not be brought to the Kotel. The British also instituted the following ordinances, designed to humble the Jews at the holiest place of their faith: it is forbidden to pray out loud, lest one upset the Arab residents; it is forbidden to read from the Torah (those praying at the

Kotel had to go to one of the synagogues in the Jewish quarter to conduct the Torah reading); it is forbidden to sound the shofar on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The British Government placed policemen at the Kotel to enforce these rules.

On Yom Kippur of that year [1930] I was praying at the Kotel. During the brief intermission between the musaf and minchah prayers, I overheard people whispering to each other: “Where will we go to hear the shofar? It’ll be impossible to blow here. There are as many policemen as people praying...” The Police Commander himself was there, to make sure that the Jews will not, G-d forbid, sound the single blast that closes the fast.

I listened to these whisperings, and thought to myself: Can we possibly forgo the sounding of the shofar that accompanies our proclamation of the sovereignty of G-d? Can we possibly forgo the sounding of the shofar, which symbolizes the redemption of Israel? True, the sounding of the shofar at the close of Yom Kippur is only a custom, but “A Jewish custom is Torah”! I approached Rabbi Yitzchak Horenstein, who served as the Rabbi of our “congregation,” and said to him: “Give me a shofar.”

“What for?”

“I’ll blow.”

“What are you talking about? Don’t you see the police?”

“I’ll blow.”

BLOWING OF THE SHOFAR UNDER BRITISH RULE AT THE END OF YOM KIPPUR

The Rabbi abruptly turned away from me, but not before he cast a glance at the prayer stand at the left end of the alley. I understood: the shofar was in the stand. When the hour of the blowing approached, I walked over to the stand and leaned against it.

I opened the drawer and slipped the shofar into my shirt. I had the shofar, but what if they saw me before I had a chance to blow it? I was still unmarried at the time, and following the Ashkenazic custom, did not wear a tallit. I turned to person praying at my side, and asked him for his tallit. My request must have seemed strange to him, but the Jews are a kind people, especially at the holiest moments of the holiest day, and he handed me his tallit without a word.

I wrapped myself in the tallit. At that moment, I felt that I had created my own private domain. All around me, a foreign government prevails, ruling over the people of Israel even on their holiest day and at their holiest place, and we are not free to serve our G-d; but under this tallit is another domain. Here I am under no dominion save that of my Father in Heaven; here I shall do as He commands me, and no force on earth will stop me.

When the closing verses of the neillah prayer -- “Hear O Israel,” “Blessed be the name” and “The Lord is G-d” -- were proclaimed, I took the shofar and blew a long, resounding blast. Everything happened very quickly. Many hands grabbed me. I removed the tallit from over my head, and before me stood the Police Commander, who ordered my

arrest.I was taken to the kishla, the prison in the Old City, and an Arab policeman was appointed to watch over me. Many hours passed; I was given no food or water to break my fast. At midnight, the policeman received an order to release me, and he let me out without a word.

I then learned that when the chief rabbi of the Holy Land, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, heard of my arrest, he immediately contacted the secretary of High Commissioner of Palestine, and asked that I be released. When his request was refused, he stated that he would not break his fast until I was freed. The High Commissioner resisted for many hours, but finally, out of respect for the Rabbi, he had no choice but to set me free.

For the next eighteen years, until the Arab conquest of the Old City in 1948, the shofar was sounded at the Kotel every Yom Kippur. The British well understood the significance of this blast; they knew that it will ultimately demolish their reign over our land as the walls of Jericho crumbled before the shofar of Joshua, and they did everything in their power to prevent it. But every Yom Kippur, the shofar was sounded by men who know they would be arrested for their part in staking our claim on the holiest of our possessions.

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