[UPDATED AUGUST 20, 2021]
During this season of renewal I’m so glad to be a part of our wonderful Temple David community.
I wish you all a sweet and healthy new year!
L’shanah Tovah u’Metukah–To a Good and Sweet New Year!
Reena Goldberg, President-Board of Trustees
reenag@templedavid.org
With this issue I conclude my nineteenth year as editor of Temple David’s monthly bulletin, currently known as TD Now!. Coincidentally, the lunisolar calendar completes a cycle every nineteen years (5782 is the 6th year of the 305th cycle).
We, the congregation of Temple David, completed our sixty-third year on March 23, the anniversary of the signing of our charter, and correspondingly, this issue completes Volume 63 of the bulletin.
As I do each year, I’d like to thank our proofreaders: Reena Goldberg, Jim Jones, Linda Jones, Kay Liss, Beverly Reinhardt, Rabbi Barbara Symons, and Elaine Wolfe. Also, thank you to Bev for preparing and mailing the paper copy of TD Now! each month.
My thanks also go to all of you who provide the monthly content; extra thanks to those who are respectful of the deadlines.
L’shanah Tovah Tikateivu—May You be Inscribed for a Good Year!
Jay Goodman, Recording Secretary and Editor—TDNow!
jayg@templedavid.org
Download the Complete
High Holy Day Schedule Here
www.templedavid.org/bulldocs/5782/5782HHDschedule.pdf
A Private Moment on the Bimah
Leading up to the new year, would standing on our bimah before the ark be meaningful to you?
If so, Rabbi Symons is setting up 15-minute intervals during which we will maintain physical distancing while inviting spiritual connection.
Please contact Rabbi Symons at rabbi@templedavid.org or 412-372-1200 to schedule a time.
Selichot: Entering the High Holy Days Together
Saturday, August 28
- 6:30 p.m. Family Program*
- 7:00 p.m. Dessert
- 7:30 p.m. Selichot Service (also on Zoom at www.templedavid.org/athome)
The Selichot program is open to all but will focus on families with children: take a step into the New Year by visiting different stations that invite you into the prayers, music, and traditions of the High Holy Days, and top it all off with dessert!
Prior to Rosh HaShanah, Rabbi Daniel Fellman and/or Rabbi Keren Gorban of Temple Sinai, and Rabbi Barbara Symons of Temple David will conduct the annual Service of Remembrance.
It is a special time to honor and remember those of our loved ones who are no longer with us. All are welcome. Chairs and a tent will be provided.
Temple David Members may purchase cemetery plots at Temple Sinai Memorial Park at Temple Sinai Member Prices. Please contact Temple Sinai for details and pricing (412 421-9715).
Tashlich Ritual at Valley Park
(Aber’s Creek Road) in Monroeville
ONLINE AND IN-PERSON
Tuesday, September 7 at 4 p.m.
Please come together at Turtle Creek in Valley Park to join in the powerfully simple ritual of tashlich, meaning―casting. During tashlich, we cast off our sins by symbolically placing them on bread and throwing them into a stream of flowing water.
Having closed the machzor, and standing in the midst of nature, it is another opportunity to do some soul searching in the midst of our community.
Even if you have never joined us before, please join us this year, in-person or on Zoom.
Please bring individually-wrapped desserts or drinks to share.
The link will be available at www.templedavid.org/athome
Directions to Tashlich
From Temple David:
Exit the temple driveway left onto Northern Pike
Turn right onto Aber’s Creek Road
Valley Park and parking lot will be on the left
From Haymaker:
Take Saunders Station Road
Follow past Heritage Park on the left, then down the hill
Take the first left going down the hill onto Aber’s Creek Road
Valley Park and parking lot will be on the right shortly after passing through a tunnel
Apologizing to another person is one of the most powerful expression statements you can make. If it is sincere, apologizing can profoundly affect both you and the person to whom you are apologizing.
Jewish tradition provides many examples of how to apologize and when to apologize. It also provides instances when apologizing is not appropriate.
In this study session, we explore the traditional steps to a profound apology, and explore how we can implement them.
“Ultimately, melodies are just a bunch of notes—whether they’re fundamentally meaningless or transcendent depends entirely upon how we choose to listen, how we choose to direct our intentions, and whether we let ourselves join the song. Singing signals not an escape from life but an imaginative attempt to remind us what is yet possible. Music offers us rung after rung to climb to the heavens, where we hope to discover our best selves, so that we can then emulate that holiness in our regular lives.” (Adapted from The Torah of Music: Reflections on a Tradition of Singing and Song by Joey Weisenberg with translations by Joshua Schwartz.)
It is our hope that the musical interlude presented by cellist Elise Feagley with our own Norm Chapman on keyboard prior to the Afternoon Service on Yom Kippur will lift you higher. Please enter the sanctuary of our sanctuary.
Break Fast Has Been Canceled
Having been together for so many hours in prayer, this is a time for socializing, refueling, and stepping into the New Year
RSVPs preferred by September 9 412-372-1200 or tdoffice@templedavid.org
Join us on the Sunday of Chol HaMo-eid Sukkot, for our fifth annual vegan Sukkot celebration.
Richard Schwartz, the world’s foremost expert on Judaism and veganism, will speak live from Israel via Zoom in our social hall. A delicious, gourmet vegan boxed brunch will be provided for in-person participants as well as those reserving one for pickup.
Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Jewish Veg. His new book Vegan Revolution, Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism will be available for purchase. You may download the full text of the book for free from http://tbf.me/a/BsXtiS, or contact Stan Beck to get it.
If you have questions, or would like reserve your vegan brunch for pickup, please contact Stan Beck at stanb@templedavid.org or (412) 491-0313.
Join us for our annual contribution to the Cross Roads Presbyterian Church Food Pantry. It is the largest one-day donation they receive. The pantry helps over 1,000 local families annually.
Grocery bags will be available as you leave Temple on Erev Rosh HaShanah, Monday, September 6.
Filled bags will be collected on Yom Kippur morning, Thursday, September 16.
Those not attending in-person services may drop off on Tuesday, September 14 or Wednesday, September 15 (9 a.m.-2 p.m.).
Once again Temple David will be sponsoring our annual Sukkot fresh fruit and vegetable drive.
Please bring your produce on the evening of Monday, September 20, or the morning of Tuesday, September 21 and place it near the indoor sukkah on the bimah.
The participants of Cross Roads Food Pantry are grateful for the additional fresh produce to supplement the healthy foods they receive throughout the year.
FOR BOTH FOOD DRIVES:
Please download lists of most-needed items here, as well as details to make monetary donations in lieu of food:
www.templedavid.org/bulldocs/5782/5782fooddrives.pdf
Please contact Beck Abrams at (412) 260-6243 or becka@templedavid.org
if you need any additional information on either Food Drive.