Sha’are Shalom Weekly News September 18-24

Torah Study, 1st and 3rd Saturday’s 8:30 am via Zoom

TORAH STUDY SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST

Topic: Torah Study Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84590304211?pwd=VUY1WnltUEY0Q0xSU2JrNmJMMXYwZz09

Meeting ID: 845 9030 4211
Passcode: 524459 

We’ll be borrowing a second Torah for the High Holidays! 
For the second straight year,  Congregation Adas Shalom in northern Maryland will be lending us one of its Torahs for us to use  during Yom Kippur;  this means we won’t have to roll our Torah scroll from Deuteronomy to Genesis and back to Deuteronomy again in the space of a few days.  (Thanks to Rabbi Gail for facilitating this.)

Pat Myers will be driving to the Annapolis area (home of the mother of one of the congregants) this week  to pick up the Torah.   Would anyone be able to drive it back there after Yom Kippur (sometime after Oct. 13)?   It’s a retirement community  several miles before Annapolis.  Contact Pat at [email protected]  if you’re available,  and we can see what date will work out.


High Holiday Schedule
All Sha’are Shalom members’ High Holiday admissions are included in their membership!
Suggested donation FOR non-members: $100 per person/$150 family.

Rosh Hashanah
Evening Service – Wednesday, Oct. 2nd – 8PM
Morning Service  – Thursday, Oct 3rd  – 10AM
Followed by Oneg Luncheon and Tashlich (throwing bread into the water)

Yom Kippur

Evening Service (Kol Nidre) – Friday, October 11th – 8PM
Morning Service – Saturday, October 12th – 10AM
Discussion with rabbi – Saturday, October  12th – 4PM
Yizkor Service – Saturday,October 12th – 5PM
Ne’ilah Service – Saturday, October  – 6PM
Followed by Havdalah & Community break-the-fast t

Topic: High Holiday Services Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 863 7613 7353
Passcode: 117334

FROM THE CHARLES COUNTY INTERFAITH COMMITY COMMISSION

Did we miss your birthday or a family member’s birthday this year?  How about an anniversary?  If so, please send a list of family birthdays and anniversaries to
joselle_gilpin @yahoo.com so they can be included in future newsletters

 

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Lead a Friday evening Shabbat service — we’ll help you!

We at Sha’are Shalom are proud of our long tradition of member participation in everything our synagogue does — including leading Friday night services.  While we’re fortunate to have Rabbi Gail Fisher on the second Saturday morning of most months, it’s our own congregants who lead the evening service on the fourth Friday.
Our prayer book makes it easy — just choose your favorite reading from each two-page spread, either in English or Hebrew, spoken or sung. We even have some pre-chosen plans to use.   The pressure is very low — the audience is usually small and supportive.  If you’d rather not write a brief  d’var Torah (a mini-sermon on how something from the week’s Torah portion might apply to our lives today),  Suzanne Darby has volunteered to write it; and if you’re hesitant about leading songs, I can help out with that.
We’d just like more of our members to come up and play a part in services, and so we’re eager to help any way we can. 
     You don’t have to know Hebrew,  and you just have to be past bar/bat mitzvah age.  You can even enlist your spouse and/or kids to be your co-leaders.  We’re looking for volunteers for Friday evenings.  Please contact me at  [email protected] to sign up or for more information.
   See you at our next service

HELP WANTED

Dates Available for Oneg Sponsors  

Shar’are Shalom each Saturday morning (every 2nd Saturday) and Friday night (every 4th Friday) service at the temple ends with the pleasure of fellowship. A little nosh usually makes this fellowship last longer and adds to its delightfulness. Each post service nosh or oneg requires an Oneg Sponsor. Whether it is wine, juice, a challah, and some cookies, or even more – it is always appreciated by those in attendance.

Contact Marshall Jones ([email protected]) if you would like to sponsor an oneg or lead a Friday Night Service or have any questions about doing either.