Torah Study, 1st and 3rd Saturday’s 8:30 am via Zoom
Torah Study September 6,2025 at 8:30 am
Contact Suzanne (suz_darby@hotmail.com) for information and study guide
Topic: Torah Study Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 845 9030 4211
Hebrew School Scheduled to Begin Sept 20 at 10am
Join us at our first day of Hebrew School where kids will receive their very own 3D printed shofar ahead of the High Holy Days! Please email lizgilpin@gmail.com with your plans for the year including how many kids will take part in school this year.
School will start at 10am!!
Good food and fun at the end-of-summer picnic
About 30 members of the congregation gathered at the synagogue on August 31 to enjoy burgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, and a wide variety of tasty side dishes and desserts. Special thanks to President and Grillmaster Jake Lindsay, Kids Activities Leader Maryiha Lindsay, and everyone who contributed the delicious food!
HIGH HOLIDAY INFORMATION
The High Holydays are rapidly approaching! Remember that we are putting together a Yizkor book, in which our members can have the names of the loved ones they have lost printed. We are hoping that this will be something that people can take home afterwards and keep. Details are elsewhere in the e-letter, as well as on Facebook and our website.
Here is the schedule of our services:
ROSH HASHANAH
Erev Rosh Hashanah – Monday, September 22nd – 8 PM
Morning service – Tuesday, September 23rd – 10 AM
Followed by Luncheon and Tashlich (brief service, then throwing bread into water)
YOM KIPPUR
Kol Nidre service – Wednesday, October 1st – 8 PM
Morning service – Thursday, October 2nd – 10 AM
Discussion with rabbi – Thursday, October 2nd – 4 PM
Yizkor service – Thursday, October 2nd – 5 PM
Ne’ilah service – Thursday, October 2nd – 6 PM
Followed by Havdalah and Community break-the-fast
Here is the zoom link for those who are unable to attend services in person
http://us02web.zoom.us/j/
For Yizkor, please be aware that all names on our memorial board will be read aloud. If you have additional names you would like to be included in this service, there will be a list available on which you can write these names.
Lunch on Rosh Hashanah will be provided by the congregation, but for the break-the-fast on Yom Kippur, we ask that you bring a dish for us all to share. (Please contact Suzanne Darby at suz_darby@hotmail.com to coordinate what you will bring.) Your food can be brought to the kitchen any time that day; just make sure to include instructions as to refrigeration, reheating, etc.
We suggest that you bring a nonperishable food item (cans, not glass) when you come to the synagogue on Yom Kippur, for donating to those in need.
If you are unable to make it in person, the Zoom link for all Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services is:
YIZKOR BOOK
The High Holydays are approaching quickly. Yom Kippur provides a time for us to remember all of those whom we have loved and lost, so many of whom should have been sitting at our sides in services. Congregation Sha’are Shalom is offering you the opportunity to list the loved ones whom you have lost in a Yizkor Book. This will be made available on Yom Kippur before the Yizkor service and will remain on the table for you to pick up before the Ne’ilah service or the break-the-fast. The donation will be $18 per name for the first two names and a flat $50 if you want to list three or more names. You can send a check to our treasurer including the information illustrated below, or you can make a donation online at https://shaareshalomsomd.
In either case (a note accompanying the check or the comments section online), please write:
For Yizkor Book
And then write your listing as you want it. Eg:
The Moses Family
Moses ben Amram
Aaron ben Amram
Miriam bat Amram
Women’s Group Meeting
– Sunday, October 5th 6PM
Save the date/time – more information to come
SPOTLIGHT ON OUR MEMBERS
Starting a new feature in out newsletter. A chance to celebrate our members and some of their wonderful talents and actives. Charity actives. sports, hobbies etc. Please send to joselle_gilpin@yahoo.com by Monday for inclusion in the week’s newsletter.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Lead a Friday evening Shabbat service — we’ll help you!
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 myerspat@gmail.com to sign up or for more information.
See you at our next serviceHELP WANTEDDates 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 (Mjones.shaare@gmail.com) if you would like to sponsor an oneg or lead a Friday Night Service or have any questions about doing either.