Congregation Agudath Jacob October Tishrei/Cheshvan 5778 www.agudath-waco.org Rabbi: Ben-Zion Lanxner President: Brent deMoville Phone: 254-772-1451 Office Admin: Karen Eason Fax: 254-772-2471 [email protected] [email protected]
This bulletin is published twelve times per year by Congregation Agudath Jacob – a non-profit organization.
Founded in 1888 – Celebrating 128 years – Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
Rabbi Ben-Zion Lanxner By the time you are reading this article,
we have just concluded our Yamim Nora’im, our Days of Awe and are about to jump straight in the Festival of Sukkot. Finally, a festival with lots of fun!
I totally agree with you…. Rosh Hashanah not so much, but Yom Kippur is exhausting! When my wife, Rebbetzin Susan keeps asking me every single year the same question…how do you do this? How can you, not only sing the prayers, read from the Torah, give your sermon and still talk at the end of the day?
Where do you get this energy from? I must confess to you, my dear friends, as a reflex, I respond to her with a white lie, and I say, no big deal Honey, when you do this as many years as I have being doing this, you don’t even see why it would be so difficult to do….it is just a matter of habit.
The truth of the matter is, not so! By the end of Yom Kippur, after fasting over 26 hours, I feel like I have probed and dissected every part of my being. I have tried to knock my closed hand to my chest for every flaw within me I can think of, and G-d knows how many…. It has taken me apart. But then, just around the corner, comes Sukkot, the festival for restoring me back to wholeness, my batteries are fully re-energized again, ready to get started with building our Sukkah.
It is the holiday that, according to our holy tradition, is made for reviving our spirit. It is a mitzvah to be joyful on Sukkot in particular, as our prayer book refers to it as “Z’man Simchateinu”, the Season of our rejoicing (Passover being the Season of our liberation-“Z’man Cheiruteinu”, Shavuot being the Season
of the Giving of our Torah,” Z’man matan Torateinu”). Reb Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger, known as the S'fat Emet, observed words of Isaiah that he applied to Yom Kippur (S'fat Emet 5:236): "Your sins have been a barrier between you and your G-d" (Isaiah 59:2). There are sins, he said, that are a barrier that separate you from yourself and sins that separate you from G-d. Wherever we experience sin, we experience disunity.
The purification of Yom Kippur is intended to repair our fractured selves, but the holiday leaves us feeling like a jigsaw puzzle with its intense focus on all that creates barriers and separation within us. In contrast, he said, on Sukkot, everything is seen as unity from its beginning. The four species of the Lulav symbolize the unity of Sukkot~ as it unites the four different types of Jews, in regard to their particular level of Jewish observance of the Law, ~willow, myrtle, palm and Etrog, all come together to form a single entity. Under the Sukkah, all our souls are united with G-d. The S'fat Emet says that this is why the holiday is called the “Festival of Ingathering.” It is not just the harvest that we bring in on Sukkot. This is the festival in which we gather in ourselves as whole and complete beings after the fracturing of Yom Kippur.
Mo’adim le’Simcha, chagim uz’manim le’Sasson!
May these days bring you joy. May these festivals and seasons bring happiness to you
and to all your family and friends.
Rabbi Ben-Zion Lanxner
October & High Holiday Service Schedule
Sunday, October 1
Decorate for Sukkot 10:00-12:00 a.m.
Wednesday, October 4 Erev Sukkot 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 5
First Day of Sukkot 9:30 a.m. .
Friday, October 6 Second Day of Sukkot 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:49 p.m.
Saturday, October 7
Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:42 p.m.
Wednesday, October 11
Shemini Atzeret 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 12 Yizkor 9:30 a.m. Simchat Torah 6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 13
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:41 p.m.
Saturday, October 14
Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:34 p.m.
Friday, October 20
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:33 p.m.
Saturday, October 21
Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:26 p.m.
Friday, October 27
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:26 p.m.
Saturday, October 28
Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:20 p.m.
October 1
Rebecca Levy October 2
Loren Schwartz October 3 Betty Feir October 4 Jake Wolf
October 6
Chance Farley October 9
David Rosen Donald Lynn October 14 Larry Silver
October 19
Meg Looney Spark Scott Silver October 23 David Novy October 29 Robin Abbott
Inez Bonneville
Steven & Lilia Schwarz
The office will be closed for the Holidays:
Thursday & Friday – October 5th & 6th
Thursday & Friday – October 12th & 13th
Food from the Faithful
We will bring cereals & pastas on an on-going basis. Please bring packages throughout the year
and Susan Silver will see that they are delivered to Caritas.
Jeff Wolf
Laynie Miller
Henry & Hope Hacker
Norm & Margie Goldberg
Brandon Harris
Martin & Loren Schwartz
Ilsa Burns
Harmon Marks
Michael & Michelle Pesses
Elizabeth Brooke-Garza
Glenn & Vickie Schachar
Michael Stupak
Elliot Wolpo
Bobbye Brickman
Edward Vondra
Brent & Dianne deMoville
Judy Hersh
Fannie Lieberman
Jeff & Lea Levin
A very special “Thank You” to everyone who helped make the High Holidays
special this year including:
Brent deMoville for designing the programs for
Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Abbye & Susan Silver for the flower arrangements throughout
Rosh Hashanah, given in loving memory of their parents.
Harry & Bev Harelik for the flower arrangements throughout Yom Kippur,
given in loving memory of their parents & grandparents.
Judy Hersh and Susan Silver for preparing and setting up the
“Break the Fast” meal.
Shabbat DonationsSeptember 2
Stanley & Florence Hersh
Joseph Settle
Harold & Chava Kamenetsky
Gloria Yoder
September 9
Stanley & Florence Hersh
Miguel & Lourdes Perez
Gloria Yoder
Inez Bonneville
September 16 September 23
Stanley & Florence Hersh Stanley & Florence Hersh
Joseph Settle Judy Hersh
Brent & Dianne deMoville Brent & Dianne deMoville
Ray & Shannon Via Gloria Yoder
George & Kathleen Keller Miguel & Lourdes Perez
Ray & Shannon Via
Joseph Settle
HOW TO OBSERVE THE YAHRZEIT It is traditional to kindle a Yahrzeit Candle in the home on the evening Yahrzeit begins. It should
remain lighted until sunset the next day. Possible prayer before lighting a Yahrzeit candle: Eternal God, I/we light this candle in memory of (name) _________, my/our beloved (relationship)
___________. The light of the flame rekindles all the warm memories of the moment we shared
together, and reassures me /us that a piece of his/her soul dwells in my/our heart(s) forever. May
his/her soul be bound up with the bonds of eternal life. Amen. Candles are available at the Gift Shop. Every effort should be made to say Kaddish at congregational services. It is meritorious to perform
some Mitzvah or to contribute to the synagogue in commemoration of the deceased.
Kaddish will be read on September 29
Tishri 11 J. Markusfeld
Jules Bloch
Tishri 12 Friedman Goldberg
Albert Rubenstein
Perry Segal
Tishri 13 Emma Gallo
Harry Levine
Evelyn Dalkowitz
Tishri 14 Jacob Kroll
Sarah Harris
Jacob Kessler
Tishri 15 Morris Chazonow
Meyer Jerwick
Sophie Adams
Estelle Falgout Kaddish will be read on October 6
Tishri 16 Bertha Wood
Isaac Comer
Mrs. Sam Katz
Tishri 17 Zalman Tannenbaum
Tishri 18 Hannah Knop
Sidney Samet
Helen Fitterman
Lorraine Hoppenstein
Tishri 20 Boaz Levinson
Tishri 21 Jacob Aronson
Estelle Goldfeder
Baby Harris
Bess Levinson
Max Udashen
Doba bas Yitzchok
Tishri 22 Minna Adams
Sarah Beerman
Rabbi Charles Blumenthal
Julia Ellis
Harry Lapin Kaddish will be read on October 13
Tishri 23 Abraham B. Blank
Billy Dwayne Brooks
J. Harold Simon
Frieda Atlas
Tishri 24 Mark Harris
Sarah Levy Bell
Joe Rubel
Bernice Shapiro
Saul Chernoff
Tishri 25 A. Rubinsky
Eli Marks
Bernard Hersh
Tishri 26 Samuel Patlis
Joe Schwartz
Tishri 27 Baby Harelik
Eric Engleman
Gertrude Harris
Tishri 28 Rebecca Jacobson Kaddish will be read on October 20
Tishri 30 Harvey Goldfeder
Annie Harris
Mrs. Louis Gerson
Yisrael Podrizki
Faga Bergman
Elayne Lynn
Cheshvan 1 Stanley Ray Chodorow
Mrs. B. Bauer
Irving Berkman
Julius Genecov
Mrs. Irving Kippur
Cheshvan 2 Herman Rosenbaum
Ida Segal
Edythe Siegel
Cheshvan 3 Aaron Kalber
Chas Novak
Mrs. Harry Udashen
Harold Fitterman
Cheshvan 4 Lazare Heyman
Hymie Hoffman
Cheshvan 6 Israel Ellis Kaddish will be read on October 27
Cheshvan 7 Willie Lipinsky
Louise Busch
Mary Settle
Cheshvan 8 Daniel Adams
Esther Hoffman
Solomon Shifrin
Yaakov Belove
Cheshvan 9 Mrs. Max Harelik
William Ellis
Cheshvan 10 Mrs. Ruben Gandler
Cheshvan 11 Louis Lipsitz
October 201711 Tishri 5778 - 11 Heshvan 5778
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Erev Sukkot
NO SCHOOLErev Sukkot 6:00 p.m.
Sukkot I
Sukkot 9:30 a.m.
Sukkot II
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.
Hol Hamoed Sukkot I
Shacharit 9:30 a.m.
Hol Hamoed Sukkot II
Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.
Hol Hamoed Sukkot III Hol Hamoed Sukkot IV Hoshanah Rabbah
NO SCHOOLShemini Atzeret 6:00
p.m.
Shemini Atzeret (Yizkor)
Service 9:30 a.m.Yizkor 11:00 a.m.
Simchat Torah 6:00p.m.
Simchat Torah
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.
Shacharit 9:30 a.m.
Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.
CPR Class 8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Religious School 4:30p.m.
Trope Class 6:15 p.m.
Rosh Hodesh I
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.
Rosh Hodesh II
Shacharit 9:30 a.m.
Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.
Religious School 4:30p.m.
Trope Class 6:15 p.m.
Teen Club 5:30 p.m. -7:00 p.m.
Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.
Shacharit 9:30 a.m.
Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.
[¡¡Candle Lighting, §Observance End, Printed October 2, 2017/12 Tishri 5778 for Canton, Ohio]
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