August 27, 2026 /14 Elul 5786

Included in This Newsletter

Membership Drive Continues

Shabbat BBQ - 8/28

High Holy Days 5787

D'var Torah from Rabbi David

Pre-High Holy Days Class

Shir Ami Book Club - 10/6

High Holy Days Mitzvah Drive

(1) Complete your membership registration for 2026-2027.

(2) Register for the High Holiday services you will be attending so that we may plan accordingly.

See below for details.

Weekly D'var Torah

Parashat Ki Tavo (2026)

Later Life Superpower: From Hindsight to Foresight

We usually imagine that our experience of time is steady and linear – but it's not always so.

Extraordinary moments seem to slow or even freeze in our awareness. As life progresses, we all collect those moments in the hindsight of our mind's eye. They live on as hyper-real memory.

It is precisely our hindsight – richly layered by life experience – that gives elapsed time its meaning.

Spiritual life invites us to inhabit wise hindsight, then pivot our adult wisdom into foresight.

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"WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS:

SPIRITUAL IMAGERY OF THE HIGH HOLY DAYS"

Join Rabbi David and Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (Congregation Beth Israel of the Berkshires) for our third annual joint runway series leading to the High Holy Days, preparing heart and soul for our annual journey of inner transformation.

This year we’ll immerse in the spiritual imagery of the High Holy Day liturgy – depictions of humanity, divinity, morality and transcendence that liturgy’s prayerful words seek to rouse in us. Together we'll unpack key holiday texts using visual, musical and poetic renderings to deepen our personal experience of prayer and the call of teshuvah (repentance, return). Topics will include core liturgies such as Avinu Malkeinu, Kol Nidre, Unetaneh Tokef, Psalm 27, Avodah (Purification) and Neilah.

Free to members of Shir Ami or CBI; $120 for non-members.

Seven Tuesdays online starting July 28, 7:00pm 

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Blessings for a Happy Birthday to our members with August birthdays:

Andrew Cohen - 8/14

Vicki Axe - 8/17

Julie Preng - 8/17

Marcia Salter - 8/22

Joanne Caplin - 8/29

Ira Kaplan - 8/31

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