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Our Bowling Party is Sunday

Our annual family bowling party at Port Jeff Bowl is at 4 p.m. this Sunday. The RSVP deadline has come and gone, but if you forgot and really want to come, please email  info@tbemtsinai.org and we'll try to squeeze you in.
 
 
 

Family Shabbat


Join Rabbi Helayne Shalhevet and Cantor Lisa Ann Wharton at 7 p.m. Friday for our monthly Family Shabbat. Joining them on the bimah will be Jay Zuckerman, our temple's senior vice president, and Asher Hershkowitz, on the eve of his bar mitzvah. We'll also be celebrating November birthdays, the rabbi will be reading a Torah-inspired story book and we'll be consecrating our newest Religious School students, Mady Smith and Dylan Goldsmith.


Shoshana and Michael Hershkowitz are adopting this Shabbat and providing refreshments after services in honor of Asher being called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning.


YAHRZEITS: We will be remembering Hildreth Duvette Bauer, Ben Dolling, Tree of Life Synagogue 11, Andrea Gersten Green, Benjamin Greenberg, Jerry Paskowitz, Harold Rudin, Pearl K. Silverman, Solomon Simon and Sarah Weiselberg.



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IN THE TORAH

Vayera, Genesis 18:1 – 22:24


Abraham welcomes three angels and learns that his wife Sarah will give birth to a son. Abraham pleads with God to spare the wicked city of Sodom. Abraham’s nephew Lot’s wife turns to a pillar of salt when she disobeys the command not to look back at the burning city as they flee. Isaac is born to Abraham and Sarah, and Hagar and Ishmael are banished from their home. God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac but seeing the ram’s horn, later used as the shofar, is what saves him.


What do we learn from this portion? As Abraham is about to sacrifice his son the text says “he looks up and sees a ram caught in the thicket”; the ram becomes God’s sign that Abraham need not sacrifice Isaac. What if Abraham had failed to look up? He never would have seen the ram, and would have sacrificed his son. What about us? What would happen if we spent all our lives looking down and never looking up? What would we miss?

— Rabbi Helayne Shalhevet



 


THE BARN: VOLUNTEERS WANTED

The Barn is looking for volunteers to help out. The Barn team needs volunteers on the first Sunday of the month to work what hours you can between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Also, they need help during the week at various times to organize donations.


TO HELP: Call Debbie Hersh at 516-639-6374



HELP FILL OUR RAFFLE BASKETS

Looking for donations of NEW items or gift cards for raffle baskets to raise money for our youth Hanukkah Party and Purim Carnival.


TO HELP: Contact Marisa Feldman if you'd like to contribute. Call or text 631-793-4381 or email marisabfeldman@gmail.com

JUST 11 NUMBERS ARE LEFT! Boxes in the Men's Club's annual football fundraiser are almost all taken, but it's not too late for you to buy the one that scores the big prize in this year's Super Bowl pool. Half our proceeds go to the winners and the rest funds projects for the temple. You can get your box at any upcoming temple event. Contact Phil Paskowitz at agsilver2@msn.com to reserve one. Available numbers as this edition went to press: 40, 61, 66, 74, 81, 85, 86, 88, 89, 94 and 97.
 

Mazel tov to Rabbi Helayne, Rabbi Jaimee and Sam Shalhevet on Sam's bar mitzvah on Saturday after he led our Friday night Shabbat service.

Temple family news

BY JOAN PERRIN


Deepest condolences to Frieda Schlesinger and family on the passing of her husband, Stanley. May Stanley Schlesinger's memory be for a blessing.


Mazel tov to Shoshana and Michael Hershkowitz and family on the bar mitzvah of their son, Asher, this Saturday at TBE.   


Yom huledet sameach to all our congregants celebrating November birthdays. Best wishes to Jennifer Catalano, Brian David, Gail David, Matthew Dreyfus, Kirk Greenberg, Neil and Samuel Wenig. A special shout out to Kevin Hyms, who turned 70 on Nov. 5, and his youngest granddaughter, Jocelyn, who turned 3 the same day. The rabbi and cantor will be blessing all those with November birthdays at this Friday's Family Shabbat. If I have missed your November birthday, please let me know. 


Wishing Alan Arthur Funk, the cantor's father, a refuah sheleima in his recovery from a successful cardiac Watchman procedure this week.


Yasher koach to Debbie and Mark Hersh and the Barn team, Ellyn Stein, Harriet Willing and Edith Lilie for a very successful sale on Sunday. Todah rabah to Herb Feigenbaum and Matt Fox for their help setting up. The last Barn Sale of the year will be Dec. 7.


Please email Joan Perrin at perrinjoan@aol.com with any special news you'd like to share with your temple family. She'd like to pass    along your birthdays, anniversaries, new jobs, retirements, family milestones, requests for healing and news of personal losses.
 
 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Saturday, Nov. 8

10:30 a.m.

Bar Mitzvah of Asher Hershkowitz

Sunday, Nov. 9

4 p.m.

Family Bowling Party at Port Jeff Bowl

Click here for details



Friday, Nov. 14

7:30 p.m.

Music Shabbat

Thursday, Nov. 20

7 p.m.

Sisterhood Book Talk



Sunday, Nov. 23

5 p.m.

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
at the Mt. Sinai Congregational Church



Friday, Nov. 28

7:30 p.m.

Zoom-only Shabbat
 

Look for TBE News in your inbox every Thursday morning. Send your thoughts, suggestions, corrections and contributions by email to  info@tbemtsinai.org and send temple family news items to Joan Perrin at perrinjoan@aol.com. 

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