What's the Spiel? - Last Days of Pesach

The story is told of a young Jew who was kidnapped and pressed into the Russian army. Like so many young Jewish boys forced to serve the Czar, this boy too was exiled to the farthest reaches of the Russian Empire for no less than twenty-five years – completely cut off from any contact with his family and community. Having come from a pious home, the boy's pe’ot were quickly shorn, his tzitzit and kippah removed, and for twenty-five years, the boy was forbidden to keep Shabbat, kashrut, and was even forbidden to have a siddur to pray with. Yet, every day, whenever his company would be dismissed, the boy would sit by himself and take out a deck of old playing cards. At first, the other soldiers thought he was playing a game. They saw the boy spread out all of the cards face up on the ground. Then he would select one card at a time, grip it with both his hands, close his eyes and concentrate on it, place it down and pick up another. When the bugle sounded and their free-time was over, the other soldiers noticed that the boy always had tears in his eyes. "What kind of game are you playing that makes its players cry?" the soldiers asked. The boy looked at the crowd that had gathered around him, he lifted the deck for all to see, and softy said, "I am not playing cards, for the cards that you see are not cards at all to me, they are my prayer book." "Explain," the other soldiers insisted. "You see, when I pull out the Ace, I hold it tightly in my hands, and I remember that there is one God. When I pull out the two, I remember that there are two Torahs, the Written Torah and the Oral Torah. When I pull out the three, I remember the Avot – Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, and when I pull the four, I remember the Imahot – Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah. When I pull out the five, I remember the five books of the Holy Torah, and with the six, I remember the six orders of our Mishne. The seven testifies to the seventh day, and that God rested on Shabbat, and the eight reminds me of my brit, and that I am now and forever will be a Jew. The nine reminds me of the months of childbirth, and that one day I hope to have children who will follow in the ways of my people. And when I pull out the ten, I remember the Ten Commandments which God gave to Moshe Rebbeinu on Mount Sinai. The King reminds me that I am a ben melech, a prince and that God is my father, while the Queen reminds me that all Jewish women are women of valor. And when I pull the Jack, I remember that a Jew must always use his sechel, and be a jack of all trades to overcome any obstacle that lay before him. No," said the young boy, "I'm not playing with cards, I'm praying with them." And the story goes that after nearly thirty years of service, the boy, now an older man, returned to the village of his youth. He returned beaten, battered and scarred, but did not return broken.

In his work The Dynamics of Faith, theologian Paul Tillich writes, "Symbols participate in the reality to which they point," a reality, an idea which is bigger and beyond the thing itself, and in this way, Tillich explains, "Symbols open up levels of reality which are otherwise closed to us, because there exists within us dimensions we cannot become aware of except through symbols." When we possess and understand our symbols – a picture, a memento, a deck of playing cards, a siddur, it is not the thing itself which sets us free, which helps us connect with the Ultimate and with each other, it is our approach to it, our awareness that we are searching for something which we know exists beyond our physical situation, our physical isolation, our physical limitations which ultimately transforms our relationship to our physical reality.

But if we do not have a symbol to focus on, if we forget about our connection to others and to God when in a state of physical exile, if we don't have that necessary awareness that what we see and where we are is not all there is, then we will remain totally cut off, physically and spiritually exiled. As the Chassidic Master, the Toldot Yaakov Yosef writes, “When a Jew does not feel God's closeness and love, then he or she is in a real state of personal exile – body and soul.” And he goes on to write that at no time did the Jews feel a sense of physical and spiritual exile more deeply than during their exile in Egypt, because, “During the exile in Egypt the Jews were unaware of the fact that they were in exile in the first place!” In other words, the Jews looked at their slavery as absolute, that there was nothing beyond it to believe in to help

give them strength and hope. As it says, “And the Children of Israel groaned by reason of their bondage, and they cried. And their cries rose up to God” (Shemot 2:23). Yes, they cried out, and yes, God heard those cries, but they cried because of their slavery, not because they wished to be redeemed, or even thought they could be. And it was only with the appearance of Moshe, who as Rebbe Menachem Mendle of Vitebsk describes as being “The root, the anchor, the symbol of the awareness that there is a Creator, that the people were able to remember that although their bodies may be enslaved, their spirits were not. And Moshe, who seemed as a poor shepherd to the Egyptians, a nobody, served as the symbol for the Jews to know and to remember, that there is a God and that He has plans for His people.” And this awareness woke the Jews up and lifted them from under the burden of their despair, enabling them to strive to free themselves spiritually so that eventually, they could be freed physically. It is with the return of their awareness that they are the Chosen People, that they are destined for something greater, it was with this awareness that they were able to cull the spiritual strength to withstand their physical degradation – that although they were still in a physical exile, Moshe, as their symbol to focus on, helped them realize that they were spiritually redeemed. As the Rebbe m'Kovrin notes, “All of treasures of the world are not equal to one moment of a Jew's peace of mind, and a mind at peace in knowing, in remembering, in feeling that he or she is connected to a God, to a community, to a world and a mission that transcends any and all physical barriers, and this,” the Rebbe m'Kovrin explains, is “a type of redemption from exile.”

All of us have moments when we feel isolated, when we feel weak, afraid and alone because of our physical surroundings. All of us have experienced times, especially during the pandemic and all of the lockdowns away from family and friends, when we really felt physically exiled. But, as we learn from our ancestors’ exile in Egypt, as we learn from that Jewish soldier, if we carry with us symbols of our emotional and spiritual connection to something bigger and beyond our physical states – symbols that perhaps only we can understand, but which open up and reveal to us a world of belonging, a world of strength and love, then we, like our ancestors, can transcend our physical exiles and experience spiritual redemption- a sense of mission and purpose, a sense of Yishuv haDaat, a sense of calm and connection which will, please God, prepare and enable us all to experience our ultimate redemption – a redemption of the body and of the spirit, a redemption of the hand and of the heart, and may that redemption come speedily in our days.

Shabbat Shalom and Chag Kasher v'Sameach!

-Rabbi Dan

Pesach Drasha Day #7: Lower Your Tolerance for Miracles

Pesach Drasha Day #8: A Short Reflection on Shir HaShirim

(Note, this reflection will be delivered just before the recitation of Shir HaShirim)

Schedule of Services at B'nai Abraham

We encourage everyone to daven privately when unable to attend services. Use the private time to connect to Hashem. Public prayer definitely adds to our prayer experience. Yet we also have the capacity to create a profoundly meaningful private experience with the Divine. Let us seek such an experience in the coming days.

Friday Night

Mincha & Kabalat Shabbat

7:30PM

Candle Lighting

no later than 7:32PM

Saturday, April 3, 7th Day of Passover

Shacharit

9:00AM

Mincha/Maariv

7:25PM

Candle Lighting

After 8:27PM

Sunday, April 4, 8th Day of Passover

Shacharit

9:00AM

Yizkor

Approximately 10:15AM

Musaf

Following Yizkor

Mincha/Maariv

7:35PM

Havdalah

8:28PM

Chametz may be eaten - Please wait for Rabbi's Email

Weekday Services

Monday-Friday

Shacharit

7:05AM

Mincha & Ma'ariv - Contact us: 512-410-0336

CTI Announcements

A hearty Mazal Tov to Beth and Eric Shapiro on the engagement of their daughter Ariella Shapiro to Harel Rush! All best wishes to the entire Shapiro and Rush families on this wonderful news!

Pesach Services and Aliyot in Shul

Please note that all morning and afternoon/evening Services during Pesach listed on the schedule will be held at B'nai Abraham. Signups for Shabbat and Yom Tov are available on the website. If you have not already reserved a seat please do so before Shabbat begins.

The Board of Directors is pleased to announce the return of communal aliyot to CTI Services, in accordance with the recommendation of our Medical and Ritual Committees. Specifically, the practices we have been following for indoor services, as described in

https://www.tiferetaustin.org/cti-bnai-abraham-attendance-practice-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic.html

have been changed in one area. Whereas previously the Baal Koreh (person reading the Torah) took all the aliyot, community members will again be able to be called to the Torah. All other practices, including social distancing and wearing face masks, will remain in place.

To provide aliyot in the safest manner, and so as not to embarrass anyone, CTI will be providing clear plastic disposable face shields to be worn over face masks and any eyewear to ALL honorees receiving speaking aliyahs at the Torah.

Anyone who is offered, and wishes to have, a speaking aliyah at the Torah will need to put their face shield on before their Aliyah is called, and then step up to the Bimah and stand on the right side of the Baal Koreh, facing the north wall. After each aliyah is over, the individual who received the speaking aliyah will descend from the Bimah and can dispose of the face shield.

As always, congregants should feel free to decline the offer of an aliyah, with no need to provide an explanation and no questions asked, if they are uncomfortable with these arrangements in any way. You can count on our Gabbaim to continue acting with the utmost discretion in this regard, as they have always done.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Rabbi Dan, Arthur Altman or Eric Shapiro.

Pesach 5781 Key Times

As this year, Erev Pesach, the day preceding Pesach, was on Shabbat, some of the times for observing Pesach this year have been atypical. Additionally, given the COVID-19 Pandemic, some may want to not participate in services at B'nai Abraham, To assist all, we list the key times here. These are based on Austin, TX in the vicinity of B'nai Abraham. To see the full schedule, including Minyan times, please click here. If you have any questions, please contact Rabbi Dan directly.

***NO VIRTUAL HAVDALAH THIS WEEK***

Click here for more information on future CTI Virtual Havdalahs.

Congregation Tiferet Israel

Yom HaShoah Event, April 7^th, 2021 @ 8:00 PM

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83841728616?pwd=S3MyOTRQekNBOVBoSmdkbFNLZXB3dz09

Stalin and the Birth of Contemporary Antisemitism

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Lecture by Dr. Jonathan Brent

Dr. Jonathan Brent

Jonathan Brent is a historian, publisher, translator, writer and teacher. Brent was Editorial Director of Yale University Press (1991-2009) where he established the Annals of Communism series. He spent nearly 20 years working in and with the post-Soviet archive in Moscow to publish the truth about Stalin’s regime. His books include Stalin’s Last Crime (2003); and Inside the Stalin Archives (2008).

In 2009, Brent became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he initiated The YIVO Vilna Collection Project in 2014. In 2019 Jonathan Brent received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania presented by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.

Brent lectures and publishes widely on Jewish, Soviet and East European history and is the Alger Hiss Visiting Professor at Bard College.

To learn more about Dr. Jonathan Brent’s books on this subject, please make your purchases on Amazon.com

During the Holocaust, all of the age-old racial and cultural stereotypes of Jews, religious hatreds, anxieties about Jews as “the other,” traditional scapegoating of Jews in combination with the new charges of Jewish Bolshevism and a worldwide plot by Jews to rule the world—all this was brought to a boiling point throughout the world. In the years, just preceding and then following World War II, Josef Stalin introduced a new element into this continuum of antisemitism – the element of antisemitism’s political utility, free of racial or cultural stereotypes, free of scapegoating, free of reliance on myths such as the blood libel or The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This new element is particularly pernicious in the modern world—in the Middle East, Europe, and in America as well.

In this talk, Jonathan Brent will explore this new element—the Stalinist element—how it developed, its basis in Stalinist thinking, and will touch on its “utility” today.

Remember to check out this talk on Thursday April 8 at 6pm by long time CTI member Jake Wolfson:

Free Educational Elective on Zoom for Yom HaShoah (April 8, 2021, 6:00-6:45pm)

Playing for Time, Playing with Fire

Dr. J.E. Wolfson | Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission (THGC)

This session presents a fascinating and timely case study in the current climate of “cancel culture.” The Emmy-winning 1980 CBS telefilm, Playing for Time, stands as one of the most critically lauded films about the Shoah, and its source text, The Musicians of Auschwitz, is one of the most widely taught Holocaust memoirs in classrooms across the country. However, there are calls to remove the film and book from the canon and class syllabi. Controversies include: the casting of anti-Israel activist Vanessa Redgrave in the lead role as a Jewish member of the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz; the subsequent boycott of the film by some Jewish organizations, along with accusations that Redgrave was the victim of a “Jewish” blacklist; screenwriter ArthurMiller’s alterations to the narrative; and the less widely known (though persuasive) charges that the memoirist falsified large portions of her account. Class participants can follow along without having seen the film or read the memoir.

http://shalom.convio.net/site/Calendar?view=RSVP&id=100363&view=Detail

Shalom Austin Community Yom HaShoah Online Event

Please join us online for a special Shalom Austin Yom HaShoah remembrance event, created and presented by CTI community member Phil Klein, with remarks from Rabbi Dan.

When: Thursday April 8th at 7pm CT

Where: Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86376362640

Are you interested in learning more about the laws, customs, rituals and philosophy of Shabbat? Would you like to enhance your observance of Shabbat, and make it a central feature of your life? If so, please join Rabbi Dan for CTI’s newest class -- “Building a Palace in Time: The Many Meanings of Shabbat.”

In this class, we will not only explore how to keep Shabbat, but why we do so in the first place.

Why is Shabbat so preciously unique to the Jewish people?
Why did God make the observance of Shabbat so essential for a spiritual relationship with Him?
How does Shabbat and its observance help us better understand ourselves as individuals and as a community?
How do all of the laws and observances of Shabbat help us better understand and experience
what spiritual freedom is really all about?

“Building a Palace in Time: The Many Meanings of Shabbat” will operate like a book club and will meet via Zoom on Sunday evenings, from 7:00-8:00, beginning on April 11th. With each new unit, a different book will be assigned, and we will work through each book according to scheduled readings and thought prompts. Individual members are responsible for obtaining the assigned books, all of which can be easily found on Amazon.com.

Our first book will be The Sabbath, by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. In this book, we will delve into the deeper meaning of Shabbat, its purpose, its eternal import on Jewish life and on the Jewish people, and how the gift of Shabbat has shaped civilization.

This class is free of charge. No prior background is required, and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

For more information, please contact Rabbi Dan at rabbidan@tiferetaustin.org, or (512) 410-0336 ex. 101.

SAVE THE DATE!

Rabbi Dan will lead a sing-along and there will be hot dogs and marshmallows to roast over the fire!

Hoping everyone will say: “COUNT us in!”

Where: Wander Family home

2452 Lakehurst Rd #8

Spicewood, TX 78669

When: Thursday April 29th, 5:30pm

One Year Covid-19 Anniversary Message from

Shalom Austin CEO

Rabbi Daniel Septimus

Shalom Austin Annual Campaign

IGNITE! Home Edition

One Family. One Community.

Join us for Sunday Supper!

Sunday, April 18

5:15 p.m. Pre-Show | 5:30 p.m. Program

$36 General admission (per household)

$18 Young adult price (30 and under)

Local dining opportunities, celebrity surprises and a night of giving.

Co-Chairs:

Nora & Allen Lieberman | Courtney & Jake Manuel

Margo & Arthur Smith | Courtney & John Young

Registration is now open at shalomaustin.org/ignitetix.

A suggested minimum Annual Campaign gift of $180 is requested to attend.

Debbie and Ricky Rudy to be Honored at IGNITE! with LBJ Humanitarian Award

NCJW AUSTIN Presents

Meal Delivery and More:How Meals On Wheels Central Texas Supports Homebound Adults WithMultiple Services

April 21 from Noon to 1:00pm

https://event.akubo.com/v2/main.php?id=AF9D

www.ncjwaustin.org

Guest speakers will be Adam Hauser, President and CEO, and Seanna

Marceaux, MS RDN LD, Vice President for Nutrition, Health and Impact.

Q and A time included.

Austin Jewish War Vets Post 757 is very interested in gaining new members. We meet monthly on Zoom and would like to invite all of your veterans to our meetings. They are welcome to sit in as guests.

To join in our next JWV Zoom meeting please contact:

Charlie Rosenblum

Commander, Post 757

Jewish War Veterans of the United States

Austin, Texas

jwvaustin@gmail.com

(254) 368-5715

Aleph Beta is going back to being for paid subscribers only, but is

offering 6 months free membership to the unemployed. Register Here.

A great opportunity to add to your Jewish learning!

Despite the untimely passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l his website continues to be updated with new materials including for every Parsha of 5781. May his memory be a blessing!

http://rabbisacks.org/

As a service to the wider community, the Orthodox Union has researched various online platforms and has organized, collected and curated many key resources in one centralized location for your convenience. Please visit together.ou.org for a wide range of information covering the following areas: Adults, Leadership, Parenting, Seniors & Elders, Technology, Torah and Youth. Check back at together.ou.org as updates will occur regularly.

CTI is virtually open for all classes! Attend online with video and audio, or join through phone call alone. Visit tiferetaustin.org for more information on how to join these exciting classes:

TYT Tuesday Night

The Book of Ezekiel

Tuesday 7:00pm

The Book of Ezekiel is one of the most mysterious but essential books of the Tanakh. Who was Ezekiel? When was he prophesying? Were his prophecies meant for his time or the distant future? In this TYT series, we will take an in-depth look at the life, times and ageless message of the Prophet Ezekiel in a way which will make his contribution to Jewish texts, history and destiny truly come to life! A priest stuck in exile, dreaming of the perfect Temple in a perfect homeland - a man pinning for spiritual life, but only experiencing physical privation - what is his message really all about? God asks Ezekiel to do many strange things - things even contrary to Jewish law! Were they literally true, or were they merely metaphorical? Come and join the CTI Tuesday evening Take Your Tanakh class, as together, we learn about the Prophet Ezekiel!

TYT Wednesday Mornings

The Book of First Samuel

Wednesday 8:15am

In this class, we will examine the life, times and trials of the Prophet Samuel, the last Judge of Israel. The story of Samuel begins the saga of Israel's history, its kings, wars and promises. First Samuel introduces us to a large swath of Jewish history, ranging of King Saul and King David, to questions of military ethics, religious boundaries and moral questions. The Prophet Samuel may be best known for anointing David, but his legacy and story are essential for every Jew to learn, because with Samuel the story of the Jewish people's redemption begins!

Mishne Torah k'Seder Friday Mornings

Mishne Torah k'Seder

Friday 8:15am

Come and join Rabbi Dan on Friday mornings at 8:15am for an in-depth exploration of the Rambam's Mishne Torah. This class will go through the Rambam's classic work on halakha (Jewish law), in a way which both engages and transforms the reader on a spiritual and intellectual level. Why did the Rambam write the Mishne Torah? What was he trying to achieve? How does the Rambam's interpretation of Jewish law, theology, history and culture differ from his rabbinic contemporaries who also wrote comprehensive Jewish legal works? What were some of the great disputes this work sparked, and why? You don't want to miss out on this great opportunity to learn what the Mishne Torah is all about.

Questions? Suggestions? Interested in Volunteering? Please contact our Committee Chairpersons.

Finance Committee: Josh Rosenberg

Fundraising Committee: Arthur Altman

Membership Committee: Beth Shapiro

Chesed Committee: Beth Shapiro

Kiddush Committee: Henna Tatham

Ritual Committee: Joel Tendler

The next CTI Board meeting is Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00pm. If you are a CTI Member you can login to our website and see all scheduled Board meetings by clicking here.

For those new to the community, check out this introductory video

featuring Rabbi Dan and a few of our wonderful CTI community members!

Birthdays

Natalie Ledeen on April 5

If you have any birthdays or anniversaries you would

like to add, please update your profile on our website.

Yahrzeit Remembrances

Hannah Selig, Mother of Edward Selig, on Saturday 21 Nissan

Leonard Allen Gaspar, Father of Lauren Greenberg, on Monday 23 Nissan

Abraham Robbins, Father of Reuven Robbins, on Tuesday 24 Nissan

Rose Sack, Mother of Marshall Sack, on Tuesday 24 Nissan

Esther Fichtner, Grandmother of Eric Shapiro, on Friday 27 Nissan

May their souls` be bound up in the bond of life.

If you have a Yahrzeit that you would like the congregation to acknowledge, or if you have a correction that needs to be made, please update your profile on our website.

Recipe Corner

Do you have a favorite recipe you would like to share with our congregants? Please send it to Henna Tatham, Kiddush Chairman at hennatatham@gmail.com or 512-451-0902.

DONATIONS

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Thank you to Sandy and Carol Dochen for their donation in Honor

of the Engagement of Ariella Shapiro and Harel Rush.

Thank you to Aliyah Jacobson for her donation

for a Refuah Shelayma for Judah Asher ben Rivka.

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Sheva Eva bat Bella.
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