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September 2007
CONTENTS:
HIGH HOLIDAY EDITION
Welcome- L’Shana Tova!
As High Holidays approach, we’d like to welcome you—long time members, new members and friends—in our midst. As the days of summer wind down and we look forward to a new year, we also welcome the chance to sit, embrace, and reflect with the DJC community (and beyond) during the “Days of Awe” that begin with Erev Rosh Hashana and conclude with Ne-ilah. Our doors are open to all…Welcome.
Notes, News and our High Holiday calendar
A few notes:
- Please enter via the Danforth entrance - 310 Danforth Avenue for all services.
- Anyone who registered, or sent in a payment (including online) after August 31 may pick up their membership cards and/or tickets at the door before or during services. Please look for the PRE-REGISTERED sign in the lobby of the Danforth entrance.
- We do take registration at the door for all services - please look for the REGISTRATION sign in the lobby.
- We will be starting all our services in a timely fashion - please make an effort to be on time!
- Tashlich - September 13, 4:00 pm -our location (as usual) will be the Don Valley Brick Works.
- Our second day Rosh Hashana service - September 14- will be a Torah study, led by Melissa Heller. We will hold this service in the auditorium (entrance via Danforth). Please see Melissa’s article about the text study further on in the newsletter.
- Once again, our Day Care (free for all registrants) is run by Trudy LaChapelle and staff from the Children’s Circle Day Care. All children (between ages 2 and 11) must be signed in and out by parents. Children ages 12 and up are expected to join us at services. We appreciate your cooperation!
It’s the Kids’ turn…CHILDREN’S ROSH HASHANA SERVICE
Thursday, September 13, 10:30 am. Led by the inimitable musical team of Danny Bakan and Allan Merovitz, this will be held in the auditorium. Please enter via the Danforth entrance - Anne Shaddick will be there to take registration for the service and give directions to the auditorium. We’re asking for a donation ($75/family) or PWYC for any non-DJC members, otherwise the service is included with your membership.
You’re invited…
Rosh Hashana - Kiddush
Thursday, September 13 - after morning service
After Rosh Hashana service, we invite you to join us for a community Kiddush in the Hurndale room (downstairs). All are welcome in joining us for a delicious array of challah, apples, honey and cakes and conversation.
We’d like to thank Janice Fricker for organizing this event, and the many volunteers who also gave of their time.
Seeking and Offering Forgiveness: Text Study and Discussion
Second Day Rosh Hashana -Friday, September 14, 10:00 am.
For transgressions between one person and another, Yom Kippur does not procure atonement.
“This teaching, taken from the Babylonian Talmud, reflects a rabbinic understanding that to truly engage in the work of teshuvah, prayer alone is insufficient. Integral to the process is the work of reconciliation with the people in our lives.
During this session we will study a variety of Jewish texts-both ancient and contemporary- to see what models and insight they can offer us as we do this difficult work of making ourselves vulnerable to the other; of opening and hearts in the hopes of letting them heal.
There will be opportunity for hevrutah study (study in pairs,) as well as group conversation. I look forward to seeing you there.”
With blessings for a sweet new year,
Melissa
Jewish New Year and Light bulbs: A bright idea!
In these Holy Days of Elul we express a longing for a better world and we try to become better people. On Rosh Hashanah we reflect on the story of the creation of the world and our role in it. Rosh Hashanah is a call to reintegrate ourselves in the fabric of the natural world and to do our part to conserve the earth.
Caring for the environment continues our tradition of Bal Tashchit (do not destroy or waste), Tikkun Olam (repair the world), and our history of a Jewish people who have worked in change movements.
The Green Bayit/Green Home initiative is an outgrowth of the Listening Campaign at DJC. Many in the DJC community identified the environment as a leading concern.
The launch of our year-long calendar of events is the promotion of compact florescent light bulbs to coincide with the New Year. Look out for a light bulb demo outside the sanctuary during some of our High Holiday services.
Please click on the link below for the DJC Compact Florescent Light Bulb form, with details about how you can participate.
Download PDF CFL Light Bulb ORDER FORM
Download Word CFL Light Bulb ORDER FORM
The DJC Book Club
…is beginning its exciting season with a bang!
The book: Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky, is both a brilliant novel of wartime, and an extraordinary historical document, hailed by European critics as a War and Peace for the Second World War.
The facilitator: Elaine Newton, York Humanities Professor, former Globe and Mail book critic, and sought-after book club speaker, returns to the DJC Book Club after a year's absence.
Sound intriguing?
Be sure to pick up a flyer in the foyer at the High Holiday services for more information about this years’ line-up. And remember to register! Just click: info@djctoronto.com or call 416-580-6303.
After the Holidays, please take a moment to consider…
As the New Year approaches and we begin to think more deeply about renewal, ritual and community, the Adult Education Committee is planning a women’s retreat in celebration of the new moon (Rosh Chodesh) and Shabbat rituals.
Our Spiritual Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh retreat will take place the weekend of October 26 – 28 at Sahayoga, which is located just two hours from Toronto in Prince Edward County. Our retreat will include learning and sharing our stories about Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh. We will join together in prayer, music, meditation, and yoga. We’ll finish by 3 p.m. on Sunday, rested and renewed in body, mind and spirit.
The retreat will take place at a beautiful retreat centre near Picton with walking trails, delicious vegetarian meals, and a sauna to relax!
For those who wish to look more closely at the facility, please visit www.sahayoga.com. Please contact Josie at 416-467-5814 or Rosie at 416-465-9627 if you are interested or have any questions. The registration form with the final registration fee will be going out in a future DJC newsletter, so watch for it!
Our committee members are very excited about this upcoming and timely venture and look forward to celebrating together.
Sincerely,
Adult Education Committee, DJC
DJC HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICE CALENDAR
EASTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH, 310 DANFORTH AVENUE, TORONTO [map]
| Erev Rosh Hashana | Wednesday, September 12 | 7:30 pm |
| Rosh Hashana - First Day | Thursday, September 13 | 10:00 am |
| Tashlich* | Thursday, September 13 | 4:00 pm |
| Rosh Hashana -Second Day | Friday, September 14 | 10:00 am |
| Kol Nidre | Friday, September 21 | 7:30 pm |
| Yom Kippur | Saturday, September 22 | 10:00 am |
| Ne-ilah -concluding service | Saturday, September 22 | 6:00 pm |
| *DON VALLEY BRICK WORKS [map] | ||
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