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Study Shabbat in July

Join us on July 7, 2007 (21 Tamuz 5767) promptly at 9:30 a.m. in Newmark Hall for a special learning opportunity led by Judy Cohen. The Torah portion is Pinchas (Leviticus 25:10-30-:1). This is a study Shabbat, not a service. (A traditional Shabbat service will be held in the Adat Shalom sanctuary.)

Rabbi August and Cindy Paley will return in August for our regular service on August 4, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary. Please be on time so that you won’t miss a minute of the uplifting music that characterizes our prayer community!

(Contact catering@leveisha.org if you wish to sponsor a future Kiddush or breakfast.)
  2007 Calendar of Events
July 7      Study Shabbat in Newmark Hall
  
July 23      Tisha B’Av services in the Sanctuary
August 4      9:30 a.m. Lev Eisha Service in the Sanctuary
  
 
  From Mollie's Kitchen

For eight hundred and thirty years the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem serving as the point of contact between heaven and earth. Its destruction, due to the senseless hatred between one Jew to another, is regarded as the greatest tragedy of our history. As a sign of our mourning, during the Three Weeks proceeding Tisha B’av, we refrain from eating meat, unless it is Shabbat.

Here is a dairy recipe to try during this period or for your break fast meal after the holiday.

The Rochester Rebbetzin’s Fruit Noodle Kugel

1 16 oz. pkg. broad egg noodles
¾ c. sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 t. cinnamon
a little salt
1 T. vanilla
¼ lb. melted butter
2 grated apples
2 grated pears (fresh or canned)
½ lemon, juiced
½ c. orange juice
Handful of raisins or dried fruits


1. Cook the noodles (al dente) according to the package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water.
2. Add all the remaining ingredients to the noodles and mix it up while singing My Yiddeshe Mama.
3. Pour into a greased 9 X 13 Pyrex dish and bake at 325 for 1.5 hours or until you can’t stand to wait.
Freezes well.

To make it into a meal, I add a pint of low fat cottage cheese and call it dinner. For a meat meal, omit the cottage cheese and use pareve margarine.

In This Issue

"Summertime...and the Living is Easy?" by Rabbi Toba August

For many of us, thank God, July is the time for much needed vacations. I feel so grateful to be able to take some time and go this year to Paris with my husband. I know I will be a tourist in a new city, and have so much to see and do. But, what exactly is a vacation for?

In the Jerusalem Talmud we are taught that:
"...in the future, a person will have to give account for everything that his eye saw and that he did not take the time to appreciate."


This teaching is the meaning of taking a "true" vacation and the lesson I am sharing with you for the summertime month of July.

Slow down. Take the time to really see, to really listen, and to really feel the world around us. Whether you remain at home, or are on a journey, now is the time to appreciate each moment, each experience, each sunrise and sunset, each member of our family and our friends, each breath we take, and each day of our precious lives.

May we all be able to account for and appreciate all that our eyes can see and our hearts can feel and we say AMEN.

A Tu B’Shvat Tidbit

At Tu B’Shvat, Joy, our percussionist, brought in little fig sticks to share. She gave Sarah Barash two in the hope that one would take. Sarah writes: “ I now have a minor miracle in a glass vase on my window sill. Not only did they root together, but after the fig leaves grew, I was shocked to find figs! We are talking about a stick in a glass of water!”

We are surrounded by miracles, big and small. Our job is to believe in miracles, pray for them, and put our faith in God that they will continue to happen for us. As we enter the month of Av, let’s continue to pray for the biggest miracle of all—PEACE in Israel and the Middle East.

Sarah's fig twig.jpg

Milestones

Mazel Tov to Lawrence Pius, son of Lev Eisha member Janis Cohen, on his acceptance to Northeastern University in Boston.

If you have a milestone to share please send it to: editor@leveisha.org. Our newsletter gets printed about a week before each service. Please send the info ASAP.

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