Thank you
10/15/2016 07:53:54 PM
Oct15
Dear Bnai Keshet,
Thank you, as always, for your generous gifts of spirit in making our High Holy Days a deep and meaningful experience. Leading these services is one of the great pleasures and privileges of our work as your rabbis. Your presence and participation as a community makes this especially uplifting and rewarding for us.
For those who may have missed services or want to review a teaching you will find the link below.
- We wanted to particularly thank all of those who helped make the holidays happen, logistically and spiritually.
- Don Rifkin and Clair Goldberg, our High Holiday czar and czarina, for organizing all of the people and details.
- Peter Herbst, Zach Lipner, Margo Bloom, Martin Slon, Elizabeth Lipner and Martin Fellner for organizing service leadership, schleppers, and aliyot.
- Luis Schushinski, Peter Herbst, Debbie Wohl, Marty Fogel, Nancy Rosenblum, Lauren Meyer, Melissa Schaffer, and Akiva Tepperman for wonderful davening.
- Thomas Jeszeck and all the inspiring Bnai Keshet choir members.Nathan Goldwasser and all of our Torah and Haftarah readers for giving us the opportunity to hear Torah so beautifully. A particular thank you to our teenagers who stepped up to read!
- Noemi Giszpenc, Alvaro Donado, Bruce Cohen, and Allen Keller for powerful dvarlettes.
- Sam Sheps, Dan Zinman, and our many other powerful shofar blowers!
- Flory Jagoda for her terrific Ladino family blessing.
- All of the schleppers, including Dan and Sam Epstein, Eric Schwimmer, Alan Brenner, and all the Slons!
- Melissa Schaffer and Beth Sandweiss for leading meditation and chanting.
- Rabbi Daniel Brenner for engaging so many of our teens with his teaching.
- Rabbi Noach Shapiro for meaningful teaching on teshuvah.
- Sarah Barasch-Hagans, our rabbinic intern, for beautiful teaching and for leading children's services.
- Lincoln Richman, our songleader, for leading children's services and activities.
- Alina Leonardo and our babysitters for providing safe and loving childcare throughout the holidays.
- Our ushers, childcare registration volunteers, and the many other helping hands who made the days run smoothly and warmly greeted each adult and child who came through our doors.
- Stuart Brown and Alina Leonardo, for managing the many logistics, both big and small.
And
- Everyone for all your contributions.
We are excited to share the audio and text of each of the dvarlettes and sermons given over the holidays. We hope you will continue to engage with us in our conversations on b'tzelem Elohim over the year.
As we head into Sukkot, chag sameach!
Rabbi Elliott & Rabbi Ariann
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