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Yom Kippur Services Update — Sat Oct 12, 10:30 am

October 11, 2024 by urjtbs • Services

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, it was delightful to see so many of you on tonight’s Zoom Kol Nidre service.  These times show what strength and love we have among us.  We are pleased to report that minutes before the start of tonight’s service we saw that power was restored to our synagogue building, so in-person services will be onstarting with the Yom Kippur Morning Service at 10:30 am.  There will be a break after the Morning Service, and at 3:00 pm we will return for our customary discussion period — Rabbi Herzfeld will lead a viewing of the October 7 Memorial program, In Memory and Hope.  The afternoon services follows immediately at 4:00 pm, then the Stone Service, Yizkor, Neilah, and finally the Break the Fast prepared by Trish Safer (thank you Trish!).  These activities will also be viewable live on Zoom if you are unable to come to the building for whatever reason, please contact us for the link.

Yom Kippur Services — Status Update

October 10, 2024 by urjtbs • Services

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, here is an update to our plans for this Friday and Saturday:
 
  • Dinner with the Rabbi tomorrow, October 11 is unfortunately cancelled due to post-hurricane travel and business closing issues.
  • Kol Nidre/Erev Yom Kippur services on Friday, October 11 at 7:30 pm will be on ZOOM ONLY for similar reasons.  We hope you have sufficient electricity and internet access to be able to join us.
  • We will update as soon as possible on the status of the Saturday, October 12 Yom Kippur schedule of services as information becomes available.
Please contact us for the link. Please take care of yourself and your loved ones and we will keep you up-to-date, and hope to see you again soon.

Kol Nidre Service — Friday Oct 11, 7:30 pm

October 10, 2024 by urjtbs • Services

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, we hope you are safe and well!  Some of our members are still at their evacuation sites, and hopefully will return by tomorrow morning.  We are looking at power outage maps to see what the status is for our services, and cannot advise yet if we will have in-person services tomorrow and/or Saturday.  We have Zoom links prepared which we would use for at-home attendees, so will provide those. Please contact us for the link.

Hurricane Milton

October 8, 2024 by urjtbs • Community, Services

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, after the first year of remembrance of October 7, now our minds are on Hurricane Milton advancing toward our community.  Our love and concern is with you as you evacuate to a safer area or prepare your home to wait out the storm.  With Yom Kippur approaching, the Jewish principle of pikuach nefesh applies — the priority is for your safety and well-being and that of your loved ones.  We wish for you:

 
  • That all of us come through the storm safe and well,
  • That any damage to your homes and our synagogue building is minimal,
  • That you do not lose electricity and other essentials, and if you do; it is only for a short time,
  • And that we can come together again soon.

 Be on the lookout for any updates about Yom Kippur services in the next 24 hours.  Wishing you shalom.

Erev Yom Kippur/Se’udah Mafseket Dinner with the Rabbi — Fri Oct 11, 5 pm

October 4, 2024 by urjtbs • Social

Dinner with the Rabbi 

Enjoy your Yom Kippur meal with Rabbi Herzfeld, take the opportunity to chat with the Host and the Rabbi.

October 11th at 5:00 pm

Polly & Jan Weinmann

Outback Steakhouse

  170 Cypress Gardens Blvd,

Winter Haven, FL 33880

 R.S.V.P. by October 9th to:  lorrainemixter@aol.com

Or text or call: 863-409-8509

The Weinmanns and the Rabbi look forward to starting the Yom Kippur holiday with you.

October 2024 Chai Lites

October 2, 2024 by urjtbs • Community, Social

L’Shana Tovah, Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends!  Somehow through waiting out a hurricane, preparing for the High Holidays, and carrying on all of our usual synagogue business, our Editor and team managed to prepare a lovely issue of the Chai Lites for you!  There are lovely updates and valuable information about our High Holiday schedule of services.  We look forward to seeing you this week for Rosh Hashanah and later this month for Yom Kippur.  This is an important time for us to come together with all that is happening in the country and in the world, so many thanks to all whom contributed to these activities and this newsletter.

2024OctChai Lites

Rosh Hashanah Oct 2-3

September 30, 2024 by urjtbs • Services

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, our next service is Erev Rosh Hashanah on Wednesday, October 2 at 7:30 pm.  We are looking forward to celebrating the start of 5785 with you!  The Rosh Hashanah Morning Service follows the next day on Thursday, October 3 at 10:30 am.  You can also see the rest of the High Holiday schedule below.

 
The High Holiday services are a blessing of membership in Temple Beth Shalom.  If you are not a member of our congregation, we still welcome you and encourage you to support us in bringing you these beautiful services officiated by Rabbi Herzfeld and with vocal accompaniment by our soloist, Meryl Crews, with a donation.  We would love to apply your High Holiday donation as an installment toward annual membership dues.
 
If you are unable to join us for any of the services at our synagogue, we also welcome you to experience any of them with us live on Zoom, using the link included below the schedule. Please email us for the Zoom link.  L’Shanah Tovah!
Service Day Date Time
Erev Rosh Hashanah Wednesday October 2 7:30 pm
Rosh Hashanah Morning Service Thursday October 3 10:30 am
Kol Nidre Service Friday October 11 7:30 pm
Yom Kippur Saturday October 12

Morning Service

10:30 am

Discussion

3:00 pm

Afternoon Service

4:00 pm

Stone Service, Yiskor

4:30 pm

Neilah

5:00 pm

Break Fast

6:00 pm

Shabbat/Selichot, Fri/Sat Sept 27-28

September 25, 2024 by urjtbs • Services

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, our Rabbi Herzfeld is back with us and we are moving into the High Holidays!  We are looking forward to having you with us to welcome Rabbi Herzfeld back and to launch our meaningful schedule of High Holiday activities.

 
Shabbat begins this week on Friday, September 27 at 7:30 with a traditional Shabbat service with Rabbi Herzfeld that is ZOOM ONLY.  It is getting dark earlier again, and we may be still having some weather from the tropical storm/hurricane, so Zoom is a great opportunity!  We will have the portal open early so we can get together to kibitz and schmooze.
 
Then the next evening on Saturday, September 28 we all return to the temple building for a delicious lasagna dinner to welcome in Selichot and to welcome back Rabbi Herzfeld.  Dinner is at 6:00 pm.  After dinner Rabbi has his annual, educational Selichot presentation followed by Havdalah, a brief and lovely Selichot service, and ending with the first sounding of the shofar of the season.  
 
That is all too lovely to miss, but if you can’t be with us physically, you can always be with us virtually, and in spirit! Please contact us if you want the Zoom link.

CANCELLATION — Shabbat Service Sat Sept 14

September 12, 2024 by urjtbs • Services

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, please note that the Shabbat Service previously scheduled for Saturday, September 14 is cancelled.  We are using the extra time to prepare for the upcoming High Holidays!  We hope to see you next for the Zoom Shabbat Service with Rabbi Herzfeld on Friday, September 27 at 7:30 pm, and for Rabbi’s Welcome Back Dinner and Selichot program on Saturday, September 28 at 6:00 (RSVP to sandigrinker@gmail.com).  

Brotherhood/Sisterhood Movie Day Sept 22

September 10, 2024 by urjtbs • Social

RSVP – B/S Movie and a Dive

 Sunday September 22, 2024

BayLake Motorcoach Resort

2750 Baylake Resort Road

Polk City, Florida 33868

Off I-4 [exit 44] and Hwy 559 – Drive behind the Loves Truck Stop

Come Join Temple Beth Shalom Brotherhood/Sisterhood

For Movie and Relaxation.

$1.00 per B/S person or $5.00 per non-member. [Collected at movie]

SCHEDULE

Gate Open Noon to 2:00pm

Use Door #1 from Parking Lot

                 1] Noon-2pm Card Room Social [Ping Pong and pool table]     

Bring your lunch from Publix or home [Publix is one mile south of Loves]

2] 2pm-4pm Movie Room – The Frisco Kid [Rabbi Avram Belinsky]

Bring your popcorn, drink and your laughter.

3] 4pm-6pm Pool or hot tub [Subject to parts and weather]

Relax in cardroom or Dive into Pool [Finish your lunch and snacks]

Bring all waste to kitchen for outside cans!  Clips on outside cans.

RSVP Joseph Rodriguez: JrodTBS2021@gmail.com

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