24 Shevat 5783 - 15 February 2023
(last updated 2.15.23)

What's
Up?

Soul Exercises

Feel like your spiritual muscles need some toning and fitness … consider joining me for some spiritual work out sessions. Meeting (mostly) via Zoom and beginning in March, we will tap into the warehouse of spiritual exercises from our Jewish and other wisdom traditions.  I am looking to set a schedule with feedback from those interested,  please reach out to me if you are interested or have questions.

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REPRO Shabbat

Friday, February 17 @ 6:00pm

We join with hundreds of Jewish communities around the U.S. to boldly declare reproductive freedom is a Jewish value and we’re going celebrate it!

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Purim ROCKS!

Join me and the Shabbat Jam Band for our interactive, musical and creative telling of the Purim story on March 3rd at 6:00pm.  Costumes encouraged!!

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Seeking Somewhere To Hang My Tools

On a more personal note … you may know that woodworking is one of my hobbies and passions.  (A few of the items we use at Micah are products of my woodshop!)  Unfortunately, the family who has generously opened their home wood shop to be is moving on and I need a new place to create.  So, I thought I would reach out and ask you to be part of my impromptu think tank as I try to find a new place to hang my tools, be creative and make more sawdust!  Any ideas are very welcome!

 

  א – ALEPH

 

I did not even make it to a whole word, I got stuck on just a letter.  א – Aleph.

One the insights about the experience on Sinai from our tradition that resonates most deeply with me speaks to what was actually spoken in that mythic moment.  It was Rabbi Mendel Torum of Rymanov who suggested that it was only the first letter of the first word that was uttered from the Divine.  The hook, the rub, the wonderfully confounding  aspect of this insight … is that the first letter, א – Aleph, is silent.  The first and only sound  of that transformative encounter was no sound, silence.  

Our minds are wonderful in the ways that they think, and wonder and process the world around and within us.  And they do not stop.  At their best they are like puppies with endless, playful and loving energy.  At worst they are like puppies with unfocused, unsettled and destructive energy.  Like a puppy, our minds need to be given attention, nourishment and training.  

Beyond and (possibly holding) the ongoing and mysterious workings of our mind, is the soul.  I believe reaching and touching the quiet  of the א – Aleph is the way we light the path to the soul.  When we remember and try to navigate that path, we bring ourselves in better balance … living in the healthy interplay of physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual selves.

I love the idea – while simultaneously finding it challenging – that the gateway to the Sinai moment and all that hinged upon it is the silence of א – Aleph.  In turn, the way to all that we associate with Sinai – divine encounter, connectedness to others, clarity of mission – is intimately ingrained in creating the experience of the א – Aleph, of silence.    As I imagine we all still value and even crave these Sinai-itic benefits … the quest for the א – Aleph moments will always be essential to our well-being of our bodies, hearts, minds and souls.

 

What's Happening?

 
REPRO SHABBAT
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Friday, February 17th
@ 6:00pm at Temple Micah
 
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Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, February 25th
@ 9:00am at Temple Micah
 

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The Shabbat Tisch
Saturday, February 25th
@ 10:00am at Temple Micah
 
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Purim Rocks!
Our Shabbat Jam Band helps us Rock Out Purim and tell the Purim story in only the way we can!
Costumes Welcomed!
 
Friday, March 3rd
@ 6:00pm at Temple Micah

 

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Boomers +/-
Israel Check In
Thursday, March 9th
@ 7:00pm at Temple Micah
 

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Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, March 11th
@ 9:00am at Temple Micah
 

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The Shabbat Tisch
Saturday, March 11th
@ 10:00am at Temple Micah
 
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Bar Mitzvah of Josh Hinton
Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, March 18th
@ 9:00am at Temple Micah
 
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