Israeli Folk Dancing IS BACK! Sundays 3:00pm - 5:00pm Led by Paula Wolk at JCM Ages 16+
Join us next Wednesday for the next JCM Teen Gathering Wed. Feb. 22 at 6pm after Talmud Torah The Rabbi will make pizzas with our teen group and watch a movie. Teens 12+ are welcome to join us.
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Monday, March 6, 2023 - Purim Play - Come and see the JCM Talmud Torah students perform in the Purim Play being led by Rebecca Rhapsody, daughter of Joseph Narrowe. Practices for the play will take place during Talmud Torah on Wednesdays: Feb. 22 and March 8. After the Purim Play will be a reading of the Megillah with improv following each chapter. We will conclude with a festive meal and music by Naor Nave. Wednesday, April 5 at 6pm - JCM Community Passover Seder - A family-friendly inclusive Seder. Pricing, tickets and further information will be available starting on March 1. (Volunteers needed: please contact Rabbi Raanan if you can help)
This Shabbat is Shabbat Shekalim Once a year during this Shabbat portion, each adult Jew is required to contribute half of a Biblical shekel (about $5.60)* for the upkeep of the Tabernacle, or Mishkan (משכן). In our day and age, this contribution is given to a person's local synagogue. Please contribute today by clicking below. This Shabbat takes place on the Shabbat before or on the first of the Hebrew month of Adar. A happy new month to us all.
*Maimonides writes (Laws of Shekalim 1:5) that the half shekel mentioned in the Torah – the annual contribution every Jew was required to give to the Temple coffers – is equal to 160 grains of barley, which, in modern measurements, would be approximately eight grams of silver. At today's rate of approximately $21.62 per ounce, 8 grams of silver is around $5.60. If you don't give today, how can we be here tomorrow?
You may not need us every day, or even every week. But when you want us, you need us to be here.
Please give a gift to JCM for a successful 2023. We rely solely on donations/memberships to pay for dynamic programming, our bills and the Rabbi's salary. Your gift now will ensure that our dynamic leadership team has the resources we need to be here for you and your Maui Jewish community.
Give with joy, give with pride, give today.
P.S. We're not spending money and using resources to send out letters, this is this our ask and our reminder to you that we do not exist without you.
Then he took the record of the covenant and read it aloud to the people. And they said, “All that the Eternal has spoken we will faithfully do!” Exodus 24:7
Wouldn’t it make more sense to hear what we are required to do before we do it? “We will hear and we will do” would make so much more sense. Our modernized way of life leaves us thinking that this is a strange and problematic statement. We Jews are known as a stiff-necked nation that logically leads us to think that we would never promise to hear and obey without asking a lot of questions.
The logical way that rings true to us in this day and age is if we said: “We will hear, we will think about it, and then we will do it.” In other words, we will listen to You and hear what You want from us, and then we will consider it and think about it. And finally, if we are convinced, we will obey.
Over the past year, I have been teaching that there are four levels of understanding the Torah: Peshat (literal meaning), Remez (hint), Derash (tradition from the Sages or Oral Torah) and Sod (Secret Kabbalistic meaning). Let's look deeper into this idea and see if there is a deeper meaning for why we said that we will "do for the good of the doing."
One of the principles of Torah study is that there is nothing accidental in the Torah, and therefore, there must be something about these words and this particular sequence that touches the human experience deeply.
We live in an age that an old person is required to retire and vacate their space for the young. As for wisdom, we are all taught to think, investigate, and thoroughly understand before we act. Every Friday night we sing the Lecha Dodi hymn, which includes the words “Forethought determines the outcome of an action.” But Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz who wrote this beautiful hymn in the mystical city of Safed, certainly did not mean that human forethought determines the outcome.
Is the human mind truly capable of thinking and planning life? Is it really possible to reduce that infinite, amazing thing called “life” to the dimensions of a limited human mind? What percentage of our actions - both the daily, routine ones and the unique, creative ones - really and truly originate from a conscious process of thought? Continued here...
Talmud Torah - open enrollment Wednesdays 5:00pm - 6:00pm We have a dozen students from ages 6-13 in three different classes. It's not too late to join the learning and the fun!
Our Mission: Our school seeks to inspire children to develop a rich Jewish life through a love of pluralistic learning and developing friendships in a diverse community.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service 6:00pm Live at JCM and on ZOOM
Saturday, February 18th
Morning Shabbat Service 9:30am Live at JCM and on ZOOM
Sunday, February 19th
Israeli Folk Dancing 3:00-5:00pm Live at JCM
Refuah Schleima- Prayer For Healing
Click Hereif you or a loved one would like to be added for a prayer for healing each week. No names will be read aloud without permission...names can be said privately by the rabbi.
JCM is here to support you and your loved ones, please let us know how we can help.
ALEXANDER BEN ABRAHAM SINGER SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
Purpose of the Alexander Ben Abraham Singer Scholarship: The Alexander Singer Scholarship Fund was established in blessed memory of its namesake. The purpose of the scholarship is to financially assist Hawai`i’s Jewish youth to experience a Jewish camp on the U.S. Mainland or in Israel, or to travel to Israel for an educational program or the Birthright Israel Program.
Application Requirements: Applicants for camp must be between the ages of 12 to 18 and/or not yet a high school graduate.
Priority will be given to first time Singer Scholarship applicants. Click here for the application or email rabbi@mauijews.org
Yahrzeits February 12 - February 18
Abraham Rudman Al Tuckman Anna Wallin Bea Goodman Ben Wosk David Costell Elias Wolfson Gordon Irving Stern Joe Kline Lewis Weil Lottie Garaway Marvin Mastroff Norman Cecil Leiman Rose Baum Sam Wallin Walter Birk
Join us for services on Friday and Saturday to recite Mourner's Kaddish
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The Jewish Congregation of Maui Beit Shalom Synagogue Kihei, HI 96753
The mission of the Jewish Congregation of Maui is to support and inspire Jewish religious and cultural practices for Maui residents and visitors, provide and encourage Jewish education and life cycle services, and engage the Jewish community with religious services, classes, and events.
