Shabbat Shalom - 18th of Adar - Mar. 11 Shabbat Parah
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Israeli Folk Dancing on Sundays! Sundays 3:00pm - 5:00pm Led by Paula Wolk at JCM Ages 16+
Please help hungry children on Maui! Donate to the Maui Food Bank by bringing non perishable food to JCM and placeing it in the bin. The bin will be outside until April 2.
Tickets for the Community Passover Seder on Wednesday, April 4th at 6pm You can purchase tickets for the Community Passover Seder by clicking HERE. The cost is $100 for JCM members and Maui residents and $120 for visitors. The dinner will be chicken, matza ball soup, gefilte fish, roasted vegitables (vegan), and potatoes. Notethat only when you select if you are a member or a visitor does the option to pay and indicate how many people will be part of your group appear. (Volunteers needed: please contact Rabbi Raanan if you can help)
Thank you to everyone who helped make Purim a success at JCM this year Monday, Mar. 6 at 6:30pm A huge thank you to Rebecca Rhapsody for directing the Purim Play, to Sam Shnider and Helen Kritzler for taking part in the Improv Reading of the Megillah, to Stephanie Vojdani and Elnaz Tavakoli for preparing the food, to Rabbi David Glickman for leading a traditional Megillah reading, to Naor Nave and his band for amazing music and to the congregation for lending hand as we continue to be short staffed.
Madrichim (Teen Guides) have begun helping the younger students learn Hebrew. It was amazing to see how well the younger students responded to the teens as they sat with and helped them learn Hebrew from our new Aleph Champs curriculum.
Save the Dates
Wednesday, March 29 5-6pm - JCM Talmud Torah Chocolate Seder for Kids — We will have fun eating chocoate that has Passover symbols. Our teens will be leading part of the Seder as part of their Madrichim (guide) training. Wednesday, April 5 at 6pm - JCM Community Passover Seder - A family-friendly inclusive Seder. Please CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.
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Last year when we read Ki Tissa, we were full of hope that the future was full of promise for JCM’s success. The Golden Calf was a theoretical lesson to be learned from. I spoke of the Japanese form of art called kintsukuroi or “to repair with gold”. It is the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. The hope was that the brokenness was behind us. Instead we were, and in many ways still are, as a congregation and certainly as a people in the midst of brokenness.
And so how do we emerge from the brokenness? The builder of the Tabernacle, Bezalel, can perhaps guide us. The Eternal spoke to Moses, saying, “See, I have singled out by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. I have endowed him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft; to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper” (Exodus 31:1-4). Our Sages said that Bezalel’s wisdom emanated from being in the Shadow of the Eternal (which is the literal meaning of his name: Bezalel), thus named for his ability to connect the words with which the heavens and the earth were created” (Yalkut Shimoni).
Bezalel’s great ability was to know the secrets of linking one thing to another; how everything in the world - from the invisible atomic level to the level of human beings, connects in an organic way, so that the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. Every connection is an art. Every link is a miracle, from the electron connecting to a proton and creating an atom to the interpersonal connections we seek between one another. 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, March 11th
Morning Shabbat Service 9:30am Live at JCM and on ZOOM
Sunday, March 12th
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.
Yahrzeits March 5 - March 11
Dora Heller Dr. Leslie Malkin Dr. Stuart Ratner Judy Grant Larry Litt Mary-Ruth Mazzacano Max Mendlow Patricia Solomon Rosa Povich Rose Farber Sidney Baum Stanley Pomerantz Yoni Silberman Zvi Mandel
Join us for services on Friday and Saturday to recite Mourner's Kaddish
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.
