Shabbat Shalom and Happy New Year from Rabbi Shafrin! 1/1/2021
Dear Kol Rinah Families,
Happy New Year, Everyone! It is a pleasure to formally welcome each and every one of you into this first day of 2021! It may seem as though 2020 was much longer and more intense than a mere twelve months could be, but today we turn the page and start a brand new year with many reasons for hope on the horizon.
Similarly, this week we read the final portion of Sefer Bereishit, The Book of Genesis. We put to a close the contentious, fraught, beautiful, heartbreaking, and somehow still hopeful story of Jacob, his 13 children, and the 70 people who made up his extended family, now recently relocated into Egypt.
If you have read through Torah before, however, you know that it is not all sunshine and rainbows ahead. The Book of Exodus recounts one of the darkest chapters in our history, and yet it is a story of redemption so powerful that it has shaped and inspired cultures around the world for milennia. If the Book of Genesis is a beginning, the embarking point on our human journey, the transition into the Book of Exodus is a liminal point from the journey of our human family into the travails and travels of our Jewish one.
That is where we sit as we enter this first Shabbat of the New Year, caught between where we were and where we want to be, between the trials we have overcome and those that still lie in our future. No matter what lies ahead in 2021, we know that none of us will be able to return to a simple routine. There will be new realities to which we need to adapt and new measures we will need to take to ensure we can all live safe, healthy, happy, and meaningful lives together.
More than anything, I pray that 2021 WILL be a year of being together, of standing together to support one another and, God willing, one day be being together in person. I hope that we can all move on to the next chapter in our lives and in the life of our community. I long for that blessed day when we can see each other smile and, once again, celebrate all together.
Thank you for all of your care and support for one another over the past year. I wish you a new year full of blessing and success, happiness and joy, health and security, and positive steps toward a world renewed.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy New Year,
Rabbi Shafrin
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This Shabbat's Parashah is Vayechi
Torah Reading: Genesis 49:1-26
Haftarah: 1 Kings 2:1-12
This afternoon at 3:30 pm we'll have mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat using the link below. Please note the time change; as Shabbat continues to start later, we will be moving the time back by half an hour every few weeks.
Candle lighting is at 4:33 pm, and Shabbat ends at 5:37 pm on Saturday night.
Saturday morning we'll be streaming services from the Sanctuary beginning at 9:30 am. Please see the link below for the streaming information: https://player2.streamspot.com/?playerId=3506a4c8
Today, because of the New Year's holiday, there will be NO Torah Talk. Torah Talk wil return next Friday, January 8.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy New Year,
Rabbi Scott Shafrin
ZOOM AND STREAMING LINKS
To join our Zoom Minyanim or classes, click on the desired meeting link, or call into either of the following numbers:
+1 312 626 6799
+1 646 558 8656
Then, when prompted, enter the Meeting ID of the desired minyan/class then press #. Then, when prompted, enter the password then press #.
Services (all times Central)
Evening Minyan on Zoom
Sunday-Thursday evenings at 6pm, Friday evening at 3:00pm
Morning Minyan on Zoom
Monday-Friday mornings at 7am; Sunday mornings and national holidays at 8am (not including Jewish holidays)
Learning Opportunities
Torah Talk with Rabbi Arnow or Rabbi Shafrin
Every Friday at 12pm
Join us for study and discussion of the week's Torah portion.
Zoom & Learn Series
Sundays at 11:30am,
Shabbat morning
Saturdays, 9:30am
Click the link below, then click the triangular "play" buttom:
https://player2.streamspot.com/?playerId=3506a4c8
Until shortly before 9:30am, there will a filler screen, but livestreamed video and sound will both start around 9:30am.
You can also set your computer or device in advance so that this link will continue streaming continuously and you will not have to press any buttons on Shabbat. To make sure that your device will not shut itself down or do into sleep mode, follow the directions below to disable sleep mode:
For PC:
To disable automatic Sleep:
1. Open up Power Options in the Control Panel. In Windows 10 you can get there from right clicking on the start menu and going to Power Options
2. Click "change plan settings" next to your current power plan
3. Change "Put the computer to sleep" to never
4. Click "Save Changes"
For Apple Products:
1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click "Energy Saver."
2. Do either of the following:
a. Set the amount of time your computer or display should wait before going to sleep: Drag the “Computer sleep” and “Display sleep” sliders, or the “Turn display off after” slider.
b. Keep your Mac from going to sleep automatically: Select “Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.”
Happy New Year, Everyone! It is a pleasure to formally welcome each and every one of you into this first day of 2021! It may seem as though 2020 was much longer and more intense than a mere twelve months could be, but today we turn the page and start a brand new year with many reasons for hope on the horizon.
Similarly, this week we read the final portion of Sefer Bereishit, The Book of Genesis. We put to a close the contentious, fraught, beautiful, heartbreaking, and somehow still hopeful story of Jacob, his 13 children, and the 70 people who made up his extended family, now recently relocated into Egypt.
If you have read through Torah before, however, you know that it is not all sunshine and rainbows ahead. The Book of Exodus recounts one of the darkest chapters in our history, and yet it is a story of redemption so powerful that it has shaped and inspired cultures around the world for milennia. If the Book of Genesis is a beginning, the embarking point on our human journey, the transition into the Book of Exodus is a liminal point from the journey of our human family into the travails and travels of our Jewish one.
That is where we sit as we enter this first Shabbat of the New Year, caught between where we were and where we want to be, between the trials we have overcome and those that still lie in our future. No matter what lies ahead in 2021, we know that none of us will be able to return to a simple routine. There will be new realities to which we need to adapt and new measures we will need to take to ensure we can all live safe, healthy, happy, and meaningful lives together.
More than anything, I pray that 2021 WILL be a year of being together, of standing together to support one another and, God willing, one day be being together in person. I hope that we can all move on to the next chapter in our lives and in the life of our community. I long for that blessed day when we can see each other smile and, once again, celebrate all together.
Thank you for all of your care and support for one another over the past year. I wish you a new year full of blessing and success, happiness and joy, health and security, and positive steps toward a world renewed.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy New Year,
Rabbi Shafrin
--
This Shabbat's Parashah is Vayechi
Torah Reading: Genesis 49:1-26
Haftarah: 1 Kings 2:1-12
This afternoon at 3:30 pm we'll have mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat using the link below. Please note the time change; as Shabbat continues to start later, we will be moving the time back by half an hour every few weeks.
Candle lighting is at 4:33 pm, and Shabbat ends at 5:37 pm on Saturday night.
Saturday morning we'll be streaming services from the Sanctuary beginning at 9:30 am. Please see the link below for the streaming information: https://player2.streamspot.com/?playerId=3506a4c8
Today, because of the New Year's holiday, there will be NO Torah Talk. Torah Talk wil return next Friday, January 8.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy New Year,
Rabbi Scott Shafrin
ZOOM AND STREAMING LINKS
To join our Zoom Minyanim or classes, click on the desired meeting link, or call into either of the following numbers:
+1 312 626 6799
+1 646 558 8656
Then, when prompted, enter the Meeting ID of the desired minyan/class then press #. Then, when prompted, enter the password then press #.
Services (all times Central)
Evening Minyan on Zoom
Sunday-Thursday evenings at 6pm, Friday evening at 3:00pm
Morning Minyan on Zoom
Monday-Friday mornings at 7am; Sunday mornings and national holidays at 8am (not including Jewish holidays)
Learning Opportunities
Torah Talk with Rabbi Arnow or Rabbi Shafrin
Every Friday at 12pm
Join us for study and discussion of the week's Torah portion.
Zoom & Learn Series
Sundays at 11:30am,
Shabbat morning
Saturdays, 9:30am
Click the link below, then click the triangular "play" buttom:
https://player2.streamspot.com/?playerId=3506a4c8
Until shortly before 9:30am, there will a filler screen, but livestreamed video and sound will both start around 9:30am.
You can also set your computer or device in advance so that this link will continue streaming continuously and you will not have to press any buttons on Shabbat. To make sure that your device will not shut itself down or do into sleep mode, follow the directions below to disable sleep mode:
For PC:
To disable automatic Sleep:
1. Open up Power Options in the Control Panel. In Windows 10 you can get there from right clicking on the start menu and going to Power Options
2. Click "change plan settings" next to your current power plan
3. Change "Put the computer to sleep" to never
4. Click "Save Changes"
For Apple Products:
1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click "Energy Saver."
2. Do either of the following:
a. Set the amount of time your computer or display should wait before going to sleep: Drag the “Computer sleep” and “Display sleep” sliders, or the “Turn display off after” slider.
b. Keep your Mac from going to sleep automatically: Select “Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.”
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Mornings- M, T, W, F 7am & Sun 8am.
Evenings- Sun-Th 6pm.
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Thursday mornings 7am are in-person only.
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