Shabbat Morning Services

[Music] page [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] or [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] in the middle of there [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] me [Music] is [Music] okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] laura will lead us now in the first two pages of the amidah please note the additions especially on the first pages and then silently on the last pages for shabbat shava the sabbath of repentance which we are observing today page 115. [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] we continue silently 117 through 120. oh oh um okay i was thinking about that that's a good idea we'll conclude the chakra on page 120 right below shalom [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] amen um [Music] [Music] [Music] um we're taking out the torah page 139 [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] remember okay i'm gonna speak tell her i'm gonna say a few words tell her i'll say a few words first she can sit in the front row shabbat shalom everyone this is a special shabbat you want to sit down for a minute because i want to say a few words you can sit here or wherever wherever you want this is a special shabbat it's called shabbat shiva normally parashat nitsavim vailak has read this shabbat but because this year the way the calendar falls with all the holidays being weekdays and not on shabbat they're separated out so we read nitsavim last week which has the word shuv return in it i think seven times and this is parashat vayila again they're usually read together it's a very short portion i will read from the end of the parsha and the name shabbat shava is because we are in the 10 days of repentance right and you may or not may or may not know that probably until about 150 years ago or so probably starting in germany and then coming to the united states most synagogues were not were part of a community but were not independent organizations with board of trustees and presidents like mindy as for our synagogue right but they were part of a commun series of community institutions and you didn't have a rabbi for each little steeple each little congregation or you may i'm not exactly sure but you didn't have you didn't have a rabbi necessarily for each congregation in a community what you had was a community rabbi and he gave two major addresses a year one is the shabbat before passover shabbat haggadah and the other is shabbat shiva and they were not sermons given in the morning service they were given on shabbat afternoon because they were dull they were longer right so and it was the custom especially right you can guess why passover and rosh hashanah passover with so many laws and customs and you have you could talk about the halacha the law of the laws of pesach you could talk about the the say there you could talk about the haggadah itself so many different things to talk about and shabbat shiva of course because this is the holiest 10 days of the year and so it was appropriate for the rabbi to share a rather long uh speech about sermon about repentance so i am going to take out now my 40 page surname i am not going to give you that shabbat shiva speech my son judah this afternoon will be giving his speech in fact he couldn't even talk to his iman eye yesterday because he teaches full time in a day school he had a run to shul before shabbat to finish his address to his congregation in queens this afternoon so we are now at the end of the torah and i just want to point out to you from where i'm going to read page 1178 so this is now moses description of right or narrative which includes moses own words and other than next week parashat hasinu that is really the end of his teachings right but it says when moses put down verse 24 page 1178 when moses had put down in writing the words of this teaching to the very end moses charged the levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant what was in the ark we didn't have torah scrolls yet what was in the ark the ten commandments were in the ark both the whole ones and the broken ones right by the way the cuts go rebbe there was a discussion yesterday on ravnet on my rabbinical thing on someone couldn't remember who said this there the katsuka rabbi the great hasidic rebbe said there's nothing more whole than a broken heart right because all of us experience loss and difficulties in our life so our heart is stronger from having experienced that so both the broken right moses broke the first set of tablets and then he wrote new ones those are in the ark of the covenant and look at what it says here verse 26 on page 178 take this book now what does this book mean not clear probably the book of deuteronomy probably not the entire torah scroll yet and place it beside the ark of the covenant and let it remain there as a witness against you exactly what it was in if it's next to it it's not clear where where next to did they have a separate little box for it well and then he reminds the people about how terrible they are well i know how defiant and stiff-necked you are even now well i am still alive in your midst you have been defiant toward the lord how much more when i am dead because he knows he's about to die gather to me gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials that i may speak all these words to them and that i may call heaven and earth to witness against them which are also words in last week's parsha heaven and earth for i know that when i am dead you will act wickedly and turn away from the path that i enjoin you that in time to come this fortune will befall you for having done evil in the sight of the lord then moses recites the words of this poem to the very end in the hearing of the whole congregation which is next week's portion azinu is a poem so this is what we're going to read now now first of all before i read this is also birthday shabbat is there an anniversary shabbat anybody have a birthday or anniversary in the month of september okay so we're going to have one aaliyah then and we are coming to a very sad time in our congregation because one of the most beloved members of our synagogue that's molly sperling in case you haven't figured out is going has sold her home and is going to be moving to be near her daughter not too far away so we expect that you will come here you know not only when we invite you but just any time you want save your daughter trudy okay and this week we're going to go right you're going to come visit us i hope right so i'm going to invite molly up to have an alia this is one of her last shabbato with us hopefully a few more yom kippur you'll be here right okay so um 1178 laura you want to do the calling up for me and then i'll i'll read she's going to call you up first [Music] um [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] we love you and you know that you're always a part of our synagogue even if you're in east windsor it's very hard and emotional for me to leave this congregation you've seen this building henry and i we have seen this building being built know the history of this and have many many wonderful friends and which you still have you will still have my my it will be my synagogue forever and you'll see us on the zoo anytime you want thank you very much i'm very humbled by all that and we know you didn't want a big party but we were going to give you a big party thank you i don't i don't need to be honored i just but i i will say now maybe we'll do it more formally another time a number of your friends have purchased [Music] i know you saw it because it was i know the mighty and the it was in the e-blast but we were going to do it as a secret um for you but there are um sidorima makhsarim and um that have your name and your beloved henry's name thank you and they will be here for the end of as long as we are here thank you your name and your names i know are on the wall here as well and your family's name you will always be here i'm very humbled and very honored thank you so much you're welcome you're welcome be careful i guess so the torah for this shabbat yuva is very unusual it's the only half torah selected by the rabbis of ancient times that has portions from three different prophets there is one other with two this is the only one with three and i'm going to read a selection of them and you should know that the word tosh lit appears at the end of the portion the last part part mikha which i will read chapter seven so please term one page oh this is a good the good this is not a good number for a password but it is a good number page one thousand two hundred thirty four one two three four page one two three four for the introduction to the half torah adonai elohim a is [Music] [Music] [Music] we'll continue the top of one two three nine chapter seven of the book of mira me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign we rise for those who would like to rise for the mishibera we invite those who are thinking of someone who is ill uh to mention their name when we pause in the misha barra misha barach avocado laura lois linda joni ben thank you ben [Music] [Music] amen we recite the prayer now for our country and for the state of israel page 148 and 149 please join me our god and god of our ancestors we ask your blessings for our country for its government for its leaders and advisors and for all who exercise just and rightful authority teach them insights from your torah that they may administer all affairs of state fairly that peace and security happiness and prosperity justice and freedom may forever abide in our midst creator of all flesh bless all the inhabitants of our country with your spirit may citizens of all races and creeds forge a common bond in true harmony to banish hatred and bigotry and to safeguard the ideals and free institutions that are the pride and glory of your country may this land under your providence be an influence for good throughout the world uniting all people in peace and freedom helping them to fulfill the vision of your prophet nations shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they experience war anymore and let us say amen page 149 avenue rock and redeemer of the people israel bless the state of israel with its promise of redemption shield it with your love spread over at the shelter of your peace guide its leaders and advisors with your light and your truth help them with your good counsel strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land deliver them crown their efforts with triumph bless the lamb with peace and its inhabitants with lasting joy and let us say amen we turn now to ashrae and then we return the torah to the ark marker you want to do this party want me to do you want me to do okay ah shreya page 151 and you can be seated and then we'll rise as we return the torah [Music] hallelujah we rise as the torah is returned to the ark hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] is [Music] [Music] may [Music] [Music] of you may be seated i'd like to share with you a brief message on this shabbat shava as we prepare for yom kippur yom kippur is the holiest day of the year and we usually focus on what we can't do on yom kippur which includes eating and drinking i think i i believe that there are some jews who spend the majority of yom kippur thinking about how many hours it is till the breakfast and i don't think that that was what god intended right when you read the haftarah for yom kippur morning and the prophet isaiah says is this the fast that i desire that you put on sackcloth and ashes and you bow your head like a bulrush no this is the fast that i desire for you to feed the hungry and clothe the naked right so the idea is if we just fast just the fast we're not fulfilling the mitzvah of fasting of as the terrorists as afflicting our souls that's how they describe fasting but rather we should be thinking about how we can make the world a better place and how we can be better people you notice that in the kaddish during the 10 days of repentance we say higher and higher right it's the same word really as al right the name of the israeli airline you know means to go high you know to go higher when you come up if we had our on the bema or if if i could make one slight design recommendation is that if we're going to have the shukhan down here we probably should have built at least a one step bhima to it in the sense that what you're supposed to do when you go to the torah and you have is what's the word aliyah to go up you're supposed to be going up and that's why most people have a raised platform for the aliacas you're supposed to go up for your aliyah and then go down by the way when you go to israel it's called aliyah as well what's it called if you leave israel you read you're right your dem the jews who left israel throughout you know throughout modern times used to be derogatory i don't think it happens anymore but you used to call them your dean people who came down from israel and settled in the united states if you were israel you were called your team but i think that the whole idea of yom kippur is not only that we are at our holy holiest on yom kippur but to help us reflect on the fact that on this one day god kind of comes down to us the other days we're supposed to like look up to god our gnome ki ports believe that god is coming closest to us um the greatest thinker and leader of modern orthodoxy the late rabbi joseph sullivan who was the head of all of the faculty of yeshiva university said on yom kippur god removes all obstacles and transforms our sometimes tortuous road into a straight path toward holiness and righteousness he then goes on to say we are not forgiven for our sins against god even with fervent prayer until we request forgiveness from our family and friends and so we cannot ask god for forgiveness of things we do to other people until we ask those people for forgiveness and he goes on to say unless we engage in global teshuva the idea that you're not only asking god for forgiveness but you're asking the people around you he calls that global teshuva he says then our atonement is ineffective and i think that this is a beautiful idea first we know that on yom kippur all of our confessional prayers which we recited on are in the plural right [Music] right the new is a plural ending avinu volcano is pluralistic we ask god for all these things not i okay and new the new tells you it's in the plural right and hashem knew so all of our confessional prayers are in the plural we see them together my friend and colleague rabbi nina beth cardin whose mother shoshanna cardin was one of the great jewish communal leaders in america and cousin is senator cardin of maryland rabbi nina bethkart who lives in maryland wrote on yom kippur we are not alone we do not approach god alone we do not abandon each other in our time of need and i've always been comforted by the fact that whenever i pray i'm joining not only with all of you here but theoretically around the world okay it's there's time zones in different times in israel already it's you know shabbos is over okay but essentially today we've all said the same prayers we're all speaking to god and on yom kippur even if there's different time zones we're all on the same day speaking to god to commonly ask for forgiveness for our sins and you all know that the ethics of the father's teachers call yes all jews are responsible for one another the final thought i have about yom kippur and this idea of global teshuva is that what's one of the last things we do on yom kippur afternoon we read the book of jonah right we begin yom kippur by focusing on our individual and communal repentance and by the afternoon as our day of fasting reach reaches that heightened frailty where we're all pretty hungry and we are starting to think about okay we have two hours to go until the we blow the shofar then we read the story of jonah and god asked him to go to nineveh and i just want to make sure that you are as clear to you that nineveh was the capital of assyria what is today iraq and there were no jews there so the story we are reading about the prophet jonah he's going to tell non-jews he's supposed to go tell non-jews to repent and then god will forgive their sins it's a universal story god doesn't care just about us god cares about all his people and you have a beautiful one of the most beautiful midrashim which leads to our half halal on pesach for the last six days right because the angels start singing when the israelites cross the sea and sing asia moshe right and miriam's dancing with her timbrels that's debbie freeman's song right and the angels according to the midrash start singing with the israelites and god says to the angels not to the israelites how can you sing when my dead meaning the egyptians you know lie dead before me when my children lie dead before me god is the god of all human beings and so it's interesting that we read the book of jonah which is not about jews and not about jews repenting right it's about the obligation to help people to achieve tikkun olam and to be better people jonah's message and god's message is we need to care about the entire world we need to care about the health and security and well-being of other people of other faiths and religions really the entirety of the world and i think one of the messages of there are many of the book of jonah is we are all god's children and god cares about how we all behave not just our own people sin is the result of selfishness when temptation overrides sacred principles seducta and social justice demonstrate sympathy empathy compassion and willingness to share with others so i'd like to suggest as we approach yom kippur as we bring food for our food drive which is going to go to jewish family service but as tom beck the director and i spoke the other day you know they support the entire community of elizabeth both jews and non-jews and they support you know all of this area and so we are providing both kosher and non-kosher food they have a kosher fruit pantry but they also are providing non-kosher food to all of the non-jewish people of which there is tremendous need now not only because of the flooding but just in general these pandemic times have raised the need for food food insecure there's food insecurity for more and more people so as we approach yom kippur we are not just searching for god god is searching for us god is knocking at our door and asking us like jonah to go out and help make the world a better place and the answer the question i think we need to ask is be able to answer is how are we the jewish people going to respond to that call to repentance shabbat shalom please turn now to page 155 mark will lead us 155 khatsi kaddish will recite 156 and 157 together we'll add in the prayers for shabbat shiva and then we will continue silently please rise [Music] [Music] um [Music] of [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um team [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] we continue silently through the end of the amidah 158 161. yeah i don't know if i know the new sock we'll conclude the amida with beseifer hayam page 161 the second paragraph i'm going to teach you an israeli melody that i learned many years ago when i was a student rabbi i worked with a the synagogue brought in a cancer from israel that candor was the son of a great english rabbi he wasn't a rabbi but he had a beautiful voice and he darvened with me 36 years ago on rosh hashana yom kippur and we've lost a little touch but he's now a rabbi in great britain where his father was a rabbi his name is lionel rosenfeld and he taught me this melody shalom [Music] is [Music] mark continues page 181. is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] beyond [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] before we read the your sites for this week i want to note the passing of a member of our congregation actually a recent member her name was aydah bruner she just joined our congregation in august of last year and she has passed away i was informed by her by the funeral home an executor and her funeral will be on monday she was a single woman who never married did not have any children and to our knowledge does not have any family nearby but i will be officially at her funeral on monday at 11 o'clock in woodbridge i also want to note the passing of the grandfather of jessica mallow who lived to be like almost 100 it was close to his 100th birthday 99 and like three quarters i just found out right before shabbat so hopefully have that information as well i believe her grandfather lived in fort lee new jersey in addition we observed the york sites today and this week of muriel winer beatrice rubenstein robert k back irving belski ellen wollenberg leon cohen irving feldman max galoff phyllis mayer melvin blemer herman klein sylvia shapiro leonard kaufman irving schwartz and abraham shiner and psalm testimony to that unbroken faith which links our generations one to another those observing your sight those who mourn join together now in the mourners kaddish on 184 bial is [Music] shabbat shalom to everyone before i call up our president to share our announcements this is birthday anniversary shabbat so if you're not here today i don't believe we have anyone in the congregation who has a birthday or anniversary in september but there must be in the congregation so happy birthday happy anniversary and we're going to have cupcakes in your honor okay so we even have streamers i think joni got streamers and sparkly things so kiddush will be outside in a few moments our president shabbat shalom everybody there's a lot of announcements and we all know that it's yom kippur this week most of the services are in zoom religious school starts sunday and um there will be tonight a service for in honor or in memory of 911 downtown and memorial park and um there will be a um havdela at 8pm which will have a special portion in memory of the 9 11 victims so please join us and please check your schedules and online for all the other announcements because otherwise we'll be here all day hearing them thank you and shabbat shalom and thank you everyone who participated in today's service so just to be clear tonight's abdullah which will include a few prayers for 9 11 is on zoom at eight o'clock after when shabbat is over mark will lead us now in adono alum page 187 i don't know if there's a specific yom kippur melody but i think you have something to do i i i always try i always try to i mean i like the standard that don't alone tune but i try to think of things and um in recognition that today is september 11th i would like to do this to america the beautiful [Music] [Music] [Music] era is [Music] [Music] thank you mark thank you laura thank you gersh for leading services i actually watched youtube a little yesterday like there's a version of the israelite you can find the israeli philharmonic playing it oh really yeah mark says the israeli philharmonic you can find a snippet of it on youtube yeah that's right i made sure to practice a little bit because it's not looking at the greatest here i know now excuse me 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Published: Sat Sep 11 2021