Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh – Your Small Local Shul in Portland, Maine
Shaarey Tphiloh Prayers, by Caryl Herzfeld
Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh
Please join us in our new location
Saturday morning services
9:30 a.m. Room 4A
400 Deering Avenue
Portland, Maine
November 5, 2016 – 4 Heshvan 5777
Shabbat Noach
Genesis 6:9-11:32
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-55:5
Candle lighting 5:08 p.m.
Our Kiddush is generously sponsored by Adeline Glovsky Hale in memory of her beloved family members: father, David Glovsky, her aunt, Doris Bornstein, and
her mother-in-law, Fay Hale.
CHILDREN’S SHABBAT SERVICES SCHEDULE SEE BELOW
Ner Lamaore
Stan and Doris Pollack, in memory of Morris Cohen, brother of Lorraine Smith
Parashat Noach
G‑d said to Noah . . . “Come into the ark” (7:1)
The Hebrew word for “ark,” teivah, also means “word.” “Come into the word,” says G‑d; enter within the words of prayer and Torah study. Here you will find a sanctuary of wisdom, meaning and holiness amidst the raging floodwaters of life. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
When G‑d said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me,” Noah said: “What will You do with me?” But he did not pray for mercy for the world, as Abraham would pray for the city of Sodom. . . . This is why the Flood is called “the waters of Noah” (Isaiah 54:9)—he is culpable for them, because he did not appeal for mercy on the world’s behalf. Zohar
G‑d spoke to Noah, saying: “Go out of the ark . . .” (8:16)
This, too, is a divine command. G‑d commands us to “enter into the ark,” into the sanctums of spirituality we are to create in the material world. But then we must “go out of the ark” to carry forth its sanctity to the ends of the earth.
The Chassidic Masters
www.chabad.org
CHILDREN’S SHABBAT SERVICES
Led by volunteers Jeff & Abby Halpern
Temple Beth El Youth Lounge/Library (off of the Social Hall)
Joint Temple Beth El and Shaarey Tphiloh children’s Shabbat services will be held on the first and third Saturday every month through June.
– Tefillat Yeladim (K – 5th grade): Starting around 10:30 am. Kids will be collected from each minyan or the halls. We will finish around 11:30 am.
– Tot Shabbat (Toddler – Pre K): Starting at 11:15 am, parents, please drop off your kids at the Youth Lounge (off of the Social Hall). Kids will be returned in time for Adon Olam at the parents’ minyan.
In all programs, children within the age range are welcome to attend while parents are at either shul. Kids older than the age range are welcome to attend as special helpers. Kids younger than the age range are welcome to attend with parent’s company.
We welcome special guests (including parents or grandparents). Please email Jeff at jmh12@nullcase.edu if you want to be listed as a special guest.
Chevra Kadisha Annual Meeting
The Jewish Community is cordially invited to:
Portland Chevra Kadisha Annual Meeting
Sunday, November 13, 2016
10:00 am
Temple Beth El
A kosher breakfast will be served. Suggested Donation $18.00
Please RSVP to paulaharrisrn@nullgmail.com or call Paula Harris (207)799-9098
Israeli Poet Rachel Tzvia Back
Sunday November 20th
On Sunday November 20th Israeli poet translator and professor of literature Rachel Tzvia Back will be at Temple Beth El, 400 Deering Avenue in Portland. Her most recent translation collection, In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner, was a finalist for both the Jewish Book Award and the national Translation Award in Poetry (2015). Her own poetry collections include: A Messenger Comes (Elegies), On Ruins and Return, Azimuth and the forthcoming What Use is Poetry, the Poet is Asking.
Autumn Tercets (October–December 2015)
“…The eastern winds like evening
jackals in the final shadowed wadi
never stop howling.
In first darkness they
scale the stony slope, thick
paws pounding at lowered blinds.
Our house circled, they hurl
themselves at panes and never stop
howling….”
Rachel Tzvia Back
Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine
The Sampson Center’s Judaica Advisory Committee at USM is seeking new members. Those who are interested in discussing membership on the committee should care about Maine Jewish history, preservation or collecting. If you are a creative thinker and value the preservation of the record of Maine Jewish life, call Committee Chairperson Susan Cummings-Lawrence at 799-9257 or e-mail at slawrence1@nullmyfairpoint.net for more details.
Learn how the committee works, about future activities and the group’s connections with the Sampson GLBT Advisory Committee and the African-American Advisory Committee
Kristallnacht
John Zorn
This 1993 release documents an intense musical representation of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, a coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich that occurred on November 9, 1938, during which Nazis, SS members, and Hitler youth broke into Jewish homes and businesses, assaulting the people and their property. The official German report tallied 7,500 businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned (with 177 totally destroyed), and 91 Jews killed. John Zorn has created a musical work that powerfully represents the different stages of this historical event. “Shtetl (Ghetto Life)” is beautiful yet apprehensive klezmer, interspersed with sound bites of German rallies and speeches that become more frequent, increasingly crowding the life from the music. This segues into “Never Again,” which, Zorn warns in the liner notes, “contains high frequency extremes at the limits of human hearing and beyond, which may cause nausea, headaches and ringing in the ears.” While nearly unbearable, it is a fitting sound representation of Kristallnacht, as thousands of layers of shattering glass assault the ears. “Never Again” is both effective and affecting, if you can listen. This onslaught is followed by the loud silence and emptiness of “Gahelet (Embers),” a walk through the immediate aftermath of wind, darkness, and destruction. Alley echoes are heard as sound is overwhelmed by a dread and horror beyond expressing, and no words can contain what might begin to form in the midst of shock. This is a heavy silence. Strings have gone haggard on the next composition, and from this point the album becomes less literal and explicit, moving away from poignancy and focus into more chaos. Zorn‘s forceful undertaking is realized through the expert and passionate musicianship of violinist Mark Feldman, guitarist Marc Ribot, keyboardist Anthony Coleman, bassist Mark Dresser, and percussionist William Winant, as well as guest trumpeter Frank London and clarinetist David Krakauer.
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, klezmer, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions, which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat as “one of our most important composers.”
Grades 11-12 Community High School Program
Avis Smith
A community monthly class for students in grades 11 and 12 will be offered on Sundays from 5:00-6:30 PM. Registration is now under way.
Everything You Never Knew about Judaism!
(All the things you would not have learned in Religious School…)
We are excited to offer once again a Jewish studies program that is open to all high school juniors and seniors in Southern Maine. Our hope is that this program will provide an opportunity to get to know other Jewish high school students from the region, and to study and learn in an informal but stimulating environment. Teacher: Avis Smith
The classes will meet once a month, for a total of nine sessions, on Sundays, from 5:00 – 6:30 PM (no dinner, only snacks). This year’s dates are: September 25, October 30, November 20, December 18, January 22, February 12, March 25, April 30, and May 14.
The cost is $100. for the year. Classes will meet at Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland. For more information and to register call Louise at 879-0028.
Shaarey Tphiloh Deconsecration Ceremony
YouTube Video
View the Shaarey Tphiloh deconsecration ceremony and last service at
76 Noyes St. on YouTube here.
Sunday Simcha
WMPG 90.9
Sunday mornings from 6:30-8:30am
Long time DJ, Gail Wartell, has left WMPG. Now, two hours of fabulous Jewish music is brought to you by volunteer DJs from the community. Shaarey Tphiloh members, Natan and Yoel Kahn, are your occasional hosts.Listen to recent shows from 9/11 and 9/25 at www.WMPG.org. See Archives.
Leonard Cohen New Song You Want it Darker
This song will put you in mind of forgiveness, of yourself and others, and redemption, especially at the end of life. He is still writing poetry and music at 82!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/21/leonard-cohen-s-new-biblica
l-dirge-is-among-his-best-songs-ever.html
Holocaust Studies with Anna Wrobel
~ Holocaust Cinema: rare and esoteric films, some from the direct postwar period, most of European origin.
Classes will meet from 6:00 to 9:00 pm on Wednesdays – 10/26; 11/30; 12/21; 1/25; 3/1. Films are listed at the JCA link below
$100.
~ Primo Levi ‘book club’: one book per month (not provided). Books and ordering information are listed at the JCA link below.
Classes will meet from 6:00-8:00pm on Wednesdays – 11/2; 12/7; 1/4; 2/1; 3/8 $100.
All classes held will be at JCA – 57 Ashmont Street, Portland, Maine
Yahrzeits This Week
27 Tishri Sarah Bronstein, Sarah Glen, Samuel Levine, Mary Weisman
28 Tishri Mildred Baker, Rebecca Benjamen, Levi Bernstein, Virginia Greenberg, Lillian Lerman, Louis Santosky
29 Tishri Michael Citrin, Nathan Cope, Saul Ginsberg, Joseph Lewis, Morris Lewis, Marsha Mandoff, Irving Small, Leah Woolf
30 Tishri Howard Berenson, Ida Fireman, Leon Herman, Benjamin Levey, Sadie Serulnick
1 Heshvan Sidney Cox, Irving Feder, Harry Mack, Louis Pinansky, Ruth Rosengard, Lena Seavey, Louis Waterman
2 Heshvan Jennie Garber, Celia Sibolkin
3 Heshvan Max Cope, Samuel Levi, Marianne Levinsky
Shaarey Tphiloh is now celebrating 112 years as a traditional Jewish spiritual home in Maine!
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