High Holy Days Worship Information:

Calling Shofar-blowers: We invite all of you to create a “T’kiah G’dolah M’od,” a really loud blast, at the end of our Yom Kippur Worship (Saturday, October 4).

You can find information about Yom Kippur worship, including a full schedule, here. If you have not yet mailed your reservation, please rsvp by email to administrator@yavneh-raleigh.org and send in the form at your earliest convenience during the holiday season.  We look forward to welcoming you.
 
Please notify Reb Raachel of loved ones you would like to remember during our Yom Kippur Yizkor (memorial) service (rabbi@yavneh-raleigh.org). 
 
As you prepare to attend worship, please keep in mind that many people are sensitive to scent.  May we all enjoy the companionship of the new year in joy and comfort.

 

Fall Scholars-in-Residence Advance Reservations

Mark your calendar now for “Forming Light, Creating Darkness: Quantum Physics and Kabbalah,” A Shabbaton with Rabbi Fern Feldman and Karen Barad, Ph.D., on Friday –Saturday, October 31 – November 1.  Yavneh invites you to an extraordinary opportunity to learn with a rabbi and a particle physicist.  From their different, yet overlapping, perspectives, they shed a new light on creation and Jewish teaching.  Drawing on texts from Torah, kabbalah, and quantum physics, learn how our own actions and intentions participate directly in the ongoing life of the universe. Together, with the guidance of a master teacher of quantum physics and a rabbi, we will come to understand how all existence is alive and involved in the process of creation.  For detailed program information, click here.
 


Upcoming Yavneh Programs:

• Yavneh’s Men’s Spirituality Group will meet next on Wednesday evening, October 1, at 7:30pm.
• The next Spirit-Wisdom-Intuition Yavneh SoulCollage® workshop is October 12, at 2pm. (Schmoozing starts at 1)
• The next Mitzvah Study Group meets Wednesday evening, October 22, at7:30pm.

Learn more about these and other Yavneh programs here.

 
Upcoming Community Programs:

• The Triangle Seminar for Jewish Studies opens its fall semester at the National Humanities Center in RTP on Tuesday, October 7 (subsequent sessions will be on Monday evenings).  Please click here for full information about this semester’s topics and registration.
• On Sunday, October 19, 7:00 pm, at Beth Meyer Synagogue, renown Jewish musician Dan Nichols (son of our beloved friends Bonnie and Bill Nichols) will perform after the NC premiere of his film, “Road to Eden,” the story of an unforgettable journey that Dan Nichols and his band, Eighteen, took through the Deep South. Reservations are required and space is limited. Click here for more information, and here to purchase tickets online. Admission: $18 for adults, $10 for students; this presentation is co-sponsored by Beth Meyer and TBO.

Social Action Opportunity:

Wilburn Elementary School is seeking a volunteer to teach/coach some children on how to play Chess either before or after school, once a week. School begins at 9:15 am and ends at 3:45 pm, so the morning program would occur between 8:00 and 9:00 am and the afternoon program would occur between 4:00 and 5:00 pm. The volunteer can teach a morning OR afternoon session.  A teacher will assist and make all the arrangements for the sessions, sign up students, provide sets, and other volunteers to meet with the group, so the volunteer would only need to do the teaching/coaching.  Please email Linda Bamford by Friday, October 3 if you know of anyone interested in this volunteer opportunity. Remember: all volunteers will need to have (or renew) a background check through the WCPSS. Volunteers may register at Wilburn Elementary or any other Wake County public school through October 31.

Read about additional social action opportunities here.

WORDS OF BLESSING 


Reb Raachel & Dr. Stephen Jurovics and Cantor Karen & Jeremy Kumin
join the Yavneh Board of Directors
in extending warmest blessings to you and yours for a
sweet, joyous, healthy, and peaceful new year.

May we all be inscribed and sealed for life and blessing!
 
Peter Gabor, President
Margie Sved, Vice President/Treasurer
Janet Isaacs, Secretary
Caro Foulkrod
Carol Gabor
Stacy Grove
Jonathan Kodack
Helene Stoll
Les Taylor
Lewis Copulsky, Executive Director
 
It was the favorite saying of the sages of Yavneh: I am a creature of God and you are a creature of God.   My work may be in the city, yours is perhaps in the field.  As you rise early to your work, so I rise early to my work.  As you do not claim that your work is superior to mine, so I do not claim that mine is superior to yours.  And should one say, “I do more important work and the other less important work,” we have already learned: more or less, it does not matter, so long as the heart is turned toward heaven.

B. Berachot 17a
 
So may our hearts remain turned toward the Holy Blessed One, as we
celebrate together our fifth High Holy Day season as a sacred community.
 
 
If you have not yet mailed your reservation for High Holy Day worship, please rsvp by email toadministrator@yavneh-raleigh.org and send in the form at your earliest convenience during the holiday season.  We look forward to welcoming you.
 
Please notify Reb Raachel of loved ones you would like to remember during our Yom Kippur Yizkor (memorial) service (rabbi@yavneh-raleigh.org). 
 
As you prepare to attend worship, please keep in mind that many people are sensitive to scent.  May we all enjoy the companionship of the new year in joy and comfort.
 
 

And keep in mind for after the holidays . . . 
Mark your calendar now for “Forming Light, Creating Darkness: Quantum Physics and Kabbalah,” A Shabbaton with Rabbi Fern Feldman and Karen Barad, Ph.D., on Friday – Saturday, October 31 –November 1.  Yavneh invites you to an extraordinary opportunity to learn with a rabbi and a particle physicist.  From their different, yet overlapping, perspectives, they shed a new light on creation and Jewish teaching.  Drawing on texts from Torah, kabbalah, and quantum physics, learn how our own actions and intentions participate directly in the ongoing life of the universe. Together, with the guidance of a master teacher of quantum physics and a rabbi, we will come to understand how all existence is alive and involved in the process of creation.  For detailed program information, click here.