BEKI Kids

Sukkot Begins Monday Night

Two Kid-Friendly Sukkot Events:

Sukkah Hop, Tuesday October 7, 12:15 PM

Apizza in the Sukkah, Sunday October 12, 12 PM

In This Edition

• Saturday: Shabbat Children’s Services

• Sunday, 9:30 AM-12 PM: BINA Meets

• Tuesday 12:15 PM: Sukkah Hop

• Wednesday: No BINA

• Sunday, October 12, 12 PM: BEKI Apizza in the Sukkah–Registration Due October 9

• Bring Meals to Families with New Babies–Pilchik Family

• Fun with the Parsha: Ha’azinu

* Saturday Morning: Shabbat Children’s Services

Shabbat Children’s Services will meet in their usual rooms:

Children’s Havura (Birth-Preschool) meets inside in the preschool classroom.

K-2 Kehila (Kindergarten-2nd Grade) meets in Classroom 6.

Junior Congregation (3rd-6th Grade) meets in the library.

* Sunday, 9:30 AM-12 PM: BINA Meets

BINA meets as usual this Sunday morning.

* Tuesday 12:15 PM: Sukkah Hop

Join us on the first day of Sukkot for a BEKI tradition! The Sukkah Hop is a progressive party through lower Westville, visiting the sukkot of BEKI families for food and fun.

Meet in BEKI’s courtyard sukkah at 12:15 PM (after festival morning services). We will progress together on our walk around Westville. *For security reasons, we do not share the route ahead of time.

* Wednesday: No BINA

There will be no BINA on Wednesday, in observance of Sukkot

* Sunday, October 12, 12 PM: BEKI Apizza in the Sukkah

Join us for a kid-friendly meal in the sukkah! BEKI chefs will create delicious vegetarian pizza in our Kosher kitchen for us to eat in the new BEKI Sukkah.

Includes pizza, salad, beverages & dessert; non-dairy & gluten free pizza by request. Bring your own beer or kosher wine.

Reservations required by October 9th, $10 per adult, $5 under 12. Register here or contact Peggy, office@beki.org. *Event will be held inside in case of rain.

* Bring Meals to Families with New Babies–Pilchik Family

We have a new child to welcome at BEKI! Please join us in this tradition of offering meals to families with a new baby.

Jenna and Josh Pilchik have welcomed a baby boy! They are new to the BEKI community.

Sign up to bring a meal to the Pilchiks, at https://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/625635/ For questions please email coordinator Rachel Greenberg atrachel.d.greenberg@gmail.com

* Fun with the Parsha: Ha’azinu

Parshat Ha’azinu is the second-to-last parsha in the Torah. In it, Moses sings a song to inspire the people of Israel to be their best selves once they enter the land of Israel without him. “Ha’azinu” means “Listen!” or “Give ear!” It’s the very beginning of the song.

Moses’ song relies less on positive encouragement than on negative stories from the Israelites’ history. The basic summary of the song is: God is great, and you people have really messed up in the past.

This may sound harsh! We can imagine what it would have been like to be one of the Israelites, listening carefully to Moses’ words, perking up when you hear that the song’s going to be about you, and then feeling a bit… discouraged.

But we always read this parsha near Yom Kippur, a time of year when we are brave about trying to be better. And that is the response that Moses must have wanted from the Israelites who were listening: a brave and honest promise, to try.