- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…or covering and seating? The committee will seek congregational input on a number of items, including the seating and potentially floor covering. The committee will make the final decision based on a variety of factors, including cost, durability, sustainability, and congregational input. Sound and Acoustics How will we handle room acoustics? We will work with the architect and potentially with an acoustical engineer. Is the space intimate enough…
…ty of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, as the number of minors in the Congregation grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morning includes simultaneous programs or services for children and youth, as well as youth participating in the main service and Shabbat Shalom Torah Study. George G. Posener with Leah z”l A significant gift by Sara Oppenheim in 1994 began the Congregation’s slow “…
…and then a positive commandment pru urvu – be fruitful and multiply. And a gift: all the seed-bearing plants and fruit trees to eat. And here, after this story – the blessing and the positive commandment and the gift – G-d sees that it’s very good. The first time that anything is very good. We don’t know if the blessing is verbal. Maybe G-d blesses in nonverbal ways. But we know that the commandment to be fruitful was verbal, as was the gift of th…
for works in Main Gallery Contact the Sisterhood Gift Shop to purchase Matzo Covers Keyboard Fantasy $800 Floral Deck $1,200 Popups $1,200 Coaster $1,200 Busy Garden $1,000 Outside the Box $700 Cell $700 Balloon Festival $600 Sails $500 Beneath the Surface $500 Introspection $500 Genesis 1-12 $1,200 Valley of the Leaves $700 The View from Above $1,000 The Book of Life $600 Huppa $2,000 Kaleidoscope $400 Round Matzah Cover $150 Click here to downl…
…them and kept them alive for forty years. Legend says that this well was a gift from God to honor the merit of the prophet Miriam. To provide lifesaving water, like Miriam, might seem the very opposite of planning a fatal attack against your enemies, like Deborah. But in my mind, they are more alike than they seem. Take their strengths, for instance. Deborah’s strength is out there, commanding her army and being a leader. Miriam’s strength as a ph…
…o go only in one direction, not the other. I was thrilled by the beautiful gift, and even more thrilled that they understood how important such a thing would be to me, and how precious, coming from them. They also gave me a bicycle, by the way, which sent an altogether different message. At the women’s service 15 years ago, when we took out the Torah, instead of carrying it around the room for people to touch and kiss, we passed it from one person…
…e for a list of Suzanne Neusner’s works with prices To purchase challah covers contact the Sisterhood Gift Shop Much of Neusner’s work can be viewed on her website, www.quiltsbysuzanne.com Busy Garden, 28”h x 23.5” w Popups, 42”h x 35”w Matzoh Cover, about 14” x 14” available at the BEKI Gift Shop Matzoh Cover, about 14” x 14” available at the BEKI Gift Shop Balloon Festival, 19.5 h x 21w Cell, 25”h x 25”w Introspection, 16.5 x 14w The Book of Lif…
…food is served that day. For other items, one might legally accomplish the gift by having a third party accept the gift on behalf of the recipient before Shabbat (as one can usually accept something on behalf of someone, even without their knowledge, if it is something they would want). Don’t worry about it too much. Dear Rabbi, What is the symbolism of lighting Shabbat candles? Signed, In the Dark Dear Dark, It is not a symbol. Originally, at…
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…stions…questions about my relationship to God and Judaism. She truly had a gift because the words began pouring out of me. I told her that Judaism was something that haunted me…the melodies haunted me, the faces of the elders haunted me, even the movements during prayer haunted me…that I felt that it was a part of me but that I was not a part of it. I felt like an invisible Jew. I spoke for some time and when I was finished, she said, “You know, d…
