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MRT Weekly Eblast November 5, 2019
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Reminder: The MRT High Holy Day Appeal is ongoing and needs your support! Please send in your gifts NOW to help keep our mission growing. For information on past pledges, contact Mark Gruensfelder, mgruensfelder@aol.com or Joel Morgovsky, jmorgovsky@comcast.net.
We appreciate your support of MRT!
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MRT’s Upcoming Services & Events
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Tuesday, Nov 5
8 -9 am
Coffee & Conversation at Shapiro’s Deli
9:45-11:15 am
Adult Ed Class
12:30-2:30 pm
Mah Jong
7-8:30 pm
Executive Board Meeting
Wednesday, Nov 6
No Religious School
5:15-6:15 pm
HaZamir Choir Rehearsal
7-8 pm
60th Anniversary Committee Meeting
7:30-10:30 pm
Monmouth Civic Chorus
Thursday, Nov 7
7:30-10:30 pm
Choir Rehearsal
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Friday, Nov 8
7 pm
Shabbat Honoring our Veterans
(see details in this eBlast)
Saturday, Nov 9
9:15 -10 am
Torah Talks Study Session
10 am
Emma Szitanko’s Bat Mitzvah
MAZEL TOV!
Sunday, Nov 10
No Religious School
7:30-8:30 pm
Tefiliah Lab (see details in this eBlast)
Monday, Nov 11
Veteran’s Day
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Friday, November 8
Honoring our Veterans Shabbat
November 8 at 7:00 pm
Calling all our Veterans! Monmouth Reform Temple wants to honor all our members who have served or are serving in the United States or Israeli military. November 8 – Friday night services – please join us for a service dedicated to celebrating the freedom for which you fought and to be honored at Torah.
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Socks for L’Taken Fundraiser
The Confirmation Class is selling funky socks to raise money for our L’Taken trip to Washington DC.
Three pairs of socks are just $15.
They’re great for holiday gifts to your friends or as a special gift to yourself!
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Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
November 27 at 8 pm
in the MRT Sanctuary
It’s MRT’s turn to host The Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service with the Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury. It is a beautiful service with joint choirs,
guests from the church, guest clergy, Rabbi Kline, Cantor Clissold
and the bell choir.
We need your donations of baked goods, cheese platters, dips,
finger foods and refreshments to serve afterwards.
The food should be dropped off on November 26 (the day before)
or until 1 pm on November 27.
We also need volunteers to set up the room and make it look beautiful!
Please contact Cantor Clissold for more information!
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INFORMATIONAL MEETING FOR
THIS SUMMER’S SCANDINAVIA TRIP
DECEMBER 11 AT 7 PM IN THE TEMPLE LIBRARY WITH CANTOR CLISSOLD
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
Considering joining us on our Temple trip to Scandinavia this Summer July 12 to 24, 2020 with Cantor Clissold? Please come to a meeting to learn more about the trip from the tour company and to ask questions.
SEE SCANDINAVIA WITH MRT AND
CANTOR GABRIELLE CLISSOLD!
How about a trip to see Scandinavia with your temple family led by Cantor Clissold? Our temple is sponsoring a trip
July 12-24, 2020.
Family and friends outside of MRT are also welcome! Click on the link for details!
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Tefilah Lab
Amidah, Part 1: Introduction and The Avot v’Imahot
Monmouth Reform Temple, in the Blue Room
November 10, 2019
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
If you were a cultural anthropologist and were studying a group of people, how would you choose which behaviors to study? Well, one logical basis would be how frequently a behavior was done and how long the behavior has persisted. A behavior that was done, say three times a day, every day, and one that had persisted for two millennia would be worthy of study, would it not? This, in fact, characterizes the recitation of the Amidah, the central set of prayers of Judaism. The fact that these prayers are said so often and have been said for so long among Jews, indicates that there is something important, some would suggest, spiritually powerful about these prayers. For this reason, they will be the focus of a series of sessions in Tefilah Lab this year. We will be going prayer by prayer, analyzing the meaning of each prayer. But beyond this, we will try to find each prayer’s emotional core, it’s spiritual significance, that facilitates our own personal transformation. As usual, we will do this through a combination of discussion, psychological analysis, and meditation exercises. In this first session, we will discuss the background and structure of the Amidah and focus on the introductory prayer and the first prayer of praise, Avot v’Imahot.
This session, like all Tefilah Labs, is opened to the public and is free. For more information, email Elliott by clicking here: Elliott Familant.
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