Rabbi Jacob Berman Community Center

מרכז קהילתי ע"ש הרב יעקב ברמן

Rosh Hashana 5781 ראש השנה תשפ'א

Candle Lighting: Friday September 18 18:21

Candle Lighting: Saturday September 19 NOT BEFORE 19:16

Given recent MOH guidelines and the increase in the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Rehovot, ALL the minyanim on Rosh Hashana will take place outdoors, and all attendees must follow the COVID-19 safety rules
Mincha/Maariv:
17:15 (early shabbat- outside shul), 18:31 (outside shul and at the Kronengolds)
Shacharit (both days):
6:15, outside shul; 7:30 Tachkemoni [register here]; 6:30 (pisukei dezimra) at the Kronengolds [register here]
Shabbat afternoon:
18:25 Mincha; 19:15 Maariv (both outside shul and at the Kronengolds)
Sunday
18:15 Mincha; 19:09 Maariv (both outside shul and at the Kronengolds)

Havdala: Sunday September 20 19:16

Tzom Gedalia. Fast starts: 5:24 AM; Mincha 18:10; Maariv 18:50; Fast ends: 18:57.

The weekly D'var Torah may be found here

Bar/Bat Mitzva:

• Mazal Tov to Judy and Menachem Malkosh on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Edden Spitz, son of Nitza and Yair Spitz of Tzur Hadassah.
• מזל טוב לג'ודי ומנחם מלקוש לרגל בר המצווה של נכדם עדן שפיץ, בנם של ניצה ויאיר שפיץ מצור הדסה.

Army Induction- Tzahal:

• Bracha Ve'hatzlacha to Ayelet Krausz on her upcoming induction to the Intelligence Corps. We wish her a fulfilling service, and safe return home!
• דרך צלחה לאיילת קראוס אשר מתגייסת שבוע הבא למודיעין. אנו מאחלים לה שרות משמעותי ומוצלח, שתצא לשלום ותחזור לשלום.

Engagements and Weddings:

• Mazal Tov to Tzippy and Arye Noy on the marriage of their granddaughter, Rotem, to Raz Ben-Meir. Mazal Tov to Rotem's parents, Nurit and Dvir Yoskovitz.
• מזל טוב לציפי ואריה נוי על נישואי נכדתם רותם עם רז בן מאיר. מזל טוב להורי הכלה נורית ודביר יוסקוביץ.

SHUL ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND REMINDERS תזכורות, אירועים ופעילויות של בית הכנסת

Rosh Hashana/Slichot Tifillot schedule:

• Please see a letter here with a message and Rosh Hashana greetings from the board.
• A separate email detailing the Corona Rules was sent to the membership. Please review carefully and abide by the rules. Corona monitors will be present at all the minyanim. Please make their job easier. All attendees will be assigned to capsules upon arrival at the minyan. Once you’ve been assigned to a capsule you must remain in that capsule for the Tefilla on both days. Reminder to bring your own machzor. It’s also advisable to bring water.
• Slichot. Slichot on Erev Rosh Hashana (Thursday night September 17) will take place outside the shul at 22:30.
  *To enable all who want to benefit from community Slichot to do so, these Slichot services will be broadcast by Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97558595259?pwd=U0xjM1hDaFZIMk1MaWJRek5VOFZIQT09 ID: 975 5859 5259 Passcode: 507216.
  *Since we are still forbidden to use communal items, please obtain your own selichot book or an app with the text.
  *During the week 20-26.9, we will have Maariv at 22:20 and Slichot nightly at 22:30. No (late) Maariv Motzaei tzom Gedalia (21.9) or Motzaei Shabbat (26.9).
  *Morning Slichot 6:20 (Monday- Thursday) followed by Shacharit daily at 6:30.
• Rosh Hashana. If you were signed up for an indoor minyan and have not yet switched, please email Pennina Safer (psafer@aya.yale.edu) and let her know if you still plan to attend a minyan and if so, which outdoor minyan. Please include numbers of men/women. Minyan organizers: Early Outdoor minyan (Amphi + Plaza + Pergola) Josh Klein, vcjosh2000@yahoo.com; Later outdoor minyan I (Tachkemoni campus) Ephraim Fass, edfass@gmail.com; Dan Feferman; dfeferman@gmail.com; Kronengolds (Brigda 20), Steve Kronengold steve@kronengold.com.
• There will be an open-air shofar blowing on Sunday morning 2nd day Rosh Hashana, currently planned for 11:00 AM in the parking lot of the Yeshivat Hadarom campus for those unable to attend any of the minyanim. Please wear masks and maintain distance when attending.
• There will also be shofar blowing in the Yekev (on Hanassi Harison St.) at 11:00 and at 16:00 on the second day of Rosh Hashana. בנסוף, יתקעו שופר ביקב ברחוב הנשיא הראשון ב 11:00 ו 16:00 ביום שני של ראש השנה.
• If you or someone you know will not be coming to shul this year and would like to hear the shofar at (or close to but outside) home, please contact one of the following, or contact Penina Safer at 054-4517031:
  אם את\ה לא תגיע\י לבית הכנסת ורוצה לשמוע את השופר בבית (או קרוב לבית אך בחוץ), אנא פנה לאחד האנשים הבאים
  South side of Rehovot דרום העיר:
  Sidney Cohen 054-4590250
  Jeff Lowengrub 052-6586858
  Aron Kronengold 052-4505314
  North side of Rehovot צפון העיר:
  Dan Birenbaum 058-6289631
  Simon Krausz 053-7760708
  Josh Klein 050-622-0349
  Adam Strauss 052-3540887
  Dan Feigelson 052-583-8618
  Dan Feferman 058-4161888
• Halachic guides. The High Holidays is a period rich with custom and ritual, personal and communal. This year, in order to minimize the possibility of Corona contagion and to allow for social distancing, davening has in part moved outside the main building to the area of the amphitheater and to the shaded area on the Tachkemoni campus. Heat considerations and a desire to minimize the duration of physical contact in Shul, have generated a need to shorten the duration of the Yamim Nora’im davening. The Halakha Committee of the Shul has drawn up three sets of guidelines to facilitate this goal – which will be implemented over the Yamim Nora’im.
  (1) Guidelines for Shortening Selihot during Elul 5780 – Tishrei 5781
  (2) Guidelines for Shortening the Davening on Rosh HaShana 5781
  (3) Guidelines for Shortening the Davening on Yom Kippur 5781
  On a personal level, many find the rich details of the Yamim Nora’im challenging. In addition, because of Covid-19, many individuals have chosen to pray completely or partially be-yehidut (in the absence of a minyan). To this end, Rabbi Aryeh Frimer has drafted the guides below which will hopefully assist congregants in navigating through the various issues.
  (4) A Rosh HaShana 5781 Corona Guide to Public and Private Prayer and Ritual
  (5) A Yom Kippur 5781 Corona Guide to Public and Private Prayer and Ritual
  Questions stemming from any of these documents may be referred to Rabbi Frimer at the following email address: Aryeh.Frimer@biu.ac.il

Everything else:

• Rosh Hashana Greetings from our members can be viewed here. Thanks to all who contributed. You can still add your greeting by sending an email (you can include a picture) to social@bermanshul.org
• Rosh Hashanah Kids Programming. With Rosh Hashanah just around the corner and the fact that this year our small children will not be able to participate in the davening on the Berman campus, we have created a Rosh Hashanah Children's Activity Guide to make the chag a little more meaningful for young children. The guide includes Tefillah, especially some key tefillot unique to Rosh Hashanah, stories, games and a quiz that can be delivered in a small gathering or even at home with siblings. We hope you enjoy the guide and we wish you a happy and healthy new year! Download it here or from the Noticeboard.
• If you think you'll need to blow shofar for yourself or someone else this year, or if you're just interested in learning how to blow shofar, one of our members has posted several videos to YouTube, available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ8FjZ-aqypqPQIlMA6wd9A.
• Shabbat Shuva Drasha by R' Yehezkel Babkoff will be given by Zoom next Thursday, September 24th at 20:00. Details will be posted on the live calendar and in next week's bulletin.
• Yom Kippur. Details of arrangements for Yom Kippur Tefillot will be sent out next week.
• Minutes of the August 26th membership meeting are available on the Member Documents section of our website (member login required). (The newest documents are on top).
• דוח של ישיבת חברי ביה"כ מ26 באגוסט ניתן למצוא בדף מסמכים באתר (דרושה סיסמה).

HOSPITALITY and CHESED אירוח וחסד

Chesed links: If you require specific help during the Corona pandemic, please contact hospitality@bermanshul.org or for the Bikur Holim Committee, Freida Ollech at: (052) 678-2857. To report a bereavement, or to see arrangements to help the bereaved, please go to http://bermanshul.org/shiva.

קישורי "חסד": אם אתם צריכים עזרה בזמן משבר הקורונה, ניתן ליצור קשר עם ועדת חסד hospitality@bermanshul.org, או ועדת ביקור חולים אצל פרידה אולך: 052-678-2857.

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