Modern Talmudic stories & what they teach us about life.

October 29 Talmudic Folktales:
https://shaarey.org/talmudicfolktales/

November 5 Rabbi Akiva and the Gift:
https://shaarey.org/rabbiakivaandthegiftnumber/

November 12 Return:
https://shaarey.org/return/

November 19 Rabbi Meir and Bruria:
https://shaarey.org/rabbimeirandbrirah/

December 3 Animals As Scholars:
https://shaarey.org/animalsasscholars/

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4523093548?pwd=N2hzSnpUeXk5ek5YOHBKZG1uY2lLZz09

Meeting ID: 452 309 3548
Passcode: Torah

Keshet Dates Starting October 20th!
Tuesday Evenings 5pm-6pm

Come and schmooze with the Rabbi!

Join Rabbi Renee in the Temple Parking Lot on Tuesday, October 6th (10am-1pm) or Wednesday, October 7th (4pm-6pm) to Celebrate Sukkot!

Please send an email to the office at scroll@shaarey.org to make an appointment.

Playground Brick Pickup by October 15th

Temple Sha'arey Shalom Yom Kippur Services

Sunday, September 27
Kol Nidre 7:30 pm

Monday, September 28
Yom Kippur Morning 10:00 am

Musical Interlude 12:30 pm

Seminar: Rabbi Renee Edelman 1:30 pm "Surviving a monsoon in a Life Raft: Jewish texts to help us Survive challenges"

Seminar: Cantor Jason Rosenman 2:30 pm "How the Melodies of the High Holy Days Touch our Soul"

Intergenerational Family Service 3:00 pm Children from birth to age 7 with their families

Afternoon Service 4:00 pm

Yizkor - Neilah 5:15 pm - http://shaarey.org/yizkorbooklet2020/

Sha'arey Shalom is please to announce that we will now be offering FREE Religious School & in house tutoring to all Temple Members with a paid Temple Membership.

From Larry Lerner, Chairman of Temple Sha'arey Shalom Finance Committee: The budget is an outline of probable expenses and income for the next year. On the income side of the budget, the dues to be received is merely an estimate, and can be revised as the year progresses. Certainly the expected revenue from funds raised or gifts received are merely guesstimates and the Temple is guided in its expenses by the expected revenues. If the expenses vary for any reason, the Finance committee follows the expenses at any time and compares them to variations in income. The Finance committee reviews changes to actual income and expenses on a monthly basis.

Thus, if the dues structure has to be changed to meet competition the Board of the Temple does not have to adopt a new budget each month because of changes.

Finally, this is an unusual year with the sale of the Temple building, and it is to be expected that the budget must be looked at each month to determine how the adopted budget is following the actual income and expenses.

If you have other questions, you can direct them to either Edie as President or to me as Chairman of the Finance Committee. We welcome the inquiries and will answer your questions as soon as possible.

High Holiday Registration - Temple Sha'arey Shalom Welcomes You and Your Family! Complete Form Below

Members will be admitted at no charge to all High Holiday Services at Temple Sha'arey Shalom (TSS). Guests of TSS members are welcome to attend at no charge; however, all attendees must be registered.

Online seating is limited. Only those registered will receive the login information for admission into the ZOOM service(s). Tashlich will be held in person at Briant Park. When you submit this form, each email address you have provided will receive a confirmation email with the link. When you enter the email address(es) you MUST use a comma to separate the email addresses. You and your guests will not receive the link unless you use commas between email addresses.

Once you submit the form, you will get a pop-up acknowledgment that you have registered. Then within a few minutes you will get a copy of what you have submitted where you will have the option to edit your submission. It may take up to 20 minutes for you to then receive the email link to the Zoom services.

If you are registering on behalf of someone else, simply list their information in the form. You do not need to forward the login information to others. Each email address provided will receive their own email with link. Be sure to add your own email to the list. If you have guests that do not have an email address, and will joining by telephone, please provide them with the call-in information (phone number, meeting ID, passcode) that you will receive in your email, because they will not directly receive an email with this information.

If you experience any difficulties please call or text Edythe Ben-Israel at 908-603-9908 and she will register you.

Please click the link below to fill out form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhgKvhkL-vCS2W7tJ24RYyUTXOERobBMuRpmbhAVIMAWWkVA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link

High Holiday Booklet - https://shaarey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020TSSHIGHHOLIDAYBOOKLET.pdf

Community Wide Selichot
Saturday, September 12th

Join us for a night that ushers in the sacred themes of the High Holydays through community, learning, & prayer.

8:00pm - Havdalah

8:15pm - "What Judaism Teaches Us About Living in Challenging Times".
Rabbi Edythe Held Mencher, LCSW, will leads us in an exploration of how Jewish teachings can help us develop, resilience, find inner strength, and navigate these challenging times.

9:00pm - Selichot Service

RSVP: www.TEWNJ.org/selichot

Click here for more information

Temple Update:

• Rabbi Renee and Cantor Rosenman will remain our clergy.
• The High Holy Days Information has been sent out. The services will be on Zoom using Tefillah Ha-Nefesh. Pages will be on the screen so you can follow along. Tickets are not required. You need to pre-register your guests.
• Our decisions are guided by the Jewish principle of Pikuah Nefesh, the saving of life.
• We anticipate Shabbat Services, other holidays and B'nai Mitzvah will be on Zoom until we can safely be together in person.
• A meeting has been scheduled next week for Religious School parents. Our goal is to answer parents' concerns and meet all our students' needs.
• Religious school will be on Sundays beginning in October.
• Religious School Tuition: First Child $700, each additional child $560 (which is a 20% discount)
• Membership Fee Schedule:
  • Single $750
  • Single Parent $1,000
  • Couple $1,250
  • Family $1,500
  • Long Distance $150
  • Beth El Family $481
  • Beth El Single $318
  • Associate $300
• We will continue to work with anyone experiencing financial difficulties.
• For this transition year, the Temple is subsidizing nearly half of the expenses.
• The week-long power outages in New Jersey after Isaias delayed the completion of the Purchase and Sale Agreement for the Temple Property. It is near completion.
• A search of the available properties to rent in Springfield is being conducted.

High Holy Day Information

All are Welcome! You will not need tickets to join our virtual service or Briant Park for Tashlich. Guests will need to pre-register for virtual services.

Unfortunately, this Yom Tovim, the Holy Days of Rosh HaShanah, Sukkot and Shavuot will be on zoom. We are trying to find ways to be together, six feet apart, masked for some of our fall festivities, being mindful of health imperatives.

Our services will look different. They will be on zoom. We are trying to keep each service or experience under an hour, which has been proven is the longest a person is able to concentrate on zoom. Services will look different, as rather than using our traditional books, we have the opportunity to create Power Points using the new Reform High Holy Day prayer book, Tefillat HaNefesh- prayer of the soul. The services are all set to evoke a different emotion using modern poetry and modern traditions with the ancient melodies of old. These will not be our typical services, we will create sacred moments through creative modalities.