Young Beth Jacob!

Morning
Groups Begin @ 10:30am, Parents please tend to your children beforehand

Rabbi Avram Bogopulsky

President Leopoldo Kahn

Rabbi Blooms Class: @ 5:10pm

Afternoon
Groups with the Weisers-5:00pm

September 21, 2013

MEGILAT KOHELET

Parshat Ki Tisa pg. 680 Haftorah pg. 1241, 1242

Youth Morning Groups Tots: Below 1st Grade with Morahs Faye & Shayna Group 2: Active and Educational Programs with our Middle School Helpers Junior Cong: The Classic Reborn with Mr. Weiser

Tweeners Groups Shalosh Seudos in classroom A

Sukkot Activit ies:

Sukkot @ Boom ers September 23 3 MUSEUMS FO R THE PRICE OF ONE ! Tuesday Septe mber 24 12:30-2:30pm ages 5 +
CARS, SPORTS, PLANES

AR BELMONT P

LASER TAG SE ROPE COUR MINI GOLF 25 SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY 0PM 11:00A M-2:0 AGES 10 + COST: $15

Get Excited!
All of our exciting youth programming starts up again after the holidays, looking forward to seeing everyone there! Contact Mr. Weiser for details on Youth 619.933.6740 OR weiserym@gmail.com

On Sukkot, we read Ecclesiastes, known in Hebrew as Kohelet, the name by which Solomon calls himself in the book. Ecclesiastes begins, Vanity of vanity, says Kohelet, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. It then catalogs the many life philosophies and lifestyles its author, the King of Jerusalem, experimented with and ultimately concluded were vain and empty. For this reason, people often view Kohelet as pessimistic and downbeat. Nothing is further from the truth. And that is illustrated by the fact that the sages instructed us to read it on Sukkot, the festival of our greatest simcha, joy. Far from being a depressing book, Kohelet is there to add to the simcha. Its infused with a spirit of joy and optimism, and gives Sukkot a special flavor. In order to penetrate and breakthrough to the beautiful, exhilarating message beneath the surface of Kohelets often complex imagery and language, we must analyze three key words -- the Hebrew equivalents of human, vanity and sun - which are repeated throughout the entire work. Understanding these words in depth will provide us with the skeleton key to reveal the true message of this often misunderstood book

The Sukkot Connection

Kohelet is the perfect biblical book for Sukkot. During the year we sit in a house with a roof over our heads.

Symbolically, the roof separates us from heaven. On Sukkot, we sit in a temporary structure that has no true ceiling to divide us from the Divine. In the sukkah we eat, drink and sleep, and basically live an ordinary physical life. However, in the sukkah the Shechinah, the Divine presence, is shining through the schach (the thin, thatch-like roof), enveloping our entire being in holiness -- adding meaning and a dynamic to ordinary life. Our entire physical existence becomes a mitzvah, a holy act. God has given us a wonderful world to live in. Its full of beauty and song. Yet theres a catch. We are challenged. We have to allow the Divine to shine into our lives. If so, it is a life of substance, not hevel. Its a life of genuine optimism and holiness. If, on the other hand, we live separated from the spiritual dimension -- under a closed roof with a barrier above, living entirely under the sun -- even if that roof is the ceiling of the most ornate mansion -- our life will be a life of futility, vanity, hevel. We are creatures rooted in the earth but capable of forging ourselves into something reaching into the heavens. To the extent one nurtures the inner spark and makes it the main focus of his labor here is the extent ones life will have substance, meaning, hope and happiness.

Welcome
To all guests and visitors who are here for Shabbat and Yom Tov. Alysa Segal and Scott Reich.

Refuah Sheleima
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Mazal Tov - Birthdays

Sidney Goldberg, Malka Weiser, Sam Ellis, Ronit Snyder,

Candlelighting..........................6:29pm Mincha......................................6:30pm Shacharis Beit Midrash.............7:45am Shacharis Main Shul.................8:45am Latest Shema...........................9:38am Rabbi Adatto Chabura .............4:10pm Ladies Class...................................OFF Daf Yomi..................................5:00pm Youth Groups...........................5:00pm

Shabbat Schedule

Rabbis class................................5:10pm Mincha.....................................6:10pm Shabbos Ends..............................7:28pm Candles this Wednesday...............6:22pm

Weekly Schedule
Sun Shacharis..............................8:00am Mon-Wed Shacharis.............6:15/7:15am Thu,Fri Shacharis.........................8:45am Sun-Thu Mincha/Maariv................6:25pm Late Marriv Sun-Tue.....................9:15pm

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SIMCHAT TORAH CELEBRATIONS

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27

Beth Jacob Congregation Presents... A Greater San Diego Jewish CommunityWide Event

SUKKOT @

SIMCHAT BEIT HASHOEVA Sunday September 22 @ 6:45pm Great Food, Great Music Come and join us in the Sukkah FREE FOR ALL

Can be said up to Hoshana Rabbah on SEPTEMBER 25TH

TASHLICH

SAVE THE DATE CHOLENT COOK-OFF SHABBOS OCTOBER 5

Monday Septmber 23rd 3:00-8:30pm Arcades, Go-Karts, Kids County Fair, Bumper Boats, Mini-Golf, Batting Cages. Purchase Food & tickets at:www.bjsd.org/boomers 1155 Graves Ave. in El Cajon