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May 2012 Reisterstown, Maryland Iyar/Sivan 5772
From the President’s desk
My fellow congregants:
As unpredictable as the weather has been during the month of April, there is one forecast that appears to remain constant. I am, of course, referring to the expanding array of programs offered by our organization for all ages.
At the end of April, Adat Chaim hosted “Got Shabbat” in conjunction with the JCC and the Hebrew
Learning Center. The melodious voices of preschool children filling the sanctuary appealed not only to the heart, but to the soul as well. For in truth this type of program continues the life cycle customs and traditions of our people from generation to generation.
But wait, there was still more happening at Adat Chaim. An additional music event for a slightly older group also occurred. This past Sunday marked the kickoff of a series of folk music events being held by our organization as well. The music series is scheduled to continue though the balance of the calendar year 2012. Predicated on initial ticket sales this first event appears to be well received by the community.
And, while I am on the subject of music, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention what transpired at our past Board of Directors meeting. The ritual chair presented a music recording of the first
Cantorial candidate for this year’s High Holy days. I always get a thrill when I hear the haunting melody of Kol Nidre chanted.
In light of this year’s transition into our new home, and with the changes that will surely happen, I have asked that preparations for the High Holy days begin now. In the weeks ahead you can expect to see additional communication about this very subject matter. The Board will need to assess the congregational needs. Unlike years past we will not be able to make a series of last minute adjustments , thus the need for your prompt response to these communications. The Board is resolved to minimizing the impact of the changes. We will make every effort possible to assure continuity when possible to members who faithfully and unconditionally financially supported our organization.
Shalom,
Art

Adat Chaim
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Rabbi David Greenspoon
One of the most profound books I’ve ever read was The Way of Transition by William Bridges.
Bridges is an expert on the topic of transition. A friend suggested it to me, and it was a life-changing experience. Here’s a teaser: Way is both a verb (process) and a noun (path). Change is not a result of transition; it is a signpost that transition is underway. As I read it I was underlining, highlighting and writing a dialogue of commentary to it off in the margins. Then I immediately started recommending it to all my friends. It was so profound that even Bridges went back and revisited his own initial writings and updated them. One concept Bridges really stresses is the chaos zone. That is the time when uncertainty reigns.
Currently this sense of the process of transition and its chaos resonates deeply for us at Adat Chaim.
We are in another transition in our calendar. This period between Passover and Shavuot is called the Sefirah (lit. counting ) period. It marks the transitional period of the barley harvest, the first harvest of spring’s New Year in Ancient
Israel. An Omer (sheaf’s) worth of barley would be brought to the priest each of the 50 days. It was a period of deep uncertainty. Only at the end of the harvest from the field would it be clear how much food would be seen in the marketplace. This uncertainty provoked great anxiety and special practices reflected our ancestor’s concerns.
Even today we count each of the 50 days of the Sefirah period at the end of the night-time service. The first day of the
Omer is announced differently than the rest. We have already arrived at “Day one,” and that’s how we refer to it. (Is this perhaps an allusion to God’s initial beginnings of the human universe in Genesis?). The rest of the nights we use ordinal number, second, third, fourth, all the way to 50 th . We’re in an active and even structured transition, counting from one part to the next until the transition is completed by standing at Sinai for the Giving of the Torah. The symbolic nature of the numbers is made explicit in the Torah: this is a week of weeks (7x7, or 49 days), punctuated by the conclusion on the 50 th .
There is deep meaning in the experience suggested by this structure. The number seven represents completion. Squaring and then concluding it is a metaphorical statement of absolute completion. The ancient Jewish sages suggested that such perfection for us as humans was limited just to Sinai; the rest of our human lifetime is about the struggle with Torah in the real world. We are always in some movement even if our transitions are sometimes underscored by years of apparent stasis from one stage to the next.
It occurs to me that this current Omer period is especially redolent in its meaning as we are in a “chaos zone” with no artificial terminal date to anticipate. Even so, the reports I heard from the recent congregational information meeting were quite gratifying. Many of your voices echoed a variation on a common theme: We can do this. Here’s what I heard that majority of you said: We can have a central address for Shabbat, Holy Days, Holiday, meetings, classes and big events and be not have to worry about a facility that takes more resources than we can afford. We have numerous options for our school to consider. We can follow the example of our book group and refocus our smaller meetings more conveniently in people’s homes. Even with a central events address we are looking at reconnecting to the core fundamental of community: we are part of people’s lives to the extent we are in each other’s homes.
Exploring the “Shul without walls” idea further, we can follow the example of our adult education committee and take more of our community-building type of programming to different destinations. A Dugma L’Dor parent has already made the offer to host our teens weekly. Imagine a Shabbat retreat at a State Park or a beach with picnic lunches. Now we appreciate the blessing hidden in the chaos zone: the realization that just about everything is now a possibility.
We won’t have answers by Shavuot , but we will certainly have made it to Sinai. Our Shavuot celebration starts with services at 8:00 pm, followed by our Tikkun Leil Shavuot learning program. If you are in town during the Memorial Day
Weekend we’d love to have you join us for cheesecake, coffee, and Torah. Our program is still in formation. I will be teaching a midrash (I know you are so surprised to read that!) on Moses’ journey across Heaven to bring the Torah to the
People of Israel. I promise to do my best to leave you with a lot more questions than you had coming in.
Anne, Miles and Micah join me in wishing your family a meaningful Memorial Day, and a joyous Festival. I look forward to finishing our transition to Sinai with you with some extended Torah study on Shavuot !
Rabbi David Greenspoon
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Date:
5/2/2012
5/3/2012
5/5/2012
5/7/2012
5/8/2012
5/12/2012
5/15/2012
5/16/2012
5/17/2012
5/21/2012
5/22/2012
5/23/12
5/25/2012
5/26/2012
5/28/12
Isadore Goldberg
Samuel Korba
Rae Rosenthal
Mordechai Alperin
Anna Josephson
Marion Prouser
Rebecca Wittik
William Pritzker
Ralph Meyerstein
Harry Koffman
Sol Friedman
Goldie Joshepson
Eva Deitchman
Rebecca Eisenberg
Bernice Goldvarg
Al Kaplan
(Candles should be lit at sundown the night before)
Yahrzeit of:
Pearl Spigelman
Relationship:
Mother of Susan Ross
Leonard Pondfield Husband of Carol Pondfield
Father of Jodie Silver & Caryn Zolotorow
Father of Marcy Wesalo
Father of George Korba
Mother-in-Law of Maxine Rosenthal
Father of Harvey Alperin
Grandmother of Myra Wittik
Mother of Barbara Tapper
Grandmother of Jerry Wittik
Father of Adelle Scherr
Father of Michel Meyerstein
Grandfather of Cathy Litofsky
Father of Irvin Friedman
Aunt of Myra Wittik
Mother of Harry Deitchman
Grandmother of Phil Deitchman
Mother of Marilyn Posner
Mother of Arthur Goldvarg
Father of Arnold Kaplan

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Alvin & Dena Bober
David & Janet Ring
Larry Bush & Susan Scharf
May 6th
May 23rd
May 26 th
61st
30th
16 th
Date:
May 1st
May 4 th
May 5th
May 7th
May 8 th
May 1oth
May 11 th
May 12 th
May 14 th
May 15 th
May 17th
May 18th
May 19th
May 25th
May 26th
May 27th
May 30th
May 31st
Happy Birthday Wishes go out to:
Rachel Cronauer
Jesse Singer
Emily Singer Markus
Caryn Zolotorow
David Abromovitz
Ron Sherman
Cathy Cohen
Jeffrey Gillis
Michelle Gillis
Benjamin Korman
Aaron Reamer
Alex Goldvarg
Alec Posner
Rachael Talbert
Laurie Reamer
Flora Friedman
Sue Katz
Jordan Marcus
Susan Ross
Sylvia Rothschild
David Teichman
Terry Satisky
Ryan Stern
Peri Cohen
Aliza Abromovitz
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May is a special month. The weather is delightful and the wild flowers are wonderful. I was once very much interested in identifying such blossoms but the task was overwhelming.
Today, I just enjoy the display. At one time wild plants were a source of medicines. The pharmaceutical industry now relies on chemistry for their supply of basic ingredients.
Laboratories can provide a constant quality. The fragrance was super in those old processing facilities but the sick person never received the same dose from each processed batch.
May and counting the Omer coincide. Shavuot begins with the 49 th day of the count. Shavuot has a number of traditions that are based on the nature of the month. Many people decorate their homes with floral displays. In a shul it is not uncommon to circulate sweet-smelling herbs and fragrances. Some musty old shuls take on a new characteristic in May.
One area that I always remember about the month of May and Shavuot is the traditional foods. Milk and honey are the key ingredients of the Shavuot menus.
Blintzes with dollops of sour cream and jams are on the top of my Shavuot list. I’m a cholesterol counter, but at this time of the year I stretch my quota!
We always had two loaves of challah for Shavout. This symbolized the two tablets from Mount Sinai. There are other traditions associated with Shavuot but they are dim in my memory. However, the menu always contained kreplach. The three-sided kreplach symbolized the importance of three in our history. God, Israel and Torah; Kohanim, Levites and Israelites; three parts of the Bible; and of course Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are other examples of “three” in our background.
Kreplach were composed from anything in my mother’s pantry. Meat based or dairy based, it made no difference. It was geometry that ruled the day. The meat was a combination of organ cuts. Lung, udder, brain and liver were the principal components in Mother’s kreplachs. This did not mean that dairy kreplachs weren’t on our table. We always found them a great and tasty Shavuot treat.
As an adult I discovered that many cultures served kreplachs but called them by other names. Chinese cooks call theirs dumplings. A number of years ago Dena and I were in
Mainland China and we discovered a restaurant that serve dumplings exclusively. There may have been 30 varieties on the menu. Some shaped as walnuts or chickens and filled with walnuts or chicken. It was a highlight luncheon of our trip. Of course we have enjoyed ravioli. Some exotic ravioli are culinary delights. Pierogies from Poland, especially potato filled, are favorites of mine. Pelmeni, Russian origin, are super when served pan-fried.
If you ignored the name of these delights you could think that you were having kreplach on the end of your fork. The origination of these culinary specials provided attractive meals at very low budget. Can you believe that we were all once poor?
My appetite is whetted for a batch of kreplach to celebrate Shavuot.
Alvin Bober abober@verizon.net

Compiled by Arlene Nusbaum
May 5
Acharei Mot
Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30
Following the deaths of Nadav and Avihu, G-d warns against unauthorized entry "into the holy." Only one person, the Kohen Gadol ("high priest"), may, but once a year, on Yom Kippur, enter the innermost chamber in the Sanctuary to make an offering. Another feature of the Day of Atonement service is the casting of lots over two goats to determine which should be offered to G-d and which should be dispatched to carry off the sins of Israel to the wilderness.
Acharei also warns against bringing animal or meal offerings anywhere but in the Holy Temple, forbids the consumption of blood, and details the laws prohibiting incest and other deviant sexual relations.
Kedoshim
Leviticus 19:1 – 20:27
Kedoshim begins with the statement: "You shall be holy, for I, the L-rd your G-d, am holy"; this is followed by dozens of commandments. These include: the prohibition against idolatry, the mitzvah of charity, Shabbat, sexual morality, honesty in business, honor and awe of one's parents, the sacredness of life and ‘Love your fellow as yourself.’
May 12
Emor
Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23
Emor begins with the special laws pertaining to the priests, the High Priest, and the Temple service: A priest may not become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, except on the occasion of the death of a close relative. A priest may not marry a divorcee or a woman with a promiscuous past; a High Priest can marry only a virgin. A priest with a physical deformity cannot serve in the Holy Temple, nor can a deformed animal be brought as an offering. A newborn calf, lamb, or kid must be left with its mother for seven days; one may not slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day.
The second part of Emor lists the annual festivals of the Jewish calendar that include: the weekly Shabbat; the bringing of the Passover offering; the seven-day Passover festival beginning; the bringing of the Omer offering from the first barley harvest, and the commencement of the 49-day Counting of the Omer, culminating in the festival of Shavuot; the Sukkot festival -- during which we are to dwell in huts for seven days; and Shemini
Atzeret.
Next the Torah discusses the lighting of the Menorah in the Temple. Emor concludes with the incident of a man executed for blasphemy, and the penalties for murder (death) and for injuring one's fellow or destroying his property (monetary compensation).
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May 19
Behar
Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2
On the mountain of Sinai, G-d communicates to Moses the laws of the sabbatical year. Every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for all. Seven sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year – the jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured servants are set free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy Land that have been sold revert to their original owners. Behar also contains additional laws governing the sale of lands, and the prohibitions against fraud and usury.
Bechuotai
Leviticus 26:3 – 27:34
G-d promises that if the people of Israel will keep His commandments, they will enjoy material prosperity and dwell secure in their homeland. But He also delivers a harsh warning of the exile, persecution and other evils that will befall them if they abandon their covenant with Him.
Nevertheless, "Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away; nor will I ever abhor them, to destroy them and to break My covenant with them; for I am the L-rd their G-d."
Bechukotai concludes with the rules on how to calculate the value of different types of pledges made to G-d.
May 26
Bamidbar
Numbers 1:1 – 4:20
In the Sinai Desert, G-d says to conduct a census of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses counts 603,550 men of draftable age (20 to 60 years); the tribe of Levi, numbering 22,300 males age one month and older, is counted separately. The Levites are to serve in the Sanctuary.
When the people broke camp, the three Levite clans dismantled and transported the Sanctuary, and reassembled it at the center of the next encampment. They then erected their own tents around it. .
In front of the Sanctuary's entrance to its east were the tents of Moses, Aaron and Aaron's sons There is additional discussion about who is responsible for carrying Sanctuary items and where they are to be located in the camp.
Beyond the Levite circle, the twelve tribes camped in four groups of three tribes each. To the east were Judah (pop. 74,600), Issachar (54,400) and Zebulun (57,400); to the south, Reuben (46,500),
Simeon (59,300) and Gad (45,650); to the west, Ephraim (40,500), Menasseh (32,200) and
Benjamin (35,400); and to the north, Dan (62,700), Asher (41,500) and Naphtali (53,400). This formation was kept also while traveling. Each tribe had its own leader, and its own flag with its tribal color and emblem.

Congregational School News
Cathy Litofsky clitofsky@comcast.net
May 2012
Thursday, May 3
Sunday, May 6
Thursday, May 10
Sunday, May 13
Thursday, May 17
Sunday, May 20
Thursday, May 24
Hebrew School Open; 4:00 – 5:45PM
Hebrew School Open; 9:00AM – noon
Hebrew School Parent Meeting – 9:00AM
Lag B’Omer celebrated during Hebrew School
Hebrew School Open; 9:00AM – Noon
Hebrew School Open; 4:00 – 5:45PM
Last Day of Hebrew School
Volunteers needed to pack up the Hebrew School
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Cathy Litofsky, President
CLitofsky@comcast.net
410.356.7288
Congratulations to two of Adat Chaim’s very own Sisterhood members:
1.
Linda Boteach - on her nomination for the Tzedek Award that will be presented at the Federation of Jewish women’s Organization’s 96 th convention on May 3 rd at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
2.
Harriet Meier – on being sworn in as the next President of the Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations at the 96 th convention being held on May
3 rd at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
The next Book Club selection and date are set, and there is plenty of time to get in some good reading before the discussion begins on Monday, May 21 st at 7:30PM. Please join us at Janet Korba’s house, which is located at 26 Franklin Valley Circle, Reisterstown. The book this month is The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich. If you have a suggested book to read for a future
Book club gathering, please let Arlene Nusbaum ( peace5491@yahoo.com
) or Linda Boteach
( linda.boteach@gmail.com
) know. They will be happy to review your selection for a future Book Club discussion.
We are putting together our end of year event, so look for information in an upcoming e-mail with all the details. We are hoping to secure Sunday, June 10 th as the date.
So mark your calendar and save the date!
Thought for the month – Shavuot: Ladies First- from Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer 41
Why were women asked first whether they wish to receive the Torah? On the eve of
Shavuot the Israelites stood at Mount Sinai, arranged with the men apart and the women apart.
The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses, “Go, speak to the daughters of Israel, [asking them]
whether they wish to receive the Torah.” Why were the women asked first? Because the way of men is to follow the opinion of women, as it is said, “Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob”
(Exodus 19.3); these are the women. “And declare to the children of Israel” (ibid.); these re the men. They replied as with one mouth, and they said, All that the Lord has spoken we will do and
obey.” (ibid. 24.7)
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What are possible interpretations of this Midrash? Women wield the power: if women accept the Torah the men will follow. This can mean that women are either persuasive or that they are manipulative.
2.
How might women understand this Midrash today and use it to their advantage?
Shalom until next month!
Cathy
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Sun Mon
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Hebrew School Parent
Meeting – 9AM
Adult Ed – Jews in the Caribbean
10:00AM – light breakfast; talk to follow
(Omer 29)
13
(Omer 36)
20
Yom Yerushalayim
Jerusalem
Reunification Day
Last Day of Hebrew
School for students
Omer 43)
27
Shavuot Services
Day 1
9:30AM
7
(Omer 30)
14
(Omer 37)
21
(Omer 44)
28
Shavuot Services
Day 2
9:30AM
Tue
1
(Omer 24)
8
(Omer 31)
15
(Omer 38)
22
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
(Omer 45)
29
16
(Omer 39)
23
(Omer 46)
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~ May 2012 ~
Wed
2
(Omer 25)
Thu
3
(Omer 26)
9
(Omer 32)
4
Fri
(Omer 27)
10
Lag B’Omer
Celebrated in Hebrew
School
(Omer 33)
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Early Shabbat
Service 6:10PM
(Omer 34)
17
(Omer 40)
18
Birthday Shabbat
Service 7:30PM
(Omer 41)
24
Volunteers Needed to help pack up the
Hebrew School
(Omer 47)
25
Shabbat Service
7:30PM
(Omer 48)
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Sat
5 Acharei-Mot-Kedoshim
Shabbat Service
9:30AM
(Omer 28)
12 Emor
Shabbat Service
9:30AM
(Omer 35)
19 Behar-Bechukotal
Shabbat Mevarkhim
Shabbat Service
9:30AM
(Omer 42)
26 Bamidbar
Shabbat Service
9:30AM
Erev Shavuot
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
8:00PM
(Omer 49)
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Luis de Torre, Columbus’s interpreter on the first v oyage of discovery, was baptized the day before the sail so he could sail as a Christian. He was also the first European tobacco grower.
Until 1840, there were no ordained rabbis in the United States. The only rabbis in the Western
Hemisphere lived in the Caribbean starting with the late 1600’s.
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