By Rabbi Alicia Magal
The JCSVV offers services and classes which are life-affirming and soul enriching. All are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. Those who cannot attend in person can access the service through zoom.
Erev Shabbat services begin at 5:30 pm on Friday, October 18, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal. Sabbath songs and prayers bring a sense of peace and calm. Healing blessings enable people to pray for those we love who are ill and Kaddish offers mourners the opportunity to say the Mourners’ Prayer supported by community. The Oneg refreshments will be enjoyed in the Sukkah, the temporary hut built during the week-long biblical Fall harvest festival.
Supper in the Sukkah provided by Joe Berger and his family will be held on Tuesday, October 22 beginning at 4:30 pm. The traditional Lulav and Etrog, symbols of unifying disparate kinds of plants, personalities, and qualities, will be available for everyone to say the blessings as they wave the combined palm frond, myrtle, willow and citron in all directions.
Meditation class led by Rabbi Magal and Rosalie Malter will be held on Wednesday, October 23 at 4:00 pm on zoom.
Torah study, led by Rabbi Magal, will be held on Thursday, October 24 at 4:00 pm on zoom. We will read and discuss the very beginning chapters of Creation in Genesis.
At 5:00 pm on the same zoom link we will have a virtual Yizkor memorial service to mark the conclusion of the Sukkot Festival.
Simchat Torah will be celebrated at the Friday evening service on October 25, when we will read from the very last verses of the Torah, and then begin again from the first verses of Genesis, in the never-ending cycle of Torah reading.
The Social Action Committee is continuing to collect food for the local Sedona food pantry. Please drop off cans or boxes of non-perishable foods in the bin provided for collections in the lobby at services.
The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, located at 100 Meadowlark Drive off Route 179 in Sedona, is a welcoming, egalitarian, inclusive congregation dedicated to building a link from the past to the future by providing religious, educational, social and cultural experiences. Office telephone: 928 204-1286. Synagogue website – www.jcsvv.org