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. People who cannot attend or who live far away can access the service through zoom. See the website for schedule of the remaining High Holy Day services.
Erev Shabbat services begin on Friday evening, October 4, 2024, beginning at 5:30 pm in person and on Zoom led by Rabbi Alicia Magal who will chant verses from Haazinu (Deuteronomy 32: 1 – 52 ), the farewell poetic song of the aged Moses to Israel. this is Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Included in the service are healing blessings, a mazal tov for Simchas (happy occasions), and Kaddish, mourner’s prayer, recited for loved ones who have passed away. All are invited to stay for Kiddush, Motzi (blessings over the wine and challah) and refreshments.
Our congregation is planning commemoration program for those killed in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Healing blessings for the survivors and contemporary poems and prayers will be offered to mark the trauma of this ongoing war.
Meditation class led by Rabbi Magal and Rosalie Malter will be held on Wednesday, October 9 at 4:00 pm on zoom. Link is on the website.
Torah study, led by Rabbi Magal, will be held on Thursday, October 10 at 4:00 pm on zoom. We will read and discuss the very last Torah portion, V’Zot Ha-Bracha, Deuteronomy 33:1 – 34:12, bringing to a close the Five Books of the Torah, and containing a final blessing poem of Moses, and the report of Moses’ death on Mt. Nebo. It contains a blessing for all the tribes, and can be compared to the blessing given by Jacob to his twelve sons, in Genesis. At the time of Moses, the tribes carry the names of the sons of Jacob/Israel and have grown from a single family to twelve tribes.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, will begin on Friday evening, October 11 and continue on Saturday, October 12.
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 Social Action Committee is also collecting clothing for men, women and children (new or gently used items – no used underwear), personal care items, travel food in individual packets, bars and trail mix and fruit or juice packs for the family refugee centers in Phoenix.
The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, located at 100 Meadow Lark 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
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