A Month of Inspiration Leading to
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The High Holy Days are a little more than a month away. Are you ready?
Join us for classes, programs, guest speakers, music, and more, as we journey
from 5780 to 5781. All classes and programs on zoom. Click HERE to join
Shofar Blast Off August 30, @ 10:30 AM in the East parking lot, in conjunction with the Sunday Experience at BMH-BJ, marking the beginning of the school year.
Calling ALL shofar blowers! Help us fulfill the tradition of sounding the shofar each morning of Elul. Bring your shofar, learn how to make the three special sounds and what they each mean and then join with everyone as we sound the shofar together. Social distancing and mask protocols apply.
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
Tuesday Evenings August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 22 @ 7PM with Rabbi Chaitovsky
Join Rabbi Chaitovsky for a five part discussion series based on This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, the moving and powerful book by Rabbi Alan Lew. Each week will focus on another "leg" of the 40 day journey from Elul to Yom Kippur. Participate in each week's discussion and get more out of Rosh and Yom than ever before. Get ready to be transformed! You can order the book on Amazon by clicking HERE .
August 25 - Setting Your GPS and Making It "Home" (Chs 1-2)
September 1 - Waking Up to Horns Blowing - Elul (Chs 4-5)
September 8 - The Gates Are Wide Open - Rosh HaShana (Ch 6)
September 15 - What the Soul Does While the Gates Are Open -
The Ten Days (Ch 7-8)
September 25 - Seeing Angels, Hearing Angels, Being Angels -
Yom Kippur (Ch 9-10)
The Sights and Sounds of The High Holy Days
Thursday evenings September 3, 10 and 24 @ 7PM
September 3 - Machzor Meanings - The background and meaning of selected prayers of Rosh and Yom - with Rabbi Chaitovsky and Cantor Goldstein
September 10 - A special concert of beautiful, spiritual music for the High Holy Days featuring Cantor Goldstein, Rabbi Chaitovsky and others. From familiar favorites to new melodies from amazing Jewish songwriters, the evening will help us get deep into the spirit of the High Holy Days.
September 24 - Shabbat Shuva Drasha...on Thursday!
Join Rabbi Chaitovsky and special guest Rabbi Moshe Grusgott of Kehilath Israel Synagogue in Overland Park, KS, for an informative "interstate" conversation featuring inspiring stories of real life change and transformation.
Family Erev Rosh Hashana Experience with Rabbi Chaitovsky and Cantor Goldstein
Friday, September 18 @ 5:30 PM
A 30 minute program of singing, stories and prayer for families and their children.
Weekly Learning Opportunities and Classes
Wednesday morning at 9:00 AM with Rabbi Chaitovsky
Verse by Verse: The Book of Numbers (Bamidbar)
Thursday morning at 11:00 AM, MDT (US and Canada) with Ellyn Hutt
Ellyn’s Parsha Class for Women *this class is available by it's own Zoom link HERE . Meeting ID: 922 119 870
Thursday evening, Aug 27 at 7:00 PM with Cantor Goldstein
Tefillah How-To (last class until after The High Holy Days)
Friday mornings at 10:00 AM with Essie Fleischmann
Parshah Class
Daf Yomi each weekday morning at 7:30, and every Saturday night 1 hour after Shabbat is over with Rabbi Michoel Fleischmann
WhatsApp
Dial in number: 701-802-5213 Access code: 8622667 Online meeting ID: mfleischmann7
Israeli Art Exhibition, Sale, and Fundraiser
There is stil time to enjoy you our online Israeli Art Exhibition, Sale, and Fundraiser that we are coordinating in partnership with the Safrai Gallery of Jerusalem, Israel.
It's so terrific, we are thrilled that our congregants and friends have been purchasing art from here and assisting our fundraising efforts. Thank you!
There are hundreds of works of art available for purchase as gifts to friends and family, to grace your walls at home and to support BMH-BJ in this most interesting of times. This special collection of art has been selected for this fundraiser and offered at special prices.
Visit the Safrai Gallery Site at: www.safrai.com
Choose any work of art and 20% of your purchase will be donated to BMH-BJ on your behalf.
Or you can visit our Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/BMH.BJ
For more information, call 303-388-4203
