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March 15, 2010 (7:00 PM)


Torah Class
March 16, 2010 (6:30 PM)


Kabbetz HaEsrim West Conference
March 19, 2010 (5:00 PM)


Torah Class
March 23, 2010 (6:30 PM)


Community Passover Seder 2010
March 29, 2010 (7:00 PM)


Torah Class CANCELLED
March 30, 2010 (6:30 PM)


Torah Class
April 06, 2010 (6:30 PM)


Torah Class
April 13, 2010 (5:30 PM)


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20's Conference - Mar. 19-21

Kabbetz Haesrim

March 19-21

Kabbetz HaEsrim: For the first time ever Kabbetz, the UMJC regional conference of twenties and thirties, is gathering in Seattle, WA!   This year's theme is “Yibaneh HaMikdash: Building our Community,” and with that in mind this weekend promises to be a real opportunity for connection. Come learn from some great teachers, discuss important issues for our generation, and be encouraged to find your place among the community of believers!

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Reserve your spot!Seattle Community Messianic Passover Seder 2010

We are happy to announce that we will hold a community Passover Seder on the night of Monday, March 29th.  We are opening up reservations to members and friends of the synagogue, so reserve your spot today.  We will contact you later for payment.

Filled with singing, story telling and symbolic foods, this is a night that you will not forget.  We will relive the experience of the Exodus from Egypt and recount the redemption of all humanity through the Life, Sacrifice, and Resurrection of Messiah Yeshua.

Passover is a Sabbath and it is Jewish custom that no work is to be done except that involved in preparing and conducting the Seder.  It is a full evening from 7PM until around 11PM, so please plan to stay late to enjoy the full experience and take the next day off!

Pricing

Base price: $36 for adults, $20 for children ages 3-12

Discounts: subtract $6 for seniors

We need volunteers!

We need people all day on Sunday and Monday March 28,29th to help prepare and setup for the Seder. Please indicate the times you are available when you register.  Without enough help we won't be able to hold the Seder.  This is an important mizvah for the local and wider community and we need many hands to make the Passover Seder possible, so please consider how you can help.  Once you indicate your availability we will contact you with specifics about how you can help.

Reservations must be made by March 20th.  Payments are due before the seder.

Reserve your spot today

 


 
Vayakhel - The Nature in the Mishkan PDF Print E-mail


by Rebbetzin Malkah

The car packed to the hilt, the Thule threatening to burst at the seams atop our car, our family drove with desperation for one purpose only:  to be near the mountains.  The familiar rental cabin nestled fifteen miles from Mt. Baker in Washington affords five star mountain accommodations: no cell phone access, no wireless internet and no cable TV.  In essence, the goal was to set up shop, our own Mishkan, away from the roar of everyday life.  While some of the usual technological conveniences were lost, we knew we would not be without the four elements crucial to the Mishkan and considered symbolically essential in any Jewish home: the Ark, the Table, the Menorah and the Incense Altar.  Ok, well not literally - they wouldn't fit in the car.  However, all of these elements are interconnected to the basic physical elements that still exist in this world:  air, fire, earth and water.  Being out in the more remote areas at the foot of a mountain, it wasn't hard to see that I was in a larger than life Mishkan model that was vitally connected to all of these natural elements. Perhaps it was noticing on our second day the Holy Smoke bus, clad in gold (or school bus yellow paint) that waited outside the gate of the cabin properties boasting of an eatery just down the road.  It sat there, as if some beacon, reminding me that even in this remote area, under the Heavens, we carry our own Mishkans with us today and follow suit with the kohanim:  setting up, tearing down, wherever we go, wherever we stay.

 
Ki Tisa - The Hidden Thread of Salvation PDF Print E-mail
by Rebbetzin Malkah

 

This week the theme of hiddeness has been ever before us as we have read the book of Esther, a book with no mention of G-d's name.  As we recount how our people nearly became subject to a plan of mass genocide, it would behoove us to peer behind the curtain of history and see the thread of salvation that has been ever present throughout time.  Along this thread have been individuals, who by no other reason except divine purpose and not coincidence, have been set before our people to be raised up during a time of need.

 
Beshalach - Wanted: Stonewashed Rugged Faith PDF Print E-mail

by Rebbetzin Malkah

When the Baal Shem Tov was young, he lived in the mountains of southern Russia.
From time to time he would walk to the top of a mountain, and lose himself in thought.
Lost to the world, lost to himself, but found to G-d.Deep in this lostness and this foundness, he once began to walk where there was no ground to walk on.
As he put his foot down, he was stepping into an abyss.
But before he could hurtle downward, a nearby mountain moved, and closed the gap.
The Baal Shem, all unknowing, continued on firm ground:  lost to the world, lost to himself, but found to G-d.            - - Chassidic tale

Stonewashing is a process in the textile industry that is used to give a new denim cloth garment a worn-out appearance. This process also helps to increase the softness and flexibility of otherwise stiff and rigid fabrics such as denim.  This process entails what the name implies: washing the denim with large stones to roughen up and soften the cloth. As stones represent an obstacle or hardship, the denim is likened to B'nei Yisrael's fabric of faith.  The challenges that Hashem places before B'nei Yisrael as they travel through the wilderness are meant to tenderize and increase their faith.  Moshe, Mashiach Yeshua and the Baal Shem Tov all prove to us that through this stonewashing comes a small seed of faith that can rise above the evil, chaos and doubt that prevail in our midst. Not only can we move mountains, but we can be a conduit of faith and possibility to those around us, even in the most impossible of circumstances.

 
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