This is Rabbi David wishing a happy “fall back” to all my Nafshenu people. It doesn’t feel much like fall, with my office window wide open this evening, but it is real.
Another thing that’s real is the schedule of engaging activities for the next couple of weeks. The highlight
of the next week is the first of a planned Justice Sunday series. It’s an effort to return to Nafshenu’s roots as a group that “walks the walk” of making the world a bit better place through hands-on social justice work.
Please come out this Sunday, Nov. 13, to help at the Jewish Relief Agency food warehouse, packing boxes for people in need. We’ll meet there at 10 a.m., work until 11:30 a.m.
or so and then grab some lunch together. The warehouse is in northeast Philadelphia, about a 30-minute drive from Cherry Hill. Here’s a link to a map and directions: bit.ly/NafJRAblurb
Coming this Thursday evening,
we have our weekly Torah Study, looking at the fourth Torah portion of Genesis, Va-yera (Gen. 18:1-22:24). You won’t want to miss everything that happens this week:
- Angels visiting the newly circumcised Abraham, who
then challenges G-d’s plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because G-d doesn’t consider that innocent people might perish along with the guilty.
- Sarah and Abraham finally have Isaac, the child they sought, but Sarah’s jealousy of her servant
Hagar, who bore Abraham’s first son Yishma’el, leads Abraham to send Hagar and Yishma’el away.
- Believing he is following G-d’s orders, Abraham takes Isaac to sacrifice him on Mount Moriah. An angel stops the father at the last minute, and Abraham
sacrifices a ram instead.
Please join us on Zoom at 7 p.m.: bit.ly/NafTorah
Finally, we’ll be getting together virtually on Friday night – 6 p.m. to light Shabbat candles, say kiddush and schmooze a bit. We’ll be using the same Zoom link: bit.ly/NafTorah.
Hope to see you soon!
With love, Rabbi David
