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Mid-June Reminders:
High Holy Day Survey
Annual Meeting
Course Registration
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Dear Your Shul by the Sea community,
Here is a mid-month reminder to:
- fill out the survey about the High Holy Days by Thursday at 5 pm.
- pay your dues so you can attend the Annual Meeting on June 22
- register for R'David's summer book club, beginning on June 30
- register for Sunday night Teshuvah practice, beginning on July 18
Details on each of these appear below:
1. High Holy Day Survey: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are less than 3 months away. All synagogues are struggling with how to handle the upcoming season. Our desires to be together in our little shul must be balanced with good sense and reasonable practices. And, of course, the public health information can change at any time. Congregants, friends and family who are zooming might wish to continue to do so. As we practice our guiding principle that All Are Welcome, what does that look like and how does that feel? Your Board by the Sea is struggling with all these topics and more.
We ask you to click here and take 5-10 minutes to fill out our survey about the upcoming High Holy Days. We will use your responses to guide us in our decisions.
In this way, all voices have a chance to be heard. Please respond by this Thursday, June 17 at 5 PM; the survey will close after that. You will receive a message and email thanking you for your response--no need to fill the form more than once.
2. Annual Meeting
The annual meeting will be on Tuesday, June 22, at 7 pm, on zoom. Come hear the State of the Temple, vote on board members, contracts, etc. Members who have paid their dues (or who are on an official payment plan) during calendar year 2021 will be eligible to vote. Please keep an eye out for an email with the zoom link and the agenda. This is a good time to remind you all that TBE dues run from January to January. You can see our membership page here.
3. Summer Book Club
Summer Book Club with Rabbi David  This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
Join R. David for a summer journey into and through the High Holy Days using Alan Lew's bestselling masterpiece, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared (available from Amazon).
We'll meet via zoom seven times between June 30 and September 12. Each session will cover one or two chapters keyed to the next step of the High Holy Day journey and its spiritual, liturgical and ritual themes.
Sessions will be 7:30pm on the following days:
• Wed. 6/30 (chapter 1-2, the roadmap)
• Wed. 7/14 (chapter 3, Tisha b'Av)
• Wed. 8/4 (chapter 4, Elul)
• Wed. 8/25 (chapter 5, Selichot)
• Wed. 9/1 (chapter 6, Rosh Hashanah)
• Wed. 9/8 (chapter 7, the Ten Days of Repentance)
• Sun. 9/12 (rest of book, Yom Kippur)
4. Lifting Higher: Weekly Teshuvah Practice for the High Holy Days July 18 – August 29
Join R. David and Shari Berkowitz for a weekly kabbalistic journey up the Tree of Life for seven weeks leading to Rosh Hashanah. Each week will be themed to the sefirot (just like the seven weeks of counting Omer, except in reverse), with inner practices to support preparation for the High Holy Days.
Sundays 8:00-8:30 pm (with after-schmooze time)
July 18 – August 29
Thank you for your careful attention to these matters. Please fill out the survey, pay your dues and register for book club and Teshuva practice now while it's on your mind.
L'hitraot! (See you soon!)
Your Board of Directors
Photo: an ancient shul in Barcelona, with modern stained glass, by Shari Berkowitz
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