Congregation Agudath Jacob October Tishrei/Cheshvan 5778 www.agudath-waco.org Rabbi: Ben-Zion Lanxner President: Brent deMoville Phone: 254-772-1451 Office Admin: Karen Eason Fax: 254-772-2471 Rabbi@agudath-waco.org Cajassistant@grandecom.net

This bulletin is published twelve times per year by Congregation Agudath Jacob – a non-profit organization.

Founded in 1888 – Celebrating 128 years – Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

Rabbi Ben-Zion Lanxner By the time you are reading this article,

we have just concluded our Yamim Nora’im, our Days of Awe and are about to jump straight in the Festival of Sukkot. Finally, a festival with lots of fun!

I totally agree with you…. Rosh Hashanah not so much, but Yom Kippur is exhausting! When my wife, Rebbetzin Susan keeps asking me every single year the same question…how do you do this? How can you, not only sing the prayers, read from the Torah, give your sermon and still talk at the end of the day?

Where do you get this energy from? I must confess to you, my dear friends, as a reflex, I respond to her with a white lie, and I say, no big deal Honey, when you do this as many years as I have being doing this, you don’t even see why it would be so difficult to do….it is just a matter of habit.

The truth of the matter is, not so! By the end of Yom Kippur, after fasting over 26 hours, I feel like I have probed and dissected every part of my being. I have tried to knock my closed hand to my chest for every flaw within me I can think of, and G-d knows how many…. It has taken me apart. But then, just around the corner, comes Sukkot, the festival for restoring me back to wholeness, my batteries are fully re-energized again, ready to get started with building our Sukkah.

It is the holiday that, according to our holy tradition, is made for reviving our spirit. It is a mitzvah to be joyful on Sukkot in particular, as our prayer book refers to it as “Z’man Simchateinu”, the Season of our rejoicing (Passover being the Season of our liberation-“Z’man Cheiruteinu”, Shavuot being the Season

of the Giving of our Torah,” Z’man matan Torateinu”). Reb Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger, known as the S'fat Emet, observed words of Isaiah that he applied to Yom Kippur (S'fat Emet 5:236): "Your sins have been a barrier between you and your G-d" (Isaiah 59:2). There are sins, he said, that are a barrier that separate you from yourself and sins that separate you from G-d. Wherever we experience sin, we experience disunity.

The purification of Yom Kippur is intended to repair our fractured selves, but the holiday leaves us feeling like a jigsaw puzzle with its intense focus on all that creates barriers and separation within us. In contrast, he said, on Sukkot, everything is seen as unity from its beginning. The four species of the Lulav symbolize the unity of Sukkot~ as it unites the four different types of Jews, in regard to their particular level of Jewish observance of the Law, ~willow, myrtle, palm and Etrog, all come together to form a single entity. Under the Sukkah, all our souls are united with G-d. The S'fat Emet says that this is why the holiday is called the “Festival of Ingathering.” It is not just the harvest that we bring in on Sukkot. This is the festival in which we gather in ourselves as whole and complete beings after the fracturing of Yom Kippur.

Mo’adim le’Simcha, chagim uz’manim le’Sasson!

May these days bring you joy. May these festivals and seasons bring happiness to you

and to all your family and friends.

Rabbi Ben-Zion Lanxner

October & High Holiday Service Schedule

Sunday, October 1

Decorate for Sukkot 10:00-12:00 a.m.

Wednesday, October 4 Erev Sukkot 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 5

First Day of Sukkot 9:30 a.m. .

Friday, October 6 Second Day of Sukkot 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:49 p.m.

Saturday, October 7

Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:42 p.m.

Wednesday, October 11

Shemini Atzeret 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 12 Yizkor 9:30 a.m. Simchat Torah 6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 13

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:41 p.m.

Saturday, October 14

Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:34 p.m.

Friday, October 20

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:33 p.m.

Saturday, October 21

Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:26 p.m.

Friday, October 27

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 6:26 p.m.

Saturday, October 28

Shacharit 9:30 a.m. Shabbat Ends 7:20 p.m.

October 1

Rebecca Levy October 2

Loren Schwartz October 3 Betty Feir October 4 Jake Wolf

October 6

Chance Farley October 9

David Rosen Donald Lynn October 14 Larry Silver

October 19

Meg Looney Spark Scott Silver October 23 David Novy October 29 Robin Abbott

Inez Bonneville

Steven & Lilia Schwarz

The office will be closed for the Holidays:

Thursday & Friday – October 5th & 6th

Thursday & Friday – October 12th & 13th

Food from the Faithful

We will bring cereals & pastas on an on-going basis. Please bring packages throughout the year

and Susan Silver will see that they are delivered to Caritas.

Jeff Wolf

Laynie Miller

Henry & Hope Hacker

Norm & Margie Goldberg

Brandon Harris

Martin & Loren Schwartz

Ilsa Burns

Harmon Marks

Michael & Michelle Pesses

Elizabeth Brooke-Garza

Glenn & Vickie Schachar

Michael Stupak

Elliot Wolpo

Bobbye Brickman

Edward Vondra

Brent & Dianne deMoville

Judy Hersh

Fannie Lieberman

Jeff & Lea Levin

A very special “Thank You” to everyone who helped make the High Holidays

special this year including:

Brent deMoville for designing the programs for

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

Abbye & Susan Silver for the flower arrangements throughout

Rosh Hashanah, given in loving memory of their parents.

Harry & Bev Harelik for the flower arrangements throughout Yom Kippur,

given in loving memory of their parents & grandparents.

Judy Hersh and Susan Silver for preparing and setting up the

“Break the Fast” meal.

Shabbat DonationsSeptember 2

Stanley & Florence Hersh

Joseph Settle

Harold & Chava Kamenetsky

Gloria Yoder

September 9

Stanley & Florence Hersh

Miguel & Lourdes Perez

Gloria Yoder

Inez Bonneville

September 16 September 23

Stanley & Florence Hersh Stanley & Florence Hersh

Joseph Settle Judy Hersh

Brent & Dianne deMoville Brent & Dianne deMoville

Ray & Shannon Via Gloria Yoder

George & Kathleen Keller Miguel & Lourdes Perez

Ray & Shannon Via

Joseph Settle

HOW TO OBSERVE THE YAHRZEIT It is traditional to kindle a Yahrzeit Candle in the home on the evening Yahrzeit begins. It should

remain lighted until sunset the next day. Possible prayer before lighting a Yahrzeit candle: Eternal God, I/we light this candle in memory of (name) _________, my/our beloved (relationship)

___________. The light of the flame rekindles all the warm memories of the moment we shared

together, and reassures me /us that a piece of his/her soul dwells in my/our heart(s) forever. May

his/her soul be bound up with the bonds of eternal life. Amen. Candles are available at the Gift Shop. Every effort should be made to say Kaddish at congregational services. It is meritorious to perform

some Mitzvah or to contribute to the synagogue in commemoration of the deceased.

Kaddish will be read on September 29

Tishri 11 J. Markusfeld

Jules Bloch

Tishri 12 Friedman Goldberg

Albert Rubenstein

Perry Segal

Tishri 13 Emma Gallo

Harry Levine

Evelyn Dalkowitz

Tishri 14 Jacob Kroll

Sarah Harris

Jacob Kessler

Tishri 15 Morris Chazonow

Meyer Jerwick

Sophie Adams

Estelle Falgout Kaddish will be read on October 6

Tishri 16 Bertha Wood

Isaac Comer

Mrs. Sam Katz

Tishri 17 Zalman Tannenbaum

Tishri 18 Hannah Knop

Sidney Samet

Helen Fitterman

Lorraine Hoppenstein

Tishri 20 Boaz Levinson

Tishri 21 Jacob Aronson

Estelle Goldfeder

Baby Harris

Bess Levinson

Max Udashen

Doba bas Yitzchok

Tishri 22 Minna Adams

Sarah Beerman

Rabbi Charles Blumenthal

Julia Ellis

Harry Lapin Kaddish will be read on October 13

Tishri 23 Abraham B. Blank

Billy Dwayne Brooks

J. Harold Simon

Frieda Atlas

Tishri 24 Mark Harris

Sarah Levy Bell

Joe Rubel

Bernice Shapiro

Saul Chernoff

Tishri 25 A. Rubinsky

Eli Marks

Bernard Hersh

Tishri 26 Samuel Patlis

Joe Schwartz

Tishri 27 Baby Harelik

Eric Engleman

Gertrude Harris

Tishri 28 Rebecca Jacobson Kaddish will be read on October 20

Tishri 30 Harvey Goldfeder

Annie Harris

Mrs. Louis Gerson

Yisrael Podrizki

Faga Bergman

Elayne Lynn

Cheshvan 1 Stanley Ray Chodorow

Mrs. B. Bauer

Irving Berkman

Julius Genecov

Mrs. Irving Kippur

Cheshvan 2 Herman Rosenbaum

Ida Segal

Edythe Siegel

Cheshvan 3 Aaron Kalber

Chas Novak

Mrs. Harry Udashen

Harold Fitterman

Cheshvan 4 Lazare Heyman

Hymie Hoffman

Cheshvan 6 Israel Ellis Kaddish will be read on October 27

Cheshvan 7 Willie Lipinsky

Louise Busch

Mary Settle

Cheshvan 8 Daniel Adams

Esther Hoffman

Solomon Shifrin

Yaakov Belove

Cheshvan 9 Mrs. Max Harelik

William Ellis

Cheshvan 10 Mrs. Ruben Gandler

Cheshvan 11 Louis Lipsitz

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Erev Sukkot

NO SCHOOLErev Sukkot 6:00 p.m.

Sukkot I

Sukkot 9:30 a.m.

Sukkot II

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.

Hol Hamoed Sukkot I

Shacharit 9:30 a.m.

Hol Hamoed Sukkot II

Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.

Hol Hamoed Sukkot III Hol Hamoed Sukkot IV Hoshanah Rabbah

NO SCHOOLShemini Atzeret 6:00

p.m.

Shemini Atzeret (Yizkor)

Service 9:30 a.m.Yizkor 11:00 a.m.

Simchat Torah 6:00p.m.

Simchat Torah

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.

Shacharit 9:30 a.m.

Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.

CPR Class 8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Religious School 4:30p.m.

Trope Class 6:15 p.m.

Rosh Hodesh I

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.

Rosh Hodesh II

Shacharit 9:30 a.m.

Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.

Religious School 4:30p.m.

Trope Class 6:15 p.m.

Teen Club 5:30 p.m. -7:00 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p.m.

Shacharit 9:30 a.m.

Minyan & Class 9:30a.m.

[¡¡Candle Lighting, §Observance End, Printed October 2, 2017/12 Tishri 5778 for Canton, Ohio]