Rabbi’s
Notes: Religious?
I just came home
from the most glorious day at the river. A friend and I went, and we
stayed the whole day long. So I could watch the sun cross from one
side of the gorge to the other, never quite making it up to the
middle of the sky. It’s not summer anymore, even though I’m tan
and sunny inside.
Of course I’m
well aware of the change of seasons just now, because I am deep in
getting ready for the High Holy Days and all the festivals which
follow them. Last month I wrote a bit about Elul, the month of
preparation for the New Year, when I do lots of deferred maintenance
on my checkered soul. This isn’t the perfect thing by any means,
but often during the year I find myself thinking, “I’ll deal with
this in Elul.” Now it’s Elul, and I am glad to be dealing. What
would I do without Elul?
It’s also
firewood season chez Mickey and Margaret. Mick has been a monster of
chopping, hauling, stacking, while I ooh and aah from the sidelines.
And Mickey and I have been chatting about getting new bamboo (and
another roll of packaging tape ) to
build our sukkah. Mickey has a new architectural concept for this
year’s sukkah in mind – to be revealed, if we can pull it off,
when you all come to our house to celebrate the harvest. I’ve
already had a couple of chats with Avrohm at Zion Esrogim in Crown
Heights, and he promises to once again Fed-Ex a fresh and unbroken
“standard set” of lulav fronds and an etrog with it’s “pit-om”
– it’s belly button – cradled in foam, in time for the holiday. Tonk
has already told me that he looks forward to the annual request
to bring redwood branches to the shul for the schach – the
see-through roofing – of the shul sukkah. Mick and I think ahead
to dwelling in our little gazebo festooned with, you should forgive
the expression, Christmas lights, probably with a bonfire going too,
drinking wine, noshing at the shimmed-up yellow formica table, and
feeling the particular
this-is-a-little-too-chilly-but-still-so-glorious grateful,
satisfied, blessed feeling of Sukkot.
People often tell
me – with good reason! – that they don’t like organized
religion. “I worship God at the beach,” they say. “I’m
spiritual, not religious.” “I don’t need a
priest/rabbi/imam/roshi/sangoma or anyone else telling me what to
think.” “It’s all just about money and power.” Recently,
though, I’ve been appreciating exactly the “organized” quality
of the religious enterprise in a way which is new for me.
I’ve found myself
thinking that intact societies need any number of tasks done: we
need a marketplace, law, education, health care, recreation, art,
food and shelter production, ways to make communal decisions and to
enforce them. And we need stewardship of the individual and communal
soul. This last is, at best, the brief of any religion: to help
people’s inner beings flourish, individually and collectively.
And so every
culture receives from its elders a package, as it were, an organized
set of texts, rituals, norms, ethical maxims, contemplative
practices, ways to cultivate peace and bliss, and ideas about
ultimate reality. And it probably also gets institutions which make
it possible to utilize the package in every generation: buildings,
offices, teachers, officiants, licenses.
Every generation
makes adjustments in the social system they’ve received. Education
changes, culture exhibits new trends, health treatments change,
economies shift. Likewise religious institutions and ideas change
along with society. And today we live in a particularly
culturally-mixed society, so that we are exposed to the best (and
worst too) of lots of religious traditions and spiritual practices. We
also have a great deal of individual freedom to choose whether and
how we will engage with any religious tradition – that of our own
heritage or any other.
We are often
exposed to the most oppressive, dangerous and soul-deadening features
of religion in society. And these need to be challenged over and
over, from generation to generation. But we may not as easily see
the ways that religion in our culture – in any culture – also
guides people to a deeper sense of meaning in life and encourages
community, service, sharing, deeper conversation, contemplation,
virtue and wisdom. In some ways this is true whether or not we
personally practice a religion. Religious ideas and values permeate
society – sometimes in bad ways, but often in helpful and uplifting
ways as well.
For example, I
regularly get asked to be some part of “the religious community’s”
response to social issues of the day: to oppose torture, call for
health care reform, demand racial and economic justice, inspire
reconciliation between enemies, reform prisons, steward our
environment and much more. In our civic society, there is a sense
that “the religious community” has a role in challenging us all
to higher moral standards. Any of us might argue with one policy
position or another – but that general sense that religion should
help society see beyond its most self-serving agendas is a positive
contribution to social life.
I actually think
that there should be more religion – not less – in the public
arena. One of the things that drew me to the rabbinate was seeing
rabbis in the late ‘seventies writing op-ed pieces in the Los
Angeles Times challenging Jews to respond to the crisis of Southeast
Asian boat people. Our Jewish religious and historical experiences,
they said, give us an especially powerful sensitivity to the needs of
refugees. That voice in the public sphere changed things to some
degree. Among other small things it changed was my life path.
For my part, I
don’t think that Judaism is any better than any other religion or
culture. And I am fairly critical and selective in the ways that I
practice and teach and – yes – organize – our religion. But I
am endlessly grateful for, to pick just one example of many, the
cycle of holidays. What an ingenious way to deepen my personal
experience of life, connect me with my family and my community,
imprint moral values, engage me with history, uplift my spirit,
encourage me to be charitable -- all the while offering sensual
pleasure, intellectual deepening and spiritual bliss! The holiday
cycle literally organizes me to experience a set of practices
designed by many generations of ancestors for exactly these purposes.
Likewise with
Jewish texts, with daily and weekly prayer, with Shabbat, with the
Hebrew and Yiddish and Ladino languages, with tzedaka, gemilut
hesed and other moral practices, with mystical study and
contemplation – the whole package of organized Jewish religion. They do
a fair amount in our world to make life more interesting,
more civilized and, as my Bible professor, Stanley Gevirtz, of
blessed memory, said, “so beautiful.”
They are also, like
the organized religions of other tribes, full of problems, conflicts
and conundrums. And full of thoughtful people rising to meet these
challenges. This itself is part of meaning-making.
I mean this in no
way as a pitch to make anyone consider being more religious, or to be
religious in any particular way. But, whatever you do or don’t do
in the religious sphere, you might reflect on the ways, negative but
also positive, that religious traditions shape our society. And you
might also ruminate a bit, along with me, about how religion,
practiced in a thoughtful and reflective way, might shape your own
inner life and your own experience of the world as well.
We are about to
dive into the year 5770 – a new year organized into an ongoing
cycle of holidays, Torah readings, life cycle events, communal
obligations, seasons of inner struggle and renewal, fasting and
feasting, study, action, penance and growth. Around us other peoples
are engaging with their own cycles of religious practice, growth,
reflection and struggle. May it come to our whole world for good.
- Rabbi Margaret Holub © 2009
Simchat Torah RAVE: Eat. Beat, Rock and
Roll!!!
Simchat Torah
caps off a season
of holy days
and festivals with an
ecstasy of music and dance. Simchat Torah falls on Saturday
night, October 10, and we will celebrate with a klezmer party, feast
and
dance from 5:30 – 9:00 PM at the shul.
This year’s celebration will be more a Jewish cultural celebration and
a
little less service – a night of Jewish Soul: fun and delight with
dinner
(EAT!) at 5:30; havdalah and prayers and willow beating for rain in the
new year (BEAT!) at 6:30; live klezmer music and dancing with the
Mendo-Klezmer- Fusion Band, to bring joy to children and adults alike
(ROCK) at 7:00 ; and ROLL(!)ing our Torah back to Beresheit at
8:00. (This is not a Potluck! We'll be serving a sit
down dinner.) If you feel inspired to make a fabulous Jewish dish for
dinner, or want to help set up, serve, or clean up, call Luna at
972-4494. FEEL the JOY! (al)
Mussar Class
Margaret will be offering an
every-other-week class in mussar, the spiritual discipline of
cultivating positive qualities through self-examination, study,
conversation and contemplation. The class will begin in the first
week of November and will continue through the winter and spring. It
can happen on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings. So if you
are interested in participating and have a preferred evening, please
let Margaret know – mholub@mcn.org
or 937-5673. If you are not a nighttime driver and would like a ride
to the class, please let Margaret know this as well.
Mussar is a practice of cultivating
positive middot, character traits, and of encouraging this
cultivation in fellow mussar students. It has its roots in the
medieval teachers R. Bachya Ibn Pakuda and R. Moshe Chayim Luzzatto,
among others, had a flowering in the beginning of the nineteenth
century in Vilna, and is again coming alive in our own time. The
contemporary mussar teacher, Rabbi Ira Stone, writes, “The
discipline of mussar asks a great deal from the individual. It asks
one to efface one’s ego and to replace it, so to speak, with a
soul.”
Our community’s friend Caroline
Isaacs, from Temple Beth El in Eureka, kindly taught an inspiring
session on mussar at our women’s retreat. She and her longstanding
mussar group are part of the inspiration for this community class. (mh)
TODAH
RABAH! (Great Thanks)
For The Following Generous Contributors Who in the Last Month Helped
Sustain Our Community
Mettika Hoffman; Marilyn Rose; Mina Cohen and Jeff Berenson; Rosalie
and Art Holub; Joan and Norman Rudman; Adina Merendlender and Kerry
Heise; Irv and Rosalie Winesuff; Helen Jacobs; Ronnie James; Liz
Helenchild; Donna Camitta; Lou Miller
Roberta and David Belson In Memory of Ella Russell; Dawn and Bob
hofberg Schlosser In Honor of Ayla's graduation from Smith with honors;
Annett and Joanthan Lehan In Memory of Jean Garrett; Benna Kolinsky
and Dan Mandelbaum In Honor of Elul work. (mz)
Kabbalat Shabbat
In October we will be celebrating our home Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner
on Friday, October 9th, at the home of our beloved rabbi Margaret and
Mickey outside in their sukkah. Please call them at 937-5673 for
directions and to let them know you are coming. In November we will be
at the home of Marnie and Ron Press. The monthly Kabbalat Shabbat
includes a song-filled short service that begins at 6:00 pm and is
followed by a pot luck vegetarian dinner. If you would like to host
this wonderful event in your home in future months, contact Mina at
937-1319. (mc)
MCJC Board Meeting Dates
The next MCJC Board meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 5th and
then again on Thursday, November 12th. If you would like to attend a
meeting please contact Raven Deerwater at raven@taxpractitioner.com
so
he can let you know the time and include you on the agenda. (mc)
Movie Night: The Syrian Bride, Save the Date
We will have a movie
night on
Saturday, November 8th and will be showing “The Syrian Bride” a film by
Eran Riklis. In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan
Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged
to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the
Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other
because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona
moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never
be allowed to return home.
Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on
probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a
Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the
religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader
that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has
the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in
crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane
bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony. This comedy and drama is
subtitled.(mc)
Book Group
The book group will meet
Monday
October 19th
at the home of Rosamond Gumpert Jorgensen. Please call Fran Schwartz at
937-1352 if you wish to join us. We will be reading “The Collaborator
of Bethlehem”, the first Omar Yussef mystery by Matt Beynon Rees. The
murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the
arrest of George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating
with the Israelis. Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United
Nations school in the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder
to exonerate his former pupil, who he knows is innocent. As he
struggles to save George, Omar Yussef is drawn into a complex plot
where it is impossible to tell friend from enemy. In November we will
read Dakota Diaspora, the memoir of a Jewish homesteader. Books are
available at Cheshire Books in Fort Bragg for a 10% discount, if you
let them know you are in the Jewish Book Group. We welcome new people
at any time. (mc)
Thank You for Megillah Help
Thank you to Rhoda Teplow for
collating and
mailing our summer megillah. Contact Mina if you’d like to help with
this task. (mc)
Directory
Our thanks to Cynthia Copenhagen, Myra
Beals, Raven Deerwater & Donna Montag for our MCJC directory. The
directory was complied from the
Megillah mailing list from those who answered a survey requesting a
listing. If you didn't get a directory and want one, want to add or
edit your listing, or comment , please email Donna Montag
montag@mcn.org. An addendum will be
printed 30 days after this notice. Thank you! (dm)
If You or a Loved One Gets Sick This Fall
In early August we had a “Feed the Freezer” dinner at the shul. We now
have a fully stocked freezer with food for anyone in our community who
needs some food because they are ill or have any kind of need for
sustenance in an emergency. If you are in need of food all you have to
do is call one of the members of the Bikkur Cholim committee and we’ll
let you know how to get it, or send someone for it. The committee is
Fran Schwartz at 937-1352, Karen Rakofsky at 937-5522, or Mina Cohen at
937-1319. All food is vegetarian, not spicy, and we have ingredients
available if you have any allergies. (mc)
Torah School Starting in October
Torah school will be resuming October 19th upstairs at Frankie’s in
Mendocino at 3:30 after school. The tiles created by our 2009 (5769)
torah school class are all fired and will be installed after the High
Holy Days and will be unveiled at Simchat Torah celebrations. All are
invited to that. Come sit in the sukkah (see elsewhere in the
Megillah) and stay tuned for the monthly tisch that will resume in
November. If you have a child eligible for Torah School and did not get
a letter please contact Jessica at 937-2115. Torah Shool is
appropriate for all elementary school aged children. (mc)
Open Sukkahs
This year you can
celebrate Shabbat in Margaret
and Mickey’s sukkah (see Kabbalat Shabbat) and can visit the shul
sukkah anytime. Mina Cohen and Jeffrey Berenson will be erecting a
small sukkah (937-1319) as will Ellen Saxe and Ron Karish (877-3475)
and both families invite you to call if you want to come by and Le’shev
(sit) in the sukkah between October 2-8. (mc)
Mendocino Maven
by
The Shadow
By the time you read this, we will have been through
the Days of Awe, and (God willing) The Shadow
will have collected loads of material for the November Maven column.
Andrea Luna's art was reviewed in a local blog, you can read about
"Amazing Andrea" at http://mendofleur.com/2009/07/30/amazing-andrea/
A Mazel Tov goes out to Ellen Saxe who has "retired" from many years of
service in the childcare biz, but says that she is busier than ever.
Rumor has it that Ellen (and Ronnie's) daughter Bea Karrish is
returning to the Mendocino Coast from Willow Creek. Ayla Schlosser has
accepted an Internship with Green For All in Oakland and will
be campaigning for the Climate Bill and Green Jobs Act. At last report,
Ayla was looking for a place to live in the Bay Area. Jane Corey has
been shuttling back and forth between Elk and New England, where her
sister Eve is recovering from a very serious fall. Eve is reported to
be making excellent progress and hopes to return to California soon.
While The Shadow was wandering
rather aimlessly around the village of Mendocino, he discovered that
Theresa Glasner's ICONS store has moved across the street from her old
location, several months ago, and she seems to have an even larger
inventory of fascinating spiritual and secular iconic objects. Jessica
Grinberg has opened a retail shoe store on Albion St, in the old Papa
Birds location, across from the McCallum house, specializing in shoes
that are comfortable and actually good for one's feet and back.
I thought that I should include a plug for the "Shabbat Minyan"
gathering every Saturday at the shul. A variable and eclectic group
gather for the Shacharit (morning light) service. It is led by Rabbi
Margaret Holub with much singing and the reading of one Aliya from the
weekly Torah portion. Margaret usually offers a Dvar Torah and leads a
discussion of the portion. The service starts at 10:30 AM and usually
ends around 12:30 PM with kiddush. It is very informal and people drop
in and leave when they want. People with varying levels of Jewish
knowledge attend, so please don't feel daunted, if you skipped Hebrew
school and your Ivrit is a bit rusty
I find the service a very healing and restorative part of my week, and
the keystone for my observance of Shabbat. We will be starting at the
beginning of the Torah with Bereshit (Genesis 1:1) on October 17. It is
an opportunity for people to say the mourner's Kaddish with a minyan
and to experience Jewish spiritual community in a safe and welcoming
environment. Please join us.
If you have Simcha's (joys) you would like to share with the community,
please email maven@mcjc.org (rge)
The
בְּרקלִי Hat; a
recollection from Bob Evans
For
me the city of צְפַת
(transliterated
as Safed, Tsfat,
Tzefat, Zfat, and Ẕefat) in Northern Israel, is a place of mystery
and strange beauty. In the summer of 2000, after an MCJC trip to
Israel, I had the good fortune to spend the better part of a week
there by myself.
I
am not, by nature, much inclined toward mysticism, but I have felt
that if I was ever to have an other worldly experience, it would be
more
likely in Tsfat than elsewhere, and was half hoping that something
out of the ordinary would occur.
Tsfat
has a strange and violent history. Tsfat was the home to many
Kabbalists who came there after the Spanish expulsion, and is one of
the four sacred cities in Israel (the others being Jerusalem, Hebron
and Tiberius).
Tsfat
has been ravaged by plagues, earthquakes, and bloodshed. Many Jews
left in 1929 following a massacre of 20 Jews by Muslims. In the
Israeli war of Independence, during bitter fighting, most of the
Muslim population left, and it became an almost wholly Jewish city.
After
the war, it became an artist's colony, a home to many Haredi
(Ultra-Orthodox), the site of an annual giant Klezmer music festival
and a bit of a tourist trap.
I
spent most of my time there wandering the streets of the old city,
poking my head into galleries (which were often artists studios),
artisans shops (candlers and weavers) and synagogues.
On the
morning before I left Tsfat, I drove to the grave of Rabbi Yonatan
ben Uziel
(circa 450
B.C.E.). For a previous visit in 1996, Rabbi Margaret Holub had
suggested that I visit, since it a tradition to pray at that place
for marriage, and I did so during
both visits on my behalf and for
some single friends.
I drove back to Tsfat,
feeling slightly disappointed that I had not had any overtly
spiritual experiences, and I was going to be leaving soon. When I
returned, I walked around the old city one last time, enjoying the
heat, admiring the curious blue doors and observing the residents and
tourists.
I
noticed a small boy, maybe 8 or 9, on a street corner, pointing at me
and shouting in Hebrew. He was dressed in a little black hat and
coat, and had payot (sidelocks), I couldn't understand what he was
saying. He was accompanied by an attractive woman, in her late 30's
or early 40's wearing a snood. She yelled across the street, in
English with an American-Hebrew accent, that “he thinks your hat
says broccoli”
and they both shrieked with laughter. I smiled back and they wandered
away.
I
was somewhat take aback by this. The baseball cap I was wearing was
purchased at Afikomen in Berkeley, because it said “Berkeley”
transliterated into Hebrew as בְּרקלִי
.
What was surprising, was that a Haredi woman has spoken to me on the
street, this was a first. Generally, very Orthodox women try and
minimize their contact with men in public, especially men who are not
Orthodox, and I try to be sensitive to this.
For the next few hours,
it seemed that everywhere I went, I ran into this pair. The boy would
point and yell “broccoli” and the woman would smile and I would
smile. It seemed very odd.
After leaving Tsfat, I
was a little troubled by these encounters. Gradually, it dawned on me
that this was perhaps the mystical experience, I had been longing
for. How could I know that the young boy was not Elijah, and he was
trying to pass on some secret knowledge or sage counsel, if only I
has been bold enough to talk with him? Or perhaps the woman was
Elijah. Or perhaps she was my soulmate, my bashert, and that if I had
not been so shy, the path of my life would have changed.
I
am not sure whether there is a lesson in all this, apart from the
fact that בְּרוֹקוֹלִי
(broccoli)
and בְּרקלִי
(Berkeley)
are very similar words in Hebrew. Perhaps the lesson is that when the
mystical intrudes into our reality, it can take subtle and unexpected
forms, or that we should reach out to the strangers who Hashem throws
in our paths or that we should just pay closer attention to each
moment. Or it could simply be that we should be wary of wearing
articles of clothing with writing in languages that we don't know
very well.
Was this my encounter
with the other world? I will probably never know, at least not in
this life. (rge)
Facebook
and the MCJC
At the last Kabbalat Shabbat at the shul, there was a spirited
discussion of Facebook and the merits of Internet Social Networking.
There seems to be a bit of polarization on this question. Whatever your
feelings are, I should note that the MCJC Facebook group is up to 48
members.
Jessica Grinberg has set up a
Facebook group for the MCJC Torah School (MCJC Kids). Many parents find
these groups a helpful way to share information about their kids
extracurricular activities, in a semi-private forum. (rge)
The Megillah: Have It Your Way
The Mendocino Megillah is generated
in two
formats: the legacy hardcopy format
which is optimized for printing on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper and the HTML
format which is formatted for easy reading on a computer display. You can subscribe to the hardcopy version and have it
mailed to you,
you can subscribe to the email version or you can receive both. If you
don’t need the hardcopy and want to do your bit to repair the
world by going electronic, please email Myra at myrah@mcn.org
Todah Rabah! (rge)
Looking to the
Future
From time to time members have given additional financial help to
MCJC.
Upon the sale of a home, stocks or some other positive financial event
they have shared their good fortune. Also, several members have
remembered MCJC in their wills. These generous acts insure the long
term strength and sustainability of the Jewish Community and our shul
here on the Coast.
We encourage you to do this if you can. (mz)
Subscription and Notification
If you would like to subscribe to this publication and/or receive email
notifications for events, changes, or important news from MCJC contact
Myra Beals at myrah@mcn.org or send to P.O. Box
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please indicate that as well. Subscription to the Megillah is included
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to the newsletter is $25. per year. Checks can be made payable to MCJC
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Editorial Policy
The Mendocino Megillah is published monthly. The deadline for
submission of articles is the 10th of the month before desired
publication. The editor will include all appropriate material, space
permitting with the exception of copyrighted material that does not
have permission of the author. The material printed in the Megillah is
not the policy or representative of the opinions of the Board of
Directors of Mendocino Coast Jewish Community. Divergent opinions are
welcome. (mc)
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Rainsong &
Rainsong Shoes: Rainsong
& Rainsong Shoes:
>From head to toe in Mendocino! * Contemporary clothing * Shoes
&
accessories for men & women * 3 locations: Mendocino, Healdsburg,
and our new store in Montgomery Village, Santa Rosa * 937-4165
(clothing) * 937-1710 (shoes) * 433-8058 (Healdsburg) * 576-8919 (Santa
Rosa)
http://www.rainsongshoes.com
Raven Deerwater,
EA, PhD:
Tax practitioner * Specializing in families, home-based & small
businesses,
& non-profit organizations * 45121 Ukiah St. * Box 1786, Mendo *
937-1099 *
raven@taxpractitioner.com
www
taxpractitioner.com
Richard Green
& Co.
Certified Public Accountant * 45170 Main Street, Mendocino *
937-5260 *
rgcpa@adelphia.net
Richochet Ridge
Ranch:
Trail rides on beach, across from MacKerricher State Park *
Reservations:
964-PONY(7669) * 1-1/2 hr. to all day rides, exceptional horses,
English and
Western * Week long No. Calif. & International riding vacations *
Free
brochure contact Lari Shea, 24201 N. Highway 1, Fort Bragg, 95437 *
http://www.horse-vacation.com/
Rosenthal
Construction:
703 N. Main St., Fort Bragg * 964-1200
Silver and Stone:
45005 Ukiah St., Mendocino * 937-0257 * Contemporary sterling silver
&
gemstone jewelry for women & men * Affordable to indulgent *11 am
to 6 pm daily
Thanksgiving
Coffee
Co.:
local roasters on the Mendocino Coast
over 3 decades * Certified organic, shade grown coffee & Fair Trade
Coffees
* Box 1918, Fort Bragg, 95437 * (800)462-1999 * www.thanksgivingcoffee.com
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