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It's a New Year filled with new possibilities and opportunities! I am pleased to offer three different ways to strengthen your personal connection to Judaism in this coming 5773. Use your hands, your breath, your mind, and your heart in new Jewish ways this New Year!

First, have you ever built a Sukkah in your backyard? Well, you CAN build a Sukkah, and you SHOULD build a Sukkah! Please join me on Sunday, September 9 at 11:30 A.M; immediately after the opening session of Religious School, for the Great Sukkah-Building Demo! You will learn that building a Sukkah is a fun activity for the entire family, that it doesn?t cost very much for the materials, and that you don?t need to have great skill with power tools. Detailed plans and a handy ?Sinai Sukkah Kit? shopping list will be available. Build a Sukkah at your home with your family this New Year! It?s a great Jewish thing to do!p>

On the following two Sundays, September 16 and 23, at 11:30 A.M; I will be hosting ?The Shofar Blowers Workshop? for Sinai members Grade 5 through adults. Rabbi Shapiro and I would like to have a literal chorus of shofarot at the very end of Neila services on Yom Kippur day. If you would like to be part of this wonderfully cacophonous endeavor, please join me for these workshops. Bring your own shofar, or you can borrow a shofar from Sinai Temple?s collection. (First come, first blown, so please RSVP to the Temple office if you would like to borrow a shofar from the Temple.) Learn to blow the shofar this New Year! It?s another great Jewish thing to do!p>

Finally, after the holidays, I would like to offer a Torah chanting class, provided there is sufficient interest. The class would meet weekly over a period of about 10 weeks, and will culminate with the graduates chanting some verses of Torah during a Shabbat service.  If you can "decode" Hebrew (reading letters and vowels, but not necessarily with comprehension), and would like to learn the sacred art of chanting Torah, please let me know soon that you would be interested!  If I get enough of a response, I would be delighted to offer the class this autumn. Learn to chant Torah this New Year! It?s an amazingly wonderful Jewish thing to do!p>

Sheri, Alec, Liz, Candy and I would like to wish our entire Sinai Temple family a Shana Tova Umitukah, a Good and a Sweet New Year!

Ivdu et Hashem B’simcha! Serve the Holy One with Joy!

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