Weekly Newsletter

Shabbat Parshat Re'eh
Shabbat Mevarchim
Week of August 30, 2024
Av 5784

Erev Shabbat, Friday August 30, 2024 (26 Av)
Candle Lighting at 7:12pm

Shabbat, August 31, 2024 (27 Av)
Services will begin promptly at 9:30 and will be followed by a Kiddush open to all at 12pm.

Havdalah at 8:11pm  

Holiday Alert: Rosh Chodesh Elul falls out on September 3 and September 4.

Kiddush this week is sponsored by the house. If you'd like to sponsor Kiddush in the future, please reach out to info@stantonstshul.com.

Spend Your High Holidays with Stanton Street!


Register for all services and meals here. 

Please Find Our Full High Holiday Schedule Below:

Rosh Hashana:
Wednesday, October 2nd, 6:15pm Evening Services 
Thursday, October 3rd, 9am Shacharit Services
A Festive Kiddush will be held following services.
October 3, Childcare provided from 10am - 1pm, Family Services for Young Children and their Caregivers will take place downstairs from 10:30am - 11:30am.
Friday, October 4th, 9am Shacharit Services
A Festive Kiddush will be held following services.
October 4, Childcare provided from 10am - 1pm, Family Services for Young Children and their Caregivers will take place downstairs from 10:30am - 11:30am.
Fast of Gedalia:
Sunday, October 6th
Fast begins at 5:37am and ends at 7:10pm
Yom Kippur:
Friday, October 11th, 6:00pm Kol Nidre Services
(Please refer to myzmanim.com for local fast beginning and end times)
Saturday, October 12th, 9am Services in Shul, 4:25pm Mincha & 5:40pm Neilah Services, followed by Maariv, Havdalah & a Light Break-Fast
October 12, Childcare provided from 10am - 2pm, Family Services for Young Children and their Caregivers will take place downstairs from 10:30am - 11:30am.
High Holiday Family Services:
On both days of Rosh Hashana (October 3rd and October 4th) and on Yom Kippur (October 12th), we will be holding High Holiday Family Services for children and their families and/or caregivers. Please see details on timing above. Services will consist of a fun and explanatory program including singing, prayer, and other interactive activities. Snacks will be provided. Families must register ahead of time for the service/s they plan to attend. 
Sukkot:
Sunday, October 13th, Sukkah Decorating Program for Children & Caregivers with StantonKIDS at Siempre Verde Garden (Community Garden Across from the Shul), 10am - 12pm
Thursday, October 17th, 9am Shacharit Services
Friday, October 18th, 9am Shacharit Services
Shemini Atzeret:
Thursday, October 24th, 9am Shacharit Services
Simchat Torah:
Thursday, October 24th, 6:40pm Maariv Services
Friday, October 25th, 9am Shacharit Services in Shul/Women’s Tefillah Group Torah Reading & Shacharit Services
A Festive Kiddush Lunch Will be Held at Approximately 1pm Following Services.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TIMING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR ANY UPDATES VIA EMAIL.
Visit stantonstshul.org for more information and updates.

Our Annual Membership Drive Is Ongoing!

** Membership Invoices have been sent out to all who held Memberships last year (2023-2024) and have not yet paid for the 2024-2025 year. Please reach out with any questions about renewing your membership or beginning a new membership.**

Dear Friends,

In his commentary on Pirkei Avot entitled "Peirush Man", R’ Menachem Nachum Friedman of Itcani notes an apparent contradiction in this week’s parshah. In Chapter 15 verse 4, we are told “there shall be no needy among you—since the HaShem your God will bless you in the land that the HaShem your God is giving you as a hereditary portion”, but later, in verse 11, we are told “for there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kin in your land.” How is it that there will be no needy among us and yet there will never cease to be needy ones in our land?

R’ Menachem Nachum says that “HaKadosh Baruch Hu, master over all the Earth, gave the Jews the Land of Canaan as an inheritance and the land was divided portion by portion. Someone who lost their income due to poor decisions will be forced to sell their property; this is what the verse is referring to when it says ‘there will never cease to be needy ones in your land.’” The realities of life are such that, at times, a person may lose the land given to them and the subsequent financial security it affords. For that reason, there will inevitably be people in need.

At the same time, the Torah mandates safeguards to help such a person. R’ Menachem Nachum points out that, for one thing, during the Jubilee year, all land reverts back to its original owners. But if even after the Jubilee year, a person is forced to sell their land again, thus forfeiting any future rights to that land, we are told in Leviticus 25:35 that “if your brother grows poor, and his hand becomes shaky among you, then you shall relieve him”. This is expressed in the Torah’s mandate to leave the gleanings, forgotten sheaves, and corners of our fields unharvested and to give them, instead, to the poor and the stranger (Leviticus 23:22). 

R’ Menachem Nachum observes that leaving these gleanings and corners to the poor is not, in fact, an act of charity, where the owner of the field gives of their own property to the poor. Rather, by Divine mandate, the owner of the field has absolutely no rights to this produce and it truly belongs to the poor and the stranger. He likens it to a partnership in the ownership of the field’s produce where the owner of the field owns the lion’s share but the poor and the stranger own the gleanings, forgotten sheaves, and the corners.

Life happens. People will always face unforeseen circumstances and financial hardships and in that sense there will always be needy in our land. At the same time, the Torah sets up a system of safeguards to ensure that the needy among us will always find their feet and never fall too far. This, says R’ Menachem Nachum, is why even though need will always arise, we are promised that there shall be no needy among us.     

Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Birkeland

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Misheberach 
Rachel Devorah bat Elke
Cecile Cohen זיאסל מלכה בת אסתר 
Manny Kaplan מאיר ראובן בן לאה        
Chana Mera bat Fruma Henna
Gitche bat Honcha
Ella bat Leah
Chaya Malka bat Esther Leia
Nolan Rhodes נתן צבי בן פרידה
Ashlynn Elizabeth Helen Coffman
 Moshe Asher Ben Esther Sarah
Chaim Yechezkel Ben Leah
Reuven ben Rochel
Rivka bat Miriam Sara
Eliyahu Natan ben Shayndel
Shayna bat Chana Kayla 
Yitzhak Calev ben Leetza Tzvia
Ashira bat Yosef
Malka Devora bat Chaya
Chaim Yonah ben Dubrah
​​​​​​​Efraim Ben Sore
Shimon Sumer HaLevi Ben Malka
Jim Lee
Leah Zahava Bat Elka
Barry Feldman

We pray that all who are sick may have a full recovery. We are especially sending prayers to those who are wounded and in need of healing in Israel and Gaza, and daven for the safe return of those who are still unaccounted for.
To add a name to our communal misheberach prayer list, email us.

If you have a Yahrtzeit, birthday, anniversary or other milestone coming up, please reach out!
We'd like to update our Yahrtzeit database. Please send us your yahrzeit details. If you don't know the exact hebrew date, just let us know the date of passing and we will figure it out and add it to the shul cloud calendar.

Dear Stanton Community, 
 
We are shaking from the war breaking out in Israel. Hamas has fired thousands of rockets, over 136 citizens are hostages, and over 1,200 Israelis are dead with thousands more wounded. There are also thousands dead in Gaza -- innocent civilians caught in the line of fire. 
 
This is unprecedented and the most deadly attack on Israel in a generation. We must take action.
In addition to our prayers, we ask you to consider making a generous donation to one of the listed causes.
 
The One who makes peace on high, may He bring peace down below to us, 
Dvir and Shalhevet Cahana

StantonKIDS
Shabbat Programming for 5785

Shabbat Program September 7: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program September 21: 10:30am-12pm
Rosh Hashana October 3: Childcare provided from 10:00am-1pm, Family services from 10:30am-11:30am
Rosh Hashana October 4: Childcare provided from 10:00am-1pm, Family services from 10:30am-11:30am
Yom Kippur October 12: Childcare provided from 10:00am-2pm, Family services from 10:30am-11:30am
Sukkah Decorating October 13: 10:00am-12pm
Shabbat Program November 2: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program November 16: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program December 7: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program December 21: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program January 11: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program January 25: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program February 1: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program February 15: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program March 1: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program March 15: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program April 5: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program April 26: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program May 3: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program May 31: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program June 14: 10:30am-12pm
Shabbat Program June 21: 10:30am-12pm

Women's Tefillah Group

Thank you to all who have joined us for services this year. Our schedule for 5785 is below.
If you would like to layn, lead services, or give a d'var Torah with us, or if you have questions, please be in touch!
Torah Reading (with aliyot for all) on Simchat Torah morning - October 25
Shabbat Parshat Chayei Sarah - November 23
Shabbat Parshat Beshalach - February 8
Megillat Esther Reading - March 13
Shabbat Parshat Emor - May 17
Shabbat Parshat Nasso - June 7
Shabbat Parshat Korach - June 28

ONLINE ARCHIVES

If you missed services this past shabbes, or arrived too late to hear the drasha, you can go to our archives and read a copy! This week, find Lina Morales' drasha on Lech Lecha. 

Click here for an archive of shiurim
Click here for an archive of drashot
Click here to go to our YouTube Channel for an archive of all of our ZOOM classes