CONGREGATION
AGUDATH ACHIM
301 McCABE AVENUE
BRADLEY BEACH, NJ 07720
(732) 774-2495
http://www.bradleybeachshul.org
Elie Rosenfeld
Rabbi
H. Bialik
Rabbi Emeritus
Officers
Leonard Strulowitz
President
Leonard Bielory THE
BULLETIN
Vice President
David Levitt HIGH HOLIDAY ISSUE
Treasurer
Sharon Shulman 5776 - 2015
Secretary
Michael Dobkin
Gabbai
Trustees
Sam Cohen
Bette Epstein
HIGH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE 2015 – 5776
First Selichos – Saturday Night September 5th (Labor Day Weekend) - TBA
Erev Rosh Hashanah – Sunday, September 13th
Yom Tov Candle Lighting: 6:50pm
Mincha/Maariv: 6:55pm
First Day Rosh Hashanah – Monday, September 14th
Morning Services: 8:30am, Shofar not before 10:30am
Mincha: 6:45pm followed by Tashlich
Maariv: 7:35pm, 2nd day Yom Tov Candle Lighting after 7:48pm
Second Day Rosh Hashanh -Tuesday, September 15th
Morning Services: 8:30am, Shofar not before 10:30am
Mincha: 6:50pm
Maariv: 7:40pm, Havdalah after 7:46pm
Tzom Gedaliah - Wednesday, September 16th
Fast begins 5:15am, Fast ends 7:45pm
Shabbos Shuvah – Parshas Vayeilech
Saturday, September 19th
Candle Lighting: 6:42pm
Mincha/Maariv: 6:45pm
Shabbos Morning Services: 9:15am
Shabbos Mincha: 6:35pm
Maariv: 7:30pm, Havdalah after 7:39pm
Yom Kippur Night - Tuesday, September 22nd
Mincha with Vidui: 4:30pm if minyan is available
Home: Yizkor candles + Yom Kippur Candle Lighting by 6:35pm, Sunset 6:53pm
Kol Nidrei: 6:45pm – Kol Nidrei sermon, Maariv begins – 7:30pm
Yom Kippur Day - Wednesday, September 23rd
Morning Services: 8:30am, Yizkor (Memorial Services) not before 11:00am
Mincha and Neilah: 5:10pm, Neilah ends/shofar 7:33pm,
Maariv/Havdalah/Break-fast
Erev Sukkot - Sunday, September 27th
Candle Lighting: 6:27pm
Mincha: 6:30pm
First Day Sukkot - Monday, September 28th
Morning Services: 9:15am
Mincha: 6:20pm
Candle Lighting: After 7:24pm
Second Day Sukkot - Tuesday, September 29th
Morning Services: 9:15am
Mincha: 6:20pm
Havdalah: After 7:22pm
con’t
Shabbos Chol Moed - Friday, October 2nd
Candle Lighting: 6:19pm
Mincha: 6:20pm
Shabbos - Saturday, October 3rd
Morning Services: 9:15am
Mincha: 6:10am
Havdalah: 7:16pm
Hoshana Rabbah - Sunday, October 4th
8:00pm (If minyan is available.)
Erev Sh’Mini Atzeret - Sunday, October 4th
Candle Lighting: 6:16pm
Mincha: 6:20pm
Sh’Mini Atzeret - Monday, October 5th
Morning Services: 9:15am
Mincha: 6:10pm
Erev Simchat Torah - Monday, October 5th
Candle Lighting: Not before 7:12pm
Hakafot After Maariv
Simchat Torah - Tuesday, October 6th
Morning Services: 9:15am
Mincha: 6:05pm
Havdala: 7:11pm
FROM THE RABBI’S DESK…….
By Rabbi Elie Rosenfeld
A fundamental characteristic
of the Jewish calendar is that the festivals and other holidays always fall
during specific seasons each year – Passover in the early spring, Shavous in
the late spring, Chanukah around the start of winter. Similarly, the High Holidays invariable come
around just as the summer is ending and autumn beginning.
Rosh Hashanah, although it
occurs the first day of Tishrei, the seventh Hebrew month per the order
of months established by the Torah, is designated in the Mishnah as the start
of the new calendar year. The obvious
question is why do we begin each year with a month which not only occurs
in the middle of the count of Jewish months, but also at the very end of
the annual agricultural cycle which is framed by the major festivals of Pesach,
Shavous and Sukkos! Shouldn’t we start
our years with Nissan, the month in which Pesach, the first in the holiday
cycle, occurs, and the month in which growth and renewal begins again with the
start of spring?
Perhaps the significance of
Rosh Hashanah’s timing is to help us put the Days of Awe into their proper
perspective. Seeing the warm and bright
days of summer slowly waning, the daylight hours shortening more and more with
each passing week, cannot help but put us into a solemn and reflexive
mood. We think ahead to the dark and
cold winter soon to come and wonder how we will fare, both physically and
emotionally. In the farming societies of
our ancestors, this was also the time of year to fervently hope that the
resources gathered through the spring and summer would be sufficient to see
everyone through the lean months ahead.
With this frame of mind, we
are psychologically and spiritually prepared to approach the Almighty in prayer
and repentance, beginning on Rosh Hashanah, Judgment Day, and culminating on
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Our
minds and hearts are properly attuned to the seriousness of this period, and of
the crucial tasks of reflection, remorse and
self-improvement that we are
about to undertake.
My wish to one and all for a
meaningful and productive High Holiday season, and for a happy, healthy, and
successful year 5776!
FROM THE PRESIDENT -
Greetings!
As President of our
Congregation, I ask you this New Year to take ownership of this wonderful
congregation, when you can, join us at Shabbos Services, events, learn with us
and socialize with our “shul family” after services at our Shabbat Kiddish.
Your shul Board consists of
your friends, they are devoted to you and the synagogue. We have met every Sunday morning for the past
three months to make sure we serve you to the upmost. They are extremely devoted.
We are blessed with kind,
caring and devoted chairs of committees and extraordinary volunteers. Look how they have cleaned up and organized
the interior of the shul. Organized the
Prayer Books, eliminated those in disrepair, ritually buried them, beautified
the social hall and a long list of more.
Give us your feedback, engage
us in conversation. We want to hear all
of your ideas and comments any way you wish to share them and please, volunteer
to chair and/or join or start a committee you think you may like.
On this Rosh Hashana and Yom
Kippur let us pray together that we be inscribed with a good, fruitful and
healthy life for us and humanity. Let
Congregation Agudath Achim help you bring spirituality and clarity in your
lives.
L’Shana Tova
Len Strulowitz
