March - April 2010 Newsletter

January - February 2010 Newsletter

 Congregation Tikkun v'Or (Ithaca Reform Temple) will be holding our annual community Passover seder on the second night of Pesach, Tuesday, March 30, at 6 p.m. Reservations are required.

Download seder reservation form HERE

Tikkun v'Or Religious School students are working on a triple mitzvah project, and you can join them!

We are offering fair trade coffee and chocolate

Mitzvah #1 "You must play him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets." (Deuteronomy 21:12-15)

For you to purchase for just $3/bag (2.25 ounce coffee pack and three 4.5 g. chocolate bars) for you to give to a friend for Purim

Mitzvah #2: The giving of food and drink (mishloach manot) for Purim

Add a "bonus" mitzvah by donating your bag to the Friendship Center  -- giving charity to the poor

Proceeds will be given to AJWS (American Jewish World Service) for earthquake relief in Haiti

Mitzvah #3: Gemilut chasadim (doing kind things for others in small and large ways) and tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action)

Purim goodies may be purchased at TVO on Sunday, February 21 between 11:30 a.m.  - 12 p.m. and on Sunday, February 28 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Join us also for a Purim celebration on Sunday, February 28 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.!

Hear the Purim story, eat delicious pizza and hamentashen, make Purim masks, and sing Purim songs.

Admission: a box or can of healthy food to donate to the Ktichen Cupboard food pantries.

CONTEMPLATIVE TORAH: Reading Sacred Text as Life-Text With Cantor Abbe Lyons
You can gain greater understanding of your own spiritual journey and discover 6 Biblical texts in depth through your own life experience as well as through the teachings of scholars.  Each session will begin with a short period of study, using diverse commentary from ancient, medieval, modern sources, some engaging in rigorous scholarship, and others exploring mystical meanings.  During the meditative portion of each session, you will listen to a selection of text and contemplate questions raised by the text.  There will also be options to journal and to share with others as part of this process.  Nigunnim (melodies) will help us enter into a contemplative space.  The Yom Kippur Mincha service used a microcosm of this method, Kriat haKodesh, which was adapted by Rabbi Leila Gal Berner, from the centuries old Christian contemplative practice practice of Lectio Divina.

Saturdays 4 – 5:30 p.m.
January 30 - February 27 - March 13 - April 10 - May 8 - June 5

For 6-week class:
$75 TVO members / $90 non members
includes textbook.
For more information or to register, contact Lisa Machlin or call 539-7178.