Turning Your Home into a Sacred Space

Lots of Jews in our regions, for Sabbath keep the lights on from Friday afternoon, having no television or internet facilities and now being confronted with difficulties for feeling a togetherness and a feeling of having the right service for the Elohim, because they wonder if it would be all right to have a service via the modern tools and internet.

Having the Beis HaElohim and shuls already four months closed for study and prayer because of the corona lockdown, many feel 9 Av as an extra special day of sadness this year, them not having a meeting place, like our parents and grandparents were not able to gather because of the Nazi’s in the previous century. But this time it is not man but nature that keeps them and us in its grip.

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To remember

• Take advantage of these unusual circumstances to experience something new.

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Preceding

Social Distanced but Spiritually Close

Hineni for our Virtual Services

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Find also to read:

1. Eykhah – How can it be?
2. Dark times looking like death is around the corner – but Light given to us
3. Israel celebrates Purim amid Coronavirus outbreak – ILTV Israel news – Mar. 9, 2020
4. Even in Corona time You are called on to have the seder
5. One Passover tradition asking to provide the less fortunate with foods and help
6. In a time when we must remain in our place
7. 2020 A Passover seder meeting limited to members of the family
8. 9 Av: Tisha B’Av 2020
9. 9 Av 2020 en Dagen van droefheid
10. Geestelijke affaires in CoViD-19 afzonderingstijden
11. Voor het eerst in jaren weer een Pesach in isolatie
12. Isolatietijd vrij te nemen voor jezelf
13. Ontnomen van een gebedshuis #1 Doodveroorzakers
14. Ontnomen van een gebedshuis #2 In de greep van een coronavirus

Cantor Matt Axelrod

וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם

They will make me a sanctuary and I will dwell among them.

For months now, we’ve all become accustomed to working from home–it’s gone more smoothly for some than for others. Social media has been replete with work-from-home fails: toddlers barging in on important calls, dogs and landscapers disrupting meetings with intrusive background noise, and even partially clad family members being caught on camera. Convenience aside, there’s a reason why work is kept in the workplace.

What we haven’t heard nearly as much about is praying from home. With synagogues shuttered, congregants have had to avail themselves of the various live feeds, streaming, and Zoom services that their temples have created. Furthermore, the pandemic and its continuing restrictions have forced us to begin planning extensively for the High Holidays considerably earlier than usual.

Be assured that your synagogue–wherever you belong–has already been thinking, planning, strategizing…

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Autumn Sunrise

I'm a teacher, again

Picture silent beauty of the fallen

cascades over night in morning’s fresh dew

Would we lives would suspend among such few

swept in a seasonal breeze unspoken

While lives do merit certain ambience

having understood time in element

sweet farewell of arid temperament

with knowledge shelter a vortex of chance

In morning humanity know each day

means a spiritual guide wills a solace

swift is the timing of fortunate Grace

will soon a blossoming might lead our way

Demands seek urgency’s mortality

Cycle of life bestow such is beauty

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Autumn Verses

In Belgium the last few days, in day time, have shown higher temperatures (17°C) than normal for the time of year, but the leaves colouring and falling off tell us that it is really autumn.

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looking at

• summer idles soon dissolve
• October’s captured insects > spiders all well fed
• woodyard debris,
• frosty days arrive with each November,
• dense cloud of leaves.
• poetry exists in the disorder of life,
• Unfazed by promise of mortality
• comfort in the silence and stillness.

Mortality, and the confrontation we have with it, does force us to pay attention to those details.{lazarusdodge}

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Preceding articles:

Looking at Autumn

Abscission

An Autumn Ramble

Waiting in the mist

The Elk are Bugling~

During Wind and Rain

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Further reading

1. Changing over…
2. Changing seasons…
3. The Colors of Autumn
4. The Comfort of Mortality
5. Macro Photography : IMG_9616.jpg by mciampin
6. morning autumn by soriniko
7. Already Late
8. Change
9. Misty Autumn by sysaworld
10. beauty
11. Liberated Quilting
12. Takayama Autumn Festival (秋の高山祭）2
13. New on 500px : Autumn bustle by h_shirasaki by h_shirasaki

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