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14450 West Ten Mile Road
Oak Park, Michigan 48237
(313) 967.4020
RABBI LANE STEINGER
RABBI L. DAVID FEDER
TEMPLE BETH JACOB
OCTOBER
1— 9:30 a.m. A ROSH HASHANAH RETREAT
HAPPENING — Projects, Songs,
Luncheon and more. ALL WELCOME.
Call Temple office for details.
967-4020
4— 7:30 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous — Meets
every Wednesday
6— 7:30 p.m. Family Shabbat Service — Baby
Sitting Provided
7-10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
8-10:45 a.m. It's My Temple Too! Service for 2-5
-year olds and Parents
7:00 p.m. YOM KIPPUR EVE EARLY SERVICE —
Baby Sitting Provided
9:00 p.m. YOM KIPPUR LATE SERVICE
9— 9:00 a.m. YOM KIPPUR CHILDREN'S SERVICE
10:30 a.m. YOM KIPPUR MORNING SERVICE —
Baby Sitting Provided
3:00 p.m. YOM KIPPUR AFTERNOON SERVICE
4:00 p.m. YOM KIPPUR MEMORIAL SERVICE —
All Are Welcome
13— 7:30 p.m. SUKKOT EVE SERVICE (Signed for
Hearing Impaired). Family Service —
Bring the Children
14-10:30 a.m. SUKKOT MORNING SERVICE
15— 9:00 a.m. PTO Meeting
9:15 a.m. Brotherhood Meeting
10:50 a.m. Parent Education
20— 7:30 p.m. SIMCHAT TORAH EVE
CONSECRATION SERVICE
21-10:30 a.m. SIMCHAT TORAH MORNING YIZKOR
SERVICE
22— 9:00 a.m. Sisterhood Meeting
10:15 a.m. Parent Education
23— 12 noon Sisterhood Used Clothing Sole
24— 12 noon Sisterhood Used Clothing Sole
27— 8:15 p.m. Sisterhood Shabbat Service
28— 9:30 a.m. Torah Study With Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service —
Joel Steingold, Bar Mitzvah
NOVEMBER
3— 7:30 p.m. TEMTY (Youth Group) Family Service —
Bring the Children (Baby Sitting
Provided)
4-- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study With Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
8:00 p.m. Couples Club Art Auction — All Are
Welcome
5— 9:00 a.m. Sisterhood New Member Rally
invites you
to attend
Rosh Hashanah Morning Services
Saturday, September 30th
10:00 A.M.
For information and reservations call:
332-3212
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Serious Jew
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But the non-belief of these
secular Jews is often equally
as shallow.
Perhaps the, most impor-
tant characteristic of the
serious Jew is struggle with
Jewish observance. Put suc-
cinctly, this means that Jews
who observe Jewish laws
must be able to answer the
question, "Why do you
observe the laws that you
observe?" And less- or non-
observant Jews must answer
the question, "Why don't you
observe what you don't
observe?"
Neither the Orthodox Jew
who observes out of habit nor
the Reform whose non-ob-
servance is out of habit meets
our qualifications for a
serious Jew.
For example, the serious
Jew who keeps kosher needs
to offer reasons for why he
keeps kosher. It is not enough
to say, VBecause it says so in
the 'Thrall." Did he ever strug-
gle with the question of why
it says so in the Ibrah? If all
he can say is, "It says so in
the 'Throb," in what way is this
Jew's commitment rationally
or intellectually superior to
that of a Khomeini-type Mus-
lim who keeps Islamic laws
because they are in the
Koran, or of a fundamentalist
Christian who believes that
all non-Christians go to hell
because he believes it says so
in the New lbstament?
Conversely, the Jew who
does not observe Judaism's
dietary laws needs to explain
his non-observance. "I'm
Reform, I don't have to" is
not a serious response. Nor is,
"It's an outdated health
code:" No serious study of the
Jewish dietary laws — even
that of non-Jewish scholars —
explains Kashrut in terms of
health. The reasons for Kash-
rut overwhelmingly concern
ethics, holiness and Jewish
identity, as well as obedience
to God's inscrutable will.
Both observance and non-
observance, when done out of
habit and devoid of reason,
betray a lack of struggle on
the part of a Jew.
.
One Must Be Moving
Another reason for the im-
portance of struggle in one's
Jewish commitment is that it
helps to ensure growth. The
moment one ceases to strug-
gle, it becomes very tempting
to stay where one is.
This may be one reason
why the Talmud says that
"Where a baal teshuvah
[returning or repentant] Jew
stands no 'Pzadik [saintly]
Jew can stand." Even though
the Tzadik may actually be
more observant than the baal
teshuvah, the returning Jew
has struggled — and there-
fore grown — Jewishly. 0