Community

14601 West Lincoln Road
Oak Park, Michigan 48237
(248) 542-1792 Fax: (248) 543-1793

Rabbi
Chaim Moshe Bergstein

Rabbi
Moshe Polter M.A.
Assistant Principal

Director

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The Torah recognizes that people are intelligent in different ways,
as is evident from the verse, "Educate the child according to his way, so
that even when he is old he will not budge from it" (Proverbs 22:6). The
function of a good education is to enhance a child's natural mode (or
modes) of intelligence and strengthen weaker areas so that the child will
grow into a competent adult who will have the means at his disposal to live
a happy and productive life and hopefully make a significant contribution
to society. The function of a good Jewish education is to give a person
direction and proper moral guidance in life so that his actions will be a
credit to himself or herself, his or her family and to the Jewish people.

Bais Menachem Academy is a Jewish Day School that recognizes
the need to educate each child according to his or her way. We offer a well-
rounded education within a setting of strong Torah values and aspirations.
I am sure that we can provide your children with the best Jewish and sec-
ular education available.

We are now accepting applications for 2001.
Please be in touch with us at:
(248) 542-1792 or (248) 543-1793.

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The Sanctity Of Shabbat
Is Basic To Our Faith

world and all that is in it. God, the
Creator, has given us the day of rest
as a queen. We respond to her beau-
ty at a Friday evening meal symbol-
ized by love, family togetherness and
human encounters of re-creation,
The second meal (Saturday lunch)
follows the theme of giving and
oses said: "Eat it (the
receiving of Torah. The emphasis in
manna) today, for
our morning prayers has been on
today is a Sabbath of
study and learning, discussion and
the Lord; you will not
personal enrichment. We enter the
find it today on the plain. Six days
world of our tradition and heritage
you shall gather it; on the seventh
as students and teachers of Torah.
day, the Sabbath, there will be none.
"Torah tziva lanu Moshe —
The people rested on the
This is the Torah which
seventh day." (Exodus
Moses gave us!" we declare
16:25-26, 30)
proudly. It is the time for
As the institution of the
us to link past and present
Shabbat is introduced to
rededicate our bodies,
the Jewish people through
minds, and spirits to
these verses in the Torah,
renewed participation in
our sages further comment-
the lifetime of our people.
ed and derived the practice
And the third meal,
of eating three distinct
seuda shilishit, in the late
meals on the Sabbath from
afternoon, directs us to
this statement because of
RABBI
think ahead, for the future
the three-fold repetition of
NORMAN T
The theme is one of
the word "today" (hayom)
ROMAN
searching for a taste of the
in the text. Since there are
Special to the
week to come, even the
three specific worship ser-
Jewish News
time to come. We are cau-
vices on Shabbat, each with
tioned to consider the
a unique wording for some
effect of our present
of the essential prayers in the liturgy,
actions on our lives and the lives of
their teaching is that each of the
those around us. We pray for a bet-
three meals must, similarly, carry a
ter time, a more peaceful time. We
unique theme and flavor.
say goodbye to the
Shabbat, renewed,
rested and strength-
ened.
These goals, sancti-
fied by tradition and
signified by family
customs, recipes and
traditions, truly call
us, each Shabbat, to
reconnect with our
loved ones, our people
One rabbinic source states: "You
and our God. At our meals and in
sanctified it ..." depicts the theme
our prayers, may we find meaning
of creation; "Moses will rejoice ..."
and fulfillment as the descendants of
points to the giving of the Torah;
those who ate manna in the wilder-
and "You are One ..." portrays the
ness, those who accepted Torah at
Shabbat of the future. The three
Sinai and those who labor for the
ideals mentioned in the prayers, fol-
world's redemption. El
lowed by the three meals of the sev-
enth day, set the mood and tone for
our experiences and memories on
Shabbat and even can be seen as
describing the goals for our faith
What are your family Shabbat cus-
community.
toms that you transmit from gen-
On Friday evening, Kabbalat
eration to generation? A particular
Shabbat, the Sabbath is introduced
food served at a specific meal} A
by the theme of creation of the
distinct prayer that is recited? A
melody sung around the table?
Norman T. Roman is rabbi at Temple

Shabbat Hukkat•
Numbers 19: 1-22: I ;
Judges 11:1-33.

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There are three specific
worship services on
Shabbat.

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