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the Southeast Michigan 
Beekeeping Association. 
SEMBA offers a nucleus 
colony at the conclusion 
of the course, and instead 
of waiting until next sea-
son, he accepted a colony 
for his own first hive.
But Demeter had no 
place to put his hive. 
So he asked Gordon 
if he could possibly put 
his hive in the garden 
operated by Yad Ezra. 
Gordon eagerly agreed. 

It amounts to a win-win 
situation. Demeter has an 
ideal location for his new 
hobby, and the garden 
benefits from the work of 
thousands of busy little 
pollinators.
Gordon extolls the edu-
cational effect of bees at 
Giving Gardens: “People 
love to see bees. People 
who fear bees overcome 
their fear by seeing bees 
at work and learning about 
what bees do for us.” 

crops — so beekeepers keep 
moving their hives. They are 
on the road all the time. 
Letvin moved back to 
Michigan along with his 
wife and purchased a bee-
keeping business from a 
widow who was retiring. Her 
operation involved at least 
250 hives. She won awards 
for the quality of her work, 
and she taught him a great 
deal. In Michigan, different 
plants flower in succession all 
spring, summer and fall, so a 
beehive can stay put. 
In late spring or early fall, 
beekeepers open the hives 
and check if their bees have 

enough for the coming winter. 
According to Letvin, a healthy 
hive has between 20,000-
50,000 thousand bees. The hive 
consumes about 300 pounds of 
honey each year. The beekeep-
er can collect the excess honey, 
sometimes as much as 100 
pounds per hive. 
Letvin continues to raise bees, 
but now just as a hobby. When 
his hives produce well, in a good 
year (like this promises to be), 
he has honey to give to a long 
list of friends and to Yad Ezra. 
If there is even more honey, 
he sends it to a fruit stand that 
can sell as much honey as his 
bees can produce. 

A Beekeeper’s Advice 
for Buying Honey 
Bee honey, famously, has an infinite 
shelf life. Honey buried with the Pharaohs, 
unearthed by archeologists in the 20th century, 
remained edible. However, it does crystalize. As 
a supersaturated solution, it tends to form crystals 
of sugar. You can easily restore it to its liquid state 
by heating it; however, to save you the inconvenience, 
large-scale commercial honey producers process 
the honey until it will not crystalize. That processing 
removes much of the flavor and perhaps much of 
medical benefits of pure honey. People who want 
real honey buy directly from the beekeeper or 
from small-scale producers, who carefully limit 
how much they heat and 
process the raw honey. 

High Holiday services – open to all and free of charge or obligation at Bethel 
Community Transformation Center (the former home of Temple Beth El) 8801 
Woodward Ave, Detroit. Parking is available. Rsvp-tinyurl.com/5782HHD. 

Rosh Hashanah Family Service in Palmer Park 

Monday, September 6 - Family Service with Songs 3:00 – 4:00 pm 

Rosh Hashanah 

Monday, September 6 - Mincha/Maariv 
8:00 – 9 :00 pm 
Tuesday, September 7 - Shacharit 
8:30 am – 12:00 pm 
Tuesday, September 7- Tashlich at Milliken State Park, Detroit 
 
3:00 pm 
Wednesday, September 8 - Shacharit & Torah Study with Rabbi Silverman & 
Pastor Hinds 
8:30 am – 12:00 PM 
 
Yom Kippur – at Bethel Community Transformation Center 

Wednesday, September 15 - Kol Nidre 
7:10 – 8:45pm 

Thursday, September 16 - Shacharit 
9:00 am 
 Yizkor 
11:30 am 
 Study Sessions 5:30 pm 
 Mincha 
6:30 pm 
 N’ilah 
7:30 pm 
 Havdalah 
8:15 pm 
 Shofar Blowing 8:22 pm 
 
For those more comfortable attending services online, we will live stream our 
services as well. Please visit our website downtownsynagogue.org 
for information and links. 

Shana 

 
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