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3/29 Purim Carnival

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Please Note -- There is no religious school on Sunday, February 17.

February 3 , 2008

This week has been hard for me and my family but your prayer from yesterday on the web site touched me and made me cry. This journey I am embarking on will be difficult but knowing that you and your children are praying for me gives me great comfort. Below is a letter my dad, mom and I worked on this week to all of you:

Dear Temple Beth Or Community,

My family would like to share with you that my father, Dr. Nelson Burstein, is in the hospital with stage four prostate cancer. After an 8 year illness, on Monday, he will be discharged to a home hospice program. My parents have loved being a part of the Temple Beth Or community and have met many of you. They especially loved meeting and hosting our high school students when they came to Boston last spring. I know they would appreciate your prayers and cards.

Their home address is:

Nelson and Mimi Burstein
14 Cedar Hill Road
Dover, Massachusetts 02030

Thank you,

David, Elizabeth, Emma, and Coby

Be well and hug those you love tight,

Rabbi David

Please Note -- There is no religious school on Sunday, February 17.

Psalms as a spiritual reservoir in difficult times

Dear Temple Beth Or families,

Thank you all for your wonderful and touching healing prayer for Rabbi Burstein, his father and the Burstein family yesterday. It was offered with great intention and ruach, just as Rabbi Burstein has taught us and led us through the years. Special thanks to Jay Weiss and Cantor Joyce Dumtschin, who led this very special prayer offering to the Burstein family with great love and compassion.

The Jewish people have turned to psalms during times of challenge for centuries. As we all offer prayers and strength to Rabbi Burstein, his father and family, I found the following article on MyJewishLearning.com and wanted to share it with you:

"Illness, suffering, and loss mute us--they leave us without words," writes Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub. "Overwhelmed, confused, distraught, despairing--and/or profoundly grateful, reflective, renewed, attuned--whatever our state, we are often left speechless, feeling that words fall flat, or do not convey what we want, need, or intend. In the face of these challenges, those who are in pain, as well as those who care for them, may need new ways of communicating, new tools for talking, and new modes of relating."

Rabbi Weintraub's article talks about healing Jewish psalms and their place in our Jewish history. He also talks about weaving Psalms into prayer, in meditation, in conversation, song or study.

Read the entire article online at MyJewishLearning.com by clicking here.

With gratitude,

Nora Rubinoff
Education Administrator

Thank you to Mike Brown of Loxwood Lane Photography for the wonderful photos that he took during religious school on Sunday, February 3.

Thank you to ALL the TBO Religious School students for creating such a wonderful healing prayer video for Rabbi Burstein, his father and the Burstein family. If you haven't seen the video yet, please go to http://www.tboeducation.com.

Thanks to Eric Rubinoff, for helping in the religious school office and working to help make repairs to equipment in our classrooms.

Warm wishes for a quick and complete healing to our staff members Larry Frank and Anne Ostrow, who are feeling a bit under the weather.

“Every blade of grass
has its angel that bends
over it and whispers,
'Grow, grow.'”

-- The Talmud

 

Be The Light! Send your news and uplifts to Nora Rubinoff in the religious school office at norarubinoff@gmail.com.

Coming up...

First and Second Grade Shabbat service, February 8, 2008, 7:30 pm at Temple Beth Or.

Mazel tov! Our Fourth Grade wedding is March 16, 2008. More details to follow.

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