What can you do with a New Year?- reach out, restore, remember, Connect.
It's the holiest days of the year for temples and synagogues all over the world. This year the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts is sharing their programs worldwide through technology. You can watch last year on broadcasts or streaming on Jewish Life Television (JLTV) or DIRECTV, Comcast, Spectrum and other video providers. Today Wednesday, Yom Kippur September 19 from 10 am-12:00pm EST and 9:00-11pm EST and in the West 10 am-12pm PST and during the day. Services will be streamed live at www.bhtota.organd www.jltv.tv.
Consider where we are:
While Florence has been down graded as a storm, there is still necessity to respond today and over time. Disaster maybe an ongoing opportunity to reconnect that is part of this High Holy Day command. It is a feature of looking at the world as "one family indivisible" (allegiancemusical.com website quote).
How will humans treat each other, the earth, next door neighbors, the woman who complains, equal rights, elders, widows, strangers is part of this annual self review. Yom Kippurs seems ever more connected to the tenets to correct course, ask for forgiveness, forgive yourself and get back on course. This is a cliff's note's approach to live a significant live RX to review one's actions, intentions, judgments, and errors/miscalculations annually on the Day of Atonement and throughout the Days of Awe.
Tenets of the faith with new streaming services:
Every service is different whether in California, Japan, Dublin …and each of the gatherings uses the same 'book'. The Torah carried in services by the people of the bookcovers the rules and commandments that 'led the Israelites out of bondage'
Rabbi David Baron is surrounding the congregation and those watching worldwide with vital conversation with a subject of the human capacity to respond to tragedy with resourcefulness. He is leading all of us to meet to failure with forgiveness and loss and missteps with redemption. He is modeling this teachable moment to respond, to be resilient, to be creative and to be loving in the middle of crisis or event.
If you want to see or hear the words, the music, the ideas or the guests please tune in:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Rabbi-David-Baron-Announces-Yom-Kippur-Guests-at-the-Beverly-Hills-Temple-of-the-Arts-at-the-Saban-Theatre-20180912
Theme: Resiliency and Guests
Here's what you missed last night…but watch for how this message is crafted and moves forward today with Veterans and more terrific stories, songs, performances and prayers:
"On Yom Kippur Eve (Kol Nidre) guests on Tuesday, September 18, 2018 will include: Ryan Deitsch, a survivor of the Parkland, FL massacre at Marjory Stoneman High School on February 14, 2018, who is a Student Activist Against Gun Violence, a leader of the March For Our Lives Demonstration in Washington, D.C. and an organizer of the #NeverAgain MSD Movement; Justin and Laura Reiner, a Los Angeles Police Department Officer and his wife, survivors and concertgoers of the October 1, 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada; and Dr. Judea Pearl, father of the slain Wall Street Journal journalist, Daniel Pearl, who will speak about the death of his son at the hands of terrorists in Pakistan and a global music day in his son's memory."
Turn it on and participate:
If you missed the last night program, you can watch today tonight or in a few minutes.
The call of the shofar to break down walls and address human needs physical or dynamic.
Small or large tasks can be attempted.
It is no longer rare to think about bringing food, education, medical care, transportation, counseling, voter registration, and helping out.
Media Literacy can help to become aware. Opening the hardened or denying heart is part of this examination and time of prayer.
This thoughtful program is continuing today to deal with "universal themes" to enlighten, entertain, and deliver issues. The Rabbi and participants are acting to confront, to explore, to address, and to redirect ourselves to re-member our highest selves.
It is the perfect time, now, to say we are sorry, we missed the mark, to do good by doing better, and by acknowledging where we have judged and are now responsible to choose life in the time we are allotted. This is the message of this New Year.
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Links and quotes:
Watch Services:
http://jltv.tv
Give Blood to the Red Cross, or read the constitution- "we the people":
http://constitutionus.com
Teen age Initiative that rocked the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Our_Lives
George Takei:
http://allegiancemusical.com
http://www.great-quotes.com/quotes/author/George/Takei0
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"We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy.... We will boldly go where America has never gone before." — George Takei
The Great American Songbook may have a word or two for the moment:
Sondheim (Children will Listen) No one is alone… people make mistakes):
https://www.songlyrics.com/stephen-sondheim/children-will-listen-lyrics/
No One is Alone (Into the Woods):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVTf5_p_1A
Watch the services:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Rabbi-David-Baron-Announces-Yom-Kippur-Guests-at-the-Beverly-Hills-Temple-of-the-Arts-at-the-Saban-Theatre-20180912