November 3, 2013
By bethmordecai
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Dear Hevreh,
Today is a wonderful day because for the first time in recent memory, we welcome a teenage Bar Mitzvah boy and his family to mark this wonderful occasion for their family in our community. By partnering with the Hebrew Corner, a non-denominational Hebrew School run by Cantor Avima Darnov, we connected with Lyle and Robin Sandler who were searching for a venue to host the bar mitzvah of their son, Ben. After many conversations and opportunities for the Sandlers to experience our community (including participating in our Unique High Holiday Experience on the second day of Rosh Hashanah), they agreed to host this wonderful simhah in our Jewish home.
Being a part of the Sandlers’ simhah is a wonderful privilege for our congregation and it signifies that by welcoming people’s smahot into our Jewish home for the Soul we open the door for more smahot to invigorate our community and fill our sanctuary with joys of Jewish life. This is how it starts to building a growing community — one minute we host a bar mitzvah and the next we train a bar mitzvah, as we are currently doing with one family now. This is how it starts to grow our community…one simhah at a time.
Kol Tuv,
Rabbi Ari Saks
P.S. I’d also like to personally thank Cantor Avima Darnov and her husband Rabbi Allen Darnov for inviting Beth Mordecai into a partnership with The Hebrew Corner. We look forward to more opportunities to partner in the future!
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