Drop in any Shabbat morning in the temple library at 8:45 AM and join the Shabbat Torah Study Group which meets every week of the year.
What you can expect from this 100 minute experience is a wonderfully rich mixture of study, humor, congeniality and of course, food. Rabbi attends most sessions during the year.
He leads a lively discussion of Talmud or other classical texts. When he leaves to lead bar/mitzvah services the group continues their study of Jewish history, currently Prophets. We are connected to the parsha of the week by the host who may volunteer to do a brief summary. The 10:30 ending time is followed "religiously".
Any temple member can join in the fun. No background is needed in this rewarding experience, only interest. For questions or more details contact Jerry Kaufman mailto:jerryk648@optonline.net)...orBob Epstein (epsrr@aol.com)
A Volunteer Host/Presentor starts the morning with commentary and other observations about this week's reading.
The discussion begins
The point is made, now here comes the counterpoint. And so the discussion goes.
The responses engage the entire group, so that anyone can add their two cents.
Well of course, there is always the breakfast
A Resident Temple Avodah Poet
The Actuary -by Roger Stahl
Adding, subtracting, Multiplying, and dividing. Behind a desk of calculations, The actuary is deciding How many will be subsisting, and How many will be subsiding. Steering profit and mortality Around ethics and morality, Straining policy performance To increase yield by one more buck. While reducing society’s abhorrence By publishing probabilities of bad luck. All in search of actuarial equity– All such oxymoronic complexity! Sad enough to chart death’s statistics; Sad enough to mark each tick and tie. Sadder still to remain among the living. Saddest of all to not know why!
Mr. Roger Stahl, is a new Temple member, a Long Beach resident since 2007, and a member of the Torah Study Group. In addition to writing poems he is a certified Tea Specialist having lived in the top tea-growing countries of India, China, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Japan. Mr. Stahl, is also the operator of an on-line premium tea retailer/wholesaler, Special-Tea-Shop.com.
