OUR MIGHTY, LITTLE SYNAGOGUE
Join us online for our next 1 hour class in our series on Hebrew Prayers. These classes are being taught by our Religious School teacher Cory Heimberg.
In each class, Cory will present one prayer and discuss its meaning, why we say it, its placement in the service, and lead us in reciting it. The November 20th class will cover the Morning Blessings.
As with all our Adult Education classes, guests are very welcome! There is a $5 fee per class.
We are reading: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—From the acclaimed, best-selling novelist and host of the hit podcast “Family Secrets” comes a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test, an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had casually submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years. It is a book about the extraordinary moment in which we live, where science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. Dani Shapiro’s memoir unfolds at a breakneck pace—part mystery, part real-time investigation, part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience that makes us who we are. Inheritance is a devastating and haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision.
Free for Sisterhood members, guests $5.
If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Berkenfeld at AdultEd@ckibbnj.org
Available on Audible, Kindle, Somerset County Library System, Libraries of Middlesex Consortium, and as an ebook on eLibraryNJ
The service runs from 9:30 am until about 11:00 am. We appreciate your attendance to make a minyan for the service and Torah reading!
After services, Rabbi Wylen will lead a Torah study and we will enjoy a light lunch.
The week’s parsha is Vayera – Abraham attempts to convince God not to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; Sarah gives birth to Isaac, and Abraham sends away Hagar and Ishmael. Later, God commands Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, but an angel of God intervenes.
Attendees do not need to dress any more formally than for Friday services.
Guests are very welcome!