The Charlotte Jewish News - May 2008 - Page 12
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Lag B’Omer Barbeque and Community
Celebration
Lag B’Omer is one of those
spring holidays which is well
known in Israel for its huge bon
fires and outdoor barbeques. This
two thousand-year-old holiday
originated in the days of the
Talmud when Israel was under
Roman rule, and its main charac
ters were famous Talmudic Sages,
Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon
Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar.
The theme of the holiday is
Jewish unity through love and
Jewish independence through
Torah. Today the spirit and teach
ings of these great rabbis lives
through the colorful celebrations
on Lag B’Omer.
Ohr HaTorah will be hosting a
community Lag B’Omer picnic
and barbeque on the eve of Lag
B’Omer, Thursday, May 22, at 6
PM. The celebration will include a
kumzits with music and great
entertainment for the children. A
full delicious kosher barbeque din
ner will be served as well. There is
a fee of $12 per person and $25
per family.
On Lag B’Omer it is a tradition
to take the children outdoors as a
reminder of Rabbi Shimon and his
son Elazar who hid from their
Roman oppressors in the beautiful
hills of the Northern Galilee in
Israel. Today, hundreds of thou
sands make a pilgrimage to the
resting place of Rabbi Shimon in
the town of Miron which is locat
ed not far from the ancient
Northern city of Safed. Rabbi
Shimon is the father of Kabbalah
and was a fierce supporter of
Israel’s independence from
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ing the Zohar, he was a brilliant
author of many Halachic decisions
mentioned in the Mishna and was
well respected by his peers.
The Ohr HaTorah picnic, which
will take place on the grounds of
our Sardis Road campus, will
include storytelling and many
family fun activities. Please visit
our website www.ohrhatorah
nc.org for more information or call
704-366-3984.
JLI Will Examine Talmudic Ethics
Starting in May
Sooner or later, it happens to
almost everyone. You face a tough
ethical decision, and you have to
pick a course of action that will let
you live with yourself. You feel
like you are lost in a maze of pos
sibilities, unsure which courses of
action will lead you out of your
turmoil, and which will leave you
in a dead end of regret and self
recrimination.
Traditionally, Jews have looked
to the Talmud to help them unrav
el tangled instincts. The simple
fact is that life is complicated.
Most days people hesitate and
agonize over difficult decisions,
The Talmud recognizes that the
subject of ethics is complex and
subtle, and it knows that compli
cated questions cannot be
answered with a simple yes or no.
While the technology may have
changed over time, the rabbis of
the Talmud have grappled with the
same kinds of ethical concerns
that we worry about today.
This May, the Jewish Learning
Institute in Charlotte is proud to
Jewish Learning Institute
launch “Talmudic Ethics,” an
innovative approach to facing
life’s most challenging dilemmas.
Participants need no prior knowl
edge of the Talmud and no formal
legal training. There are no pre
requisites other than an open
mind.
Talmudic Ethics tackles big
issues such as abortion, euthana
sia, freedom of expression, and
fair business practice. Students
will learn how the best Jewish
minds struggled with hard choic
es, and trace their search for satis
fying resolutions. And they will
discover how Judaism offers a
moral compass to help them find
direction through the maze of life.
The classes will be held at the
Lubavitch Educational Center at
6619 Sardis Road in Charlotte.
Tuesday classes will begin on
May 13, from 7:30-9 PM.
Wednesday classes will begin on
May 14, from 11 AM-12:30 PM.
The classes will be taught by
Rabbi,Yossi Groner (evening) and
Rabbi Shlomo Cohen (morning).
To register or for more informa
tion, please visit our website:
www.ohrhatorahnc.org or
www.myJLI.com. Registration fee
is $80 person and $145 per couple.
We are pleased to inform our
legal community that the North
Carolina State Bar has approved
our upcoming JLI course on ethics
for legal CLE ethics credit for
North Carolina attorneys. This is a
unique opportunity for lawyers
interested in learning about Jewish
thought to claim continuing legal
education credits while being able
to engage the most brilliant minds
of Jewish history.
Beth Shalom of Lake Norman May Events
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust
Remembrance Day), Thursday,
May 1, 7 PM at Davidson
Village Green for a candlelight
vigil with first-hand accounts J
from survivors. Open to the
public to remember those that
perished and bring awareness
to the horrors of genocide in an
effort to end such tragedies.
Speakers include:
Mr. Manfred Katz was bom in
a small village in central Germany,
the second of three children. He
attended the local public school
for four years and spent an addi
tional three years in a Jewish day
school in a nearby city. In 1941 at
the age of thirteen, Mr. Katz was
deported to Latvia along with his
parents, younger sister, and vari
ous relatives. Liberated by the
Russian army in March 1945, he is
the sole survivor of his family,
except for his older sister who had
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departed Germany for the USA in
1940. Mr. Katz is now retired and
living with his wife of fifty-seven
years in Statesville, NC.
Mr. Henry Hirschmann came
to America from Germany in
1939. He volunteered for the mili
tary after Pearl Harbor. He was
part of a American unit in Austria.
Mr. Hirschmann was in the
Dachau Concentration Camp
shortly after the war and personal
ly saw the atrocities that the
Germans left behind. He currently
lives in Charlotte.
Rabbi Jeremy Gerber, Beth
Shalom’s rabbinical intern
speaking on the Holocaust, tol
erance and the hope for accept
ance for all.
The weekend continues on
Friday, May 2, 6:15 PM at the
Student Union at Davidson
College. Services are followed
by a catered dinner, $12 for
members, $15 for nonmembers
and children under 13 are free. If
you are not able to come to dinner
but still wish to attend services,
you do not need to make reserva
tions.
Saturday, May 3, 9 AM in The
Chapel at Davidson College
Presbyterian Church. Our celebra
tion of Shabbat will continue
Saturday morning with traditional
readings from the Beth Shalom
Torah. We will have a Tot Shabbat
service separate from the adult
service. Following services, we
will have an Oneg luncheon.