The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2011 - Page 14
Hebrew Cemetery Association
By Lome Klemons, publicity
It is almost the Hebrew month
of Nissan and we will soon be eel-
ebrating Pesaeh. It seems like only
yesterday that we toiled to get our
houses ready for the 2010 holiday.
How eould it already be 2011?
How fast the time flies. The older
you get, the faster it seems to go.
The Exodus from Egypt began
our journey towards peoplehood.
We weren’t a Jewish people
until we reeeived the Ten
Commandments and Torah at Mt.
Sinai. It was at Sinai that we offi-
eially beeame the “Chosen
People” when we agreed to aeeept
the 613 eommandments in the
Torah that God eommanded of us.
It was at that point that we learned
about what it meant to be Jewish.
What is meant to be kosher. How
we were supposed to observe the
Sabbath. How we were supposed
to take of eaeh other and how to
treat the stranger among us. It was
at Sinai that we Jews reeeived the
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message that we were to deliver to
the world - to do good and to be
righteous. This message is the
premise of our Torah’s teaehings.
Our journey towards people-
hood wasn’t an easy one. There
were many trials and tribulations
along the way. There was mueh
biekering and mueh sinning. It
took 40 years of wandering in the
wilderness and the passage of an
entire generation to beeome a
righteous people worthy of
entranee into the Promised Land.
And we have been struggling for
that righteousness and fighting for
that land ever sinee.
As we left Egypt, our future
was unimaginable. We had no way
of knowing what lay ahead of us.
We had no way of knowing what
we would eneounter or whether
we would survive. But the time
was at hand and we had no ehoiee
but to plaee our faith in Moses and
forge forward into the unknown.
Many of us today live our lives
just like that. We have no idea
what the future will bring. We just
know that we must have faith in a
bright tomorrow. And we forge
forward towards a better life. A
better opportunity. Abetter future.
That has beeome inereasingly dif-
fieult to do in these days of eeo-
nomie diffieulties. The future is
unpredietable, albeit gloomy and
seary. Yet, we forge forward, try
ing to make eaeh day a day of sig-
nifieanee and a day of hope. We
plaee our faith in a God who at
Hebrew
Cemetery
Association
times seems to ignore our eries
and our suffering. But the human
spirit has the innate ability and
unbelievable fortitude to soar
higher and higher even in the most
dire of eireumstanees. We rise to
the oeeasion. We reaeh for the
stars. We believe in the power of
hard work and embraee a belief in
something that is so mueh greater
that we eould ever be. We send out
our message of goodness and
righteousness to the world.
Over 700 Jewish families in the
Charlotte area have added to their
righteousness by beeoming mem
bers of the Charlotte Hebrew
Cemetery. You are invited to join
the ranks of these righteous Jews
who support the holy work of the
Cemetery Assoeiation. For more
information about $2,000 worth of
membership benefits, graves, pre
paid funeral eosts, endowments,
and/or ineluding the eemetery in
your estate planning, eontaet eon-
taet Cemetery Direetor, Sandra
Goldman at 704-576-1859 or 704-
944-6854 or direetor@hebrew-
eemetery.org.
Visit the eemetery website at
www.hebreweemetery.org. ^
Levine-Sklut
Judaic Library and
Resource Center
Mini-CAJE Taught
Community Teachers
About Being Their Best
Hebrew High teacher
Howard Seidler won a
change at the lottery
from keynote speaker
John Formica.
The teachers
attended several
workshops before
convening for
lunch and the
keynote address
by motivational
speaker John
Formica.