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I just signed up for a wonderful program sponsored by DOROT to provide New Year’s goodies for home-bound seniors. It’s one of those win-win programs for everyone involved, and we’re so lucky that our Tikkun Olam team at Temple Beth Abraham is organizing it for us!

Here’s how it works. You have to pre-register online here by September 4.  On Sept. 9 come to temple at 10 am to make a gift bag filled with yummy stuff DOROT provides, attend a very brief (about 15 minutes) orientation session, and then deliver the package and spend 1/2 hour – hour visiting with a senior.

Honestly, what could be better to do on a Sunday with your family than this? Please sign up now and help us meet our goal of visiting 60 seniors on Sunday September 9th! I

Music fills me up inside to overflowing.  I love the sounds.  I love the words.

If I like the music enough, sometimes the lyrics don’t have to matter but I do appreciate when they make me think.  Lyrics can give us a voice when we might not have our own and connect us to something bigger than ourselves.

Music has always been an important part of my life.  I used to sit in my room for hours, listening to albums over and over again.  I would read the lyrics inside the album covers or on the record sleeves.  (I have to give a shout out to the album art.  I spent as much time copying it into my sketch pad as I did listening to the songs.)

My friends and I would write down our favorite lyrics on notebook paper and at school the next day, during class, we would pass our folded notes to one another.  More connections.

Nope, it’s a sanctuary. But it sure has that Sukkah feel with the wires hanging down from the ceiling, doesn’t it? A lot of progress was made this week, but it’s not easy to tell cosmetically because it’s at the not-very-pretty stage of infrastructure fixing/building/improving. But, very soon all those wires will be in the ceiling where they belong (meaning we’ll have a ceiling soon!)

What a difference a week makes!  You can see the outline of the new bimah from the photos below. During our board meeting last week, we all took a peek and were generally surprised about how small the sanctuary seemed without furniture from the back wall to the lobby door, but how high the ceiling was!

No rest for the dusty! The renovation of the sanctuary continued this week, and you can see the progress, particularly the creation of windows on the back wall, in the photos below. The carpet and asbestos tiles have also been removed, so we’re safe and sound moving forward!

Here we go, the first week of renovation work in the sanctuary has begun! Here are a few photos of the demolition work that began on Monday. Glad it’s not in my house!