~5/17/08 Pesach Sheni: Seder of the Second Chance~

5:30p, Near SF City College (RSVP for location)

What is your life to you wish you could do over? There is a unique, nearly forgotten Jewish holiday designed specifically to help us try again -- the second chance seder, Pesach Sheni.

Whether you missed Passover, are looking for an opportunity in your life to do something another time, or simply want another seder: Join KHL and Maggid Jonathan Furst as we continue our new tradition for an almost unknown holiday.

* Eat a fabulous vegetarian meal (food provided by KHL)

* Share stories of second chances

* Celebrate a short-form seder

* Create opportunities for teshuva in our lives

Saturday, May 17th, 5:30pm

Holloway and Miramar, SF (near Ocean Ave MUNI and Balboa BART)

RSVP for Directions

$18-$36 suggested donation (includes meal)

No one turned away for lack of funds.

TO RESERVE A SEAT:

~ Email info@kenesthalev.org

~ Call 415-339-SHUL(7485)

~ Or send a check payable to:

: Keneset HaLev

: P.O. Box 15686

: San Francisco, CA 94115

"Pesach Sheni teaches us that 'Nothing is ever lost: it's never too late!'

Our conduct can always be rectified. Even someone who was far away and even desired to be so, can still correct himself."

-- Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe

PAST EVENTS

~ 4/12 East Bay Creative Havdallah! ~

Please RSVP for address and directions: info@kenesethalev.org or 415.339.7485 (339.SHUL).

~ 4/26 Moshiach Seder: Honoring the Midwives ~

When Pharoah ordered that the firstborn Hebrew sons be murdered at birth, two midwives refused, and saved the people who “multiplied and increased greatly” in spite of the decree. Midwives hold a place of honor in Jewish culture, partly because of this first biblical act of civil disobedience.

Celebrate their bravery -- and ours in helping birth a better future -- as we revive Keneset HaLev's tradition of the Moshiach Seder. Who better to honor on the last night of an 8-day festival of freedom and rebirth? Join the KHL community, Maggid Jonathan Furst, and special guest midwives and doulas.

Saturday, April 26, 6pm

Bring:

• Vegetarian Passover-kosher potluck item
• Friends
• Inspirational items for the midwives’ seder plate (or other art/ritual objects), if you feel so moved

Please RSVP for address and directions: info@kenesethalev.org or 415.339.7485 (339.SHUL).

~ Costumes, Groggers, Sacred Clowning, and ??? 3/21 ~

Keneset HaLev’s next home gathering will be at Simchas’ house in the SF Sunset on March 21s (accessible by the N-Judah streetcar). Gather at 6:30p, celebration starts at 7:00p.

Come in costume if you can. Be prepared for games, songs, silent revelry (what?), and hamentaschen. Spontaneity encouraged. If you’d like to share a short performance or Purimesque activity, please contact Jonathan at 415-516-4904.

Vegetarian potluck as always. Hamentaschen! Hamentaschen!

RSVP for directions to: info@kenesethalev.org or 415.339.7485 (339-SHUL). Let us know if you're inviting friends. Hag Sameach!

~ KHL Shabbas 1/18/08 ~

Happy Western New Year Everyone!

Our next Shabbat home gathering will be at Jodie Kasmir’s on Friday, January 18th, in the Richmond, SF.
Vegetarian potluck as always, and chanting with special guests in preparation of next week’s event (see next email)!

Gather at 6:30pm, start at 7:00

RSVP for directions (space is limited) to: info@kenesethalev.org or 415.339.7485 (339-SHUL).

~ Sikh-Jewish Kirtan 1/26/08 ~

Event Flier pdf

Laura Leff , who inspired the kirtan-style chanting on High Holy Days, helped arrange an interfaith evening of chanting with KHL, the Sikh community, and Yoga for a Cause. We hope this will be the first in a series of interfaith events, so please help spread the word. Info below:
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* INTERFAITH KIRTAN *
* Sikh and Jewish Songs of Devotion*
Saturday January 26, 2008 ~ 7:00-9:00pm
Piedmont Yoga 3966 Piedmont Ave ~ Oakland

Map to event

Suggested donation $15-$45. No one turned away for lack of funds.

A Yoga For a Cause Fundraiser
with Keneset HaLev, Hargobind Sadan, and Guru Ram Das Ashram for the Golden Gate Audubon Society to help rehabilitate oil-soaked birds

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Join two ancient spiritual cultures for an evening of Kirtan – group chanting, learned in call and response format – in joyful prayer and peaceful meditations of Oneness. All are welcome

From the Sikh community we welcome kirtan ragis from Hargobind Sadan and Guru Ram Das Ashram:
Prabhu Nam Kaur ~ Amar Singh ~ Sahib-Amar Kaur ~ Sotantar Singh ~ Rishi Parbhaat Singh

We also welcome Jewish chant leaders from Keneset HaLev, Chochmat HaLev, Aquarian Minyan, Women With Wings, and the SF Opera:
Sylvia Bloom ~ Maggid Jonathan Furst ~ Ariel Lenchner ~ Janetter Sperber ~ Cantorial Soloist Risa Wallach

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In our time together we have raised over $50,000.

“Become the change you wish to see in the world”
Mark your calendar!

To learn who we support, visit www.quietmind.com/cause.
To donate by mail, please send a check to Yolanda Vazquez
c/o Piedmont Yoga PO Box 11458, Oakland, CA, 94611.
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