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As we approach this fourth of July weekend, we take some time to celebrate Shabbos together with blessings and a little Torah, all on Zoom. Be in community and enjoy Shabbat dinner in your own home. Our short 15 minutes to make Shabbos begins at 6:45 PM on July 4. Please join us.

Kol Ami Events

Mah Jongg Club

Kol Ami's Mah Jongg Club meets two Monday evenings a month at 7 PM. Email office@kolamikc.org for information.

​​​​We Wish Mi Shebeirach

A Complete Healing of Mind, Body and Spirit to:

Robert Clinton
Kenneth Dantzler
Renée Dietchman
Liz Garrison
Megan Garrison
Yale Krugman
Carol Ann Parker
Edi Shifrin
Micha ben Sarah
Melvin Michael Slater
Tzipporah mibet Avraham v’Sarah

If you would like a name to continue to be listed or if you have a new name to include, please send an email to healing@kolamikc.org.

Yahrzeits

July 1

Minnie Cohen Denebeim - Grandmother of Deborah Hirsch

Rose Dietchman - Mother of Alan Dietchman

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Rabbi's Week in Review


Two thoughts on this fourth of July week, one from the Torah portion and one from a friend. In our Torah portion, Parashat Chukat, we read of the very strange ceremony of the Parah Adumah - the Red Heiffer (spoiler alert, this is a favorite piece of Torah for me). If a Kohein (Priest) becomes ritually impure, returning the Kohein to a state of purity requires that a perfectly unblemished red heifer is sacrificed and its ashes used to effectuate purification.  

I, or even we, do not profess to understand this strange ceremony...Read more.

This Week's Torah Portion
Parashat Chukat (Bamidbar/Numbers 19:1-22:1)

This week, we read of Moses striking the rock rather than using words to draw out water for the people. For this act Moses will not be allowed to follow his people into the land of Israel. 

This can play out on different levels. Possibly, it is a polemic: a warning to the people that words are always preferable over violence. Possibly, it is a warning to leaders that they not show anger in front of the people they lead. Or perhaps, Moses was never going to be allowed to be with his people when they enter the Land. All good leaders know that they must recognize the time when they will have to give up the reins of power. 

Meal / Care Train for Edi Shifrin
 
Longtime Kol Ami member Edi Shifrin is recovering from a fall and will need meals and additional support like rides to appointments, errands, etc. If you would like to keep updated about a meal train or other ways to support her, please email Julia at engagement@kolamikc.org and she’ll keep you informed as we know more. 

Urgent Assistance Request

The Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund (MFAF) is urgently in need of donations of bags of pinto beans and bags of white rice (NOT canned beans and NOT instant rice, please) for the families working the Lafayette County orchards this year. Please place donations in designated bins at All Souls.

As always, MFAF has an ongoing need for your donations of brown paper bags.