• (914) 666-3133
  • Online Forms
  • Event Space
  • News
  • Contact
Rabbi Greenberg’s Message – Friday, November 22, 2019Rabbi Greenberg’s Message – Friday, November 22, 2019Rabbi Greenberg’s Message – Friday, November 22, 2019Rabbi Greenberg’s Message – Friday, November 22, 2019
  • ABOUT
    • Our Rabbis’ weekly messages
  • PRAY
    • View Our Shabbat Services
    • High Holy Days 5783
      • High Holy Day Appeal 5783
      • High Holy Days 5783 – Schedule
      • Virtual High Holidays 5783
      • High Holy Days 5783 FAQ
  • LEARN
    • Early Childhood Center
    • Living Judaism: Religious School at Shaaray Tefila
      • Class Descriptions and Goals for 2022-2023 (5783) K-7th Grade
      • Teen Center 2022-2023 (5783)
    • Youth Programs / Experiential Education
    • TST Learns Adult Education
    • B’nai Mitzvah Program & Recordings
  • CONNECT
    • Shaaray Tefila Committees
    • Caring Community
    • Sustainability/ Green Team
    • Social Awareness/Social Action at Shaaray Tefila
    • Connect with our staff
    • Social Action
    • Contact
    • Directions
    • Online Forms
    • News
    • Brotherhood and Sisterhood News
    • Temple Topics
  • CELEBRATE
    • Passover 2022/5782 Resources
    • Event Space
    • Thanksgiving Dinner Program
  • PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS
✕
Music and Tefila
November 20, 2019
Rabbi Greenberg’s Message – Friday, November 29, 2019
November 26, 2019
November 20, 2019

The story is told of a young boy who was late coming home from his friend’s house. When he got home his mother asked him where he had been.  He explained that he had been with his friend, and that he helped him fix his broken bicycle.  And the mother said: “You don’t know how to fix a bicycle,do you?”  And the boy responded: “No, I just sat there with him and helped him cry.”Yes, the young boy had performed a Mitzvah, a sacred deed.

This Sunday morning, we of this congregation will come together for MITZVAH DAY.  This is a day when we reach beyond the walls of our temple to perform acts of kindness.  For both children and adults, as we reach out to various organizations, we experience the truth that “the reward for performing a Mitzvah lay in the doing.”That is to say that when we help somebody else,we are also helping ourselves, as there is great satisfaction in the knowing that we are making a difference in other people’s lives.

Among the recipients of our efforts will be Friends of Karen, the Mt. Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, Neighbors Link, Dorot (visits to visits to elderly people who are alone), Adopt a Dog, and another charity in which I have personal interest.From funds that are raised from the sale of pies,we will be reaching out to the Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Survivors.  In Israel today,there are some 200,000 elderly Holocaust survivors,a quarter of whom live in poverty.  Our contribution to the Foundation will go toward food and services that the Foundation provides for these people.

It’s a great day for our congregation:  hundreds of people, young and old, coming together to do our part in Tikun Olam—fixing some of what is broken in our world.  I hope that you and your family will join us, as your participation will help us to make a difference in many lives.

Yes, “the reward for doing a Mitzvah lay in the doing.”Or, as it has been said: “We are the language through which God speaks.”  Come be with us.

Shabbat Shalom.  I hope to see you on Sunday, first for our Mitzvah Day, and then in the afternoon, at our annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service.

Rabbi David Greenberg

Share

Related posts

March 23, 2023

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, March 24, 2023


Read more
March 16, 2023

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, March 17, 2023


Read more
March 2, 2023

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, March 3, 2023


Read more
Temple Shaaray Tefila | 89 Baldwin Road | Bedford Corners, NY 10549 | Phone: (914) 666-3133 | Fax: (914) 412-9905
© Copyright 2023 Generously designed by Cecile Rothschild I Create & Associates. Inc.
Photography by Stuart Zaro, Homepage banner photos: Photo credit to Todd Shapera
Buy now
  • Online Forms
  • Event Space
  • News
  • Contact