Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center
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Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center
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A new endeavor of HERJC Cares is participating in<br />
local runs/walks to benefit some<br />
wonderful charities. Here’s our first event!<br />
Join us on May 15 at the<br />
5Towns5K Race*<br />
The race begins at North Woodmere Park at 10 am;<br />
be at the park no later 9:30 am.<br />
We will be distributing a free “HERJC ON THE MOVE” T-shirt to all participants.<br />
Email Tova Markowitz at ts825@mac.com for more information.<br />
*All proceeds benefit Beit Halochem Rehab <strong>Center</strong>s, which work with wounded Israeli veterans.<br />
For more information about the Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans, visit www.fidv.org.<br />
anyone can deliver a D’var torah<br />
JUDITH NYSENHOLC<br />
Do you like to inspire others Do you have a particular<br />
expertise you enjoy speaking about Or an unusual life<br />
experience you think others would want to hear Do<br />
you work for or support a little known charitable<br />
cause Do you feel strongly about some issue or news<br />
event Have you read a good book lately Did you take<br />
an interesting trip in the past few months Would you<br />
like an opportunity to reflect about what being <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
means to you<br />
If so, we want to hear it! Come and share it with us<br />
on a summer Shabbat morning.<br />
Deliver a D’var Torah!<br />
A D’var Torah is a brief talk in which the speaker<br />
connects one or several elements from the weekly<br />
parsha (torah portion) to an idea—any idea. The term<br />
literally means “a word of Torah,” and Torah means<br />
teaching or instruction.<br />
One does not have to be trained as a rabbi to give a<br />
d’var torah. Any post-bar/bat mitzvah Jew can. Typi -<br />
cally, the speaker selects a theme, sentence, word or<br />
problem in the parsha, then relates it to something that<br />
they find interesting and relevant and that they believe<br />
others could learn from.<br />
It’s been a HERJC tradition that, in the summer,<br />
congregants take turns giving a d’var torah. If you have<br />
not participated yet, why not consider it Your audience<br />
will be most appreciative. Honestly, when was the<br />
last time that genuinely interested listeners gave you<br />
their undivided attention for fifteen minutes without<br />
interrupting<br />
Call Judith at 791-4375 or email her at jnysenho@yahoo.com to pick your date!<br />
For suggestions on how to develop a d’var torah, please read the article “D’var Torah: Seven approaches” by Rabbi Richard<br />
J. Israel at www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Torah_Study/Preparing_a_Dvar_Torah/Seven_Approaches.shtml.<br />
HAKOL www.herjc.org MAY/JUNE 2011 page 9