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CASUAL SHABBAT SHABBAT HAGADOL AND FREEDOM

TZAV - 4-3-2020

Shabbat Hagadol and Freedom - Tzav - 4-3-2020

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What are you focusing on during this crisis?

Where is your mind taking you now?

Set your intention on Shabbat peace!

Set your mind on freedom!

Woke Up This Morning Based on a Gospel Song, written by Rev. Robert Wesby of Aurora, Illinois

in the Hinds County jail during the Freedom Rides.

I woke up this mornin' with my mind

My mind, it was stayed on freedom





Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah

Walkin' and talkin' with my mind

My mind it was stayed on freedom

I was walkin' and talkin' with my mind


I was walkin', I was talkin', talkin' with my mind



Thinkin' and movin' with my mind


Oh, thinkin' and movin' with your mind


Thinkin' and movin' with my mind




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Lecha Dodi/Come My Beloved

(Shlomo Halevy Alkabetz)

If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

(Cat Stevens)

Oy, lecha, lecha dodi

Likrat, likrat kalah

P’nai, pnai Shabbat

Nekabelah

Well, if you want to sing out, sing out

And if you want to be free, be free

'Cause there's a million things to be

You know that there are


Likrat, likrat kala

P’nai, pnai Shabbat

Nekabbalh

And if you want to live high, live high

And if you want to live low, live low

'Cause there's a million ways to go


Likrat Shabbat

Lechu venelcha

Ki hi mekor

Haberachaa

Sof ma’aseh

Bemachshava Techillah

You see, ah ah ah

It's easy, ah ah ah

You only need to know

You can do what you want

The opportunity's on

And if you find a new way

You can do it today

You can make it all true

And you can make it undo

You see, ah ah ah

It's easy, ah ah ah




'Cause there's a million things to be


It is traditional to rise as you

Well, if you want to say yes, say yes

And if you want to say no, say no

'Cause there's a million ways to go


face the door and greet Shabbat


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Boi veshalom

Ateret ba’alah

Gam besimcha

Uvetzohalah

Toch emonay-ay-ay

Ahm segulah

Bo’i ah ah ah

Bo’i,ah ah ah

Bo’i khallah

You can do what you want

The opportunity's on

And if you find a new way

You can do it today

You can make it all true

And you can make it anew

You see, ah ah ah

It's easy, ah ah ah



Likrat, likrat kala

P’nai, pnai Shabbat Shabbat

Nekabbelah

Come welcome the Bride with me

We’ll offer a healing plea

And sing a new song to Thee

May we all be free!



‘Cause there’s a million things to be







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Barechu – Call to Communal Prayer (said facing the ark)

Bar’khu et adonai ham’vorakh.

Barukh adonai ham’vorakh l’olam va-ed.

Barukh adonai ham’vorakh l’olam va-ed.

Let us bless Adonai, blessed Source of all blessing forever.

Ahavat Olam – Eternal Love

A translation of the traditional prayer, set to the traditional tune, follows:

Eternal love for Israel, You, our God, have shown. Torah and mitzvot, devotion and law, You taught us

richly and well. Therefore, dear God, Adonai, when we lie down and when we rise up, we will discuss Your

laws. And we will delight in Your guidance, given to us through Your Torah, forever and all time. For they

are our life and the length of our days, our life and the length of our days. And we shall meditate upon

them, think of them morning and night. Never remove your love, we ask you: Blessed are You, Adonai, who

loves Your people Yisrael.


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Mi Chamocha/Who Is Like You? (Let My People Go)

Who is like You, Adonai? (When Israel was in Egypt's Land)

Among those served as gods? (Let my people go).

Who is like You, glorious? (Oppressed so hard they could not stand)

Let my people go. Let my people go.

Awesome (Go down)

in praises (Moses)

doing wondrous miracles (Way down in Egypt's Land)

Awesome (Tell ol')

in praises (Pharaoh)


Your children did your kingdom see (When Israel was in Egypt's Land)


The water split ‘neath Moses’ rod (Oppressed so hard they could not stand)


“This is (Go down)

my God,” (Moses),”

they all answered, and they said: (Way down in Egypt's Land)

“Adonai (Tell ol')

will rei-ei-eign (Pharaoh)

for all eternity.” (Let my people go).

Tell ol’ Pharoah Tell ol’ Pharoah



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Hashkiveynu/Lay Us Down (Mishkan T’filah translation)

Grant, O God, that we lie down in peace, and raise us up, our Guardian, to life renewed. Spread over us the shelter of Your

peace. Guide us with Your good counsel; for Your Name’s sake, be our help. Shield and shelter us beneath the shadow of Your

wings. Defend us against enemies, illness, war, famine and sorrow. Distance us from wrongdoing. For You, God, watch over

us and deliver us. For You, God, are gracious and merciful. Guard our going and coming, to life and to peace evermore.

ת שלום ע פורש סכ תה יי, ה ת שלומך. ברוך א ל ירושלים ופרש עלינו סכ מו ישראל וע ל כל ע לינו וע

Healing Prayer: El Na Refa Na Lah/Please, God, Heal Her

This is Moses’ simple and heartfelt prayer for Miriam in (Numbers 12:13). The entire community waits for her to be healed from her

contagious disease before they move, bringing her with them.

Ana el na refa na lah [Please God, heal her – referring to Miriam and all of us]

Heal our bodies, open our hearts, awaken our minds, Eheyeh [a name of God – “I Will Be”].

Heal our bodies, awaken our hearts, open our minds, Shechinah [a name of God – “Close One”].

V’shamru/The Jewish People Shall Keep [Shabbat] (Joshua Fit de Battle)

The children of Israel (Joshua fit de battle)

they should keep (of Jericho)

the Sabbath day (2x) (Jericho, Jericho)

to make an eternal covenant (Joshua fit de battle of Jericho)

for generations yet to come (And the walls come tumblin’ down).

Between Me and the children of Is-ra-el (You can talk about the kingdom of Gideon)

It’s a sign ‘till kingdom come (You can brag about the kingdom of Saul).

It took six days to create the heavens (But there’s none like good old Joshua)


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and everything upon the earth (For to make those old walls fall).

V'sha-m'ru (Joshua fit de battle)

v'nei Yis-ra-eil (of Jericho)

et ha-Sha-bat (2x) (Jericho, Jericho)

la-a-sot et (Joshua fit de battle)

ha-Sha-bat (of Jericho)

l'do-ro-tam (And the walls)

b'rit o-lam (come tumblin’ down).

And on that seventh day (Up to the walls of Jericho)

God was done and took a rest (He marched with spear in hand).

Yeah, on that seventh day (Go blow dem ram’s horns loud and clear)

God took a rest and was refreshed (And the walls come a-tumblin’ down).

Oh Baby - The children of Israel (Joshua fit de battle)

they should keep (of Jericho)

the Sabbath day (2x) (Jericho, Jericho)

to make an eternal covenant (Joshua fit de battle of Jericho)

for generations yet to come (And the walls come tumblin’ down).


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The Shape and Nature of Freedom

Rabbi: Egypt in Hebrew is called ים literally, the place of double narrowness. It was so named for – מצר

geographical and spiritual reasons. Two narrow strips of fertile soil border the Nile on either side;

therefore, double narrowness is a literal observation about the physical terrain.

Cantor: Ancient Egypt was also a place of metaphysical constriction for the Hebrews and for their

taskmasters. The experience of slavery in Egypt stifled the Hebrews spiritually, even as it crushed them

physically.

Rabbi: In the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We are the descendants of slaves … we are the

heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who

became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.”

Cantor: The ancient Egyptians, caught in a web of their own making, were stifled and squeezed – morally

and spiritually. Pharaoh’s Egypt was narrow, twice narrow, twice again narrow.

ALL on mute with the Rabbi: Therefore, whenever we pray about the Exodus, we pray to leave narrowness behind. We seek to manifest the fullness of freedom, the expansiveness of equality.

Cantor: As Rev King taught, "A man hasn't started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his

existence to the broader concerns of all humanity."

ALL on mute with the Rabbi: May each of us grow to know true freedom. Amen.


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Amidah - Silent Meditation on Freedom

1. Now that your freedom of movement has been constrained, what new empathy

and effort might you have for: people who have disabilities or chronic conditions

that limit their mobility – hospital patients – prisoners – asylum seekers now

detained – and, especially in light of Passover, the 40 million people still enslaved

around the world.

Ask: What do I owe them? What can I offer them? How can I raise these issues at

my Seders?

2. What do you want or need to be free from?

3. What do you need freedom for?

Fill in this blank: I seek greater personal freedom in order to _________.

4. Ask: How can I help others (close to me or far away) to become more free?

5. How do you understand and respond to: “Love the stranger, for you were a

stranger in the land of Egypt”?

6. Look closely at the photograph and book title. Consider their meaning in

terms of your Jewish values and our Festival of Freedom.


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לום ה ש מן עוש מרו א אל וא שר ל י לינו ועל כ לום ע ה ש יו הוא יעש מרומ ב

May the One who makes peace and harmony in the heavens,

help us to make peace and harmony among the people of Israel

and throughout the world!

Vayechu/The Heavens and the Earth Were Completed (Genesis 2)

ים והארץ וכל שמ יכלו ה צבאםו

אכתו אשר עשה שביעי מל יום ה ל אלהים ב יכ אכתו אשר עשה .ו שביעי מכל מל יום ה ישבת ב ואכתו אשר ברא אלהים ת מכל מל דש אתו. כי בו שב יק שביעי ו יברך אלהים את יום ה עשות ו ל

And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their hosts.

On the seventh day God finished the work which God had made; and God rested on the seventh day from all the work

which God had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because on it, God rested from all the work which God in creating had

made.


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Announcements

YOUR HELP AND INPUT NEEDED

The CBI Technology Committee needs your help. We've moved CBI online, and need the help of 5 or 6 technology-friendly

members to help run our online operation! We need Tech Buddies to help with Zoom during school and services, as well as

plenty of planning and strategy work. Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] to help!

Parents, please send your college students' email addresses to Nancy Passow at [email protected] so we can reach out

to them, meet their needs, and invite them to volunteer with our seniors.

CONNECTING DURING THE WEEK

Cantor Lenny Mandel will be “hanging out” on Zoom on Wednesday, April 1 (no joke! no fooling!) from 12:00-12:30 pm. Please

join him to shmooz, tell some jokes, and share stories. Zoom link and info are in the Shul Shmooz and on the CBI

landing/events page at bisrael.com

Rabbi Debra Orenstein will lead an informal discussion on Thursday, April 2 from 12:00-12:30 pm on the topic: “So what are

you doing for Seders this year?” Discuss options for “virtual” Seders as well as ideas for gathering and staying safe. Share

your plans and any questions or suggestions you may have. Zoom link and dial-in info are in the Shul Shmooz and on the CBI

landing/events page at bisrael.com

OFFERING AND ACCEPTING SUPPORT

If you need help or support of any kind in this difficult time, especially if you or a loved one is affected by the Coronavirus,

please contact:

Amy Shein of Club Chesed ([email protected])

or Rabbi Debra Orenstein ([email protected] or 201-560-3345)

or Cantor Lenny Mandel ([email protected] or 201-618-0716).

mailto:[email protected]







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