UUJA Shabbat Service - ORDER OF SERVICE
June 23, 2023 at 5:30pm EDT - Convention Center Room 315-316
We are grateful to be joined by a local Cantorial Soloist, Sara Stock Mayo, who will be leading our musical portions tonight.
Welcome - Rev. Alison Miller
Opening Music - Hinei Mah Tov - Arian
Hinei ma tov uma na-im
Shevet achim gam yachad
Hinei ma tov uma na-im
Shevet achim gam yachad
How good it is (how good it is)
How sweet it is (how sweet it is)
To be together on this day
How good it is (how good it is)
How sweet it is (how sweet it is)
To be together on this day
Shalom aleichem salaam aleykum
Shalom aleichem salaam aleykum
Light the Shabbat Candles
Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech haolam
Asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav
Vitzivanu l’hadlik ner
Shel Shabbat
Light the Chalice - Mia Noren
May the light we now kindle
Inspire us to use our powers
To heal and not to harm,
To help and not to hinder, to bless and not to curse
To serve you, Spirit of freedom.
Sing: Shalom Aleichem
Shalom Aleichem malachei hasharet malachei elyon
Mimelech malchei hamlachim hakadosh Baruch Hu
Boacheim l’shalom malachei hashalom malachei Elyon
Mimelech malachei hamlachim hakadosh Baruch Hu
B'rachuni Lshalom malachei hashalom malachei Elyon
Mimelech malchei hamlachim hakadosh Baruch Hu
Shuvchem l'shalom malachei hashalom malachei Elyon
Mimelech malchei hamlachim hakadosh Baruch Hu
Sermon Contest Announcement - Mia Noren
Sing: Olam Chesed Yibaneh (2-3)
Olam Chesed Yibaneh
Yai lai lai (repeat 2x)
I will build this world from love
Yai lai lai
You will build this world from love
Yai lai lai
And if we build this world from love
Yai lai lai
Then God will build this world from love
Yai lai lai
S’hma
S’hma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad
Baruch sheim kavod malchuto l’olam va’ed
Reading - On Repentance & Repair - Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Here is an excerpt from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s book, “On Repentance and Repair”
The work of repentance, all the way through, is the work of transformation. It's the work of facing down false stories and engaging with painful reality. It's the work of being open to seeing ourselves as we really are, of understanding that other people's needs and pain are at least as important – if not more so – than our own. It's about figuring out how to be the kind of person who sees others' suffering and takes responsibility for any role we might have in causing it. It's about ownership – owning who we have been and what we have done, and also owning the person that we are capable of becoming.
The critical fifth and last stage of this process is that the perpetrator must, when faced with the opportunity to cause similar harm in the future, make a better choice. This can happen only if they've done the deep work of understanding why the harm happened, stayed out of situations that would make the harm easy to perpetrate again, and reoriented themselves and their life in a totally different way. When these steps have been taken, the choice will happen naturally because the person making it is a changed person in the ways that matter.
Message - Rev. Alison Miller
Sing: Oseh Shalom (2 minutes)
Oseh Shalom bimromav
Hu ya-aseh shalom aleinu
V’al kol Yisrael
V’imru amen
Reading: Yesh Kochavim – There Are Stars, by Hannah Senesh
There are stars up above, so far away we only see their light long, long after the star itself is gone. And so it is with people we have loved – their memories keep shining ever brightly though their time with us is done. But the stars that light up the darkest night, these are the lights that guide us. As we live our lives, these are the ways we remember.
Those observing yahrzeits or who are in mourning are invited to say the names of those whose memories bless us before we recite the Kaddish. Given this is for many of us the first time we are present here in Pittsburgh, near the Tree of Life Synagogue, we will begin by saying the names of those who lost their lives to gun violence here. It will be five years this coming October.
Joyce Fienberg, 75
Richard Gottfried, 65
Rose Mallinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil, 59 & David Rosenthal, 54
Bernice, 84 & Sylvan Simon, 86
Daniel Stein, 71
Melvin Wax, 88
Irving Younger, 69
Mourner’s Kaddish - Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Traditional:
Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba b’alma di-v’ra
chirutei, v’yamlich malchutei b’chayeichon
uvyomeichon uvchayei d’chol beit yisrael, ba’agala
uvizman kariv, v’im’ru: “amen.”
Y’hei sh’mei raba m’varach l’alam ul’almei almaya.
Yitbarach v’yishtabach, v’yitpa’ar v’yitromam
v’yitnaseh, v’yithadar v’yit’aleh v’yit’halal sh’mei
d’kud’sha, b’rich hu,
l’eila min-kol-birchata v’shirata, tushb’chata
v’nechemata da’amiran b’alma, v’im’ru: “amen.”
Y’hei shlama raba min-sh’maya v’chayim aleinu
v’al-kol-yisrael, v’im’ru: “amen.”
Oseh shalom bimromav, hu ya’aseh shalom aleinu
v’al kol-yisrael, v’imru: “amen.”
Extinguish our Chalice
Closing Blessing
Priestly Blessing (English/Hebrew back and forth)
(Sara) Y’varechecha Adonai v’yishmarecha
(Alison) May God bless you and keep you
(Sara) Ya’eir Adonai panav eilecha v’chunekah
(Alison) May God shine God’s face upon you and be gracious to you
(Sara) Y’sah Adonai panav eilecha v’yaseimlecha
(Alison) May God grant you peace
(Sara) Shalom
Sing: Niggun
Followed by blessings over the wine and bread, Kiddush/HaMotzi
