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Event calendar for 2012 is now available. Click on the Calendar tab and view events by date.
Some of Our 2012 Programs: Click here to view Brochure
Classes: We offer daily classes (M-F) on a wide spectrum of topics.
Time: 9:15 - 10:15 AM. Location: Alumni Hall, Library Room
Services: We host a Shabbat service followed by a full sit-down Kiddush (Lunch)
Time: Saturdays, 9:30 AM. Location: Everett Jewish Life Center
Challah Classes: We offer a Challah Braiding class and you take home your own Challah.
Time: Fridays, 12:15 PM. Location: EJLCC, Porch
Shabbat Dinners: We offer two Community Shabbat Dinners for a fee.
Enjoy Shabbos with a four-course Dinner in a warm and welcoming atmosphere
From Kiddush and Matza Balls to the meaningful discussions, inspiring song and more.
Time: 1) Friday, July 13 at 7:30 PM.
2) Friday, August 3 at 7:15 PM.
Location: Everett Jewish Life Center.
Kosher BBQ: "An event for the whole family" - Minimal fee.
Time: 1) Sunday, July 1 - 12-2 PM.
2) Sunday, August 5 - 12-2 PM.
Location: Miller Bell Tower Park.
Lectures: Special Lecture Series - "Social Justice"
#1) Date: Wednesday, July 18. Time: 9:15-10:15 AM. Location: Hall of Philosophy.
Speaker: Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin.
#2) Date: Wednesday, August 1. Time: 9:15-10:15 AM. Location: Hall of Philosophy.
Speaker: Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin.
#3) Date: Wednesday, August 15. Time: 9:15-10:15 AM. Location: Hall of Philosophy.
Speaker: Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin.
Time: 9:15 - 10:15 AM. Location: Alumni Hall, Library Room
Services: We host a Shabbat service followed by a full sit-down Kiddush (Lunch)
Time: Saturdays, 9:30 AM. Location: Everett Jewish Life Center
Challah Classes: We offer a Challah Braiding class and you take home your own Challah.
Time: Fridays, 12:15 PM. Location: EJLCC, Porch
Shabbat Dinners: We offer two Community Shabbat Dinners for a fee.
Enjoy Shabbos with a four-course Dinner in a warm and welcoming atmosphere
From Kiddush and Matza Balls to the meaningful discussions, inspiring song and more.
Time: 1) Friday, July 13 at 7:30 PM.
2) Friday, August 3 at 7:15 PM.
Location: Everett Jewish Life Center.
Kosher BBQ: "An event for the whole family" - Minimal fee.
Time: 1) Sunday, July 1 - 12-2 PM.
2) Sunday, August 5 - 12-2 PM.
Location: Miller Bell Tower Park.
Lectures: Special Lecture Series - "Social Justice"
#1) Date: Wednesday, July 18. Time: 9:15-10:15 AM. Location: Hall of Philosophy.
Speaker: Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin.
#2) Date: Wednesday, August 1. Time: 9:15-10:15 AM. Location: Hall of Philosophy.
Speaker: Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin.
#3) Date: Wednesday, August 15. Time: 9:15-10:15 AM. Location: Hall of Philosophy.
Speaker: Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin.
A Word from the Rabbi
Morris had told all of his friends about the great steak he'd eaten downtown the day before. A group of them decided to head down and see if was really as large and delicious as Morris was making it out to be.
The group was seated in the back of the restaurant. After looking over the menu, they ordered and waited, hungrily, for their large, delicious pieces of gigantic steaks.
To their collective disappointment, the waiter brought out some of the smallest steaks they'd ever seen.
"Now see here," a very embarrassed Morris said to the waiter. "Yesterday when I came down here you served me a BIG, juicy, steak. Today, though, when I have my friends invited, you serve small miniature steaks! What is the meaning of this???"
"Yes, sir," replied the waiter, "yesterday you were sitting by the window..."
[Moses] took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: "All that G-d has spoken, we will do, and we will hear" (24:7)
The Talmud (Tractate Shabbat 88a) extols the greatness of the Israelites response: we will do, and we will hear, by saying: When the people of Israel gave precedence to "we will do" over "we will hear," a heavenly voice issued forth and exclaimed to them: "Who revealed to My children this secret, which is employed by the angels?" As it is written (Psalms 103:20), "Bless the L-rd His angels, those mighty in strength, who fulfill His word, who hear the voice of His word" -- first they "fulfill" and then they "hear"...
The Talmud continues to relate: There was a certain Sadducee who saw Rava engrossed in his studies while the fingers of his hand were under his feet, and he ground them down, so that his fingers spurted blood.
"You rash people," he exclaimed, "who gave precedence to your mouth over your ears, still persist in your rashness! First you should have listened, and if it is within your powers, accept; if not, you should not have accepted!"
Said he to him, 'We who walked in integrity, of us it is written, The innocence of the upright shall guide them (Proverbs 11:3). But of others, who walked in perversity, it is written, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them (ibid).
The Chassidic masters explain that the greatness of the people of Israel was not that they were prepared to "blindly" do G-d's bidding without understanding (in which case they would have said only "we will do"), but that they placed their doing before their understanding.
G-d desires that we should do as well as "hear" and comprehend His will, so that we serve Him not only with our hands and feet, but also with our minds and hearts. But our “doing”, the actual performance of the Mitzvot, should serve as the basis of our understanding, rather than the other way around.
Rabbi Zalman and Esther Vilenkin
To sign up for our weekly email please email: zevilenkin@aol.com.
The group was seated in the back of the restaurant. After looking over the menu, they ordered and waited, hungrily, for their large, delicious pieces of gigantic steaks.
To their collective disappointment, the waiter brought out some of the smallest steaks they'd ever seen.
"Now see here," a very embarrassed Morris said to the waiter. "Yesterday when I came down here you served me a BIG, juicy, steak. Today, though, when I have my friends invited, you serve small miniature steaks! What is the meaning of this???"
"Yes, sir," replied the waiter, "yesterday you were sitting by the window..."
[Moses] took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: "All that G-d has spoken, we will do, and we will hear" (24:7)
The Talmud (Tractate Shabbat 88a) extols the greatness of the Israelites response: we will do, and we will hear, by saying: When the people of Israel gave precedence to "we will do" over "we will hear," a heavenly voice issued forth and exclaimed to them: "Who revealed to My children this secret, which is employed by the angels?" As it is written (Psalms 103:20), "Bless the L-rd His angels, those mighty in strength, who fulfill His word, who hear the voice of His word" -- first they "fulfill" and then they "hear"...
The Talmud continues to relate: There was a certain Sadducee who saw Rava engrossed in his studies while the fingers of his hand were under his feet, and he ground them down, so that his fingers spurted blood.
"You rash people," he exclaimed, "who gave precedence to your mouth over your ears, still persist in your rashness! First you should have listened, and if it is within your powers, accept; if not, you should not have accepted!"
Said he to him, 'We who walked in integrity, of us it is written, The innocence of the upright shall guide them (Proverbs 11:3). But of others, who walked in perversity, it is written, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them (ibid).
The Chassidic masters explain that the greatness of the people of Israel was not that they were prepared to "blindly" do G-d's bidding without understanding (in which case they would have said only "we will do"), but that they placed their doing before their understanding.
G-d desires that we should do as well as "hear" and comprehend His will, so that we serve Him not only with our hands and feet, but also with our minds and hearts. But our “doing”, the actual performance of the Mitzvot, should serve as the basis of our understanding, rather than the other way around.
Rabbi Zalman and Esther Vilenkin
To sign up for our weekly email please email: zevilenkin@aol.com.
