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Shabbat Parshat Bo
10 Shvat 5784 • January 20, 2024
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Yahrtzeiten
Jan 19
Jan 22
Anniversaries
Andrew Blazar
Donna Rosenberg
Jan 26 Randee & Myron Jacobs (59)
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Jan 20 • 10 Shvat Harvey Gilbert – Father of Howard Gilbert
Jan 21 • 11 Shvat Louis Kline – Father of Stuart Kline
Herbert Hony – Grandfather of Ammos Chorny
Lucille Friedman – Wife of Melvin Friedman
Jan 23 • 13 Shvat Rose Burka – Mother of Barrett Burka
Jan 24 • 14 Shvat Mally Hony – Grandmother of Ammos Chorny
Jan 25 • 15 Shvat Rachel Weiser – Mother of Leona Wreschner
Jan 26 • 16 Shvat Seth Goldfine – Son of Mel Goldfine
Jan 28 • 18 Shvat Gertrude Scheffler – Mother of Neil Scheffler
Birthdays
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Shabbat Kiddush Sponsored by:
Jay Levine
In memory of his father
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Harold Levine
Dottie & Don Wagner
In appreciation of Beth Tikvah
Mavens:
Beth Blumberg & Steve Chizzik
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Assisted by:
Rosalee Bogo, Judy Fant, Mel Goldfine,
Evelyn Hecht, Fran Kaufman, Judy Levitt, Gayle Levy,
Paulette Margulies, Sabrina Stroble,
Sue Wasserman, Sharon Zoldan
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Torah & Haftarah Readings:
Shabbat Parshat Bo: Exodus 11:4–12:28 (Cycle 2) (Etz Hayim p. 379)
1. 11:4-10 2. 12:1-10 3. 12:11-13 4. 12:14-16
5. 12:17-20 6. 12:21-24 7. 12:25-28 M. 13:14-16 (p. 393)
Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13–28 (p. 395)
Torah Commentary
D’var Torah:
Stuck in Redemption - Bex Stern-Rosenblatt
It’s hard to read Exodus. It’s hard to make sense of a God who is clearly
intervening in history, acting out miracles, and yet is willing to let so
much suffering happen. This one dreadful story, this experience of the
worst suffering followed by the experience of the highest awakening,
meeting God at Mount Sinai, is meant to be a one-time event. This is
the suffering to end all suffering. This should be the final experience,
the last time we have to live through something like this. For our
children and children’s children, it should be a story, a memory passed
down and revered, but it should not be their lives. The drama, the big
signs that God displays, are to make it a better, bigger story. We are
commanded, over and over again, to tell this story to our children. It’s
almost as if we are trying to cast some protection over them. If God
makes the story dramatic enough, if we tell the story well enough, it
will never have to happen again.
The problem, of course, is it does happen again. As we recite in our
haggadah, not just in one time and in one generation, but in every
time and in every generation they rise up against us to destroy us.
And the Holy One, Blessed Be He, rescues us from their hand. The
Exodus changes from a singular event, which formed us as a people
and whose remembrance was meant to sustain us as a people, to the
paradigm through which we understand all other events. In every
generation since and in our own generation today we look out for
Pharaoh. We experience terrible suffering. And we demand of
ourselves and of God a way out, a way to survive.
The solution, of course, is that it does happen again. As a people, we
do survive Pharaoh, not just in the Exodus generation, but in every
generation. We continue. We live on, to suffer, to fight, to be redeemed
again and again. Just as we begin to worry about how to turn the
experiences of our parents and grandparents into stories that we can
transmit to our children, history repeats. We live the Exodus not as

a story told on Passover but as a lifeboat, as a promise that we will
survive this moment too. The suffering that is detailed in the Exodus
story becomes not excess or signs of God’s absence, but the promise
of God’s eventual presence in our own lives.
We still wish for something better. It is not enough. In every generation,
we pray that it will be different for our children. The haftarah this
week happens hundreds of years after the Exodus. Once again, we
are dealing with Egypt. Once again, Egypt is harshly punished, this
time by the Babylonians. Once again, we are redeemed. This time,
we dream of a better future, an end to the need of the Exodus story.
We read, in Jeremiah 46:27, “And you, my servant Jacob, do not fear.
Do not be afraid, Israel. Because I am here, delivering you from afar,
returning your children from the land of their captivity. And Jacob
will return and all will be still and peaceful. And no one will make
him afraid.”
Minyanim
Requested
Minyanim have been requested for
the following dates & times:
Tuesday, Jan. 23 - 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 24 - 9:00 a.m.
Services will be conducted In-Person
and streamed via ZOOM
February 20 th
7:30 p.m.
“Not Just a Hagaddah”
The art of Arthur Szyk, Polish-born Jewish
artist who worked primarily as a book illustrator and
political artist throughout his career.

Wednesdays 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
January 24 & 31

The Gerald Sager Memorial
Scholar in Residence
Shabbat with
Rabbi Irving Elson
March 8 th & 9 th
As a compliment to Rabbi Chorny’s
course on the most influential Jewish
Figures in History, Rabbi Elson will
explore …
The life, impact and contributions of three
prominent Jewish military figures in
American history:
Commodore Uria Levy
Lt. Col. Robert (Rosie) Rosenthal
Friday Evening
6:15 p.m. - Kabbalat Shabbat Service
7:00 p.m. - Catered Shabbat Dinner
8:00 p.m. - Lecture
Cost per person $36
R.S.V.P. by calling the Synagogue Office 239-434-1818
Saturday Morning
9:30 a.m. - Shabbat Morning Service followed by a
special kiddush luncheon
Rabbi Elson’s presentations can be streamed through our website and via zoom
We honor Gerald Sager’s ז״ל memory, as Rabbi Elson returns as Scholar in Residence. Jerry was an astute
businessman, who when he saw something needing fixing, he made sure that it was taken care of! We have
enjoyed the Scholar in Residence programs for all of these years since Jerry’s passing thanks to his foresight
and generosity. In 2014, Beth Tikvah received a considerable bequest from Jerry and we continue to honor
his memory through the S.I.R. Program which has now grown to a series of multiple Scholars.

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