Fwd: Support for Reb Zalman from the Elat Chayyim Community

[Aharon Varady]

This important message may very well touch some on this list. Reb Zalman was the first online contributor to the Open Siddur Project. We are very concerned for the welfare of his archives and work, as well as for his health and welfare among the many lives impacted by this recent flooding in Colorado.

Aharon Varady

Founding Director
The Open Siddur Project

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From: Adam 'Segulah' Sher <adam...@hazon.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Support for Reb Zalman from the Elat Chayyim Community
To: aha...@varady.net

Having trouble? View this message on our website. Homepage | Forward to a Friend | Make a Donation Dear Friend,   As you know, communities across Colorado have faced tremendous challenge and tragedy over the past week. In general, our mother the earth is in distress, and we her children feel her pain, and the pain of those who have been most effected by the imbalances in our world. And always, we do whatever is within our power to fulfill our obligation and our dream: to bring more light, more love, into this world that calls for our attentive care. Specifically, you might be aware that among those many in our family impacted by the flooding in Colorado is our beloved Rebbe Reb Zalman, and Rebbetzin Eve Ilsen. Their house has been flooded, with Reb Zalman's office containing many years of his documents and visions being especially damaged. The whole 1300 square foot basement will need to be completely replaced.  There is a team of volunteers engaged in the holy service of hands-on work salvaging materials from the office, and we are trying to find a local expert to address the water and impending mold damage. Meanwhile we want to make all of you aware  of the opportunity to give tzedakah to Reb Zalman and Eve in this time of need.  Our lives have all been enriched and renewed by Reb Zalman's work - either directly from him, or indirectly through Elat Chayyim and the movement for Jewish renewal that continues to inspire and enhance our spiritual path today. Now is the time to give back. You can make out a check to the Yesod foundation and send it directly to the Yesod Foundation at Reb Zalman's address here:  1720 Lehigh Street, Boulder, CO 80305 Or you can make an online donation here, indicating that your donation is for the repair of our beloved Rebbe's home: http://www.rzlp.org/Yesod-RZLP/Donate.html I spoke to Eve and Reb Zalman today, and they both extend their heartfelt gratitude and blessings to all who heed their humble request for assistance. Your tzedakah will indeed contribute to a world in which we all care for each other, in which our elders who light the path before us are honored through good times and hard times.  In these times of impermanence it seems that the holiday of Sukkot takes on fresh meaningfulness. We live in a fragile Sukkah of a world. It is our collective simcha - joy that uplifts our shabby huts into homes in which the Divine Presence dwells. This is zman simchateynu - the season of our joy. May we bring joy to the hearts of those who need it most, and may our support of Reb Zalman and Rebbetzin Eve be the start of a year of tzedakah, ahavah, and simcha!   In gratitude and hope for a world transformed and healed, Adam Segulah   Adam 'Segulah' Sher, M.Ed Director, Transformative Experiences @ - Hazon - Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center - Elat Chayim Center for Jewish Spirituality adam...@hazon.org 860 824 5991 x318   Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend | Visit our web site        116 Johnson Road, Falls Village, CT 06031 tel: 800.398.2630 Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center © 2013 All rights reserved.

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Aharon Varady, MCP,  MAJE (2013)
Environmental Educator, Public Domain Advocate, Community Planner
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Read my latest paper on the sacred space and spiritual praxis of vegetation in Judaism.

[Rabbi Karpov]

Okay. When I come up for air, had needed anyway to make list of s'forim I'd been culling to release to wherever else they'd been destined.

 

Could send list, & then, requested s'forim.

Rabbi R. Karpov, Ph.D.

• Featured for Albuquerque, NM Shavuoth rollout of Tikkun Leil Shavuoth text (original + translation), 2013: http://www.abqjew.net/2013/05/preparing-for-shavuot.html , with press coverage following: http://www.jewishnewmexico.org/docs/the_link/jun_jul_2013.pdf, entire p. 2; and www.examiner.com/article/our-prayers-are-heard, May 19, 2013
  
• Featured on OpenSiddur.org, from traditional sources:,
• "Second Night of Rosh HaShanah Seder": http://opensiddur.org/2012/09/seder-achilat-hasimonim-the-symbolic-foods-of-life-seder-for-rosh-hashanah/ September 3, 2012
  
• "Seder Rosh HaShanah La'Ilan: A Four Worlds Seder for Tu Bishvat": http://opensiddur.org/2013/01/seder-rosh-hashanah-lailan-a-four-worlds-seder-for-tu-bishvat/ January 14, 2013
  

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