September 1, 2010
Elul 22, 5770
Weekly Parshat: Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Friday Candlelighting: 7 PM

We wish you a sweet, healthy, prosperous and peaceful new year!

High Holiday Services
Upcoming Fall Retreat September 3-5, 2010
Yoga and Havdallah in the Succah with Ida Under & Wendy Becker
Rabbi Omer-Man's Book Project Update
Kabbalat Shabbat Services
Community News

Register today for Metivta's Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Services
Registration Form
Experience the majesty and mystery of the High Holy Days in Prayer and Contemplation at Metivta's Upcoming Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Services September 8, 9, 10, 17 and 18

Nowhere is our dedication to the contemplative path more manifest than at Metivta's High Holy Days services. Each year, we strive as a community to create a sacred space in which each participant can find his or her path to God and t'shuvah. With the traditional liturgy as a framework we use prayer, chant, meditation, teaching and zhikr, a symphony of chant, breath, and movement, to guide and carry us upward on our ten-day journey from repentance to forgiveness and return to God.

Our guest Hazzan Joel Stern will be leading us in prayer along with our prayer leader, Evelyn Baran, and other members of our lay community.    Rabbi Ivan Ickovits and Maggid Paul Wolff will be our darshanim during the holidays. Our Metivta teachers include Lyle Poncher, Perry Oretzky, Marilyn Zweifach, Gilla Nissan and Ida Unger.   We are happy to announce that Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man, Metivta's Rabbi Emeritus, and his wife Nan Gefen, will be joining us for Rosh Hashanah services.

Second Day Rosh Hashanah our Chant and Meditation service, followed by Torah and Shofar Services, will be led by Evelyn Baran and Lyle Poncher.

All services will be held at the Olympic Collection, Los Angeles, CA.
Location:  Olympic Collection
                   Century Ballroom, 2nd floor
                   11301 Olympic Blvd.
                   West Los Angeles, CA 90064

For more information call Metivta at 818-654-9293 or email Merryl@Metivta.org to receive a registration form.
High Holiday Schedule

Join Us for Metivta's Annual Fall Retreat September 3-5, 2010
Sign up today for this weekends Elul Retreat. Don't miss this unique opportunity to join the Metivta community as we prepare for the upcoming High Holiday services together that begin just three days later on September 8th. To be held at Holy Spirit Retreat Center Encino,CA. For more information contact Lyle@Metivta.org
Fall Retreat Reservation Form

Save the date for "Yoga & Havdallah in the Succah" on September 25, 5:30-8PM
We continue our passage through the high holiday season with a special Shabbat program.
We will gather in Steve and Merryl Weber's lovely succah. Iyengar Yoga Instructor and Metivta members Ida Unger and Wendy Becker will lead us in a yogic journey and havdallah in the succah.....For more information click here

Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man's Teachings Book Project Update
Many of us have been deeply touched by Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man, Metivta's Founder and Rabbi Emeritus, by all he has taught to us as individuals, as a community and as a unique and wise voice within the larger Jewish world. A project is underway to publish his teachings and to make them more accessible. Rabbi Omer-Man and Kristine McKenna, a widely published journalist along with the Metivta Board and other long time students of Rabbi Omer-Man's are working together to put Rabbi Omer-Man's teachings from audio archives into a book.

We are working to raise $150,000 with the goal of completing the book by the end of 2011. We have already raised $75,000 toward this project but we need everyone's help to complete this important project.
To Donate: Jonathan Omer-Man Book Project Donation

If you are a good transcriber and would like to participate in this project contact Lauren Deutsch, our project manager for transcription, at Lauren@metivta.org

You are invited to join the Circle for the Celebrations of Kabbalat-Shabbat and Holy-Days
Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man says that on Shabbat and a Holy- Day, "More is available from Above. How do I experience it? How do I prepare to be receptive? How do I carry it throughout the rest of the week? Our circle explores this unique time....Read more

For more information on upcoming services contact Gilla at gilla29@msn.com.

Community News
We regret to inform you that our Thursday evening Meditation Circle has been cancelled for the rest of 2010
Please watch our monthly newsletters for upcoming announcements.

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Web: http://www.metivta.org/
email: office@Metivta.org
Phone: 818-654-9293