Community
Treats for JNF trees
The Burquest Jewish community Hebrew school's junior gan (kindergarten) class showed its fund-raising spirit recently by bringing in almost $100 from its second annual Tu B'Shevat Bake Sale.
At a dollar per item, cookies and cupcakes were flying ofTthe table. Gan student Daniel Gorodetsky, 7, helped improve the take. Those challahs," he was heard to shout, "are worth at least $5 each!" Daniel and fellow Burquest students Eden Tsemek, Makenna Rose, Gabriella Bloomfield, Daniel Pimental, Celina Vosilla, Emily Glass, Liana Glass and Shimmie Winterfield all lent a hand.
Gan teacher Sharon Sheppard expressed her thanks to all of the parents who donated baking and praised the students' initiative
The children demonstrated that they really understand the importance of rallying together as a community to raise tzcdakah [charity]," she said. "I wonder how well we would do if we got tihem to run the capital campaign to raise funds for our new building!"
ProoK^ fix)m the sale will go to purchase trees in Burqucst's Jewish National Fund grove in Israel. Started by Rabbi Yosef Wosk several years ago, Burqucst's grove is the only community-named and sponsored JNF grove in world. The money raised was enough to plant one tree in each child's name. □
- Courtesy of the Burquest Jewish Community Association
Uniting of Ri
When an Orthodox family decides on a community to move into, they ask themselves many questions: Who is the rabbi of the shul? How is the school? Is there an cruv (a ritual enclosure which eases Sabbath restrictions)? In biblical law, it is forbidden to carry anything in a public area for a distance of approximately two metres on Shabbat. This presents an Orthodox family with some difiicult circumstances. They would not be able to carry their house key to shul or push their children in a stroller. Shabbat could be a very difiicult experience.
The Torah does permit carrying on Shabbat within a private area. Again, the criteria for a private area are also very specific The goal of an eruv, which comes from the Hebrew for "mix" or "combine," is to combine all of the people living within a given area. An eruv changes the streets from public areas into what Jewish law considers a single piece of property in which carrying is permitted. A well-made eruv uses existing structures and minimal visible changes so that the aesthetics of tfie community are not affected. In most cases, nobody can even tell it is there.
An eruv can be an expensive endeavor. Mostly, eruvim are built in communities that are willing to invest to attract new Orthodox families. Two years ago, the Richmond commimity set up an eruv. New families have already begun to move in.
Anyone wishing to contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of the eruv, or to fmd out more about it, call the Orthodox Rabbinical Council at 275-0042. □
- Courtesy of the Richmond cruv committee
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