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SEPTEMBER 2008 ... ELUL 5768 WELCOME TAMIR MICAH!!! Tamir Micah Berkowitz-Morris was welcomed into the world on August 4^th by his loving and ecstatic parents, Dasee and Leon. He weighed in at 7 lbs, 7 oz. and was 20.5 inches long, with just a touch of dark hair. On August 11, he was named Tamir following the Ashkenazi tradition, in memory of his great grandmother Tillie Morris and Micah, in the Sephardic tradition, in honor of his grandmother, Mozelle Berkowitz. The beautiful Brit Milah ceremony combining both Ashkenazic and Sephardic prayer and song was held in the magnificent Judaica Museum at Temple Emanu-el in Manhattan. Today’s technical miracles allowed this lovely event to be beamed via the internet to Rabbi Leon’s parents in Pennsylvania, who were unable to attend; and to Dasee’s grandmother and other family members in Israel.TAI HIGH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE..	MESSAGE FROM RABBI LEON MORRIS... In the traditional liturgy of Yom Kippur, the Machzor (High Holiday prayer book) includes a prayer for the new year that is meant to be a parallel to the prayer that the high Priest offered when emerging alive from the Holy of Holies after performing the elaborate Yom Kippur rituals. In the Sephardic rites, this is the prayer: May it be Your will, Adonai, our God, God of our forefathers that it may be this year coming upon us and upon Your entire people Israel In any place they might be, a year of light, a year of blessing, a year of joy, a year of delight, a year of grandeur, a year of good assemblies, a year of song, a year of gladness, a year of goodness. A year of dew and rainfall for blessing, a year of salvation, a year of sustenance, a year of study,a year of tranquility, a year of consolation, a year of merriment, a year of exultation, a year of redemption, a year of rejoicing, a year of pride, a year of the ingathering of the	BUSY WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 12-14 AT TEMPLE ADAS ISRAEL, SAG HARBOR Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor gets the fall season rolling with many activities scheduled for the weekend beginning Friday September 12. In addition to the regular Shabbat Service at 8PM on that date, the Hebrew School will have a Challah Baking Workshop at the Temple at 3PM with Leah Oppenheimer, the School’s Director. The Shabbat morning service on Saturday September 13 at 10:30 AM celebrates the Bar Mitzvah of Alexander Hanson Lapin Protell, son of Ruth Lapin and David Protell. It will be conducted by Rabbi Michael Shields who was Alexander’s Bar Mitzvah coach. On Sunday September 14 at 2 PM the Temple will be open for a tour in conjunction with the town’s annual HARBORFEST. Dave Lee, who has been a member of the Temple since 1948 will conduct the tour and provide a history of the congregation since it’s beginning in 1883. Everyone is welcome to attend. Also on Sunday September 14, at 3 PM the Hebrew
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Temple Adas Israel holds services every Friday evening at 8:00 PM unless otherwise noted in the CALENDAR or NEWS column.