Letter+of+outreach+to+congregants+in+pre-k+-+3rd+grade

August 2009 Dear Thank you for attending our introductory Shabbat 2.0 meeting. Your enthusiastic response to the Shabbat 2.0 participation holds the promise of inspiring our entire community. Since we met in May, we have been working hard preparing the details of Shabbat 2.0. We (Rabbi, Faye, and Rachel) spent three days together with the Legacy Heritage Foundation working on Shabbat 2.0 with the help and inspiration of other congregations and professionals who are also creating family learning opportunities at their institutions. We have an amazing year of exploration, family experience and community building ahead of us! Shabbat 2.0 will strengthen our community through the celebration of age-old traditions and the time we will spend together creating new traditions for our own congregation and community. Together, we will learn about Torah, Gimilut Hasadim (acts of loving kindness), and Tzedakah (righteous giving). Together we will explore ways to weave Shabbat into the fabric of our lives—at home, at Temple, and in the life of our community. The attached schedule has been revised to incorporate your ideas about project timing and themes planned for each session. Based on your feedback, it now includes Friday evening (Erev Shabbat) and Saturday Evening (Havdallah) sessions as well as Shabbat morning sessions. Having listened, prepared, listened and revised, we are excited to kick off this project by gathering together on Friday, September 25, 2009 for a special Shabbat 2.0 dinner at 6: 15 PM. We look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions about Shabbat 2.0, please any one of us. In the meantime… Enjoy the rest of your summer! L’Shalom, Rabbi Mayer Perelmuter (718-261-2900) Faye Gilman (edleader@rtfh.org) Rachel Kort (rachelkort@yahoo.com)    