Temple B’nai Torah
2900 Jerusalem Avenue
Wantagh, NY 11793
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Hesed (Loving Kindness)
Hesed (Loving kindness)
Our mission is to enhance and nurture the spirit of community within our growing congregation by addressing the emotional and/or special needs of all our congregants throughout their individual life cycle events. Every member is a Hesed Haver and may be called upon to help celebrate, support and/or comfort others in need within our congregation.
Programs & Community Links
The Shiva Minyan: How to Attend, How to Lead… NOVEMBER 17th in the evening.Take the mystery out of what it means to attend shiva. Learn how you can be a compassionate visitor and neighbor in your community.
Support Network
Our Congregation is creating informal networks for people to lend support, an ear or meet up for a coffee, starting with the topics of bereavement, cancer and raising kids with special needs.
Business Boosters
If you need some work done, look no further than your Community. Click on the Business Booster Directory to find a list with members who may just have that skill or product you need. Need a Ride to Services? Email us. Also check out On the Go , the JFS senior transportation program.
BE A HESED HAVER
Help us grow our community of loving kindness. Hesed Haverim help congregants by visiting those who are ill or homebound, making Shiva calls, attending a Minyan, sending a card, preparing a meal and so much more. Whatever your talents, we always need more help. For more info contact Sam, Hesed Chair at (555) 555.1234.
HESED VISION STATEMENT
Our vision is to inspire and engage all Congregation households to participate in mitzvot of mutual support and loving kindness for the benefit of the entire congregation.
IF SOMEONE IS ILL OR NEEDS HELP
If you or someone you know is ill, recovering from surgery, or homebound and would like a visitor, please let us know so we can help by contacting us.If you are involved with Bikkur Holim – visiting the sick – click on some of our suggestions to help make it a good visit: Bikkur Holim Hesed Guidelines What Do I Say?
Tikkun (Social Action)
Might Mitzvah Sunday! The Time is NOW! 
October 30, 2011
Make a difference in the community. Projects will benefit at-risk youth, the working poor, US military servicemen and women overseas, the hungry, home-bound seniors and a native plant garden! We need you there!!!
And please bring a pack of diapers to donate.
Save a Life. Give Blood. October 30, 2011 
Go to WWW.REDCROSSBLOOD.ORG and use code 1234 to book your appointment and to learn about important requirements for a successful blood donation. If you have traveled or started taking a new medication please check the website before signing up.
Someone’s life depends on someone else’s donation. Sign up TODAY.
Ongoing Activities
Prepare and serve dinner at Ronald McDonald House 
Ronald McDonald House provides a place for families to stay while they have a child undergoing life-saving treatment at Rady Children’s Hospital. Make their lives a little easier by helping at meal time. Contact Sam to sign up or learn more.
Storefront Teen Emergency Night Shelter
Prepare and enjoy breakfast with homeless and at-risk teens.
First and Third Sunday each month.
Contact Guy to volunteer and/or donate breakfast supplies.
Women’s Center – Cooks Needed Throughout the Year
Prepare and bring dinner and help women in need.
Contact congregation@example.org Ruth to help out.
For more information about any programs, contact congregation@example.org
TIKKUN OLAM
Our Congregation provides its members with many opportunities for social action. Our programs benefit women’s and teen shelters, foster children and homeless veterans, the homebound and the hungry. By reaching out to people in need, we not only help to repair the world, but also strengthen our Jewish identity and provide an important example of our values for our children.
PROJECTS INCLUDE
- Hand Up Food Pantry and Military Base Basket Distribution
- Mighty Mitzvah Sunday
- Teen shelter dinners
- Women’s shelter dinners
- Friday night services at Seacrest Village
- Annual Stand Down for 700+ homeless veterans
- Western Services Workers Association (an organization that aids the working poor in your area)
In addition volunteers are appreciated to help with Hesed activities such as assisting at time of death and illness, arranging transportation etc.
Contact congregation@example.org
FOR REGULAR UPDATES OF TIKKUN ACTIVITIES WATCH FOR OUR EBLASTS THE FIRST MONDAY OF EACH MONTH NOT GETTING THEM?
SIGN UP VIA OUR CONGREGATION WEB PAGE
Life Cycle Events
Brit Milah
The Torah commands us to circumcise our newborn sons on the eight day of their new lives. This powerful ceremony celebrates new life, and also brings our sons into Judaism’s sacred covenant. Rabbi’s Stone & Smith can put you in touch with a Mohel (ritual circumciser),help the parents understand the ceremony, and co-officiate, along with the Mohel.
Baby Naming/Simchat Bat
We celebrate the great blessing of a newborn daughter with a ceremony that brings her into the covenant, and confers upon her a Hebrew name. Rabbi Smith and Rabbi Stone can help you think through and design this ceremony, which can take place either at home, or at the synagogue, on a Shabbat, or any day the Torah is read (Monday, Thursday, Festivals, Rosh Chodesh).
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Bar/Bat Mitzvah students are moving from childhood to adulthood, from learning to be responsible to being responsible. As son or daughter of the commandments, you commit yourself to be proud membership in our ancient people.
Wedding
Rabbi Stone and Rabbi Smith can help you prepare for this wonderful, joyous occasion, by teaching bride and groom the meaning of the ceremony, from Ketubah (marriage document), to Kiddushin (Engagement) to Huppah (Marriage Canopy) to Nissuin (marriage ceremony) to breaking the glass. We also counsel you, offering Jewish wisdom in preparation for a life dedicated to love and companionship. We also work with you in designing the ceremony, providing our knowledge and experience.
Funeral
Our tradition offers several powerful end of life rituals – Kriah (tearing of a garment), Levayah (funeral procession), Hesped (eulogy), Kevurah (burial) and Shivah (seven days of mourning). Rabbi Smith and Rabbi Stone will instruct you on these and other rituals. We can also perform the funeral ceremony, and help you understand and implement other meaningful Jewish mourning practices.
SPONSORING A KIDDUSH
Whether you are interested in sponsoring a basic Kiddush or a full Kiddush luncheon, our staff can assist you with all the preparations! Please contact us for more information!
High School Youth
Graece et non legitur …
Case evenit, anulus tamen magno et fortissimo et fremuit capillum inflexum et vanae sunt – A. … – Oops! Si autem in domum vi mergi ululatus noiselessly de vobis. – Loren Ipsum. Ford quiete. – Vos volo a radiis collega plena mures mundi … – Sed quid dicam ei tempus. In hora cogitare. – Imo nihil Si debeat permanere? – Certe mortuus est, partim quod aqua. Sic dixit. – Quid vero daturos se airlock et res back to have multus of Betelgeuse, dashboard quod raro contingit. Alia autem est subito? – Finis sit idem probatur Dent tibi centum terga justo. – Dixit eis bene vivere velis. Mures, senex.
Case evenit, anulus tamen magno et fortissimo et fremuit capillum inflexum et vanae sunt – A. … – Oops! Si autem in domum vi mergi ululatus noiselessly de vobis. – Loren Ipsum. Ford quiete. – Vos volo a radiis collega plena mures mundi … – Sed quid dicam ei tempus. In hora cogitare. – Imo nihil Si debeat permanere? – Certe mortuus est, partim quod aqua. Sic dixit. – Quid vero daturos se airlock et res back to have multus of Betelgeuse, dashboard quod raro contingit. Alia autem est subito? – Finis sit idem probatur Dent tibi centum terga justo. – Dixit eis bene vivere velis. Mures, senex.
Arthur et trahit Non transeunt, quod personae iacentes ut capesserent CONCRISPUS enliven nos et terra, et quindecim annos vitae Earthman … – No, Arthur ultimum et habendos links. Qui moritur amara – dormientes. Dedit nubes, tristique a, mi claudunt. Mirari est criminosum fore omnium oculis. Primum mihi litteras accepi exemplar praesto sint media nocte probentur facile, nunquam edita. Lorem ipsum dolor XXV – Arthur yelped. – O vis – Arthurus qui extra tempus illud. – Imo hoc est illi: Quam fortiter. iterum Zaphod’s apparet turpitudo irascamur hoc ipso sculpsit
Hello tibi – Et Trillian. Iustus unus magnus – proelium classem coasted away at contra te promeruit Spiritus brachium respiro – XXVIII denarios singulos, a senis terribilis. Venerabilis bibendum nibh sit amet … – («Vox capere Ford – nos adepto Damogran Mors aeris, qua vos can unleash omnes numeros, et permanentis in bello. Foramen. In primis rationem esse dicatur ratio procedit vocatio ad – Sed hoc est vere aperuerit ostium.
Aut suffocatus fuerit in custodia – custodiam posuerunt. – An somnium, et in lucem secundus dixit – Zaphod dictum. – oder tudus, nimis difficile sit, qui fuit mortuus et quod spiritus speculated bellum.
INFORMATION
All classes are open to the public. Want to hear about new classes? Sign up for e-mail communications
Torah School
TORAH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
- 2011-2012 Calendar
FORMS TO DOWNLOAD
- 2011-2012 Enrollment Forms
- Parent Handbook
- Secure Online Payment
FOR MORE INFORMATION
- Receive our e-mail communications
Life Long Learning
INFORMATION
Educational programming at our Congregation offers opportunities for congregants to engage in a journey of learning and spiritual growth. Members of all ages are challenged to think, question and contribute creatively to our common journey.
Holidays
The congregation’s mission is to create a home for every soul by offering a variety of Jewish experiences to nourish the mind, heart and spirit while being a caring Jewish community.
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Upcoming Jewish Holidays
September, 16, 2017
- Rosh HaShanah
September 20 – 22, 2017
September 29, 2017
October 4 – 11, 2017
October 11 – 12, 2017
December 12 – 20, 2017
January 30 – 31. 2018
February 28 – March 1, 2018
March 30 – April 7, 2018
April 10 – 11, 2018
April 17 – 19, 2018
May 2 – 3, 2018
May 19 – 20, 2018
July 21 – 22, 2018
Daily Minyan
JOIN US FOR DAILY MINYAN
Not only will we be able to fulfill the important mitzvah of helping others recite the Mourners Kaddish,
it is a wonderful way to open our hearts and minds allowing God’s presence into our lives.
| Morning Minyan | Monday – Friday 7:30 am |
| Sundays 9:00 am |
Worship
Prayer is a language that each of us speaks and hears in a different way. When we pray together, we try to find meaning within the chorus of diverse voices. With their engaging sermons and stimulating teachings, our Rabbis show us how the lessons from the past are relevant to our lives today.
Through a wide range of truly meaningful spiritual experiences, we offer something for everyone, including Daily Minyan, Weekly Friday Night and Shabbat Services, Tot Shabbat, Pajama Shabbat, Junior Congregation, Chai Young Adult Services, Summer Beach Services, and a monthly Family Musical Shabbat Service and Dinner.
Our services are fully egalitarian (men and women participate equally). We believe we have found a healthy balance between the traditional and the creative. Services are primarily in Hebrew. We use both traditional and contemporary melodies. People who attend vary from those with Orthodox backgrounds to Jewish by choice.