CBE Response to COVID-19
03/13/2020 10:14:11 AM
Dear CBE Family,
We are living in challenging times as our world faces the unprecedented threat of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Everyday life is being disrupted as our communities’ work to slow the spread of the disease and care for those suffering from it. In...Read more...
Service Opportunities Outside CBE
03/01/2020 10:19:01 AM
On Yom Kippur, Rabbi Jamie challenged us to reach out in various forms of service and engage with the community at-large, both locally and globally. Here are suggestions for the next two months.
Volunteer in Evergreen to help our aging population: The Senior...Read more...Middot of the Month: Savlanut & Anavah
02/26/2020 10:22:37 AM
Judaism nurtures our purpose in life to make this world a better place (tikkun olam). The individual and lifelong work of cultivating character traits (tikkun middot) is central to the work of tikkun olam.
Middah of the month Adar (February 26 – March 25): Savlanut...Read more...Forces of Nature
02/16/2020 10:24:18 AM
Enormous winds blew off part of the Sukkah in October and hurled a giant tree branch onto the roof of the synagogue several weeks ago. Biblical authors have long used natural forces as metaphors for divine power to both create and destroy. Rabbi Toba Spritzer adds human power to the comparison of Tzedek, (justice), with the flow of water and its ability to impact real change “…something we humans can either block by our unjust actions, or...Read more...
Middah of the Month of Shevat: HaCarat HaTov (Gratitude)
01/26/2020 10:25:43 AM
Judaism nurtures our purpose in life to make this world a better place. Central to the work of repairing the world (tikkun olam) is the individual cultivation & repair of soul traits (tikkun middot). The practice of Mussar is the work of refining, tuning and fine...Read more...
Hospitality, Honesty, and Hacarat Hatov in 2020
01/19/2020 10:27:58 AM
When I reflect on the mitzvah of hospitality (hochnasat orchim), what arises are memories of my time travelling in Himalayan hills of Nepal. On trails off the beaten path, far from the nearest roads, every home I walked passed doubled as a ‘tea house,’ a guest house...Read more...
Service Opportunities Outside CBE
01/12/2020 10:30:00 AM
On Yom Kippur, Rabbi Jamie challenged us to reach out in various forms of service and engage with the community at-large, both locally and globally. In the last Shofar, we gave a number of suggestions. Here are some new ones for the next two months.
Volunteer...Read more...CBE 2024: Long-Range Strategic Plan to Celebrate our 50th Year
01/05/2020 10:31:53 AM
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a nice break over the winter holidays with family and friends. Last month, we initiated a long-range strategic planning process which looks forward to CBE’s 50th year Jubilee anniversary in 2024. I wanted to provide an overview...Read more...
The Primal Cry of the Shofar
09/29/2019 10:16:34 AM
I love music. Most of us do. When I’m listening to the soaring harmonies of a well-rehearsed choir, or the perfect interaction of six saxes, four trombones and five trumpets in the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra, or am bopping along to a well-loved 60’s song, something stirs...Read more...