Our World Wide Wrap program includes our Men's Club members helping/teaching our Dalet and Hay Class students with laying tefillin.  We also help adults who need assistance.  Our Rabbi and Religious Chair present a brief lesson on tephillian - the why we lay tefillin, the associated prayers, and showing everyone sample scrolls and pen tefillin boxes.  If we are in person, the students get to hold the open tefillin.  

Due to Covid protocols, we are not sure if we will be remote or in person, and if in person, if we can sponsor a bagel brunch following the presentation.

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WORLD WIDE WRAP 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022 • 12 ADAR I 5782

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Join us for a special service at 9:00 AM to celebrate the World Wide Wrap. We will explore the mitzvah of tefillin, including how we wear them, why we put them on, and how they are used during the service to help raise our spiritual awareness.  All are welcome to join. 

Cosponsored by Men’s Club and Sisterhood.

In honor of the World Wide Wrap the Sisterhood Judaica Shop is selling all tefillin sets purchased in February at a discounted price.

Small regularly $300 now $250
Medium regularly $350 now $300
Large regularly $400 now $350

The WWW is an annual joint Men's Club/Sisterhood program and is open to everyone in the community. Our Talmud Torah is linked in and the 6th graders, boys and girls, will be attending. Rabbi Berkowitz will be teaching a workshop o the "inner workings" of tefillin. Of course, the program may have to be modified due to Covid.

a teaching program with the religous school

Our Brotherhood has purchased Build-A_Pair kits for Hebrew School students of Bar and Bat Mitzvah age. Our religipus VP had planned to visit the Hebrew School to do a show-and-tell session on laying Tefillin. However, due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, there have been more positive cases in our area. So, basically the synagogue has shut down live services for at least the month of January. We are planning to do our WWW service on Zoom this year. I am trying to work out something with the with our Religious VP to schedule a Zoom session with our Hebrew School Principal, Dale Rosenberg. I think that his show-and-tell session should be done before the WWW service.

Our program this year will again be a collaborative effort with the three major conservative synagogues in town coming together for WWW – this year hosted by Beth Torah.  As of now, our plans include the standard minyan with additional readings and short ‘tefillin’ stories from members of each club throughout the service.   After the minyan, we will have our famous lox and bagels breakfast, which, for the WWW will also include “WRAPS” (hey – it’s Texas, and we love our breakfast tacos – known to the rest of the world as an egg and cheese wrap with salsa!)

Our club will also be participating in the build a pair program and will be engaging the youth in our learning center in the week or two before WWW.

Our speaker plans hit a snag in the past week and we are working with who was confirmed to get a suitable replacement from his organization… so that remains “TBD” – but we have some back up plans and will have an amazing breakfast and program with our club, and the clubs from Shearith Israel and Anshai Torah here in Dallas!

Our program for the 2022 World Wide Wrap will have two parts. 

Part 1 will be a session the prior week, on February 6, with our 6th and 7th grade Hebrew School Classes, talking about Teffillin and having them use the Build-a-Pair kits to create their own. We are unsure at this time whether we will be able to do this in person or remotely (via Zoom). If we will be doing it remotely, we will put together individual Build-a-Pair kits with necessary materials and instructions for the students to use at home.

Part 2, on February 13, will be part of our daily morning Minyan. Our daily Minyan has been remote (Zoom) only for the past two years, so will this program be as well. While our Minyan members normally put their Teffilin before the service begins, we will ask them to hold off and do it all together at the beginning of the service. We will invite all members of our congregation, along with the pre- and post- B’nai Mitzvah students from our Hebrew school, to join. Rabbi Glick will give a short D’var on Teffillin.

We have plans to include the 6th and 7th grade Rligeous School class (and parents) at the February 13 Sunday minyan (Shacharit service). Men's club members will assist everyone putting on tefillin. Rabbi will teach about them.

Plans are subject to complying with current federal, state and synagogue COVID guidelines.

We do a program with our temple's Hebrew school 6th grade class (we will also include 7th grade this year because we had to skip last year) to teach them about tefillin - both what they are, how they are made, and how to wear them. We do a "Build-a-Pair" program in class to show the students what the tefillin are and what they contain, and then run a program where members of the Men's Club demonstrate and help the students to "lay" the tefillin and lead a service.

Event will be all virtual

8:15-8:45-pick up bagged breakfast

9:00 -9:30 Tefillin donning led by Rabbi

9:30 -10:15 morning minyin

10:15-11:15 Breakfast and live interactive discussion on "Chok" laws of Judaism

Morning minyan with tefillin wrapping assistance followed by a breakfast

Minyan service with clergy available to assist with tefillin. . Participants invited to join afterwards for breakfast at a local restaurant.  Possible inclusion of religious school students in planning stages.

We had a zoom minyan with our club members, fellow congregants, and with our older (pre-Bar/Bat Mitzvah) religious school students and their parents invited to participate. Our Cantor first provided a lesson in wrapping Tefillin and then we invited our Rabbinic Intern to offer a short presentation in regards to Tefillin. Following our morning minyan was held with all those participating. Following our World Wide Wrap Minyan we held our annual Silver Circle Award (in-person for the family and presenters and on zoom for our members and congregants) honoring our very deserving member Paul Shandelman with a pick-up brunch (lox and bagel platter) being offered for those wishing from the Synagogue following our World Wrap and befoe the award presentation began.

As communicated by Beth El Temple via e-mail to congregants:

We had a great virtual World Wide Wrap event on Sunday, February 7th.  After a short presentation on little known facts about Tefillin, about 25 people joined together to put on the Tefillin and daven the rest of Shacharit.

Before davening, half an hour of open discussion via zoom about Tefillin/anything else attendees wish to discuss. An unstructured informal pre-Shacharit shmooze like we used to do in the building.

After davening, joint with MERCAZ-Canada, Rabbi Vernon Kurtz spoke about current topics in Israel: COVID-19 and the lifting of lockdown restrictions this morning, the upcoming election and why another is occurring, and Israel-diaspora relations.

We had 45 attendee screens at the peak, which dropped slowly to 36 during the discussion. Well received by members.

We did not charge for the program as we paid for neither breakfast sponsorship or an honourarium for the speaker.

Virtual lesson and wrap.

Our main WWW program educates our 6th graders (religious school and day school) about tefillin including how-to. Our 5th graders do the Build a Pair program. We start out altogether (on Zoom). After our program Chairman welcomes everybody, Rabbi Liben will lead a Kahoot contest followed by Club members and some woman volunteers talking about the meaning of tefillin to them. The 5th graders will then split off to do Build a Pair and the 6th graders will go into Zoom breakout rooms where 2 kids will be matched with 1-2 volunteers (Men's Club and woman volunteers) for hands on instruction. We'll get together again with the 6th graders at the end to wrap up. Should be great!  

Arranged to have Trainers (Right and Left Hand Trainers) available at Sunday Morning Service.  We will provide a demonstration of how to lay Tefillen before the service.  We will also break into small groups after the service to provide one on one training.  The Rabbi will also make a presentation about the importance of Laying Tefillen.  We have advertised this to be avalable for MEN AND WOMEN.

This will all be done on Zoom.