Welcome, Rabbi Mitch Delcau!  Rabbi Delcau is coming to Cheyenne this weekend for a Scholar-in-Residence weekend.  He will be leading services Friday night and Saturday morning.  He’ll teach a class Saturday evening and then lead a Havdalah service.  The Rabbi’s class on Saturday is entitled “Some Shema Lessons from the Rambam – Are you listening?”.  The class will begin at 7 PM and will be followed by Havdalah.  Rabbi Delcau is a candidate for our religious leader position.  He and his family live in Loveland, Colorado.  His wife is apparently a big fan of Cheyenne Frontier Days, and they have been to Cheyenne many times.  Come meet Rabbi Delacu this weekend!

We did something very nice last week.  Glenn Ackerman wanted to say Kaddish for his father and needed a minyan of 10 Jewish adults to do it.  We didn’t have 10 adults there to help him… we had 16!

Glenn’s wife Adina sent us a note about it:

“Glenn and I really want to thank you, and everyone else who made it possible for Glenn to say Kaddish for his dad’s yahrzeit. We feel so welcome here, even though we’re newcomers. And it’s great to see how everyone pulls together to make things happen–this community is strong!”

Our next Shalom Dinner is this Wednesday, March 25^th.  We’ll be meeting at the Office Restaurant on Dell Range Blvd at 6:30 PM.  Join us for dinner.  If you’re new to Mt. Sinai, we get together about once a month and go out to dinner at a local restaurant.  Everyone pays their own way and the only item on the agenda is to enjoy each other’s company.

Passover is next week – the Synagogue Seder is Wednesday, April 1.  We started a new tradition a few years ago of celebrating the end of the 8 days of Passover with a party.  We give up chametz (bread) during Passover, so when the holiday ends, we’ll have a party to welcome bread products back to our diet.  It’s usually pizza, along with beer and soft drinks.  This year, we’ll hold the Chametz Party on Sunday, April 12 at 5 PM at the Synagogue.  You’re invited, and if you want to bring a pizza from your favorite pizza place, we’ll definitely say yes.  The only thing we ask is that it not have any meat on it, since the cheese on a pizza is dairy.

Did you know that Mt. Sinai has its own Youtube channel?  We do, and there are 149 videos on there.  There are videos of services from various religious leaders, celebrations of holidays such as the Hanukah and Purim parties, Matani Ravenna’s Introduction to Hebrew class, Rabbi Halfon’s Intro to Judaism class, and a lot more.  Click here to see links to all of the videos:  https://www.youtube.com/@techmtsinai3607/videos

We have now received bids from three different local roofing companies for replacing the Synagogue roof.  The roof needs to be replaced because of its age and the fact that it is starting to leak.  It’s not because of any particular storm damage… the roof was designed to be protected from hail and wind and the design has worked well.  We think the roof was replaced about 40 years ago, so it has reached… and passed, its normal lifespan.  The bids range from about $200,000 to more than $300,000.  Our building committee will be going into the bids in detail with representatives from the various roofing companies and then making a recommendation to the Board of Directors on how to proceed.  We’ll keep you informed on the process.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Zint got handlt mit frost iz nokh aza frost nit geven.
Since God got into the freezing business, it’s never been so cold.