Newsletter

Bikur cholim: If you know someone who is ill, or if you yourself are ill and would like a visit from Rabbi Derrenbacher, please contact the office at 573.499.4855 or the rabbi directly at 315.576.3271.
Note that hospitals no longer notify us when a community member is admitted.

Friday Night

Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi Matt Derrenbacher @ 7 pm
Siddur: Mishkan Tefilah

Zoom: click here; password: Shalom



Saturday Morning


Rabbi Derrenbacher leads a learner’s Shabbat morning services @ 10 am
Siddur: Mishkan Tefilah
Zoom: click here; password: Shalom

Shabbat Miketz
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams

Torah – Bereshit/Genesis 41:1-44:17
Triennial Year 2: Bereshit 41:53-43:15
Sefaria link: click here

Haftarah – I Kings 3:15-4:1
Sefaria link: click here

Havdalah Saturday evenings @ 7 pm
Morning Minyan Mondays & Thursdays @ 7 am

Unpacking Jewish Prayer
Thu @ 7 pm Dec 14
Zoom: click here; password: Shalom

Loaves & Fishes
Sun Dec 31

Christmas Oneg @ FBC
Sun Dec 24

Rabbi Derrenbacher will be at CBS at 7 pm tonight for the last night of Chanukkah. He invites everyone to join him to light the chanukkiyah and daven the evening service.
Zoom: click here; password: Shalom
 
Rabbi notes that the word chanukah means dedication, and chanukat habayit is the dedication of the home. With the lights of the season, and with Jewish pride, he will come to your home to hang, check or repair your mezuzahs. If you need a new one or a klaf (kosher scroll) he will provide them. Contact him at rabbi.derrenbacher@gmail.com or 315.576.3271 to make the arrangements.

Sign up HERE to bring sweet treats and help out!
With questions, contact Sheri @ 573.268.0760

In months with a fifth Sunday, CBS provides a full dinner to fellow Columbians in need through the Loaves & Fishes program. We are serving Sunday, December 31st, and we need donations of food items as well as volunteers to set up, serve, and clean up.
 
Bring food to Wilkes Blvd. Methodist Church, 702 Wilkes Blvd. (back entrance), before 4:15 pm that day. Volunteers setting up/serving/cleaning up should arrive by 4:30 pm. We expect to serve about 150 people, and the need for volunteers to serve is especially critical.



To help, sign up HERE

 

With questions, please contact Noah at heringmann@missouri.edu or Brent at brentdeelg@gmail.com

The Tikkun Olam committee is pleased to report that we have now matched the first $1,000 donated to our Facebook fundraiser for Magen David Adom. Our grand total is now approaching $2,500.  Thanks to all who donated and to Kelly Durante for organizing the fundraiser.

Kelly will continue the fundraiser through the end of December. Click here to donate.
 

The next meeting of the CBS Book Club will be February 18th at 3 pm. We will be discussing The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan.
 
Contact Jean Ispa at ispaj@missouri.edu If you’d like to join the book club’s mailing list. All are welcome!

Abe Silverman
7 Tevet/December 19
Dee Dee Strnad’s father

Charlotte Stern
7 Tevet/December 19
Sedalia yahrzeit

Ruth Stein
8 Tevet/December 20
Renee Feitelberg’s mother

Florence Wise
11 Tevet/December 23
Barbara Fairman’s mother

Do we have your family’s information listed correctly? If not, or if you need to add someone, please send a note to Mary at  maxmax@mchsi.com.
CBS maintains the yahrzeits of Temple Beth El in Sedalia.

In honor of Max and Elina Cossette’s birthdays
Ross Hallen
 

Donations are a good way to remember or honor people and special life events. Your gift can be directed to the CBS general fund, the rabbi’s discretionary fund (RDF), the endowment fund, Tikkun Olam, the library, the Sasha Yelon book fund, the school scholarship fund or the sacred music fund.
 
Credit card or PayPal donations can be made via the CBS web page: https://cbsmo.org/ Or send a check to CBS, 500 W Green Meadows Rd, Columbia 65203, with a note with details about honorees and where you’d like the notification sent. We’ll send a handwritten card as you direct.