You may remember a time when a call would go out to round up a posse here in Wyoming.  That was to go after the bad guys.  Today, a call is going out to round up a Minyan here in Cheyenne, to do a Mitzvah (a good deed).  We need adult men and women to come to the Synagogue on Thursday at 7 PM to do a very good deed.

Glenn Ackerman wants to say a Kaddish for his late father.  His father’s Yahrzeit begins Thursday evening.  Glenn needs a Minyan (10 adults) to help him with the prayer.  Orthodox synagogues only count men towards a minyan, but at Mt. Sinai, we count both men and women for a Minyan.

Glenn and his wife Adina are moving to Cheyenne, and this would be a great way to welcome them.  The service should be short… maybe 15 minutes, and it would mean a lot to the Ackermans if you could make it.

He’ll finish the observance with a quick prayer at 6:45 PM on Friday, just before Friday night services, and we’ll need a minyan then, too.  Our Ritual and Liturgy committee decided not to count people on Zoom toward a minyan, so you will have to be there in person.  So… either Thursday night at 7 or Friday night at 6:45, or both.  You’ll be doing a wonderful mitzvah.  We want to get a count of how many people will be coming, so please email the Synagogue office at [email protected] if you can make it.

If you come on Thursday night, we’ll be cleaning the Synagogue kitchen after the service.  This isn’t a regular cleaning – it’s the pre-Passover search for Chametz type of cleaning.  It will be different, and fun.  So stick around and give us a hand.

There’s been a glitch in our Passover plans.  We’ve mailed out the invitations to the Mt. Sinai Seder twice, and it looks like very few people have received them.  We serve three different entrees during the Seder, so we need to know how many to make of each type.  The entrees are chicken, fish, and vegetarian.  Here’s a link to the RSVP.  If you have received it in the mail, please get it back to us as soon as you can.  You could also print it out and mail it to the Synagogue so we know you’re coming and can give you the entrée you prefer. We’ve extended the deadline to March 20. The Seder is on Wednesday, April 1, so please get your RSVP’s to us as soon as you can.

We want to give a shoutout to Matani Ravenna.  Matani has been coming to Torah Tuesday and translating the Torah for us.  It makes the discussion a lot more meaningful and fun.  Torah Tuesday takes place at noon on Tuesdays.  It’s free and you can bring your lunch.  Come to talk about the Torah with Jeff Weinstein and get the direct translation from Matani.

A couple of scheduling notes.  Our next Shalom Dinner will be Wednesday, March 25 at 6:30 PM at the Office Restaurant on Dell Range. It’s our last one before Passover.

Then that Friday night, March 27, Rabbi Mitch Delcau will be coming to Cheyenne for a Scholar in Residence Weekend.  He will be leading services Friday night and Saturday morning and then teaching a class Saturday evening followed by a Havdalah service.  Rabbi Delcau is a candidate for our Religious Leader position, so come and meet him.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Got shit oys di federn fun der iberbet.
God is emptying out the feathers from his featherbed.

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