A Heartfelt Message to our BRS Family

hi everyone its rabbi Goldberg this is not advert or it's not a shear it's a quick personal message from my heart to yours first of all I want to tell you how much I miss you how much we all miss you we miss being together we long for when every seat in the sanctuary will be full once again it's been so hard not to see your faces not to hug you shake your hand not to look into your eye and not to hear about how well you and your family are doing but know we care about you we have an incredibly large Shore very blessed but it makes it hard to be in touch with everyone the rabbi's are doing the best that we can and we appreciate your patience we appreciate your confidence and your trust I promise you we're working from morning to night putting together our classes and our programs and our activities answering your questions putting together policies and procedures trying to communicate as best that we can and we appreciate your understanding I wanted to just share with you first of all thank you to our incredible task force who worked very hard very special thank you to rob I'm a squid sorry dr. David Shabtai who've been helping guide our policies and procedures as we've been trying to navigate what our unchartered waters and territory this is unprecedented we're doing the best that we can to both keep us safe but reasonably re-enter and begin to relive our lives and I know it's not happening at the pace and it's not happening in the way that everybody wants or agrees but we're doing the best that we can we have what we think are our greatest experts and medicine and science our post-game who shoulder we lean on regularly and they are informing everything we take every decision with great deliberation analysis so seriously because we understand it's impacting your life seriously and therefore we don't take it lightly I want to thank everyone for complying for working together it's so largely responsible for why our community thus far has thank God been so safe and spared because we've all been so compliant and so careful and now is not a time to let up even though we are beginning to reopen and beginning to be able to spend time and beginning to relive our lives but there are so many factors that work for every decision that we make and so we've reconvened Avenue at the shul and not everyone can come and that breaks our hearts we know it's painful for you and we wish we could accommodate you but there's not only the concern of the contagion of a virus which could compromise the vulnerable population by age or by illness but rather there's the heat the humidity as someone who's been dominating for just a couple days outside with the mask I can promise you I'm drenched by the end of Davin I just this past weekend and all the remember someone passed out because they spent a little time outside they had to be revived and they were brought to the hospital if you're not confident you can handle the heat the humidity and with a mask the challenge of being able to breathe our rabbi's tell us God wants you to davon inside God wants you to davon alone in a way you only be healthy then in a way that God forbid you could fall and crack your head and so we're doing the best we can we know not everybody agrees we're not trying to deprive you or deny you of your autonomy your decision-making your freewill no one is trying to impose upon you but we are a community we always have been and we always will be and our health our wellness our destiny we are all interlocked with one another and if one group acts our responsibly it can compromise another and so again I appreciate please understand that we're simply doing the best that we can these manana mark at the show couldn't happen without the great leadership of david berger moshe kamenetsky to whom are so indebted it's been such a smooth and seamless transition over cheveux us because we can't handle the numbers will be creating neighborhood manana me you received an email it has a link please go visit your neighborhood sign up if you're eligible to participate almost every block and every development there are captains and sub captains we're trying to put together something that we never have never thought we would ever have to before and again only because our incredible volunteers who've been working selflessly and tirelessly please God will we pull this off we don't believe we should be reading the Torah outdoors our post-game have told us it's not proper honor and respect to the Torah and moreover that heat that humidity can compromise the kosher status of the Torah we will not be using shul tourists and none of the BRS rabbis will be participating in a minyan well we'd be hearing the Torah and we ask you to to honor as well we know some people own a private Torah and no one can stop you if you're going to read it but please do so safely the same person should do hug bugga lila read all five alleys and get all get all five Leah's and not share a Torah with anyone else if you're choosing to go that direction though again if anyone asks the shools policy is not to lane at this time we're trying to minimize the time we're together in those men Yanam and therefore we're starting at knishmas and making our way through reading the part reading the Torah reading in the haftorah and the Megillah at home if there's enough at the end of a minyan to say yes go please by all means say yes go and if not there's nothing wrong with saying yes occur at home there's no sanghyeon our own though there will be a year's curry mail that includes a year score sermon and as well as some of the dialing the of years care to be able to get some of the flavor of your score together even if we can't be together I know this particular population who are hurting who want to be able to be welcome back to come together to convene and please know our heart aches it hurts that you're not with us at this time you are the ones we turn to and learn from you are the best Davin errs and you are the ones who've lived life lessons and your faith is contagious to all of us we wish and we long for when we will be able to be together but it's not just about the virus and dangers it's not just about your willingness to go out to a supermarket to a doctor or elsewhere it's about being outdoors under something organized by us the community the shul the risk of dehydration the heat the humidity a mask and simply not a risk that our experts feel that we should be taking at this time and we thank you for your sacrifice for your compromise if your willingness to try to keep everyone collectively safe safe and we long for hopefully please God soon when we'll all be together filling the seats of the sanctuary arm and arm hand-in-hand voice in voice singing davon dancing loving one another as we do as a community thank you thank you my dear BRS family for your compliance until this time it has gone so far in keeping us safe and as much as we are beginning to incrementally come back and we won't be excessively stringent but we're listening to our task force and our experts and we're trying to simply keep everyone safe thank you for your continued compliance and I hope and I pray and I bless all of us that in the spirit of our commitment towards one another and a willingness to even compromise in areas or ways that we wish we didn't have to that indeed we'll all be safe and sound and secure that please God we'll come together as a family as in a community speedily should have a good yontiff or hexameric we should be zoca we should merit to be Makabe the torah to receive the Torah but simcha with joy with love and with unity as a community and to celebrate sometime very soon together thank you and have a good yontif