You hear the words “Yom Kippur Appeal” and you have already made up your mind whether you are going to participate.  Some of you may have already decided how much you will pledge.
This year, I am asking you to please stop and think before you donate. 
Consider, in detail, everything provided to you at Beth Aaron throughout the entire year.  Make a list and add it up if you like.  I offer the following to get you started:

• Maybe you only come for davening on Shabbat.  However, when you arrive the lights are on, the doors are opened, and the building is clean, climate-controlled and beautiful.  The minyan is already there.  The gabbaim have chosen the ba’alei tefilah and korei.  Sometimes, a kiddush waits for you after davening is over.  There is a policeman outside to help keep you and your children safe. 

That is just Shabbat davening.  If you come to one of our forty-five other minyanim during the week, add those to your total.

• Perhaps you have attended our excellent Scholar in Residence programs.   Dates are chosen, speakers and topics are selected, housing is arranged, and speaker fees are paid.  You only have to sit back, listen, and enjoy.   Of course, there are at least a half-dozen other regular shiurim during the week where arrangements have been thoughtfully made for you, and that does not include Daf Yomi.  Include these in your total as well.

• Tasted some decent cholent at the Cholent Challenge? Discussed a good book at the Sisterhood Book Club? Perhaps you were introduced to a great bottle of wine at the Men’s Club Wine Sale.  Maybe you loved the Sisterhood’s Mishloach Manot this year.  Our Men’s Club and Sisterhood run some great events during the year, so add those in, too.

If this is not enough to get you started, give me a call, we can talk.  At length.
All of these efforts are a function of our praiseworthy volunteers.  From the gabbaim who run our minyanim, to the team that puts together the monthly calendar that we post on our refrigerators, to the members of our new Welcoming Committee.  They all donate their time to accomplish these tasks because they believe we have a great shul and a remarkable community.  And they are right.
It is all too easy for us to take these numerous amenities for granted. Without the groundwork provided by the shul and her volunteers, we would not have a true Jewish community. For that reason, supporting the shul through the Yom Kippur Appeal is a shared responsibility for all of our members, regardless of the specific services or benefits you consume.
Today, I am asking you to help support our great community, as we simply cannot be great without your support.  Please consider all Congregation Beth Aaron does for you as a member throughout the year, and return the favor by uniting with the membership and participating in this year’s Yom Kippur Appeal.
Please accept my best wishes for a shanah tovah u’metukah,

David Goldberg
President
Congregation Beth Aaron

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