Now Is the Time to Support Temple HBT
Your High Holy Day gift keeps our community vibrant all year.
Bima Appeal 5786: A Message from Co-President Mark Wilen
In this heartfelt reflection, Co-President Mark Wilen speaks from the bimah about the
strength of our community, the meaning of membership, and the shared responsibility that sustains
Temple Hillel B’nai Torah year after year.
Watch, listen, and consider how your contribution supports the spiritual, educational,
and justice-driven life of our congregation.
“This appeal is not only about raising funds. It’s also about affirming our shared values.”
— Co-President Mark Wilen
Your support keeps all these moments — and many more — in motion.
Every gathering, song, and celebration you see here is made possible by our shared generosity.
Now that the High Holy Days have come to a close, we invite you to take a quiet moment to reflect on what Temple Hillel B’nai Torah means to you — and to give from the heart.
✨ Continuing the Spirit of the High Holy Days — 5786 / 2025
The prayers, melodies, and moments of the High Holy Days are still with us. Now that the Holy Days have passed, we have a little breathing room to pause, reflect, and carry their meaning into the year ahead.
Thank you for being part of Temple Hillel B’nai Torah.
Your participation, presence, and generosity sustain
inspiring services, vibrant learning, music,
and the welcome that makes HBT a true spiritual home.
Every milestone in our history and every event in our present reflects the treasure, talent, and time of our members. As we move forward from these sacred days, your gift today continues that tradition— helping nurture a community where we show up for one another and for the larger Jewish world.
Your Pledge dollars at use:
$54 - helps to sponsor a Friday Night dinner participant.
$72 – supports ongoing operations to keep our temple building open every day.
$118 -supports the cost of a mailing to all temple members to stay connected.
$180 - helps to provide kiddush on Shabbat.
$360 - provides a stipend to a Chaverim School Madrich(ah) - a teen member who
helps teach our young children.
$540 - provides educational materials and supplies for Chaverim School students
and teachers.
$720 - ensures the upkeep of social justice banners hung inside and outside the temple.
$1,000 - supports technology for a Shabbat or Holy Day Zoom service to bring us all
together.
$1,800 - beautifies the temple grounds through landscaping during the changing seasons.
$2,500 - creates new programming - via Zoom and in person - for adults, teens and
children.
$3,600 - supports our dedicated, welcoming staff who work to strengthen our HBT
community.
$5,000 - ensures that our sanctuary and all parts of our Temple have infrastructure
and capacity - in person and via technology - to keep the HBT community engaged
and supported all year.