Friday, March 5, 21 Adar 6:00 - 7:30 PM Please join us tonight for a special virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service featuring Nefesh Mountain. Following the service, we will join Barry and Judith Caplan for Kiddush and HaMotzi.
Saturday, March 6, 22 Adar 9:30 AM Shabbat Parah Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zachary Mayer, with Torah reading by Rose Spitzer and a special D'var by Evan Medoff for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Shabbat Service. Following the service, we will join Bill Seidman and Harriet Robbins-Seidman for Kiddush and HaMotzi in honor of their 18th wedding anniversary.
If you have a simcha, please share it with us and receive a special blessing from Rabbi Plumb during an upcoming Shabbat service. Sponsor a Kiddush by virtually inviting us to your home as you lead the community in KIddush and HaMotzi prayers. (we will provide challah and grape juice!) Please contect Rosalie Reszelbach, Janet Stein Calm or Toni Spitzer to arrange.
Shabbat Parah The parasha is Ki Tissa, Exodus/Shmot 31:18
Please click here for the link to the new Conservative prayerbook, Siddur Lev Shalem: Shabbat Shaharit Siddur Lev Shalem The prayers will be the same as in our usual blue siddur, so feel free to use that instead if you wish.
Please click here for the link to the page numbers for Shabbat morning prayers in Sim Shalom (Blue) and in Lev Shalem Page Numbers for Shabbat Morning
Save the Date for our Next Shir HaNeshama: Mussar Sacred Song Circle,
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Saturday Laura Katz Yovel Resick Barbara Fisher Sylvia Jaye
Sunday Clarice Oppenheim Charles Aronson Albert Modricamin Samuel Leve Beverly Kohen
Monday Harry Alberts
Tuesday Miklos A. Stein Anna C. Miller Daniel Katz Arlene Zack Agnes Goldberg Harry Schorr Ernst Scheyer
Wednesday Inez Diamond Kelso Herbert J. Selib Irving Listic George Kahn Minna E. Grossman Dora Allschwang
Thursday Fred Gliksman
Friday Ralph Katz Judith Sarver Barbara Maletz Mania Lejfer
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
I am delighted to welcome the near unanimous decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to acknowledge conversions by Conservative and Reform Rabbis within Israel. This ruling, 15 years in the making, moves the modern state of Israel closer toward the ideal that the state will truly be a homeland for all Jews.
Religious freedom for all people, including Jews, is paramount for Israel to be a true light to the nations. We, as Conservative Jews, welcome all those who wish to be part of our people and share our history and future. Once someone converts, they have full Jewish status, and therefore, should have citizenship in Israel too, whether they convert outside Israel or inside.
Our parasha this week, Ki Tisa, confirms that every Jew is a citizen. It begins with a census. Every Jew counts, whether born Jewish or one by choice. The parasha then merges Torah with our pandemic. It tells us that in order to protect themselves from a plague, every person shall give a financial contribution to support the Israelite community. The text goes on to say that the people shall also wash their hands, again to keep death at bay. Financial contributions and hand washing to protect each other both fall under the category of hesed shel b’gufo, acts of lovingkindness using your body. Financial contributions keep the Jewish community (and Mishkan Tefila) alive; handwashing and masks keep individuals safe.
Each person makes a difference; each person makes the community stronger and healthier. Each member of our people has the potential to strengthen our people and our State.
May God bless each of us, and bring peace, wholeness and justice to our beloved Israel.
