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THE WEEK at a GLANCE Yahrzeits THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Sunday, 3/17 ~ 10 Adar II 10:00 am Purim Carnival, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, 61C Café, 1839 Murray Avenue Monday, 3/18 ~ 11 Adar II 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Shear Youth Lounge 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Shabbat Shalom! 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 9 Adar II, 5779 Tuesday, 3/19 ~ 12 Adar II 6:00 pm Constitution Committee, Lehman Center 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel This week’s parashah is Vayikra. It is Shabbat Zakhor. 7:30 pm Board of Trustees Meeting, Zweig Library 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 11:00 am Coffee with the Cantor,Lehman Center Wednesday, 3/20 ~ 13 Adar II 5:45 pm Food for Kids (with RSVP), Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Friday, March 15, 2019 Youth Services 6:30 pm Surprise Musical Performance!, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Fast of Esther (dawn to dusk) 7:00 pm Ma’ariv/Evening Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Candle lighting 7:08 pm Erev Purim 7:15 pm Full Megillah Reading, including songs, shtik, costume parade, and more, Saturday Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm 8:30 pm Refreshments, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:00-10:30 am - Gym is closed. Helfant Chapel Please meet in the Shear Youth Thursday, 3/21 ~ 14 Adar II Morning Minyan goes to CDS Lounge. Purim 8:00 am Megillah Reading, Community Day School, 6424 Forward Avenue Congregational Shabbat Dinner Sponsored by 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms the Men’s Club and the Sisterhood 7:00 pm Morning Minyan is at CDS. 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Infant - Kindergarten Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom with Manny Theiner Friday, 3/22 ~ 15 Adar II 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Candle lighting 7:16 pm 6:00 pm Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat, Weinberg Pavilion 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3rd floor 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Shabbat Service, including Justin Horvitz becoming a bar mitzvah, Faye Saturday, March 16, 2019 1st - 4th Grade Saturday, 3/23 ~ 16 Adar II Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Justin Horvitz becomes a bar 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services Havdalah 8:09 p.m. Youth Tefillah mitzvah! 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush Luncheon, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Havdalah 8:17 pm 6:45 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Eisner Commons, 2nd floor 7:10 pm Discussion / Se’udah Shelishit, Eisner Commons Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:55 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 5th - 6th Grade Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 am Youth Tefillah Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2nd floor Congregational K iddush, sponsored by Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 16 - 22, 2019 9 - 15 ADAR II, 5779 Lester & Arlene Shapiro in honor of The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there his 66th anniversary of his bar mitzvah, are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. and by Sanofi Genzyme 12:15 pm Arlene S. Apter Benjamin Halpern Israel Parker Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Joseph Aronson Rose Harris Helen R Parnes Shabbat Shi’ur - Jacob Baker Milton Horn Annie Port 12:45 pm Joseph Braemer Morris Jacobson Jerome Reznick Helfant Chapel Please refrain from using Istvan Brown Rena Lautman Harry Rosen electronic devices in the Paul Brown Dorothy Lerner Harvey James Roth Minhah 6:40 pm synagogue during Shabbat and holidays. Sylvia Riesberg Cazen Andrew S. Levine Jean G. Semins Homestead Hebrew Chapel Thank you. Dora A. Cohen Edward David Levy Elizabeth Steinman Richard A. Cohen David Lichter Solomon Shlomo Suissa Discussion, Se’udah Shelishit, sponsored by the Rose Marie Farhy Milton Meyers Louis J Tracht Men’s Club 7:05 pm Eisner Commons George Gordon Ruth Zionts Morgan Mary Watkins Please look for this symbol inside Ma’ariv 7:50 pm for info on accessible entrances at 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Homestead Hebrew Chapel Beth Shalom. SHABBAT SHALOM The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask. Rabbi Adelson joins the Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our Shabbat Services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. I Forget, Who Was Amalek? All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom This is Shabbat Zakhor, named after the first word of the snippet of Parashat Ki Tetse we read this week as immediately following services, sponsored by Lester & Arlene Shapiro in honor of his 66th the maftir aliyah. It recalls Amalek’s ambush of the tired people of Israel just after we crossed the Y am Suf, the Sea of Reeds. Attacking was a nasty thing to do, and as we learned a few weeks ago Joshua fought back anniversary of his bar mitzvah, and by Sanofi Genzyme. under Moses’ inspiration, with the help of Aaron and Hur, and overcame Amalek but didn’t destroy him. Se’udah Shelishit (Third Meal) this week is sponsored by the Men’s Club. We were then given the interesting commandment to remember what Amalek had done but to wipe out his memory. So Moses built an altar and proclaimed that “The Lord will be at war against Amalek throughout the ages.” Through the years, the story goes, the descendants of Amalek come against us, and we have yet OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY to wipe them out. We haul out this reading each year as a way of fulfilling the commandment, on the Shabbat before Purim, because Haman (the bad guy in the Purim story) was said to be a descendant of Amalek. Purported descendants of Amalek have included the Romans, Hitler, the Stalinists, Torquemada, Condolences to Antiochus, Titus, Hadrian, and so many more. (We must be careful whom we deem an Amalekite, lest we Edward & Kathryn Friedman on the passing of Ed’s brother Jeff Friedman. attack inappropriately.) The Amalekites were people of the Negev and the adjoining desert. Esau and Adah (who was the daughter of Elon the Hittite) had a son named Eliphaz who, although he had a wife bearing him children, decided to have kid with Timna, a non-spousal concubine (Genesis 36:2 et seq.): they had Amalek. (At Genesis 36:12, if it’s not Shabbat, let’s cue the foreboding music.) The Religious Services Committee is looking for a few (more) good people to lead Pesukei According to 1 Samuel 30:1-2, the Amalekites invaded the Negev and Ziklag in the Judean/Philistine border Dezimra and Shaharit on Shabbat mornings. If you would like to join our team of leaders or area during the reign of King Saul. Future King David grabbed back the captives successfully. would like to learn how to lead, please contact Sheldon Catz at [email protected]. In 2 Samuel 1:5-10, we see that an Amalekite killed King Saul after the battle of Mount Gilboa, took his crown and bracelet and took them to David. David gave no positive reward for this; he had him executed. Volunteer to Help with Kiddush! Really, we need YOU! The territory of the Amalekites is mentioned in Genesis 14:7, even though Amalek had not yet been born. Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush happen - setup, cleanup, everything in between. Haman was an Agagite, said to be a descendant of Agag, the Amalekite king (1Samuel 15:8), whom King Saul had spared, thus not fulfilling Samuel’s suggestion that he wipe out the Amalekites. Samuel then killed Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected]. Agag, but not before Agag had a child. And 500 years or so later there was Haman. Se’udah Shelishit / Third Shabbat Meal We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ . Every Shabbat afternoon from now until Pesah, we dine together at se’udah shelishit (the third Shabbat meal). Free to attend; all are welcome. We meet in the Eisner Commons, starting one and a half hours before OUR LEADERSHIP havdalah time (check this Bulletin or the website for the schedule). We are seeking sponsors, please! Clergy Executive Committee Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 To sponsor the a third meal, please contact Ira Frank: 412-281-4064 or [email protected] Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Joe Jolson, Vice President Staff Arlene Shapiro, Vice President Kiddush Sponsorship Ḥazzan Rob Menes, Executive Director, Ext. 226 Mitch Dernis, Treasurer Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one? To sponsor a catered Kiddush, Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Steve Albert, Secretary contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected] Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Manager, Ext. 108 David Horvitz, Past President Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 Alan Kopolow Kate Kim, Assistant JJEP Director, Ext. 323 Judy Kornblith Kobell Do You Know Your Hebrew Name? Please Write It Down! Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Director of Derekh and Youth Tefillah, Ext.
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