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THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:00 pm All-Age Youth & Family Ice Skating, Schenley Park Skating Rink ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, Sunday, 1/6 ~ 29 Tevet 2:00 pm Intro to Judaism, Zweig Library LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Monday, 1/7 ~ 1 Shevat 9:15 am Talmud Study, 61C Café, 1839 Murray Avenue Rosh Hodesh Shevat 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:00 pm Lunch & Learn Downtown, 535 Smithfield Street Shabbat Shalom! Tuesday, 1/8 ~ 2 Shevat 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 28 Tevet, 5779 7:30 pm Board of Trustees Meeting, Lehman Center This week’s parashah is Va’era. 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Wednesday, 1/9 ~ 3 Shevat 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Thursday, 1/10 ~ 4 Shevat 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Friday, 1/11 ~ 5 Shevat 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Candle lighting 4:55 pm 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Friday, January 4, 2019 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Youth Services 9:30 am Shabbat Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Candle lighting 4:48 pm 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Gym, then to respective services Saturday 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Discussion Service, Weinberg Pavilion Shababababa 5:45 pm Saturday, 1/12 ~ 6 Shevat 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, back of Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 10:00-10:30 am - Gym is open. Havdalah 5:56 pm 12:45 pm Shabbat Shi’ur - Michael Schwartz on Climate Change , Helfant Chapel Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 4:25 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:50 pm Discussion / Se’udah Shelishit, Eisner Commons Shabbat Haverim 5:45 pm Infant - Kindergarten 5:35 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Homestead Hebrew Chapel with Manny Theiner 6:00 pm Havdalah and a Movie, Shear Youth Lounge 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm rd Helfant Chapel Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3 floor Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 5—11, 2019 28 TEVET - 5 SHEVAT, 5779 1st - 4th Grade The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. Youth Tefillah Saturday, January 5, 2019 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Genia Adelsman Adolph Freed Samuel H. Kalson Louis Mermelstein Rose Schwartz nd Julius Allon Anne R. Freed A. Daniel Kaufman Bessie Rider Middleman Bernice Semins Havdalah 5:49 p.m. Eisner Commons, 2 floor Minnie Altshuler Paul Freedman Joseph Klein Wilbert Newman Gertrude S. Silberman th th Susan Armour Sam Gerson Carl Kletz Rose Noon Martin Simon Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am 5 - 6 Grade Harry N. Bailiss B. T. Glick Louis G. Kramer Muriel Orenstein Israel Skirboll Homestead Hebrew Chapel Youth Tefillah Rachel Baker Philip Goldblum Rae Kubitz Violet Semins Paris Katie Smolar 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Celia F. Barach Sara Goldenberg Isaac Landis Harold J. Pasekoff Albert Smolover Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2nd floor Aron Bardenstein Phyllis B. Green Anna Broidy Lazarus David Perelman Rachmiel Stein Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Marvin Barent Joseph H. Greenberg Yvonne B. Leipzig Madylene Platt Benjamin I Stein Louis Bazarow Isadore Greenberg Chaim Lempert Meyer Popkins Morton Stein Congregational K iddush 12:15 pm Jack Berman Max Greenfield Ida R. Levenson Dorothy Rabin Elder H. Stein Sigmund Block Meyer Hersh Gross Charles Levine Ryna Radbord Albert J. Supowitz Back of the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Paul Carpe Joseph Grossman Pearl Levine Louis Ress Ida Surloff Shabbat Shi’ur - Tammy Hepps on Homestead 12:45 pm Ann Z. Childs Juluis Grumet Samuel Levine Oscar Robbins Cylvia Belle Tanowitz Homestead Hebrew Chapel Please refrain from using Anna Clasky Herman Halpern Mildred L. Levy Mollie Robinson Louis Tenenouser electronic devices in the Irving E. Cohen Harry Harris Sylvia Lieberman Goldie B. Rofey Jennie Walk Minhah 4:20 pm synagogue during Shabbat Joel Cohen Victoria Henderson Katie Lincoff Louis Rosenbloom Mathilda S. Weiss Homestead Hebrew Chapel and holidays. Morris Cohen Joseph Herzbrun Jacob Linder Mendel Rosenfeld Clara Werner Thank you. R. Oscar Cohen Sonia Hoffman Taube Lipshitz Sandra Rosenfeld Israel J. Williams Discussion, Se’udah Shelishit, sponsored by Yale Sara T. Davidson Bernard Huttner Motke Lipshitz Louis Rosensweig Norman Wolovitz & Barbara Rosenstein in memory of Bar- Rose Deemer Benjamin Jacobson Eugene M. Litman Lilly Ross Meyer Wortzman bara’s father Adolph “Oddie” Freed 4:45 pm Abraham J. Epstein Rose Jacobson David Markham Litman Max Roth Abe E. Fineman Sara R. Jacobson Henry Markowitz Julian Salzman Eisner Commons Please look for this symbol inside Catherine Fisher Perry L. Jubelirer Sarah E. Marlin Harry J. Saul 5:30 pm William Fisher Bessie Closky Judd E. Harry Mazerov Belva Schiff Ma’ariv 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. What Is Tahanun? or “supplication” is also sometimes called “nefilat appayim,” which means “falling on the face.” It is (תַּחֲנוּן) All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush, in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Tahanun immediately following services. a part of the morning (Shaharit) service and also the afternoon (Minhah) service, falling just after the Amidah. Differing practices have arisen around this prayer which has its roots in the Bible and is set forth in the Talmud (see below). In Se’udah Shelishit (Third Meal) this week is sponsored by Yale & Barbara Rosenstein in memory fact, it has been with us longer even than the Kaddish. Tahanun is a confession of sins and petition for grace, and was of Barbara’s father Adolph “Oddie” Freed. originally recited prostrate on the ground. It is a bit of Yom Kippur on a daily basis. The short Tahanun begins with verses from II Samuel (24:14), “let us fall, I pray, into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are many, but let me not fall into the hand of men.” It continues with Psalm of David (6:2-11) in which David describes his pain. If a Sefer Torah is present, one follows the Shulhan Arukh (Orakh Hayim 131:1-2) and leans one’s OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY head on the back of one’s left hand or arm (or right arm if there are tefillin on the left). The poem Shomer Yisrael (which also may be found at Selihot) is recited seated but at attention. (Some congregations sing it.) Composed with increasing line length and complexity, embedding the Shema, the poem asks God to remember our use to him, while Mazal Tov to also reminding us to comport ourselves accordingly. In some traditions, then, all rise for the ending, which is followed by Kaddish. (At Beth Shalom, we do not rise.) There is a long Tahanun as well, done on Mondays and Thursdays, Reva Pomerantz & Luke Heller on the birth on 12/28/2018 and entering into brit milah of beginning with personal reflection and including more Psalms and possibly Daniel 9:15. Charlie Noah (Hayyim Noah), brother of Eliana and Edith. The origin of Tahanun is Daniel 9:3 and I Kings 8:54, which both indicate that prayer should be followed by supplica- tion. It is outlined in the Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 16b. One drops one’s face on one’s hand in reference to the line “let us fall into the hand of God.” The practice also recalls the daily sacrifice at the Temple which would have been laid Condolences to on its left side to be slaughtered. The need for the presence of a Sefer Torah is based on tradition deriving from Joshua falling on his face before the Ark of the Covenant. It is believed to have been solidified into the modern form in the 16th Marian Huttner (wife), Hanna Edelstein (sister) and all family and friends on the century, as prior prayer books varied in its expression. passing of Arnold Huttner (z”l). We omit Tahanun (and any part of it) on festive days and mournful days: Shabbat, all holidays and festivals including Hol haMoed, Rosh Hodesh, the day before Yom Kippur, from Simhat Torah through the end of Tishrei, from the begin- Toby (Dana) Ascherman on the passing of her father Nathan Kosowski. ning of Sivan through Shavuot, the month of Nisan, Tu BiShevat, Purim Katan, Shushan Purim Katan, Shushan Purim, Lag BaOmer, Tisha BeAv, Tu BeAv (only at Shaharit), the day before Rosh Hashanah, and when observing any festive or solemn rites of passage. Some also omit Tahanun on Adar 23-29 (remembering the days before the inauguration of the Mishkan), Pesah Sheni (we shall do a column about that observance), and Sivan 7-12 (remembering the day after Observances Shavuot plus a week during which an offering would have been brought to the Temple). We need a chart on the wall just to know whether we can say it! If you are observing something special - a birthday, anniversary, yahrzeit, e.g., please let We look forward to your questions.