THE WEEK AT A GLANCE Sunday, 12/2 ~ 24 Kislev 8:00 am Morning Service, Helfant Chapel ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, 10:00 am J-JEP Latkepalooza, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Hanukkah - light one candle 2:00 pm Intro to Judaism, Zweig Library LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH tonight. 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, 61C Café, 1839 Murray Avenue Monday, 12/3 ~ 25 Kislev 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Helfant Chapel Hanukkah - two candles tonight. 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Shabbat Shalom! Tuesday, 12/4 ~ 26 Kislev 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 23 Kislev, 5779 Hanukkah - three candles tonight. 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel This week’s parashah is Vayeshev. Wednesday, 12/5 ~ 27 Kislev 11:00 am Coffee with the Cantor, Lehman Center Hanukkah - four candles tonight. 5:00 pm All-Age Hanukkah Party, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Thursday, 12/6 ~ 28 Kislev 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms Hanukkah - five candles tonight. 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Friday, November 30, 2018 Friday, 12/7 ~ 29 Kislev 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Youth Services 1:00 pm ELC Hanukkah Program, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Candle lighting 4:35 pm Hanukkah - six candles tonight. 5:45 pm Shababababa and Shabbat Haverim, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Saturday Candle lighting 4:35 pm 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm 10:00-10:30 am - Gym is closed be- 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 9:30 am Shabbat Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary fore Youth Tefillah. Please go to the Saturday, 12/8 ~ 30 Kislev 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Youth Lounge, then to respective services 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, honoring the memory of Arnold H. Lazarus (z”l) and Youth Lounge. Rosh Hodesh Hanukkah Belle G. Lazarus (z”l) , Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Havdalah 5:35 pm 4:05 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Saturday, December 1, 2018 Infant - Kindergarten Hanukkah - seven candles tonight. 4:30 pm Discussion / Se’udah Shelishit, Eisner Commons with Manny Theiner 5:15 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Havdalah 5:35 p.m. 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 6:30 pm Men’s Club Sweepstakes & Awards Dinner, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3rd floor 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service st th Homestead Hebrew Chapel 1 - 4 Grade FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 1 - 7, 2018 23 - 29 KISLEV, 5779 Youth Tefillah Yahrzeits 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there Shabbat Morning Service, including nd are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. Gabriel Engel becoming a bar mitzvah 9:15 am Eisner Commons, 2 floor Bernard Abels Fannie Frankel Jacob Lehman Manuel M. Rogoff Nat Simon Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary th th Sonya F. Barnett Zvi Goldschmidt Simon Leven Betty Rose Pearl Simon 5 - 6 Grade Belle Bennett Beulah H. Goldstein Nellie Levenson Morris I. Rosen Samuel Simon Youth Tefillah Nathan Z. Bennett Isabelle Gorman Meyer Levy Thomas Rosenstein Marilyn Sindler Congregational Kiddush Luncheon, sponsored Sarah Berkman Edith Grobstein Celia Liberman Max Rothman Abraham Sissman by Ina & Greg Engel in honor of Gabe 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Beatrice E. Berkwit Annette Harris Abe Liebman Charles Ruttenberg Esther B. Skirboll Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2nd floor Julius Berliner Bunie Harris Louis Lipsitz Mary Sachs Sara Smolover becoming a bar mitzvah 12:15 pm Marci Lynn Bernstein Harry Harris Percy A. Love Barbara Samet Fannie Solow Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Ben J. Bitterfield Max Harold Heiss Sarah Marks Betty Sayenko Victor Spector Ella Braemer Annie Henderson Rose Melnick Andrea G. Schachter Fannie Stein Ben Browarsky Max Hershkovitz Eva Mervis Estelle Schechter Martha Stein Shabbat Shi’ur - Rabbi Jeremy Markiz on the Herman Browarsky Gene Hertz Lena Meyerson Sander Schmidt Betty Steinfeld Laws of Hanukkah in the Shulhan Arukh 12:45 pm Johanna Burton Philip Hoffman Lee Scott Miller Mitchell Schoen Alan Stept Helfant Chapel Please refrain from using Jeanette Caplan Ruth G. Horn Rose Miller Frima Schussel Bernard Surloff electronic devices in the Anna R. Cazen Sarah Itskovich Morris Miller Victor Sedaka Anna M. Tolochko synagogue during Shabbat Laurence R. Cederbaum Tillie Izenson Morris Samuel Moltz Maurice Seiavitch Anne Weintraub Minhah 4:05 pm and holidays. Jacob S. Chussitt Leo Jolson Dorothy Mustin Robert L. Seiavitch Esther Weiss Homestead Hebrew Chapel Minnie Cohen Morducai Kesselman Hanina Neaman Fay Serbin Simon Wolf Thank you. Rebecca Cohn Molly Kessler Edward Newman Judith Shafran Bessie Young Rebecca Coleman Aaron Klein David Paransky Joel Sherry William Young Discussion, Se’udah Shelishit 4:30 pm Ruth Davidson Morris Klein Ethel Perlman Alexander Shklyar Rebecca Elinoff Myron Kolko Helen S. Platt Esther Shrut Homestead Hebrew Chapel Ben Fineman Zelman Krinberg Rachel Portnoy William Silk Oscar Finn Moe Kurtz Jacob M. Robbins Malvin J. Simon Please look for this symbol inside Celia Fox Jack Leff Irma S. Rogoff May C. Simon Ma’ariv 5:15 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 Rabbi Adelson joins the Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask. Shabbat Services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. How Many Torah Scrolls Do We Use Next Week? All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush luncheon, in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom immediately following services, sponsored by Greg & Ina Engel in honor of their If you’ve always wanted the honor of gelilah, next week is a good opportunity! son Gabe becoming a bar mitzvah. Next Shabbat is Rosh Hodesh Tevet, coinciding as it often does with Shabbat Hanukkah, one of the few days of the year when we use three Torah scrolls - three sifrei Torah. Thank you to Rhoda & Richard Judd for sponsoring Se’udah Shelishit in memory of their The parashah next week will be Mikkets, pronounced to sound like “deflates,” or “wie gehts” if you speak beloved parents Sarah & Jacob Marks and William Judd Grobstein and Sidney Judd. German, and not to rhyme with “rickets.” First we will remove three scrolls from the ark. Then, from the first scroll we will read six aliyot from Mikkets, comprising Bereshit (Genesis) verses 43:16 through 44:17. Next we will place the second scroll on the reading table next to the first scroll, and close up the first. OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY From the second scroll we will read from Parashat Pinehas, as we usually do for Rosh Hodesh and other special days, because that parashah describes how to attend to the various special days. We will read one aliyah from the second scroll, Bemidbar (Numbers) verses 28:9-15, and then lay the third scroll next to the Mazal Tov to second, for the Hatzi Kaddish and Mi Sheberakh (prayer for anyone in need of healing). Then we close up the second Sefer Torah and open the third. Meira Russ & Nahum Shalman on the birth of a baby boy on November 22, 2018 From the third Sefer Torah we read - as we do each morning of Hanukkah - from Naso, only this day we (Thanksgiving Day), at 8:36 a.m. read less of the parashah. We read Bemidbar (Numbers) verses 7:42-47, only half as much as on the other days. This is the maftir aliyah, the aliyah given to the person about to chant the haftarah. (You will recall Harvey Robins, honored by the Allegheny County Bar Association for his 60 years in from previous columns that the honor of “aliyah” is a calling up to witness the reading of a section of the Torah portion of the day. There are other honors conferred during services, but no other honor is called an practice. “aliyah.”) So next week there will be a bit more pomp and circumstance with the three Sifrei Torah, but there will still Condolences to be seven aliyot plus the maftir aliyah. No excuse to tell Mom you can’t go to shul because the Torah reading is too long - it simply comes from three different scrolls! Dan & Ilana Schwarcz and son David, on the passing of Dan’s father Yosef Meir Next week’s column: What exactly is gelilah? Schwarcz on November 29th. We look forward to your questions. We now have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ . Nancy (Gary) Tuckfelt, on the passing of her mother Renee Minsky on November 30th. Volunteer to Lead Services! Clergy OUR LEADERSHIPOfficers Take an active role in Beth Shalom services! Contact Sheldon Catz at [email protected]. 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