THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:30 pm BSUSY Purim Prep, Shear Youth Lounge ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, Sunday, 3/1 ~ 5 Adar 2:00 pm Introduction to Judaism, Stofman/Zweig Libraries LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, Lehman Center Shabbat Shalom! Monday, 3/2 ~ 6 Adar 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 4 Adar, 5780 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel This week’s parashah is Terumah. 12:00 pm Lunch and Learn, Zweig Library 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms Tuesday, 3/3 ~ 7 Adar 5:30 pm March of the Living Session #2, Eisner Commons 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Bylaws Committee Meeting, Stofman and Zweig Libraries 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Torah and Modern Life, Zoom Video Call 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:15 pm Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Lehman Center Friday, February 28, 2020 Youth Services Wednesday, 3/4 ~ 8 Adar 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Yousef Bashir - Beth Shalom Speaker Series, Eisner Commons Candle lighting 5:52 p.m. Saturday 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 10:00-10:30 am - Meet in 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom the Shear Youth Lounge Thursday, 3/5 ~ 9 Adar 7:30 pm Walking Toward Freedom - Interfaith Series, Calvary Episcopal Church, or Rice Gym. 315 Shady Avenue, Shadyside Shabbat Across America Congregational 7:30 pm Open Meeting of the Nominating Committee, Lehman Center Dinner (by prior reservation) 7:00 pm Toddler - Pre-K with Manny Theiner 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom rd Friday, 3/6 ~ 10 Adar 5:45 pm Shababababa and Shabbat Haverim, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3 floor Candle lighting 5:59 pm 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Mini-Minyan, Pre-K - 2nd Grade 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Saturday, February 22, 2020 Youth Tefillah 9:30 am Shabbat Morning Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 11:15 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services Havdalah 6:53 p.m. 10:30 am Discussion Service, Weinberg Pavilion Homestead Hebrew Chapel Saturday, 3/7 ~ 11 Adar 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom rd th Havdalah 7:00 pm 12:45 pm Daf Yomi - Berakhot Siyyum, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am 3 - 5 Grade Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 5:30 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Homestead Hebrew Chapel th 5:55 pm Se’udah Shelishit, in the Eisner Commons Youth Lounge, 4 floor 6:40 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Shabbat Morning Service, including Lydia Bestul being called to the Torah 9:30 am Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF FEB. 29 - MARCH 6, 2020 4 - 10 ADAR, 5780 The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there Congregational K iddush, sponsored in part by are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. 12:15 pm Louise Abraham Gnesse Carlis Joseph Freeman Ann Kline Ephraim Miller Mildred Rosenbloom Irene Sniderman Lydia Bestul Lewis Adler Julius Closky Sadie Gerson Mollie Koss Jay C. Miller Stanley Rosenbloom Isadore Steckel Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Phillip Alexander Alvin Cohen Jeanette Goddy Tsina Kotlyarova Cecelia Morris Pearl Rosenfeld Anna Stein Harry Altman Dora A. Cohen Esther Danovitz Saul Kravetz Jack Morris Enoch Roskies Esther Stoller Joseph Aronson Ruth Cohen Goldman Dora Krifcher Bella Stern Moscowitz Harvey James Roth Solomon Shlomo Suissa New Tunes Workshop 12:45 pm Maurice L. Avner Yetta Cohen Ruth Gould Harry Levy Max Moses Samuel A. Rothman Raye K. Supowitz Please refrain from using Joseph I. Baradon Edward J. Cramer Edward Green Aaron Lieber Sorel Myers Azriel Meyer Sachs Fannye G. Taper Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom electronic devices in the Dora Basova Harry Daniels Bertram Greenglass Ida Liebling Ernest J. Nachman Irwin I. Saron Charles Taylor George Belsky Florence Davis Celia Grinberg Nathan Linder Idel Naftulovich Floyd Schachter James L. Venzerul synagogue during Shabbat Sam Benkovitz Rebecca Dell Julius L. Gusky Gail Liss Aaron Naimark Melanie Beth Melvin Vishnovitz Minhah 5:20 pm and holidays. Abe P. Bennett Jennie Denmark Sylvia Hausman Sarah Esther Liss Lorraine Ostrover Scheinberg Jennie Whitman Homestead Hebrew Chapel Tillie Berenfield Saul Diamond Saul Helfand Maurice Louik Lev Ostrovsky Frank Schiffman Jacob Wolhendler Thank you. Louis Berger Lena D. Eisner Minnie Heller Yetta Lubin Samuel Parker Gertrude Schneider Abraham Henry Wulf Charles Berman Melvin H. Epstein Henry Herskovitz Fred Ludwig Helen R. Parnes Gussie Seidman Rafi Yosefi Se’udah Shelishit, sponsored by Helen & Rich Gilbert Berman Sidney B. Estner Bessie R. Hirschfield Nathan Mann Benjamin Perlman Maurice Sherman Harry Zalevsky Shirley Bernhardt Florence Farkas Milton Horn Samuel Mann Phillip Platt Isaac Shina Phyllis K. Zangwill Feder in memory of their beloved parents, Gina Hyman Berson Beatrice Fealk Ruth Rose Jolson Benjamin S. Marcovsky Marvin Plesset Michel Sidorow Joseph Zytnick & Juda Bickel and Mildred & Milton Feder 5:45 pm Gittel Bialo Lillian Fenster Allan Kanarek Thelma Marder Joseph Porter Herman Siegel Mindel Zytnick Libby Bonn Anna H. Fine Daniel Kantor Charles Marion Max Portnoy Harry Silverman Eisner Commons Isabell W. Braemer Abraham Finegold Ruth Kaufman Jacob Marks Leah Rabner Phyllis Silverman Leo Brasz Israel Fireman Dmitry Kiderman Pauline Martin S. Raymond Rackoff Sidney Silverman Please look for this symbol inside Harry Caplan Morris Fleishman Louis Kirsch Milton Meyers Lena Robin Elizabeth Simon Ma’ariv 6:30 pm for info on accessible entrances at Milton Caplan Katherine Frank Henry Klarsfeld Alex Miller Benjamin H. Rosen Sallie Slesinger 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. services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. The Curious Tale of the Mishpatim Haftarah. All are welcome to the congregational kiddush, sponsored in part by Lydia Bestul, A couple weeks ago, your humble correspondent was offered to learn and deliver the haftarah for Parashat Mishpatim. immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom. The request came just nine days in advance (a Thursday), which seemed precious little time (for me) to learn it. Looking it up, though, on the spot, it carries such wonderful cantillations that it was hard to resist. Thursday night I worked on it. This week’s Se’udah Shelishit will be sponsored by Helen & Rich Feder, in memory of Friday afternoon (still a scant week ahead) I realized that the following week would be Shabbat Shekalim, and thus a their beloved parents, Gina & Juda Bickel and Mildred & Milton Feder. different haftarah would be chanted. I was learning the wrong one! Looking to work on that initially attractive haftarah, I found it will next be chanted in 2022. So I offered my services for then, too. However, looking to place the chanting on my calendar, I found that that is the day when my twin cousins become benot mitzvah! They will have taken my haftarah opportunity! The next time it comes around will be in 2025. OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY So, to Shekalim rather than Mishpatim. Just a touch of fancy cantillation, but it is a story in which there is a fair king and in which the carpenters would end up with a fair wage, so the practicing would be delightful in another way. Mazal Tov to But what is this? In the Shekalim Haftarah, there is a cantillation variation in one word between what is published in the Book of Haftarot on the one hand and in the humashim and online in Sefaria, and even in Hazzan Rob Menes’ online Ellen & Bob Garvin on the engagement of their son Michael to Leslie Klein of Albany, singing on the other hand. It is a word in 2 Kings 12:12. How could this be? New York. Michael is the grandson of members Ralph & Audrey Silverman and the late Well, as usual we open up a wealth of information. The Masoretes, groups of Jewish scholars between the 6th and 10th Norman & Ruth Garvin. centuries CE (about whom we should devote a few columns), took it upon themselves to protect and transmit the Bible as written. They also devised and passed down vowels and cantillation marks. Working in various locations mostly in the Middle East, the Masoretes left us several “codices” (“codex” being the name given to such a mauscript). Condolences to The Aleppo Codex (930 CE), kept in the Israel Museum, had been the earliest full original codex surviving to modern The family and friends of Arlyn Gilboa, who left us on February 25. times, but it was partly destroyed in 1947 (295 pages of 491 survive). Next oldest is the Codex Leningradensis (1008 CE), which lives in the Russian National Library, and which Rabbi Adelson put into my hands in the form of the Biblia Seth & Carolyn Glick and family on the passing of Seth’s grandmother Ellen (Falk) Hebraica Stuttgartensia, rife with annotated information.