Saturday, June 23, 2018 Havdalah 9:36 p.m. Shabbat Shalom! 10 Tammuz, 5778 This week’s parashah is Hukkat. Sunday, 6/24 ~ 11 Tammuz 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 2:00 pm Intro to Judaism III, Zweig Library 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Monday, 6/25 ~ 12 Tammuz 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:00 am Talmud Study, 61C Café, 1839 Murray Avenue 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Tuesday, 6/26 ~ 13 Tammuz 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 6:00 pm USY on Wheels, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Executive Committee Meeting, Lehman Center Wednesday, 6/27 ~ 14 Tammuz 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Thursday, 6/28 ~ 15 Tammuz 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm SP—Steering Committee, Lehman Center Friday, 6/29 ~ 16 Tammuz Candle lighting 8:36 pm 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Saturday, 6/30 ~ 17 Tammuz Aufruf for Daniel Marlin & Anna Edelstein Havdalah 9:36 pm 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:30 am Shabbat Service, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Youth Lounge, then Lehman Center and Eisner Commons 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 8:35 pm Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv, including aufruf for Daniel Marlin & Anna Edelstein, Homestead Hebrew Chapel ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH Please look for this symbol inside for info on accessible entrances at Beth Shalom. THE WEEK AT A GLANCE FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 23 - 29, 2018 10 - 16 TAMMUZ, 5778 Yahrzeits Pearl Adelson Harry E. Alexander Meyer K. Amdur Martha Azen Fyrne Lois Bergstein Daniel Berkman David Block Margaret Blumenfeld David Bregman Mary Breman Abe J. Breman Max Bress Major Donald Broida Jacob Burechson Frances B. Caplan Mildred Caplan Bessie Charapp Alan M. Cohen Jacob Elinoff Sidney Feinstein Mary Fetter Louis Fineberg Bella Yetta Firestone Shirley Fisher Rose Flamm Anne Foreman Katherine Frank Fred Freedel Sam Freedman Solomon Gellman Roth Gitel Regina Goldberg Isadore Goldblum Kassel Goldstein Major Donald Goldstein Irene V. Gorman Anne Pechersky Green Louis Greenberg Rosalie Greenberg Rose Gusky Norman M. Halpern Maurice Heimowitz David I. Helfer Louis Hilk Harry E. Kerwitz Elinor C. Kirkell Abraham Klein Jacob Lerner Edith Letwin Melvin H. Levenson Meir Levin Reuben Levine Ida R. Levy Gertrude Levy Mallinger Rose Marcovsky Morris Merenstein Simon Miller Sadie Neustein Jack Palkovitz Sara Louise Reis Morris Robinowitz Rose Rosen Henry (Pat) Rubenstein Rose Rubenstein Anna Rose Sarkoff Edith Schwartz Joseph Shapiro Daniel Shefler Gittel Siff Freda Sigman Diana Silverman Mildred Snider Irwin M. Solow Morris Spiegelman Meyer Spiro Irving Stein Max Stein Jennie L. Stewart Rabbi Kalman B. Taxon Rebecca F. Tracht Harry Valinsky Nathaniel Walken Anna G. Watkins Esther Weinstein Faith Weinstein Audrey Weiss Esther Weiss Faye Rubenstein Weiss Samuel Zytnick 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Please refrain from using electronic devices in the synagogue during Shabbat. 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. Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel Youth Services Friday and Saturday 10:00-10:30 am - Gym is open before Youth Tefillah. Infant - Kindergarten with Manny Theiner 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3 rd floor 1 st - 4 th Grade - Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Eisner Commons, 2 rd floor 5 th - 6 th Grade—Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2 nd floor Friday, June 22, 2018 Candle lighting 8:35 pm Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 am Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv 8:35 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel Congregational Kiddush, 12:15 pm Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Palkovitz Lobby
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Saturday, June 23, 2018
Havdalah 9:36 p.m.
Shabbat Shalom! 10 Tammuz, 5778
This week’s parashah is Hukkat.
Sunday, 6/24 ~ 11 Tammuz 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 2:00 pm Intro to Judaism III, Zweig Library 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel
Monday, 6/25 ~ 12 Tammuz
7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:00 am Talmud Study, 61C Café, 1839 Murray Avenue 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom
Tuesday, 6/26 ~ 13 Tammuz 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 6:00 pm USY on Wheels, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Executive Committee Meeting, Lehman Center
Saturday, 6/30 ~ 17 Tammuz Aufruf for Daniel Marlin & Anna Edelstein Havdalah 9:36 pm
6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:30 am Shabbat Service, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Youth Lounge, then Lehman Center and Eisner Commons 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 8:35 pm Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv, including aufruf
for Daniel Marlin & Anna Edelstein, Homestead Hebrew Chapel
ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Please look for this symbol inside for info on accessible entrances at Beth Shalom.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE
FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 23 - 29, 2018 10 - 16 TAMMUZ, 5778 Yahrzeits
Pearl Adelson Harry E. Alexander Meyer K. Amdur Martha Azen Fyrne Lois Bergstein Daniel Berkman David Block Margaret Blumenfeld David Bregman Mary Breman Abe J. Breman Max Bress Major Donald Broida Jacob Burechson Frances B. Caplan Mildred Caplan Bessie Charapp Alan M. Cohen Jacob Elinoff Sidney Feinstein Mary Fetter Louis Fineberg Bella Yetta Firestone Shirley Fisher
Rose Flamm Anne Foreman Katherine Frank Fred Freedel Sam Freedman Solomon Gellman Roth Gitel Regina Goldberg Isadore Goldblum Kassel Goldstein Major Donald Goldstein Irene V. Gorman Anne Pechersky Green Louis Greenberg Rosalie Greenberg Rose Gusky Norman M. Halpern Maurice Heimowitz David I. Helfer Louis Hilk Harry E. Kerwitz Elinor C. Kirkell Abraham Klein Jacob Lerner
Edith Letwin Melvin H. Levenson Meir Levin Reuben Levine Ida R. Levy Gertrude Levy Mallinger Rose Marcovsky Morris Merenstein Simon Miller Sadie Neustein Jack Palkovitz Sara Louise Reis Morris Robinowitz Rose Rosen Henry (Pat) Rubenstein Rose Rubenstein Anna Rose Sarkoff Edith Schwartz Joseph Shapiro Daniel Shefler Gittel Siff Freda Sigman Diana Silverman Mildred Snider
Irwin M. Solow Morris Spiegelman Meyer Spiro Irving Stein Max Stein Jennie L. Stewart Rabbi Kalman B. Taxon Rebecca F. Tracht Harry Valinsky Nathaniel Walken Anna G. Watkins Esther Weinstein Faith Weinstein Audrey Weiss Esther Weiss Faye Rubenstein Weiss Samuel Zytnick
5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG
Please refrain from using electronic devices in the synagogue during Shabbat.
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.
Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel
Youth Services
Friday and Saturday
10:00-10:30 am - Gym is open before Youth Tefillah.
The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask.
What was the Mahzor Vitri?
Last week, in discussing Mi Shebeirakh, we mentioned that it first appeared in the 13th century, in the Mahzor V itri.
So what is that book?
Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry (sometimes spelled Vitri), who died before 1105 CE, compiled this book - a liturgical and legal compendium, the British Library calls it - to include the annual cycle of Jewish prayers. It was essentially the first Siddur.
The British Library has one of the eleven known preserved manuscript copies (the original is lost). Simhah used the northern French rite (nusah Tsarfat), and also two major Jewish sources from Gaonic Babylonia of the 9th century CE: Seder Amram Ga’on and Halakhot Gedolot. Also, Simhah’s teacher was Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes (Rashi, 1040-1105 CE), a pretty influential teacher. Troyes is in northern France.
(We note here that Rashi did compile a Sidur Rashi, but that was not a book of liturgy as we would think of a siddur today.)
The manuscripts known to be extant today date from various times, somewhere between the mid-12th century and the mid-14th century. Some do not follow the French rite, but instead follow the Ashkenazic German rite, which shows that the original must have spread in popularity.
The volume held in the British Library was written around 1242 CE; we know this because there is a calendar at the end of the manuscript! The oldest known manuscript is held in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America library; we presume its age as it had none of the additional commentary.
A new volume was produced in 1893 by Solomon Hurwitz (second edition in 1923), and a more recent version was produced by Arye Goldschmidt (2003-2009 editions), with much comparison among manuscripts.
That Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry was from and in northern France is instructional as to the lives and practices of northern French Jews, as they ultimately were expelled and otherwise oysgevaft by Philipp the Fair in 1306 CE.
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.
All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush, sponsored by grandparents Dr. Alan & Fern Steckel, on the baby naming of Jamie Miriam Steckel, daughter of Maya & Scott Steckel, in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom immediately following services.
OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY
SHABBAT SHALOM
Kiddush Sponsorship
Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one? To sponsor a catered Kiddush,
Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Ria David, Vice President Joe Jolson, Vice President Arlene Shapiro, Vice President Mitch Dernis, Treasurer Steve Albert, Secretary
Staff Rob Menes, Executive Director, Ext. 226, [email protected] Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Manager, Ext. 108 Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112, [email protected] Liron Lipinsky, JJEP Director, Ext. 323 Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Director of Derekh and Y outh Tefillah, Ext. 111 Jennifer Slattery, Early Learning Center Director, Ext. 290 Marissa Tait, Y outh Programs Director, Ext. 463 Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293
Auxiliary Presidents
Ira Frank, Men’s Club Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Amallia Rascoe, USY
Honorary President Ruth Ganz Fargotstein
Want to help us out with daily minyan but can’t commit to a particular morning or evening? Download the app “GroupMe” to your phone, and either go to tinyurl.com/cbspghminyan or read this QR code to join our group. Then, when the minyan is short of ten, you and everybody else on the list will receive a notice in GroupMe. If you are available to come and help out, write a message saying you’re on your way. It goes out to the whole group, and then everybody knows minyan is covered. Simple! Talk with Ira Frank or Rabbi Adelson if you have questions.
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Really, we need YOU!
Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush happen -
setup, cleanup, everything in between. We especially need volunteers for
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July 21st
Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected].
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a congregant in the hospital or just want to say “hello”, please stop by or reach out to
Rabbi Seth Adelson via email, phone, or on his blog!
A summary of this week’s parashah, from Hazzan Rob Menes, www.HazzanMenes.info
In this parashah, Hukkat, we find an overwhelming concern with death. At the beginning we find the mysterious laws of the Red Heifer, a very rare animal which is burnt in a special fire outside the camp. Its ashes are then used to ritually purify those who have become impure due to contact with a dead body.
The portion then jumps 38 years to the end of the Israelites' wandering in the desert. We read the brief description of the death of Miriam, the prophetess who was the older sister of Moses and Aaron, and then an incident about the people's need for water. These two events are in fact connected by the Rabbis, who notice that stories with Miriam are always associated with water. The people complain about thirst, and Moses is instructed by God to speak to a rock, which will then produce water.
Seemingly frustrated and saddened by his sister's death, Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to it. Water does flow, but Moses is chastized by God for his lack of trust, and he is told that he will not be allowed to lead the people into the Promised Land.
We then read of Aaron's death, and the people's mourning for him for thirty days. The portion ends describing a number of battles the Israelites must fight as they travel through the wilderness.
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Men’s Club 2018 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $75 each. Drawing every Friday, through November, based on PA Lottery number.
For each month, in advance, we produce a list of coming birthdays among our fellow congregants. The list is available in our office and also online. On the back of the list is
a place to order birthday greetings to be sent from the shul to the individuals you circle on the other side of the page. You can even stash some cash in your account and draw down on
it as you send greetings throughout the year!
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Please contribute to those beautiful flowers on special days in our praying spaces.
Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts!
Open Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (except holidays), or by appointment
Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677
June - 30% off Wedding Gifts and Jewelry
Have you or your guest lost something in the shul?
Are you missing something important?
Please call our Receptionist, Katie Baynum, for general articles, at 412-421-2288 x114, and please call the Rabbi’s assistant, Audrey Glickman, for religious items, at x112.
UPCOMING EVENTS For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website.
Check the calendar on our website for daily event information at http://www.bethshalompgh.org
Please Sponsor Learning...
Rabbi Adelson has purchased a limited number (18) of the new Pirkei Avot Lev Shalem: The Wisdom of our Sages, put out by the Rabbinical Assembly, and he is eagerly looking forward to studying with the congregation. Study with these books will continue some Saturday afternoons, after Minhah.
Every Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. at the 61C Café
You can find Rabbi Jeremy Markiz learning Masekhet Rosh Hashanah, a tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out the Jewish calendar.
Find it online at: https://www.sefaria.org/Rosh_Hashanah.2a?lang=bi
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