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Something really big happens in this week's Torah reading. Two years after leaving Egyptian bondage; after a lengthy encampment at Mount Sinai; after painstakingly assembling the portable sanctuary, "In the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month...the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai." (Numbers 10: 11-12)
Put differently, the Israelites that Moses led out of Egypt with the goal of reaching the Promised Land are finally on the move - after two years of lingering at Sinai.
Many scholars note that for our ancient ancestors, leaving Sinai could well have created anxiety that they were "leaving God," whom they "met" at this mountain, where this new God presumably "lived." Prying them away from the comfort of the familiar for the journey into the unfamiliar could not have been an easy task for Moses, Aaron and Miriam. The portable sanctuary may well have served the function of assuring the people of continuity in the midst of the change, making it possible for them to take the necessary steps forward that would lead them towards the future they had only imagined.
This Friday night at 6:30 pm, please join us as Cantor Harrison and our Chavurah Ensemble offer a music-filled Kabbalat Shabbat service. We will also celebrate the 55th anniversary of Beverly and Edmond Weiss. On Shabbat morning, I will be leading Torah study, starting at 10:00 am (please note summer start time).
As I conclude my time as a member of the M'kor Shalom clergy this weekend, I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the congregation for these past three years. It has been rewarding to share learning, make new friends, study with our remarkable b'nai mitzvah, Confirmation and 12th grade students, and to be present at so many individual and communal moments of meaning. May M'kor Shalom continue to go from strength to strength and from generation to generation.
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Richard Hirsh
If you have the name of someone you would like to have included in our Healing Prayer (Mi Shebeirach) that is recited at our Shabbat services, please let us know by noon each Friday so we can give the name to the rabbis.
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WE CELEBRATE
The Birth of
Ella Hesse-Fisher
granddaughter of Bill & Carol Fisher
The Anniversary of
Edmond & Beverly Weiss
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THE WEEK AHEAD
Friday, June 21
6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service: Shabbat Chavurah (Sanctuary)
Our Chavurah Ensemble joins us.
Summer Kabbalat Shabbat begins; Fridays 6:30 pm, through August 30
Saturday, June 22
10:00 am Torah Study, led by Rabbi Hirsh (Chapel)
Sunday, June 23
10:30 am Scholar-in-Residence Committee Meeting (Off-site)
Monday, June 24
7:30 pm Social Action Committee Meeting (Boardroom)
Wednesday, June 26
7:30 pm Committee Chairs Meeting (Boardroom)
6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service (Sanctuary)
We celebrate June birthdays.
Join us for pre-service refreshments starting at 6:00 pm.
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
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Saturday, July 13, 8:00 pm (Off-site: Margate, NJ)
Wednesday, July 17, 11:30 am
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Michelle Bross
Executive Director
Congregation M'kor Shalom
850 Evesham Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
(856) 424-4220
(856) 424-2890 (fax)
ExecutiveDirector@mkorshalom.org
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