W&S SHABBAT BULLETIN

Calendar - Please see Upcoming Events Below

We will read the Song of Songs this Shabbat. If you would like to read a particular chapter, please let me me know ASAP. Please feel free to prepare in Hebrew or in English as you feel comfortable.

We have recently inaugurated a new discussion listserv for members. If you are not on it but would like to be, please let me know and we can arrange for you to join the minyan formally.

All Services until the end of April will be available on Zoom.

Please note that I am traveling with T'ruah to Israel for the first two weeks of May. If anyone is willing to volunteer to handle Zoom duties for May 4 and May 11, I would be very grateful.

Shabbat Chol-Hamoed Pesach - 19 Nisan (April 27)

• Friday Night Candle Lighting: 7:21
• Services at Harvard Hillel
• Potluck Kiddush (Store-bought Kosher for Passover)

Pesach VII - 21 Nisan (Monday, April 29)

• Sunday Night Candle Lighting: 7:23
• Services at Harvard Hillel
• 9:30 am
• Yizkor
• Potluck Kiddush (Store-bought Kosher for Passover)

Pesach VIII - 22 Nisan (Tuesday, April 30)

• Monday Night Candle Lighting: 8:28
• Services at 1550 Beacon Street, Brookline
• 10:00 am
• Yizkor
• Potluck Kiddush (Store-bought Kosher for Passover)

Tzedakah Opportunities

• Purim is over, but you can still donate to Yad Chessed for Maot Chittim (“wheat money”) to ensure that everyone will be able to eat on Pesach.
• The next Shabbat Dinner in Brookline on June 7 (100 Centre Street). You are welcome to join for the fun as a volunteer (and have a delicious meal). Please let me know if you're planning to come.
• Our next "Soup Kitchen Thursday" at First Church Cambridge will be May 23 from 4:00-6:00 pm. Please let me know if you're planning to come. Please note that we are meeting a week early this month on account of Passover.

Check out our new web site: worshipandstudy.org and send your friends there!

For Shabbat, click the following links to download the Lev Shalem liturgy and the W&S Amidah Guide.

If you'd like to sign up to bring a spread for Kiddush, please be in touch with Petra Joseph.

We also need people to deliver a D'var Torah, to lead services or to leyn Torah. Please review this spreadsheet for availability and be in touch with me: rabbijim@worshipandstudy.org (for leading services or serving as gabbai); or Susan Brand: susan.brand@comcast.net (Torah chanting); or Harvey Mendelsohn harveymendelsohnbooks@yahoo.com (D'var Torah).

This Week’s Services

Readings from Torah

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Exodus 33:12-34:26

You shall observe the holiday of matzot: seven days you will eat matzot as I have commanded you, for the festival of the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you went forth from Egypt.  (Exodus 34:18)

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Numbers 28:19-25

The seventh day shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall not do any labor. (Numbers 28:25)

Reading from Prophets

Ezekiel 37:1-14

The hand of the LORD came upon me.  He took me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the valley.  It was full of bones… He said to me: O mortal, can these bones live again?  I replied:  O LORD God, only you know.  (Ezekiel 37:1, 3)

Upcoming Events

Check out worshipandstudy.org/events/ for more information.

Check out the Harvard Hillel Calendar. 

Sunday, May 19 - One Minyan One Book

• Discussing Times Echo: the Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler
• 7:30 on Zoom

Thursday, May 23 - Soup Making at First Church

• Come make soup (and enjoy a bowl when we're done) with a group of minyan friends.
• 4:00-6:00 pm at First Church (11 Garden St.) Cambridge
• Please let me know if you're planning to come.
• Feel free to bring something to eat with soup: vegetarian appetizers, bread, dessert, and non-alcoholic libations...

Please note that you must be vaccinated and boosted to attend Worship and Study services; masking is optional. 

Zoom Services

Please feel free to reach out to me if you need help with the technology.

Click: https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/my/rabbijim

If you have the Zoom app, you can simply click “Join” and type in “rabbijim”

Call: 267 831 0333 or 301 715 8592 

After the greeting, enter Meeting ID: 583 155 5454 #

If you need a toll-free number, please let me know.

Shabbat Shalom and Moadim L'Simcha, with prayers for all who are suffering or being held captive.

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