W&S SHABBAT BULLETIN

Calendar

Pesach is coming and I have received a few requests for seder invitations. Please let me know if you are holding a first and/or second-night seder and would be willing to host someone from out of town.

Please note that I published a d’var Torah on the Hebrew College blog last week--to read it, please click please click here.

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 - 5 Nisan 5784 (April 13, 2024)

• Candle Lighting Time: 7:05
• Parashat Tazria
• Shabbat Parah
• Services at Harvard Hillel
• Leynathon! - Come to support our leyners!
• Potluck Kiddush

Shabbat - 12 Nisan 5784 (April 20, 2024) 

• Friday night candle lighting: 7:13
• Parashat Metzora
• Shabbat Shabbat HaGadol
• Services at 100 Centre Street

Pesach I - 15 Nisan (Tuesday, April 23)

• Monday Night Candle Lighting: 7:16
• Services at Harvard Hillel
• 9:30 am
• Potluck Kiddush (Store-bought Kosher for Passover)

Pesach II - 16 Nisan (Wednesday, April 24)

• Tuesday Night Candle Lighting: 8:18
• Services at 100 Centre Street, Brookline
• 10:00 am
• Light Kiddush to Follow

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 April 18 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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Tazria (Leviticus 12:1 - 13:59)

W&S Reading for Year II of the Triennial Cycle: Lev. 13:29-59

If a man or a woman has an affection on the head or in the beard... (Lev. 13:29)

The metzora being purified with the two birds. By Dutch engraver Simon Fokke, 1712-1784 (colorized). Rijksmuseum

Reading from Prophets

11 Kings 4:42-5:19

A man came from Baal-shalishah and he brought the agent of God some bread of the first reaping—twenty loaves of barley bread, and some fresh grain in his sack. And [Elisha] said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.” His attendant replied, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” But he said, “Give it to the people and let them eat. For thus said GOD: They shall eat and have some left over.” So he set it before them; and when they had eaten, they had some left over, as GOD had said. (II Kings 4:42-44)

Upcoming Events

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

Check out the Harvard Hillel Calendar. 

Sunday, April 14 - One Minyan One Book

• Discussing To Be a Jew Today by Noah Feldman
• 7:30 on Zoom

Thursday, April 18- 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, with prayers for all who are suffering or being held captive.

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