W&S SHABBAT BULLETIN

Calendar

Please Note that Purim will be this Saturday evening, March 23. Please plan on bringing hamentaschen and other delights, since the festivities will be pot luck! We are looking forward to our annual Purim spiel and will have our first fully "in-person" Megillah reading since before the pandemic.

Shabbat - 13 Adar II 5784 (March 23, 2024) 

• Friday night candle lighting: 6:41
• Parashat Vayikra
• Shabbat Zakhor
• Services at Harvard Hillel
• Lunch and Learn with Shai Afsai
• More information Here

Motzaei Shabbat - 14 Adar II (March 23, 2024)

• Purim Celebration
• Wear your costumes!
• Purim Spiel (watch it on YouTube)
• Hamentashchen Tasting
• Matanot L'Evyonim through Yad Chessed

Shabbat - 20 Adar II 5784 (March 30, 2024)

• Candle Lighting Time: 6:49
• Parashat Tzav
• Services at Harvard Hillel
• Kiddush TBD

Tzedakah Opportunities

• Purim is coming soon! Send Matanot L'Evyonim through Yad Chessed
• There are Shabbat Dinners in Brookline on April 5 (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 March 28 from 4:00-6:00 pm. Please let me know if you're planning to come. Please note that on account of Passover, we will hold soup making a week early next month, on April 18.

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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Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26)

W&S Torah reading year III of the triennial cycle: Leviticus 4:27 – 5:26  

And if any one of the common people sin through error, in doing any of the things which the ETERNAL hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty... (Leviticus 4:27)

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Deuteronomy 25:17-19 (special maftir for Shabbat Zakhor)

Remember [zakhor] what Amalek did to you on your way out of Egypt: how he met you on the way and cut off your rearmost, all the stragglers behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God. So it shall be, when the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.  Do not forget!  (Deuteronomy 25:17-19)

“Haman Begging Esther for Mercy” (1655), 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-69)

Reading from Prophets

I Samuel 15:2-34 (special haftarah for Shabbat Zakhor)

And Samuel said [to Saul]: You may be small in your own eyes, but are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? Did the LORD not anoint you as king over Israel?

Minyan memory

Sophia Mendelsohn, Sophie Applbaum, and Ovadia Samuel Sherry Simha were called to the Torah as bat-mitzvah at Worship & Study services on Shabbat Vayikra. 

Edan Cohen was called to the Torah as bar-mitzvah at Worship & Study services on Shabbat Vayikra/Shabbat Zakhor.

Upcoming Events

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

Check out the Harvard Hillel Calendar. 

Saturday, March 23 - Lunch and Learn

• Shai Afsai will speak about Ben Franklin's Influence on Judaism
• More information Here
• Bring a dairy/pareve dish to share
• Talk will immediately follow services

Thursday, March 28- 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 our next session will be April 18

Shabbat, April 6 - Lunch and Learn with Noah Feldman

• Discussing To Be a Jew Today (click title for more information)
• Talk following services
• Bring a dish to share (pareve/dairy)

Wednesday, April 10 - Richard Fein Poetry Reading

• 7:00 pm, Grolier Poetry Book Shop
• Poster with Information Here
• Sign up to attend in person
• Sign up to attend virtually

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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