Beth Shalom Schedule for the Week of May 30th

With H-shem's ever loving kindness, we will meet at the synagogue at 956 J Street in Crescent City this Friday evening at 7:00 pm for Shabbat services. Rabbi Joe Hample of Pelican Bay State Prison has volunteered to lead the services, as always, all friends and congregants are welcome to attend.

We will meet to light candles, hear about some Torah and have a little kiddish as a community before we retire to our respective weekends.

The following Saturday morning at 10:00 am we will meet again at the synagogue in Crescent City for our weekly Torah study. This week we are reading parshat Sh'lach (Numbers 13:1 - 15:41). In this portion we come to a major turning point for the new born nation of Israel generally known as "the sin of the spies." H-shem is preparing to lead us up to the land which he has promised to give to us as the inheritance of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob. So, a scouting party is sent ahead to reconnoiter the land and report back to the people. When the spies return and offer their editorialized version of what they saw the people lose faith in H-shem and doom an entire generation to perish in the wilderness. In fact it is said that this sin is the source much of the suffering in the world even today.

Shavua tov and be well.