Beth Shalom Schedule for the Week of May 23rd

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. These are lay services and will be led by the congregation; 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 at the classroom in Fort Dick for our weekly Torah study. This week we are reading parshat Beha'alotcha (Numbers 8:1 - 12:16). There is a lot going on in this parshah, we are given more laws regarding the Leviim, and service at the Tabernacle and we also get some insight into the inter-personal relationships of the nation of Israel. The people complain about a lack of meat and we see Miriam and Aaron speaking against Moses and once again we see Moses argue with G-d for the sake of the people.

Shavua tov and be well.

Beth Shalom Schedule for the Week of May 16th

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. These services will be led by Rabbi Scharnberg and 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 at the classroom in Fort Dick for our weekly Torah study. This week we are reading parshat Nasso (Numbers 4:21 - 7:89). To begin we finish the census of the Leviim which was started at the end of last week's parshat. This happens to be one of the longest portions in the entire Torah and is chock full of goodies including the procedures regarding an adulteress and the details surrounding a Nazir (a person taking special vows in an attempt to be more holy.

Shavua tov and be well.

Beth Shalom Schedule for the Week of May 9th

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. These services will be led by the congregation and 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 at the synagogue in Crescent City for our weekly Torah study. This week we are beginning a whole new book with parshat Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1 - 4:20). This book begins with Hashem issuing the command to Moses to take a census of the people. Then, we are given the directions of how each tribe was to be positioned in the layout of the camp. Next a separate census is commanded of the tribes of Leviim and Kohanim. Finally, we are told how to pack up and move Hashem's Holy Tabernacle.

Obviously, such a large assembly needs organization to move safely and effectively in the wilderness. What else can we glean from the inherent "structure" of this parshat?

Shavua tov and be well.

Beth Shalom Schedule for the Week of May 2nd

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. These services will be led by the congregation and 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 at the synagogue in Crescent City conference room at Evergreen Bank in Brookings, OR for our weekly Torah study. Unfortunately, Rabbi Scharnberg is officiating at a bar mitzvah and will not be available for this meeting. This week we will study the double parsha Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1 - 27:34) this week we start with the laws of the "shmita" year, or years we leave the fields fallow and allow anyone to eat from our fields; and the "jubilee" year which is when every fifty years all crimes and debts are forgiven. By the second parshah we are given the blessings and the curses that we will merit depending on wether or not we follow Hashem's Torah. Finally, the parshiot end with laws forbidding idol worship and commanding the observance of Hashem's shabbatot and to venerate His sanctuary.

Shavua tov and be well.