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March 14, 2015 23 Adar 5775

Welcome to Congregation Beth Shalom’s Shabbat Services

Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei

Shabbat Parah

Annual: Exodus 35:1-40:38 Triennial: Exodus 37:17-39:21

Maftir: Numbers 19:1-22 Haftarah: Ezekiel 36:16-38

Candlelighting - 7:06 pm

Havadalah - 8:04 pm

Emeriti Stephen E. Steindel, D.D.

Rabbi Emeritus

Moshe Taubé Cantor Emeritus

Amir Pilch, F.S.A. Executive Director

Emeritus

Fern S. Moscov Preschool Director

Emeritus

Morris Sklar Rabbi Emeritus

A TRADITIONAL EGALITARIAN CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION WELCOMING ALL TO WORSHIP, STUDY AND GROW TOGETHER

5915 BEACON STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 (P) 412.421.2288 (F) 412.421.5923

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Honorary Presidents

Ruth Ganz Fargotstein

Jules Kruman

Past Presidents

Norton Freedel Harriet N. Kruman

Alan Greenwald Marianne Silberman

Milton Eisner Yale Rosenstein

Harvey E. Robins Julian Elbling

Barry J. Palkovitz Judy Kornblith Kobell

Jay L. Fingeret Steven H. Schwartz

Ira M. Frank Connie Pollack

Stefi L. Kirschner

Howard Valinsky President

Alan Himmel Executive

Vice President

Ria David Vice President

David Horvitz Vice President

Mike Samuels Treasurer

Kate Rothstein Secretary

Officers

YAHRZEITS

Friday Evening Shabbat Morning Shabbat Afternoon

Minhah/ Kabbalat Shabbat

7:00 pm Helfant Chapel

Early Morning Minyan Full Torah Reading

6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Rabbi’s Tisch w/ Rabbi Mark Staitman

6:00 pm Eisner Commons

Morning Services Triennial Torah Reading

9:30 am Helfant Chapel

Minhah/Seudah Shlishit/Ma’ariv

6:50 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Eisner Commons

Family Musical Shabbat Service

11:00 am Faye Rubenstein Weiss

Sanctuary

Please refrain from using electronic devices in the synagogue during Shabbat. Thank you.

Beth Shalom Endowment Fund

Milton Eisner Chairman

Julian Elbling Chairman

Sunday, 3/15 - 24 Adar

8:00 am Morning Minyan Helfant Chapel 7:00 pm Minhah /Ma’ariv Helfant Chapel

Monday, 3/16 - 25 Adar

7:30 am Morning Minyan Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Minhah /Ma’ariv Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Tuesday, 3/17 - 26 Adar

7:30 am Morning Minyan Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:30 am Reading group w/ Rabbi Levin Rabbi’s office 4:15 pm JJEP Religious School Third Floor 6:00 pm Yom HaShoah Candle Packing

Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:00 pm Minhah / Ma’ariv Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Executive Cmte. Meeting Lehman Center

Wednesday, 3/18 - 27 Adar

7:30 am Morning Minyan Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Minhah /Ma’ariv Helfant Chapel

Thursday, 3/19 - 28 Adar

7:30 am Morning Minyan Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm JJEP Religious School Third Floor 7:00 pm USY Open Lounge Youth Lounge 7:00 pm Minhah /Ma’ariv Helfant Chapel

Friday, 3/20 - 29 Adar Candle lighting 7:13 pm

7:30 am Morning Minyan Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Minhah / Kabbalat Shabbat Helfant Chapel

Shabbat, 3/21 - 1 Nisan Rosh Hodesh Nisan Havdalah 8:11 pm

6:30 am Early Morning Minyan Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:00 am Sisterhood Shabbat Morning Services

Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 6:15pm Rabbi’s Tisch Eisner Commons 7:00 pm Minhah /Seudah Shlishit/Ma’ariv

Homestead Hebrew Chapel/Eisner Commons

Staff Liron Lipinsky JJEP Director

Jennifer Slattery Early Learning Center Director

Robbie Zaremberg Torah Reader

Lonnie Wolf Cemetery Director

Ryan Tuchin Youth Director

Jill Braasch, Office Manager [email protected]

David Warga, Rabbi’s Assistant [email protected]

Harry Abrams Richard Mark Aronson Abraham Ash Samuel Bails Benjamin Banchek Bella Belsky Sarah Berkowitz Eva Berlin Thea Bernstein Irene M Binenkorb Charles Biron Kate R Bloom Irwin M. Bogarad Herbert S Bonn Benjamin Bono Marion Braunstein Bear Burechson Albert Caplan Helen Caplan Henrietta Caplan Samuel Carlis Allen Cohen Estelle Cohen Goldie Cohen Mary Cohen Sanford E Cohen David Coslov Edger Danovitz Selma Davidson Rose Deaktor Leonard B. Dunn Samuel Dunn Emanuel Epstein Aubrie Estner Lilo Fauman Max Fineman Adeline Finesilver Lena Fingeret Grace Sarah Fisher Ida Fleischer Audrey G Frank Naomi Frank

Eva Friedman Fannie Friedman Hyman Ginsberg Bettie Mann Goldberg Sadie Goldbloom Ann Goldman Evelyn M Goldman Isaac Goldman Ida S Greenberg Bessie K Greenberg Bertha Greenstein Louis Greenstein Lillian Judd Grobstein Martin Gross Celia Perlut Guggenheim Maurice Gutmacher Bessie Halpern Mayer Handley Joel Harmuth Frank Hart Edward Hausman Annie Heller Ann Hendel Hannah Hershman Rosa Hilenbrand Marian Hoffman Esther Horvitz Lee H Horvitz Isaac Itskovich Belle Kaplan Yolan Katz Stella M Kessler Isaac Kisilinsky Shusa C Kontzenberg Irwin Kopelman Michael Justin Kotler Julius Lazier Ida Lehrburger Mark Lessing Gittel Levenson Abe Levy Olga Libau

Escher Lincoff Dora Loikrec Sylvia London Frances Lurie Joel Lurie Frank Mandel Joseph L Mandel Celia Mervis Mildred G Meyers Geraldine Michlovitz Bertram Miller Sarah Miller Jacob Moscowitz Joseph W Moss Gilda G Neustein Samuel Newman Ruth Nord Gussie Paper Kate Paransky Samuel M Parker Ida Pavloff Maurice Phillips Belle Pirchesky Donald S Plung Bertha N Posner Joseph C Recht Tessie B Reiss Sylvia Reiter Lawrence S Reznik Isaac Rogow Ida B Roobin Howard Rosenbloom Harry Rosenstein Samuel Roth Albert Rubenstein Jacqueline G Rubin Leonard Schorin Esther Segal Renny Stern Selig Anne Seiavitch Louis Shaffer Bessie Shapiro

Harold Shear Ida Shrut Nathan A Sidlow Fannie Sidransky Heinz D Silberberg Anne Hilda Simon Isadore Smalley Arlene Snyder Joseph Sokol Dorothy Solomon Irwin Solow Moshe Speer Eva Stein Tsipa Stein Ernest Stern Irving S Taitz Irwin S Terner Clara Tisherman Geraldine L Wald Sophie Warmstein Aaron Weiss Louis Weiss Ruth Weitz Bella Whitman Dora Wilson Barnett Wise Alex Wishnovitz Marian Witt Helen Wortzman Melych Zaltsman Marney Beth Zaremberg Mollie Zeidman Jed Zidell Moses Zweig Auxiliary

Presidents Debby Firestone

Sisterhood Dorothy Greenfield

Sisterhood

Martin Kline Men’s Club

Joshua Leib USY

LEADERSHIP

Evening minyan, excluding hagim, will begin at 7:00 pm from March 8-September 18

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Clergy Amy Levin

Rabbi [email protected]

Mark Staitman Rabbinic Scholar

Donni Aaron Youth Rabbi

MARCH 15-21, 2015 24 ADAR-1NISAN 5775

Beth Shalom Men’s Club Sweepstakes weekly drawings begin April 3rd!

Only paid up tickets can win! Call or email Ira Frank to purchase:

412-281-4064 / [email protected]

Aliyah Hertz Etz Chaim Verses - Triennial Reading

1st ראשון/כהן Shemot 37:17-24 379 560

2nd שני/לוי Shemot 37:25-29 380 561

3rd שלישי Shemot 38:1-8 380 561

4th רביעי Shemot 38:9-20 381 562

5th חמישי Shemot 38:21-39:1 385 564

6th ששי Shemot 39:2-7 386 565

7th שביעי Shemot 39:8-21 386 566

Maftir מפטיר Bemidbar 19:1-22 652 880

Haftarah הפטרה Ezekiel 36:16-38 999 1287

Want to take an active role in Congregation Beth Shalom services? Please contact your fellow congregants for more information.

Shabbat Morning Services Sheldon Catz [email protected] Torah Service Lester Shapiro [email protected]

Torah Reading Brenda Kurland Robbie Zaremberg

[email protected] [email protected]

Haftarah Milt Eisner Arlene Shapiro

[email protected] [email protected]

Friday Night Services Helen Feder [email protected]

Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one?

To sponsor a catered Kiddush, contact Michelle Vines : Extension 113

[email protected]

If you’d like to sponsor a full Kiddush Club Kiddush ($250),

contact Kate Rothstein: 412.855.5847

[email protected]

Rabbi Mark Staitman joins our Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our Shabbat Services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. We wish Rabbi Levin a pleasant Shabbat out of town. All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush, presented by the Kiddush Club, in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom immediately following services. Thank you to David Horvitz & Teddi Jacobson, Bruce & Debbie Horvitz and Mark & Rhonda Horvitz who are sponsoring this week’s Third Meal in memory of their mother Esther Horvitz.

Congregational Family

Milestone Events Mazal tov to Ronna and Dan Askin on the birth of their new grandson, Ezra David Kosoff, son of Jacob and Ilene Harris Kosoff.

SHABBAT SHALOM PARASHAT VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI UPCOMING EVENTS

Learn Torah Trope w/ Leah Ackner 10:00 am - Stofman Library

Open to youth who can read Hebrew Dates: 14th & 21st, and Apr. 8th

May 3rd - Chanting will be during Youth T'fillot

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE learn.jtsa.edu | דבר אחר Michael Summa | The Rabbinical School of JTS (’17)

We often think of love as something comfortable, something comforting. The truth is, it can be the exact opposite. True, unbounded love from another source can cause us to confront parts of ourselves with which we are uncomfortable: our vulnerability, our self image, our passive role as the recipient of care rather than as a caregiver. In Exodus 35:5, Moses relates the Eternal’s commandment to bring offerings to build portions of the Mishkan, directed specifically at kol nediv libo, all whose heart is inclined toward giving freely (this adjective is repeated several times in the chapter). It is a rare occurrence that the people listen, so obediently—but here, they do just that. They give so freely that those who were wise of heart (hakham lev) tell Moses that the people have brought more than enough (36:6). But how much is too much? For a people who had such trouble with physical attachments, even desiring re-enslavement in Egypt for the sake of a variety of foods, this act of free love could have been a liberating step in the Exodus story. Moses stops the people—and they listen. The verb (vayikale) is almost harsh—it’s the same root ).כ.ל.א(that we use in Modern Hebrew for “prison”—when perhaps we were moving toward perfection. When love becomes overwhelming, our discomfort with our vulnerability or our rational mind (hakham) can cause us to run away. But the effects are potentially damaging. Once the door is closed, it may never open again. “Nediv Lev” is about the vulnerability and rational discomfort we can experience in love—and the frustration of the soul which desires the mind to take the righteous risk of diving into that love without fear.

Sisterhood Shabbat March 21st

honoring Lidush Goldschmidt and Sabina Robinson

Speaker Debi Gilboa, M.D.

Services begin at 9:00 am Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary

Women’s League Torah Fund Brunch

March 22nd honoring Arlene Shapiro

10:30 am Samuel and Minnie

Hyman Ballroom

A special musical Shabbat morning service, in lieu of youth services, for families with kids of all ages—with real

instruments!— led by Rabbi Donni!

This Shabbat ~ 11:00 am Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary

Join the Beth Shalom Men’s Club for Yom HaShoah Candle Packing

Tuesday, March 17th

Packing begins at 6:00 pm Dinner for volunteers at 7:00 pm

Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Shababababa! A musical Shabbat

for families in Pittsburgh

Friday, March 27th

Service with Rabbi Donni at 5:45 pm

Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Optional dinner at 6:20 pm

KIDS EAT FREE, Wine for adults!

Cost of dinner for age 12+:

$12 per person by Mar. 20,

$17 per person after Mar. 20

Dinner reservations: 412-421-2288

Deadline is March 24th

Jewish grandparent? Interfaith grandchildren?

There’s a place for you in The Grandparents Circle

A free program of 5 sessions

5:30-8:30 pm

Dates: March 25th, April 8, April 22, May 5, May 20

Location:

Rodef Shalom Congregation 4905 Fifth Avenue

Sponsored by

Rodef Shalom Congregation, Agency for Jewish Learning and

Congregation Beth Shalom