Parashot Vayak’hel/Pekudei
/ Shabbbat Parah
23 Adar 5778 / 9-10
March 2018
Torah: Exodus 35:1 –
40:38
Maftir: Number
19:1-22
Haftarah: Ezekiel 36:16-38 (Shabbat Parah)
Haftarah: Ezekiel 36:16-38 (Shabbat Parah)
Calendar and dedications follow below. For a full calendar of events and other info about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, check out: http://bnaihayim.com
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YOU THINK THAT’S A MIRACLE?
"Take from among you an offering to
the Lord; everyone with a willing heart shall bring it…. And Moses commanded,
and it was proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, 'No man or woman shall make
any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.' So the people were restrained
from bringing. For the stuff was sufficient for all the work to make it, and
too much." Exodus 35:5; 36:6-7
It is not clear that everybody gave, but
sufficient numbers of the Children of Israel gave more than enough gold,
silver, jewels, cloth, etc., to construct the Tabernacle and all of the
implements needed to conduct the worship service, according to the precise
plans that God had given Moses. There was so much stuff donated that Moses had
to order the people to stop - it was too much for the workers' needs.
If it was sufficient, how could there be
too much, and what did they do with the extra donations? The commentary Or
HaChaim says that, in order that every donation would be used, and contributors
not embarrassed by the return of their gifts, a miracle occurred and everything
that was extra was used, without the Tabernacle exceeding God's specifications.
Allow me to be cynical. You think that's
a miracle? The miracle is that so many people gave so much that Moses had to
tell them to stop! Or at least it seems so these days. When was the last time
your congregation or some other charity told you not to give any more, because
they had too much? Even the best-run and best-funded organizations have just
enough. And "extra" can always be put to some good use.
We have it in our power to be part of a
miracle - and we don't even have to pray for it. We only need be so willing of
heart in our donations of money and time to our congregations, our schools, our
pet charities, that they have enough to meet their needs. In the end, only when
they are able to meet their needs will they be fully able to meet our needs.
Have a wonderful
Shabbat!
Rabbi Richard A.
Flom
Temple B'nai
Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier
Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.pe/
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"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"
"Silence in the
face of wrongdoing is consent.”
BT Yevamot 88a
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Candle
lighting: 5:33 pm
Friday – Shabbat Evening Service –
7:30 pm – followed by Oneg Shabbat.
Saturday – Breakfast and Torah
study - 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush
luncheon follows. Change your clocks before retiring tonight for Daylight
Savings Time – Spring ahead - Fall back!
Sunday – Religious School – 9:30
am. Adult Hebrew – 10:00 am.
Tuesday – Lunch and Learn – 12:00
noon.
Friday,
March 16 – Shabbat
Evening Service – 7:30 pm – followed by Oneg Shabbat.
Saturday,
March 17 – Breakfast
and Torah study - 8:45 am. Women’s Rosh Chodesh Shabbat Morning
Service – 9:30 am. Contact Carol Herskowitz or Lynn Kronzek for details.
Sunday,
March 25 – “A
Walk Through the Haggadah” – Adult education with Rabbi Flom – 10:00 am
Friday,
March 30 – Study
session for fast of the first-born – 8:00 am
Check
your snail mail for information about the TBH/CBM Second Seder and the
Installation of Rabbi Flom and Rabbi Van Leeuwen. Or go to our website: http://bnaihayim.com
Next time
you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged
foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.
This d'var
torah is offered in honor of my mother, Annabelle Flom, celebrating her
birthday on Sunday. Yom huledet sameach! Ad meah v’esrim! Happy Birthday! Until
a hundred and twenty!
This d'var
torah is offered in memory of Rabbi Charni Flame Selch, who passed away Monday.
Y’hi zikhrah liv’rakhah – May her memory be a blessing.
This d'var
torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat
Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Hiroe Andriola, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry
Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben
Gittel), Jerry Forman, Bernard Garvin, Myra Goodman, Leah Granat, Simon
Hartmann, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata
Malkah bat Sarah Emanu), Lyndia Lowy (Leah bat Sarah), David Marks, Debra
Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat
Kreina), Alan Stolzenberg, Jonathan Woolf, Howard Yudell, and Meagan
Yudell.
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