Shabbat Naso

Haftorah read by Dan Messinger

Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 10:00 am

No, Mr. Spok (Leonard Nimoy) will not be in Shul on Shabbat (and it's not his Yahrzeit either). But there is a connection to Parshat Naso.

We will be reading the Priestly Benediction- the Birkat Kohanim- "May God bless you and keep you...." There is nothing in the Torah that mentions the Kohanim (the Priests who were in charge of the ritual sacrifices) held their hands in a particular way, as in the picture above. But Leonard Nimoy has told the story that he thought of the hand sign on the set of Star Trek as he remembered watching the Kohanim in Shul on Festivals holding their hands with their fingers separated. This is the symbol of the Kohen status that still appears on the Matzeiva, the burial monument of Kohens even in our cemetery.

Haftorah will be read by Dan Messinger

Why? Because the opening line of this Haftorah, which tells of the birth of the Judge Shimshon (Samson) begins with these words:

"Vay'hi ish echad mitzor'ah mimishpachat haDani"

"There was a man from Zorah, of the tribe of Dan..."

Who better to read this Haftorah?

Torah Study

with

Rabbi Larry Kaplan

and Dr. Jeff Lubin

Wednesdays 2:00 pm

at Friedman JCC

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This week's Yahrzeits

(Light candle the evening before)

Friday, May 29, 2026---13 Sivan 5786

Ben Cohen, Morris Gershen, Harry Hoder, Nona Libenson

Saturday, May 30, 2026----14 Sivan 5786

Abraham Fiegelman, Ida Gourvitz, Isadore Kurland

Phyllis Mitchneck, Marvin Rappaport, Jerry Sirota

Sunday, May 31, 2026----15 Sivan 5786

Meral Berger, Sara Berner, Gussie Feller, Morris Kurlansky

Matilda Mersay, Julia Pezzner, Helen Sirkin, Mollie Toiv

Benjamin Trichter

Monday, June 1, 2026---- 16 Sivan 5786

Max Fine, Blanche Levine, Sheldon Lubin, Sarah Popky

Ben Silverstein, Ted Smulowitz

Tuesday, June 2, 2026----17 Sivan 5786

Norman David Cohen, Shelley Gelb Weinstein, Louis Gibelman Ruth Stoll, Louis Yudkowitz

Wednesday, June 3, 2026----18 Sivan 5786

Richard Burnat, Herbert Edelglass, Joseph Falk, Harry Hess

Mark Kornfeld, Miriam Tomberg

Thursday, June 4, 2026----19 Sivan 5786

Dora Fortinsky, Ruth Levey, Louis Pezzner, Evelyn Shapiro

Friday, June 5, 2026---20 Sivan 5786

Eugene Chromey, Alan Fishman, Grigory Rybakovsky

Arthur Silverblatt, Nancy Skolnik, Ethel Slaff

~May their memory be for a blessing~