W&S SHABBAT BULLETIN

Calendar - Please see Upcoming Events Below

Jim Leffert will be teaching about our matriarch Rachel at Lehrhaus on Thursday, October 22 at 6:00 pm. Please see details below or click here to register.

And Yashar Koach to Michal Goldman, who screened her "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" at Lehrhaus during chol hamoed Sukkot. It was a sold-out show with a great conversation afterwards with Michal and Hankus Netsky, one of the subjects of the film.

Shabbat, October 17 - Parashat Noach

• 10:00 am - 100 Centre Street, Brookline
• Friday Evening Candle Lighting: 5:42 pm
• Kiddush Provided by a Resident at Center Communities
• Zoom Access Available

Shabbat, October 24 - Parashat Lech Lecha

• 9:30 am at Harvard Hillel
• Friday Evening Candle Lighting: 5:31
• Kiddush provided by Laurie Feldman and Stephen Koster
• Zoom Access Available

Minyan Service Opportunities

We need folks to volunteer to be present early at services and to stay late to help clear up after Kiddush. We also need folks to manage the Zoom access when Rabbi Jim is not around. If you have ideas about how to encourage members to help out more (or simply want to help out yourself!), please be in touch: rabbijim@worshipandstudy.org.

I want to put out a call for people to volunteer to bring kiddush (rather than relying on Potluck Kiddushes). It does not need to be substantial—just a contribution to the life of our minyan! I have prepared a brief document about our Kashrut Standards, and I am very open to feedback about it. If you'd like to sign up to bring a spread for Kiddush, please be in touch with Maurie Fox-Warren or Loren Joseph.

Tzedakah Opportunities

• The next Shabbat Dinner in Brookline will be October 23 at 5:30 pm at 1550 Beacon Street. You are welcome to join us as a volunteer (and have a delicious kosher meal). Please let me know if you're planning to come.
• Our next "Soup Making Thursday" at First Church Cambridge is this Thursday, October 29 from 4:00-6:00 pm. Please let me know if you're planning to come. See the full schedule here.

This Week’s Services

Reading from Torah

Noah (Genesis 6:9 – 11:32)

W&S Torah reading for year II of the triennial cycle:  Genesis 8:15 – 10:32

 And Noah built an altar to the LORD and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.  And the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in His heart:  I will not again curse the ground any more because of man, since the impulse of man’s heart is evil from his youth...And God said to Noah and to his sons with him saying: “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your offspring after you...  (Genesis 8:20-21, 9:8-9)

After a work copying the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520)

God's Covenant with Noah c.1853-76

Reading from Prophets

Isaiah 54:1 - 55:5

"For this to Me is like the waters of Noah.  As I swore that the waters of Noah nevermore would flood the earth, so I swear that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you."  (Isaiah 54:9)

Upcoming Events

Check out worshipandstudy.org/events/ for more information.

• Check out the Harvard Hillel Calendar. 

Sunday, October 18 - One Minyan One Book

• 11:00 am on Zoom - Note Special Time
• Discussing Out of the Sky by Matti Friedman
• Author Matti Friedman will join the the discussion

Thursday, October 22 - Lehrhaus Shiur with Jim Leffert

• "Rachel's Tomb, Rachel's Tears: Our Matriarch's Afterlife"
• 6:00 pm at the Lehrhaus
• Register here

Thursday, October 29 - Soup Making at First Church

• Come make soup with a group of minyan friends.
• 4:00-6:00 pm at First Church (11 Garden St.) Cambridge
• Please let me know if you're planning to come.
• Feel free to bring something to eat: vegetarian appetizers, bread, dessert, and non-alcoholic libations...

Please note that you must be vaccinated and boosted to attend Worship and Study services; masking is optional. 

Check out our web site: worshipandstudy.org and send your friends there!

For Shabbat, click the following links to download the Lev Shalem liturgy and the W&S Amidah Guide.

If you'd like to sign up to bring a spread for Kiddush, please be in touch with Maurie Fox-Warren or Loren Joseph.

We also need people to deliver a D'var Torah, to lead services or to leyn Torah. Please review this spreadsheet for availability and be in touch with me: rabbijim@worshipandstudy.org (for leading services or serving as gabbai); or Susan Brand: susan.brand@comcast.net (Torah chanting); or Harvey Mendelsohn harveymendelsohnbooks@yahoo.com (D'var Torah).

Zoom Services

Please feel free to reach out to me if you need help with the technology.

Click: https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/my/rabbijim

If you have the Zoom app, you can simply click “Join” and type in “rabbijim”

Call: 267 831 0333 or 301 715 8592 

After the greeting, enter Meeting ID: 583 155 5454 #

If you need a toll-free number, please let me know.

Shabbat Shalom

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