W&S SHABBAT BULLETIN

Calendar - Please see Upcoming Events Below

Shabbat, July 12

• 9:30 am - First Church Cambridge
• Friday Night Candle Lighting: 8:03
• Pot Luck Kiddush
• Zoom is available

Shabbat, July 19

• 10:00 am - 100 Centre Street, Brookline
• Friday Night Candle Lighting: 7:58
• Kiddush provided by a resident of 100 Centre Street
• Zoom is available

Please note that due to ongoing construction at Harvard Hillel, Worship and Study services will be held at First Church Cambridge beginning on June 7. (We will continue to have monthly services in Brookline.) We will be in the Harter Room, which is up the ramp from the kitchen. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions or concerns.

We will be responsible for setting up and breaking down the room at First Church, so please consider arriving earlier than usual to help. We may enjoy a l'chaim in the Harter Room, but may not bring alcohol out of that room. We must also bring any alcohol we would like to drink and then take it when we leave.

Minyan Service Opportunities

We need folks to volunteer to be present early at services and to stay late to help clear up after Kiddush. 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.

Tzedakah Opportunities

• The next Shabbat Dinner in Brookline will be August 1 at 100 Centre Street at 4:30 pm. You are welcome to join for the fun as a volunteer (and have a delicious kosher meal). Please let me know if you're planning to come.
• We will be taking the summer off from soup! Our next "Soup Making Thursday" at First Church Cambridge will be September 18 from 4:00-6:00 pm. Please let me know if you're planning to come.

This Week’s Services

Reading from Torah

Balak (Numbers 22:2 – 25:9) 

W&S Torah reading year III of the triennial cycle: Numbers 22:39 – 25:9  

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? Here I brought you to damn my enemies, and instead you have blessed them!”  He replied, “I can only repeat faithfully what the LORD puts in my mouth.” (Numbers 23:11-12)

Rembrandt, Balaam and the Ass (1626)

Reading from Prophets

Micah 5:6 – 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good.  And what the LORD requires of you:

Only to do justice

And to love goodness,

And to walk modestly with your God.

(Micah 6:8-9)

Minyan Memory

Tani Elliot was called to the Torah as bat-mitzvah at W&S services on Shabbat Hukat.

Upcoming Events

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

Check out the Harvard Hillel Calendar. 

Sunday, July 20 - One Minyan One Book

• 7:30 on Zoom
• Discussing Enemies: A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Saturday, August 2 - Erev Tisha B'Av

• 7:00 pm at the Lefferts (ask them for the address)
• Let me know if you'd like to chant a chapter of Eicha (Lamentations)

Shabbat, August 23 - Lunch and Learn

• With Ben Friedman
•  “Is there really an antisemitism problem at Harvard?”
• After Services - Zoom will be available

Thursday, September 18 - 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 new 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 Petra 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, with prayers for all who are suffering or being held captive.

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