Friday Night Services and Kabbalah Class
Friday night services tonight, February 1 at our regular time of 7:00 pm.
Kabbalah – Saturday February 2 at 7:00 pm Rabbi Monty of Congregation Shalom Rav will be giving a lecture on Kabbalah. Rabbi Monty, the Educational Director and Rabbi for Congregation Shalom Rav, teaches classes on a variety of Jewish topics and his discussion on February 2 will cover Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish wisdom that reveals how the universe and life work. On a literal level, the word Kabbalah means receiving or received tradition and its teachings are meant to explain the relationship between the eternal and the finite. Currently popular with many Hollywood celebrities, come to find out what Kabbalah is really about. The lecture will be held in memory of Freddie Grant z”l, an avid member of Beth El and the Austin Jewish community.
Sunday February 3rd: Join the Beth El sisterhood as we learn to make Patrice’s famous Challah and other Jewish delicacies. Congregation Beth El, 1pm.
Next Friday Night, February 8th, Scout Shabbat: Services at start at 6:30 pm followed by a community dinner in honor of Scout Shabbat
Cantor Ben Moshe Message: This week’s parshah, Yithro, contains one of the most famous passages in the Bible-‘Asereth HaD’varim, the “Ten Commandments”. It is not widely known that this passage was originally part of the daily liturgy, recited along with the Sh’ma. The Sages removed ‘Asereth HaD’varim centuries ago, however. They were concerned that people would consider these the only commandments in the Torah, or at any rate the most important. Our Tradition teaches that all the mitzvoth are of equal value-that putting a rampart around a roof for safety is just as much a mitzvah as refraining from covetousness. Our Tradition is too big to fit on two stone tablets.
