Announcements for Shabbat and Shavuot
Dear Congregants and Friends,
Please join us tonight at 7pm for Kabbalat shabbat services.
Tomorrow, Saturday May 26 at 9:45 AM, we will join Congregation Agudas Achim on the Dell Jewish Community Campus for a service in memory and honor of Elaine Shapiro’s late father Jim Novy.
Sunday morning, May 27 starting at 9am, we will have Shavuot services at Beth El, followed by a light kiddush. There will be a children’s program in the social hall, after the beginning of the Torah reading in the sanctuary. We hope to see you all!
Cantor Ben-Moshe’s weekly message:
This Shabbat we begin the reading of Sefer B’midbar, the Book of Numbers. After a year at the foot of Mt. Sinai, the People of Israel are to muster for the march to the Promised Land, a march that would end up taking a generation. Ironically, the day after Shabbat we read of the arrival of the People of Israel at Sinai, and the Revelation of Torah, on the Festival of Shavuot. We have been counting towards this day since the second night of Passover-to Z’man Mattan Toratenu, the Time of the Giving of our Torah. This is after all the purpose of the Exodus-to be free to live the life of the spirit that was simply impossible for slaves. And the purpose of Torah was so that it could be lived by our People in our Land. May all of Israel repeat the promise of our ancestors at Sinai, “na’aseh v’nishmah“, “we will do it and we will hear it”. And may all the People of Israel be privileged soon to live in the Land which was promised to us. Shabbat Shalom and Hag Sameah.
Cantor Yitzhak Ben-Moshe
8902 Mesa Drive
Austin, TX 78759
www.bethelaustin.org
