Dear Congregants and Friends,
Please join us this Shabbat morning, Saturday April 30, 2011, as we welcome our two newest congregants during the 9:00 AM service. Mazel Tov to the twin baby girls, their parents, and their extended families.
Congregation Beth El
On this, the Intermediate Shabbat of Pesah, it is customary to read Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs. The obvious link is the description in the Song of the season of spring. However, there is a deeper connection to Pesah. The time immediately following the Exodus was the honeymoon period for God and the People of Israel. The prophet Jeremiah speaks of the Exodus and the period of wandering in the desert as “the love of your newlywed status”. How appropriate then to read the sublime love poetry of the Song of Songs on this Shabbat. May it be a sweet and lovely Day of Rest for us all.
Cantor Yitzhak Ben-Moshe