Parashat Behar – Memorial Day weekend
Friday Night Shabbat Services are tonight at 7 PM.
Candle lighting in Austin is at 8:07 PM
Shabbat morning services are tomorrow morning, May 28, at 9 AM. We will have the Torah service at around 9:45, a children’s story time and kidush lunch immediately following. We would like to gratefully acknowledge this week’s kidush sponsors, Efrain and Carmen Rodriguez, in honor of Efrain’s beloved mother, brother and grandmother. Please join us.
We would like to wish you all a meaningful Memorial Day weekend. Let’s honor the memory of our fallen military heroes this weekend!
Cantor Ben-Moshe’s weekly message:
In this week’s parshah, B’har, we read about the Yovel, the Jubilee year every fifty years, when all real property was to revert to its original owners. The intent was to ensure that tribal territories remained intact, but there was a secondary benefit in that this rule prevented the rise of a landed gentry. No one could accumulate too much land, as all sales were voided after no more than fifty years. While there certainly were rich and poor in Israelite society, the extremes that we see in our own day would have been unheard-of. As always, the Torah, even when it talks about conditions that no longer apply in our time(Jewish society as primarily rural and agrarian), points the way to a more just and equitable society. Shabbat Shalom.
Hazzan Yitzhak Ben-Moshe
A huge thank you to our terrific and dedicated teachers, Morah Anat, Bev and Shiry. We had an amazing year of Sunday Fundays and packed in a whole lot of learning. We look forward to another wonderful year after the summer break! The BERS Rock! Currently enrolling for next year. We also offer great bar and bat mitzvah preparation.
SAVE THE DATE: Our annual meeting will be held on Sunday, June 5, at 4:45 pm followed by a Kosher cookout. We can’t wait to see you and share all our happenings.
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