This evening’s Erev Shabbat Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus, will begin at 8:00 PM. Members of the Adult Choir will provide the music. After services, Michael Karsen, a professional Genealogist, will lecture on “Jewish Genealogy, or why is this genealogy different from all other . . . ..” Mr. Karsen is active in genealogy studies, particularly with respect to Chicago area Jewish sources.
Tomorrow’s Shabbat Morning Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus, will begin at 10:00 AM. Barry Bayer will be the Cantorial Soloist. We will have lunch and a discussion of the portion of the week at Bible & Bagels, immediately after the Service.
This week’s Parsha is the double portion Vayakhel-Pekude, Exodus 35:1 - 40:38.
Moses tells the Children of Israel about keeping the Sabbath and the penalty — death — for violating it. Then the Children of Israel bring their jewelry, their fine cloth and so forth for the building of the Ark and the Tabernacle, and they get built in good order. Then G-d tells Moses how to use these news things, and they set these items to use. And the Cloud of G-d led the Children of Israel by Day, and a fire by Night, as the Book of Exodus ends.
chazak chazak v’nitchazeik
The special maftir for this Shabbat HaChodesh, the Shabbat immediately after Purim, Exodus 12:1 - 20, describes the holiday of Pesach.
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