This evening’s Erev Shabbat Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus will begin at 8:00 PM. The topic will be Music, We will honor the Adult Choir and the Klezmer Band who will participate in, and provide music for, the service. The Choir’s Sermon in Song will include four very different settings of the 23rd Psalm. In addition, Rabbi Dreyfus will bless couples who celebrate their wedding anniversaries in the Month of June.
Tomorrow’s Shabbat Morning Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus will begin at 10:00 AM. Barry Bayer will be the Cantorial Soloist.
This week’s Parsha is Korach, Numbers 16:1?18:32. Although opposing Moses would seem to be a losing proposition, some people learn hard. Korach, a Levite and others wonder why they shouldn’t be as holy as Moses, and complain about the situation. Moses proposes a special ceremony where the rebels invoke G-d, and the entire group, and their families, die when the ground opens up and they fall into the hole. And fire consumed 250 surrounding the area. Those who had seen the incident became angry at Moses and Aaron. G-d tells Moses and Aaron to leave the area and 14,700 die from a scourge that G-d brings upon them.
In the next chapter, we return to the special duties and privileges of those Levites that are left, including the redemption of the first born.
The Haftarah is Samuel 1 11:14 - 12:22
Oh yes! Rosh Chodesh Tammuz is coming.
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On Edit….to set the record straight:
I didn’t realize Rosh Chodesh was coming so quickly…on the last day of Sivan. (How you can have the beginning of a month on the last day of the preceding month is a mystery, the answer to which is hidden from me. But Rosh Chodesh is supposedly a “women’s holiday” so maybe that is the reason (that I don’t understand).
So we did read the traditional Rosh Chodesh Maftir and Haftarah.
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