This evening’s Erev Shabbat Service is secheduled for 8:00 pm in the Garfein Wing, and will be conducted by Peter Dubrow and Carol Zucker.
Tomorrow’s service will begin at 10:00 am in the Garfein Wing.
The Parsha is Balak, Numbers 22:2 - 25: 9. The story of the Jews wandering in the desert continues with the story of Balak, a Moabite royal, Balam, a professional magician with some spiritual connections, and Balam’s donkey or, as usually denominated, Balam’s ass. Balak hires Balam to curse the Jews, who are about to invade his country, but after three tries, when even his Ass tells him that G-d does not want the Jews curese, blesses the Jews with the familiar words
“How goodly are your tents, O Jacob; your encampments, O Israel!”
The Parsha ends with the the Priest Pinchas and his very forceful approach to quelling intermarriage.
The Haftarah is Micah 5:6- 6:8
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