All the really important people in the congregation are in Milwauke for the regional URJ Bienniel Convention. But our services march on.
This evening’s Erev Shabbat Service, beginning at 8:00 pm, will be conducted by David Epstein. Nancy Friedman will be the chazanit.
Tomorrow morning’s Shabbat Service will be conducted by Barry Bayer, beginning at 10:00 am. Larry Burrows and Nikki Cummings will be the Cantorial Soloists and Gary Schwarz, Chuck Stone, Ernie Ratowitz, and Larry Burrows will read from the Torah.
The Parsha ia Lech L’cha Genesis 12:1?17:27. G-d tells Abram to leave the land where he has been living, and take his family, including Sarai, his wife, to the land that G-d will show him. G-d promises Abram that if he does the things G-d asks of him, he will give Abram’s descendants the land, and make Abram the father of a great nation. They go. Abram and Sarai then go off teo Egypt, because of the famine where G-d has sent them. They come back to the land, and even though Sarai is of a very advanced age, three guests fortell that She will bear a son. Subsequently, Isaac is born. G-d renews the covenant with Abram, who is renamed Abraham, Sarai becomes Sarah.
The Haftarah is Isaiah 40:27–41:16.
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