This evening’s Family Erev Shabbat Service will begin at 7:30 pm. The students in our Seventh Grade Hebrew class will lead the service. Nancy Friedman and the Children’s Choir will provide the music.
Tomorrow’s Shabbat morning service will begin at 10:00 am. Carol Fefferman will lead the service. Barry Bayer will be the Cantorial Soloist. Carol Fefferman, Jerry Levine,k Nikki Cummings and Larry Burrows will be our Torah Readers.
The Parsha is Vayeira, Genesis 18:1?22:24, a very busy passage. The Lord appeared to Abraham in the form of three strangers. Abraham and Sarah welcome them. One tells them that Sarah will have a son within the year. Sarah, because she was old and no longer menstruating. laughed at the thought. Subsequently, Isaac is born and, upon G-d’s instructions, circumcised. G-d then attends to the evil in S’dom and Gomorah, and Abraham bargins with G-d to save the city if just a few good men can be found.
They can’t be found, but Lot, Abraham’s nephew, lives there with his fmaily. (Lot is presented as a good guy because he offers his virgin daughters to the crowds to save to strangers from them.) They leave the city, but, not following orders, Lot’s wife looks back and is changed into a pillar of salt. They spend the evening in a cave, and Lot’s daughters, thinking the end of the world is near, get their father drunk and have sexual intercourse with him, and become pregnant.
Finally, following G-d’s instructions, Abraham takes Isaac, his only son, to the mountain top and is prepared to sacrifice him before he is stopped. G-d then declares that through Isaac, Abraham will become a great nation.
The Haftarah, II Kings 4:1–37
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