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 Parashah summary below.


All are welcome to join Rabbi Adele at Marta's for Kabbalat Shabbat Ki Tisa, dinner service

6 p.m. [2/22] 


Torah nutshell from kolel.org:

Summary: Parashat Ki Tisa continues with discussion about the building of the Mishkan, (the Tabernacle). The portion begins with instructions for taking a census of the people. Each Israelite adult over the age of twenty must contribute half a shekel, to be used in support of the worship in the Mishkan. Next, there is description of the additional holy implements that need to be created: a copper washstand, the anointing oil and the incense. HaShem then identifies Bezalel, a man endowed with "divine spirit of skill," as the chief artisan and architect of the Mishkan. But, before construction actually begins, HaShem reminds Moses to tell the people about the importance of maintaining Shabbat. At the conclusion of this passage, HaShem gives Moses the original set of the two Tablets, which are inscribed directly by HaShem, and Moses returns to the people.
The Torah's focus then switches down the mountain to the people, and jumps back a bit in time. The people, upset at Moses's delay up on the mountain, approach Aaron to make them an idol, and Aaron complies by creating a molten calf for the people to worship. Both HaShem and Moses become angry with the people, and, upon his return, Moses smashes the Tablets and, together with the Levites, resumes control of the people, and 3,000 are put to death. HaShem threatens to wipe out the people, but, despite his anger and words of rebuke, Moses prays on the people's behalf, and HaShem relents. Moses then returns up the mountain and beseeches HaShem to reaffirm the Covenant. Moses carves a new second set of Tablets, and before he returns, he is treated to a viewing of the Divine Presence. HaShem does reaffirm the Covenant along with all its ritual and ethical implications.

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-Lenny Bruce

The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
-Calvin Trillin

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
-Golda Meir

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
-Peter Malkin

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-Benjamin Disraeli

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
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JEWISH WISDOM:

Fear builds walls to bar the light.  - Baal Shem Tov

 

Engage in Torah and charity even with an ulterior motive, for that habit of right doing will lead also to right motivation.  - Talmud: Pesahim, 50b

The sword comes into the world because of justice delayed and because of justice perverted.- Ethics of the Fathers 5:8

Ever since Rabbi Akiba used the Passover seder to plan a revolutionary struggle against the Roman occupiers, the Jews have used the seder to begin concrete work on tikkun (healing and transformation).

- Rabbi Michael Lerner, the Tikkun Magazine Passover supplement 2006

To work out ends of righteousness and love are you called; not merely to enjoy or suffer.

- S.R. Hirsch, "Nineteen Letters," 1836

“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.”  Golda Meir

The worship of God, though desirable as an end itself, can somehow never be in the right spirit, unless it impels one to the service of man.  - Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan

Concentrate on three things and you will not fall into the grip of sin. Know from where you came, where you are going, and before Whom you will have to give account and reckoning.- Pirkei Avot 3:1

We cannot learn from general principles: there may be exceptions.  - Johanan, Talmud: Kiddushin

A truly generous man is he that always gives, whether it be much or little, before he is asked.- Orchot Tsadiqim

The best security for old age: respect your children.- Sholem Asch

 A Jew can be Jewish with God, against God, but not without God.- Elie Wiesel

He who promotes his own honor at the expense of his neighbor's has no portion in the world to come.- Judah b. Hanina, Genesis Rabbah

Even if all the world tells you, "You are righteous," consider yourself a sinner.  - Rabbi Simlai

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.- Abraham Joshua Heschel, "On Prayer"

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.- Maimonides, "Tzavaah"

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1811), "Likutey Moharan"

Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the faults we see in them.- Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

A man should never impose an overpowering fear upon his household.  - Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 6b

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.- The Talmud

Love unaccompanied by criticism is not love....Peace unaccompanied by reproof is not peace.- Genesis Rabbah 54:3

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BEIT TORAH JEWISH CONGREGATION

an Unaffiliated Jewish Community serving the Tri-city area of Prescott, Prescott Valley, and Chino Valley & surrounding areas.




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We exist thanks to the donations of our members and other interested parties.  We are all volunteers and have no paid staff.  If you would like to give a donation to help us continue our  good works and pay our rent, please send your donations to:

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Please join us Saturday at 10:00am,
for our Shabbat morning Service and Torah Study followed by a vegetarian potluck Kiddush. 
[On weeks when we have Friday evening Kabbalat Shabbat dinner service, there will be no Saturday morning service.]
 [Please check calendar for location and contact information specific to each Shabbat.]
 Please contact Beit Torah 237-0390 for info or to arrange for special requests. 

Our goal is to provide a safe place for people to go for spiritual enrichment and good company, in short a respite away from everyday concerns during the Sabbath and the Holy Days as further explained in Our Principals page.

Please be respectful of people with allergies and medical sensitivities by helping us make all activities free of fragranced products and other adverse odors such as tobacco smoke/residues, paint solvents, etc. 
 

For this coming year we have additional activities including:

1- 
Occasional [once or twice a month?] Shabbat circle Friday evening [or other Holy Day evening] local pot luck dinners [when we have someone to host same] to welcome in the Sabbath [or Holy Days] with gladness, songs, prayers, and good comradery-; and 

2- an online Holocaust study challenge is being set up - sign up for the newsletter to get links to most recent studies.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html.

We are hoping also to have

1-  Additional study sessions such as other study topics of interest with volunteer leaders- please suggest your interests for consideration; and

2-  Late Saturday afternoon light Sabbath pot luck meal/Havdalah service with joyous Sabbath songs and/or timely Jewish topics for discussion- at least once a month.

Please note that we are meeting in private homes.  Anyone willing to volunteer their home or with other ideas on where we can meet, please call 237-0390 or write ansheitorah@cableone.net . Ideally we would like to be able to raise enough funds to have most of our activities at the Stepping Stones facility or a local social hall.


Although we are led by Rabbi Adele, we welcome topic suggestions for these events as well as volunteers to help conduct the services and programs.  We offer the opportunity for you to practice being a Jewish Lay Leader with hands-on experience!

Bar/Bat Mitzvah training as well as Hebrew lessons can be arranged on an individual basis.  Topics to be covered will be based on requests.  Conversational Hebrew, Basic Hebrew reading and prayers may be taught in Religious School classes if requested.  Call Beit Torah to arrange. 237-0390

 
With Chabad Rabbi Elie Filler now moved to the area in the area, the monthly Chabad guest study schedule is discontinued.  Please contact Chabad to find out what offerings they may have: jewishprescott.org .

 

For further information or directions to specific events, please 

call Beit Torah at (928)237-0390

or write ansheitorah@cableone.net

                                              

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