Shabbat
Please see the calendar for the most up-to-date access platforms for services.
FRIDAY EVENINGS
Shabbat Potluck Dinners
Discontinued until further notice
Shabbat Evening Services
6:00 pm | Fridays
Our Shabbat evening service will embrace you and touch your soul. Fresh and familiar music will enable you to give voice to your own spirit. Special occasions in the lives of our congregants, Jewish teachings, sermons from our rabbis and extraordinary music will enhance “Shabbat, our sanctuary in time.”
Kodesh and Coffee
After services | Fridays.
Join our warm and welcoming Temple Beth Sholom family after Shabbat evening services. Meet with old friends and make new friends, enjoy light refreshments, and celebrate the joy of Shabbat together.
Shabbat Club
During evening services | Fridays
Children age 2 through grade 4 meet for a Shabbat experience under the supervision of our early childhood department. For details call the school office.
SATURDAY MORNINGS
Torah Study
9:30–10:30 am | Saturdays
Start your Saturday morning with Torah study and a bagel with a schmear of cream cheese. Prior to our Shabbat morning minyan, you will study parashat hashavua, the weekly Torah portion. The rabbis will lead a discussion of ancient commentaries and teachings and reveal the Torah’s modern and relevant lessons.
Shabbat Minyan
10:30 am | Saturdays
Join us weekly to renew your spirit in our beautiful sanctuary or chapel. Our clergy and members of our congregation help to lead the prayers and read the Torah.
Tot Shabbat
10:00 am | Saturdays
This lively service, for pre-school-age children and their young families, combines prayer, music, stories, snacks and much more. (Offered when Temple Beth Sholom Innovative School is in session.) For details contact Director of Congregational Engagement Mark Baranek.
Shabbat Shaboom
5:30 pm | Select Fridays
Temple Beth Sholom in conjunction with the Fantastic Party Factory offers a fun Friday night Shabbat series designed to integrate young children.
Family Shabbat
Each Saturday morning, jLAB students in grades K-5 and their parents (and other significant grown-ups) gather together in the chapel from 9:30–10:00 am for a lively Shabbat morning t'filah experience. This is a great opportunity to learn the prayers of our liturgy and connect with the words of our prayer service. All those with children in this age group are welcome to join us! Contact Director of SLJ Barb Shimansky for more details.
B’nei Mitzvah Service
Our b’nei mitzvah services are held at 10:30 am and 4:30 pm. These services occur only when a member of the Temple is celebrating the occasion of becoming bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah. Please see HaKol or the calendar section on the main web page for the current schedule.
Note: We are happy to share TBS services with those unable to attend in person through automated recording and livestreaming, available on our website and on our YouTube channel. The camera will be focused on the bimah and areas to the side and front of the Ark. Your presence in those areas indicates your consent to your image appearing on the livestream. Tune in live or watch previously streamed services and programs.
Mon, May 23 2022
22 Iyar 5782
Main Calendar
parshat emor
- Laws regulating the lives and sacrifices of the priests are presented. (21:1-22:33)
- The set times of the Jewish calendar are named and described: the Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the Pilgrimage Festivals of Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. (23:1-44)
- God commands the Israelites to bring clear olive oil for lighting the sanctuary menorah. The ingredients and placement of the displayed loaves of sanctuary bread are explained. (24:1-9)
- Laws dealing with profanity, murder, and the maiming of others are outlined. (24:10-23)
Additional Torah commentaries can be found on the Reform Judaism website.
