- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…27 Jun 17th of Tammuz Sanctuary Service & Zoom (Fast Day) June 27, 2021 9:00 am – 10:00 am Home Page Interior Page Sunday, June 27, the 17th of Tammuz (Shiva Asar b’Tammuz), is a fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem in the year […] More Info…
…Nate Kempton Makes a Parve Noodle Kugel …
…10 Sep Majesty in Music for the High Holy Days with Rachel Adelstein via Zoom September 10, 2020 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Join Rachel Adelstein for a talk and exploration of why holiday melodies became so elaborate, with part of the program devoted to listening to examples […] More Info…
…High Holiday meals. (BEKI provides clients with free tickets for High Holiday services.) In the summertime, Kulanu participants may have a joint program with one of BEKI’s social action committees—they will clean up Beaver Pond Park in southern Connecticut, where congregants have held Tashlich services during Rosh Hashana. Kulanu also plans to provide a job training sight at BEKI for adults with developmental disabilities who have the capacity to…
…th lists start with a broad thing to give up and then narrow it down: list number one — go from your land, your birthplace, your father’s house. List number two — take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac. This similarity led me to still others. One of the first, and most obvious, comparisons between the two instances of lekh lekha was that in both, God is sending Abraham on a journey. In the first lekh lekha, God is starting Abraham o…
…hei HaBesht (Tel Aviv: Devir) 5707/1947, 5735/1975, p. 35. A table of tale numbers and the corresponding page numbers in other editions is given at the back of the book by Ben-Amos and Mintz. 2. Violence is neither advocated nor condoned in these tales to any significant extent, whereas many tales strongly advocate the efficacy and advantages of nonviolence. The main exception to this generalization are a few of the first fifteen tales (pp. 39-51…
…n at the Annual Meeting, and a wonderful morning of landscape work last Sunday. In VaEthanan, we see that the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness were winding down, and although Moshe was eager to continue doing what he had done so well for so long, the time was coming for Joshua to take charge. Moses wasn’t the right man to lead the people into battle. A new era was about to begin. New leadership was taking over, with new objectives and a new…
…28 Jun Cancelled for this week: Berakhot Talmud Study Group June 28, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am Berakhot Talmud Study Group A weekly study of the Mishna, leading to Gemara study, will be held in the Beit Midrash on Thursday mornings 10a–11a […] More Info…
…be encrusted with blood. The Germans had raided a synagogue during a Saturday morning prayer service just like this one and shot the man who had been reading from that very Torah. The bullet must have gone right through him and the Torah scroll. His blood stained the scroll. I found myself singing the part of the Torah with the bullet hole. As it turns out the person had been reading the same part of VaYiqra I had learned a few weeks before. And…
…e at the time of the first two stories is a little surprising — she was 65 years old in the first and 90 in the second — but apparently still beautiful. Apparently in those days and places, men would kill a husband in order to take the victim’s beautiful wife for themselves. In fact there are accounts of similar occurrences in Egyptian records and in stories of other ancient peoples. Notes to the first episode in our Etz Hayim humash mention an an…
