Shavua tov and Chodesh tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Terumah and to Purim.
Shavua tov — a good new week to you! And Chodesh tov — a good new month to you; the new lunar month of Adar begins tonight at sundown, which means it’s two weeks until Purim!
Join us for Shabbat services at 9:30am on Saturday morning led by Rabbi Rachel. This week we’re reading from parashat Terumah. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha, here are a few:
- 2006: Weaving parashat Terumah into our lives
- 2007: The place we build for God
- 2009: The gifts [Torah poem]
- 2011: Home [Torah poem]
- 2012: On gifts, sanctuaries, & hearts
- 2013: God Dwelling in Us
- 2015: The Torah of 40
- 2016: The space between
- 2017: Dwelling In Us
- 2017: Face to Face
- 2018: God in exile, school shootings, and building the mishkan together
Here’s commentary from Steve Silbert and Rabbi David Markus at Builders Blog, a project of Bayit: Building Jewish:
And here are commentaries from the URJ:
Hope to see you soon at CBI. Save the date and join us at 6pm on Monday March 9 for Purim!