Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat, to a bat mitzvah, and to Shavuot
Shabbat Services This Week
Join us in the CBI Zoom room at 10:30am on Saturday morning (note the different time) for Shabbat morning services led by Rabbi Rachel, where we will call Sadie Lentzner to Torah as a bat mitzvah!
Torah Portion and Commentaries
This week we’re reading from parashat Bamidbar. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha, here are a few:
- 2006: Portable holiness
- 2007: Ways of counting (at Jewess)
- 2008: Census [Torah poem]
- 2009: Head by head [Torah poem]
- 2011: Kedushat Levi on the census as sacred study
- 2018: Lift up your heads and know that you count
- 2019: Making Everyone Count at Builders Blog
- 2020: God, and community, in the space between
And here’s commentary from the URJ:
Shavuot Is Almost Here!
And save the date for our Tikkun Leyl Shavuot — on Sunday May 16 starting at 7:30pm, we’ll celebrate the revelation of Torah with learning, song, poetry, and more! As we did at Tu BiShvat and Pesach, we’ll join together with Temple Beth El of City Island and Rabbi David Markus for a joint festival celebration, with special guest Rabbi Cyn Hoffman in addition to our own Rabbi Rachel and Rabbi Pam.
We’ll begin at 7:30pm with Festival Maariv (Evening Prayer) — featuring some beautiful melodies we don’t usually hear, and the joyful psalms of Hallel, and also the memorial prayers of Yizkor recited four times a year. We’ll continue at 9pm with Late Night Learning, featuring teachings from members of CBI and members of TBE, the four rabbis in attendance, and even Morgan Freeman, culminating at midnight with a teaching from the Zohar about midnight in the garden of Eden and opening to divine flow.
If you need a Yizkor candle for Shavuot, please reach out to the office. We have a box of them on hand, and will gladly share them with you — just connect with Ollie to confirm a time to pick one up.
We hope to see you soon at CBI.
