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85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…e Jewish religion while the Temple stood. The rest of the Torah has historical, philosophical, and legal interest to Jews of the Temple period, but VaYiqra, as a guidebook to sacrifice and the atonement of sin, contained an immediate, practical, concrete blueprint for how to get right with God. This was the owner’s manual of the Jewish way of being in the world-the most relevant, practical, and important book of the Bible for Jews of the Temple pe…
…28 Feb Parashat HaShavua with Rabbi Tilsen & Nadav Sela (Parashat Ki Tisa – Shabbat Para) February 28, 2021 10:00 am – 10:50 am Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…erasha; a talk on topics relating to a parasha (section) of the Torah, typically the weekly reading; a homily; a topical Bible commentary for an occasion. Shabbat Para & Parashat Ki Tisa 2020 – by Teya Klein Berger, 18 Adar 5780 – 14 March 2020 Shabbat Para & Parashat Ki Tisa 2020 – by Hannah Klein Berger, 18 Adar 5780 – 14 March 2020 Kol Nidre 2019 – by BEKI President Yaron Lew, 10 Tishrei 5780 – 8 October 2019 Peace, Love & Survival: Parashat No…
…Dina & Michael Secchiaroli, 10-11 November 2017, parashat Hayei Sara Dani Callaghan, child of Rebecca Gratz & Steve Sitrin, and of Joseph Callaghan, 3-4 November 2017, parashat VaYera Ella May, child of Becky & C.J. May, 11-12 August 2017, parashat Eqev Hannah Herbst, child of Roy & Karen Herbst, 9-10 June 2017, parashat BeHa`alotekha Elijah Light, child of Rachel Light & Jonathan Freiman, and of Eban Light, 12-13 May 2017, parashat Emor Sarah Ra…
…equiring a second toothbrush. According to Dr. Alan Gelbert, a prominent local dentist and past president of BEKI, “It is considered a good idea to have more than one brush so it can dry completely between uses, resulting in less transmission of bacteria.” Caring for one’s body is itself a religious obligation, as the Good Book says: “Only take good care of yourself, and guard your life diligently,” etc. (Deut. 4:9). To the extent that separate to…
…e. He contributed greatly through his civic leadership, with Boy Scouts, local libraries, historical societies and the like. He is survived by his his wife Louise Elizabeth “Betty” Holden Stutz, brother Robert, daughter Eleanor, son-in-law Jeffrey Lowell and grandson Galen Frederick Lowell. In making this contribution, Eleanor explained that she wanted to express her gratitude for the blessings of life, love and wisdom that she received through he…
…e includes the name of the deceased, date of death according to the Hebrew Calendar, and the corresponding date in the civil calendar from last Rosh HaShana to the end of the current Hebrew year. All of this information and more is already available on the web through public sources. There is no private information displayed. Want to pray elsewhere? BEKI members on the road who want to make a daily or Shabbat service elsewhere can find a minyan sc…
…“fence” to protect Torah, why this “fence” is a defining feature of classical Judaism, and why this “fence” is essential to the survival of the Jewish People. I am not using the most common definition of siyag laTorah. Rather, the “fence” to the Torah means the teaching of the reasons for the law (as the term “siyag laTorah” is used in Mekhilta deRabbi Yishmael and elsewhere), which includes, but goes beyond, the concept of טעמי המצות ta`amei ha-…
…is a great national achievement and I’m a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International. Yet the issue of rights is sometimes used as a cover for wrongs. Those who defend the hate-radio programs of G. Gordon Liddy, Ken Hamblin and others of their ilk contend that private efforts to silence that hate speech constitute an abridgement of their freedom of speech. Those who appeal to the decency or civic duty of s…
…ly Conservative rabbis – using the aptly-named bully pulpit to wield political power, but I am not quite sure how we could implement a comparable sanction in the Jewish world. I do not believe that denying Senator Lieberman the rite of single malt Scotch whiskey at qiddush unless he votes according to our instructions will work. As far as I can tell, Joe is a man of principle, and besides, he seems to be able to get along with the blended Scotch,…
