- 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
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…t the three passages into a handout which has been distributed so that you can see them together, and can compare them. I’ve decided to focus on Isaac’s deception of Abimelech along with the two earlier passages of deception. Abimelech had already been deceived by Abraham in a similar scenario a couple of chapters back. Maybe Abimelech had a memory problem — but then Abimelech may be a dynastic name and the stories really involve two different Kin…
…ey that insecure? Luckily women today don’t have to wonder about what they can attain physically. Just look at the US women’s soccer team, and our own undefeated UCONN women Huskies. Not to make the guys feel any worse, well, maybe just a little, but are the men’s Huskies undefeated? I think not. Another issue like that is about women in the service. I read an article about women in the Israeli army. Every Israeli citizen 18 years or older serves…
…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…
…o steal. Both have already made a lot of great progress. Coretta & Naftali Caplan and baby Jonah Caplan We live in Westville. Baby Jonah is going to have many different types of Jewish (and some not Jewish) influence from his extended family. We are so excited for him to also have the influence of BEKI, which seems to be deeply respectful of Torah and tradition as well as humanism and egalitarianism. Thank you for your work for our community! Toni…
…n, all of which were highly influenced by my own travels. The series “Vertical Landscapes” were begun after several excursions around Eastern Europe in the 1970s and ’80’s. Each structure is based on a very distinct place in the former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia or in Rumania, and the titles often refer to the historical events or essential qualities of these specific locations. “From the Venetian Glass Pen” was a series based on the many walks an…
…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 in Horodezky), which in distinction to the rest of the collection are from the manuscript of Admor. 3. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 8; Horodezky, pp. 45-47. 4. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 20; Horodezky, pp. 52-53. 5. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 235; Hor…
…g services. The entire congregation is invited and must be included in the calculation of number of guests. a. Sponsoring Kiddush prepared by BEKI Kiddush Team This fee (prices as of March 2024) includes a dairy buffet lunch, announcement and publication of sponsorship, wine & grape juice, setting up and clean-up of the room, trash removal and standard custodial services. These BEKI volunteers can manage up to 50 invited guests in addition to the…
…low relatives of the first degree to have consecutive aliyot. That is, you cannot call up two siblings or a parent and child one after the other. The reasons for not calling them in succession would apply even more for calling them simultaneously. Another problem, one that would apply at BEKI, is that we determine a woman’s tribal status for purposes of aliya based on her father’s tribe, i.e., we call a daughter of a Kohen or Levi for the Kohen or…
…of all the people. Imagine if the parshah has told us, tribe by tribe, the number of people in each tribe, and separately, the number of males, 20 and up, who were fit for service. Would that kind of census send a different message to us, a message saying, “everyone counts”, including all the women? The second census, what I’ll call the redemption census, I find a strange one. It requires counting of all the male Levites who were at least a month…
