Parshat Lekh L’kha

Our regular Friday night and Saturday morning services will be held this weekend, October 26th and 27th. Friday night services start at 7:00 pm and Saturday morning start at 9:00 am with the Torah reading around 10:00 am. There will be a tot shabbat for pre-schoolers at 10:30am.

Cantor Ben Moshe Message: This Shabbat is a special one in synagogues in Israel-the reading of Parshat Lekh L’kha, which begins with God’s command to Avram (not yet Abraham) to leave “…your land, your birthplace and your father’s house” to go to “…the land which I will show you.” Our patriarch Avram was the first ‘oleh hadash, new immigrant to Israel, and it is the custom there to honor those who immigrated in the preceding year. The Sages considered the Land of Israel to be one of God’s greatest gifts to us, after the Torah. For more than three thousand years, Israel has been our home-“our land, our birthplace and our fathers’ house”. Even as we have moved from one exile to another, we’ve always looked towards our own country. May God continue to protect the Land and the State of Israel.
Shabbat Shalom.