Beit HaLev
All livestream Shabbat services, both evening and morning, will begin 30 minutes earlier than usual. Services for Erev Shabbat will now begin at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday morning services start at 10.
Beit HaLev will have live, in-person services beginning in January in Clubhouse 3, Room 4. Masks are required to attend. There will be complimentary Beit HaLev masks available.
Beit HaLev livestream services are on Facebook. com/ galityomtov and Zoom. To join the Zoomagogue community, go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 9152434704?pwd=THJGTE1OUXI5VXFDTWtuZHF4K3VxUT09.
The meeting ID is 915 243 4704, and the passcode is RavGalit.
The Torah reading this week is “Vay’chi,” “and he lived,” from Genesis 49:27-50:26. As Jacob Avinu reaches the end of his life, he gathers his children and grandchildren around his bedside and bestows on each of his progeny a blessing. The sons and grandchildren of Jacob are to become the 12 tribes of Israel. Each blessing contains within it a rebuke and a prophecy. Jacob then asks that his bones be buried next to his wife and ancestors in the Cave of Machpelah in Canaan. Following the burial, Joseph and his brothers return to Egypt, and at the end of the reading, as Joseph’s life is about to end, he asks that his bones also be taken to the land of his ancestors to be buried. This chapter ends the Book of Genesis, “Chazak!”
All Beit HaLev services use special prayerbooks, “Lev L’Lev,” which include excerpts from the Reform Siddur, “Mishkan HaT’filah.” Printed versions of the prayerbooks will be available for sale when Beit HaLev resumes live, in-person services.
Beit HaLev and Rabbi Galit-Shirah are a part of the Union of Jewish Universalist Clergy and Communities. It is progressive in thought and traditional in liturgy. The services are joyous, meaningful and musical. Beit HaLev welcomes everyone who seeks a path to the divine and does not believe in labels. It considers all religions holy and valid.
To request a membership form for Beit HaLev, call Rabbi Galit-Shirah at (562) 715-0888 or email her at duets@icloud.com.
