10:00 am Rabbi Doug Heifetz Leads Shabbat Service If Our Animals Could Talk This week's Torah portion, Parshat Balak, includes the only example in the Torah of an animal who speaks in human language. For a brief moment, a donkey speaks to the prophet Balaam. What does a speaking animal add to the story? What about […]
10:00 am Rabbi Doug Heifetz Leads Shabbat Service The Cycle of Love, Grief, and Renewal At this time of year, the Jewish holiday cycle leads us through a very mournful holiday, Tisha B'Av, followed immediately by the Tu B'Av holiday, a festival of romantic love. What are the historic roots of the holidays? More importantly, […]
6:30 pm Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service Join us for a Potluck Dinner and then a short service for Parsha Shoftim followed by a discussion of a core tenet of Judaism: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue. Torah exhorts us to judge with “righteous judgment.” We mere mortals do not have super-powers, like in the DC or Marvel Universe, […]
8:00 pm on Zoom - Beit Tikvah Book Club Join Rabbi Doug Heifetz and others at the next Book Club meeting. The book we will discuss is Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Here's the description: For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven […]
7:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Service Please join us for an Apples & Honey Dessert Reception following the service. Please send your Reservation Form to beittikvahoffice@gmail.com by Monday, September 30, 2024. For forms and more information, see our High Holy Days 2024 webpage.
Rosh Hashanah 1st Day 10:00 am Rosh Hashanah Morning Service 12:30 pm Kiddush at Beit Tikvah 1:00 pm At Lake Roland: Potluck Lunch - Vegan/vegetarian/dairy dishes only. (Please list ingredients) Tashlich & Art Project - Tashlich involves the casting of bread or stones into a natural body of water in a participatory, […]
Rosh Hashanah 2nd Day 12:00 pm noon – Discussion at The Charmery, 6807 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212: Reflections on the 'Al Het' Prayer – Wrongs and rights on a personal level and societal level. Please RSVP separately for this event to beittikvahoffice@gmail.com by Monday, September 30, 2024. For more information, see our High Holy Days 2024 webpage.
Yom Kippur - Kol Nidre 6:00 pm Observance of Yom Kippur Begins Individual lighting of memorial candles in the reception area. Meditative music and private reflection in the sanctuary. 6:30 pm Kol Nidre Service Please be in the sanctuary by 6:25 pm. Doors then will be closed and will reopen at the conclusion […]
Yom Kippur 10:00 am – Morning Service 12:00 pm – Yizkor (Memorial) Service 2:00 pm – Discussion period 4:45 pm – Afternoon Service and Ne’ilah (Closing) Service (Includes personal prayer time at the Ark) 6:45 pm – Final sounding of the shofar Break-the-Fast Meal following conclusion of services (Reservations required) Please send your Reservation Form to […]
6:30 pm Sukkot Celebration - "Pizza in the Hut" Join us for dinner in our Sukkah at the Roland Park Community Center, followed by a congregant-led short service in celebrating Sukkot, the biblically mandated Harvest Festival. Our ancestors, far more in tune with the seasons, learned to leverage Nature's gifts. Shaking the lulav and etrog will be […]
