10/3/26: Shabbat bulletin

The information below comes from our printed Shabbat Bulletin. We have transitioned our voice to the web, making all materials easily available for our members who are attending services online.  

Service Times

• Shabbat evening services Fridays at 6:00 p.m.
• Junior Congregation Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.
• Level Up Shabbat Every Other Saturday at 10:45 a.m.
• Manny’s Service Saturdays at 11:15 a.m.
• Morning Service (8:00 a.m. on Sunday / 7:30 a.m. Monday – Friday)
• Evening Service (7:00 p.m. Sunday – Thursday / 6:00 p.m. on Friday)
• Shabbat Services:
  • Candle Lighting: Oct. 2 at 6:42 p.m. | Oct. 9 at 6:30 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Oct. 3 at 8:45 a.m. | Oct. 3 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma'ariv: Oct. 3 at 6:40 p.m. | Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m.
  • Candle Lighting from existing flame: Oct. 3 at 7:40 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Oct. 4 at 7:39 p.m. | Oct. 10 at 7:29 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

The Beth Shalom Sisterhood for providing the beautiful holiday flowers on the bimah.

The participants in the Shabbat/Shemini Atzeret services on Saturday, October 3, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Debby Gillman, Steve Berger, Sheldon Catz
Kohelet: Sheldon Catz, Kobi Tav, Jonathan Weinkle, Danny Kass
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Ilanit Helfand, Adam Kolko, Rebecca Dupuis, Nitzan Helfand, Alex Helfand
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Helen Feder

The participants in the Simhat Torah services on Sunday, October 4, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Sheldon Catz
Torah Readers (morning) & Haftarah: Adam Kolko, Matan Love, Tammy Hepps, Ilanit Helfand, Shoshanna Barnett, Kobi Tav
Gabbaim: Ira Frank

This Week's Torah Reading

Shemini Atzeret

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Deuteronomy 14:22-29	Ilanit Helfand	1074
2.	15:1-18	Adam Kolko	1076
3.	15:19-23	Rebecca Dupuis	1080
4.	16:1-3	Nitzan Helfand	1081
5.	16:4-8	Ilanit Helfand	1082
6.	16:9-12	Ilanit Helfand	1083
7.	16:13-17	Ilanit Helfand	1084
Maftir	Numbers 29:35-30:1	Ilanit Helfand	936
Haftarah	I Kings 8:54-66	Alex Helfand	1263

Minhah - Erev Simhat Torah - V’zot Habrakhah

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Deuteronomy 33:1-7	Adam Kolko
2.	33:8-12	Adam Kolko
3.	33:13-17	Adam Kolko

Simhat Torah

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Deuteronomy 33:1-7	Adam Kolko	1202
2.	33:8-12	Adam Kolko	1204
3.	33:13-17	Adam Kolko	1205
4.	33:18-21	Matan Love	1206
5.	33:22-26	Tammy Hepps	1208
6.	33:27-34:12	Tammy Hepps	1209
7.	Genesis 1:1-2:3	Ilanit Helfand	3
Maftir	Numbers 29:35-30:1	Shoshanna Barnett	936
Haftarah	Joshua 1:1-18	Kobi Tav	1267

Reminder

If you have placed someone on our Mi Sheberakh list, so that we may pray for their healing, and they have since become well enough to be removed from the list, please let Rabbi’s Assistant Ashley Burse know, at RabbiAsst@BethShalomPgh.org or 412-421-0178.

I've Always Wondered

The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask. Click here to read her blog!

Do You Know Your Hebrew Name? Please Write It Down!

Do you know your Hebrew Name? Can you spell it in Hebrew? Do you know the names of your relatives, of those before you and those younger than you? For whom were you named? Do you spell your name the same way? Do you need help with this? We are here. Please collect your family’s full Hebrew names and keep them somewhere safe. We can keep them for you, as well.

Better now than searching years later. As we spend more time with family at home and calling our relatives, we are well situated to do the research.

Your Hebrew name follows the format XXXXXX child of YYYYYY and ZZZZZZ, where XXXXXX is your given Hebrew name, YYYYYY is one parent’s given name, and ZZZZZZ is the other parent’s given name.

Please email Ashley Burse, Rabbi’s Assistant, at aburse@bethshalompgh.org with your name or with questions about finding your name.

Yahrzeits

The following Yahrzeits will be observed this Shabbat and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there are memorial plaques, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here.

FOR THE WEEKS OF OCT. 3 - 16, 2026 22 TISHREI - 5 HESHVAN, 5787

Betty Arron
Samuel Bales
Marian Weisman Balis
Reuben Balter
Henrietta M. Belsky
Rachel Berdicheskaya
Louis Berez
Alvin A. Berkson
Helen Berlin
Anna Bertenthal
Harry Binenkorb
Ada Biron
Samuel Bovitch
Nathan Bradlin
Anna Brown
Bob Buchwach
Fanny C. Caplan
Irving David Caplan
Jack Caplan
Abe Cazen
Morris Chamovitz
Shauna Childs
Belle Chussitt
Mollie E. Cohen
Samuel Cohen
Henry Daniels
Harry B. Davis
Sally Dizenfeld
Sylvia Z. Doniger
Ruth Z. Dym
Joseph Yosef Eaton
Michael Epstein
Herbert Feder
Harry Feldstein
Nathan Finegold
Mendel Finn
Isaac Firestone
Milton Flesch
Ruth Frankston Foreman
Rose Freed
Beverly Freiwirth
Joseph Gerend
Pesha B. Gilberg
Charles T. Glick
Lynda H. Goldsmith
Bessie M. Gordon
William Gorman
Mae K. Graff
Jacob Green
Milton E. Green
Bella Hadas
Doreen Halpern-Shuty
Joel Harris
Robert Samuel Harris
Hyman Helfant
Marian Hershman
Lena Herskovitz
Estelle Hydovitz
Harry Hydovitz
Mordechai Ianovsky
Leonard F. Jacobson
Harry Joseph Kalson
Frances I. Kantor
Louis Kaplan
Jacob Karelitz
Lena G. Kart
Herman W. Kaufmann
Sam Kirshenbaum
Simon Klein
Harris Lange
Mark Lawrence Lasser
Theodore H. Lazar
William J. Lazar
Allen Lebovitz
Leah Lembersky
Jennie Levin
Samuel Levine
Samuel M. Levinson
Goodman Levy
Bessie T. Lincoff
Isabelle Lubin
Samuel Lubowski
Maurice L. Lyon
Ben Makoroff
Anna Mandell
Ralph Marcovsky
Sam Marunich
Dave Miller
Samuel Minsky
Donald B. Mintz
Marjorie Mittleman
Ruth S. Morris
David N. Neustein
Irwin Willie Newman
Gertrude Palkovitz
Gittel Pearlstein
Frances S. Perell
Aaron Perlman
Rose Radbord
Jacob Raymon
Philip Reicher
Samuel Reingold
Vernon Reingold
Rose K. Rosen
Morris Rosenblum
Anna L. Ruben
Sarah R. Rubenstein
Marvin Rudo
Bess Russman
Mollie F. Ruttenberg
Bernice G. Sadwick
Esther Libby Salzman
Melvin H. Samuels
Miriam Saron
Edith A. Schaffer
Fannie Scheinholtz
Alan Schnitzer
Kurt Schreiber
Anna Schwartz
Harry Seiavitch
Lena Seiavitch
Gilbert E. Shepse
Louis M. Sieff
Anna Silverman
Samuel Smolar
Israel Sniderman
Anna B. Solomon
Jerome Solomon
Ellen Gordon Spatt
Sam S. Spero
Bessie Stein
Joseph Stein
Louis Stern
Leona Stutin
J. Samuel Sugerman
Saul Tanur
Saul David Taylor
Marion D. Topolsky
Donald Udell
Ida H. Wagner
Esther M. Weil
Yoel Weil
Albert J. Wein
Abraham Moses Weinkle
Clara M. Weintraub
Esther Weisman
Joseph E. Weisman
Harold B. Weissman
Sylvia Williams
Flora Wolf
Susan M. Wolf
Ephraim Wolhendler
Hannah Wolhendler
Hinda Wolhendler
Lipman Wolhendler
Sarah Wolhendler
Yochevet Wolhendler
Sara Jolson Zalkin
Jacob Zeman