11/1/25: 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.
• 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. 31 at 5:59 p.m. | Nov. 7 at 4:51 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Nov. 1 at 9:15 a.m. | Nov. 8 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Nov. 1 at 5:30 p.m. | Nov. 8 at 4:20 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Nov. 1 at 6:58 p.m. | Nov. 8 at 5:51 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Darrell Harden and Fred and Linda Newman for sponsoring this week’s kiddush luncheon in honor of their granddaughter, Maya Newman, becoming a bat mitzvah.

The participants in the Shabbat services on November 1, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Aaron Balleisen, Helen Feder, Maya Newman, Hannah Bein
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Adam Kolko, Jonathan Schecter, Phillip Barnett, Maya Newman
Others: Ira Frank, Steve Berger

Condolences to:

Danny (Debby Gillman) Kass, Judah and Nava Kass on the passing their father and grandfather, Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass, on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Lekh lekha

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 12:1-3	Adam Kolko	41
2.	12:4-9	Adam Kolko	43
3.	12:10-13	Adam Kolko	43
4.	12:14-20	Jonathan Schecter	44
5.	13:1-4	Jonathan Schecter	45
6.	13:5-11	Jonathan Schecter	46
7.	13:12-18	Phillip Barnett	46
Maftir	13:16-18	Maya Newman	48
Haftarah	Isaiah 40:27-41:16	Maya Newman	65

Minhah – Vayera

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 18:1-5	Adam Kolko
2.	18:6-8	Adam Kolko
3.	18:9-14	Adam Kolko

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 WEEK OF NOV. 1 – 7, 2025 10 – 16 CHESVAN 5786

Leah Aronson
Rachel Averbach
Alan Beckerman
Moses Berman
S. Steven Block
Betty Beryl Bogarad
Sylvia Braun
Annie Margolis Caplan
Samuel Chaban
Joe Cherkos
Samuel H. Cooperman
Charles Davis
Yehudi Fichman
Ida Fierman
Sidney Friedman
Minnie Foreman
Ralph Ganz
Minnie Glass
William Glasser
Kathryn Glazer
Henry Glick
Jessie Klee Goldberg
Sadie Goldberg
Israel Goldstein
Sylvia Goodman
Goldie Colker Gross
Katie M. Haitler
Nellie Jacoboson
Rebecca W. Jubelirer
Abraham Kahn
Aaron Kaplan
Pearl Kardon
Katie Katz
Sara Kaufman
Max Keiser
Donald A. Klein
Minnie S. Krakoff
Joseph Z. Kreger
Regina Labowitz
Celie Leitner
Sadie Lewis
Ida Likvornik
Sarah Maglin
Zelig Mandel
Jacob Mankin
George Marvit
Samuel Mellinger
Ben Mermelstein
Harriet Minkin
Rose H. Morris
Lotte Erika Maas Newman
Simon Pascal
Morris A. Pearlstein
Hannah Perlow
Abraham Pittler
Isadore Pober
Nathan Praszkier
Jennie Prince
Prime Min Yitzhak Rabin
Zell Charles Reicher
Selma J. Reiss
Nathan Rice
Charles C. Rosenberg
Yoel Rosenstein
Libby Rosenthal
Meyer Rosenthal
Gabriel Rubin
Arnold Ryave
Harry H. Samuels
Norman Samuels
Sarah R. Schugar
Bernath D. Schwartz
Helen R. Seiavitch
Lena Seiavitch
Israel Shapera
Juda H. Shlyak
Rose Sindler
Mary Smalley
Benjamin Smolar
Sarah R. Solow
Brina L. Steinberg
Seymour Subar
Phillip Teplitz
Benjamin Trust
Edith Trust
Joseph Weinstein
Max Williams
Mania Zaludkowski
Leon Simon Zionts
Ida Zukerman