12/6/25: 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.
• 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: Dec. 5 at 4:35 p.m. | Dec. 12 at 4:35 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Dec. 6 at 9:15 a.m. | Dec. 13 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Dec. 6 at 4:05 p.m. | Dec. 13 at 4:05 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Dec. 6 at 5:35 p.m. | Dec. 13 at 5:36 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Alex Helfand, Ilanit Helfand, Dina Shtull and Steve Leber, and Bill and Harriet Helfand for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of Nitzan becoming a bat mitzvah.

The Kolko Family for sponsoring this week’s third meal in loving memory of Dvorah Kolko.

The participants in the Shabbat services on December 6, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Alex Helfand, Nitzan Helfand
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Nitzan Helfand, Dina Shtull, Harriet Helfand, Kiva Shtull, Ilanit Helfand, Adam Kolko
Others: Ira Frank, Adam Kolko

Mazal Tov to:

Maureen Kelly Busis, Robin Halpern, Lisa Zeidner Marcus, Jane Rollman, and Michael Supowitz for receiving this year’s Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle Volunteers of the Year award from various local organizations.

Condolences to:

Steven (Lynn) Hecht on the passing of his mother, Helen Hecht, on Friday, November 28, 2025.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Vayishlach

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 32:4-6	Nitzan Helfand	198
2.	32:7-9	Nitzan Helfand	198
3.	32:10-13	Nitzan Helfand	199
4.	32:14-22	Dina Shtull	200
5.	32:23-30	Harriet Helfand	200
6.	32:31-33:5	Kiva Shtull	202
7.	33:6-20	Ilanit Helfand	204
Maftir	33:18-20	Nitzan Helfand	205
Haftarah	Obadiah 1:1-21	Nitzan Helfand	222

Minhah – Vayeshev

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 37:1-3	Adam Kolko
2.	37:4-7	Adam Kolko
3.	37:8-11	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 DEC. 6 – 12, 2025 16 – 22 KISLEV 5786

Rhoda A. Alpern
Esther R. Anish
Samuel B. Aronson
Rudolph Bauer
Ethel Ann Becker
Sarah Berer
Mildred Berkowitz
Richard I. Bluestone
Sarah Braun
Louis Briskman
Florence L. Burechson
Sarah Cederbaum
Manuel Charie
Morris A. Cohen
Gertrude P. Elias
Leonard Enelow
Irving Epstein
Sidney Epstein
Charles Jacob Favish
Reuben Fisher
David Frank
Henry Gilbert
Rose Glasser
Florence Goldberg
Rabbi Morris Goldberg
Rachel L. Goldberg
Morris D. Golden
Robert A. Green
Morris B. Greenberg
Harry Hadas
Norman Halperin
Florence Kannensohn Harris
Grace Salzman Harris
Martin Hepps
Leon Hershberg
Dave Hoffman
Lena Hornstein
Sarah Hourvitz
Leo Huttner
Fannie Isazauk
Louis Jacobson
Rose F. Jacobson
Ben M. Kaiserman
Lillian Katzman
Lawrence S. Kessler
Zalman Kleban
Winifred Klee
Abraham W. Klemp
Barbara Laine
Charlotte Lang
Harold Lasser
Ben Lazarus
Byron F. Levy
Fannie Malkin
Maurice Malkin
Joseph Mandel
Carl Markovitz
Mary Maysels
Esther B. Mazerov
Nathan Merenstein
Anna Moss
Louis D. Moss
Esther Neiman
Leonard I. Ortenberg
Rella G. Pascal
Fannie C. Pavloff
Irving R. Pearlman
Pauline Pearlman
Solomon W. Platt
Solomon Rosenbloom
A. J. Rosenshine
Anna Rosenthal
Harry Rosenthal
Larry Rosenthal
Sophie Saffro
Harry A. Sapira
Lillian Schoenfeld
Louis Schultz
Harry Schwartz
Eva P. Seiner
Morris J. Semins
Harold Sharpe
Eileen Sheer
Charles Sherry
Genia Sidransky
Werner Simon
Rebecca Smolover
Bess T. Solomon
Norman J. Solow
Henche Stark
Rhea C. Starr
Haim Sukharchuk
Jane Charlotte Weisman
Morris Whitman
Joseph Younger