11/8/25: 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: Nov. 7 at 4:51 p.m. | Nov. 14 at 4:44 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Nov. 8 at 9:30 a.m. | Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Nov. 8 at 4:20 p.m. | Nov. 15 at 4:15 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Nov. 8 at 5:51 p.m. | Nov. 15 at 5:44 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Diane Silberg & Stanley Kirshenbaum for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in celebration of their 70th birthdays.

Gil Schneider for sponsoring this week’s third meal in memory of his father, Maxwell M. Schneider.

The participants in the Shabbat services on November 8, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Paul Wallach, Steve Berger, Jonathan Weinkle
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Hazzan Barbara Barnett, Jonathan Weinkle, Zarky Rudavsky, Phillip Barnett, Jordan Fischbach
Others: Ira Frank, Helen Feder

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Vayera

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 18:1-5	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	41
2.	18:6-8	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	43
3.	18:9-14	Jonathan Weinkle	43
4.	18:15-21	Jonathan Weinkle	44
5.	18:22-26	Zarky Rudavsky	45
6.	18:27-30	Zarky Rudavsky	46
7.	18:31-33	Zarky Rudavsky	46
Maftir	18:31-33	Zarky Rudavsky	48
Haftarah	II Kings 4:1-37	Jordan Fishbach	65

Minhah – Hayyey sarah

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 23:1-7	Phillip Barnett
2.	23:8-12	Phillip Barnett
3.	23:13-16	APhillip Barnett

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. 8 – 14, 2025 17 – 23 CHESVAN 5786

Rose Abramson
Richard Adelson
Max A. Antis
Edith S. Averbach
Isadore J. Averbach
Louis Azen
Howard Bernstein
James Cohen
Amos Comay
Jacquilin Robbins Craig
Bernard Davidson
Hillel Davidson
Jack N. Davis
Sam Diamond
Shirley Farkas
Ben Feldman
Joseph A. Feldman
Lillian Wolf Firestone
Bella R. Fox
Celia G. Freedman
Allen Garfinkel
Ida S. Glassner
Chaim Gorodetsky
Doris Graff
David Greenwald
Barney J. Grossman
Elizabeth Gusky
Morris O. Guttman
Sophie Hausman
Robert Hecht
Rose Hoffman
Joseph Hornstein
Cathy Izenson
Arthur C. Jacobs
Benjamin Jaffee
Beckie Kamerman
Samuel S. Katz
Rena S. Kimball
Evelyn P. Klemp
Morris Kline
Seymoure Krause
Morris Leiner
Anna Roth Levitan
Rose Lieberman
Florence Liepack
Samuel Malitovsky
Saul D. Mallinger
Marla Sue Wallach McFall
Shirley McQuarters
Joseph Mandell
Anne Marmins
Eva R. Mars
Grace Miller
Ruth Naimark
Morris A. Paul
Joseph Reck
Sidney Rice
Sidney Roberts
Richard S. Rosenfeld
Elsie Rosenshine
Bertha Rosenthal
Harold Lew Roth
Rose R. Saltzburg
Pearl Salz
Shirley Lee Schandler
Ferne Shire
Maxwell M. Schneider
Jack Schutte
Mary Selekman Schutte
Louis Segal
Ruth Selkowitz
David H. Shikora
Morris Silver
Fanny Spokane
Rose Stern
Barbara Younger
Joseph Younger
Louis Zweig