Shabbat - 6/2/07 (16 Sivan 5767)

For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week's reading -- Beha'alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16). Topics in Beha'alotcha: The Menorah, Consecration of the Levites, Apprenticeship and responsibility, The Pesach offering in the Wilderness, Pesach sheni/The second Pesach offering, Divine signs of the Israelites’ travels, The Trumpets, The order of breaking camp, Moses invites Jethro to join the nation, The first journey, The Ark goes forth, The complainers, Dissatisfaction with the manna, Moses’ despair, The Sanhedrin, G-d responds to the people, New prophets, The quail, Moses’ uniqueness is challenged and affirmed, Miriam is quarantined, The command to send pies to Eretz Yisrael, Moses prays for Joshua, The spies’ report, Caleb is shouted down, National hysteria, The people could not be placated, Israel is threatened with extermination, Moses’ successful plea, Moses’ successful plea, G-d spells out the decree, A chastened nation realizes too late, The libations, Challah, The atonement for public, unintentional idol worship, Individual idol worship, Intentional Idolatry, Sabbath desecration in the Wilderness, Tzitzis and all the commandments For more information about this week's Parsha, please visit these sites. Orthodox Union Chabad Aish HaTorah United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism Union for Reform Judaism Jewish Reconstructionist Federation