This Week at TBS
Services
Rabbi Sandy Rosenstein, and the entire congregation of Temple Beth Sholom would like to invite all Jewish and Jewish Interfaith families to join us for Shabbat services every Friday night and Saturday morning.
Friday Night
Erev Shabbat Services
Friday, June 20th, 7:30 PM
his service, in both English and Hebrew, is musical, upbeat, and includes a timely, thought-provoking sermon. Kiddish and an Oneg follow services. It is a perfect way to mark the transition from the workweek to the Sabbath. and we hope that you will join us.
Saturday Morning
Shabbat Services
Saturday, June 21st, 10:00 AM
This service includes beautiful congregational melodies, traditional prayers, in both English and Hebrew, as well a full Torah Service. There is always a sermon, usually connecting the Torah portion to something relevant to those living in the 21st century. Services usually conclude around 12:30 PM, followed by a light kiddish lunch.
Candle Lighting Times
Friday, June 20, 2025
Sivan 24, 5785
Light Shabbat Candles at 7:44 PM
Parashat Shlach
Torah: Numbers 13:1 - 15:41
Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24
Announcements
Join us Via Zoom with Stuart Wald
Have you ever heard the statement “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” How about “Build a fence around the Torah”, or “Say little, do much”? They are all found in Pirkei Avot, the Sayings of the Fathers, a set of ethical statements and teachings which our Sages put together to support the legal rules of Judaism. Traditionally, Jews gather and learn from the Sayings on spring and summer weekend afternoons, and that is what we are going to do here at TBS.
Shir Hadash Song Group
Come and enjoy the warmth of our community as we sing old Jewish favorites and learn new songs and melodies! All are welcome.
RSVP to info@tbstemecula.org if you'd like to participate.
Upcoming Kids Programming Dates:
Rosh Hashanah Young Family ServiceSun, Sep 14Location will be provided
Sukkot Young Family ProgramSun, Oct 12Location will be provided
Torah for Tots!Sat, Nov 15Temple Beth Sholom
Hanukkah Young Family ProgramSun, Dec 14Location will be provided
The Acheinu Prayer for the Release of All Captives
The following prayer for the release of captives appears in our liturgy as early as the 9th century and again in the 11th century in a slightly different version. We Jews are no strangers to praying for the release of our people from every kind of enemy – be they highway men, terrorists, or even enemy countries. These days, in many congregations, it is said before the Torah is returned to the Ark on Monday and Thursday mornings. The old Italian tradition places the prayer after the announcement of the New Moon – also when the Torah was out.
“Our family, the whole house of Israel, who are in distress, or in captivity — who stand either in the sea or on dry land — may the Omnipresent have mercy on them and take them out from narrowness to expanse, and from darkness to light, and from oppression to redemption, now, swiftly, and soon!” Let us say, Amen.
Prayer for the State of Israel
Avinu Sh’bah shemayim, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, may it be the beginning of our redemption. Shield it with Your lovingkindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel.
May your name be sanctified in its midst. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory. Ordain justice andpeace in the land, and grant joy of heart to all who seek you there.
May the law go forth from Zion and the word of God from Jerusalem. May Israel become a light unto the nations, and a sign of redemption for all the earth.
Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land. Amen.
Prayer for the Well-Being of the Israel Defense Forces
May the Holy one who blessed our fore-parents Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah - bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may God send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May God bring our enemies under our soldiers’ sway and may God grant our IDF soldiers and all who guard Mehdinat Israel salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies, for you, to save you.