This Week at TBS
Shabbat Services
Erev Shabbat
Services
Friday, Oct 30th, 7:30 PM
This 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.
Shabbat Morning
Services
Saturday, Oct 31st, 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.
Candle Lighting Times
Friday
Erev Shabbat
Light Shabbat Candles at 5:40 PM
Torah Reading
Parashat Vayeira
Chesvan 20, 5787
Oct 31, 2026
Torah Reading:
Vayeira: Genesis 18:1 - 22:24
Haftarah:
Kings II 4:1-37
Announcements
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Erev Shabbat & Hanukkah Potluck at TBS
Friday, December 4 • Time TBD
Join us for an abbreviated Shabbat service, followed by a Hanukkah potluck, kids’ crafts and a White Elephant game. Bring a meat-free entrée, whether vegetarian, vegan or dairy, and a White Elephant gift.
JTTV365 Annual Community Hanukkah Celebration at Lorimar Winery
Sunday, December 6 • 5:30 PM
Celebrate Hanukkah with the community! Volunteers are needed to help set up and staff our table. Food will be available for purchase.
4th Annual Hanukkah Candle Lighting at Promenade Temecula
Wednesday, December 9 • 5:30 PM
Join Rabbi Rosenstein on the ground floor of JCPenney for the Hanukkah story, songs, blessings and the lighting of our very large menorah. Enjoy donuts and crafts!
Talmud Torah of the Temecula Valley
Talmud Torah of the Temecula Valley is the NEW Hebrew School of Temple Beth Sholom, dedicated to providing children with a strong foundation in Jewish learning, values, and identity.
Classes are Sunday Mornings
9am - 12pm
Questions? Please email our School Director, Professor Gwendollyn Ulrich-Schlumbohm, MA History and Religious Studies ABD at TTTV@tbstemecula.org
Upcoming Events
Hanukkah Party and Erev Shabbat ServiceFri, Dec 04Temple Beth Sholom
Hanukkah Candle Lighting CeremonyWed, Dec 09Promenade Mall - Lower JCPenney Court
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.