This Week at TBS
Shabbat Services
Friday Night
Erev Shabbat Services
Friday, May 8th, 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.
Saturday Morning
Shabbat Services
Saturday, May 9th, 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
Shabbat
Friday, May 9, 2026
Iyar 21, 5786
Light Shabbat Candles at 7:19 PM
Shabbat Torah Reading
Parashat Behar-Bechukotai
Iyar 22, 5786
May 10, 2026
Torah Reading: Leviticus 25:1 - 27:34
Haftarah: Jeremiah 16:19 - 17:14
Announcements
Tikkun Lyel Shavuot
Here is a partial list of our presenters and topics:
Stuart Wald - "The Fate of the 10 Lost Tribes"
Cantor Mark Grosser - "Journey of Jewish Prayer"
Griselda Pineda - "Returning to Presence: A Jewish Mindfulness Experience for Shavuot"
Dr. Fred Reiss - “Sepher Yetzirah and God’s Great Name.”
Rabbi Sandy Rosenstein - "Ruth, Judaism's First Convert"
We still have room for one or two more presenters.
Contact Rabbi Rosenstein VERY SOON with your ideas at
Erev Shabbat Shavuot Service
Join us for a very special Erev Shabbat Shavuot service where we will honor and celebrate students who have recently completed The Miller Program: Introduction to Judaism Course taught by Rabbi Rosenstein
Date: Friday, May 22.
Time: 7:00 PM (note the earlier start time!)
Highlights will include celebrating with students and their families, special prayers for Shavuot, a reading of the Book of Ruth, and a delicious Oneg.
NEW ADULT LEARNING COURSE
A new NJOP Crash Course in Hebrew Reading Level I will begin Thursday, June 25 from 4-6 PM taught by Rabi Rosenstein.
The course will last approximately 7-8 weeks.
You will learn to read the wiggles and squiggles, how to pronounce all sounds of the alphabet and pick up some basic vocabulary on the way. This course is suitable for adults of all ages. Now is the time to sign up. The course will be offered via Zoom. The is cost is $126.00 which includes instruction and access to NJOP’s educational supplements and videos.
Contact Rabbi Rosenstein at office@tbstemecula.org for further information or questions.
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.
There is still time to enroll!
Every Sunday Morning
9am - 12pm
We are excited to announce that every enrolled student receives a scholarship covering the 2025-2026 academic year (Bar/Bat Mitzvah training excluded).
Questions? Please email our School Director, Professor Gwendollyn Ulrich-Schlumbohm, MA History and Religious Studies ABD at TTTV@tbstemecula.org
Upcoming Events
Story Time with Miss GwenSat, May 09Temple Beth Sholom
- Ice Cream SocialSun, May 17Temple Beth Sholom
Tikkun Lyel Shavuot - Night of Jewish LearningThu, May 21Temple Beth Sholom
Shavuot Young Family ProgramSun, May 24Temple Beth Sholom
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.