Bamidbar 5777

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Parshat Bamidbar

Service Times

1 Sivan 5777 26 May 2017

Shabbat Kabbalat Shabbat

19:30

(Candle Lighting)

19:40

Shacharit

09:15

Leining

10:15

Mincha & Seudah

21:20

Shabbat Ends

22:33

Weekday Shacharit

Mincha & Ma’ariv

Sun

09:00

19:30

Mon

09:00

19:30

Tues

07:00

20:45

Wed Thur Fri

Please refer to Shavuot Timetable 07:00

19:30*

Candle Lighting

19:45

Security team: Orange

Chayim Arukim

to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows Mon

Mon

29 May 4 Sivan

Tues

Michael Green

Father

Lady Beryl Steinberg Mother

30 May 5 Sivan

Sandra Jaffa

Father

Wed

Vivian Newgrosh Linda Braunstein

Father Father

31 May 6 Sivan

Thurs

1 June 7 Sivan

Fri

2 June 8 Sivan

Page No.s Artscroll Gutnick Hertz

Leining

Haftarah

726 848 567

1180 1444 584

Thought For The Week Making The Investment The book of Numbers, ‘Bamidbar’ acquires

survival. Contained within it is the Love of

its name from the census which takes place

Hashem to His people that does not quiver

at the beginning of this week’s Parsha.

or exhaust whether at a time of miraculous joy such as the departing of Egypt or the

* Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

28 May 3 Sivan

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Rashi explains that as a form of Hashem’s

inevitable Sin imbedded in Man’s imperfec-

affection to Bnei Israel, He counts them all

tion (but with equal ability to repent and

the time. The first census occurred when

improve). It is this ‘core Jew’ that G-d is

the Jewish people left Egypt. The second

counting.

after the sin of the Golden Calf, and for a third time as G-d comes to rest His Divine

As the festivities of Shavuot begin, we

Presence in the Mishkan.

raise our heads in pride and actively take part in internalising the Torah. Just as the

The significance of counting goes beyond the

transmitting of the Torah from generation

Ben Solomons Sister Lady Beryl Steinberg Father Niki Lee Father

equality displayed by the census. Hashem

to generation enabled our ancestors to stay

doesn’t just count the wealthy, pious or

strong in their beliefs, Shavuot brings our

Basil Sufrin Larraine Wolff

the famed. Nor is He counting the individual

true identity to surface.

Father Brother

Mazaltov to Michelle & Nick Ross, Paula & Steve Talbot, and Naomi & Dennis Wright, on Talisa, Adam and Esther all graduating as Doctors from the University of Birmingham.

based on their talents and achievements. Rather G-d is counting our identity; the

Rabbi Aharon Bloch

‘Jew’. There is a nucleus that is shared by all of us. It’s this nucleus that makes us a nation that is dependent on each other for

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