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June 4, 1976
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8:00 p.m.
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Rabbi Jack Segal
All our parents are asked to see to it that their children are
at the synagogue on Friday. After bringing the children to
their classrooms the parents are asked to go to the Main Sanc-
tuary. After the service, parents and children will be reunited
at the blintze Luncheon.
Make this Shavuot an important date on your family’s
calendar.
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DAILY SERVICES: 7:00 a.m. and 8:15 p.m.
EARLY SABBATH EVE SERVICE: 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3 - SHAVUOT EVE
8:15 p.m. J. B. Greenfield Chapel
(the only service that night)
FRIDAY, JUNE 4 - First Day of Shavuot
8:30 a.m. J. B. Greenfield Chapel
10:00 a.m. Main Sanctuary - Chag Habikkurim Celebration
(All Beth Hayeled youngsters will ascend the
pulpit with fruit and flower offerings.) Blintzes
and sour cream luncheon after services.
Main Sanctuary - Hillel Graduation and Con-
firmation.
8:15 p.m. J. B. Greenfield Chapel
SATURDAY, JUNE 5 - Second Day of Shavuot
8:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
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J. B. Greenfield Chapel - Yizkor Service.
Main Sanctuary - Memorial (Yizkor) Service.
7:30 p.m. Mincha, Seudah Shlisheet, Maariv.
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
8:00 p.m. Main Sanctuary - Bar Mitzvah of David S.
Siegel, son of Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Siegel, and
Ernest (Cedric) Silverthorn, son of Mr. & Mrs.
Ernest Silverthorn.
Rabbi Jack Segal will deliver the sermon.
CANDLELIGHTING TIMES:
June 3 (Shavuot) - 7:00 p.m.
June 4 - 7:01 p.m.
June 11 - 7:04 p.m.
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RABBI’S COLUMN:
CHAG HABIKKURIM
This Friday, June 4th is the first
day of Shavuot. It commemorates
the giving of the Ten Command-
ments to Moses on Mount Sinai.
However, as the years went by, in-
novations were introduced to the
synagogue service in order to ener-
gize it and to give it additional
meaning. Hence, it became custom-
ary to read the book of Ruth on
Shavuot, to bring flowers into the
synagogue (and home) on the festi-
val, to eat dairy products (such as
blintzes and sour cream), to have
Confirmation services, etc.
Two years ago at Beth Yeshurun we felt that the time was
once again ripe for the introduction of an additional ritual
which would give additional meaning to the festival. Hence
we developed a Chag Habikkurim ritual, the ritual of the
first fruit.
When the Temple stood in Jerusalem it was customary on
Shavuot for all the farmers to come to Jerusalem with their
first fruits. It was a happy holiday and all these fruits were
brought to the Temple, to the Priests, as a sign of thankfulness
and appreciation to God for having been blessed with a bounti-
ful harvest.
Today, very few of us are farmers, but on the first day of
Shavuot, June 4th, all the children of our Beth Hayeled will
meet in their classes at 10 a.m. and be brought into the Main
Sanctuary at 10:45 a.m. They will enter the Sanctuary with their
“baskets of first fruits” and ascend the pulpit to place their
“first fruits” before the Ark. The children will then be blessed,
and after the service the children, their parents, and all the
congregants will retire to the Pulaski-Rauch Auditorium for
a blintze and sour cream luncheon.
We have much for which we should be thankful. In a sense,
our children are our “first fruits” and they will be the recip-
ients of the Shavuot blessing on Friday, June 4th.
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