Beth Am Calendar

Save the date for Shabbat of Gratitude, honoring Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg & Family, for their dedication and contribution to Beth Am Synagogue and the wider Baltimore community. 

FRIDAY, JUNE 5

• Services in the Park at Maryland Zoo's Waterfowl Pavilion 

Saturday, June 6

• Shabbat Morning Services & catered Kiddush lunch
• Evening celebration and concert culminating in Havdalah

Learn more here!

Beha’alotekha (“When You Raise”) opens with God instructing Moses to inaugurate the Levites for service in the Mishkan (Tabernacle). It also recounts the stories of people who request a second chance to offer the Passover sacrifice, complaints of the Israelites and their punishments, and a disease that affects Miriam.

Torah: Numbers 8:1-12:16
Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7

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Molad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46am and 16 chalakim

Shelach (“Send”) tells the story of Israelite spies journeying into Canaan, the negative report they bring back, and the resulting punishment decreed upon the Israelites: to wander and die in the desert over forty years. It ends with laws about sacrifices, the story of a man who desecrates Shabbat, and the commandment to wear ritual fringes.

Torah: Numbers 13:1-15:41
Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24

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Start of month of Tammuz on the Hebrew calendar. תַּמּוּז (transliterated Tamuz or Tammuz) is the 10th month of the civil Hebrew year (11th on leap years) and the 4th month of the biblical Hebrew year. It has 29 days and corresponds to June or July on the Gregorian calendar. רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, transliterated Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh, is a minor holiday that occurs at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar. It is marked by the birth of a new moon

Torah: Numbers 28:1-15

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Start of month of Tammuz on the Hebrew calendar. תַּמּוּז (transliterated Tamuz or Tammuz) is the 10th month of the civil Hebrew year (11th on leap years) and the 4th month of the biblical Hebrew year. It has 29 days and corresponds to June or July on the Gregorian calendar. רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, transliterated Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh, is a minor holiday that occurs at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar. It is marked by the birth of a new moon

Torah: Numbers 28:1-15

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Parashat Korach recounts the rebellion of Korach (a cousin of Moses and Aaron), Dathan, Abiram, and 250 of their followers. Some rebels are swallowed by the ground, while others are consumed by a fire from God and others die in a plague. The portion ends by describing gifts given to priests and Levites.

Torah: Numbers 16:1-18:32
Haftarah: I Samuel 11:14-12:22

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Chukat (“Law Of”) opens by describing the process of burning the red heifer and using its ashes for purification. It also tells the stories of the deaths of Miriam and Aaron, Moses’ striking of a rock to bring forth water, a plague of venomous snakes, and battles against the Emorite kings Sihon and Og.
Balak tells the story of the Moabite king Balak, who hires Balaam to curse the Israelites. Balaam’s donkey speaks along the way, and Balaam ends up blessing the Israelites. The portion ends with a story about Israelite men sinning with Moabite women and the stabbing of an Israelite and a Midianite.

Torah: Numbers 19:1-25:9
Haftarah: Micah 5:6-6:8

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