Beit HaLev

Beit HaLev has resumed Livestream services on Facebook. com/galityomtov, You-Tube.com (Beit HaLev LIVE! Channel) and Zoom. Beit HaLev now uses a multistreaming platform, so the links for Shabbat Ma’ariv and Shacharit are different from the old Zoom links. Livestream services for the Shabbat evening service are at https://us02web.zoom. us/j/85149315811?pwd=T3h OUkx5NUorR1M3UldWNS84d3RKQT09. The meeting ID is 851 4931 5811, and the passcode is RavGalit.

For the Shabbat morning service, go to https://us02web.zoom. us/j/87999429979?pwd=eml5L09HL0d0Y3c2MUNFRGZZM05 KUT09. The meeting ID is 879 9942 9979, and the passcode is RavGalit.

This Shabbat’s Torah reading is “Emor,” meaning “speak,” from Leviticus 23:23-24:23. HaShem tells Moses to instruct the Israelite people in the specifics of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The often-misinterpreted passage, “an eye for an eye,” ends the reading by explaining that when a person is injured or harmed by another, the injured person must be given reparations for the loss. It does not mean, as many have mistakenly interpreted, that if someone has lost an eye, the person who caused the injury must also lose an eye.

All Beit HaLev services use special prayerbooks, “Lev L’Lev,” which include excerpts from the Reform Siddur, “Mishkan HaT’filah.” Printed versions of the prayerbooks will be available for sale when in-person services resume.

Beit HaLev and Rabbi Galit-Shirah are a part of the Union of Jewish Universalist Clergy and Communities. It is progressive in thought and traditional in liturgy. The services are joyous, meaningful and musical. Beit HaLev welcomes everyone who seeks a path to the divine and doesn’t believe in labels. It considers all religions holy and valid.

To request a membership form for Beit HaLev, call Rabbi Galit-Shirah at (562) 715-0888 or email duets@icloud.com.

Contributions to Beit HaLev in the name of Robert Slater are welcome. People may send donations to Beit HaLev, P.O. Box 2279, Seal Beach, CA 90740.