05/29/2026
Shabbat Shalom! This weeks Lesson from Rabbi Weitzman is here! Click the link to read!
https://cbealbany.org/article/a-lesson-from-rabbi-weitzman-parshat-nasso
And For Your Shabbat Table:
This week, a famous teacher named Rabbi Hillel asked three questions that Jews have been thinking about for thousands of years:
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
Hillel is teaching us something important: we need to take care of ourselves AND take care of others. Both things matter. Neither one is enough on its own.
This week we also read from the Torah portion Nasso, which tells us nasso et rosh, to "lift up the head" of every person. Every single person deserves to be seen and counted. And every single person is also part of something bigger than themselves.
Question to discuss around the Shabbat table:
Think of a time when you had to balance taking care of yourself and taking care of someone else at the same time. What did you do? Was it hard? What would you do differently now?
For younger children: What is one way you took care of yourself this week, and one way you took care of someone else?
