Temple Lev Tikvah

06/05/2026

Torah Portion: Behaalotecha
Numbers 8:1 – 12:16

How reflective of the Rabbis’ spirit representing Jewish tradition that the Parasha with all its complexities and variety of themes, begins with the lighting of the Biblical Menorah that was present in the Tabernacle and later on in Jerusalem’s two Temples.

After all, the Menorah represents the divine twin gifts of physical as well as spiritual life and light, teaching us that holiness is rooted in profound appreciation of and attachment to both essential and interdependent dimensions of the human experience.

Shabbat Shalom and be safe!

Faithfully,
Rabbi Zoberman

05/29/2026

Torah Portion: Naso
Number 4:21 – 7:89

To reject the mission toward liberation – physically, spiritually, and psychologically – was an affront not only to the leadership of Moses and Aaron but also to God, the supreme leader, who was determined to free his oppressed people, not just from the outside enemy but also from the negative forces within them.

Shabbat Shalom and be safe!

Faithfully yours,
Rabbi Zoberman

05/22/2026

Exodus 20, 1- 14

We are moving toward the Festival of Shavuot, one of the three Pilgrim Festivals when our ancestors traveled to Jerusalem’s Temple from Israel and the Diaspora to offer sacrifices of gratitude. The Rabbis, with the Second Temple’s destruction by the Romans in the year 70 C.E. turned Shavuot from an agricultural celebration of spring’s harvest to a spiritual celebration of receiving the divine gift of Torah on Mt. Sinai.

See you tonight at 7:30 PM for the Shabbat and Shavout Service.

Shabbat Shalom and have a meaningful Memorial Day Weekend!

Yours,
Rabbi Israel Zoberman

05/15/2026

Torah Portion: Bamidbar
Numbers 1:1- 4:20

The fourth book of Moses, Numbers, is known in its original Hebrew name as Bamidbar, which means, “In the Wilderness”.

It is dedicated to the awesome journey of the Israelites from Egypt’s destructive House of Bo***ge to the liberating promise of the Promised Land. The forty-year sojourn in the Sinai desert became the laboratory for the Israelites in acquiring a renewed identity as free women and men bonded in a sacred covenant with the God of life and liberty.

Shabbat Shalom and be safe!

Please join us on May 22 at 7:30 PM for Shabbat and Shavuot Services.

Faithfully yours,
Rabbi Z

05/12/2026

05/08/2026

Torah Portion: Behar – Behukotai
Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2

Underlying the covenant between God and Israel as well as the Creator’s relationship with humanity, is the divine gift of freedom granted to us by a loving and wise God.

Our God, who is the God of the entire human family, invites us all to worship the Most High not out of fearful compulsion. Rather out of our free choice to either embrace the God of Life and The Commandments – Mitzvot of loving kindness or suffer the consequences of abandoning the divine path of righteousness.

Shabbat Shalom and be safe!

Please join us on May 22 at 7:30 PM for a Shabbat and Shavuot Service.

Faithfully yours,
Rabbi Zoberman

05/01/2026

Torah Portion: Emor
Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23

The Book of Leviticus and its Code of Holiness instruct us that what counts no less and even more, is the protection of those less fortunate in society who are vulnerable to being abused which was the way they were treated in the pagan world. Israel’s prophets reinforced this breakthrough concept of social justice which became the proud hallmark of Reform Judaism. The progressive social agenda first introduced to the world by our Biblical ancestors thus remains so very relevant and vital to our contemporary lives.

Shabbat Shalom and be safe!

Please join us on May 22nd at 7:30 PM for our Shabbat Service.

Faithfully yours,
Rabbi Zoberman

04/24/2026

Torah Portion: Achare Mot- Kedoskim
Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27

It becomes amply clear that ritual observance as a means to get God’s attention and favor was not to be devoid of ethical conduct. The two ways of reaching God are both important and interdependent. Israel’s prophets warned time and again our people that ritual performance by itself without acts, or the Mitzvot of social justice, would doom them in God’s eyes.

Shabbat Shalom and be safe!

Faithfully yours,
Rabbi Zoberman

04/21/2026

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04/21/2026

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