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What are the Services like?

We offer religious services on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings (Shabbos) as well as Jewish festivals. Please contact our Rabbi, Rabbi Schwei for more details. There are structual orders to the services, and are to follow Prayer books called Siddurs (Daily), Chumash (Torah Readings) and Machzors (Festival Services). The majority of the service is read and conducted in Hebrew, and all the books are bilingual with English text on the left hand page and the book is opened from the right. Men and Women sit separately, separated by a curtain. We ask that all males, boys and men to wear head covering and this also includes women who are married. We also ask that if the Ark is open, and the Rabbis’ sermon is been said, to not to enter either of the galleries. Our Services follow the traditional form, in line with United Synagogues suggestion but being a small community we welcome the noise and hubbub surrounding those younger individuals. Anybody wishing to offer their services and recite Haphtorah, the floor is yours.

When are the weekly Services?

Friday evening services are held at 18:30 throughout the winter months: November to March; and 20:00 during the summer. Saturday morning services commence at 09:30.

This week’s Sedra is.... Terumah (09.02.08) [From Chabad Ilford]

The people of Israel are called upon to contribute fifteen materials -- gold, silver and copper; blue, purple and red-dyed wool; flax, goat hair, animal skins, wood, olive oil, spices and gems -- out of which, G-d says to Moses, "They shall make for Me a Sanctuary, and I shall dwell amidst them."

On the summit of Mount Sinai, Moses is given detailed instructions on how to construct this dwelling for G-d so that it could be readily dismantled, transported and reassembled as the people journeyed in the desert.

In the Sanctuary's inner chamber, behind an artistically woven curtain, was the Ark containing the Tablets of Testimony engraved with the Ten Commandments; on the Ark's cover stood two winged cherubim hammered out of pure gold. In the outer chamber stood the seven-branched Menorah and the Table upon which the "showbread" was arranged.

The Sanctuary's three walls were fitted together from 48 upright wooden boards, each of which was overlaid with gold and held up by a pair of silver foundation sockets. The roof was formed of three layers of coverings: (a) tapestries of multi-colored wool and linen; (b) a covering made of goat-hair; (c) a covering of ram and tachash skins. Across the front of the Sanctuary was an embroidered screen held up by five posts.

Surrounding the Sanctuary and the copper-plated Altar which fronted it was an enclosure of linen hangings, supported by 60 wooden posts with silver hooks and trimmings and reinforced by copper stakes.

Shabbos Times for Februay to April 2008 (Adar I to Nissan 5768)

Shabbos details for 5768, 2008 (times are for London).

Luton Hebrew Congregation does not accept any responsibility for errors or omissions for external data.

Reading of the Law

Shabbos commences

Shabbos ends

February

9

Terumah

16.47

17.53

16

Tetzaveh

17.00

18.05

23

Ki Tisa

17.13

18.17

March

1

Vayakhel

17.25

18.28

8

Pedukei

17.36

18.40

15

Yayikrah

17.49

18.52

22

Tzav

18.01

19.04

29

Semini

18.12

19.16

April

5

Tazriah

19.24

20.29

12

Metzorah

19.36

20.41

19

Acharei

19.78

20.55

26

Pesach

19.59

21.08

Email Rabbi Schwei for more details about our Services at: rabbi@lutonhebrew.co.uk