Erev Shabbat followed by Oneg Shabbat
Erev Shabbat followed by Oneg Shabbat
July 4th Shabbat service @ 6pm
July 11th Shabbat service @7pm
July 18th Shabbat service @7pm
July 25th Shabbat service @7pm
Congregation Bayt Shalom
Established in 1975, Congregation Bayt Shalom strives to meet the diverse needs of Jewish people in eastern North Carolina. We are associated with both the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements.
Congregation Bayt Shalom is your connection to Judaism and Jewish community in eastern North Carolina. We would be pleased to welcome you to our family. We are an active congregation with meaningful worship services, a vibrant religious school, stimulating adult education programs, a lively Sisterhood and social activities, with a commitment to tikkun olam.
The congregation's Rabbi and Spiritual Leader is Rabbi Dawn Rose, PhD
Rabbi Rose's phone number is 917-673-2226.
Her email address is ravdawnrose@yahoo.com
Located at:
4351 East 10th Street
Greenville NC
Rabbi Rose's Reflections
Three Things
In Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Fathers, we learn,
The world stands on three things:
Torah, Service, and Acts of Loving Kindness.
This teaching has been important to me over the years. First, notice that this teaching from Pirke Avot does not open by saying that, “Israel,” or “The Jewish community” stands on three things. It has the chutzpah, the boldness to make a statement about the whole world. This is not to suggest that everyone in the world has to believe it. This is a Jewish teaching for us about the whole world and our specific relationship to that world. Or, we could say, this is a Jewish teaching about what we understand the world needs that we, as Jews, are uniquely able to contribute.
First, we can contribute our insight that humanity requires a Torah, or Law. There has to be rules governing the behavior of individuals, leaders, and nations. This is a matter of justice, and Judaism teaches that human relationships require justice from the intimate to the global scale.
Second, we as Jews are obligated to service. Through the millennia, this basic responsibility has not changed, though the specific service required has evolved profoundly. The initial meaning of avodah, service, was of sacrifice. When the temple was destroyed, the avodah became the prayer service, however, avodah also means to work, labor, till soil, and serve. In Judaism, service for God is done not just with the lips, but also with the whole body—and it is done for the whole world.
Third, according to Judaism, the world also requires our acts of loving kindness. Note, we are not required to love (anyone but God). Judaism does not legislate feelings, but actions. Feelings are fleeting and ephemeral. We are not to base our actions upon them. We are to perform acts of loving kindness to Jews and non-Jews. Judaism teaches us to do those acts, believing the heart will follow.
Finally, the teaching specifically says the world ‘stands,’ omed, on these three things. Without Law, Service, and Acts of Loving Kindness, the world around us—locally and globally—teeters and falls.
We’ve been around the world enough times to know that’s true. And we know what we have to do.
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Congregation Bayt Shalom, PO Box 2713, Greenville, 27836 – Attn Treasurer