by astoundz | Jun 4, 2020
You are invited to participate in Congregation Beth Israel’s lay-led Saturday Morning Minyan. We open at 8:20am for fellowship; worship begins at 8:35am continuing through 9:30am, ending in time for online Torah study. An electronic copy of the Siddur is also...
by astoundz | Jun 4, 2020
You are invited to participate in Congregation Beth Israel’s lay-led Saturday Morning Minyan. We open at 8:20am for fellowship; worship begins at 8:35am continuing through 9:30am, ending in time for online Torah study. An electronic copy of the Siddur is also...
by astoundz | Jun 4, 2020
You are invited to participate in Congregation Beth Israel’s lay-led Saturday Morning Minyan. We open at 8:20am for fellowship; worship begins at 8:35am continuing through 9:30am, ending in time for online Torah study. An electronic copy of the Siddur is also...
by astoundz | Jun 4, 2020
You are invited to participate in Congregation Beth Israel’s lay-led Saturday Morning Minyan. We open at 8:20am for fellowship; worship begins at 8:35am continuing through 9:30am, ending in time for online Torah study. An electronic copy of the Siddur is also...
by astoundz | Jun 4, 2020
You are invited to participate in Congregation Beth Israel’s lay-led Saturday Morning Minyan. We open at 8:20am for fellowship; worship begins at 8:35am continuing through 9:30am, ending in time for online Torah study. An electronic copy of the Siddur is also...
by astoundz | Jun 4, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
At a shiva house (a mourner’s house), the mitzvah (commandment) is to comfort the mourners. We bring food, we offer them a plate or a drink, and we expect them to do nothing for themselves that we can do for them. We certainly don’t accept their offer of hospitality,...
by astoundz | Jun 2, 2020
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by astoundz | Jun 2, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
This past week, many of Houston’s rabbis taught classes online for our community as we prepared for Shavuot, the festival holiday that comes after counting 49 days from Passover. On the 50th day, Shavuot begins. It’s a time known as Z’man Matan Torateinu, the Season...
by Rabbi David Lyon | May 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
As the world turns, the pandemic continues to snake its way through our lives. Invasive and elusive, we’re pretending that it isn’t really there. The economy is opening in ways that are still unsafe; displays of patriotism are creating dangerous public gatherings;...
by astoundz | May 5, 2020
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by astoundz | May 5, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
This difficult and prolonged period of social isolation defies our human nature to be socially connected. But, if we are to be socially connected again, then we have to survive our isolation. It’s circular logic, but we can emerge from it intact. Until then, the virus...
by Rabbi David Lyon | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
When life imitates art, we should learn from it. This week, art comes from the Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora. It’s the Leviticus portion that addresses ills such as bodily emissions and skin afflictions. According to Torah, the obligation of the affected person was to...
by astoundz | Apr 23, 2020
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by astoundz | Apr 21, 2020
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by astoundz | Apr 21, 2020
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by astoundz | Apr 21, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | Apr 17, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | Apr 17, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | Apr 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
I can’t remember the last time I sat in my backyard in mid-April, on a towel on the ground eating lunch in the sunshine. It’s possible that I never have. It would take a pandemic and social-distancing to create the opening for lunch al fresco at the Lyon house. The...
by astoundz | Apr 14, 2020
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by astoundz | Apr 13, 2020
Basic Judaism – April 14th at 5 pm – (Topic is: Intro on Israel with Johnny Landa – open to the congregation) https://zoom.us/j/464076278?pwd=WEhpSWRUYVRvZFRxNktsbmZMUWRrQT09 Meeting ID: 464 076 278 Password: 669110
by astoundz | Apr 13, 2020
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by astoundz | Apr 13, 2020
Samara Schwartz will lead the Talmud class at https://zoom.us/j/476017092. Please RSVP to Liza Abrams, labrams@beth-israel.org or call 713-771-6221 x301.
by astoundz | Apr 13, 2020
Samara Schwartz will lead the Talmud class at https://zoom.us/j/476017092. Please RSVP to Liza Abrams, labrams@beth-israel.org or call 713-771-6221 x301.
by astoundz | Apr 1, 2020
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by astoundz | Mar 30, 2020
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by astoundz | Mar 28, 2020
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by astoundz | Mar 28, 2020
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by astoundz | Mar 28, 2020
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by astoundz | Mar 23, 2020
by Rabbi David Lyon | Mar 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s been 100 years since a pandemic once threatened our way of life. We have no personal experience with it, and the world has changed so much since then that almost nothing from it can help us now. However, we’re not without brilliant resources. We live...
by Rabbi David Lyon | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Judaism is not without guidance on matters of health and well-being. So important is it to maintain one’s health and to care for others’ health, that Jewish law permits one to set aside traditional Sabbath prohibitions to refrain from work in order to tend...
by Rabbi David Lyon | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
I returned from AIPAC Policy Conference with more to think about than ever before. But, like previous years, I came with a frame of reference that I often recommend to anyone who attends and to anyone who isn’t sure about attending. In Mishnah, we learn that...
by astoundz | Mar 5, 2020
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by Rabbi David Lyon | Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last Friday night, Rabbi Ofek Meir, Director of Leo Baeck Education Center, in Haifa, Israel, was our scholar-in-residence. He spoke about the weekly Torah portion called Yitro, which contains the Ten Commandments. He made insightful remarks that came from traditional...
