Dear [FIRSTNAME],

Please note the following events and schedule changes for Beit Hashofar in coming weeks:

Tisha B'Av begins tonight (July 19th). We will have our candlelight commemoration and reading of Lamentations beginning at 8PM

There will be no Torah class this week (7/20)  or next week (7/27) due to Tisha B'Av and the UMJC Conference

We will not have service at our synagogue on July 31st. Instead, our community will be conducting the Shabbat morning service at the International UMJC Conference (http://umjc.org) at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue hotel at 10AM.  If you are not signed up for the conference, but would like to attend this service for free, please reply to this email and I will send you a coupon for entrance and more detail.  Please come if you would like to experience a traditional, organic and unplugged Shabbat Shacharit service with our drum circle and tallented acapella vocals.

On August 3rd at 6:30pm our regular Torah study time will feature a presentation on "A Jewish Sermon on the Mount."  Boaz Michael of FFOZ will present this material.

Learn the words of Jesus from a Messianic Jewish perspective. “A Jewish Sermon on the Mount: Exploring the Core Teachings of Jesus from a Hebraic Perspective” introduces the Hebrew idioms, Jewish contexts, and rabbinic methods at work in Jesus’ most famous sermon. Jewish Sermon on the Mount provides a brief introduction to Matthew 5–7 using a new, Hebrew-based translation of the New Testament that allows English readers to see the Hebraisms of the Master’s teaching and the richness of the Hebrew words.

Enjoy a challenging and inspiring look at Jesus’ teachings and the transformative message
of the Sermon on the Mount.

• See Jewish parallels to Gospel texts and find out why Bible scholars believe the parallels are important for greater understanding.
• Discover Hebrew words that are impossible to translate into English and how translators deal with these difficult words. See the words—understand the concepts they represent and expand your understanding of the Bible.
• Hear the compelling story and see the New Testament translation of Franz Delitzsch, a nineteenth century Christian Bible-translator considered one the greatest lights of Messiah to the Jewish people.

Learn and see what was so distinctive to Jesus’ teaching in this passage that produced such a response, “the crowd was amazed at his teaching, for he was teaching them as a man of authority, and not like the soferim” (Matthew 7:28–29).

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