A 100% VirJEWal Synagogue serving the needs of all backgrounds of the Jewish Community of
Central, NJ since 1983
Eli B. Perlman, Rabbi
Congregation Beit Shalom / Monroe Township is a unique Conservative Egalitarian Congregation. The difference between this and other congregations is that we are truly a family. We get together to pray, to learn, to laugh, to sing, to schmooze - and it is 100% VirJEWal. When someone is in need, we help each other in ways that continue to inspire everyone.
For Avram to be righteous, he must follow G-d, and put his well practiced idolatrous ways behind him. He is bidden by G-d to leave his homeland and to journey to Canaan. He takes Lot, his nephew, with him.
While Avram has every good intention to follow the word of G*d, he finds that it is not easy. Keeping G*d’s word in a human world proves to be quite a difficult challenge. From his own nephew who rebels against him, to his own wife’s barrenness and subsequent cruelty to the son of a concubine, Avram is assailed. He withstands these challenges and makes a covenant with G*d. As a symbol of the covenant of Avraham, Jews have been circumcising males at the age of eight days (or upon conversion to Judaism) ever since.
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