Welcome to CONGREGATION BET HA'AM SHALOM!
Congregation Bet Ha’am, located in South Portland, Maine is the spiritual home for an active and growing community of Reform Jews. With more than 410 member households, over 225 Religious School students from pre-school to high school, weekly Shabbat worship and Torah study, and dozens of other opportunities each month for learning about and participating in Jewish life, Bet Ha’am plays a large role in the Jewish community of Southern Maine. Click here to read more
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 The Language of Love
By David Dubinsky
It has been just over two decades since I completed my BA in Linguistics at UCLA. I have always had a love for languages and have this fascination for morphology, the study of the root meaning of the words we use. I love words. This has been especially true in Israel, where my Hebrew skills are slightly less sophisticated than those of my six-year-old daughter. I read the Hebrew street signs and can’t help but analyze the root and structure behind the words. For example, what is the meaning behind the meaning of the phrase “Betten Gav,” which literally means “Belly-Back?” It is used to convey “to do nothing all day.” Betten Gav, Belly-Back, implies that doing nothing all day means to be horizontal, moving only when necessary to turn over from lying on one’s stomach to lying on one’s back. Click here to read more.
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