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Acharei Mos—Kedoshim - 8 Iyar 5780 / May 1-2, 2020 Ahavas Torah: The Scottsdale Torah Center

Our Shul may be closed, Powerful Women from Tanach to Today but our hearts are open! THIS TUESDAY—Mrs. Ela O’Connor COVID-19 can’t dampen our spirit! In teaches a new series for women during THIS SUNDAY—We begin our four week keeping with our shul mission of connecting the Omer. Join her on Zoom at “Marching to Sinai” series with an online shiur families and individuals to passionate, 7:00 pm—May 5th, 12th and 19th. by world-renown educator and motivational authentic, and welcoming Judaism, we https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87957951388 speaker Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz. Join us via encourage you to join us online through Meeting ID: 879 5795 1388 Zoom or livestream on May 3rd at our many Zoom learning opportunities and Password 515572 11:00 am for a talk titled “Covid to reach out to us and to one another by and the Art of Silence.” phone and email. Contact Rabbi Shoshan at 602.451.5995 or [email protected]. Rabbi Dr. Tatz is a Senior Support Local Lecturer at the Jewish Learning Kosher Businesses Exchange (JLE) in London and a staff member at Ohr Somayach, where he lec- Today your kosher take-out order Shabbos Schedule carries a deeper meaning, as your tures to packed audiences and is engaged in (All davening is done at home) purchase helps to keep family-owned outreach. Originally from , he dis- May 1 May 8 businesses open and ensures that they covered Orthodox Judaism in adulthood, and became a baal teshuva. He practiced Candles…..………………… 6:53 pm... 6:58 pm will be around to provide dining and catering for Shabbos, Yom Tov, and in the US, and , became the Sunset………………………. 7:11 pm... 7:16 pm simchas well after the COVID-19 crisis is Founder and Director of the Medical Latest Shema……..…….. 9:01 am over. Kosher amenities enhance our Ethics Forum, and wrote a number of books on Latest Shacharis………. 10:09 am community. What would we do without the subject of Jewish thought and philosophy our “Shailas & Schnitzel?!” Please sup- including Living Inspired, Worldmask and Letters Earliest Mincha………… 12:58 pm port these neighborhood businesses to a Buddhist Jew. Sunset……………………….. 7:12 pm that are struggling during a tough econ- Future shiurim in our “Marching to Sinai” series Nightfall/Havdala……. 7:54 pm omy. Scottsdale favorites Kitchen 18 and Levi’s Catering and are both offering include Rabbi YY Jacobson on May 10th, R. Tam……………………….. 8:24 pm weekly specials, curb-side pick-up and Dr. David Pelcovitz on May 17th, and free delivery. Kitchen 18 is also selling Rabbi Asher Weiss on May 24th, with divrei packaged meat and poultry. Milk + bracha each day by our own Rabbi Shoshan. Honey remains closed while the JCC is This new series builds on our recent impactful The Eruv is Up! closed, but we invite you to patronize all presentations by Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau See updates and pay your of our kosher restaurants and grocers, and Rabbi Menachem Nissel, attended online including those in the Greater Phoenix eruv dues at arizonaeruv.org by thousands worldwide. We are proud to bring area when service begins again, be”H! inspiring words of Torah directly into your home during this challenging time. The series is sponsored anonymously in memory Weekday Zmanim (Friday is Pesach Sheni) of Yaffa Sarah bas Yehuda HaKohen a"h. Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz’s shiur is sponsored by Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Mervyn & Janine Levin. This week’s Shabbos May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 email featured a scroll of $100 “Torah Provider” sponsors. To add your name to the list, contact Latest Shema 9:00 am 9:00 am 8:59 am 8:59 am 8:58 am 8:58 am Rabbi Shoshan at [email protected]. Latest Shacharis 10:08 am 10:08 am 10:08 am 10:07 am 10:07 am 10:07 am RABBI DR. AKIVA TATZ Earliest Mincha 12:58 pm 12:59 pm 12:59 pm 12:59 pm 12:59 pm 12:59 pm Sunday, May 3rd at 11:00 am Arizona time Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81463956847 Sunset 7:12 pm 7:13 pm 7:14 pm 7:15 pm 7:15 pm 7:16 pm Meeting ID: 814 6395 6847—Password: Sinai Nightfall 7:54 pm 7:55 pm 7:56 pm 7:57 pm 7:58 pm 7:58 pm Livestream: https://welearntogether.org/Sinai Listen Live: Dial 312.626.6799 25 26 27 28 29 30 Omer Count Meeting ID: 814 6395 6847—Password: 728723

13402 N. Scottsdale Rd., Suite #B140-150, Scottsdale AZ 85254 — [email protected] — 480.467.4593 — www.ahavastorah.org Weekly Classes Codes “Living with Halacha” (All classes take place online during the shul’s If you’ve not yet seen the highly engaging (All classes take place online during the closure. Most utilize the Zoom conferencing app, new halacha videos on the YouTube channel shul’s closure. See Zoom codes and dial-in available on computer and smart phone. If you instructions in the column to the right) “Living with Halacha,” you’re in for a treat. A don’t have Zoom capability, join the class by project of Rabbi Avraham Aboulafia and his Daily calling 312.626.6799, then enter the meeting ID.) wife Suri, the videos teach the halacha of Daf Yomi Morning Shiur—for men—Mon-Fri Code 1—https://zoom.us/j/8788959188 Shabbos in a clear, creative and approachable one hour before Shacharis—Sunday 6:15 am Meeting ID: 878 895 9188—Password: 613 way, focusing not so much on what you can’t to 8:00 am (double Daf on Sunday)— do on Shabbos, but what you CAN. Code 2— R’ Chaim Zimmerman—Zoom Code 7 The Aboulafias relocated to Scottsdale in https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73142271514 September, 2019. Rabbi Aboulafia is original- Daf Yomi Evening Shiur—for men— Meeting ID: 731 4227 1514—Password: 613 Motzai Shabbos-Thurs at 8:30 pm— ly from Sao Paulo, Brazil and learned in Gates- Rabbi Zagelbaum—Zoom Code 5 Code 4—https://zoom.us/j/9894023124 head, for five years, where he had a Meeting ID: 989 402 3124 close connection with Rav Falk z”l, one of the Chofetz Chaim: A Lesson A Day—for men biggest poskim in halacha. He now learns Code 5— and women—Sun-Thurs at 9:30 pm with the Scottsdale kollel. Suri is from New https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6370751614 —Jamie Kaplan—NEW Zoom Code 2 York, recently finished her Masters in Educa- Meeting ID: 637 075 1614 Sunday tion and loves design. Code 6—https://zoom.us/j/2958011473 8:45 am—Sunday Morning Learning— When the shul closed and the coronavirus Meeting ID: 295 801 1473—Password: 613 for men—Rabbi Zagelbaum—Zoom Code 5 lockdown began, Suri reports that they decid- Code 7—https://zoom.us/j/519826698 ed “to spread a good kind of virus together— Monday a virus of halacha and learning.” They set up Meeting ID: 519 826 698—Password: 613 NEW—11:00 am—Pirkei Avos— for a home studio and began playing with video women—Rabbi Shoshan—Zoom Code 1 editing soft- ware. While 7:30 pm—Hebrew Reading for Fluency— walking outside for men—Rabbi Zagelbaum—Zoom Code 5 Pesach Sheni Note and enjoying Friday May 8th is Pesach Sheni. Many have 8:30 pm—”A Life of Growth”—Shiur the Scottsdale the custom to wash and eat matzah. Ta- for 20-to-30 Somethings—Rabbi Shoshan— cacti and sun- chanun is not recited at Shacharis or Mincha, Zoom Code 1 shine, they but it is recited Thurs afternoon at Mincha. Tuesday brainstormed halacha questions. Rabbi Aboulafia does extensive research on —7:30 pm— — for men— NEW Gemara Skills each question. Together they write the script Rabbi Zagelbaum—Zoom Code 5 Home Davening Guide and edit the final product. Their approach is Wednesday “let’s start living with halacha” and “not be NEW—7:30 pm—Halacha Series— for Shabbos bogged down by it.” for men and women—Rabbi Muroff and We love the results and know you will, too! This week's Torah Reading is the double- Rabbi Aboulafia —Zoom Code 4 Watch at https://bit.ly/3d4t7vT. parsha Acharei Mos-Kedoshim. It is proper to Thursday read the parsha, beginning in the Artscroll 7:30 pm—Shabbos Drasha— Stone Chumash on p.636. It is also praise- Rabbi Shoshan—Zoom Code 1 worthy to review the Haftara, which is found AT Youth on p.1173 (note: this is the Haftara for (See Zoom codes at top of page) 8:30 pm—Gemara Brachos—Rabbi Muroff— Acharei Mos). Zoom Code 4 Sunday When davening without a minyan, we recite 9:30 pm—To’ameha—Taste of Shabbos— 7:00 pm—Bedtime Story for Kids (ages only the first paragraph of Yekum Purkan Torah, Niggunim—Dovid Dov Ehrman and 0-120)—”Pride Comes Before a Fall: The Life (Artscroll Siddur p.448). shul rabbis—Zoom Code 1 and Travels of Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi”— Av HaRachamim (p.454) is recited. R’ Chaim Zimmerman—Zoom Code 6 Friday Although it is not recited, please note the Tues/Thurs 9:00 am—Nesivos Shalom—for men and special prayer (p.458) for the righteous who 4:30 pm— — women—Rabbi Shoshan—Zoom Code 1 undertake the fasts of Monday, Thursday, Mishna Club for Boys Rabbi Muroff—Zoom Code 4 NEW—10:00 am—”Torah and Shmooze” and Monday. While we do not recommend with Moms (previously “Breakfast with Moms “ fasting on these days, we twice-annually draw at the JCC)—Rabbi Shoshan—Zoom Code 1 attention to this virtuous custom. In the afternoon, Mincha is recited, including Rabbi Ariel Shoshan the verse "VaAni S'filasi" (p.506). Tzidkascha is Rabbi Noach Muroff recited on p.524. Lag BaOmer Rabbi Shalom Zagelbaum Lag BaOmer is Monday night, We learn Pirkei Avos, Chapter 3 (p.556). R’ Chaim Zimmerman, Gabbai May 11th. Plan to join us The final time to recite Kiddush Levana is Chanie Lapin-Honig, Shabbos Youth online for fire and inspiration! Wednesday night. Daniel Weltman, Administrator

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