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Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar Sivan 4 - 5 May 18 - 19 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:47 pm

Welcome to Cantor Yaakov Motzen

SHAVUOT Sivan 6 -7 May 19 -21 CANDLE LIGHTING 1st night: After 8:39 pm (from existing flame) CANDLE LIGHTING 2nd night: After 8:40 pm (from existing flame) Yom Tov Ends: 8:40 pm

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Contents Nachas At A Glance

Weekly Message 3 The Shul Hebrew School prepared for Shavuos with beautiful crafts Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar and delicious cheesecake

Celebrating Shabbos 4 -5 Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Celebrating Shavuos 6-7 Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Yom Tov experience Community Happenings 8 - 9 Sharing with your Shul Family

A Time to Pray 10 Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 11- 19 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Wrapping up a great year of learning, programs and events, The Shul youth enjoyed a trip to Ninja Lounge. Get The Picture 20 - 24 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a woman’s world 25 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman

French Connection 26 Refexions sur la Paracha

Latin Link 27 Refexion Semanal The ABC’s of Aleph 28 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments.

Networking 29-32 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 33 Contacts at The Shul

Daily Study 34 A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul Get The Picture 35-36 The full scoop on all the great events around town

Quotable Quote

Rabbi Chanina the son of Dosa would say: One whose fear of sin takes precedence to his wisdom, his wisdom endures. But one whose wisdom takes precedence to his fear of sin, his wisdom does not endure

– Ethics of the Fathers Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar - Shavuos As we approach this holy holiday of Revelation, let us learn Torah ourselves And these are the children of and teach those around us whom we love, especially our children, so that Aaron and Moses on the day we transform their lives and give birth to another level of their being “that G-d spoke to Moshe at so that they are not merely Homo sapiens on the globe of earth, like Mount Sinai...”(3:1) the most sophisticated animal can be, but are truly in the image of G-d, fulflling our purpose in culminating the process of creation and making The obvious question that the this world a dwelling place for Him. classic commentator on the Torah, Rashi, immediately seeks May we all receive and accept the Torah with joy and internalization. to clarify is the fact that these We look forward to seeing all of you at the services on Shavuos where we are called the children of Moses will hear the 10 Commandments, men, women and children together, and when, in reality, they are only then partake in a sumptuous dairy feast. the children of Aaron, as he continues to list those sons of Have a good Shabbos, a Happy Shavuos and a great week. Aaron that took on the role of the priesthood, whereas the children of Moses retained the position of the Levites. Rashi comments that this is the source for the Talmudic Rabbi S. Lipskar statement that “one who teaches his friend’s child Torah it is as if he gave birth to him”. The reality of life Baruch Hashem makes this concept somewhat diffcult to comprehend as we know that it is a mother that gives birth to a child, not a teacher. Erev Shavuos / Holiday of Revelation 5778 Rashi continues to explain the continuing text “on the day …etc” - which “Know before whom you stand…” seem to be superfuous - that these words which Moses taught them were directly stated to him from G-d at Sinai. Letter of Commitment to Tefllah and Proper Decorum The message that the Torah teaches us here comports very signifcantly The Shul values each community member’s attendance. The to the fact that this Torah portion is always read in direct proximity to main purpose of prayer/Tefllah is a heartfelt and internalized the holiday of Shavuos when each one of us was present at the Divine beseeching G-d to answer our quests for whatever we ask. This Revelation when G-d gave us the Torah and by His most direct force is benefcially multiplied manifold when praying with a Minyan. infused our inner being with His holy wisdom. During services where there is talking it detracts from this The Torah, different than any other learning discipline, is absolutely meaningful and sincere prayer to our Father in Heaven. We ask unique in the fact that it not only gives us knowledge and information but actually connects us with G-d Almighty Himself on the highest and that you commit to trying not to talk during services, allowing most pristine levels. In fact, in our prayers each day we say that “the Torah yourself and all those around you to have the only conversation is our life and the length of our days”. that should occur within the sanctuary, one with Hashem. We know and greatly value the social component of attending Shul Torah is transformational. In a very vital manner it changes our perspective, thought process, our feelings, our disciplines, our life patterns, and clarifes but ask that the conversations be held after services are through, for each one of us our purpose in creation. Torah does not mean Bible but at the Kiddush or in the comfort of the spaces outside of the comes from the word Directives / Teachings. It is not only a document Sanctuary. that we treasure as a source of our legitimacy as a Chosen People and our claim to the Holy Land but is our Eitz Chaim – our Tree of Life and our Please join me to enhance our environment by committing to secret ingredient in ensuring our continuity against all odds and is the making every effort (without an oath) not to talk during davening. source of our disproportional contribution to civilization on every level. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and surely Hashem will It is why our response to receiving the Torah is, “we will do it and then we answer all your prayers. will understand it – Naaseh v’Nishma”, we commit to doing it before we endeavor to understand it. The connection of Torah to life and G-d is not Sholom D. Lipskar Steven Dunn – President limited by our human comprehension which can be changed in a whim and is constantly in a state of fux, but is based on G-d‘s wisdom which By the Grace of G-d, by signing below I commit and encourage my we accept unconditionally. We then put forth every effort to understand community members to do the same. whatever G-d has made available to comprehend and thereby internalize Signature: ______it more than just by action. 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle

Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: 1) Which nasi (tribal leader) is the brother-in-law of Aharon the High Montessori Classrooom 2 Priest? classrooom 2 2) Which relative of Moshe shares the name of an ancient city in the land of Israel? 3) The name of which “mysterious” animal appears six times in this parsha?

Raquel Gilinski Answers from last week: Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls 1) In parshas Shemos, Mount Sinai is called G-d’s Mountain (Har Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 HaElokim) (Exodus 3:1). In parshas Ki Tisa, it is referred to as Mount Chorev (Exodus 33:6). In parshas Vezos Haberacha, the mountain that 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Moshe ascends to view the Land of Israel is called Mount Nevo (Deut. 34:1); in parshas Pinchas it is known as Mount Ha’Evarim (Numbers Classrooom 4 27:12), and in parshas Ha’azinu it is called both names (Deut. 32:49). Mount Hermon is mentioned in parshas Devarim (Deut. 3:8), while in parshas Ve’eschanan it is called Mount Sion (Deut. 4:48). 2)The Torah commands the counting of seven sets of seven years, totaling 49 years leading up to the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:8). In parshas Emor the Torah commands the counting of 50 days from Yossi Cohen’s the Omer offering (brought on the second day of Passover) until the Yosef Brook’s Hebrew School “new grain” offering (Mincha Chadasha) which is brought on Shavuos Junior Boys (Leviticus 23:15-16). In parshas Metzora, the Torah commands a woman Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 with the ritual impurity of ziva to count seven days before becoming ritually pure (Leviticus 15:28). 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Classroom 1 3) For a home in a walled city, the original owner has a year to redeem it, after which the home becomes the perpetual property of the buyer (Leviticus 25:29). RIDDLE RULES Answers to the riddles can be given to Rabbi Shaykee Farkash any time over Shabbos. The frst child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize!

Mendy Katan Debbie’s Shmuely's Davening With Dad Teen Girls Teen Boys Grades: 9th - 12th Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Teen Girls Room Montessori 3 Haime Library

4 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience

Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is available for sponsorship. Shabbos Schedule Shalosh Seudos This Week: Early Minyan 6:15 p.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is available for sponsorship. Candle lighting 7:43 p.m. Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 7:45 p.m. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. Tanya / Hayom Yom 8:50 a.m. Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m. Children’s Programs 10:00 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 10:30 a.m. Kiddush 12:00 p.m. Daf Yomi 6:25 p.m. the caterer for this week’s Men’s Shiur 6:25 p.m. kiddush and Shalosh seudos is Women's Shiur 6:25 p.m. Food Art Shalosh Seudos for Boys 6:25 p.m. Mincha 7:30 p.m. Pirkei Avot Chapter 6 Light Shavuos Candles from existing fame after 8:39p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Sephardic Minyan Friday Evening Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 7:25 p.m. Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually) Shabbat Day Shacharit 9:00 a.m. Mincha 7:25 p.m. The following dates are available for sponsorship:

Kiddush Shalosh Seudos May 19, 26 May 19, 26

If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Stacy at 305-868-1411 ext 313 or email [email protected]

Lighting 7:47 p.m. Mincha 7:50 p.m.

Eruv Information We would like to emphasize that every Erev Shabbos, individuals should call the Eruv Hotline to make sure that the Eruv is operational. The number to call is 305- 866-ERUV (3788). The Eruv message is recorded approximately two hours prior to candle lighting. Surfside: The Eruv in Surfside now includes the walking paths along the beach. Pushing strollers and carrying is permitted on the paths, but not beyond the path or onto the beach. Bal Harbour: The Eruv in Bal Harbour included the inner (western) walking path only. The pier at Haulover Cut is not included.

To pay your annual dues visit: www.miamibeacheruv.com 5 Celebrating Shavuos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Yom Tov experience

SCHEDULE

Friday, May 18 -The Shul Bochurim 7:43 p.m. Candle Lighting 3:10 - 4:00 a.m. A Story of Jewish Selfessness and Heroism Evening Services - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 4:00 - 5:00 a.m. Prepare with study of Chassiduth Saturday, May 19 - Erev Shavuos (Chavrusa style) 7:15 a.m. Hashkama/Minyan 5:10 a.m. Mikvah for Men - Prepare for the Great Day! 9:00 a.m. Morning Services 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Morning Services 10:00 a.m. Children’s Programs Women’s Classes: 10:30 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 12:00 - 12:50 a.m. Women, Torah and Mitzvos 11:45 a.m. 30 Minutes of Tanya: Classroom #1 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 12:00 p.m. Kiddush 1:00 - 1:50 a.m. David & Goliath 6:50 p.m. Men’s Shiur - Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers - Devorah Leah Andrusier 7:30 p.m. Sephardic Mincha & Arvit 7:35 p.m. Mincha Spanish Classes: After 8:39 p.m. Candle Lighting (from an existing fame) 1:00 - 2:00 a.m. Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 8:30 p.m. Holiday Evening Services Teen Program:

12:00 - 2:00 a.m. Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 12:00am - 5:00am All Night Learning (Refreshments served)

Sephardic Minyan: Saturday night into Sunday, May 19-20 12:00 - 5:00 a.m. Tikun (Kraya for Shavuot) 12:00 -1:00 a.m. Fusing Heaven and Earth an Isoteric and Cantor Shimshon Tzubeli Esoteric Perspective on Revelation

- Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Note: All Sephardic minyanim are the same times as the Ashkenazi 1:10 - 2:00 a.m. A Torah Perspective on Gun Control minyanim, except where indicated. - Rabbi Dov Schochet Sunday, May 20 - 6 Sivan / 1st Day Shavuos 2:10 - 3:00 a.m. The Rabbi and the Heretic 5:15 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit - Cantor Shimshon Tzubeli - A Dialogue of Torah’sTimeless Messages 6 Celebrating Shavuos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Yom Tov experience

5:50 a.m. Early Hashkamah Minyan 11:00 a.m. Yizkor - Memory Prayer for Beloved - Bridging the Past, Present and Future 8:50 a.m. The Chassidic Torah Message Exclusive for Today (Tanya / Hayom Yom) - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 12:15 p.m. Community Kiddush Generously Sponsored by The Falic Family in Honor of the Yahrtzeit of 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services - Cantor Yaakov Motzen Shulamit bat Yaakov OBM, Mother of Mr. Fima Falic OBM; and Harav Yitzchak ben Moshe Baruch Leder OBM, Father of Mrs. Pola Lekach and 10:00 a.m. Children’s Services Followed by Grandfather of Mrs. Jana Falic. Ice Cream Party for the Children Sponsored by Brian and Cara Roller Generously Sponsored by Avrom Chaim & Rosalia Zelmanovitch in honor of the Rabbi & Mr. Zelmanovitch recovering well from their 10:30 a.m. Torah Reading - The Ten Commandments procedures and for continued health, in commemoration of the Yahrzeit All children, infants to Bar / Bat Mitzvah age, of Rosalia’s Mother and 4 Brothers, and i the 70th Anniversary of Mr. & teenagers and all adults are invited and urged to attend Mrs. Zelmanovitch. the important re-experiencing of Revelation 5:50 p.m. Daf Yomi 10:30 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 6:40 p.m. Sephardic Mincha 6:45 p.m. Mincha - Afternoon Prayers 12:00 p.m. Grand Shavuos (Dairy) Kiddush 7:05 p.m. Farbrengen: Tying it All Together / All the Niggunim (melodies) of the Chassidic Dynasty – from the Baal Shem Tov to our Rebbe. 6:40 p.m. Daf Yomi 7:40 p.m. Mincha - Afternoon Services 8:40 p.m. Ma’ariv / Havdalah - Shavuos blends into the rest of the year 7:40 p.m. Sephardic Mincha & Arvit 8:00 p.m. Moses, King David and The Baal Shemtov 8:40 p.m. Sephardic Arvit / Havdalah - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar After 8:40 p.m. Candle lighting for 2nd Night Shavuos (Light from existing fame) Shavuot

8:40 p.m. Ma’ariv - Evening Prayers - Cantor Yaakov Motzen According to the Torah, a chatat (sin) Greeting Yom Tov with Song and Dance offering is required on every festival with the exception of Shavuot. The reason is Monday, May 21 - 7 Sivan / 2nd Day Shavuos that on Shavuot, the day the Torah was 7:15 a.m. Hashkama Minyan given, every Jew is considered a “convert,” a newborn entity. In the same way that a 8:50 a.m. The Chassidic Torah Portion Exclusive for Today newborn baby is free of transgression, so (Tanya / Hayom Yom) - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar too are all Jews without sin on Shavuot. 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Prayers - Cantor Yaakov Motzen 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Shacharit - Cantor Shimshon Tzubeli (Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev) 10:00 a.m. Children’s Services 7 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Birthdays Yahrtzeits 5 Sivan Mr. Oded Ben-Arie 5 Sivan Miriam Hadar bas Shlomo obm 5 Sivan Mr. Daniel Burstyn Sister of Mrs. Dana Werner 5 Sivan Mr. Eran Tobul 6 Sivan Sarah Rivka bas Yosef obm 5 Sivan Mr. Yosef Wolf Sister of Mr. Irving Hoine 6 Sivan Mrs. Ruthy Benoliel 6 Sivan Chaim Akiva obm 6 Sivan Mr. Meir Cosiol 6 Sivan Etta Liba obm 6 Sivan Ms. Susan Roth Parents of Mr. Alex Gross 6 Sivan Ms. Angelica Rubin 6 Sivan Mr. Samuel Daniel Vlosky 6 Sivan Shlomo ben Yosef obm 6 Sivan Mr. Mark Weinschneider Brother of Mr. Irving Hoine 8 Sivan Ms. Shana Cappell 7 Sivan Harav Yitzchok ben Moshe Leder obm 8 Sivan Ms. Lydia Hasson Father of Mrs. Pola Lekach 8 Sivan Mrs. Chaya Wolff 7 Sivan Tzora Hizler obm 9 Sivan Mr. Jesse Izak Mother of Mrs. Rose (Rosalia) Zelmanovitch 9 Sivan Mr. Allan Weinbaum 7 Sivan Shulamit bas Yaakov obm 10 Sivan Mr. Moses Egozi Mother-in-law of Mrs. Nily Falic 10 Sivan Mr. Evan Hershman 8 Sivan Menachem Yoel ben Dovid Hirsch HaCohen obm 10 Sivan Mr. Mendi Labkowski Father of Mrs. Shoshana Halpern 10 Sivan Mr. Alexander Robinson 8 Sivan Sultana Levy obm 11 Sivan Mr. Yisroel Shimon Chuitdatov Mother of Mrs. Sonia Franco 11 Sivan Mr. Josh Greisman 11 Sivan Mrs. Fortuna Mamane 8 Sivan Shmuel ben Zadok HaLevi obm 11 Sivan Mrs. Shir Melamed Father of Mr. Henry Stern 8 Sivan Yosef ben Zvi Yehuda obm Kid’s Birthdays Father of Mrs. Elisabeth Berend Grandfather of Dr. Rita Steiner 5 Sivan Uriel Rosenblum 6 Sivan Levi Chuitdatov 9 Sivan Ezra ben Farida obm 6 Sivan Estie Chuitdatov Father of Mrs. Ginette Dekelbaum-Sultan 6 Sivan Shoshana Fish 10 Sivan Israel ben Gershon obm 7 Sivan Yitzchak Yehoshua Kopel Father of Mrs. Jenny Bublick 8 Sivan Raaya Hannah Gilinski 10 Sivan Etel obm 9 Sivan Avraham Tzvi Sragowicz Mother of Mr. Sam Greenberg 10 Sivan Yisroel Mordechai Barouk 10 Sivan Abraham obm 10 Sivan Misha Cohen Grandfather of Mrs. Amelia Dorra Galagovsky 10 Sivan Rochel Rivka Gassner 10 Sivan Malka bas Dovid Aryeh obm 11 Sivan Noach Abraham Givner Mother of Mr. Saul Retelny

Anniversaries Dr. & Mrs. Bernard & Carolyn Baumel Mr. & Mrs. Leon & Agi Goldenberg Mr. & Mrs. Daniel & Miriam Wiener Rabbi & Mrs. Shaya & Deby Farkash Volunteers Needed Mr. & Ms. Shaya & Tziporah Gheblikian Mr. & Dr. Hersh Yitzchok & Bracha Reich After every Kiddush and event, The Shul donates the Mr. & Mrs. Isaac & Miriam Basha Arber left over food to organizations or families in need. We are looking for volunteers to help collect and wrap the food. Welcome to New Members Mr. Yosef Levy If you would like to help please contact the Mashgiach, Mordechai Olesky after the Kiddush. Community service hours will be awarded. 8 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Sivan Light & Power Thanks To Our Donors Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah for We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul for donations received between 05/08/18 and 05/14/18 the month of Sivan is Kindly Sponsored by We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Mr. & Mrs. Jackie Abraham Shlomie and Gruni Diamont. Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Kopel-Laoui Mr. Gabriel Ammar Mr. & Mrs. Mendi Labkowski In honor of our Dear Children Mendel, Henna, Mr. Daniel Amram Rabbi & Rebbetzin Eli, Chana and Zalman. Mr. E Salim Assa Sholom D. Lipskar Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Azari The Abicidan Family Mr. & Mrs. Yaakov Mizrachi Mr. & Mrs. Charles Azoulay Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Musikar In loving memory of Sarah Rochel Ruth obm Mr. & Mrs. Baruk Benamran Mr. & Mrs. Isser New Bat Avraham obm Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Blisko Mr. & Mrs. Shlomo Peretz “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. & Mrs. Michael Blisko Mr. Daniel Rubinoff pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Judge & Mrs. Mark Blumstein Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Schmutter and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Rabbi & Mrs. Menachem Mr. & Mrs. David Schwartz occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mendel Brod Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Shapiro body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Mr. Uri Bublil Mr. & Mrs. Bentzy Shemtov together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Mr. & Mrs. Max Dekelbaum Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Slomianski Rabbi & Mrs. Shlomie Diamont Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Stauber Refuah Shleimah Dr. & Mrs. Brian Dooreck Mr. Mordechai Turgel If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. Mr. and Mrs. Abi Goldshtein & Mr. Alan Turgel MEN WOMEN Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Philip Weinerman Aryeh Leib ben Sura Henya Shoshana bat Mazal Mr. & Mrs. Josh Greisman Mr. & Mrs. Victor Weingarten Rafael Maya ben Sol Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Chava Mr. & Mrs. Roshi Handwerger Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weintraub Aaron ben Tamar Clara bat Corina Raphael Moshe ben Miriam Rivka bat Shoshana Mr. & Mrs. Menahem Ivcher Ms. Edna Pena Werta Yichael ben Layke Leah Rochel bat Sarah Mr. & Mrs. Meir Izak Mr. Jose Yankelevitch Meyer Yankev ben Chaya Etel Miriam bat Risha Raizel Dr. & Mrs. Richard Koffer Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ziefer Alexander ben Esther Raizel Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Raphael Moshe ben Sarah Chana bas Shoshana Moshe ben Zoila Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Moshe Avraham ben Tziporah Riva Chava bas Elka Menucha Community Notice Board: Chaim ben Pnina Chaya bas Rachel If you have a new or slightly used Shaitel that you Gabriel ben Esther Fayge bas Chaya would like to donate to The Shul Sisterhood Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Miriam Leah bas Helen Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Please Contact Yosef ben Edwina Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Avrohom ben Feigel Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Yehuda ben Chaya Sara Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel

9 A Time to Pray Davening schedules and locations throughout the week

Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul 6:20 -6:50 am The Rebbe’s Maamorim Chassidic Discourse R’ Zalman Lipskar 7:45 am Daf Yomi R’ Dov Schochet 8:45 am (approx) Halacha Sephardic Custom R’ Shimshon Tzubeli 10:15 - 11:00 am Maamorim Maamor of the Rebbe R’ Shea Rubinstein

Shacharis Minyanim (mon - Fri) Sunday Shacharis Minyanim Main Minyan 6:50 7:30 9:00 Main Minyan 8:00 am 9:00 am Sephardic Minyan 8:00 Sephardic Minyan 9:00 am

Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan

mincha / Maariv Minyanim (mon - Thurs) Sunday Mincha /Maariv Minyanim Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 7:55 pm 10:00 pm Sephardic Minyan 7:55 pm Following Main Minyan 7:55 pm Late Maariv 10:00 pm

Evening Kolel Schedule - Monday and Thursday 8:45 -9:30 pm Mon & Thurs 8:45 - 10:00 pm Evening Community Kolel Chavrusah

To our beloved Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces, Halachic Times courageously protecting and defending Eretz Yisroel. We pray Based on times for May 23 for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily. Hinda Clara bas Chana Guenendel Benyamin Aharon ben Jeniya Gila Rut Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:09 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Earliest Talit & Tefllin 5:45 am Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:31 am Eden Chana bat Karine Cecile (Earliest Amidah) Latest Shema 9:52 am Zman Tfllah 11:00 am Chatzot / Midday 1:17 pm Earliest Mincha 1:52 pm Plag HaMincha 6:42 pm Shekiah / Sunset 8:04 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 8:29 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)

Times taken from www.chabad.org Please note that during the week times may vary by a minute or two. If anyone would like to send us the name of a soldier in the IDF we would love to add them. 10 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Hayom Yom In the winter of 1942, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of righteous memory, gave his son- in-law, the future Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, the task of compiling an anthology of Chasidic aphorisms and customs arranged according to the days of the year. The calendar was entitled Hayom Yom. In describing this work Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak wrote: …”A book that is small in format…but bursting with pearls and diamonds of choicest quality.” “A splendid palace of Chasidism.” True to these words, Hayom Yom has become a beloved classic work and a source of daily spiritual sustenance. Friday - Sivan 4 Wednesday - Sivan 9 Shavuot is an opportune time to achieve everything In the year 5589 (1829) the Shabbat of Parshat in improving Torah-study and avoda marked by The world is in need of a purifed atmosphere. fear (awe) of G-d, and also to strive in teshuva Purifed air comes only through words of Torah. concerning Torah-study, without interference by Words of Torah offer protection in general and for the accusing Satan - just like the time of Shofar- each individual in particular. The division of the Six sounding on Rosh Hashana and the holy day of the Orders of Mishna for memorization is intended for Fast of Yom Kippur. “when you walk on the road.” The Mishna or two recited from memory wherever one may be, in Shabbos - Sivan 5 whatever sort of place he may be, will illuminate On the eve of Shavuot 5557 (1797) the Alter the bond between Israel and G-d. The letters Rebbe taught: MiSHNaH are the same as NeSHaMaH (soul). It is extremely diffcult to fnd the words to express the Sanctify them today and tomorrow and they shall tremendous beneft, with G-d’s help, in the general cleanse their garments. “Sanctify them today and and individual protection that constant repetition tomorrow,” is done from Above, but “they shall of Mishna will bring. And there are no words to cleanse their garments” - one must do himself. This describe the tremendous gratifcation one thereby was the entire teaching. gives the Creator, may He be blessed.

The Tzemach Tzedek elaborated: “Sanctify them” Say Ribono shel olam only while the kohanim Thursday - Sivan 10 was said by G-d to Moshe. The extension of Moshe sing (the wordless accompanying melody); but The Alter Rebbe responded to an individual at is in every generation and they are able to sanctify when they pronounce the words, one must listen. yechidus: “...The Jewish people are called neirot, the “today” and the “tomorrow”; but for this is When the kohanim sing the wordless melody lamps. A lamp comprises a vessel, wick, oil and needed “..and they shall cleanse their garments” prior to saying v’yaseim, say Ribono until hatzadik. fame. But one must kindle the fame - and then it - the garments of thought, speech and deed. This During the similar choral introduction to l’cha, say sheds light. You have a good lamp, but you lack the must be done by each person on his own. from v’im until Elisha. Likewise before shalom say igniter. By sharply striking the stone of the animal from Uch’sheim until l’tova. As the kohanim fnish soul, a spark of fre fies out and kindles the G-dly Sunday - Sivan 6 pronouncing the word shalom, say v’tishm’reini fre.” The Baal Shem Tov passed away on Wednesday, u’t’chaneini vetirtseini. the frst day of Shavuot, 5520 (1760) and is Friday - Sivan 11 interred in Mezibuz. The Alter Rebbe Commented Adir bamarom is said after responding amein, From my father’s talks: “The avoda of serving G-d (on Wednesday, the 20th of Kislev 5559 (1798) while face is still covered by the tallit. according to Chassidus comprises all kinds of in Petersburg): “On the fourth day the luminaries levels... The level of “corpse” does not need much were taken away.” Tuesday - Sivan 8 elaboration; but, thank G-d, there is also “revival The physical universe is a mixture. It is a meeting- of the dead” in spiritual avoda. A corpse is cold; Monday - Sivan 7 place where G-d meets together (as it were) with there is nothing as frigid as natural intellect, Procedure for the congregant during the blessing man, the select of all creatures; yet it is also ginat human intellect. When one’s natural intelligence by the kohanim (p. 268): When the kohanim say egoz, “a garden of nuts,” the word egoz having the comprehends a G-dly concept, and the emotions yevarech’cha, face forward; When kohanim say numerical equivalent of cheit, “sin.” G-d gives man latent in intellect are enthused and moved by the Hashem, turn head to right (which is the left of the capacity to choose freely, that man may choose pleasure-within-intellect - that is true revival of the kohein pronouncing the blessing). When the for himself a path in life. the dead. kohanim say v’yishm’recha, face forward. While kohanim say ya’eir, turn head to left (which is to the right of the kohein pronouncing the blessing), etc. At shalom face forward. 11 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Who Owns Judaism? Why the Desert Was the Most The desert, on the other hand, is ownerless. Nobody wants the desert (besides the Arabs, Suitable Space for Torah once the Jews settle it). It belongs to nobody. By: Rabbi YY Jacobson Torah, too, is ownerless. It belongs to every The Desert Jewish soul on earth. Nobody holds any “rights” This week’s Torah portion, named “Bamidbar,” to the Torah. It is the living, vibrant conversation which means “in the desert,” is always read of G-d with every living Jew. preceding the holiday of Shavuos, when we Life in the Fast Lane celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai, more life and destiny that speak in every language, 3) Had the Torah been given in a civilized and than 3,300 years ago, in the year 1313 BCE. in every culture, in every age, to every soul. The splendid terrain, we might have believed that its Torah cannot be reduced to a particular time One reason for this is because the Torah was objective was to guide the beautiful life and the frame or reference point. It benefts all the given “bamidbar,” in a desert. It was at Mt. Sinai splendid heart. in the Sinai desert where the Hebrews were arts but never competes with them. Professor molded into a nation and given the blueprint Abraham Joshua Heschel put it thus: But that is not Torah. for repairing the world. But that only carries the “Why does the Bible surpass everything created Torah does not tell us that life is easy and that question over: Of all places, why indeed was by man? Why is there no work worthy of faith is bliss. On the contrary, we were placed Torah given in a wilderness? What is more, our comparison with it? Why is there no substitute in a personal and global wilderness, and life sages describe Sinai as the marriage between for the Bible, no parallel to the history it has is a battle. And it is precisely this battle that G-d and His people; whoever heard of getting engendered? Why must all who seek the living G-d intended us to face, day in and day out. married in a barren desert? The Torah should G-d turn to its pages? Do not be disturbed or demoralized, the Torah have been given in the Hilton or the Waldorf- teaches, by your challenges, your demons, “Set the Bible beside any of the truly great Astoria, not in a desolate desert? your inconsistencies and your weaknesses. books produced by the genius of man and see Do not be shaken when you do not live up Let us introduce one more question: Why was it how they are diminished in stature. The Bible to your highest aspirations, and often do not necessary for the Jewish people to wander 40 shows no concern with literary form, with verbal actualize or maintain your inspiration. Do not years in this desert before entering the Promised beauty, yet its absolute sublimity rings through be discouraged; because the Torah was given Land? Was 210 years in Egypt, including more all its pages. Its lines are so monumental and precisely to help us pave a road in the barren than 80 years of hard labor, not enough? Why at the same time so simple that whoever desert of the human psyche, to create a highway liberate them from Egypt only to put them tries to compete with them produces either a in the jungle of history. through another 40 years in the wilderness? commentary or a caricature. It is a work we do There are many explanations for the unique not know how to assess. Other books you can Had the Torah been given in a beautiful city, relationship between Torah and the desert. Here estimate, you can measure, compare; the Bible then all we would have is a guide on how to live are three. you can only extol. Its insights surpass our in beauty, in ecstasy. But Torah came to teach us standards. There is nothing greater. In three how to confront our wilderness and to transform Absolute Sublimity thousand years it has not aged a day. It is a book a desert into paradise. 1) Had the Torah been given in a civilized city that cannot die. Oblivion shuns its pages.” That is how the spiritual masters explained the or community, people might have defned it as “Absolute sublimity.” Such a work must be taught a product of a particular culture, milieu and reason for the Torah being given on a mountain. and transmitted in a desert. A desert is not Why a mountain, and not fat land? environment. Sophisticated academics would associated with any particular culture or form explain to us the particular “genre” of Torah, as of living. A desert is barren, raw, plain. A desert is A mountain is essentially elevated earth. That if it were an outdated, modern or post-modern not sophisticated; it is real. is the profound message of Torah: With earth, piece of literature, an epic or lyric, a work of gravel, dirt and mud, you must battle. That is history, law, tragedy or philosophy. They would Ownerless intrinsic to the human condition and the reality enlighten us as to whether Torah belonged to 2) Had the Torah been given in a particular of our world. Yet you must remember that your the time of the Athenians, the Hellenistic age, city or community, its inhabitants would have mission is to elevate the earth, to introduce the Greco-Roman period, the Byzantine age or claimed copyrights on it. Had the Torah been holiness and G-dliness into a mundane and another period of civilization. Torah would be given in BoroPark, CrownHeights, Williamsburg soiled world. labeled, classifed and qualifed. It would be “put or Monsey, these communities would claim into perspective.” “ownership” on Torah. “We know how to interpret G-d did not desire holy people doing holy Torah, how to assess it, how to appreciate it. It things; he wanted unholy people doing holy But Torah cannot be put into a particular cultural things. He desired that earthly human beings or artistic perspective. Torah is not culture, belongs to us.” The same would hold true if the Torah was given in Lakewood or the Upper West become mountains of moral dignity and divine literature, art, history, law or fction. Torah grace. embodies the eternal truths about existence, Side. 12 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Seeing the Sounds @Sinai Seeing Voices Was the medium the real message Human interactivity is not their only topic of dispute concerning Sinai. They also argue over the of the Ten Commandments? multimedia experience itself. It makes sense that By Tzvi Freeman the two disputes are related. The Experience The verse reads, “All the people saw the sounds and woke up late on the day of the Ten Commandments. the lightning and the mountain afame.” Look, stuff happens. When I fnally jolted out of Ibed and ran towards the scene, I met someone Hold on: They saw the sounds? coming from there. “Hey, I missed it!” I said. “What went on?” Rabbi Yishmael dismisses that. It’s just poetically The Dispute licensed language. They heard the sounds and they I’ll bet you’re thinking he told me something like, Before we get into their dispute—which you can saw the sights. “G-d said He’s G-d, no other gods, and we shouldn’t fnd in Mechilta, one of the most ancient collections steal, kill or commit adultery.” Rabbi Akiva disagrees. They saw the sounds. And of commentary on the book of Exodus—let me not only that: they heard the sights. describe something of the personalities involved. But he didn’t. It was more like this: Two diametrically opposed personalities. Dear Rabbi Akiva, what’s the point in that? Okay, we “You can’t imagine it! There was this bizarre get the whole “medium is the message” idea. But Rabbi Yishmael was born into the priestly class. thunder! And freaky lightning! The whole mountain what is the message of such a medium? In what Some say he was the high priest. From childhood, was glowing in some weird fre-like light! And this way does seeing thunder or hearing lightning he looked more like an angel than a human being. shofar sound didn’t stop getting louder and louder enhance the experience of Sinai? And what makes and louder! We heard a voice coming from all Rabbi Akiva was a descendant of converts. He it so crucial to receiving Torah?What could be the directions at once. Then, next thing you know, it was an ignorant shepherd until the age of 40. message behind the medium of synesthesia? was like nothing existed but G-d—I mean nothing. Up until then, he said, if he would have met a Without getting into what sounds might look The whole world became totally unreal, and all scholar of Torah, he would have bit him. Then he there was was Him! The whole experience was like, or how sights might sound (there are people turned around and worked his way up to become who experience this—it’s called synesthesia), let’s such a knockout—over and over again. And you the greatest teacher of his time, and one of the missed it?!” strip this dispute of its superfcial wrappings and greatest of history. get into what these two Torah titans are really Okay, so I made this up. Everyone was there, When these two clash, it’s not just two personalities discussing. Let’s look at how these two mediums— men, women and children, and all the souls of clashing. It’s two faces of Torah looking in two hearing and seeing—impact the human being. every Jew who will ever be. I’m just out to make opposite directions, one from the top down, one a very Marshall McLuhan–esque the-medium- Neurons devoted to visual processing occupy about from the bottom up. When these two clash, it’s two 30 percent of the brain cortex, as compared with 8 is-the-message point: That event at Mount Sinai faces of Torah clashing.And at the point of their wasn’t so much about content as it was about the percent for touch and just 3 percent for hearing. No intersection, we discover what Torah is all about at wonder why if it’s visible in front of us, we take it as experience. It wasn’t about hearing commands. It its very core. was about seeing G-d. At Sinai, the medium was the an objective reality. No wonder why, for us humans, message.And that experience was the message— Now back to what the people had to say to each of seeing is believing. that there’s nothing but G-d. the Ten Commandments. For a dog, smelling is believing. For a shark, And it was an interactive experience. Even though Rabbi Yishmael answers our question simply: electroreception is believing (well, a major part there was nothing but G-d—so what was there to Each time G-d told them they were supposed to of it). For a bat, hearing is believing. But when we interact with? Okay, that’s a problem. But it had to do something, everyone answered “Yes!” Each humans hear something, it’s more of a secondhand, be interactive, because the Torah introduces the time G-d told them they were not supposed to do subjective experience. We’re not so convinced. It Ten Commandments with the words, “G-d said all something, everyone answered, “No!” could have been all sorts of things that we heard. these words, to say.” Or maybe we didn’t hear anything at all. As in “I am G-d . . .” receives “Yes, You are the only Usually, “to say” means that Moses was to say this G-d!” and “Don’t have other gods” receives “No, we We use “hearing” in a different but similar sense: over to the Jewish people. But in this case, the Jewish won’t have any other gods!” When we know about something because we people were right there (even this sleepyhead). heard it from someone else, or even read it in a Rabbi Akiva disagrees. For every positive there was So here, “to say” means something else—that the blog or news story, we say, “Yes, I heard about a “Yes!” And for every negative there was also a people were supposed to say something. that.” So hearing, to human beings, is a kind of “Yes!” As in, “Yes, we will not have other gods!” secondhand experience. What were the people supposed to say? Depends There’s something deep behind this argument. on who you ask: Rabbi Yishmael or Rabbi Akiva. Where Rabbi Yishmael sees the negative as And yet, that secondhand experience of hearing negative, Rabbi Akiva sees even the negative as information has a certain advantage over seeing positive. What’s going on? something in front of you. When you see something, 13 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! you grasp it as a “thing that is.” When it’s not visible then there must be something called “work” that’s Holy of Holies. They began to cry, and Rabbi Akiva to you, but you hear the sounds it makes, or just necessary to do, and time must exist. If G-d was began to laugh. hear about it, in a certain way you are more capable saying they must not worship idols, then there of dealing with the information this thing contains. must be a world where the concept of something They asked, “Akiva, why do you laugh?” Its isness is less real, it remains more abstract—and other than one G-d must be thinkable. If G-d was He asked, “And why do you cry?” therefore it leaves more room for your imagination. speaking to them and requiring that they respond, then they too must somehow exist. Said they to him: “Here is the place of which it In court, we refer to secondhand evidence as is said, ‘The stranger that approaches it shall die,’ “hearsay.” You hear information. You see a thing Amazing—there is a world! G-d, after all, desires and now foxes walk through it! And we shouldn’t that is.And here’s a fascinating fact: In a Jewish we do something with it, and that desire renders it weep?!” court—which is generally a tribunal—the judges real. Somehow. By implication. Yet, once this radical can decide the case only if their experience of paradigm shift of Sinai had taken place, what was Said he to them: “That is why I laugh. For it is that evidence is hearsay. The witnesses must be previously obvious suddenly demanded a great written, ‘I shall have bear witness for Me faithful eyewitnesses, having seen the deed frsthand. But if deal of evidence and imagination. witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son any of the judges was there watching at the scene of Yeverechiah.’” of the crime, he’s off the bench. Sinai was a revolution that turned the entire cosmic order on its head. Reality as we know it was “Now, what is the connection between Uriah and Why is that? Because the Torah demands that shattered to reveal a deeper, singular truth behind Zechariah? Uriah was in the time of the First a court must attempt to exonerate the accused all things. Temple, and Zechariah was in the time of the before incriminating him—and you can’t exonerate Second Temple! But the Torah makes Zechariah’s someone when you yourself saw him do the act. Rabbi Yishmael hears out Rabbi Akiva and nods. prophecy dependent upon Uriah’s prophecy.” It’s become too much of a reality for you. You’re Yes, Sinai exposed the façade of physicality. Yes, at trapped within your own perception. Sinai infnite light poured down upon us. But with “So I will explain: With Uriah, it is written: ‘Therefore, a goal: So that we earthly beings, within our earthly because of you, Zion shall be plowed as a feld.’ And Which takes us back to Rabbi Yishmael and Rabbi limitations, might welcome that light and allow it here it is, plowed as a feld and desolate.” Akiva: When they argue over seeing and hearing, entry into our fnite, natural world. And in a natural they’re really talking about something far more world, people don’t hear sights or see sounds. And “With Zechariah, it is written, ‘Old men and women abstract. Seeing means it’s real to you. Hearing you have to know that yes is yes and no is no— shall yet sit in the streets of Jerusalem . . . and the means it’s something you only induce from the there’s stuff that’s good that must be embraced, streets of the city shall be flled with boys and girls evidence before you. So the argument really is and stuff that’s bad that must be rejected. playing in its streets. . . . In those days, ten men of all about the message of Sinai. It’s about a shift that the languages of the nations shall take hold of the experience made in our perception of reality. That’s Rabbi Yishmael. That’s what a kohen and a fringe of a Jewish man’s garment, saying, ‘Let us go tzaddik-all-his-life is all about—channeling light, with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” nurturing the world. Existence by Implication “As long as Uriah’s prophecy had not been fulflled, Rabbi Akiva says they saw the sounds. When G-d But Rabbi Akiva is a “master of return,” a man I feared that Zechariah’s prophecy may not be said He’s the only G-d, they didn’t just hear that. whose life is a perpetual exodus of leaving behind fulflled either. But now that Uriah’s prophecy has They saw that. the person he was the day before, pulling back been fulflled, it is certain that Zechariah’s prophecy Up until then, they had heard about an underlying the curtains of the reality he has known until will be fulflled.” reality beneath this world of sensation and now. For him, life is about seeing a higher reality, With these words they replied to him: “Akiva, you tangible stuff. Intuitively, it made sense. But it was beyond the horizon that the eye can perceive. have consoled us! Akiva, you have consoled us!” nowhere as real as the rocks on the ground and He has transformed the darkness of his past into the sun in the sky. Now, suddenly, that reality burst a great light, and so in all darkness he is able to The Temple lay in ruins, the Jewish people were into center stage. G-d said, “I am,” and that became perceive light. And when you do that, you see G-d in exile, and the Roman oppression had become their reality. Wherever they looked, all they saw was everywhere—not only in the “yes,” but in the “no” unbearable. There may never have been a time as a world of endless divine energy, a perfect oneness as well. void of hope and promise in all of Jewish history. of a Creator beyond all existence. Because there is only yes. There is only One. But for Rabbi Akiva, all that lay before him was a And they heard the sights. G-d said to have no other transient state—a secondary reality. He heard it, but gods, and otherness vanished. The busy world of Crying and Laughing he saw beyond it. What he saw was a path to the There are two stories of Rabbi Akiva that multiple things and sensations which until now fulfllment of a promise—the fnal exodus of his demonstrate just how far he took that attitude: had been their obvious reality dissolved within this people and the ultimate of times for all peoples. divine harmony, and could only be induced from Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, Rabbi Even within exile and desolation, even there he the evidence. Yehoshua and Rabbi Akiva went up to Jerusalem. saw reason to laugh—the “yes” within the “no.” When they reached Mount Scopus, they tore their What evidence? If G-d was speaking to them, they Oneness in the Ultimate Darkness must somehow exist.Well, if G-d was saying they garments. When they came to the ruins of the Temple Mount, they saw a fox running out of the How far can you take that? Rabbi Akiva took it all must work for six days and rest on the seventh, the way. 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

was the ancestor of King David, whose birthday After the failed Bar Kochba revolt, the Romans Halacha of The Week is on Shavuot. prohibited the teaching of Torah in public. Rabbi By Rabbi Dov Schochet Akiva defed the prohibition and was arrested. And We try to bring many plants and fowers into then, the Talmud tells: both our homes and Shul in remembrance of Shavuos the giving of the Torah, when Mount Sinai was When the Romans brought out Rabbi Akiva to be surrounded by beautiful trees. It is also the time executed, it was time to recite the Shema. They when judgment is handed down on how fruitful began torturing him by raking his skin with combs, each tree will be, so by seeing the trees we will and he prepared himself to accept the yoke of think about this and pray for them. heaven by saying Shema Yisrael—Hear O Israel, G-d is our G-d, G-d is one. When reading the Ten Commandments during the Torah reading, the custom is to stand and His students cried out, “To such a point?” face the Torah. This is to commemorate the standing of our nation at Sinai. The Rebbe would He responded, “All my life I was pained over this also stress the importance of every Jew being verse, ‘You shall love G-d with all your heart, with present during this reading, even young children all your soul and with all your might.’ What does it and babies. mean to love G-d with all your soul? It means, even if He should take your soul from you. All my life The Haftorah on the frst day of Shavuot is the I ached for the opportunity to fulfll those words. “Chariot of Ezekiel”. It is customary to give this And now that it has arrived, I should not fulfll it?” he name Shavuot literally means weeks. Haftorah to a scholar and some have a custom to The simple reason for this name is that this stand while reading it along with the Chazzan. He sustained his recitation of the last word “one,” so Tmarks the end of the seven week counting, that his soul departed from him with that “one.” A purifcation process from the Exodus. It is customary to have a dairy meal on the frst voice from heaven was heard, declaring, “Fortunate day of Shavuot. There are many reasons given are you, Akiva, that your soul departed with ‘one.’” The name can also mean oath, which represents for this custom, amongst them are: the eternal oath between G-d and the Jew It is one thing to see hope glimmering within the to never betray their mutual bond, which was 1) When the Torah was given and we received embers of the Temple ruins. It is another to see the cemented at Sinai. the laws of Kashrut, all of our vessels and meat oneness of G-d within the brutality of man against were not kosher. Being that the Torah was given man, in a cruel and tortuous death rewarded for Although one can accept Shabbat on Friday on Shabbat, the only Kosher food we had were the deed of teaching Torah—never mind that it was afternoon one should be careful to pray Shavuot dairy products. his own death. The Talmud continues that even the night only after nightfall. This is because the ministering angels expressed their outrage, crying festival of Shavuot is celebrated after 49 2) Milk represents kindness, and it was only by out to the Holy One, blessed be He, “Is this Torah complete days have passed from Passover. If the kindness and mercy of G-d that we received and this its reward?!” one would accept the holiday early, the 49th day the Torah. would be incomplete. If the angels could not see, we cannot be expected 3) The only source that one can use dairy is from to see. If they who do not suffer were outraged, There is a custom to remain awake the frst the oral tradition, so by having a dairy meal we we certainly have the right to be outraged at the night of Shavuot and study Torah the whole affrm our belief in the oral tradition. night. This is to prepare ourselves for receiving horrors that have befallen our people. And to It is proper to have a meat meal following the the Torah on the following morning, and to demand. dairy one. One should take proper care not to remedy the fact that our ancestors slept the inadvertently mix the milk and meat, or eat one But then, If Torah is to enter our world, the “yes” night before revelation and had to be awoken to immediately following the other in a way which must be found even in the darkest “no.”if Torah is to receive the Torah. The primary study of this night is forbidden. enter our world, if Sinai is to have its effect, if we is the Oral law. are to fulfll our mission in this life, we must have Our custom is to not say Tachnun starting from Many communities (Chabad included) have a at least an ounce of the vision of Rabbi Akiva—to Rosh Chodesh Sivan (for that is when they special Tikkun with a detailed study schedule. see that G-d is found not only in the light, but in started preparing at Sinai) until the 12th of If one did not sleep at night there is a dispute the darkness as well. Not only in the “yes,” but in the Sivan for one could bring their festival offering whether we can make a blessing on Netillat “no” just the same. Because there is nothing else till that day. but G-d, and He is good. Yadayim in the morning. May we all merit receiving the Torah with great There is a custom to read the book of Ruth on As David sang, “Even darkness will not obscure joy and internalization. anything from You, and the night is light like day; Shavuot. One explanation is that just as Ruth darkness and light are all the same.” went through great hardship and privation to join the Jewish people, so too the study of Torah requires great commitment. Furthermore, Ruth 15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

therefore it is an acquisition of G-d….therefore Pirkei Avos the Ten Commandments opened up with an Aleph, Stories with Soul and the world was created with a Beit, to teach help the world reach the level of completion G-d that there is nothing more unifed that the Torah”. had in mind before creation. (Derech Chaim) Absolute Acquisitions First, let’s understand what the term acquisition means in the context of the braita. As we noted, the It Once Happened Adapted by Jonathan Udren from simple meaning does not make sense. the teachings of the Maharal of any years ago in Dubrovno there was a Prague The Maharal answers our frst question as follows: boy named Feivish Henech, who was the list of fve acquisitions denotes entities that are Ma G-d-fearing lad. Although he was The world was created with a Beit, absolute acquisitions. From all perspectives it must not a great student, he nevertheless devoted but the Torah begins with an Aleph. be something that is only appropriate for G-d. And practically all his time to reciting Psalms, and what is that quality? It can only include that which efore we even begin the sixth chapter of this he did in the sweetest voice imaginable. is unique and unifed. Pirkei Avot, we have actually already fnished Feivish Henech was a beautiful-looking boy Bthe book. No Kabbalistic secrets here, just In other words, only that which is the absolute and his voice was a pleasure to listen to. When that Pirkei Avot originally was composed with spiritual root can be called an acquisition; since he sang the Psalms of praise, his voice rang fve chapters. So what is the sixth chapter? It was G-d is one, so too the entity must also express with joy, so that everyone listening to him added on at a later time in line with the custom of oneness. Only then can it be called an absolute felt their beings permeated with gladness. learning Pirkei Avot during the six weeks between acquisition in our context. But when Feivish recited the Psalms which Pesach and Shavuot. were outpourings of the soul to the Alm-ghty, What about the non-sequential order of our braita? beseeching Him to help His troubled people, The last chapter is a collection of braitot, or sayings The Maharal refers us to a Midrash that says the Feivish Henech’s voice assumed such depths of of the sages, who were contemporaries of the sages world was created with a Beit, but the Torah begins melancholy and distress, that everyone felt full of the original text. These teachings were taught with an Aleph. Let’s understand this Midrash and of sorrow and sadness. in a different study hall and are usually worded see how it answers our question. in a less concise fashion. Leafng through the When he reached the age of 16, he suddenly The frst word in the Torah is bereishit, translated fnal chapter one can fnd many familiar themes, took it into his head to live differently from as “In the beginning,” begins with the letter Beit, however the teachings focus on the exalted quality everyone. He spent literally every moment of the second letter of the alphabet. However the frst of the Torah, as opposed to specifc spiritual lessons his life reciting the Psalms. And in order that word of the Torah that was revealed to the Nation dealing with the nature of the person. no one should deter him from his purpose, he of Israel at Mt. Sinai was anochi, I, which begins stopped up his ears so that no sound of the “G-d acquired fve acquisitions in His world, and they with the letter Aleph, the frst letter of the alphabet. outside world should reach him. He covered are: the Torah, one acquisition; the Heavens and Here we run into the same problem: if the letters up his eyes so that no sight should disturb him, Earth, one acquisition; Avraham, one acquisition; Aleph and Beit suggest chronology, then they are as he could recite the Psalms and prayers by the Nation of Israel, one acquisition; the Temple, out of order. one acquisition”. (Avot 6:10) heart. He ate hardly anything, fasting all day and The answer provides a fundamental understanding only partaking of a crust of bread and drink of The Maharal begins his commentary with several of our Torah. There are two Torahs: the Torah that water at night. On Shabbat or holidays he ate questions. First off, why are only these fve items we read from, and the Torah in its conceptual form. white bread, instead of the darker bread, and in listed as acquisitions of G-d? Doesn’t the whole The Midrash teaches that G-d looked into the Torah addition drank a glass of wine. One may have world belong to G-d, as it’s written in Psalms that and created the world. The Torah actually preceded expected to see him become a physical wreck the world and all that flls it all belongs to G-d? the world, and is the blueprint for the world. The under the circumstances, but to everyone’s Torah in its essence is the unifed vision of what surprise he became, if anything, even stronger A second implicit question has to do with the the world was, is, and can become. Therefore, the and more handsome. ordering of the teaching. Were not the heavens revelation of the Torah was with an Aleph, the frst and the earth created frst? And Avraham also Naturally, he could not go unnoticed, and he was letter, to teach that it preceded creation. Only after came before the Torah, did he not? The time line talked about all around the area of Dubrovno. the blueprints were drawn could the project of the expressed in the braita seems to be out of order. When word of this strange Jewish hermit world begin that denotes the Beit, the second step. reached the ears of a certain anti-Semitic Polish As we’ve come to see, the Maharal says little, but The Torah, G-d, and the Jewish people are all one, squire, he decided he would have some sport implies grand concepts. Here in a few words he the Talmud teaches. G-d’s Torah is a refection of with the Jew. He sent one of his servants to explains the nature of the Torah and the role of the the unity of its Creator, given to the Jewish people Dubrovno to bring Feivish back, but when the Jewish people: so we as a nation could refect that unity in the man heard that Feivish was a holy man whom “That it is written that the Torah is one acquisition, world. We too are listed in the teaching as an it was impossible to approach, he fed in terror. that the Torah is one complete entity alone, and acquisition. We too are one unifed entity in our When his master heard his story, he few into essence. Guided by the Torah, we unite in order to a deadly rage and ordered the poor fellow to 16 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! be publicly fogged. The usual penalty was 15 feared the squire’s retaliation against the entire day a week, you can’t work, and you can’t lashes, after which the unfortunate victim had community, while the squire’s men were terrifed spend. And from what we earn during the to crawl on all fours and kiss the feet of his of the hermit. They bundled up their master and other six days, we share at least 10% with tormentor, begging forgiveness. But when the ran for their carriage. Feivish the Hermit took no those in need. Far from being “the root of lashes were administered to the back of the notice of the entire proceeding and continue to all evil,” material wealth can used to build servant, nothing happened; there was no pain fll the hall with his exquisite singing. shuls, yeshivas, hospitals, and provide food, and no blood. shelter, and clothing for ourselves and others. The squire’s pain became unbearable. He wanted By providing for our fellow man, we bind Everyone wondered what would happen now. to return to the hermit and beg forgiveness, but ourselves to G-d, the Creator of the One the It was known that the squire had sent other he was told that no one could approach the holy material world. servants to fetch Feivish Henech the Hermit. man. The doctors said there was no hope, other The servants returned, but without Feivish. They than to remove the arm before it poisoned the So, if we escape from material bondage, related their story: “When we found the hermit, entire body. what else keeps us in Egypt? The first line he was standing and praying. We called out to From this time on, people in trouble tried to do of Parshas Beshalach tells us that when G-d him, but he made no sign of having heard. I took the Jewish Nation into the desert, He did stepped up quite close to him and struck him something for the hermit, so that they might be helped, as a result. So it was that all the not take them by a shorter route, the way of with my whip, but it was as if it hadn’t even the Philistines. Had He done so, they would touched him. Then I waited and tried to convince childless wives of the town gathered together and raised funds to build a study hall with see war, and return to Egypt. The Philistine him to accompany us, but he refused to react way of life was one of hedonism, a seemingly and we had no choice, but to come without him.” special accommodations for Feivish Henech the Hermit to be called by his name. It is an logical philosophy that argues that the most The squire was in a rage. “Saddle a horse, and I interesting fact that after this, all the childless effective way to free yourself from war with myself will fetch this crazy Jew! Get the priest women bore children. physical desires is to satiate the body with and he will accompany us.” In the squire’s heart as much as it wants, whenever it wants it. was a creeping fear that the hermit might after Community Corner The hedonistic way of life, however, results in all be a supernatural being. addiction. In their quest to free themselves Accepting The Torah At Sinai from struggling with physical desire, persons When the priest heard that the squire planned by Mordechai Olesky, adapted from a lecture by who rely on unrestricted pleasure from to use force against Feivish Henech, he begged Rabbi Sholom Lipskar alcohol, drugs, and physical intimacy return to him, “Please, Your Honor, do not do anything bondage. The body becomes the slavemaster. against Feivish Henech the Hermit. He is a holy e will soon celebrate the receiving man and you will be wiser to leave him alone. of the Torah at Mount Sinai. A Jewish The Torah allows for bodily pleasure without I, myself, will have nothing to do with this Wholiday, however, is not merely a becoming dependent. A person must not foolishness.” commemorative event. Our rabbis explain drink to the point of drunkenness; or eat that the spiritual forces that brought about like a glutton (Maimonides says one should “Aren’t you ashamed? I will show you that he the original giving of the Torah are enlivened stop eating if the stomach is 3/4 full); and is merely mentally unhinged!” exclaimed the in the present on Shavuos. intimacy is to be enjoyed only between squire. husband and wife. Through a Torah way of life, But why is it that the vast majority of Jews When the squire entered the study hall he the body can be a means of serving G-d, and don’t accept the Torah? Commentators tell connecting with Him. With our hands we give greeted the rabbi and the other community us that when the Jewish nation was leaving notables in a friendly manner, but he let them tzedakkah, wrap tefillin and light Shabbos Egypt, and the sea had split, 80% were too candles; with our feet we run to do mitzvot. know that he was there to prove that this pre-occupied with piling up riches taken from particular hermit who refused to see, hear, or When our minds we study Torah, and with our the Egyptians. The least of them came out lips, share words of Torah. eat was just crazy, and had nothing supernatural with 90 mules laden with gold and silver, but about him. it wasn’t enough. Imagine trying to manage The same Spiritual Force that brought us the “You are playing with fre,” they warned him, but that load. And where were they going that Torah thousands of years ago is bringing it he refused to listen. they wanted even more? Into a desert where to us today. Let’s resolve not to capitulate there was nothing to spend it on. to the internal pharoahs of materialism and “I have driven sense into many obstinate persons physicality, but rather utilize our material with this whip and shall now drive the nonsense Similarly today, many persons are in bondage resources and bodies to make a “dwelling out of this individual also!” With that he walked piling up riches. Workaholics and shopaholics, place for G-d.” up to Feivish Henech and struck him with his spending all their time earning or spending, whip. The whip fell out of his grasp and his hand their quest to free themselves from poverty dropped helplessly to his side as excruciating binds them to a pharoah inside of them. The pains shot through his arm. Torah, however, provides a way to liberate one’s self from the grip of materialism. One There was a feeling of panic in the air. The Jews 17 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Witnessing History my past present and future...ONE. Ambassador Recently In The News By Tila Levy David Melech (that’s his real name) you are a true King David of our time, just like our original King David who reigned over our capital of Invocation at U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, who’s life is celebrated on Shavuot - Opening in Jerusalem Delivered this Shavuot we will celebrate you and him for glorifying our city of Jerusalem. by Chabad Rabbi By Dovid Margolin

ifty-one years after the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces entered the gates Fof the Old City of Jerusalem, reunifying the holy city after almost two decades of utting my thoughts into words to explain Jordanian occupation, the United States of the last few days is not easy. The excitement America offcially moved its embassy to Israel’s Pthat I felt is nothing like anything I’ve felt capital city. The move, a perennial presidential before. This was a new feeling I almost didn’t campaign promise supported by U.S. leaders recognize. The mixture of pride, joy, honor, awe, on both sides of the aisle for decades, was love, passion all came together as one! announced by President Donald J. Trump in December 2017. The opening took place on To say I love Israel is an understatement, and May 14 in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to to say I love the USA is also not enough. The Israel David M. Friedman, Israeli Prime Minister experience of being at the opening of the new Benjamin Netanyahu, and American and Israeli American Embassy in Jerusalem was exhilarating. dignitaries. I felt fortunate and blessed to be there. It was a ceremony which celebrated my 2 homes as 1. My The gathering was addressed by Rabbi Zalman blue and white blood mixed with the red white Wolowik, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the and blue inside my heart. I was proud to be an Five Towns in Cedarhurst, N.Y., and a longtime American, and I was proud to be a Jew standing Torah-study partner of Ambassador Friedman. in Jerusalem in my own Embassy. Emphasizing Jerusalem’s place as the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Wolowik noted that They say “Home is where the heart is”... It felt like “truth is not determined by popular opinion—it is a new home away from home- at home! Not sure eternal not ephemeral, unchanging not relative. any of this actually makes sense, but neither did Truth stands the test of time. While empires, this moment. It’s a moment we thought would ideologies and philosophies rise and fall, the never come, yet always hoped it would happen Jewish people’s attachment to this holy city has in our lifetime. Being there was a dream come never waned or faltered—it is truth. King David true and sharing it with friends and family made imagined a Temple here, and his son Solomon it even more special, because it felt like we were built it here; the Prophets pleaded, cajoled surrounded by only friends and more family. and thundered here. From cradle to grave, for thousands of years, Jews of every extraction I am so grateful to President Trump, Ambassador have had the beautiful name of this beautiful Friedman and their families, and all our leaders city on their lips, Yerushalayim. Jews have lived -gentile and Jewish alike, who through the here, and when they didn’t, they directed their years have worked so hard to make this dream prayers here. That is truth.” a reality. I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, fghters of our State of Israel and a Thanking President Trump and the United States proud American citizen, so this moment made all for “standing for this truth,” he prayed that other 18 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! countries follow America’s example in “affrming the Jewish people’s eternal bond with this holy city.” Peace, Wolowik pointed out, is a quintessentially Jewish idea and aspiration, symbolized in the very makeup of Jerusalem. “The beauty of Jerusalem,” Wolowik said, quoting the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, “ ... is that its walls are unifying walls. Within the confnes of Jerusalem, every man, woman and child became part of something Park, the large garden that encircles Kraków’s That’s when Jablon met Chabad-Lubavitch greater than themselves.” Old City, where the city’s walls had once stood. emissary Rabbi Pinny Gniwisch. The director of Chabad-affliated “Living Legacy” in Montreal, But peace is the twin of truth, and the rabbi “Until the sixth grade, I spoke only Polish,” Gniwisch has been leading “March of the Living” concluded by praying that “from today’s exalting Jablon recalls. “I was the only Jew in my class. trips to Poland for the past 13 years. This year, of truth, there fow to Jerusalem, her neighbors My classmates made that very clear to me—for he served as the Montreal delegation’s offcial and to the entire world, a true and perfect peace. six years, they called me nothing but ‘dirty Jew.’ rabbi. ... In the words of the Psalmist who sang his ” longing for peace not far from right here, ‘Pray As the two met over lunch before the trip, for the peace of Jerusalem, may those who love How the Science of Racism Led to Jablon mentioned his interrupted bar mitzvah. you be at peace ... ’ ” the Holocaust Despite the abuse, the Jablons considered “He was adamant at frst about not wanting themselves Jewish Poles, with an emphasis on to put on tefllin,” notes Gniwisch. The ******* being full Polish citizens. conversation then turned to the subject of revenge. A Holocaust Survivor’s In the summer of 1939, Jablon was learning to Revenge: A Bar Mitzvah in swim in Kraków’s new public pool and enjoying “This is your revenge,” Gniwisch told him. “You owe it yourself to reclaim what was taken from Poland After 79 Years time with his aunt and cousins in a summer camp in Rytro, a resort town nestled in Poland’s you.” Jablon took to the idea. He was on board Montreal resident dons tefllin and Tatra mountains. His parents hired a rabbi to to wrap tefllin in Poland. is called to the Torah for the frst help him with his bar mitzvah studies. When The bar mitzvah was held on Rosh Chodesh time the war broke out in September, his studies (the frst day of the Jewish month) of the month By Mordechai Lightston stopped—and the course of Jablon’s life was of Iyar in the Tykocin synagogue, one of the few forever altered. remaining historic synagogues in Poland. “In one day, I lost everything,” he says. “It was surreal,” says Gniwisch. “We were in Instead of attending gymnasium as he had a shul that once had 4,000 members—all planned, Jablon spent the war years being murdered in one day. Yet here it was, 79 years shuffed from the Kraków Ghetto to the Płaszów, later, being used again, to help a survivor Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration reclaim what was stolen from him.” camps. When the war fnally ended, he had lost To Jablon, the bar mitzvah was the highlight his mother, father and brothers, as well as 16 of his trip. aunts and uncles, and many more cousins. ohnny Jablon began preparing for his bar “I felt such a mixture of emotions. Everyone Moving to Montreal, Jablon married, opened around me was crying. I felt so excited for mitzvah in Poland in the summer of 1939. A an electronics store and began a new life. He month later, the Germans invaded. Now 92 the opportunity, and sad that no one from my J never planned to return to Poland. “How could childhood family could see it.” years of age, Jablon returned to Poland for the I go back?” he says. “I had no one left. I didn’t frst time since World War II to fnally celebrate want to go to see the ashes of my family.” After Jablon donned tefllin for the frst time his bar mitzvah. and was called to the Torah, everyone in the Last May, when his wife, Sally, passed away, synagogue began to dance. Born the second of three sons to an assimilated Jablon began to refect on his life in Poland Jewish family in Kraków, Jablon spent the frst before the war. At the urging of friends, he “That was something else,” he says. “To see all 11 years of his life fully integrated into Polish decided that it was time to fnally return on the kids around me dance. That is how you society. While many of the more traditional a “March of the Living” trip to the country of fght anti-Semitism—by showing Jewish pride. Jews lived in the Kazimierz district, the Jablons his birth. lived on a small suburban street next to Planty 19 Get the Picture The full scoop on all the great events and classes around town

Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar May 19th 5:30 pm Speaker: Mrs. Chana Barouk

At The Home Of Ruthy Ginsburg 9424 Byron Ave Surfside

20 Get the Picture The full scoop on all the great events and classes around town

21 Get the Picture The full scoop on all the great events and classes around town

22 Get the Picture The full scoop on all the great events and classes around town

The Shul is working towards some big membership goals right now. We are working to get to 770 members by the end of December 2018. This is truly a community-led efort, and one that won’t make it without the continued support of our members. In order to hit these milestones, we are asking for YOUR help, our members. You can help us spread the word by encouraging others to become members and if you bring a friend who signs up as MEMBER you will get a The Shul Rewards cards full of Surfside Stores Discounts. We’ll be updating you periodically on our progress. Thanks again for helping to make this a successful membership campaign.

23 Construction Updates Keeping you up to date on our exciting progress

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

We have now split the “underground structures” process into four phases. The frst phase involves H&M now mobilized and focused on the excavation and formation for the grade beams and pile caps in tandem with Thunder Demolition. Attention is on the chipping away of those remaining auger piles which we anticipate will soon be chipped down to their required height within the next three weeks. We will keep you updated on that progress! Royal Plumbing is working in tandem with H&M on-site to locate and lay the underground pipe work before the slab is poured. By early May, we plan to transition to Phase 2 which will include excavating and clearing the elevator pits, preparing for water proofng, and laying the rebar. There’s a lot going on here and we will keep you updated

As always, if you have any questions regarding the construction process, please don’t hesitate to contact Maurice Egozi (786-280-1923), Mitch Feldman (786-556-5425) or Yankie Andrusier (347-723-2731).

24 In A Woman’s World Issues of relevance to the Jewish Woman

WEEKLY CLASSES Women’s Mikvah: Monday Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an Women’s Study Group Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm appointment: 305-866 1492 or At the home of : No Class This Week 305-323-2410 Please Note: Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be Prepaid Tuesday Prayer Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:15 am 1111 Kane Concourse Suite 618 The Shul Sisterhood Tanya Class In Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 10:45 - 12:00 pm

198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Who we are... Wednesday The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am and classes geared toward women in the community. Our The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds Haime Library together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:15 - 2:50 pm body and soul. Meet new friends, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village relax and get inspired! Thursday If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, Women’s Tanya Class – Spanish – Mrs. Vivian Perez please call 305. 868.1411 Call Vivian for details – 305.213.3202

HALVAH SESAME ICE CREAM PREPARATION By Shifra Klein 1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. INGREDIENTS 2. In a non-stick skillet, pour sesame seeds, sugar, salt, and cardamom (if using) and cook on medium heat for 3 1 cup sesame seeds minutes, until sugar caramelizes. ½ cup sugar 3. Stir and coat sesame seeds and pour onto parchment paper to cool. ½ teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons cardamom (optional) 4. Once cooled, break sesame seeds into chunks. Store in airtight container until ready to use. ⅓ cup tahini paste 5. Combine tahini paste, date honey, and warm water to 1 cup date honey (silan) create a caramel-like sauce. ¼ cup warm water 6. Scoop out half the ice cream in a bowl and swirl in a third 2 cups shredded halvah of the caramel and sesame seeds. Top with remaining ice 1 cup chopped dates cream and swirl another third of the caramel and sesame seeds, leaving the remaining caramel and sesame seeds 1 (56-ounce) container vanilla ice cream, room for serving. temperature 7. When ready to serve, scoop out two scoops of ice cream per person. Top with shredded halvah, dates, and remaining caramel and sesame seed crunch.

25 French Connection Refexions sur la Paracha

Vivre avec la paracha La Loi Orale les disciples de Rabbénou Hakadoche Les Richonim et A’haronim compilèrent les “Tosseftot” et “Braïtot” où les Après les Guéonime, vécurent les grands sujets de la Michna sont discutés et examinés érudits : Rabbénou Hananel (990-1053), Rabbi a Massorah comprend tout ce que Moïse d’une façon plus approfondie. Les grands Isaac Alfassi (1013-1103), Rabbi Guerchom apprit de D.ieu sans le noter par écrit, érudits qui vécurent après la rédaction et Meor Hagola (“la Lumière de la Diaspora” – mais en le transmettant oralement à L l’achèvement de la Michna et qui étudièrent, 960-1028), Rabbi Joseph Ibn Migache, Rachi, ses successeurs. Cette tradition passa de examinèrent, discutèrent et interprétèrent la Rambam (Maïmonide) et d’autres. Rachi (Rabbi génération en génération. La Loi Orale inclut Michna, furent appelés Amoraïm (ce qui veut Salomon Its’haki – 1040-1105) devint célèbre des édits et des ordonnances décrétés par les dire “enseignants” ou “interprètes”). à jamais par ses commentaires de la Torah Sages à travers las générations, et des lois et du Talmud, car, sans ces commentaires, il et enseignements dérivés des versets de la La Michna fut étudiée dans les grandes aurait été presque impossible de comprendre Torah, selon une méthodologie prescrite par Yéchivot (académies talmudiques) d’Israël la Torah ou le Talmud. Maïmonide (1138- Moïse (telle que D.ieu l’en a instruit). et de Babylonie pendant plusieurs siècles. 1204) se fit une renommée immortelle par Finalement, au 5ème siècle, Rav Achi, un des son Michné Torah (“Répétition de la Loi”), la Cliquez ici pour une description détaillée de plus grands savants de son époque et qui codification de toutes les lois d’Israël. Les la transmission de la tradition. n’était pas seulement érudit mais également petits-fils de Rachi assistés d’autres savants riche, décida de mettre par écrit les lois et éminents compilèrent les “Tossafoth”. Les La Michna interprétations que sa génération avait sages qui vécurent approximativement les Depuis Moïse jusqu’à Rabbi Judah le Prince reçues oralement de la précédente, de peur cinq premiers siècles après l’an mil sont (Rabbénou Hakadoche), les lois de la Tradition que les difficultés et les souffrances qui se appelés “Richonim” (les “premiers” sages). étaient ainsi apprises par cœur et transmises multipliaient, ne fissent oublier au peuple juif oralement de génération en génération. Ai beaucoup de lois et de commentaires de la Des grands savants qui vécurent plus tard, 3ème siècle de l’ère commune, Rabbénou Michna. appelés “A’haronim” (sages “ultérieurs”), Hakadoche, craignant que les difficultés et recueillirent les décisions et accords définitifs les persécutions qui allaient en augmentant, Avec son contemporain Ravina et d’autres concernant les lois controversées, codifiées n’empêchent les juifs de se souvenir de chefs de Yechivot de Babylonie, ils par les Richonim, et les ordonnèrent. Le toutes les lois de la tradition, décida de les rassemblèrent et compilèrent le Talmud plus célèbre de ces juristes fut “l’auteur des enregistrer par écrit. Étant à la fois un grand (ou Guémara) – le Talmud Babli (Talmud Tourim”, Rabbi Yaakov ben Acher (1270- érudit et un homme aux moyens considérables, Babylonien) qui est sacré aux yeux des Juifs 1340). Plus tard, Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488- il s’entoura des plus grands savants de son et qu’ils étudient jusqu’à nos jours. Environ un 1575) réexamina et remania les décisions époque et consigna par écrit toutes les lois siècle auparavant, les sages d”Israël avaient juridiques dans son fameux Code de Loi juive, orales et toutes les interprétations de la déjà recueilli le Talmud Yérouchalmi (le le Choul’hane Aroukh, “la Table Dressée”, Torah qu’ils avaient apprises de leurs maîtres. Talmud de Jérusalem) qui, bien que ne faisant pour que chaque juif pût les apprendre et les Ils divisèrent toutes ces vastes connaissances pas autant autorité que celui de Babylone, est comprendre. en six “ordres” : également sacré étudiés par les savants juifs jusqu’à nos jours. La sainte Torah – la Torah écrite ainsi que la Zéraïm “Semences” – lois agricoles. Torah orale – est le présent divin qui nous a Moède “Saison” – lois régissant le Chabbat et Les Rabbanan Savoraei été donné sur le mont Sinaï par l’intermédiaire les fêtes. es savants qui vécurent après la rédaction de Moïse. Cette même Torah fut transmise par Nachim “Femmes” – lois concernant le du Talmud, au 6ème siècle de l’ère commune, Moïse à son successeur Josué et ainsi de suite, mariage. étaient appelés Rabbanan Savoraei (rabbins jusqu’à nos jours. Comme D.ieu est éternel, la Nézikine “Dommages” – lois civiles et interprètes). Ceux-ci n’ajoutèrent ni retirèrent Torah qu’il a donnée est également éternelle, criminelles. rien au Talmud, mais entreprirent seulement et en étudiant la Torah et en observant ses Kodachime “Choses saintes” – lois concernant de l’interpréter. lois et ses commandements, le peuple juif est le service divin dans le Temple. aussi éternel. Taharoth “Puretés” – lois concernant la pureté rituelles. Les Guéonime Chaque ordre contient plusieurs traités, Les grands savants babyloniens, successeurs “Massekhtot”. Chaque traité est divisé en des Rabbanan Savoraei, furent appelés chapitres et chaque chapitre en Michnayot. Guéonim (“génies”). Ils furent de longues années (du 6ème au 11ème siècle) à la tête des grandes académies talmudiques de Le Talmud Babylonie. Le dernier d’entre eux fut Rav Haï La Michna fut écrite de manière extrêmement Gaon. concise, avec très peu de discussions et d’informations sur le contexte. Plus tard, 26 Latin Link Refexion Semanal

Parasha de la Semana Los Diez Mandamientos “No soy demasiado religioso, 8) No robarás. En rigor, esto se refiere en particular a los secuestros. Sin embargo, se pero sí mantengo los Diez aplica a todo lo que tiene que ver con robar, Mandamientos” ¿Estas seguro? incluso a los métodos “de guante blanco”. Por Yossy Goldman 9) No darás falso testimonio contra tu menudo escucho que alguien dice: prójimo. ¿Cuán honestos somos? Incluso, sin “bueno, en realidad no soy demasiado estar bajo juramento, nuestra palabra debería A religioso, pero sí mantengo los Diez ser sagrada. Recuerdo una oportunidad en Mandamientos”. En esos momentos me que un viejo rabino fue presentado ante vienen ganas de decir: “Realmente, ¿tú un grupo de estudiantes universitarios sabes que los Diez Mandamientos no son de simplemente como “un hombre que nunca múltiple opción...?” A veces me pregunto si dijo una mentira”. ¿Cuántos de nosotros las personas que hacen esta afirmación saben podría hacer esta afirmación? realmente qué son los Diez Mandamientos. ¿Por qué no hacer un repaso de la lista para 10) No codiciarás los bienes de tu prójimo. que todos tengamos una mejor idea del Éste tampoco es sencillo. El comentario puntaje que podemos obtener? En el libro de Deuteronomio dice: “Observa define a este mandato como la prohibición el Shabat”. Y, el mandamiento de “Recordar” de acosar a alguien, o de manipular la 1) Yo soy el Señor tu Di-s. En esencia, este se logra a través de actos positivos como situación, con el fin de adquirir -incluso es el mandamiento que nos ordena creer el Kidush, el encender las velas, etc. El de legalmente- aquello que le pertenece a otra en un Di-s. Tengo total confianza que, en “Observar” para guardarlo (Shamor) de persona. Procúrate algo propio. ¿Por qué lo que respecta a este mandamiento, todos toda profanación, es la parte difícil que tiene que ser su cónyuge, casa o auto? obtendremos buenas calificaciones. puede llegar a limitar nuestros estilos de vida. Es aquí que interviene el verdadero Bueno, ahora está dicho. ¿Obtuviste el 2) No habrá para ti otros dioses delante de compromiso. puntaje más alto? ¿Pasaste, o estás en la Mí. Muy bien, así que no tienes por costumbre categoría del cuarenta por ciento o menos? hacer una reverencia ante ese busto de Buda 5) Honra a tu padre y a tu madre. Muchas ¿Verdad que vale la pena seguir trabajando que está colocado en el living de tu casa. personas cumplen, por cierto, de manera el tema de los Diez Mandamientos? La pregunta que surge es: en primer lugar, ejemplar con esta mitzvá. Admiro a los ¿debería estar ahí? Y, ¿no es interesante que hijos, hijas, y a menudo parientes políticos, Ojala que todos podamos mejorar nuestro en la actualidad estén teniendo lugar esos que se ocupan y atienden las necesidades puntaje para algún día, justificadamente, certámenes de ídolos a lo largo de todo el de un anciano padre o pariente político. poder afirmar que sí, que realmente mundo? Además, por supuesto, están todos Ellos cocinan, les siguen la corriente y observamos los Diez Mandamientos. esos bien arraigados ídolos contemporáneos a menudo aguantan a viejitos irritables, que tendemos a comernos con los ojos malhumorados. A medida que pasa el tiempo y venerar; celebridades como Brad Pitt, este mandamiento parece ser más difícil Clases y Eventos Madonna o Donald Trump. de cumplir. A pesar de esto, la Torá no hace Clases en Espanol distinciones basadas en la edad. Es nuestra 3) No tomarás en falso el nombre del Señor. responsabilidad cuidar a nuestros padres Porcion Semanal Acá no se trata solamente de dejar de beber cuando dependen de nosotros, igual que nos Rabbi Shea Rubinstein o de prestar el juramento en el juzgado. ¿Qué cuidaron cuando dependíamos de ellos. Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm pasa con las palabrotas que usamos en la Analisis de distintos temas basados en la Perasha calle? ¿Cuántas malas palabras de primera 6) No matarás. Correcto. Acá tenemos otro Rabbi Shlomi Halsband calidad hay en tu vocabulario? Y, ¿por qué mandamiento fácil de cumplir. Estoy seguro Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm hay que meter a Di-s en estas expresiones que ninguno que esté leyendo este artículo Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm gráficas? mató a alguien. Pero alguna vez pensaste hacerlo, casi llegaste a hacerlo pero, al fin y (Para Mujeres) 4) Recuerda el día sábado para santificarlo. al cabo, los judíos no somos del tipo asesino. Sra. Vivian Perez Es interesante que los Diez Mandamientos Martes 10:45 am - 12:00 pm Sin temor a equivocarnos podemos anotarle Miércoles: 1:15pm - 2:50 pm figuren dos veces en la Torá. En Éxodo, el un punto a un mandamiento más. cuarto Mandamiento comienza con Zajor. Jueves: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour 7) No cometerás adulterio. Correcto. Por Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 Guardarás el día sábado para santificarlo. supuesto. para confrmar 27 The Aleph Institute Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments

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Contacts at The Shul 305.868.1411 Rabbi Rabbi Sholom Lipskar Ext 311 Associate Rabbi Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Ext 345 Rabbi’s Executive Assistant Ms. Lydia Hasson Ext 311 Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 305.992.8363 JLAC / Adult Ed/ Singles Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Ext 342 CYS College / Kolel Rabbi Dov Schochet 305.790.8294 Accounting Mrs. Geri Kelly Ext 341 Controller Mrs. Janice Barney Ext 318 Offce Manager Ms. Stacy Waxman Ext 313 Events / Offce Assistant Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Dinner Mrs Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 339 Shul Gaboim Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 Mr. Andrew Roth Operations / Maintenance Rabbi Shlomi Katan Ext 319 Reception / Accounts Payable Mrs. Mindy Natoli Ext 0 Mr. David Portnoy Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Rabbi Henry Eichler Pre-School Mrs. Chana Lipskar Ext 325 Mr. Ettai Einhorn Sephardic Minyan Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 305.865.4205 Mr. David Ben-Arie Hebrew School / Editor Mrs. Aurit Katan 786.382.9006 Mr. Seth Salver Hashkama Minyan Mr. Lazer Milstein 305.349.3040 Mashgiach Mr. Mordechai Olesky 786.262.9115 Board of Trustees Foundation Trustees Ambassador Isaac Gilinski - Chairman Alberto Kamhazi Albert Pollans - President Simon Falic Shmuel Katz M.D. Jaime Gilinski Sidney Feltenstein Leo Kryss David Lichter Matias Garfunkel Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Jaime Gilinski Lazer Milstein Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Max Gilinski Michael Perez Saul Gilinski Ryan Shapiro Board of Directors Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Steven M. Dunn - President Jerrod M. Levine Abel Holtz Morris Tabacinic Mitchell Feldman - Vice President Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Mike Izak Rabbi Zalman Lipskar VP Development Alexander Matz Eric P. Stein - Treasurer Lazer Milstein Joel Baum - Associate Treasurer Ezzy Rappaport Executive Committee Steven M. Dunn - Chair Evelyn Katz Dovid Duchman - Secretary Eliott Rimon Carolyn Baumel Brian Roller Devorah Leah Andrusier Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Max Benoliel Seth Salver Janice Barney Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Eli Dominitz Daniel Shapiro Joel Baum Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Boruch Duchman Ryan Shapiro Maurice Egozi Orit Osman Velvel Freedman Michael Tabacinic Henry Eichler Marc Sheridan Eli Freund David Wolf Mitchell Feldman Daniel Sragowicz Bruce Gelb Jose Yankelevitch Daniel Gielchinsky Cynthia Stein Ighal Goldfarb Jacob J. Givner Eric P. Stein Sam Greenwald 33 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul

DAILY CLASSES SUNDAY MONDAY

The Rebbes’ Maamorim 6:20 - 6:50 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am In Depth Chumash 1:30 pm PHL 101 PHL-301 PHL-501 Rabbi Z. Lipskar TXT 220 Rabbi Dov Schochet TXT-110 Rabbi Dov Schochet Daf Yomi 7:45 - 8:45 am Tanya - Sichos 8:00 - 10:00 pm Insights to our Torah Portion TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband (Spanish) 8:45 - 9:45 pm PHL-120 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic 8:45 am Reb Shimshon Tzubeli Women’s Study Group 8:30 - 10:00 pm TXT-110 Rebbetzin ChaniSHAVUOT Lipskar Chassisdic Discourses 10:15 - 11:00 am SHAVUOT At the home of: No Class This Week PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Community Kollel (Men) 8:00 - 9:30 pm (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 Shul Rabbis & Kolel

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Women’s Morning Torah Class Parsha (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy 12:00 - 1:00 pm 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Pirkei Avot ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 10:00 - 11:30 am TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar TXT-501 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Women’s Torah Portion Class Chassidic Discourses (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) (Spanish) 10:45 am - 12:00 pm 11:30 - 12:30 pm 12:00 - 1:00 pm TXT-110 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village or Rabbi Zalman Lipskar (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Tanya Class - English 1:15 - 2:50 pm Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez Spanish Kolel - Chassidus Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202 8:00 - 10:00 pm PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband

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