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CONGREGATION BETH AARON ANNOUNCEMENTS Parshat Acharei Mot May 6-7, 2016 29 Nisan 5776 SHABBAT TIMES This week’s announcements are sponsored by Friday, May 6 NORPAC Mission to Washington on WEdnesdAy, MAy 18. Plag Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:15 p.m. BETH AARON WAKE UP CALL: WE NEEd MORE PEOPLE! Earliest Candles: 6:30 p.m. Amalek struck when we were tired and weary. Mincha/Early Shabbat: 7:00 p.m. don’t let that happen now! Register by May 11 at www.norpac.net, Latest Candles: 7:40 p.m. call NORPAC at 201-788-5133, or email Allen Friedman ([email protected]) Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:45 p.m. or Mollie Fisch ([email protected]). Shabbat, May 7 This week’s announcements are sponsored by Lamdeinu. Hashkama Minyan: 7:30 a.m. For information on their schedule of classes, see page 4 and go to lamdeinu.org. Tefillah shiur: 8:20 a.m. Study in depth; be inspired! Main Minyan: 8:45 a.m. Youth Minyan: 9:15 a.m. Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:19 a.m. SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 8 Early Mincha: 1:45 p.m. Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Daf Yomi: 6:25 p.m. Women’s Learning: 6:25 p.m., at the 8 9 10 11 12 13 home of Marilyn Zeidel, 169 Carlton Earliest Tallit 4:45 4:44 4:43 4:42 4:41 4:40 Terrace, Yehoshua, Chapters 13-15 Shacharit 6:20 MS 5:35 SH 5:55 SH 5:55 SH 5:40 BM 5:55 SH Meir Hirsch’s shiur: 6:35 p.m. 7:15 MS 6:10 BM 6:30 BM 6:30 BM 6:20 BM 6:30 BM Mincha: 7:35 p.m., followed by Rabbi 8:00 MS 7:05 SH 7:15 BM 7:15 BM 7:10 BM 7:15 BM Rothwachs’ shiur, “The Religious Zionism 8:45 MS 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Debate, Part 1” Maariv: 8:40 p.m. Mincha 1:45 BM Havdalah: 8:49 p.m. Mincha/ 7:45 MS 7:45 BM 7:45 BM 7:45 BM 7:45 BM 6:25 BM Maariv 7:00 MS Earliest Candles on Friday, May 13: 7:50 SH 6:36 p.m. Latest Candles on Friday, May 13: Maariv 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 7:47 p.m. 10:00 SH KEY: MS = Main Shul BM = Beit Midrash SH = Social Hall MAZAL TOV TO • Rita-Rivka Lewy & Abe Neuman, on making aliyah this Sunday and on the engagement of their daughter Gavi to Eyal Simani of Jerusalem. CONDOLENCES TO • Bernice Schwartz and Morris Zimmerman, on the passing of Bernice’s husband and Morris’s brother- in-law, Arthur Schwartz. Shiva continues through this Friday, May 6, at the home of Dr. Victor May Schwartz, 650 West End Avenue (at 92nd Street), Apt. 11C, New York, New York. Calendar WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS THIS WEEK’S PARSHA QUESTIONS Printed copies are available in the lobby. • Bess & Ezra Bogner, who live on Grange Road. On Shabbat, the shul elevator will operate PARNAS HAYOM in Shabbat mode as follows: Friday: Dedicate a day of learning at Beth Aaron on the occasion of a yahrtzeit, in the zechut of a refuah 7:00-8:45 p.m. shelaima, or in honor of a simcha, a birthday or any other occasion. Each week’s dedications are Shabbat: prominently displayed in the shul lobby and sent out to the membership via email. For more 8:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; information, or to sign up, please go to www.bethaaron.org/parnashayom. 6:00-8:45 p.m. This past week’s sponsors were: Is the Eruv Up? Call the Eruv Hotline w 23 Nisan: Sherry & David Chasan, in honor of the yahrtzeit of David’s mother, Ethel Chasan before Shabbat: 201-530-0222 Contact Beth Aaron at [email protected] SHUL ANNOUNCEMENTS MEN’S CLUB KIDDUSH In honor of Yom ha-Atzma’ut, there will be a community-wide This week’s Kiddush following the Hashkama Minyan is sponsored by Shacharit Minyan this Thursday, May 12, at 6:10 a.m., in the Main the Hashkama Minyan Kiddush “Society.” Shul. The tefillah will be according to Siddur Rinat Yisrael. This week’s Kiddush following the Main Minyan is sponsored by: Next Shabbat, May 14, the shul will hold its annual fundraising Mezonot Sponsors: Kiddush for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF). Shabbat w Evie & Alden Leifer, in honor of Yakov Eizik. Chayal will be in loving memory of Ilan Tokayer, z”l. This year, we w Evie & Alden Leifer, in honor of Rita-Rivka Lewy & Abe Neuman will be raising money to assist the FIDF in purchasing additional on their making aliyah this week. You will be missed. tefillin for a “tefillin bank” for IDF soldiers who do not own their own w Rita-Rivka Lewy & Abe Neuman, to celebrate their aliyah this pairs of tefillin, but would like to fulfill the mitzvah of wrapping Sunday, May 8; in gratitude for 30 awesome years in the Beth tefillin. Sponsorship categories include Chayal ($18), Tal Aluf Aaron community, Baruch Hashem; and to celebrate the ($19-$99), Aluf ($100-$199) and Rav Aluf ($200 & over). engagement of their daughter Gavi to Eyal Simani of Jerusalem. Sponsorships will be publicized in the Kol Beth Aaron and on a poster w Cathy & Steve Schuss, in honor of the yahrtzeit of Steve’s mother, in the lobby on May 14. Let’s all join and participate. Kiddush Miriam bat Avraham sponsorships can be made by check or online at www.bethaaron. org/event/chayal16. In addition, please email the office, office@ If you are celebrating a simcha, commemorating a yahrtzeit, or bethaaron.org, photos of your children (in uniform) who are simply want to say “thank you,” consider sponsoring an upcoming serving/have served in the IDF to be displayed during the Kiddush. Kiddush. To become a sponsor, go to www.bethaaron.org/kiddush. The deadline for submitting photos is this Monday, May 9. For questions, contact Ari Gononsky at [email protected]. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME: The next Sisterhood Book Club We are in Year 3 of the Hashkama Minyan Kiddush “Society.” The selection is Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Men’s Club would like to thank our past supporters who enabled us Kiddushim Hashkama Minyan Home, by Jessica Fechter. The group will meet at 4:15 p.m. on to have more than 20 at the . Your Year 3 donation of $54 will help us continue this great tradition. You can Shabbat, May 14, at the home of Lisa Breen, 68 Edgemont Place. For become a sponsor online at www.bethaaron.org/kiddush. Contact more information, contact Diane Fogel, [email protected]. Ari Gononsky, [email protected], with any questions. Congregation Beth Aaron has reserved an exclusive section for our members and their families at the Eretz HaChaim Cemetery in Israel. Until this Thursday, May 12, burial plots can be purchased by directly REFLECTIONS OF THE MOURNING LIGHT: through Eretz HaChaim at a discount. After that time, burial plots can Mourning and Consolation in Jewish Law and Thought be purchased at the regular price until the capacity in our section Given by Rabbi Larry Rothwachs has been filled. For more detailed information, please contact Josh Klavan, [email protected] or 917-593-9290, or the Eretz HaChaim MONdAy NIGHTS AT 8:30 p.m. representative, Avi Koenig, [email protected] or 718-437-2200, • May 9: “And to the dust you Shall Return”: Before, during, and ext.104. after the Levaya • May 16: The Mourning Light: Perspectives on Aveilut in Work is being carried out in the back of the building to enhance Halacha and Hashkafa handicap accessibility to the shul. The work should take no more • May 23: The Comfort Zone: Practical Nichum Aveilim in than a week. Please contact Micah Kaufman, [email protected], Halacha and Hashkafa with any questions. • June 6: “May the Neshama Have an Aliyah”: Memorializing the Soul of a Loved One Safety and children in shul: For the safety of all children in shul, please adhere to the shul policy that all children must be in Youth This lecture series is generously sponsored by: Groups, Youth Minyan, or davening with their parents at all times. In • Rachel & Allen Friedman, in memory of Allen’s mother, dvora addition, the Mommy and Me room is only for children below the (Rackover) Friedman z”l age of 3, along with a parent. • Evie & Alden Leifer, in memory of Alden’s parents, Trudy & Hy Leifer, Chaim ben Nachman Moshe z”l and Gittel bat Shlomo We are happy to announce the return of the Beth Aaron Boys’ Choir, yaakov ha-Levi z”l which will lead the tzibur in Adon Olam and Anim Zemirot on Yamim Tovim and also take part in other activities coordinated with the shul Source sheets and recordings of this lecture series can be found administration. Practices are beginning on Sunday evenings at the at www.bethaaron.org/torah and on the Torah section of the shul. Light snacks will be offered. For more information, speak to Beth Aaron app. Check out the free Beth Aaron app at the Apple Yehiel Levy or e-mail [email protected]. app store and the Google play store for Android.
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    Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future THE BENJAMIN AND ROSE BERGER TORAH TO-GO® Established by Rabbi Hyman and Ann Arbesfeld April 2016 • Yom Haatzmaut 5776 Dedicated in memory of Cantor Jerome L. Simons Featuring Divrei Torah from Rabbi Nissim Abrin Rabbi David Bigman Mrs. Dina Blank Rabbi Jesse Horn Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky Rabbi Moshe Lichtman Rabbi Chaim Pollock Rabbi Azriel Rosner Rabbi Ari Shvat 1 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Yom Haatzmaut 5776 We thank the following synagogues who have pledged to be Pillars of the Torah To-Go® project Congregation Ahavas Congregation Young Israel of Achim Shaarei Tefillah Century City Highland Park, NJ Newton Centre, MA Los Angeles, CA Congregation Ahavath The Jewish Center Young Israel of Torah New York, NY New Hyde Park Englewood, NJ New Hyde Park, NY Young Israel of Beth El in Congregation Beth Boro Park Young Israel of Shalom Brooklyn, NY West Hempstead Rochester, NY West Hempstead, NY Richard M. Joel, President and Bravmann Family University Professor, Yeshiva University Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Vice President for University and Community Life, Yeshiva University Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, David Mitzner Dean, Center for the Jewish Future Rabbi Menachem Penner, Max and Marion Grill Dean, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Rabbi Robert Shur, Series Editor Rabbi Joshua Flug, General Editor Rabbi Michael Dubitsky, Editor Andrea Kahn, Copy Editor Copyright © 2016 All rights reserved by Yeshiva University Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future 500 West 185th Street, Suite 419, New York, NY 10033 • [email protected] • 212.960.0074 This publication contains words of Torah.