Special Occasion coming up? Send a Card! We wish Refuah Sh’lema to: Rosalind Wingust בייה jmagnet Support your fellow members and your Shul by dedicating a leaf Bela Davidson Howie Meyer Anice Stark on the Tree of Life, a Sim Shalom Siddur for sending a warm, Allan Fryman Joe Levitan Phillip Shadlesky thoughtful Beth Radom Donation Card. MAZEL TOV, HAPPY Rose Rosenbaum Gerald Robinson Abe Swimmer BIRTHDAY, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SPEEDY RECOVERY, Ruth Leichner Morton Allen Cohen SYMPATHY or THINKING OF YOU! Call 416-636-3451x24 If you know Beth Radom members who would benefit from Clergy ------18 Reiner Road, Toronto, Ontario M3H 2K9 416-636-3451 outreach or should be part of our Refuah Sh’lema list, please CHECK OUT BETH RADOM’S MUSEUM AND GALLERY contact [email protected]. We assure you of confidentiality. Parshat Shemot Have you seen our new video display? It’s on our website! ------Does your family have things to add to this museum? We January 18, 2020 21 Tevet 5780 With Reverence, We Honour The Yahrzeits Of: ------appreciate donations of plaques, photos, paperwork, hand written Ernest Weiss Late Husband of Rachel Weiss letters, booklets, flyers, old landing papers – everything related to Torah: Page 206 Ch 1, V 1 Late Father of Ilene Bronsteter, the once thriving, Jewish, City of Radom. And of course we are Maftir: Page 211 Ch 2, V 23 Sheila Seigel and Marilyn Sinclair looking for funding streams to expand the presentation space. Haftorah: Page 225 Mark Streiman Late Son of Ita Streiman Contact Allan [email protected] for more information. ------Late Brother of Fred Streiman ------Today’s Congregational Kiddush is sponsored by the Weiss, A Minyan has been requested by members and Esther Blustein Bronsteter, Seigel, Sinclair & Streiman Families honouring the of Beth Radom to say Kaddish. Sam Borts Late Husband of Bella Borts Morris Sazant Late Father of Rhona Sallay yahrzeits of Ernie Weiss and Mark Streiman. Kiddish will take Tuesday, January 28 @ 7:30am Harry S. Mandelman Late Husband of Simone Mandelman place in the Belzberg Weisberg Social Hall on the lower level. Members in need of a minyan to say Kaddish Jack Lewis Late Father of Gilah Haber ------should contact the Shul office at least a week Freda Hershenfeld Late Mother of Seymour Hershenfeld or two in advance so arrangements can be made. Please show Melvin Weisbart Late Brother of Murray Weisbart Mazel Tov to Beth Radom’s new Board of Governors on your appreciation to fellow members by sponsoring breakfast. David Mark Late Husband of Marilyn Mark their official installation at this week's Shabbat service! 416-636-3451 ext. 24 - Please attend – it’s a Mitzvah!

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“Little things console us because little things afflict us.” The story is found in the Babylonian , Tractate Sotah --Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), 12b. The Talmud notes that Amram (the man of the house of Levi) “went and married.” Why the extra verb “went”? The French mathematician, physicist, inventor and theologian Global Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, Descendants, answer: he went at the advice of this remarkable daughter. Torah is the fundamental blueprint for Jewish life and culture. The backstory is as follows: Educators & Friends - Toronto marks the 75th anniversary It teaches us about thoughtful living through law, it teaches us of liberation from the Holocaust at the end of the Second World about spirituality and God, and teaches us about who we are Amram was the great man of his generation. Once he saw that War, and host Liberation75 at the Metro Toronto Convention by helping us understand where we came from. Often when the wicked Pharaoh said: “Every son that is born you shall cast Centre - May 31 through June 2, 2020. To REGISTER and LEARN MORE about Liberation75, its sponsors and studying Torah, the majesty of the significance of the text as into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive” (Exodus 1:22), he said: We are laboring for nothing. He arose participating organizations VISIT www.liberation75.org the underpinnings of the entirety of Western culture, it’s easy to overlook the smaller, more personal stories that are woven and divorced his wife. All others who saw this arose and divorced their wives. into the text. With the help of midrashic literature, our Sages of Blessed Memory left no stone unturned to tease out even His daughter said to him: Father, your decree is harsher than more beauty from the tiniest suggestion in the Torah text. This that of Pharaoh, as Pharaoh decreed only with regard to the week, it is my pleasure to reprint the teaching of Dr. Joshua males, but you decreed both on the males and on the females. Kulp the head of the Conservative in (where I did my first year of Cantorial school) who explores a Amram arose and brought back (i.e. remarried) his wife, and beautiful little love story in one of these textual “ruptures” in all the others who saw this arose and brought back their wives. this week’s parsha. We can see here how the “darshan,” the exegete, has used the opportunity of this rupture to insert a message of courage Shabbat Shalom, into the text relevant to his own generation, who in all --ChazJ likelihood faced persecution. (When have Jews not faced

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The stories of the beginning of Moshe’s life are notoriously But this solution still leaves us with a problem—if this is a laconic. Most of what Jews think they know about Moshe’s remarriage, the text should have said he took back, not early life actually comes from movies, especially the Ten married. The Talmud solves this textual rupture with a Commandments and the Prince of Egypt. works to fill beautiful story: in the gaps in the story that are unexplained in the Bible itself. Rav Yehuda bar Zevina says: He performed an act of But midrash almost always needs a “hook” on which to hang marriage. He sat her on a palanquin and Aharon and Miriam its story, some sort of textual “rupture” that allows an ancient danced before her, and the ministering angels said: “A joyful exegete to suggest that something happened that is not mother of children” (Psalms 113:9). described in the text. The following is an excellent example, one that I’m guessing you might not have noticed before. Amram did not just go back to sleeping with his wife. He had a second wedding, this time allowing his children to celebrate At the end of chapter one of Exodus, Pharaoh decrees “every the couple’s love for each other. Indeed, the Talmud goes on boy that is born you shall throw into the Nile, but let every girl to note that according to its reckoning, Yocheved is 130 years live.” Chapter two picks up immediately with “a certain man of old at the time! But no matter, for with the rekindling of their the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The love Yocheved became again like a young girl, in love with her woman conceived and bore a son.” From these verses, it childhood paramour. sounds like this child is the Levite woman’s first. But a few verses later we learn that this child has an older sister. Where Through this tiny “rupture” in the text, the Midrash provides us did this sister come from? If the man from the house of Levi with a rich story of the brilliance of Miriam, the courage of just took this wife, how does the child already have a sister(a Yocheved and the other wives, and a story of the rekindled very clever one, as we shall soon learn)? Here is our “rupture” love of two elderly people who are about to give the Jewish people the greatest leader they will ever have, Moshe. in the text, some point that makes little sense but allows for NEXT CLASS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 @7:30PM the rabbis to insert a story that both solves the difficulty and at Dr. Joshua Kulp, Conservative Yeshiva Faculty & Rosh Yeshiva the same time sharpens the message we read out of the text.