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770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Kedoshim May 11th, 2019 ~ 6 Iyar 5779 ~ 21 L’Omer

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Eruv Schedule Youth Groups Announcements Earliest Candle Lighting 6:34 PM This Week’s Kiddush is in Honor 9:15 Pre- Groups with Mincha 6:45 PM of Mother’s Day Morah Esti 7:00 PM Early Candle Lighting & Latest Candle Lighting 7:39 PM 9:30 Regular Groups Begin with Youth Leaders Shabbat Schedule Hashkama 7:30 AM Congratulations to This Main Minyan 9:00 AM Past Week’s

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Sof Zman K. Shema 9:57 AM Fancy Saka, Tamar Friedman Mother’s Day Kiddush Rabbi Bixon’s Class 6:45 PM Diamond Daveners

Mincha 7:35 PM Moshe Bossewitch, David Turetsky

Maariv 8:25 PM Shabbat Ends 8:34 PM Please See Page 3 for the List of Song of the Week

Honored Women th th Tiny Tots Groups Will Be Learning Sun May 12 – Fri May 17 “Linen Clothing” & Shacharit: 7:00 AM & 8:00 AM A Special Thank You to Rabbi G, “Honor Your Father & Mother” Mon May 13th – Fri May 17th Morah Esti and All the Volunteers Healthy Snacks Will be Served! Additional Shacharit 8:45 AM for Setting Up the Beautiful Mother’s Day Kiddush! Sun May 12th – Thurs. May 16th We Wish Rabbi Koriat, Mincha / Maariv 7:50 PM Rabbi Assaraf and the majority of Beit Medrash Door Repair HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: our teen Minyan well on their Oren Lieber, Pepita Bronner, Please Note inspiring trip through Poland & Jonathan Levy, Shlomy Slatus, All Minyanim will take place in

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Lydia Goldring, Daniel Rubin th Monday May 13 – TEEN MINYAN Our Teen Minyan Will Resume HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO: Wednesday May 15th. Brenda & Jeffrey Eisner in 1 Week on May 18th If you have any personal belongings in the Beit Medrash All Teens Are Invited to Shalosh Seudah & Gemora Shiur Rabbi Bixon’s Classes that you may need for Davening Between Mincha & Maariv ~Women’s Class ~ (Tallit, Tefillin, Siddur etc.), ” What Do Numbers 7,9,18,19 & 24 Have in Common?” please remove by Sunday night. Tuesday 9:15 am Kibud Av V’Eim is Our Main Aim!

~Advanced ~ Mother’s Day is Every Day Not Only , Important Upcoming Dates Wednesday 8:00 pm in the Month of May. Thank you to Pesach Sheini our AMAZING Volunteers Who

Sunday, May 19th Helped Setup The AMAZING Mother’s Day Ballroom Kiddush! A Lag B’Omer Special thank You to Morah Esti as rd Thursday, May 23 Well!

Yom Yerushalayim Shavuot Prep is Well Under nd Sunday, June 2 Way!

Monday, May 27th Stay tuned for some incredible Bixon ~ Gross L’Chaim Shavuot programs to be 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm announced!

Beth Israel Congregation Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro z”l Sanctuary

Weekly Announcements

770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Kedoshim May 11th, 2019 ~ 6 Iyar 5779 ~ 21 L’Omer Parshat Kedoshim knows that a son fears his father more loving emotional theme that mostly states דוִ ד הַמֶ לֶך By: Ari Ciment than his mother, because the father teaches mothers can deliver! When thy staff/וּמִשְׁ עַנְתֶּ ָך thy rod and/שִׁבְטְ ָך that אִ ישׁ אִ מֹּו WHY DOES YOUR MOTHER COME him . Therefore, here by G-d put the fear of the will comfort us in times of distress, it , וְאָבִ יו תִּ ירָ אוּ BEFORE YOUR FATHER ON MOTHER’S DAY? mother before that of the father. could very well be a reference to our father/שִׁבְטְ ָך loving parents who are the גַּם כִּ י-אֵ לְֵך בְּ גֵיא צַלְמָ וֶת, לֹא-אִירָ א רָ ע-- כִּ י- But still why specifically here by the mother who we rely/וּמִשְׁ עַנְתֶּ ָך guider and אַתָּה עִמָּדִ י; שִׁבְטְ ָך וּמִשְׁ עַנְתֶּ ָך, הֵמָּ ה יְנַחֲמֻנִי אִ ישׁ -juxtaposition to the laws of Shabbat “Yea, though I walk through the valley of on (our Shabbat!). ? The WHY DOES YOUR MOTHER COME אִ מֹּו וְאָבִ יו תִּ ירָ אוּ, וְאֶ ת-שַׁבְּ תֹתַ י תִּשְׁ מֹרוּ the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, standard accepted answer is from BEFORE YOUR FATHER ON they comfort me” (Psalms 23, 4) Yebamoth 5b: "You shall fear every man, MOTHERS DAY? BECAUSE THE his mother and his father, and you shall -TORAH SAYS SO IN OUR PARSHA דוִ ד הַמֶ לֶך QUESTIONS: Why is it that אִ ישׁ אִ מֹּו וְאָבִ יו תִּ ירָ אוּ keep My Sabbaths," [is juxtaposed] to states that thy rod and thy staff will teach that one's duty to honor one's parent comfort me? Why both? What does it does not supersede one's duty to keep the .Sabbat שִׁבְטְ ָך signify? Rashi says that the represents the punishments and the represents the reliance we have COMMUNITY NEWS וּמִשְׁ עַנְתֶּ ָך Perhaps another idea can be that Shabbat on G-d. By punishing us, unfortunately we represents a time of reflection and NISHMAT are ironically beholden to His Chesed as important emotional recuperation from a we see how much we rely on Him to Women’s Learning Initiative of busy hectic kinetic week. The 6 days of South Florida Inaugural Event survive. But is there yet another way to the week are symbolic of the masculine understand this powerful Pasuk!? bravado, but the Sabbath is symbolic of Sunday May 19, 2019 at 8:00 pm What is the connection of fearing your the feminine peaceful emotional Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter parents and keeping the Sabbath as it says stronghold. It makes total sense that the “On Compromising Truth for the ”mother precedes the father as it relates to Sake of Peace אִ ישׁ אִ מֹּו ,in our Parshah, Leviticus 19:3 You shall the Sabbath then! Young Israel"/וְ אָבִ יו תִּ ירָ אוּ, וְאֶ ת-שַׁבְּ תֹתַ י תִּשְׁ מֹרוּ fear every man, his mother and his father, 9590 Abbott Avenue, Surfside and you shall keep My Sabbaths"? And now we can understand the Pasuk in Open to Men & Women Finally, why is it that specifically in our Tehilim “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear [email protected] Parshah, do we see for the first time the ************ שִׁבְטְ ָך ;precedence of the mother to the father no evil, for Thou art with me Thy rod and Thy staff, they/וּמִשְׁ עַנְתֶּ ָך when it comes to respecting them. All the other instances, the father precedes the comfort me” (Psalms 23, 4). When things

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770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Kedoshim May 11th, 2019 ~ 6 Iyar 5779 ~ 21 L’Omer Wishing a Very Happy Mother’s Day To all our Wonderful Wives, Mothers, Grandmothers & Great Grandmothers This Shabbat Mother’s Day Kiddush has been sponsored In your honor with love from your number one fans ~ Your Families!

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