Rabbi Joseph & Chani Soshtain Global

“ HASHAVUA May 1, 2021 Shabbat Parshat Emor 19 Iyar 5781

YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE 3291 Stirling Road | Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33312 | 954.966.7877 | [email protected] | www.yih.org

Rabbi Yosef Weinstock Rabbi Edward Davis Dr. David Lasko Senior Rabbi Rabbi Emeritus President Sephardic Minyan Rabbi Rabbi Adam Frieberg Assistant Rabbi

Candle Lighting ...... 7:33 PM Shabbat Ends ...... 8:32 PM Torah Reading ...... Leviticus 21:1 Haftorah ...... Ezekiel 44:15 Nach Yomi ...... Psalms 99 Daf Yomi ...... Yoma 20 Daf Hashavua ...... Yevamot 49

GLOBAL FAMILY WELCOME TO SHABBAT MORNING HEALTH & HALACHA RABBI JOSEPH & GROUPS RETURN! VIRTUAL CHANI SOSHTAIN CONFERENCE See schedule on page 3 See page 12

Our YIH Family Benyamin ben Cochava Welcome Our IDF Lone Soldiers (Ralph Sharaby’s son), Yussel ben Hinda Leah Rabbi Joseph Soshtain Eitan Ben-Aharon, Emma (Joel Bofshever-Dorie and his wife Chani, who Frank, Nitay Harary, Zev Ehrenreich’s father) are visiting this weekend as Goldberg, Sara Shulamit a finalist in our search for Klein, Noa Markovitz, Cholot: Ahuva bat Friedel, the newly-created Nathaniel M., Phoebe Batya bat Sara, Chana Ety Associate Rabbi position. Zucker Please contact the bat Zirel Libah, Devora bat shul office to add a Sheina Baila, Esther name Shayna bat Nechama Mintza (Isabella Zummo's Refuah Shleimah mother), Feiga Necha bat Pessel (Fay Lerner), Masha Please contact the bat Ruth (Marcia Chonchol- shul office if Craig Barany’s mother), someone on this list Nechama Chaya bat Sima has, Baruch Hashem, (Mimi Jankovits' mother), recovered Rivka bat Sarah, Rivkah Chaya bat Devora (Reva Cholim: Avraham Shapiro, daughter of Mordechai ben Kraindel Debbie & Sammy Shapiro), (Dr. Arnold Markoe, Rivka bat Elka Libe (Mark Sharona Whisler's uncle), Mazal Tov Langer's sister), Sara Leah Binyamin Simcha ben bat Rochel (Cynthia Lynn Jacob Sossin upon the Adina Minya (Binny Haber-Cheryl Hamburg’s recent celebration of his Ciment), David HaKohen sister), Sara Leah bat Bar Mitzvah, and to Jacob’s ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s Bracha (Stacey Deutsch), parents Andrew & father), Eliyahu David ben Sara bat Aviva (Eliana Samantha Sossin and the Sara Baila (Dr. Alan Lifshultz), Shira Raizel entire family Weinstock), Israel ben Rachel Leah (Izzy Sabo- Esther bat Mina Zosha Raisy & Suchie Gittler (Ruth Messer’s Chanan Sabo’s father), upon the engagement of granddaughter), Simcha Melech Yonah ben Gittel their daughter Rachel Malka bat Chaya (Jonathan Kalish's father), Zahava to Marc Nechmad Zelda,Tova Miriam bat Netanel Elan ben Shayna Devora Mindel (DV Kahn’s Tzipporah (wounded IDF sister-in-law), Yehudit bat Condolences soldier), Shmuel ben Leah, Malka (Judy Knoll-Zivia Fran (& Irv) Gottlieb on the Yehuda Arieh ben Mindla (Philippe Leiberman’s Gill’s relative), Yocheved loss of her daughter Sharon bat Tzril (Joan father), Yitzchak Mendel Zimmerman Nielson Niad), Yocheved bat Henya ben Sarah Baila (Sammy Shapiro's father), Yoseph Sheindel (Jessica Schultz)

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Shabbat Schedule 9:00am ...... Sanctuary After Mincha ...... Sanctuary Friday Night Shacharit ® Rabbi Weinstock’s shiur: masks required Dvar Torah Kiddush Hashem in the Rabbi Soshtain thought of Rav Aharon 7:00pm ...... Sanctuary Lichtenstein zt'l Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/ 9:00am ...... Room 5 upstairs Maariv Shacharit (Sephardic) ® After Mincha ...... Tent Dvar Torah Gemara Shiur: Rabbi 7:00pm ...... Room 5 upstairs Rabbi Soshtain Jonathan Hirsch Sephardic Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Aravit 9:00am ...... Library After Mincha .. Rm. 5 upstairs Parsha Class: Rabbi Sephardic Halacha: Rabbi 7:00pm ...... Tent Yitzchak Salid Adam Frieberg Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/ Maariv 10:00am ...... Social Hall 8:32pm ...... Shabbat ends Teen Minyan ® 7:33pm ...... Candle lighting Dvar Torah Q&A with the Soshtains 7:40pm ...... Social Hall Rabbi Soshtain Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/ 9:15pm ...... Sanctuary 10:00am ...... Latest Shema Maariv or watch on zoom at yih.org/zoom/yih 7:52pm ...... Sunset/Shkiah Shabbat Afternoon Meet the Soshtains masks required Please note new policy: 2:30pm ...... Beit Midrash We are offering several 9:45pm ...... Oneg Shabbat Early Mincha indoor, mask-optional in the backyard of Moti & minyanim beginning this Elke Press, 3530 N. 45 Av. Meet & Greet the Soshtains Shabbat, in addition to having minyanim which will 5:00-6:00pm ... Shabbat Park Shabbat Morning continue according to our Mara Giulanti Park previous protocols. Registration required when marked with ® Shabbat Afternoon/Evening 7:00am (Sanctuary) 8:00am (Social Hall) All minyanim require masks required 8:45am (Beit Midrash) registration this week 6:15pm ...... Beit Midrash mask-optional and only open Rabbi Soshtain will share Talmud Class: Dr. Eli Avisar to those who are fully Divrei Torah at multiple (in Hebrew) vaccinated. Children who minyanim are not vaccinated are not 6:40pm ...... Sanctuary permitted to attend mask 7:00am ...... Sanctuary Pre-Mincha shiur with optional minyanim. Shacharit ® masks optional Rabbi Soshtain: Are you still counting with a Bracha? 8:00am (Tent) 8:00am ...... Social Hall Our hypersensitivity toward 9:00am (Sanctuary) Shacharit ® masks optional counting the Omer… Valid 9:00am Sephardic (Rm 5) 8:00am ...... Tent concern or OCD?” 10:00am (Social Hall) Shacharit ® minyanim continue with 7:30pm ...... Sanctuary current CoVID protocols 8:00am ...... Beit Midrash Mincha (masks and distancing Daf Yomi: Rabbi Yossi 7:30pm ...... Room 5 upstairs required). Jankovits Sephardic Mincha Masks are required for 8:45am ...... Beit Midrash 7:30pm ...... Tent Friday evening, Mincha/ Shacharit ® masks optional Mincha Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv as Dvar Torah well as for Shabbat Rabbi Soshtain afternoon Mincha

Rabbi Weinstock’s Message SEEKING THE EVERYDAY EXTRAORDINARY How do we go from the This is the source for the ments of] ordeal of the ordinary to the agricultural gifts to the poor Gleanings, everyday extraordinary? The of Leket Shikcha and Peah. the Forgotten ordeal of the ordinary is a Why does the Torah intro- Sheaf, the phrase I learned from Dr. duce these charitable obliga- Corner and David Pelcovitz a few years tions in the middle of teach- the Poor back. It refers to the chal- ing us about the holidays? Man's Tithe.” lenge of habituation: how The holidays are an excit- Out of all over time what may have ing and inspiring time, espe- possible commandments, once been new and exciting cially when these holidays why is the potential convert can become rote/ routine meant Aliyah L’regel, gath- told about Leket Shikcha and ultimately even a bur- ering together with the en- and Peah? den. The opposite of the tirety of the Jewish People The Talmud, like the To- ordeal of the ordinary is a in Jerusalem.. But what hap- rah, emphasizes Leket Shik- perspective of Everyday pens when we go back to cha and Peah to sensitize the Extraordinary. This phrase I work in the fields? How do potential convert to the need saw on an advertisement in we maintain inspiration? to strive for the everyday an elevator at Memorial How do we sustain excite- extraordinary. One who is Regional Hospital for one of ment even for the mundane, considering conversion to its medical departments. It similar to the excitement we Judaism may have been refers to finding wonder and have for Jewish holidays, inspired by family life- amazement in our everyday Aliyah L’regel? That’s what Shabbat dinners and com- lives. the agricultural gifts chal- munal gatherings. But as Rabbi Ralph Pelcovitz lenge us to consider and part of their exposure to suggested that Parshat Emor plan for. Judaism they need to under- cautions us to avoid the or- These gifts- Leket Shik- stand that Jewish living, deal of the ordinary and cha and Peah- are mentioned Halacha- encompasses our strive for everyday extraor- by the Gemara in Yevamot daily routine. We are called dinary. (47a) as serving an im- upon, as Jews by choice and The Parsha is primarily portant role in the conver- Jews by birth, to seek reli- about the Jewish holidays. sion process. gious meaning and enthusi- But smack in the middle of Our Rabbis taught: “If at asm in even the more mun- the Torah’s review of the the present time a man de- dane aspects of existence- calendar it goes off on an sires to become a proselyte, like going to work the field unexpected tangent (23:22): he is to be addressed as fol- and leaving some of the .lows: ‘What reason have crop behind for the poor ּובְקֻצְרְ כֶם אֶ ת קְצִ יר אַרְ צְ כֶם לֹא -you for desiring to become a Positive Psychology ad תְ כַלֶה תפְאַ שָׂדְ ָך בְקֻצְרֶ ָך וְלֶקֶט proselyte; do you not know dresses this challenge and קְצִירְ ָך לֹא תְ לַקֵּטלֶעָׂנִי וְלַגֵּר תַ עֲזֹב that Israel at the present suggests that to avoid the אֹתָׂ ם אֲנִי ה: When you reap the harvest time are persecuted and op- ordeal of the ordinary and of your Land, you shall not pressed, despised, harassed foster a perspective of eve- completely remove the cor- and overcome by afflic- ryday extraordinary we need ner of your field during your tions?’ If he replies, ‘I know to bring gratitude and harvesting, and you shall and yet am unworthy’, he is amazement to our lives. We not gather up the gleanings accepted forthwith, and is can do this by counting our of your harvest. [Rather,] given instruction in some of blessings. We can also do you shall leave these for the the minor and some of the this by being a blessing for poor person and for the major commandments. He is others. stranger. I am the Lord, informed of the sin [of the your God. neglect of the command- 4

Prayer in the Parsha Sefirat HaOmer Shulchan Aruch HaRav it states: “It is permissible to count [the Omer] in any In Parshat Emor we learn about counting language that he understands. However, if the Omer. The Lubavitcher Rebbe writes he fails to understand the language with that there is a common denominator which he counted, then, even if he counted between Sefirat HaOmer and the mitzvah of in Hebrew… he has not fulfilled his prayer. The mitzvah of prayer is unique in obligation, for since he does not know the that, although prayer must be count, it is not considered counting at all.” verbalized, nonetheless the act of prayer requires kavanah, ie intention, The mitzvah of Sefirat HaOmer is not concentration and awareness. The fulfilled through merely verbalizing the mechanical verbalization of syllables is not count (although it is indeed necessary to sufficient. Without a feeling of verbalize it). Similar to tefilah, the mitzvah supplication before God the person’s is fulfilled through kavanah, in this case the speech and words of prayer are not person’s knowledge and awareness of the considered tefilah at all. count, without which “it is not considered counting at all.” In this way, the mitzvah of prayer is similar to the mitzvah of Sefirat HaOmer. In the

Daily Minyan & Torah Classes 7:30am: Daf Yomi with 11:00am: Sefer Shoftim with Weekday Minyanim Rabbi Yitzchak Salid Lisa Baratz May 2-7 8:45am: Derech Hashem: 8:15pm: Mishna Berura: The Way of G-d with Rabbi Hilchot Tefilah with Rabbi Shacharit: Adam Frieberg. Yossi Jankovits 5:40pm: Daf Yomi with 8:30pm: Demystifying Sunday: Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Judaism with Rabbi Michael Goldberg 7:15am ...... Sanctuary Between Mincha & Maariv: 8:00am ...... Social Hall Dvar Halacha with Rabbi 8:30am ...... Beit Midrash Adam Frieberg. Wednesday: 9:00am ...... Sanctuary Monday: 11:00am: Insights On The Monday & Thursday: Parsha with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits 6:15am ...... Sanctuary 8:30pm: Daily Jewish Living with Sara Frieberg 6:45am ...... Beit Midrash Thursday: 7:15am ...... Social Hall 8:30pm: Torah Imecha with Tobi Wolf 8:45am: Hilchot Ribit with 8:00am ...... Sanctuary Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Tuesday, Wed., Friday: Tuesday: 8:00pm: Bnei Yissaschar 6:15am ...... Sanctuary with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits 8:10am: Chumash & Torah 7:00am ...... Beit Midrash Temimah with Rabbi 7:30am ...... Social Hall Yossi Jankovits Friday: 8:00am ...... Sanctuary 8:40am: Daf Hashavua: 8:10am: Chumash & Torah Yevamot with Rabbi Temimah with Rabbi Yossi Mincha/Maariv: Yosef Weinstock Jankovits Sunday through Thursday: 6:20pm ...... Tent 7:45pm ...... Sanctuary Friday: 7:00pm ...... Sanctuary 7:00pm ...... Tent 7:00pm ...... Sephardic Rm.5 7:37pm ...... Candle lighting 7:45pm ...... Social Hall Torah Classes Live & Online; more info at yih.org/vtorah Daily: 6:00am: Morning Learning with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits. Gemara Kiddushin, Chumash/Rashi, Mishna Berura, Orchos Tzadikim.

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Seating Rules in Sanctuary 1. Please sit only in an open row. 2. If there is access to the row from only one end, there can only be one group in that row. 3. If there is access to the row from both ends, there can be one or two groups in that row, but THERE MUST BE 3 EMPTY SEATS SEPARATING GROUPS. 4. A group is defined as members of the same household.

Crosswalk Please make sure when crossing Stirling Road to wait until cars stop at the light before crossing. Jaywalk- ing is extremely dangerous (and illegal) Friday 6:00- 9:00pm; Shabbat 6:45am-12:00pm & 6:00-9:00pm First Aid AED (Automated External Defibrilla- tor), wheelchairs, oxygen, reflector belts for visibility (from the OU), and other equipment in closet next to So- cial Hall. Additional wheelchair in the entry to the women’s bathroom. Rain Ponchos available in both bathrooms. Safety We appreciate the generous donations for the protection of our members by Phil & Lisa Baratz of the state-of-the-art Aura Air purifiers in our building, and Justin Stauber for the Lucite dividers at minyanim

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AIPAC Israel Update Biden, Netanyahu, Other World Leaders Meet for a Virtual Climate Summit April 23 marks the first day of President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate—a virtual conference that brought President Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other world leaders together to discuss emerging 21st century challenges, including clean energy and climate change. Israel is a world leader in climate change solutions— and many Israeli climate technologies are in high demand across the world. Biden encourage you to learn more by contacting invited officials whose countries are AIPAC at (202) 639-5200 or by visiting “demonstrating strong climate leadership, www.aipac.org are especially vulnerable to climate impacts, or are charting innovative pathways to a net-zero economy.” In 2020 alone, Congress provided $8 million for U.S.-Israel cooperation to promote cutting-edge innovation in energy, water and international sustainability—critical funding that will help create new technologies and improve our environment. Congress and the administration should continue to look for ways to expand U.S.-Israel cooperation to address 21st century challenges, such as climate change and clean energy. Our synagogue partners with AIPAC, America’s pro-Israel lobby, in educating our community on issues affecting the U.S.- Israel relationship. We

Upcoming YIH Events May 2-5 The Global Family Health & Halacha Virtual Conference Thursday, May 6, 8:30-10:00pm The Ramchal Revolution Thursday, May 6, 7:30-9:00pm Mental Health Symposium / 3rd Annual Jewish Community Mental Health Awareness Shabbat Sunday, May 9, 10am-12pm Mental Health Morning / 3rd Annual Jewish Community Mental Health Awareness Shabbat Monday, May 10, 8:30pm Annual YIH General Membership Meeting. See details below. Wednesday, May 12, 12:00pm YIH Diversity Awareness Committee presents Ambassador Fitz Haney Sunday, May 16, 9:00am Special Guest Shiur with Rav Hershel Schachter - YIH Social Hall

Check our online calendar for more events: yih.org/calendar

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING MONDAY, MAY 10

The General Membership Meeting presenting the Proposed Slate 2021-2022 will be held at 8:30pm or immediately following Maariv. The Proposed Slate has been sent to the Board and entire congregation. The meeting will be in person in the Social Hall or via Zoom: www.yih.org/zoom/board

We are excited to partner with Nishmat's Miriam Glaubach Center and Mizrachi Canada in an unprecedented event: the Global Family Health & Halacha Virtual Conference. From May 2-5, 2021, we will strengthen ourselves, our relationships and our health. Conversations with Nishmat Yoatzot Halacha, rabbis, rebbetzins, medical and mental health professionals and community leaders will focus on our spiritual, emotional and physical well-being, as individuals and in our closest relationships. The advanced conferencing platform will simulate being together in person, as best as we can in these unconventional times. For more information and to register, see www.healthandhalacha.com

We are excited to partner with shuls across the country to explore the life and intellectual legacy of the Ramchal

Young Israel of Hollywood-Ft. Lauderdale is excited to partner with shuls and organizations around the country as we once again dedicate a weekend to mental health awareness. We are looking forward to hearing from Dr. Rona Novick, a previous Scholar-in- Residence and mother of our member, Yonah Novick, as she shares her wisdom with us.