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CongregationRabbi Menachem Tiferes Goldberger Yisroel! Parshas Tazria/Metzora בס״ד הרב מנחם ראובן הלוי גולדברגר שליטא מרא דאתרא בלב אחד Pushka total: $895.91 (see p. 3) 9 Teves 5773/December 22, 2012.

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DAVENING SCHEDULE incorrect, please contact Glenna at Shul Invoices [email protected]. Friday Please take advantage of a 2012 tax Candle Lighting: 4:29 pm deduction and help out our shul by paying off Mincha: 4:30 pm Banquet Honorees your shul balances in the next few weeks. If Shabbos Day you have not made a monthly payment plan Shacharis: 8:30 am We are pleased and excited to announce and would like to, please send in your post- Mincha: 4:20 pm that: dated checks or set up an automatic payment Maariv: 5:50 pm Ken and Yocheved Gelula are the plan via PayPal on the shul website. Shabbos is over after: 5:59 pm honorees for the shul banquet this year. Sunday Ken and Yocheved have been with Tiferes Pushka Campaign Shacharis: 8:00 am Yisroel since the beginning. Thank you to The pushka challenge is to put whatever Mincha/Maariv: 4:30 pm Ken and Yocheved for all you have done amount of money one is able into a pushka Monday-Friday for our shul and our community. every day or as often as possible. The recommended amount is only 36 cents a day. Shacharis: 6:30 am Our Jewish Leadership Award recipients Mincha/Maariv: 4:30 pm When your pushka is full, please empty it Bais Medrash: 8:00 pm are Dr. Marc and Elaine Lowen, long-time into a ziplock bag marked with your name, shul members and supporters. Thank you and drop it into the Goldbergers’ locked Next Shabbos — Parshas Vayechi mailbox at 3310 W. Strathmore Avenue. If it Candle Lighting: 4:33 pm Marc and Elaine for all you have done for is difficult for you to drop it off, please Friday Mincha: 4:35 pm our shul and our community. contact Shlomo and Ahuva Goldberger at Next Week The banquet will take place Sunday 410-358-4456 to arrange a pickup. If you Mincha/Maariv: 4:30 pm evening, March 10, b’ezras Hashem. Please need a shul pushka, you may take one from save the date and stay tuned! the shul window sill. Sign up by emailing [email protected]. This Shabbos Each week we will print the names of that iPhone App Update • Shalosh Seudos sponsored by Moshe and week’s participants. Dina Roth in honor of the seventh birthday iPhone users can now take Tiferes Yisroel of their son, Menachem Mendel. everywhere they go! The new TY app is now Ask the Rebbetzin • 7:30 pm: Father/Son Learning. available in the Apple App Store (also available for iPad and iPod touch). Dear Women of TY, The app allows you to view the latest Lev Do you have a question you have always Mazel Tov to Echad, the current list of davening times, and wanted to ask the Rebbetzin but never found • Barry Stein and Caren Cutler on the bris of listen to shiurim recorded at the shul. The the right moment? Well, here is your chance. their grandson, Yishaya Eliezer, born to brand new version allows the audio lectures to On Tuesday, December 25, at 8 pm, in the Ayala and Zev Pensak. May they be zoche continue playing even if you switch to another Nancy Taffel Annex, our wonderful, l’gadlo l’ l’ u’l’ma’asim app. knowledgeable and wise Rebbetzin will field tovim! To download the app, just go to the shul questions of all sorts. home page, tiferesyisroel.org, using your You may submit your questions in advance Shul Roster device and tap on the App Store icon. Or open directly to her at [email protected]. the App Store and search for “Tiferes” or We will also pass a basket around to collect We recently sent out the shul roster via “Goldberger.” questions at the event. Light refreshments will email to all of the members. If you did not Thank you to Tzadik Vanderhoof for be served. receive the roster, or if your information is making this possible.

This week’s Lev Echad is in honor of: Eric and Elaine Gerstenfeld .

This week’s Lev Echad is being sponsored by Bluma Bier, in gratitude to Hashem for her naches, and in gratitude Visit us at www.tiferesyisroel.org Parshas Vayigash

The Weekly Parsha has forgotten the Torah. We come together at volunteers for the events. Here are the next the shalom zachor in order to comfort the events on the horizon. Please watch for details child. as we them on the schedule. Let us now suggest another reason. When • Live presentation on checking vegetables Yosef attempted to reintroduce himself to his and fruits from the Vaad Hakashrus. brothers and prove that he was their brother • “Ask the Rebbetzin” night, December 25 he did two things. First he showed them that at 8 pm. Submit questions in advance or Hadrash Ve-Haiyun Dor Revi’i he was circumcised and second, spoke with wait until the meeting. Torah Insights on the Weekly them in lishon hakodesh. Likewise, when a • Thrift shop trip, December 30, where Parsha child is born, in order for it to be part of the 10% of what was spent goes to the shul. Jewish people it must undergo these two • Taharas hamishpacha/Shalom bayis class by Efraim Levine procedures. The first thing is the circumcision with Rebbetzin Bracha for six weeks — (from hadrash.com) that takes place on the eighth day. The second three on halacha and three on hashkafa. is speaking in the holy language. This is • Class in Jewish Art subjects with Susan Behold your eyes see, and the eyes of my fulfilled by coming together at the shalom Vick at the Goldsmith Museum at Chizuk brother Benyamin, that it is my mouth that is zachor and speaking words of Torah in honor Amuno for an hour and a half. speaking to you. (Bereishis 45:12) of the child. In truth this could be There was also interest in having a craft In this week’s parsha we learn how Yosef accomplished on any day of the week, day, or a series of craft days. We are looking revealed himself to his brothers. Rashi however, Shabbos has the special nature that to sisterhood members to provide leadership explains that Yosef proved to his brothers that all its speech is holy. The posuk says to get it off the ground. If you are interested in it was truly him by showing them that he was concerning Shabbos “You shall honor it by leading this event, please let us know and we circumcised and spoke lishon hakodesh. Rashi not pursuing your affairs and speaking words” can help you form your committee. derives this interpretation from the words of (Isaiah 48:13). Chazal derive from the last Batsheva Goldman, the posuk. The phrase “behold your eyes see” words of this posuk “vedaber davar,” i.e., Shulamis Heldoorn, refer to something physical that can be seen. “and speaking words” that our speech on Elka Rottman and This is the bris milah. The next words, “that it Shabbos is not to be the same as our speech Devorah Taffel is my mouth that is speaking” refers to speech during the week. On Shabbos we may only alluding to lishon hakodesh. speak holy words relating to Torah and prayer Coming Up The commentators explain that although and must refrain from all mundane talk. When Yosef instituted circumcision for all of Egypt, we come together on the first Shabbos and • December 25: Ask the Rebbetzin only the children of Yaakov performed an speak words in honor of the new child we act • December 30: Sisterhood Thrift Shop Trip. additional detail in milah called piriah. Yosef like Yosef who reintroduced himself to his 2 pm revealed that his circumcision was complete brothers with “holy language.” The holiness • January 5: Men’s Melava Malka, 9 pm including the pariah. Similarly, with regard to of Shabbos enhances the holiness of speech. • January 6: for Akiva Simcha lishon hakodesh although some Egyptians It is noteworthy that the custom is to eat Rosenstock. Sponsored by his parents Lev knew the only the children lentils at a shalom zachor. One of the reasons Avraham and Rachel Rosenstock. 1-3 pm of Yaakov understood the holy nature of the is that the child is in a state of mourning after • January 19: Shalosh Seudos sponsored by language. This added dimension of holiness is having left the spiritual world and has Fred and Rena Levi on the yahrzeit of what Yosef conveyed to his brothers. forgotten the Torah that he studied in his Rena’s father, Leonard Sternfield, Aryeh It is customary that the first Friday night mother’s womb. A lentil is round and has no Leib ben Moshe, a”h after the birth of a baby boy we celebrate. The mouth just as mourner is silent due to his • January 26: Shalosh Seudos sponsored by name of this celebration is called a “shalom pain. We may similarly suggest that we eat Fred and Rena Levi on the yahrzeit of zachor.” The commentators give various lentils to allude to the posuk “it is my mouth Fred’s father, Ari Levi, Yehuda ben reasons for this celebration. Let us briefly that is speaking to you.” The Torah records Michoel Binyamin, a”h review some of them. Yosef’s speech in lishon hakodesh with the • March 10: Banquet The Terumas Hadeshen explains that we words “it is my mouth.” Similarly, we eat give thanks to Hashem for the child and lentils that have no mouth to signify that at the Thrift Shop Trip mother who have survived the dangerous shalom zachor we open up the mouth with ordeal of pregnancy and birth. This is what Hi TY Sisters! holy words. We have been wanting to do a thrift shop the Gemarah (Bava Kama 80) calls “the Graphic courtesy of Chinuch.org. salvation of the child.” The Tur notes the trip together for a while. Some of us thrift words of Chazal “when a male comes to the Sisterhood News shop veterans really want to share our skill world peace comes to the world.” We with you. We will go to the Village Economy celebrate the additional dimension of peace Dear TY Sisters, Store at 790 West North Avenue, where many that has come to the world with this child. First, we are very excited to announce that color tags are half price on Sundays and Indeed, this is why the celebration is called Shulamis Heldoorn will be the treasurer for Mondays. The cross street is Madison Park. shalom zachar, which is translated as the the Sisterhood. Thanks Shulamis!, and We will meet at the shul parking lot, Sunday, “peace of the male.” welcome. December 30, at 2 pm, and we can either Another reason given is to comfort the Second, dues for 5773 (2012-2013) are carpool or follow each other. child whose pure soul has left the spiritual $25. You will receive discounts for our events Our idea is to make a 10-percent donation world and has come to a world of darkness. as well as letting us know you are a part of the to the shul based on what we buy. Similarly, Chazal teach us that when the child TY Sisters! We will sponsor some free events We hope you can join us! is in the mother’s womb it studies Torah with and help out the shul when needed. Devorah and Elka an angel. Immediately before it leaves, the On Tuesday night, December 4, many of us angel strikes the child causing it to forget all met in the Annex to discuss TY Sisterhood that it has learned. The child is sad because it events and shiurim for the year, and to solicit Daven with us at 6201 Park Heights Avenue Parshas Vayigash

Louis and Gail Feinstein (Mishlei) Support Network Shoshana Goldman Focus on Tanach (9) (Shoftim) Rena Levi Jonah Rena Levi J Eliyahu Margolese (2) Lech Lecha onahDear N Kehilla HaKedosha, Members of our community are developing This past Sunday, “Zos Chanukah,” the HaTanach was held and what a a new mutual support network called magnificent event it was, baruch Hashem. The feeling of celebration, unity, and Northwest Neighbors Connecting. Primarily accomplishment was palpable. The attendance was excellent, both for the siyum to aid seniors to more happily age in place, and the Seudah which followed. they are also working to empower anyone, Eric and Elaine Gerstenfeld were the overall coordinators for all three events any age, to support each other with their day- (shiurim, carnival, siyum) and the active chairpersons for the Grand Siyum. They to-day tasks. It can be offering a ride to the did an outstanding job all the way through with creativity, great energy, grocery store, changing someone’s lightbulb, attention to detail, planning, and they really put their heart into it, and it or just a friendly check-in call. showed. Thanks so much to Eric and Elaine and to everyone who helped. The level If you are interested in helping create a of participation from so many shul members was extremely high and that’s richer culture of caring in our community, always very rewarding. please get in touch with Risyl Edelman at Rabbi Hopfer, our guest speaker, spoke profoundly on the importance of CHAI. understanding Tanach on a sophisticated, thoughtful, and deep level and gave examples from the stories of Yoseph and his brothers and from Dovid HaMelech Huge Jewish Bookstore and Batsheva. He explained how it’s crucial to learn Tanach through the eyes of Liquidation Sale the meforshim and Chazal. We all gained a great deal from his wise words. Many people, both adults and young teenagers, contributed 2 to 3 minute There will be a huge Jewish Bookstore divrei Torah at the Seudah. We heard an a-capella group, “Who Knows Five,” and Liquidation Sale on Tuesday, December 25, at saw a stirring Video of the Tiferes Yisroel Siyum, it’s spirit, and it’s background by Shomrei’s Social Hall from 8 am to 12 Yisroel Bethea. We danced and sang to the music of Nossi Gross. It was an midnight. afternoon of Kavod HaTorah and achdus. I feel a tremendous sense of joy and Pricing starts at a minimum 50 percent off fulfillment for our shul and I am so grateful to Hashem for bringing us to this retail. There are tons of judaica like jewelry, special goal. Kein Yirbu. I’d like to encourage everyone to keep on learning and covers, seder plates, menorahs, make a goal to finish Tanach. There is much commentary available in English tzitzis, , tallis bags, books and sefarim. including from Artscroll. Moshe Rabbeinu is compared to the light of the sun and Yehoshua is compared Community to the light of the moon. The light of the moon is a reflection of the light of the • December 22: Women’s in memory sun, Yehoshua was therefore a reflection of the light of his great teacher, Moshe of Esther Nechama Margolese. Sefer Rabbeinu. The Jewish people are compared to the moon by our chachamim. HaChinnuch, led by Dr. Dovid Clay. Home Perhaps the Torah is like the light of the sun and it is therefore our mission as the of Joyce Dreyfuss, 3820 Menlo Drive, each Jewish people to reflect the light of the Torah into the world as we live our lives. Shabbos at 3:20 pm. All women and high Each person’s reflection of that light is special and unique and vital toward the school girls are invited. world reaching it’s shlaymus (completion). • December 22: Lecture by Rabbi Katz. May we continue to climb and grow in the light of the holy Torah. Yasher Israel and the Jews: 1949-1952. Israeli koach to one and all for a most meaningful “Focus on Tanach” program and for Politics. Decisive Leadership and Tammany reaching the culmination, the Grand Siyum. May Hashem help us to fully Hall. 8 pm, Suburban, free. integrate His will and His words in all that we do. • December 25: Open House at Ohr Chadash Bivracha v’shalom, b’chavod rav, Academy for prospective parents of Rabbi Menachem Goldberger children entering kindergarten through eighth grade in 2013-2014/5774 academic

PUSHKA CAMPAIGN year. Walk-in hours between 9 and 11 am. Learn more about Ohr Chadash Academy, Sign up by emailing [email protected]. Participants who have Yisroel and Yaffa Addess meet our principal, Rabbi Akevy The pushka challenge is to put whatever amount signed up for this year's Tehilla Rottman of money one is able into a pushka every day or campaign: Chaim and Rivka Bluestein Greenblatt, and current parents, take a as often as possible. The recommended amount Shulamis Heldoorn personalized tour, and view our video and is only 36 cents a day. Rabbi and Rebbetzin Moshe and Joyce Dreyfuss When your pushka is full, please empty it into Goldberger Hillorie Morrison samples of student work. Please contact us a ziplock bag marked with your name, and drop Shlomo and Ahuva with any questions at it into our locked mailbox at 3310 W. Strathmore Goldberger Avenue. If it is difficult for you to drop it off, Howard and Dvora Sora [email protected] or 410-500-5984. please contact Shlomo and Ahuva Goldberger at Reznick December 28: National Chocolate Day. 410-358-4456 to arrange a pickup. If you need a Moshe and Shelly Cohen • shul pushka, you may take one from the shul Jerry and Eileen • December 30: NCSY presents the 38th window sill, and they will be replenished as Rosenbaum Annual Isaac H. Taylor Jewish Music needed. Jonathan and Talia Raun Each week we will print the names of the Ari and Caryn Blum Festival, featuring Baruch Levine, 8th Day, participants who have turned in a pushka that Ken and Chana Birnbaum and Shloime Gertner. Tickets are available week. Bob and Karen Rosenfelt Lenny and Glenna Ross now by contacting Zahava at 410-358-6279 This week’s contributors: Keely and Jillian or www.atsncsy.org. Rabbi and Rebbetzin Goldberger Goldberger Louis and Rachel Rosenstock Fred and Rena Levi • January 13: Ahavas Yisrael Event — AY Hillorie Morrison Elie and Esther Levi Starts at Home: The Importance of Self- Susan Vick Betzalel and Esther Huff Care for Jewish Women of All Ages and Louis and Rachel Affiliations. Keynote Speaker: Rivka Malka Rosenstock Nisan and Marietta Jaffee Perlman. 7-9:30 pm at Greengate Jewish Mo and Shaina Margolese Center. Barbara Landsman

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Shemen Lamaor Sponsors card out for you, and your donation will be  Calendar Eileen Rosenbaum 410-764-8443 announced in the Lev Echad. [email protected] Ari and Caryn Blum • Contact Glenna Ross at 410-358-1687 or e-mail  Camp Shabbos Adriana Steinberg 202-641-6677 Jerry and Elka Rottman in loving memory of • [email protected]. [email protected] Elka’s dear parents, Aryeh Leib ben Eliyahu  Candyman Ari Blum HaKohen a”h and Golda bas Yosef Zelig HaLevi   Chesed Committee Chana Birnbaum () 410- a”h Sponsorships. To arrange your sponsorship, 358-7736; Ester Gur (births) 410-358-2005; Raizy Andy Goldfinger email [email protected] or go to • Cohen (cholim) 410-764-8852 Shulamis Heldoorn www.tiferesyisroel.org and click donate. Please •  Davening Schedule Jay Taffel 410-358-9029 Rabbi Menachem and Rebbetzin Bracha send your donation to Congregation Tiferes Yisroel, •  Father/Son Learning Dov Pear 410-358-9825 Goldberger 6201 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215.  Gabbai Rishon Jay Taffel 410-358-9029 Leah Miner To sponsor Shemen Lamaor for a month or the •  Gabbai Sheni Hillel Zeitlin 410-358-7316 • Baruch and Ruth Jankowitz Lev Echad, Camp Shabbos or Father/Son Learning for a week, the donation is $36.  Gabbai Nathan Franco 240-472-2815  Girls’ Learning Group Nechama Goldman Yahrzeits For the following, please contact Nisan Blaxberg at 410-358-3943 or [email protected].  Hospitality Gail Feinstein 410-764-2532, 410-456- Giving tzedakah in the name of the departed has 4306 the power to elevate their soul. When you give $50 Chumash $75 Yahrzeit Plaque $300  Kitchen/Kiddush Volunteer opportunity charity on behalf of your loved one, consider giving  Lev Echad Suzanne Kayne 410-764-1971, Option Other seforim may be dedicated as well. to Tiferes Yisroel. 4 (please use email) [email protected] And may the soul of your loved one be bound in TY Shiurim Schedule  Mitzvah Cards Glenna Ross 410-358-1687 the bond of life, together with the souls of Sunday:  Seforim Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov; Sarah, Rivka, Ra- • 9:30-10:15 am: Men’s Gemara Brachos shiur Purchase Nisan Blaxberg 410-358-3943 chel and Leah; and together with the other righteous given by the Rabbi. Rashi, selected Tosfos and Repair Mark Hart men and women in Gan Eden. Maharsha following Shacharis.  Shalosh Seudos Coordinator • 10-10:45 am: Women’s Tehillim gathering for Hinda Blum 410-764-2279 Rev Naftali Unger, Naftali ben Yehuda a”h, 9 cholim (Nancy Taffel Annex).  Simcha Hall Reserve Eileen Rosenbaum 410-764- Teves, father of Shoshana Porter 8443 [email protected] Morris Schnidman, Moshe ben Yehoshua a”h, 13 Monday:  Sisterhood Batsheva Goldman 410-358-3768 Teves, father of Judy Schnidman • 6:45-7:45 pm: Rambam Hilchos Ishus. Given by jenbgold@gmail. com; Elka Rottman 410-358- Seymour Steinberg, Zachariah ben Shepsel Jay Taffel. Upstairs Beis Midrash. On hiatus. 5427 [email protected]; Devorah Taffel HaCohen a”h, 13 Teves, grandfather of Caren Tuesday: 410-358-9029 [email protected] Cutler • One hour before mincha: Gemara Chulin. The  Supplies Ordering Shulamis Heldoorn 410-664- Benjamin Sklar, Baruch ben Reuven a”h, 14 Teves, 8th perek dealing with the meat and bones and 1212 [email protected] grandfather of Hinda Blum blood of kashrus, given by Jay Taffel. Upstairs  Tzeischem L’Shalom Coordinator Mordechai Be- Harry Cutler, Yechiel Tzvi ben Shmuel Yoseph Beis Midrash. leck 443-570-3850 [email protected] HaLevi, 14 Teves, grandfather of Caren • 8 pm: Chabura learning — Kitzur Shulchan  Webmaster Tzadik Vanderhoof 410-764-2258 Cutler Aruch, focusing on the laws of Pesach. After [email protected] Naomi Feinstein, Nechama bas Yoel a”h, 15 Teves, maariv in the Bais Medrash. Led by Elie Weiner.  Yahrzeit Plaques Nisan Blaxberg 410-358-3943 grandmother of Louis Feinstein  Yahrzeit Records Alisa Mandel 410-963-2977 Wednesday: [email protected] • 8-9 pm: Nesivos Shalom. Bais Medrash. Led by Refuah Shalaimah to Our Members Fred Levi.  Shul Business [email protected] • Karen Rosenfelt, Chaya bas Sheindel Daily (Monday-Friday): • Karen Eisenberg, Keren bas Levana Yuta • 6-6:25 am: Chabura learning Rashi on the • Raizy Cohen, Raiselle bas Sarah weekly parsha given by Nisan Blaxberg. All men Lev Echad Deadline: Ray Saperstein, who is recovering from knee • and (older) boys are invited to attend. Wednesday, 6:13 pm surgery • Every morning following davening — a chabura • Bert Kahn, who is recovering from eye surgery for strengthening Hebrew reading with Nesivos [email protected]  Shalom. With fresh hot coffee! No Peanuts! The shul is peanut-free. In consid- • Sunday through Thursday evening after mincha/ eration of our members with peanut allergies, please maariv for 15 minutes — Rabbi Goldberger shiur Good Shabbos! refrain from bringing peanut products into the shul. for men. Mishna Berurah.   • 8-9 pm: Nightly men’s bais medrash. Sunday through Thursday. Rabbi Goldberger’s Shul Joblink. Joblink provides job seekers, recruiters • 9:20-9:40 pm: Rabbi Goldberger teaching Tur- Congregation Tiferes Yisroel and employers with valuable information regarding Bais Yoseph. Monday through Thursday. employment opportunities and career information. 6201 Park Heights Avenue If you are looking for a job or know of one at Shabbos: Baltimore, MD 21215 your office, please contact our shul liaison, Yehudis • 8-8:30 am: Mishnayos Chabura. Nezikin. Gruber, [email protected] or Elly 410-764-1971 OFFICERS Lasson, executive director at Joblink, 410-602- tiferesyisroel.org 8700, [email protected].  President Ari Blum 410-358-5478   [email protected]  VP Mo Margolese [email protected] Shul Rentals. To reserve the use of the shul’s  VP Membership Lev Avraham Rosenstock 443- simcha hall or Nancy Taffel Annex, please contact 255-4343 [email protected], Eileen Rosenbaum at 410-764-8443 or eileen@ lrosenstockphoto@ yahoo.com tiferesyisroel.org.  Secretary Ari Blum 410-358-5478 There is no fee to reserve the date. For [email protected] availability, go to www.tiferesyisroel.org, and click  Treasurer Yaakov Gur 410-358-2005 on the “Calendar” button on the left. This online [email protected] calendar is kept up-to-date continuously.  CONTACT INFORMATION Mitzvah Cards. For $18, you get four cards that  Ahavas Yisrael Chabura Project Meira Blaxberg you can mail out yourself. For $10, we will send the 410-358-3943 [email protected]  Bais Medrash Rabbi Elie Levi 410-318-8932

Weekday Mincha/Maariv Minyan Join us each weeknight 15 minutes before sunset, in the upstairs Bais Medrash for a mincha/maariv minyan. If you can come on a regular or close-to-regular basis, please call