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YOUNG ISRAEL OF WEST HARTFORD 2240 ALBANY AVENUE Parashat Chukat-Balak WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117 www.YoungIsraelWH.org July 3-4, 2020  12 Tammuz 5780 @YoungIsraelWeHa  Shabbat Sermon All Zoom programs can be accessed at When A Talking Donkey Is Just A Donkey! youngisraelwh.org/zoom or on the phone at shared by Tuvia Brander (646) 558-8656 and Meeting ID: 685 094 0946#. listen or watch it here - click here!  COVID-19 UPDATE Shabbat on Wednesday this week We are back to full force with outdoor was sponsored by the minyanim. Please review our policies (here) and Young Israel of West Hartford sign up for at youngisraelwh.org/ minyansignup! Please note that we continue to livestream all minyanim on our Zoom! Check out Please take a moment, reach out and say hello to our latest COVID-19 guidance! someone (virtually). YOU ARE INVITED Mazel Tov RABBI BRANDER’S !! To Nicole & Daniel Daman on the birth of a

July 6, 2020 — NOT TO BE MISSED!! daughter, and Judy & Lauren Daman on the birth of HARTFORD

See Page 3 for all the details! a granddaughter, Gavriella Naomi, Gabriella Claire

General Membership Update To Shifra & Rabbi Zev Silver on the birth of a Minutes from this past month’s general membership grandson, Eliezer Amram, to Miriam & Adam meeting have gone out. Please check your email for Frankel them. To Eli Gelb and Sally & Bumi Gelb on the birth of a

WEST 3 Week & Tisha B’Av Guide granddaughter and great granddaughter to Danielle Check your inboxes next week for our Young Israel 3 & Daniel Gelb Week & Tisha B’Av & Program Guide

SHABBAT ON WEDNESDAY!! WEEKLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Missing the communal Shabbat ? Then

PONDERING THE PARASHA ZOOM with us on WEDNESDAY NIGHTS at 7:35 PM will continue via Zoom (NEW TIME)—hear the Rabbi's drasha, updates from Come tackle the weekly Parasha with Rabbi the shul and welcome special guests– plus catch the Brander. Wednesday from 11:45-12:45 "Joke of the Week"!

WEEKLY SHABBAT PROGRAMS KIWI: WEEKLY PARASHA EXCHANGE Come Shabbat With US! Share your own idea or find one online! Meets Join us for Pre- & Post- Shabbat Programs Thursday Evenings on Zoom after . 11:45 AM - Tot Shabbat with Becca Maurer YOUNG ISRAEL YOUTH DEPARTMENT 9:35 PM - Communal Havdallah w/ Sam Leichtberg In continuing to figure out how best to serve our and Stu Miller. youth during these strange times, we are asking parents to please complete this short survey (here)! We’re On YouTube Thank you so much in advance for your help! Catch all of Rabbi Brander’s sermons, weekly parasha classes & more YIWH content on YouTube? SHABBAT MORNING GROUPS continue each Check out our YouTube Channel (click here)! week on Fridays at 11:45 AM with Becca Mauer! YOUNGISRAEL OF NEW: Shabbat In The SHADE DOR L’DOR INDOORS Loved Dor L’Dor? Look Shabbat Morning Youth Program 10:45-11:15 AM out for out next Dor L’Dor Indoors. Geared for 5-10 years old ~ Siblings Welcome YOUTH RESOURCES are available on the Join Rabbi Brander for a taste of Shabbat with songs website here — updated each week with new from davening, a story, parasha fun and a signature parasha questions and activities and so much more. Shabbat treat! Questions? Email Yair, MUST PRE-REGISTER at YoungIsraelWH.org/ [email protected] ShabbatInTheSun At-Home Davening Guide *While we are back, thank God, to being able to pray as a community with one another, we recognize that for some it is still not time to come back to shul. Beyond are instructions for davening at home. Halakha codifies that praying, even at home, at the same time as the community minyan binds all our prayers together into a force beyond compare. For those not ready to return to our outdoor minyanim, enclosed is a guide for Shabbat davening. Ideally, one should try to daven at the same times as are our communal tefilot.

Davening Guide Certain parts of Tefilah are omitted when davening individually: • including Barachu, , Chazarat ha-Shatz (the repetition of the ), and Kedusha • Friday : Omit the blessing of Magen Avot (beracha achat me'ein shevah) after the Shemoneh Esrei of Maariv. • Shabbat day: Omit Berich Shemeih (yes Matthew). Ashkenazim also omit Yekum Perkan

Pitum HaKetoret, which follows Ein Kelokeinu, is seen as a particularly potent prayer at a time of need, especially in the context of the spread of disease, as the incense

At the end of davening, Tehillim (Psalm) 130 can be added as a way of focusing our attention on the dire needs of those suffering from the virus and in the hopes that our actions will limit its spread and severity.

While reading, in its most ideal sense, requires a true , in lieu of that possibility our best option is to read the Parasha (Chukat & Balak) and the (Micah 5:6-6:8 ) from a whole Tanakh. If one doesn't have a whole Tanakh at home, reading from a Chumash is the next best option.

The reading for need not be read from a Tanakh or Chumash, and reading it in the back the suffices.

Maariv is the regular Saturday night maariv. We DO say Yehi Noam and Levana!

Havdallah Please make in your homes once Shabbat has departed, after 9:21 pm. At 9:30 pm, everyone is then invited to participate in a community-wide virtual Havdalah, on our Zoom . Though one cannot fulfill the obligation to say Havdalah through technological media (unless under pressing circumstances), one is welcome to say '' to any heard contemporaneously (i.e. live). ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. OU presents SPIRIT: the Stimulating Program Initiative for Retirees* that Inspires Thought. (*Retirees, Not-Yet-Retirees, Baby boomers, Empty Nesters, Sandwich generation parents, and Seniors ) Revived from older program, SPIRIT offers an online programs twice a week (Tuesday and Thursdays at 11 am) for retirees (or soon to be) with opportunities for spiritual, educational, and intellectual growth. Join hundreds that have already discovered this opportunity! All registrants receive links to the session recording so the program can be watched live or at a more convenient time on-demand! https://www.ou.org/community/

Rabbi Brander is available during the week and can be Mara D’Atra: Rabbi Tuvia Brander ([email protected]) Coordinator: Les Loew ([email protected]) reached by email at [email protected] or on his To submit something for the bulletin, please send it to cell. [email protected]

It has been 3 whole months since our beloved Rabbi's last haircut, so it's with great pleasure and gratitude to Hashem that we invite you to partake in his upsherin! (That’s right, he never had one as a kid!) We hope that you will join us to mark Rabbi Brander's entry into formal .

This event will be live-streamed at 5:30 pm on Tuesday 7/7 on Zoom (link here).

Many people have the custom to go around to different tzadikim on the day the hair is cut so the tzadik can cut off some hair (see: Kotzosov Taltlaim page 63, Chinuch Yisroel 8:page 491:ftnt 3, Natei Gavriel (Upsherin) 7:2, Halichos Shlomo Moadim 2:page 365:ftnt 32.). Although we cannot each be there to cut a portion of the Rabbi's coiffure as is customary, we still need your help to style the Rabbi in his new pursuit of .

To this end, we have devised a monetary scale, based on ancient mysticism, to give you the power to determine the length of the haircut. We hope that you will join us by donating generously.

Total accrued donations: $18 - Accoutrements purchased $50 - Let's start cutting! $100 - Number 8: 1 inch left $180 - Number 7: 7/8 inch left $360 - Number 6: 3/4 inch left $500 - Number 5: 5/8 inch left $1000 - Number 4: 1/2 inch left $2500 - Number 3: 3/8 inch left $5000 - Number 2: 1/4 inch left $7500 - Number 1: 1/8 inch left $10,000 - NO HAIRCUT until after the 3 weeks $50,000 - Shave him bald!

Please join us for this opportunity and go to youngisraelwh.org/RTBUpsherin to contribute and partake! *Please note Miriam Brander does hold final approval for any hair styling BOOKKEEPER’S CORNER Young Israel Book Club As our fiscal year draws to an end, current statements will be sent out. Please check your mail for Next book will be on the "light" side them in the coming days. If you have any questions I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other about shul bills or pledges, please reach out to our Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron bookkeeper, Jill at [email protected]. and, in addition, The Color of Love: A Story of a ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad Please send all acknowledgements to Young Israel so that they may be processed, cards may be sent out, For more information, contact Debbie Luger and notices may be placed in the weekly bulletin.  Young Israel of West Hartford Schedule of Services  July 3rd—July 10th, 2020 Shabbat Parashat Chukat—Balak

Friday, July 3rd— Erev Shabbat In-Person * 7:00 a.m. Virtual Tot Shabbat with Becca Maurer 11:45 a.m. Earliest Candle Lighting 6:54 p.m. In-person Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv* 7:00 p.m. Be sure to check out our Facebook Latest Candle Lighting 8:11 p.m. page to keep up with all Young

Mincha before & Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv after 8:29 p.m. Israel happenings Repeat Shema after 9:03 p.m. @YoungIsraelWeHa! Check out the weekly schedule on the Shabbat, July 4th—Shabbat Kodesh Young Israel of West Hartford website Shacharit, , * 9:00 a.m. Sof Zman Kriat Shema (Latest Shema) 9:08 a.m. Earliest Mincha 1:33 p.m. Mincha & Seudat Shlishit Before 8:29 p.m. In-Person Mincha followed by Maariv* 8:05 p.m. Shabbat Ends 9:21 p.m. Virtual Communal Havdallah 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 5th—Wednesday, July 8th

Shacharit...Sunday * 8:15 a.m. Shacharit...Monday –Friday * 7:00 a.m. A Message From The Good Humor People! Mincha & Maariv (Sunday-Wednesday)* 8:15 p.m. Last weeks "Summer Ice Cream"

kiddush was in honor of our outgoing Thursday, July 9th— Asar b'Tammuz and incoming leaders: Les Loew & Fast Begins 3:35 a.m. Shayne Kesler Shacharit...Thursday * 7:00 a.m. This week Tali Porat & Carolyn Mincha & Maariv* 8:05 p.m. Ganeles on the "front -lines" with continuing advice on safely gathering Fast Ends 9:00 p.m. us together • We are excited to be resuming in person

minyanim. In the event of inclement weather, minyanim will not convene in person and will Join on Shabbat on Wednesday to meet up on Zoom. be entered into our ice cream • All people must register in advance to attend a raffle for your shabbat ice cream.... minyan — Sign up at YoungIsraelWH.org/ MinyanSignUp Yayin l’ Kiddush Ul’Havdalah Pat La’Orchim Alison & Nate Pava Racheli & Raffi Jesin Ner La’Maor - Lights Kiddush Supplement Judy & Lauren Daman Devorah & Solomon Sultan in memory of Michelle G. Daman-Wasserman Handy Man Good Humor Man Judy & Sam Debbie & Steven Supplement Leichtberg Luger Leslie & Marc Rifkin Candy Man You-Dah-Man Kol HaKavod Judy & Lauren Jeremy Pava Gerald Goldberg Daman Week of Friday July 3- Friday July 10 Wednesday, July 8 Friday, July 3 7:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit 7:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit 11:45 AM — Pondering The Parasha: Lunch’n’Learn 11:45 AM — Tot Shabbat with Becca Maurer with Rabbi Brander

7:00 PM — In-Person Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat 5:30 PM — Women’s Tehillim Group (Zoom)

Shabbat, July 4 8:15 PM — In-Person Mincha & Maariv

9:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit 7:35 PM — Shabbat On Wednesday:

10:45 AM — Shabbat In The SHADE Schmooze, Sermon and Updates

8:05 PM — In-Person Shabbat Mincha & Maariv Thursday, July 9—Shiva Asar B’Tammuz

9:30 PM — Communal Havdallah with Stu Miller 3:35 AM — Fast Begin and Sam Leichtberg 7:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit Sunday, July 5 8:05 PM — In-Person Mincha & Maariv 8:15 AM — In-Person Shacharit 9:00 PM — Fast Ends 8:15 PM — In-Person Mincha & Maariv Friday, July 10

Monday, July 6 7:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit

7:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit 11:45 AM — Tot Shabbat with Becca Maurer

8:15 PM — In-Person Mincha & Maariv 7:00 PM — In-Person Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

Tuesday, July 7 Young Israel of West Hartford

7:00 AM — In-Person Shacharit Did you know you can catch all of Rabbi Brander’s 5:00 PM — Kidz Club Hour classes, weekly sermons, Les Loew’s weekly announcements, jokes of the week and so much more 5:30 PM — Rabbi Brander’s Upsherin! on our Young Israel YouTube Channel?

8:15 PM — In-Person Mincha & Maariv Check out this week’s Shabbat On Wednesday at here https://youtu.be/RI0WigULADo

All Zoom programs can be accessed at Don’t miss your daily-dose youngisraelwh.org/zoom or on the phone at Minutes of Mishna (646) 558-8656 and Meeting ID: 685 094 0946#. at YoungIsraelWH.org/MinOfMish