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CongregationRabbi Menachem Tiferes Goldberger Yisroel! Parshas Tazria/Metzora בס״ד Goldberger Shiurim הרב מנחם ראובן הלוי גולדברגר Rabbi Goldberger has resumed his afternoon shiur for men and women. We will be studying the Haggada ,שליטא מרא hour beforeדאתרא On Shabbos, one shel Pesach with commentaries. .NJ בלב ,in Lakewood אחדYankelove

DAVENING SCHEDULE Kaparos after Shacharis: Thursday — Shmini Atzeres Mincha with Viduyi: 4:00 pm Shacharis: 8:30 am Sunday, September 1 Seudah Hamafsekes/Bless children Yizkor/Drasha/Tefillas Geshem/ Selichos: 1:00 am Candle Lighting: 7:00 pm Musaf: 10:45 am Shacharis: 8:00 am Kol Nidrei: 7:10 pm Mincha: 6:10 pm Mincha/: 7:15 pm Maariv: 7:40 pm Farewell to the Monday-Tuesday Day — Shabbos Kodesh Maariv: 8:00 pm Selichos (Monday): 7:45 am Shacharis: 8:00 am Candle Lighting: 8:12 pm Selichos (Tuesday): 6:10 am : 11:15 am Bidding following Maariv Shacharis: 6:30 am Yizkor/Musaf: 11:45 am Hakafos/five aliyos: 8:50 pm Mincha/Maariv: 7:15 pm Mincha: 4:50 pm Friday — Simchas Torah Wednesday Neila: 6:25 pm Shacharis/: 8:00 am Selichos: 5:15 am Maariv with Tekias : 8:15 pm Bidding: 9:30 am Shacharis followed by Fast ends: 8:29 pm Hakafos/Krias HaTorah: 10:15 am Hataras Nedarim: 6:30 am Sunday, September 15 Musaf/Mincha: 2:00 pm ish Candle Lighting: 6:37 pm Rosh Hashanah, 1st Day Shacharis: 7:55 am Kabbalas Shabbos: 6:40 pm Tavshilin Mincha: 6:50 pm Candle Lighting: 7:14 pm Monday-Tuesday Tiferes Yisroel Minhagim Mincha/Maariv: 7:15 pm Shacharis: 6:30 am Shacharis: 7:30 am Mincha: 6:50 pm EREV ROSH HASHANAH Drasha: 10:30 am Shofar/Musaf: 11:15 am Wednesday • Because we are marbeh b’tachanunim on Mincha: 6:15 pm Shacharis: 6:30 am erev R”H, we begin selichos earlier than on the other days on which we say selichos. Tashlich after Mincha Sukkos, 1st Day, Thursday, September 19 Men should go to the after chatzos. Eruv Tavshilin • Rosh Hashanah, 2nd Day Hataras Nedarim (the annulment of vows) Candle Lighting: 6:52 pm • Maariv: 8:30 pm should be said before a beis din of three Mincha/Maariv: 6:55 pm Candle Lighting: 8:41 pm men, after shacharis. A man can have his Shacharis: 8:30 am Shacharis: 7:30 am wife in mind as well, although a woman can Mincha: 6:45 pm Drasha: 10:30 am do it for herself if she wants to. The beis din Shofar/Musaf: 11:15 am Sukkos, 2nd Day requirements for hataras nedarim are not as Shabbos Shuva — Parshas Ha’azinu Maariv: 8:15 pm strict as usual, e.g., a relative can be a Candle Lighting: 7:11 pm Candle Lighting: 8:22 pm member of the beis din. Friday Mincha: 7:15 pm Shacharis: 8:30 am SHOFAR AND Shabbos day Shabbos Chol Hamoed, September 21 Shacharis: 8:30 am Candle Lighting: 6:48 pm • Men wear a kittel during the day on Rosh Rabbi’s Shabbos Shuva Drasha: 5:00 pm Mincha/Maariv: 6:50 pm Hashanah. At night, only the tzibur Mincha: 6:20 pm Shacharis: 8:30 am wears a kittel. Maariv: 8:20 pm Mincha: 6:10 pm • During the day, the shofar is blown as Shabbos is over after: 8:41 pm Maariv: 8:00 pm follows: one set before musaf, one set Shabbos is over after: 8:18 pm during the silent of musaf, one set Sunday, September 8 — Tzom Gedalyah during chazaras ha’shatz, and the last ten Sunday-Tuesday Chol Hamoed Fast begins: 5:11 am during the final (according to Shacharis: 7:30 am Selichos and Shacharis: 7:30 am nusach sfard). Mincha/Maariv: 6:40 pm Mincha: 6:45 pm • We sing a lot during davening, to awaken Fast ends: 8:18 pm Wednesday — our , and to uplift our davening. Monday-Thursday Shacharis: 7:00 am Selichos and Shacharis: 6:00 am Eruv Tavshilin ROSH HASHANAH GREETING Mincha/Maariv: 6:55 pm Candles for Yom Tov: 6:40 pm • After maariv on R”H night, we greet each Mincha/Maariv (followed by other with: “L’shanah tova tikasevu Friday — Erev Yom Kippur short bidding and hakafos): 6:40 pm Selichos and Shacharis: 6:15 am v’seichaseimu l’altar l’chayim tovim ul’shalom, basifran shel tzadikim gamurim” Lev Echad Supplement Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur/Sukkos/Simchas Torah

(May you be inscribed and sealed purity and does not remove the status of Hashem, forward and up while saying immediately for a good year, for good life, nidda. (The women’s mikveh in Baltimore Hoshiah, down and back while saying and for peace, in the book of the completely is open for a short period of time erev Y”K Na. righteous). morning for this purpose.) • During or following the seudah hamafsekes, HOSHANAH RABBAH Y’HI RATZONS AND SPECIAL FOODS the father bentches the children with the • Some have the minhag to stay up and learn • It is a minhag of Bnai Yisroel to eat special special erev Y”K bracha that is found in the Torah H”R night. There is also a minhag to foods on R”H night, and say the y’hi Y”K machzor. read (the entire book of ratzons corresponding to those foods. Refer • A Ner Neshama is lit. One per family is Devarim) from a on H”R night. to the R”H machzor. sufficient. This is in addition to any yahrzeit • The rings are removed from the before • From R”H through Shemini Atzeres, Rabbi candles the family may be lighting. Hallel. Goldberger’s minhag is to use honey at the • We hold the lulav and esrog for the first table on the , rather than salt. Salt YOM KIPPUR GREETING seven hoshanah hakafos, and the may be on the table. During this time, no • After Rosh Hashanah, and through Yom tachanunim that follow, until taaneh sour or sharp foods are eaten, e.g., no Kippur, we greet each other with “G’mar emunim. At taaneh emunim, we put down horeseradish through Shemini Atzeres. chasima tova” (which has the general the lulav and esrog and pick up the bundle • On Simchas Torah we resume the use of salt meaning of: May you be conclusively of five hoshanahs (aravos). on challah, and sour or sharp foods can be sealed for the good). • Upon completion of the tachanunim, the eaten again. • Men wear a kittel and tallis all through hoshanahs are beaten on the floor exactly Y”K. five times. TASHLICH • Following on motzei Y”K, there is • There is a fleishig morning seuda where • Many kehillas say tashlich on the first day a special Hamavdil recited, as printed in the kreplach are eaten. Rabbi Goldberger’s of R”H, after mincha. It is Rabbi machzor. minhag is to recite the first paragraph of Goldberger’s minhag to say tashlich on the • L’vanah is recited after maariv on forward and backward seven times: day before erev Yom Kippur. This is the motzei Y”K. i.e., word by word forward, then word by day on which the pizmon, that is recited • There is an inyan to begin a little bit of word backward, repeated seven times. responsively during selichos, is based on the work on the Sukkah on motzei Y”K. yud gimel midos harachamim (the thirteen SHEMINI ATZERES SUKKOS attributes of HaShem’s mercy). In either • Following maariv on Sh”A night, we have case, it is still possible, though not • It is a mitzvah to eat and sleep in the seven short hakafos, while dancing with the preferable, to make tashlich as late as Sukkah. Torah. The Rabbi dances the beginning of Hoshana Rabbah. • Our minhag is not to wear during the first hakafa alone. • Tashlich begins with “Mi Kel kamocha,” Chol Hamoed. It is our minhag to wear • It is our minhag to eat in the sukkah, but and continues with the bakashos that follow. Shabbos/Yom Tov clothing during Chol you should not sleep in the sukkah. Hamoed. • Do not say the bracha leyshev basukkah. SECOND DAY ROSH HASHANAH • Binding the lulav: Most kehillos hold the • Farewell to the Sukkah after mincha. The • Candle lighting is 72 minutes after shkia. lulav with three haddasim to the right of the Rabbi leads nigunim in the shul sukkah No preparations for the second day may be spine, and two aravos to its left, according every year at this time. started until after this time. to the . Rabbi Goldberger SIMCHAS TORAH • We daven maariv one hour after shkia. binds his lulav differently, according to the minhag of the Arizal. • No longer use the sukkah. KAPPAROS: CHICKEN OR MONEY • Waving the lulav: the lulav is waved • Hakafos at maariv and shacharis, with the • If using a chicken, it should be waved over according to nusach sfard, following the . The Rabbi dances the beginning of each family member’s head in their minhag of the Arizal: the first hakafa alone, both maariv and presence. Give tzedaka of $5/person. If • While facing east — right, left, forward, schacharis. using money, use coins, not paper money, up, down, back. Wave in each direction • At our shul, the hakafos continue well into waving the coins over each person’s head. three times, each time returning the lulav the afternoon, followed by musaf and • Give the money to tzedaka; $5/person. to your heart and standing facing mincha. This is followed by a joyous S”T forward. Turn completely around for the meal, either at home or collectively in shul. EREV YOM KIPPUR back waving, and never point the lulav • S”T is the yahrzeit of our Rabbi’s , down for down waving; kneel instead. • It is a mitzva to eat and drink on erev Y”K. Moreinu Harav Shloime Twerski, zecher Waving during Hallel: four times total — Rabbi Goldberger’s minhag is to have a • tzadik livracha, who passed away in 5742 once during the first Hodu laHashem, fleishig seudah in the morning before on this day. Zechuso yagaen alenu v’al kol twice during Ana Hashem, and once chatzos. The pizmon from the erev Y”K Yisroel. during the last Hodu laHashem. selichos, “Machar Yihyeh Haos Hazeh,” is Hodu waving: one direction for each said at this seudah. • Yizkor word. Do not wave the lulav when • The seuda hamafsekes is after mincha. reciting the word Hashem; e.g., right, by Rabbi Zalman Kreplach are eaten at this seudah. while saying Hodu, then stand still for (from askmoses.com) • Mikveh is a chiyuv for men. Hashem, then continue for each word in • It is a long-standing minhag (especially In Yizkor, the souls of the departed are each respective direction. among Chasidim) for women and girls remembered in prayer to G-d and in monetary Ana waving: two directions for each under Bas Mitzvah, to go to the mikveh • pledges to charity. It is founded upon the word. Do not wave the lulav when erev Y”K (girls over Bas Mitzvah should principle that a mitzvah of the living affects reciting the word Hashem; e.g., right and not go to the mikveh until after they are the souls of the deceased when performed in left while saying Ana, then stand still for married). This immersion is for spiritual their memory. Lev Echad Supplement Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur/Sukkos/Simchas Torah

The (Sifri: Shoftim) states that Shemen Lamaor Co 4) The one holding the bread and food even departed souls require redemption. Shabbos B’reishis raises them at least a handbreadth and then Redemption is brought about by means of P’sicha for the whole year hands them back to the one making the eruv. charity as in the verse (Isaiah 1:27) “Zion Keser for the whole year 5) The one making the eruv recites the shall be redeemed with judgment, and those Hagba/G’lilah for the whole year following blessing (in Hebrew if possible): who return to her with .” Anim Z’miros for the whole year “Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of In temple times, the souls of the righteous the Universe, who has sanctified us with His that were gathered in the spiritual Temple in commandments, and commanded us heaven (which is not bound by material regarding the Mitzvah of Eruv.” confines) would descend to the earthly (from http://www.torahtots.com) He then recites the following declaration: Temple, blessing it with infinite properties. In preparation for Rosh Hashana and Yom “Through this it shall be permissible for us Nowadays, when we no longer have a Kippur, we recite special Selichot prayers. to bake, to cook, to put away [a dish to physical Temple to visit, we remember souls Selichot means forgivness. The Selichot preserve in heat], to kindle a light, and to of the departed so that their merit should bless prayers emphasize and arouse G-d’s trait of prepare and do so on the Festival all that is us too and stand us in good stead (Ta’amei mercy, benevolence and forgivness. At the necessary for ; for us and for all Haminhagim p. 245). same time, the prayers encourage us to reflect Israelites who dwell in the city.”  on our deeds and resolve to improve them. If you would like to recite this blessing in When you give charity on behalf of your The Sephardic custom is to say Selichot Hebrew, it is printed in the . The loved ones, consider giving to Tiferes Yisroel. throughout the entire month of until Yom original language of the second paragraph is And may the souls of your loved ones be Kippur, to commemorate the 40 days that actually not Hebrew, but Aramaic. bound in the bond of life, together with the Moshe spent on Har (Mount) Sinai to receive souls of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov; the second Luchot (Tablets of the Law). What is Kaparot? , Rivka, and ; and together Ashkenazic communities begin reciting by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg with the other righteous men and women in Selichot before Rosh Hashana. According to (from askmoses.com) Gan Eden. Rabbi Eliezer (Talmud, Tractate Rosh Hashana 8a), Adam and Eve were created on It is customary to perform the rite of Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund Friday, the sixth day of Creation, which was kaparot (symbolic “atonement”) on the day Rosh Hashana. That means that Creation preceding Yom Kippur. Preferably, kaparot It is time for our Yomim Noraim appeal for began on Sunday, the 25th day of Elul. should be done in the early pre-dawn hours of the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund. The Rabbi Therefore, the of Barcelona adopted the the day before Yom Kippur. (If it is not will be distributing funds to people in the custom of beginning the recitation of Selichot possible to do so then, the rite may be community who need help to make Yom Tov. on that day. performed earlier). Please give checks for the Rabbi’s The also wanted to allow at least The custom of kaparot is an ancient one, Discretionary Fund to Rabbi Goldberger or four days of Selichot before Rosh Hashana, and was established as a reminder of the goat our Gabbai Tzedaka Nathan Franco. You can alluding to the four days that an animal must that the High Priest recited over on also give online at www.tiferesyisroel. be checked for blemishes before it is used as behalf of the Jewish People. That goat was an offering. The concept is that we should sent to Azazel. However, in order to ensure Honors Being Auctioned Off analyze ourselves before we “present” that the practice does not resemble a sacrifice SHMINI ATZERES NIGHT ourselves before Hashem on Rosh Hashana. in any way (since sacrifices are forbidden Consequently, when Rosh Hashana falls on a outside of the Holy Temple), a chicken is used Atah Hor’eisa Monday or Tuesday, the recital of Selichot — since chickens were not offered on the SIMCHAS TORAH NIGHT must begin sooner — and it is moved up a altar. week, to the previous Motzei Shabbat. The rite consists of taking a chicken — a Atah Hor’eisa According to Ashkenazic custom, this year, male takes a rooster and a female takes a hen (2013), Selichot will begin September 1, — and waving it over one’s head three times Levi Motzei Shabbat at midnight. while the appropriate text (found in the Siddur Yisroel or Machzor) is recited. The fowl is then R’vi’I The Eruv Tavshilin Procedure slaughtered in accordance with Halachic Chamishi procedure. The monetary worth of the kaparot Hagba/G’lilah by Rabbi Yosef Resnick is given to the poor, or as is more popular Sponsor Daytime Kiddush (from askmoses.com) today, the chicken itself is donated to a charitable cause. SIMCHAS TORAH DAY 1) On the afternoon before the holiday commences, take some bread prepared for If a chicken is unavailable, one may Atah Hor’eisa Shabbat (traditionally a Challah loaf is used), substitute other fowl or animals; many people Kohen plus a cooked food that is considered an use a Kosher live fish. Some give the actual Levi “important” food, such as fish, meat or a hard fowl to the poor. Others perform the entire rite Yisroel boiled egg. with money, reciting the prescribed verses and R’vi’I 2) Hand the bread and cooked food to giving the money to charity. There is no Chamishi another person. Preferably, this second person prescribed dollar amount; the donation should Kol HaNa’arim (with the kiddies) should not be one’s wife. be according to one’s financial abilities. Chasan Torah 3) The one making the eruv (the one who Though the word kaparot means “atone- Chasan B’reishis handed the food over) says the following: ment,” one should not think that kaparot itself “I hereby grant a share in this eruv to serves as a source of atonement. Rather, we Hagba/G’lilah (3 sets) anyone who wishes to participate in it and ask G-d that if we were destined to be the Musaf depend on it.” recipients of harsh decrees in the new year,

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that they be transferred to this chicken in the cardinal sin of idolatry. spent two Rosh Hashanah: The highlight of the Rosh merit of this charity. Furthermore (many find forty-day stints on top of the mountain Hashanah service is the blowing of the the rite of kaparot very disturbing, and that is pleading with G-d for forgiveness, and on the Shofar. Traditionally, the procedure of blow- exactly the point), the mortality of the chicken tenth of Tishrei it was finally granted. From ing the shofar consists of 100 blasts: Tekia 60, should remind us of our own mortality and in- that moment on, this Day of Atonement is Shevarim 20, and Treuah 20. These sounds spire us to correct our past and value our observed annually as a commemoration of our are alluded to in the word used to describe the future. [Even children, who are devoid of sin, special relationship with G-d, a relationship branches that cover the Sukkah: sechach, do kaparot, since they, too, are sometimes the which is strong enough to survive any rocky spelled samech (numerically equivalent to recipients of harsh heavenly decrees.] bumps it might encounter. This is a day when 60), chaf (20), chaf (20). On September 13, you can shlag kaporos we connect with the very essence of our Yom Kippur: The primary service of Yom with live chickens at Yaakov, 3200 Glen being, which remains faithful to G-d Kippur in the (and the Holy Tem- Avenue, from 7:30 to 11:30 am. regardless of our outward behavior. ple) was the incense offering, which produced Yom Kippur is the only day of the year a cloud of smoke known as the “cloud of Spiritual Throw-aways which boasts five mandatory prayers. incense” which was the source for the “clouds According to , the Jewish soul of glory” that surrounded and protected the by Baruch Emanuel Erdstein possesses five components. The day reaches Jews in the desert. These clouds are commem- (from www.kabbalaonline.org) its apex during the fifth prayer, the ne’ilah, orated by the sukkah, which surrounds us. In the traditional Tashlich ceremony, on the when we access our yechidah, the highest afternoon of Rosh Hashanah (except when it level — indeed the very core — of our souls. An All-Encompassing Mitzvah is Shabbat), we go to a body of living water Yom Kippur is also a day of joy. We’re by Shaul Yosef Leiter and beseech G-d to forgive us for our confident of G-d’s forgiveness, and for that, (from www.kabbalaonline.org) transgressions. The prayers that we recite we couldn’t be happier there (printed in nearly every siddur) are B. “Yom Kippur” means “Day of Atone- Why is the holiday called “”? It could based on a verse from Prophets: “He will ment.” It is the holiest Torah-mandated holi- just as easily been named “Lulav,” right? again have compassion upon us; He will day: “The tenth of this seventh month shall be On Sukkot we have two specific, different suppress our iniquities. And Thou will cast all the Day of Atonement for you” (Leviticus commandments: 1) dwelling in a sukkah their sins in the depths of the sea.” (Micah 23:27). Yom Kippur is observed by abstaining (hut), and 2) taking the Four Kinds (palm 7:19) The concept of sin is one that manifests from work, and by “afflicting” oneself. frond — lulav, citron — , myrtle branch itself in the spiritual reality; the “sea” referred C. On Rosh Hashanah, the Book of Life is — hadas and willow branch — ). Nev- to in the verse above hardly refers to waters of inscribed. On Yom Kippur, it is sealed. The ertheless, the holiday is named Sukkot, and the physical world. How can we literally cast day of Yom Kippur is Day Ten of the Ten not “the holiday of the Four Kinds” or some a spiritual quality into a material entity? Days of Repentance, the climax of ten straight other general name. We fulfill the command- When “the sea,” or any water, is considered days of introspection and self-growth. On ment of sukkah with our entire body. metaphorically to exemplify the power to Yom Kippur, we complete the Teshuvah steps The reason is the special characteristics of nullify beyond retrieval, as well as purify, we we began in the Hebrew month of Elul — we the sukkah that the mitzvah of the Four Kinds can understand the Tashlich ceremony to be a express regret for last year’s misdeeds, and does not have. sort of meditative aid in our process of express resolution to be better this year. Yom First: The mitzvah of sukkah begins as genuine repentance. We wish to truly leave Kippur thus comes on the heels of Rosh soon as the holiday begins, whereas we behind all of our past transgressions and Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; we want to perform the mitzvah of the Four Kinds only personal faults, emerging cleansed in a state start the year with a clean slate. the following morning. (In a year when the of renewal — and Tashlich is a dramatic way D. Though Yom Kippur is a somber day, it holiday of Sukkot begins on Shabbat, we must of emphasizing such aspirations. is actually also a day of joy. Imagine you wait for this mitzvah until Sunday morning, as In addition, every action which we perform wrecked your boss’ car while running an we are forbidden to perform it on Shabbat.) in this physical world has a spiritual errand. He calls you into his office. Now, he’s Second: The sukkah itself must be built counterpart in the Higher Worlds. By a nice guy and his personality track record is before the holiday begins, while the Four performing certain actions with the proper impeccable. You’re scared as you go in, but Kinds can be tied together on the holiday concentration, we actually do affect the you’re confident that he’ll forgive you, as he’s itself. higher, spiritual reality; this is one of the basic always done. That’s the Yom Kippur attitude. Third: Each time we eat in the sukkah, we reasons in Jewish mystical tradition for the We stand in awe of G-d’s judgment, but we’re make the blessing, “Who has sanctified us performance of all mitzvot. This Rosh confident all the same: another year! Another with His commandments, and commanded us Hashanah, may we merit to approach the life- chance! We’re confident of G-d’s forgiveness, to sit in the sukkah.” If we leave the sukkah giving source of all divine beneficence, our and for that, we couldn’t be happier. for anything other than a short time, and we spiritual “stains” washed away. want to eat there, we are obligated to make What’s the connection between the blessing again. So we can fulfill the What is Yom Kippur? the High Holidays and Sukkot? commandment of sitting in the sukkah many times a day. By contrast, having performed by Rabbi Mendy Hecht by Rabbi Yossi Marcus the mitzvah of the Four Kinds once, we (from askmoses.com) (from askmoses.com) cannot do so again until the next day. A. Yom Kippur commemorates the day Everything that is experienced on Rosh Last, we fulfill the commandment of when G-d forgave the Jewish people for the Hashanah and Yom Kippur through tears is sukkah by our entire body being located in the sin of the Golden Calf. Forty days after experienced during Sukkot through joy. sukkah, as opposed to the Four Kinds, which hearing from G-d at Mount Sinai, “You shall Sukkot is the culmination of Rosh Hashanah we hold only with our hands. From the not have the gods of others in My presence; and Yom Kippur. The observances of Sukkot, commandment of sukkah we learn that you shall not make for yourself a graven therefore, mirror the main themes of the Days everything a Jewish person does must be image,” Jews transgressed and committed the of Awe: connected to G-d.

Chag Someyach and Shabbat Shalom!