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The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN MARCH 23, 2019 • 16 A DAR II 5779 • P ARSHAT TZAV SHABBAT SCHEDULE COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS EREV SHABBAT MAZAL TOV 6:51PM Candle-lighting Charlie Lederer & Lauren Newcorn on their 6:55PM Minchah engagement 6:55PM YL Minchah & Kabbalat Shabbat (5th floor) Caleb Koffler & Margalit Cirlin on their 8:00PM 30’s & 40’s Spring Kickoff Shabbat Dinner (pre-registration required) engagement SHABBAT CONDOLENCES 7:45AM Hashkama To the family of long time Jewish Center member 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Morning Midrash with Rabbi Noach Harold Turobiner on his passing Goldstein 9:00AM Shacharit THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Contemporary Penina Blazer and Emilio Krausz Perspective on Birchat Hagomel 9:30AM Young Leadership (1st floor) 9:30AM Teen Minyan Thank you to our CSS members whose efforts help 10:00AM Youth Groups maintain a safe shul for our community. 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) 6:00PM Muktzah 101 with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind 6:00PM Daf Yomi Teen Minyan P4 TM #1 Edition 6:45PM Minchah This Shabbat Morning at 9:30AM (4th Floor) Seudah Shlishit with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, Pesach Year-Round? The Permanent Ban on Chametz in the Mishkan Snap out of that Post-Purim food coma/candy hangover at 7:52PM Shabbat Concludes the sure-to-be-delicious and most-certainly-nutritious (for your soul, not your arteries, sorry) Teen Minyan at the usual time and place! It's looking like a dairy kiddush is once again in THANK YOU TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: the forecast, and as we all know, three is a Chazaka so Hashkamah Kiddush: there's no turning back now! History as Vivian & Daniel Chill, in commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Daniel's we know it will never be the same! Let's mother, Libbie Chill, Chavivah bat Avraham Moshe HaCohen Freilichin' Gooooooo!!!! (extra points to those who can figure out what the Young Leadership Kiddush: acronym above stands for). Joey & Tracey Goldstein, in Honor of Jonathan Goldstein, Gabbai Sheini MEZUZAH MANIA SUNDAY, MARCH 31 Teen Minyan Kiddush: 8:30AM Family Davening Randie Cohen & Phillip Levy, in honor of Etan's Sweet Sixteen and 9:30AM Breakfast third anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah 10am-12noon Learning Program Rachel & David Vorchheimer, in honor of their children. (Please register on the JC website) JEWISH CENTER CLOTHING DRIVE April 7th 10:00AM-1:00PM At The Jewish Center DAILY SERVICE TIMES To volunteer for a shift please visit jewishcenter.org Sunday March 24 Mon. March 25– Thurs. Friday March 29 7:45AM Daf Yomi March 28 7/8AM Shacharit SAVE THE DATE 8:30AM Shacharit 7/8AM Shacharit 7:45AM Daf Yomi JEWISH CENTER ANNUAL DINNER 7:00PM Minchah 7:45AM Daf Yomi 6:58PM Candle-lighting June 3rd, 2019 7:00PM Minchah 7:05PM Minchah Honoring Cantor Chaim Dovid & Batya Berson WOMEN’S TEHILLIM GROUP: Monday, March 24th, 2019 at 7:15PM Rabbi Dovid & Ariella Zirkind Contact Joyce Weitz for more info. at 212-877-1176 The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 Masbia Chesed Event! Thank you to all who came out last Sunday for the 2nd annual Jewish Center Masbia chesed event. Over 230 volunteers washed, peeled and chopped fruits and vegetables which Masbia will use to prepare a week's worth of meals for those in need. Together as a community we prepped 2,000 pounds of food and raised over $3,000 dollars in support of Masbia. Check out our feature on NY1 on The Jewish Center facebook page. Masbia is a network of kosher soup kitchens in New York City. Its three locations in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Midwood, as well as the Queens neighborhood of Rego Park, serve over 500 free, hot kosher meals nightly. Masbia is the only free soup kitchen serving kosher meals in New York City. Mishloach Manot THANK YOU TO OUR MASBIA CHESED EVENT SPONSORS Packaging Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach Devorah Mansdorf Thank you to all those who helped Dahlia & Moshe Bellows Rebecca Neuhaus assemble and deliver Mishloach Manot Rachel Bemak Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer Julie Bernstein Shira Orenstein & Danny Kahn to over 45 members of our community! Marnie & Scott Black Yael Kahn & Tony Pinto It was great to see so many of our Julie Blaufarb & Adam Kinory Beth Portnoy youth and families coming together for Ilana Breslau Ilana & David Prager this wonderful chesed opportunity. Heather Conn & Chananya Rogalsky Reva Rapps Susan & Arthur Degen Marilyn Rothschild Sarah Newton & Andrew Finegold Sabrina Rosen & Guy Salomon Jeannie & Scott Fisher Renee & Avram Schreiber Jodi & Avi Friedman Shira Silton & David Wildman Julie Gans & Andrew Ackerman Grant Silverstein Keren Golan Leora Sperber Naomi Goldman Rona & Andrew Steinerman Pnina & Aaron Safier Carrie Stieglitz Becca & David Herman Rachel Stone & Rob Bernstein Mindy & Ami Horowitz Elyssa Tannenbaum Yehudis Isenberg Joseph & Lexie Tuchman Pamela Kaplan Adina & Phil Wagman Susan Kensky & Samuel Goldman Deborah Aschheim & Robert Weiss Yaron & Bosi Kinar Rayna Yedlin Hindy Kisch Emily & Elan Zanger Erica Levin RECLAIMING VALUABLE NYC REAL ESTATE Warmer temperatures outside tease upcoming changes in the air; flowers are blooming, kids are playing soccer & Pesach is looming. Spring cleaning is another annual ritual that helps us dust off the winter and anticipate the thaw. On April 7th The Jewish Center will be holding its annual clothing drive. In my work as image consultant, I’ve helped many people go through their closets and drawers to purge everything that is no longer relevant to their life. I’ll be sharing tips with you leading up to the clothing drive - and I am available for personal consultations if you need the extra help (email [email protected]) Now is the perfect time to clean out the extra clothes taking up valuable closet space and repurposing them to someone else who can really use them. NYC real estate is too valuable to waste ~ and the opportunity to do a big mitzvah too easy to pass up. JC AIPAC D ELEGATION 2019 March 24-26, 2019 in Washington, DC Moshe Bellows Steven Hirsch Chani Segall Dahlia Bellows Joan Kagan Shimon Shkury George Blank Ira Kellman Lisa Shrem Harriet Blank Rona Kellman Dana Siegal Jonathan Blank Susan Kensky Yossi Siegel Melissa Bohrer Jonah Kupietzky Lio Slama Rabbi Elie Buechler Fran Kupietzky David Spiro Lisa Buksbaum Hannah Levin Jackie Stein Jacob Buksbaum Isaac Lobel Brandon Taub Susan Canter Susan Lobel Nahum Twersky Michelle Chrein Lisa Low Sivya Twersky Brian Cohen Erica Markowitz Philip Wagman Arthur Degen Rachel Ringler Adina Wagman Susan Degen Jon Robeny Daniel Wagman Dana Fine Rabbi Pinny Sarah Wagman Adam Fine Rosenthal Zahava Wapner Shelly Freeman Blayne Ross Rabbi Dovid Zirkind Samuel Goldman Phyllis Roth Patricia Kaufmann Elaine Rubel Monday, March 11-Monday, April 15, 2019 Donate to City Harvest’s 2019 Passover Food Drive! Please drop off in the JC lobby. More then 500,000 Jewish New Yorkers live below or only slightly above the poverty line. Help City Harvest feed out neighbors in need during Passover. Save The Date! Celebrate 2nd Seder at The Jewish Center Motzei Shabbat April 20th, 8:30PM Rabbi Dovid and Ariella Zirkind invite the community to join them for a festive and collaborative 2nd Seder, hosted at The Jewish Center. Our seder is open to children and adults of all ages, with opportunities to share Divrei Torah and the songs of Pesach from your home with all of us. Details and registration will be available soon. This year's Seder is being catered by Menagerie of Englewood. To join our planning committee please contact Rabbi Zirkind. Soul and Sacrifice Yosie Levine Parshat Tzav 5779 Rabbi Ora Weinbach, Community Educator Dovid Zirkind Associate Rabbi For the past two weeks, our Torah portion has detailed How can we make sense of these contradictory the many laws and rules relating to cultic worship in messages? Even though there are voices in our Noach Goldstein the mishkan. It is for this reason that Sefer Vayikra is tradition which decry our tendency to neglect the Assistant Rabbi often referred to as Sefer Torat Kohanim, the Book of religious dimension of our charachter through our Chaim David Berson the Laws of the Priests. Considering this theme, the preoccupation with sacrifices, why would we give Cantor selection of this week’s haftorah seems quite space to that voice specifically this week, when the perplexing. Usually, haftorah readings complement major theme of our parsha is the importance of Ora Weinbach and develop themes within a parsha, yet the collection sacrifice!? Community Educator of verses we read from Jeremiah contain a harsh Eliezer Buechler tirade against sacrifices. There is even a verse which Perhaps we read this haftorah in conjunction with Sefer William Fischman states, “I did not command [your ancestors] when I took Torat Kohanim specifically because we need to see Rabbinic Intern them out of the Land of Egypt about the laws of these messages in conjunction with one another, not Aaron Strum offerings and sacrifices. Rather, this is the thing which I separated. We should be careful not to become so Executive Director commanded them, saying ‘listen to my voice and I will preoccupied with the external ritual actions that we be for you as God and you will be my nation…’”! This lose sight of the importance of a values-driven internal Batsheva Leibtag pasuk seems to contradict our parsha and almost life. But also we can recognize that the starting point Director of nullify the importance of sacrifices! of a conversation about values and spiritual devotion Programming and Communications to God is a scenario in which the ritual is also being A similar polemic against sacrifices appears in many completed.
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