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Bayit Bulletin 10122011 ה י ב ר ו א י נ ס ט י ט ו ת ד ׳ ר י ב ר ד ל ~ Hebrew Institute of Riverdale THE BAYIT BULLETIN October 15 & 22, 2011 17 & 24 Tishrei 5772 Hebrew Institute of Riverdale SUKKOT SAFETY AND SANCTITY 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway Our Bayit Sukkah on the Terrace is open to all. For personal meals when events are Bronx, NY 10463 happening in the Terrace Sukkah, please use the driveway sukkah, and the Terrace www.hir.org Sukkah if room is needed. Please keep an eye on children. Please access the Terrace Sukkah at night through the building to avoid overlooking the mikvah. Chag Sameach! E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 718-796-4730 Sukkot and Shabbat Chol Hamoed @ The Bayit Fax: 718-884-3206 Thursday, October 13th Rav Avi Weiss: [email protected] GUEST DRASHA with Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivat Maharat - "A Rabbinic History of the Etrog" Rabba Sara Hurwitz: [email protected] Rav Steven Exler: [email protected] BETWEEN MINCHA AND MAARIV - SHIUR with Professor Zvi Zohar, Professor of Sephardic Law and Ethics at Bar-Ilan U. - “Our Attitude(s) Towards Kiddush the "Seventy Nations": A Spectrum of Views from Sephardic Rabbis in Recent Centuries” Sukkot Day 1 & Day 2 Kiddushes are Friday, October 14th sponsored by The Bayit. GUEST DRASHA with Rabbi Aaron Frank, Principal, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot Kiddush is High School - "The Drive By: Sukkot Lessons for the Road" sponsored by Gillian Steinberg & Mark WELCOME NYC COMPTROLLER JOHN C. LIU - he will join us at the end of tefillah Davis in honor of their tenth wedding Friday night to meet you and share a few words. anniversary. Shabbat, October 15th To sponsor a Kiddush, please contact KOHELET READINGS: 1) AFTER MUSSAF: Men and women readers. 2) BETWEEN Arielle Berger - [email protected]. MINCHA AND MAARIV: In the sukkah with interspersed divrei Torah and light snacks. This Week Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot Chol Hamoed Sukkot @ The Bayit Tuesday, October 18th • Candle Lighting: 5:59pm FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SIMCHAT BEIT HASHOEVAH 6:00 - 8:30PM: • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:00pm Dairy dinner, with LIVE musical entertainment, and a craft with our Special Friends. $10/adult, • Tefillat Shalom Bayit: 6:50am (LL BM) $5/child, $25/family maximum. RSVP to Menachem at [email protected]. Mincha at 5:30. • Shacharit - Main Tefillah 8:30am • Sephardic Tefillah: 8:30am (2nd FL BM) RETIRED ADULTS AND SAR 8TH GRADE LUNCH & LEARN SUKKAH PARTY: Join us in the Main Sanctuary at 1:30pm for learning followed by food and dancing in the sukkah. • Sof Zman Kriat Shma: 9:54am RSVP to Judy 718-796-4730 x111. • Mincha: 5:35pm • Shabbat Ends: 7:01pm Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah/Shabbat Bereishit @ The Bayit Thursday, October 20th ISRAELI SIMCHAT TORAH - Tefillot and Hakafot in Lower Level Beit Midrash Wed. night Sukkot Davening Schedule 6:30pm, and Thu. morning 9:00am. All are welcome! See page 2 for full Sukkot, Chol BEFORE MINCHA - SHIUR with Daniel Eisenberg - "Shemini Atzeret Or Simchat Torah: the Hamoed, Shemini Atzeret and Rabbinical Struggle Answered in the Haftarot". Main Sanctuary at 4:45pm. Simchat Torah davening times. MAZAL TOV TO Chatan Torah David Jasper Brody, Chatan Bereishit Rob Ryman, and Kallot Torah Michelle Jasper Brody and Lamelle Ryman! Next Week Shabbat, October 22nd Shabbat Bereishit SHABBAT MEVARCHIM TEFILLAH - Please join as we begin the new season. • Candle Lighting: 5:49pm 9:00am. Help ensuring a minyan will be greatly appreciated. • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 5:50pm OCTOBER BIRTHDAY KIDDUSH: Honor a birthday by making a donation towards • Shacharit - Main Tefillah 8:30am the kiddush fund at http://tinyurl.com/HIRbirthday or email [email protected]. All donations $18 and over will be acknowledged in next week’s bulletin addendum. • Mincha: 5:35pm • Shabbat Ends: 6:51pm Gathering of Thanks and Mayoral Celebration In honor of the joy she brings to the community, we are celebrating Neshama as "Mayor of the Bayit!" Join us in the Sukkah on Sunday Oct. 16, 9:30am-11:00am to celebrate Neshama Ryman's journey, and for expressions of Hoda'ah - thankfulness - from the Rymans for the support and love they received from the Bayit this year. We will dance and sing with Dafna Ko- tok of Shir Fun, Neshama Carlebach, and Dr. Elli Kranzler. Children will receive a small gift of gratitude. To help decorate for the event on Sat. night Oct. 15th at 8:00pm, please contact [email protected]. THE BAYIT BULLETIN Davening Schedule 5771-72/2011 Happenings @ the Bayit BIBLES AND BINS: Our Bayit has recently received both Braille and Large-Print Wednesday, October 12 Bibles. They will be available on the shelves in the vestibule before the Main Sanctuary, on the right side. Please avail yourself and let others who could Erev Sukkot* *Please remember to prepare an Eruv Tavshilin prior to the benefit know. We also now have three new plastic/glass/metal recycling Candle Lighting 6:03pm onset of the holiday to allow receptacles, located on various floors. Please use them for those materials and Mincha/Maariv 6:05pm one to cook on Yom Tov in those materials only, and help us tend to our earth and our Bayit. Kiddush in Sukkah after 7:06pm preparation for Shabbat and light ABRAHAM & SARAH’S TENT: The next Tent will take place on Friday night, Shabbat candles. The blessing Thursday, October 13 October 28th. To sponsor future tents contact James Lapin at can be found on pg. 654 in the [email protected]. Sukkot (Day 1) Artscroll siddur. Feel free to Tefillat Shalom Bayit 6:50am contact the rabbinic staff for WELCOMING TO OUR BAYIT: If you would like friends or family welcomed on Shacharit (Main Sanctuary and Beth further explanation. Shabbat morning, you can now enter their names in this link: http://tinyurl.com/bayit-shabbat-welcome. Please continue to make our Bayit Aharon) 8:30am welcoming by introducing yourself to at least one new person every Shabbat and Daf Yomi (I) 5:00pm by inviting new families to join you for a Shabbat meal. Not every "new" face is Mincha 5:35pm new to Riverdale, but if they are new to you, that’s what counts. Following Mincha: Shiur with Professor Zvi Zohar, “Our Attitude(s) Towards the "Seventy Nations": A Spectrum of Views OCTOBER 30 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FORUM from Sephardic Rabbis in Recent Centuries ” Spend Sunday morning learning how to protect our families from the Following Mincha: Daf Yomi (II) environmental and health hazards in our own homes. Maariv 6:35pm Presentation by Dr. Mana Mann, of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Department of Candle Lighting After 7:04pm Community Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Friday, October 14 Center. Following her presentation, Dr. Mann will join a panel of local environmental "experts" who will be Sukkot (Day 2) available to share their experience with safer practices Tefillat Shalom Bayit 6:50am and safer products in the home. 10:00am-12:00pm. Lower Level Beit Shacharit (Main Sanctuary and Beth Aharon) 8:30am Midrash. All are welcome. Daf Yomi 5:00pm Candle Lighting 5:59pm OCTOBER 30th BOB COHEN CONCERT Mincha/Abbreviated Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv 6:00pm An evening of original classical compositions by Shabbat, October 15 our own Bob Cohen performed by a talented Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot (Day 3) group of musicians. Doors open 7:30pm. Tefillat Shalom Bayit 6:50am Proceeds benefit the HIR Security project. Suggested donation $9 - 18. Shacharit (Main Sanctuary and Beth Aharon) 8:30am Kohelet (Men & Women) after Mussaf Mincha 5:35pm HIR Gift Card Program Following Mincha: Kohelet in the Sukkah Plan for your holiday shopping using gift cards! Cards available for Fairway, Skyview, Corner Cafe, Glatt Shop, Following Mincha: Daf Yomi Riverdale Kosher Market and many more. Email order to Maariv/Shabbat Ends 7:01pm [email protected]. To see listings, log on Sunday, October 16 - Tuesday, October 18 toshopwithscrip.com, create an account, use the HIR non-profit code 58L43DE621333, and shop! Buy it for the Chol Hamoed Sukkot (Days 4-6) Bayit!! For questions call Shira Gordon - 718-549-4280. Sunday Shacharit 8:30am Monday & Tuesday Shacharit 6:20am and 8:00am Sunday - Monday Mincha/Maariv 6:00pm Tuesday Mincha/Maariv 5:30pm Davening Schedule cont’d. Wednesday, October 19 Friday, October 21 Hoshannah Rabbah (Day 7)* Simchat Torah Shacharit First Minyan 6:00am Tefillat Shalom Bayit 6:50am Shacharit Second Minyan with Live Music 8:00am Shacharit (Main Sanctuary and Beth Aharon) Candle Lighting 5:52pm 8:30am Mincha/Maariv 5:55pm Candle Lighting 5:49pm Mincha/Abbreviated Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv 5:50pm Israeli Simchat Torah Maariv 6:30pm Thursday, October 20 Shabbat, October 22 Shmini Atzeret Tefillat Shalom Bayit 6:50am Tefillat Shalom Bayit 6:50am Shacharit (Main Sanctuary and Beth Aharon) 8:30am Shacharit (Main Sanctuary and Beth Aharon) 8:30am Shabbat Mevarchim Tefillah 9:00am Israeli Simchat Torah 9:00am (LLBM) Mincha 5:35pm Yizkor 10:30am (approx.) Following Mincha: Shiur with Rabba Sara Hurwitz: “Ambiguous Before Mincha Shiur 4:45pm with Daniel Eisenberg, "Shemini Atzeret Beginnings: Bereishit and the Myth of Lilith” Or Simchat Torah: the Rabbinical Struggle Answered in the Haftarot" Maariv/Shabbat Ends 6:51pm Mincha/Torah Trivia 5:30pm Maariv and Hakafot 6:15pm Candle Lighting After 6:53pm THE BAYIT BULLETIN Calling all Riverdale kids! The Bayit is the place to be! Be a part of it! Registration required - now open. Please use the following link to register: http://tinyurl.com/3gzfgu9 Teens: Stay tuned for details about the biggest banquet bash of the century ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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