Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades שבת פרשיות אחרי מות-קדשים Shabbat Parashiot Acharei Mot-K’doshim May 6, 2017 | Iyar 10, 5777 25th Day of the Omer ATZMAUT SHABBAT! TORAH STUDY

This Shabbat: Parashiot Acharei Mot-K’doshim Next Shabbat: Parashat Emor Sh’mot 16.1-20.27, pages 679-704 Sh’mot 21.1-24.23, pages 717-733 FIRST ALIYAH: Verse 16.2 says, “Speak to Aharon, your FIRST ALIYAH: “Ba-al b’amav” is translated in verse 21.4 as brother,” rather than the normal “speak to Aharon.” Why, “a kinsman by marriage.” In the Old JPS version, it is translated suddenly, is the fact that he is Moshe’s brother emphasized? as “being a chief among his people.” Which is correct, and does it matter? FIFTH ALIYAH: We are told how to deal with the blind and the deaf, not to muzzle strong animals with weak ones, not to FOURTH ALIYAH: The list on the sacred days begins at verse mix different seeds or cloth. What’s the common theme that 23.4 with Pesach. Why not begin with Rosh Hashanah (and why runs through all the laws in Vayikra 19? is Rosh Hashanah on the first day of the seventh month)? The haftarah, Y’chezkel 22.1-16, begins on Page 710. The haftarah, Y’chezkel 44.15-31, begins on Page 734.

For haftarot, we follow S’fardi custom. YOU SHALL BE HOLY Chapter 19 may be characterized as a brief torah (the word actually means instruction). It states the duties incumbent on the Israelites as a people and includes a wide range of laws and commandments that are representative of the basic teachings of the Torah. More specifically, it echoes the Aseret Hadibrot (the Ten Declarations, commonly referred to as the Ten Commandment). These features were noted by the ancient sages. In Vayikra Rabbah 24, we read as follows: “Speak to the entire Israelite people and say to them: ‘You shall be holy….’ Rabbi Chiya taught: These words inform us that this section is to be read before the people in an assembly. And why is it to be read before the people in an assembly? Because most of the essential laws of the Torah can be derived from it. Rabbi Levi said: Because the Aseret Hadibrot are embodied in it.” The midrash then proceeds to list a series of parallels between chapter 19 and the Aseret Hadibrot. Some of the parallels require homiletical license, but even according to the strictest exegesis the following can be established: Vayikra 19 The Aseret Hadibrot Reverence for parents (v. 3a) Honoring parents (no. 5) The Sabbath (v. 3b) The Sabbath (no. 4) Idolatry (v. 4) Idolatry; worship of other Gods (no. 2) Stealing and deceitful conduct Stealing (no. 8) (vv. 11a,13,15,35) False oaths (v. 12) False oaths (no. 3) “I am Adonai your God who freed you from...Egypt” (v. 36) “I am Adonai who brought you out...” (no. 1) —Adapted from the JPS Torah Commentary to Leviticus

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1. Men must keep their heads covered in the building and must 6. The use of recording equipment of any kind is forbidden on wear a talit when appropriate. Women may choose to do either sacred days. or both, but it is not mandatory. 7. Also forbidden are cell phones, beepers and PDAs, except 2. Anyone accepting a Torah-related honor must wear a talit, for physicians on call and emergency aid workers (please use regardless of gender. vibrating option). 3. Only one person at a time may take an aliyah. 8. No smoking at any time in the building, or on synagogue 4. No one should enter or leave the sanctuary during a K’dushah. grounds on Shabbatot and Yom Kippur. One should not leave the sanctuary when the Torah scroll is being 9. No non-kosher food allowed in the building at any time. carried from or to the ark. 10. No one may remove food or utensils from the shul on 5. No conversations may be held in the hallway outside the Shabbatot. An exception is made for food being brought to sanctuary, or while standing in an aisle alongside a pew. someone who is ailing and/or homebound. THE IMAHOT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Following is the text adopted by the Ritual Committee Yesterday Ora Kiel, Petra Luchs for use by the Prayer Leader in reciting the Amidah, and Monday David Belson those wishing to insert the Matriarchs in their Amidot: Wednesday Michael Newman L~xGr OC(S t ])2 x Cz y H(SL~x])DvCL~xGr OCx t H(SL~xGr OCL{ t SrFCG v <| { C.([{$ Did we miss a birthday, anniversary, or other simchah? OxJ{[DrZvU |L  LGr ~ x O CHG{ x ZzDy[¹HZJ { zY yL  LGr ~ x OCG t [{ {8¹HPGz{ { [zD|C Let us know. We can’t print what we don’t know. OxQ)%R)LzOwUOCC x [)3 { Gz | H[)$y%|GO)F{%|GOC{ x GGCx { OzH CLDx y Q(])D{CLFz xT|J[xN)IHOr0 z G |  G xS ) ZHPL z D)KPL y F{ yTvJ G{DvG|Cz$)Q:R| z U|Q zO  PwG x L xSD z  L xSD z yO  OC)% x This week’s Shabbat Booklet 5HFLWHWKLVRQO\EHWZHHQ5RVK+DVKDQDKDQG

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OFFICE HOURS: TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Other times by appointment Provisional Government of Israel Official Gazette: Number 1 Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948 The Declaration of the Establishment of The State of Israel The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom. Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re- establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, defiant returnees, and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country’s inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood. In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country. This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home. The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe—was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the community of nations. Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland. In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations. On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable. This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State. Accordingly we, members of the People’s Council, representatives of the Jewish Community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. We declare that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People’s Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People’s Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called “Israel.” The State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The State of Israel is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947, and will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel. We appeal to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the community of nations. We appeal—in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months—to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. We extend our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. We appeal to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream—the redemption of Israel. Placing our trust in the Almighty, we affix our signatures to this proclamation at this session of the provisional Council of State, on the soil of the Homeland, in the city of Tel-Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the 5th day of Iyar, 5708 (14th May, 1948). David Ben-Gurion Daniel Auster; Mordekhai Bentov; Yitzchak Ben Zvi; Eliyahu Berligne; Fritz Bernstein; Rabbi Wolf Gold; Meir Grabovsky; Yitzchak Gruenbaum; Dr. Abraham Granovsky; Eliyahu Dobkin; Meir Wilner-Kovner; Zerach Wahrhaftig; Herzl Vardi; Rachel Cohen; Rabbi Kalman Kahana; Saadia Kobashi; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin; Meir David Loewenstein; Zvi Luria; Golda Myerson; Nachum Nir Zvi Segal; Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman; David Zvi Pinkas; Aharon Zisling; Moshe Kolodny; Eliezer Kaplan; Abraham Katznelson; Felix Rosenblueth; David Remez; Berl Repetur; Mordekhai Shattner; Ben Zion Sternberg; Bekhor Shitreet; Moshe Shapira; Moshe Shertok מי שברך | May He who blessed May He who blessed our ancestors bless and heal all those whose names are listed here, those whose names will be called out, and those whose names we do not know because either we are unaware of their illness or they are. אמן .We pray He mercifully quickly restore them to health and vigor. May He grant physical and spiritual well-being to all who are ill

Sydelle Klein Rita bat Flora Aharon Hakohen ben Oodel Bonnie Pritzker Appelbaum Rifkah bat Chanah Avraham Shmarya ben Gittel Deenah bat Sarah Leah Sarah bat Malka Avraham Yitzhak ben Masha Rut bat Esther Sarah Rifka bat Sarah Chaim ben Golda Miriam Zelda bat Gittel D’vorah Shimona bat Flora Ezra ben Luli Miriam Chanah Sarah bat Liba Sura Osnat bat Alta Chayah Gil Nechemiah ben Yisraela Miriam Rachel bat Chanah Tzipporah bat Yaffa Moshe ben Shimon Harav Mordechai Volff ben Liba Miryam Yospeh Perel bat Michlah Naftali ben Rachel Adina bat Freidel Michelle Blatteis Harav R’fael Eliyahu ben Esther Malkah Baila bat D’vorah Diane Fowler Harav Shimon Shlomo ben Taube v’Avraham Chavah bat Sarah Fay Johnson Yehudah ben Leah Chayah bat Flora Katie Kim Yisrael Yitzhak ben Shayndel Esther bat D’vorah Elaine Laikin Yitzchak ben Tzivia HaRav Ilana Chaya bat Rachel Esther Mira Levy Yonatan ben Malka Liba Ruchel bat Michlah Robin Levy Zelig Herschel ben Kreintzeh Masha bat Etl Karen Lipsy Harry Ikenson Masha bat Rochel Kathleen McCarty Shannon Johnson Matel bat Frimah Gail Schenker Itzik Khmishman Mindel bat D’vorah Norma Sugerman Gabriel Neri Pinyuh bat Surah Mary Thompson We pray for their safe return... May He who blessed our ancestors bless, preserve, and protect the captive and missing soldiers of Tzahal—Ron Arad, Zecharia Baumel, Guy Chever, Zvi Feldman, Yekutiel Katz, and Zeev Rotshik—as well as those U.S. and allied soldiers, and the civilians working with them and around them, still missing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and all other areas of conflict, past and present. And may He bless the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces and Tzahal, and those who serve the United States and Israel in foreign lands in whatever capacity, official or unofficial, members of our community or related to members, and their colleagues and companions. אמן .Guide them in peace and return them speedily to their families alive and unharmed

OUR VIRTUAL MEMORIAL BOARD IS IN PLACE. CALL THE OFFICE TO ADD THE NAMES OF YOUR LOVED ONES TO OUR MEMORIAL BOARD. yahrzeits for today through next FRIDAY Rebecca Kaplan May their memories be for a blessing! Kaddish list Fred B. Katz — זכרונם לברכה Regina Blank Haviva Khedouri Selim Chamuel Peter Koenig 6 Frieda Zelmanowitz, mother of Gloria Laermer Yaakov Chamuel Alvin Krooks Hyman Tunick* Samuel Deutsch Leon Levy Lenore Dreyfuss Kurt Stern* Alan Linick Dr. Jerry Finklestein Harold Rappoport Joseph M. Goldstein* Blanche Friedman Deborah Frankel Reese Herman Weissbard* Honora Gershman Carl Rose Lawrence Glazer 7 Ruth Hoffman* David Shandalow Moshe Glickman Paul Singman David Tischler* Clairice Estelle Greenberg Isabelle Sokoloff Lev Bronstein Frieda Gutfriend Ed Soleimani Jeanette Shandolow Herman Harry Safro* Alan Silverstein Cara Horowitz Frieda Suhotliv 8 Isidor Kaiser* Sarah Rubenstein* Frances Levine* Are we in your will? 9 Jacob Feit* Shouldn’t we be? 10 Robert Silver* When people prepare their wills, they usually Molly Birnbaum*, friend of Errol Kaget look to leave a mark beyond the confines of their 11 Sol Savitt, father of Cantor Peter Savitt families. Thus it is that general gifts are left to hospitals, and other charitable organizations. Samuel Brooks* All too often ignored, however, is the Joseph Blacker* synagogue, even though its role in a person's life Maurice Ludmer* often begins at birth, and continues even beyond Pauline Nevins* death. We come here on Yom Kippur and other days, after all, to say Yizkor, the memorial prayer 12 Irving Kamil, husband of Selma Kamil; brother of Phil Kamil remembering our loved ones. Jacob Baer* Our Virtual Memorial Plaques remind everyone Hattie Liebowitz* of who our loved ones were, and why we recall * There is a plaque in this person’s name on our memorial board. them. All of us join in saying the Kaddish on their yahrzeits. Considering this, it is so unfortunate that, in our Is there a yahrzeit final act, we ignore the one institution in Jewish we should know about? life that is so much a part of us. If it’s not listed, let us know. The synagogue is here for us because those who came before us understood its importance and prepared for its preservation. By remembering it Form of bequest to CBIOTP in our wills, we will do our part to assure that the The following form is suggested synagogue will be there for future generations, as for guidance in preparing a bequest: well. Think about it. We have always been here for I, the undersigned, give and bequeath to Congregation Beth Israel of anyone who needed us in the past. Do not those the Palisades, or its successor, the sum of $______for its who need us in the future have the same right to educational and religious work. our help? Signed: Date: Of course they do. Do not delay! Act today! Witness 1: Witness 2: Help secure the future of your communal home. Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades ק״ק בית ישראל של הפליסד 207 Edgewater Road, Cliffside Park, NJ 07010-2201

Shammai Engelmayer, Rabbi [email protected] 207 Edgewater Road Jerry Blum, Chazzan [email protected] Cliffside Park, NJ 07010-2201 Nadia Massuda, Co-President [email protected] Craig H. Bassett, Co-President [email protected] Office: 201-945-7310; Judy Golub, Vice-President [email protected] Fax: 201-945-0863 Errol Kaget, Secretary [email protected] websiteL www.cbiotp.org Al Glick, Co-Treasurer [email protected] Garrison D. Miller, Co-Treasurer [email protected] general e-mail: [email protected]

May 15, 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto is destroyed. The following day, it is symbolically razed.

May 15, 1948: The State of Israel is born. עם ישראל חי! עוד אבינו חי!

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Shabbat ends tonight with havdalah at 8:43 p.m. DST