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Atzmaut Shabbat! Torah Study 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 CBIOTP STANDARDS & PRACTICES 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. 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June 3 and 17 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.
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