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WELCOME TO ALL OF OUR MEMBERS & GUESTS

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זמני שבת | SHABBOS SCHEDULE ערב שבת | EREV SHABBOS

PARSHA & Turk Family Bais Medrash 4:30 PM SHABBOS PROGRAMS with Rabbi Korobkin CANDLE LIGHTING 4:41 PM High School Minyan West Wing Library 9:00 AM MINCHA/KABBALAS SHABBOS Main Shul 4:50 PM Middle School Minyan With Rabbi Mordechai Biegeleisen Jarvis Freedman Library 9:15 AM שבת | SHABBOS HASHKAMA MINYAN Turk Family Bais Medrash 7:30 AM Teen Minyan Moshe & Mania Gruda 9:00 AM Early Drop Off Nursery‐Grade 3 BAIS MEDRASH SHIUR Rebbetzin Judy Taub Hall Classroom 7 9:00‐9:45 AM with Rabbi Eisenberger 8:20 AM Parents & Tots Classroom 5 9:45 AM SHACHARIS Main Shul 8:45 AM Nursery Program Classroom 2 9:45 AM BAIS MEDRASH MINYAN Rebbetzin Judy Taub Hall 8:50 AM Kindergarten Classroom 3 9:45 AM MINCHAS CHINUCH SHIUR with Rabbi Scot Berman 9:30 AM Girls Grades 1‐3 Classroom 1 9:45 AM West Wing Classroom 1 Boys Grades 1‐3 Classroom 4 9:45 AM YOUNG ADULT & UNIVERSITY MINYAN Jr. Congregation with Rabbi Aaron Greenberg of JLIC West Wing Classrooms 2 & 3 10:00 AM Perlis Hall 9:15 AM Mom‐and‐Tots Classroom 5 10:30 AM NO FRILLS MINYAN Simcha Suite 9:15 AM Father and Son Learning Moshe & Mania Gruda 7:00 PM TA’AMEI HAMINHAGIM with Rabbi Neil Cohen AFTERNOON PROGRAMS (for Men) Dr. Stephen Speisman Board Room 3:35 PM with Shimon Weiss GIRLS CHUMASH SHIUR with Maytal Cuperfain שיעור בעברית “Three Major Lessons From Learning In Yeshiva ‐ Preparation For Chanukah” West Wing #3 3:35 PM Simcha Suite 3:35 PM MISHNAYOS FOR BOYS with Rabbi Korobkin MISHNAYOS (for Men) with Rabbi Eisenberger Turk Family Bais Medrash 3:50 PM BNEI AKIVA 4:35 PM West Wing Classroom 1 3:35 PM Moshe & Mania Gruda Bais Medrash DAF YOMI with Rabbi Torczyner 3:50 PM Third Floor Classrooms 1,3,4,5,7 Rabbi’s Classroom BNOS North Lobby 4:20 PM

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Mara D’Asrah Rabbi Daniel Korobkin Assistant Rabbi Rabbi Zev Spitz Rabbi Emeritus Rabbi Baruch Taub President Alan Steinfeld Executive Director Mordechai Bookbinder Youth Director Richard Winkler THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE & ANNOUNCEMENTS

MAZEL TOVS זמני השבוע | WEEKDAY SCHEDULE For Sunday January 11 ‐ Friday January 16 We extend a hearty Mazel Tov to:  Shaya & Robin Berglas and Ari & Shoshana Lerner on the engagement of Shmuli to Shira, and to grandparents Larry & Sheila Tover and Rabbi Ivan & Arleeta DAF YOMI Lerner and Morty & Carole Pancer and to great grandmother Dena Lerner Gerber SUNDAY with The Rav 7:15 & 8:45 AM  Rabbi Scot A. Berman & Esther Meiersdorf on the birth of a grandson, a son to MONDAY & THURSDAY Chana & Richard Robinson with The Rav 6:00 & 8:30 AM  David & Lea Blumenfeld on the birth of a grandson, Raphael Aryeh, a son to TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY Yehuda & Rachel Blumenfeld with The Rav 6:00 & 8:20 AM  Rabbi Neil Cohen and Al & Sandy Donner on the birth of a grandson, Eitan SUNDAY ‐ THURSDAY with Rabbi Chaim Gross 8:45 PM Chaim, a son to Josh & Shari Cohen  Tommy & Sharon Fixler on the birth of a son, Eitan Tzvi Isaac Fixler, a grandson to Larry & Grace Weltman and Gabor & Marta Fixler, a great grandson to Lily Weltman and Lea Ament SHACHARIS  Chaim & Shireen Flatt and Paul & Bonnie Rodak on the engagement of Emanuel MINYAN 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Reuven to Jillian Hayley, and to grandparents Golda Wachs, Judy Shear and Mel & Bonnie Shear SUNDAY 6:39 7:00 8:00 8:45 9:15  Erez Karp and Esther Friedberg‐Karp and Michael & Rachel Lazan on the MONDAY 6:38 6:45 6:50 7:30 8:30 engagement of Ariela Shoshana to Gavriel Yitzchak and to grandparents Rivka TUESDAY 6:38 6:45 7:00 7:30 8:30 Karp, Rabbi Dov Benjamin & Lola Friedberg and Nathaniel & Marion Lazan and Seymour & Martha Pomerantz WEDNESDAY 6:37 6:45 7:00 7:30 8:30  Michael & Moira Kirzner and Michael & Karen Setzer on the birth of a grandson, THURSDAY 6:37 6:45 6:50 7:30 8:30 a son to Raphael & Elyana Kirzner FRIDAY 6:36 6:45 7:00 7:30 8:30  Morrie & Carrie Klians and Robert & Cindy Remin on the birth of a granddaughter, Ella Tamar, a daughter to Jeffrey & Daniella Remin and a great granddaughter to Lil Klians and Albert & Genie Rosenfeld and Rusty Remin EARLIEST TALLIS/TEFILLIN TIMES  Mel & Karen Rom on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter Tova, and to January 11‐16 Sun 6:51 AM, Mon 6:50 AM, Tue 6:50 AM, grandparents Stanley & Cynthia Ringo and Max & Margareta Rom Wed 6:49 AM, Thurs 6:49 AM, Fri 6:48 AM  David & Shari Vodianoi and Heshi & Bayla Kuhnreich on the marriage of Naomi to Mordechai and to grandparents Bernice Biranbaum, Chana Kuhnreich and David & Goldy Richler MINCHA/MA’ARIV  Sandra Winiarz and Rabbi Tzvi & Hindi Eisen on the birth of a grandson, Chiya Kehos, a son to Abba Hillel & Bassheva Winiarz. EARLY MINCHA Sunday‐Thursday 2:00 PM MINCHA/MA’ARIV Sunday‐Thursday 4:50 PM SHALOSH SEUDOS MA’ARIV ONLY Sunday‐Thursday 7:15 PM & 9:45 PM This week’s Shalosh Seudos will be held in the Perlis Hall and is sponsored by:  Marty & Ester Collis on the yahrzeit of Shmuel ben Yehoshua Zecharia z”l, father of Ester, and on the yahrzeit of Yakov Tzvi ben Eliezer z”l, father of Marty EREV SHABBOS  Leon & Elaine Genesove on the shloshim of Leon’s mother, Celia Genesove, Slova Friday, January 16 bas Chaim

PARSHA & KUGEL 4:35 PM Dr. Leon Genesove will speak at Shalosh Seudos.

CANDLE LIGHTING 4:49 PM MINCHA/KABBALAS SHABBOS 4:55 PM WELCOME TO OUR SHUL  Professor James Diamond, Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, author of “Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Weekly Halachah Canon” R' Mordechai Torczyner – [email protected]  Dr. Albert Friedberg, author of “Crafting the 613 Commandments”

If a button falls from my shirt on Shabbos, is the button CONDOLENCES muktzeh? The Shul community extends sincere condolences to:  David Bernstein on the loss of his mother, Sarah Bernstein z”l Items that perform a function when Shabbos starts, like a button  Bryan Ceresne on the loss of his father, Sydney Ceresne z”l that is attached to a shirt, are not muktzeh. Even should they  Fred Winegust on the loss of his father, Jack Winegust z”l. cease to perform that function during Shabbos, they would not become muktzeh so long as they were intact. Therefore, a fallen PARSHAS QUESTIONS SHEMOS button is not muktzeh. However, it may not be re‐attached until BY: THE RAV after Shabbos. First Aliyah: (1:16) If Pharaoh wanted to curtail the Jewish population, why did he only order the male babies murdered? Note: Second Aliyah: (2:1) Why are Moshe’s parents not identified by name, rather just “a Some rule that a button loses its status if it is not functional right man from the house of Levi,” and “daughter of Levi”? now. It would be good to satisfy that opinion, where possible, and Third Aliyah: (2:15) Why was Moshe fearful for his life if Pharaoh was his treat a fallen button as muktzeh. step‐grandfather – couldn’t he have appealed to his mercy? If one were to decide not to re‐attach the button to the original Fourth Aliyah: (3:2) What is significant about the symbolism of a bush that burns but garment, then the button would lose its status as a functional is not consumed? implement, and it would be muktzeh. Fifth Aliyah: (3:17) Why did Hashem tell Moshe to tell the Jews that he’d take them A button that has never been attached to a garment is muktzeh. out of Egypt to go to Eretz Yisrael – why not tell them about the gift of the Torah first?

Sixth Aliyah: (4:24‐26) What’s the significance of the story of Moshe’s son being (Shabbos 122b, 124b; Mishneh Berurah 308:35; Az Nidbiru 7:46; circumcised by Tzippora on their way back to Egypt? Shemirat k'Hilchatah 15:72, 15:(222); Rivivos Ephraim Seventh Aliyah: Why did Hashem arrange that before the Plagues, Pharaoh would 1:223:7; Yalkut Yosef Orach Chaim 308:87) make life more difficult for the Jews by depriving them of straw? UPCOMING PROGRAMS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

SISTERHOOD Purim Mishloach Manos Early Bird Deadline is This Sunday January 11th Don’t miss out. Sign up at bayt.ca.

NEW…..Winter Weekly Schedule!! Mind, Body & Soul: Navigating Peri Menopause and st Menopause: Sunday February 1 7:00 PM in the RJT Hall MONDAYS Join BAYT Sisterhood and Nishmat for an informative HEY…What’s Cookin’ – Registration opens Sunday evening Register at http://mind‐body‐soul.eventbrite.ca or call 905‐764‐1075. See flyer for more details. Have fun while creating scrumptious recipes! Dance Party: with Keri Roth of NeshamaDANCE January 18th 8:00 PM, RJT Hall $10 for Sisterhood members, $12 “BDL” BAYTEEN – Dine ‘N’ Learn – FOR BOYS for non‐members

7:00 pm – 8:30 p m Open to ALL Teen Boys, no charge Yoga and Chair Yoga: new sessions have begun, Thursday mornings. Some spaces available Great Dinner, 20 minute (Guest speaker) shiur, 30 minute chavrusa Tabata Boot Camp: Monday evenings at 8:30 PM beginning January 12th. See TUESDAYS flyer for details.

ROBOTICS PROGRAM – Registration opens Sunday Shabbos Hospitality: Anyone wishing to be a host or to be hosted for a Shabbos meal, please contact [email protected] All ages invited nd Constantia Visits Join Karen Korobkin Monday mornings at 10:30 AM 8 week session – Starting January 22 7:00 PM ‐ 8:00 PM For any questions or registrations please contact BAT MITZVAH PROGRAM – currently in session [email protected]. Tuesdays until mid‐May Contact Heather: [email protected]

New BAR MITZVAH PROGRAM – currently in session YOUNG PROFESSIONALS KIDDUSH Classroom #7, 3rd floor, after the Rabbi speaks Select Tuesdays A contribution has been made to the Young Families Committee by Yael Contact Rabbi Javasky: [email protected] and Yoel Eis in memory of the Yahrzeits of their grandparents, Sam and

Sylvia Eis. WEDNESDAYS ZUMBATOMIC – Registration opens Sunday For more information, or to sponsor, please contact Yoel Eis at [email protected]. 6:00pm – 6:45pm ‐ Grade 4 – 6 Girls only Fun, High Energy Fitness Party!

FLOOR HOCKEY ‐ currently in session BAYT ADULT EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Grades 1‐4 play 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm or 6:45 pm – 7:30 pm th Grades 5‐9 play 7:30 pm – 8:15 pm or 8:15 pm – 9:00 pm Motzei Shabbos, January 10 at 8:00 PM Maimonides: Two Perspectives,

THURSDAYS with Rabbi Daniel Korobkin in conversation with Dr. Albert Dov Friedberg NEW!! “BDL” BAYTEEN – Dine ‘N’ Learn – FOR GIRLS ‐ Starts January 29th and Professor James A. Diamond 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Open to ALL Teen Girls, no charge Sunday, January 11th at 8:45 AM Medical Halachah: Treating Diabetes on Great Dinner, 20 minute (Guest speaker) shiur, 30 minute chavrusa Shabbos with Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner, Rosh Beit Midrash, YU Torah

FRIDAYS MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov th th th rd MUSIC WITH SUSAN – Registration opens Sunday Tuesday nights, January 13 , 20 , 27 and February 3 , Winter BAYT 10 week session starting January 23rd MIDRASH PROGRAM: Under the direction and guidance of Rabbi Korobkin, 9:30 am Newborn – 3 years old TED Talks, 8:00 PM ‐ 8:40 PM in the Turk Family Bais Medrash, followed by Music…Singing…Dancing! 3 different sessions until 9:30 PM; Rabbi Zev Spitz “Not‐so‐Kosher Couch

SHABBOS Potatoes” Guarding One’s Health and Mental Well‐Being, Rabbi Marc Sevy Bnei Akiva, Bnos, Girls’ Chumash Shiur, Mishnayos for Boys, Pirchei, Father & “Issues in Halacha and Emuna during the Shoah”, Rabbi Josh Gutenberg Son Learning. “Intro to Intros: Biblical Commentators”. Men & Women are welcome. Please see flyer for details. NEW PROGRAM…starting soon: Boys / Learning program th th All Teen Boys January 16 to17 , 2015 Scholar‐In‐Residence Rabbi Harvey Belovski.

SUNDAYS Please see the flyers for details. BAYTEEN BOYS – JEWISH PHILOSOPHY SHIUR Motzei Shabbos, January 17th The Ba’al Teshuva And The Experience Of Weekly 12:00 Noon – 1:00 pm – West Wing Library Return There will be a panel discussion with Rabbi Korobkin. Please see High School Boys – includes light lunch the flyer for details. There is no charge for BAYT members who pre‐register

GIRL GUIDES ‐ Currently in session until mid‐May at http://torahinmotion.org/programs/live_programs/6571 Contact Sara Silverman: [email protected] Promo Code: BAYT_MEMBERS, $20 at the door, including BAYT members th New BAYT YOUTH ICE HOCKEY ‐ currently in session Wednesday nights beginning January 28 , 2015 at 8:15 PM Weekly Shiur 8:15 pm – 9:15 pm for Women: “Megillas Esther: As You’ve Never Learned It Before” with Grades 1 – 4 AND Grades 5 – 9 Rabbi Zev Spitz

Fun for all hockey player levels Details of Adult Education Events can also be seen at the BAYT’s FaceBook

RABBI COUPONS page, www.facebook.com/thebayt and on the BAYT’s website Collect a Rabbi Coupon each Shabbos and Yom Tov www.bayt.ca/adult‐education‐programs.html. that you are in a youth group / minyan. You must be in the group / minyan from start to finish. Trade them in at the year end Youth Banquet in June for a great JERUSALEM prize. The more you collect, the better the prize. With Rav Korobkin & Rav Taub In conjunction with To register for any BAYT Youth Program, visit www.bayt.ca and click on The BAYT Brotherhood’s 12th Annual Solidarity Mission to Israel your desired program. February 13‐14, 2015, King Solomon Hotel For any information on BAYT YOUTH Programming, contact Youth Director Flyers and registration forms are available at the shul entrances. Rich Winkler at 905‐886‐3810 x 135 or [email protected] For more information, contact Marcee Rosenzweig: [email protected] BAYT YOUTH……. Always Something for Everyone! NOTICE BOARD

MADDIE LEVENTHAL MIKVEH Security Notice: NEW The Maddie Leventhal Mikveh is introducing a Mikveh Membership. For your safety, all doors to the BAYT will be locked on Shabbos. Make one $240 payment for a year of mikveh visits, and more. Please see On Erev Shabbos (Friday night), Guards will be posted at both the Clark Ave. the flyer in the bins for details. (North side) doors and the parking lot (South side) doors from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM or longer if needed. The Guards will open doors for congregants PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE upon their arrival.

Join us February 21st at 8:00 PM for On Shabbos morning, a BAYT Safety Team volunteer will be posted at the Games Night and Melava Malka, Parking lot doors beginning at 7:00 AM. Members and guests attending the featuring the classic TV game show Hashkamah Minyan or arriving before 8:15 AM must enter from the South CONCENTRATION. Please see the doors only. The BAYT Safety Team will be posted at both entrances from flyer for more program and 8:00 AM until 12:00 PM. Guards will be posted at both entrances from registration details. 11:00 AM until the end of Shabbos. The Guards or Safety Team volunteer

will open doors for members and guests upon their arrival.

SAVE THE DATE: February 7th BAYT Programming proudly presents We ask for your patience and cooperation as we make improvements to the COMEDY NIGHT with renowned comedian Marc Weiner. Details will be building to ensure your safety and security. Thank you for your assistance in available soon. keeping us all safe!

THIS WEEK’S PROGRAMS & SHIURIM @ The BAYT AT A GLANCE SHIUR B'IVRIT* Sunday, January 11 8:45 AM ‐ 9:30 AM Dr. Stephen Speisman Boardroom with Boaz Borovsky

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HALACHA* CANCELLED Sunday January 11 with Rabbi Josh Gutenberg

MEN'S DAILY SHIURM Mishnayos, Parsha, Halacha, and Navi Monday Jan 12‐ Friday Jan. 16 10:00 AM‐ 12:15 PM Kollel with Rabbi Aaron Eisenberger

MEN’S SUGYA SHIUR Monday, January 12 7:30 PM Moshe & Mania Gruda Bais Medrash with Rabbi Korobkin

Monday, January 12 TANYA: A TALE OF TWO SOULS * 8:00 PM West Wing Class #1 with Rabbi Shimon Aisenbach

THE BOOK OF SAMUEL* Monday, January 12 8:30 PM Jarvis Freedman Library with Ariel Erani

GEMARA SHIUR Monday, January 12 8:30 PM Rabbi’s Classroom with Rabbi Moshe Yeres

WOMEN'S KUZARI & PARSHA SHIUR Tuesday, January 13 10:00 AM Moshe & Mania Gruda Bais Medrash with The Rav

BAYT MIDRASH PROGRAM* Turk Family Bais Medrash with Rabbi Korobkin followed by Rabbi Spitz, Tuesday, January 13 8:00 PM and various locations Rabbi Sevy and Rabbi Gutenberg

TALMUD MESECHET SHABBAT ‐ CHAPTER 7* Tuesday, January 13 8:00 PM West Wing Classroom #2 with Rabbi Scot A. Berman BOOK OF GENESIS* Wednesday January 14 8:00 PM West Wing Classroom #3 With Prof. B. Barry Levy Advanced Conversational Hebrew* Wednesday January 14 8:30 PM ‐ 9:30 PM Dr. Stephen Speisman Boardroom with Prof. Rinat Armon YOUNG MEN’S SHIUR Thursday, January 15 9:00 PM The Korobkin Home with The Rav

For further information and detailed schedules, please refer to flyers posted on Shul bulletin boards. *Program is open to both men and women

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