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YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Senior Rabbi Rabbi Adam Frieberg, Assistant Rabbi Rabbi Edward Davis, Rabbi Emeritus & Sephardic Minyan Rabbi David Lasko, President

3291 Stirling Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 954-966-7877 email: [email protected] www.yih.org

Rosh HaShanah 1 & 2 Tishrei 5781 Shabbat September 19, 2020 Sunday September 20, 2020

L'Shanah tovah teekatev v'taychatem May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year

OUR YIH FAMILY…. Mazal Tov:  Rose & Rami Ovadia and family on the marriage of Jacob & Michal Ovadia and to the Mizrahi family and Amselem family and Shabbot family  Nora & Matthew Teltser on the engagement of their daughter Samantha to Michael Ackerstein of Brookline, MA, son of Joan & Joe Ackerstein of Newton, MA  Mati & Elana Grauer on the birth of their son Miles Emanuel (Moshe Emmanuel)  Mitch & Mia Slugh on the birth of their daughter, and to grandparents Stuart & Janice Slugh and Jeffrey & Susan Sava Welcome New Members:  David & Chaya Salamon  David & Michelle Roisman  Dany & Binyamina Zahavi

OUR IDF LONE SOLDIERS Eitan Ben-Aharon, Emma Frank, Lauren Friedman, Zev Goldberg, Sara Shulamit Klein, Noa Markovitz, Nathaniel Melnitsky, Phoebe Zucker [Please contact the shul office to add a name to this list]

REFUAH SHLEIMAH

Cholim: Binyamin Simcha ben Adina Minya (Binny Ciment), David HaKohen ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s father), Israel ben Rachel Leah (Izzy Sabo-Chanan Sabo’s father), Melech Yonah ben Gittel (Jonathan Kalish's father), Moshe ben Masha (Craig Barany), Netanel Elan ben Shayna Tzipporah (wounded IDF soldier), Shmuel ben Leah, Solomon ben Solika (Solomon Perez-Ilana Melnitsky’s father), Yehuda Arieh ben Mindla (Philippe Leiberman’s father), Yitzchak Chanoch ben Chana (nephew of Vanessa Shamah and Lauren Davis), Yitzchak Mendel ben Sarah Baila (Sammy Shapiro's father), Yoseph Benyamin ben Cochava (Ralph Sharaby’s son), Yussel ben Hinda Leah (Joel Bofshever-Dorie Ehrenreich’s father)

Cholot: Ahuva bat Friedel, Batya bat Sara, Chana Ety bat Zirel Libah, Devora bat Sheina Baila, Esther Shayna bat Nechama Mintza (Isabella Zummo's mother), Feiga Necha bat Pessel (Fay Lerner), Masha bat Ruth (Marcia Chonchol-Craig Barany’s mother), Nechama Chaya bat Sima (Mimi Jankovits' mother), Rivka bat Sarah, Rivkah Chaya bat Devora (Reva Shapiro, daughter of Debbie & Sammy Shapiro), Rivka bat Elka Libe (Mark Langer's sister), Sara Leah bat Rochel (Cynthia Lynn Haber-Cheryl Hamburg’s sister), Sara Leah bat Bracha (Stacey Deutsch), Sara bat Aviva (Eliana Lifshultz), Shira Raizel Esther bat Mina Zosha (Ruth Messer’s granddaughter), Yocheved bat Tzril (Joan Niad), Yocheved bat Henya Sheindel (Jessica Schultz)

Please contact the office if someone on this list has, Baruch Hashem, recovered.

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We wish you and your loved ones a healthy and happy New Year! We hope that your High Holidays are meaningful, even as they may be different than past years. Our synagogue is the center of Jewish life in Hollywood and our budget depends on the generosity of you, our supporters and friends. The Kol Nidrei Appeal is our largest fundraiser of the year and enables us to continue to operate and maintain our shul. The Kol Nidre Appeal committee is working hard to reach every one of our members. Please be courteous to your solicitors, as they volunteer their time to help our shul. If you have already contributed we thank you for your continued support. Your generous response demonstrates your identification with the mission and impact of our shul. Many of our past supporters have been financially impacted by the global pandemic. Please consider increasing your pledge, if you are able to do so. We ask everyone who benefits from our shul to make a meaningful contribution to ensure our continued viability as the central address of Torah, Tefila and Chesed for over 600 families. Please help us reach our goal of raising $300,000 with 100% participation from our membership at this most important time of the year. Pledges can be made by calling the shul office or online at www.yih.org/kolnidre5781

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Friday, September 18 Erev Rosh Hashanah 7:02pm Light Yom Tov Candles 7:10pm Mincha/Maariv Open Seating Shul or Club or Tent Shabbat, September 19 First Day Rosh Hashanah Morning Service Please only attend your assigned minyan 7:00am Shacharit / Mussaf Shul 7:00am Shacharit / Mussaf Club 7:30am Shacharit / Mussaf Tent 8:30am Shacharit /Mussaf Sephardic Minyan Club downstairs

10:00am Shacharit / Mussaf Shul 10:00am Shacharit / Mussaf Club 10:00am Shacharit / Mussaf Beit Midrash

Evening Service 7:00pm Mincha/Shiur/Maariv Open Seating Shul or Club or Tent

7:00pm Mincha/Shiur/Maariv Sephardic Minyan Club downstairs

After 7:59pm Light Yom Tov Candles

Sunday, September 20 Second Day Rosh Hashanah Morning Service Please only attend your assigned minyan 7:00am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Shul

7:00am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Club

7:30am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Tent

8:30am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Sephardic Minyan Club downstairs

10:00am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Shul

10:00am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Club

10:00am Shacharit/Shofar/Mussaf Beit Midrash

Evening Service 7:00pm Mincha/Shiur/Maariv Open Seating Shul or Club or Tent

7:00pm Mincha/Shiur/Maariv Sephardic Minyan Club downstairs

7:58pm Yom Tov ends

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Location Time Shofar Blower 4141 N. 41 Street 11:00 AM Avi Ciment Arapahoe-3312 SW 57th Place 11:00 AM Stan Frohlinger

5140 N. 36 Court- backyard 11:00 AM Eli Hagler 3611 North 33rd Terrace 11:00 AM Shaya Gutleizer 3960 North 39th Avenue 11:30 AM Avial Raab Hollywood Oaks East-5633 Live Oak Terrace 12:00 PM Marc Morse Hollywood Oaks West-5561 Oakview Terrace 1:00 PM Danny Hoisman Mara Giulanti Park 1:30 PM Marc Eisenman

Arapahoe- 3350 SW 57th Place 2:15 PM Marc Eisenman Oakridge Park 3:00 PM Rabbi Shmaya Wax 3351 North 40th Street 3:00 PM Joey Betesh

4709 N. 39th Street- Woods of Emerald Hills 3:30 PM Maish Staiman

Fairways Parking Lot right outside the clubhouse door 3:30 PM Dani Bengio Oakridge Park 4:00 PM Rabbi Shmaya Wax 4001 N. 45th Ave 4:00 PM Rabbi Davis 3500 N. 52nd Ave 4:00 PM Levi Kahane Shul 5:00 PM Zach Schenker Hollywood Oaks East-5633 Live Oak Terrace 5:00 PM Marc Morse Oakridge Park 5:00 PM Rabbi Shmaya Wax

Oakridge Park 6:00 PM Rabbi Shmaya Wax

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Shabbat/Yom Tov Safety, Security & First Aid First Aid AED (Automated External Defibrillator), wheelchairs, oxygen, reflector belts for visibility (from the OU), and other equipment in closet next to Social Hall. Additional wheelchair is in the entry to the women’s bathroom. Rain Ponchos are available in both bathrooms.

Security Crossing schedule: Stirling Road at SW 33rd Avenue Friday 5:30-8:30pm Shabbat 6:45am-1:45pm & 5:45-8:45pm Sunday 6:45am-1:30pm & 5:30-8:30pm

When crossing Stirling Road, make sure to always wait until cars stop by the light before crossing and only cross at the cross walk. Jaywalking is

extremely dangerous (& illegal).

Monday, September 21 Fast of Gedaliah

6:00pm Fast Begins

6:00, 7:00 & 8:00am Shacharit

6:55pm Minchah

7:53pm Fast Ends

WEEKDAY DAILY MINYANIM Tues.-Fri. Sept. 22-25

Minchah/Maariv: 7:05pm (one Minyan only) Shacharit beginning with Selichot: 6:00, 7:00, & 8:00 am

SHABBAT SHUVA September 26 Candle lighting 6:54pm Shabbat ends 7:51pm

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D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock

Two Ideas from the Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings The Torah reading for the first day of Rosh Hashanah starts that Hashem remembered Sarah enabling her to conceive a child. The pasuk begins with the letter vav which Chazal understand to mean that it is connected with the previous story: when Avraham prayed for the healing of Avimelech and his household. Our Rabbis understand this vav as indicating that Hashem remembered Sarah even before Avimelech was cured in the merit of Avraham’s prayers. The Gemara in Baba Kamma 92a learns from here that anyone that seeks Divine mercy for his friend and he himself is in need of the same thing, then Hashem will first accept his prayers before having mercy on his friend. Since Avraham prayed for healing for someone else, he and his wife were granted healing first. This teaching highlights the importance and effectiveness of prayer on behalf of someone else. Later in today’s Torah reading we read how Hagar and Yishmael were sent away from Avraham’s household and got lost in the desert. Although Hagar prayed for her son, the Torah says that Hashem heard the voice of Yismael. From here the Midrash Rabbah learns that the prayer of a sick person is more effective than that of someone praying on their behalf. One can ask: Why wasn’t Hagar’s prayer accepted just as Avraham’s prayer was accepted? Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl explains that this seeming contradiction emphasizes a fundamental principle when it comes to prayer: “Rachmana Liba Ba’I” Hashem desires the heart. Everything depends on the intention and sincerity that we instill into our tefillot. The Torah itself hints to the fact that Hagar did not believe that her prayers would be effective as she says, “Let me not see the death of the child.” On Rosh Hashana we must appreciate the importance of tefillah and truly believe in the effectiveness of prayers recited with sincerity and intention that emanates from the heart. In the Torah reading for the second day of Rosh Hashanah we read that Avraham came down from Har HaMoriya, and hears about his brother Nachor's family and of the birth of Rivka. Rashi explains the connection between the 2 stories: After Akeidat Yitzchak Avraham began thinking about what would have happened had Yitzchok died childless. This leads Avraham to focus on the need for Yitzchok to marry. However, Rav Hutner and Rav Soloveitchik ask why is the report of Nachor’s family part of the Rosh Hashana Torah reading? On Rosh Hashana, we are only interested in recounting the Akeida itself, not the narrative following it. It must be that the story of Nachor and his family is an integral part of the Akeida itself. How so? Continued on next page….

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Rabbi Yosef Weinstock’s D’var Torah continued...

Rabbi Berzon Z”L in his book Dovev Mesharim explains the connection. Avraham Avinu endured many difficult situations. He left his family and his homeland; he suffered many trials and challenges. He had to relocate due to famine. He was childless until an advanced age and then, he is commanded by God to sacrifice his beloved Yitzchak as an offering to Hashem. Yitzchok survives and Avraham returns from this ordeal to hear the news about his brother: Nachor is alive and well living comfortably far away in Haran. It may seem that Nachor is enjoying the good life, while Avraham is challenged at every turn. Nachor's easy and contented life is part of Avraham's test. Avraham must deal with the great burden of being the chosen one while the rest of the world goes on with life without acknowledging Avraham’s pain or sharing in it. Many of us have experienced pain, setbacks and trauma; whether this year or at some point in our lives. The challenge can be exacerbated when we feel as if we are are suffering- and no one else is noticing, let alone cares. Today’s Torah reading ends on a note that highlights the importance of community and tasks each of us as part of a community to care for, and about, each other.

We request your cooperation Rules for Minyan 1- Do not move your seats from where they are positioned. They were all placed with a specific purpose and the seats may not be moved 2- Do not sit on a folding chair that might be adjacent to your chair/pod. We are placing these folding chairs to allow you a place to put down "stuff" (tallit bag, glasses, hat, etc.) 3- You must stay in or in front of your seat - not behind your seat, not in the aisle next to your seat, and not roaming around to talk to others. The Social distancing requirements are still in place and need to be respected.

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WEEKDAY LEARNING IN-PERSON AND ZOOM click here to view the classes or visit our website www.yih.org/vtorah

 Rabbi Yossi Jankovitz Daf Yomi  Sun.-Thurs. 45 minutes before Mincha in the Beit Midrash  Shabbat 45 minutes before Mincha in the Beit Midrash  Rabbi Yossi Jankovitz Morning Learning Program  5:45-6:45am in the Beit Midrash

UPCOMING SHIURIM

Rabbi Adam Frieberg Wednesday, September 23 8pm The Goat to Azazel : Devil Worship or Social Hall or on Zoom Our Greatest Praise?

Rabbi Yosef Weinstock’s Shabbat Shuva drasha: Shabbat, September 26 The Connection Between Yosef Social Hall Hatzaddik and the Yomim Noraim Mincha 6:45pm Drasha 7:00pm And also emailed after Shabbat

Rabbi Yissachar Frand Thursday, September 24 9pm Annual Teshuva Drasha via webcast Rabbi Adam Frieberg Wednesday, September 30 8pm Sukkot : Growing Through Our Exile Social Hall or on Zoom

www.yih/org/holidays Click here to view

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COMMUNITY NEWS

PATH Simcht Torah Sefer Project with a Twist On Simchat Torah for the past 18 years, PATH in conjunction with the Young Israel of Hollywood has given out free Seforim to Elementary School aged children in our community. This Sefer project has helped hundreds of children begin to accumulate the basic tools for their Torah Study. Our community has done this to help build the Torah Libraries as well as the love of learning Torah in every Jewish child. 2020 has been a very different year in so many different ways, and Simchat Torah this year will be unique as well. As a result this year’s Sefer, Bereshit, will available to preorder only, and will be available for pickup or home delivery. Thanks to your generosity, PATH, under the direction of Rabbi Salid, has brought high level Torah learning to families throughout Hollywood. Rabbi Salid gives shiurim daily, and is available to the community for one on one learning opportunities. Sponsorships are available to help support this project and allow PATH to continue its mission of spreading Torah learning in Hollywood. $180 Sponsorship $540 Dedication $1,800 Supporter To preregister for your free copy/s Click here To sponsor & help promote Torah learning in Hollywood, Click here See website www.pathtotorah.com

Orders for your Lulav and Etrog may be placed at Holyland Judaica on Stirling Road in Hollywood. A drive by pick up is being offered. Customers who request it can drive up to the store and their order will be placed in their trunk.

The Spirit Initiative : OU Project for Retirees

Tuesday, September 22, 11 am Xi Gong: Improving Mental and Physical Health — Part II Xi Gong is a mind-body-spirit practice that improves one’s mental and physical health. Xi Gong benefits include lowering blood pressure, improving balance, quality of sleep, pain relief, strengthening immune system, increasing bone density, and more. Xi Gong also has been proven effective in depression and anxiety relief, and stress and stress-related illnesses. Presented by: Naomi L. Baum, Ph.D. Resilience Associates Click here to Register

Thursday, September 24, 11 am NUTRITION FOR A HEALTHY BRAIN AND MEMORY Presented by: Shmuel Shields, Ph.D., is a certified nutritionist with over 25 years of experience as an educator and clinician. Click Here to Register

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