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Beth Israel Congregation Weekly Announcements Beth Israel Congregation Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro z”l Sanctuary Weekly Announcements th 770 W 40 St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Naso June 18th 2016 12 Sivan 5776 ,n zxz P Erev Shabbat Schedule Mazal Tov To Youth Groups Announcements Mincha 7:00 PM -Pepita and Simon Bronner on the Pre-Groups begin @ 9:15 Early Candle Lighting 7:20 PM Regular Groups begin @ 9:45 Latest Candle Lighting 7:56 PM birth of a great grandson born to Shabbat Schedule their grandchildren Kevin and Anna Throughout the summer Beth Israel Hashkama Minyan 7:30 AM Jacobs Mazal Tov to grandmother Congregation will provide Youth Groups Main Minyan 9:00 AM Mrs. Adina Bronner. under the direction of Atara Raab that Mincha: 7:50 PM Maariv 8:45 PM will take place in the youth house only. Shabbat Ends 8:54 PM This week's kiddush is in Please make you sure you walk your th th honor of children into the youth house and pick Sunday June 19 - Friday June 24 them up after davening. Shacharit: 7:00 & 8:00 AM Leah and Zvi Klein and Mincha: Sun-Thurs 8:05 PM family and We would like to thank Chef Aryeh for Weekday Class Schedule Tuesday at 9:15 am Mrs. Ani Leiser an epic grads and dads kiddush this past Women’s Parsha Class week. as we bid farewell on Wednesday After Maariv Advanced Talmud Class their move to Israel. We would like to thank the Budwick family and 'anonymous' for sponsoring Seudat Shlishit is Dedicated in HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: the Shavuot Ice cream and kids Noam Cohen, Aaron Katz, Memory of program. Thank you Esti Garfinkel for Ahuva Epstein, Samantha Ebner, Lillian Horowitz a”h helping to organize the event and Penny Jane Lynn, Serena Robbin, Beloved mother, grandmother and Jordana Rotenberg helping run the Isaac Schechter, Avi Ciment, program. Becky Farber, Debbie Wiznitzer great grandmother Rita and Robert Galbut HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO: Adina & Brian Galbut & Children We would like to thank the following Emily and Steven Ebner Kimberly & Seth Frohlich & Children people for going above and beyond and Renee and Gary Bomzer Alexandra & Noam Lifshitz & ensuring a successful teen Shavuot Arline and David Reinhard Children program, Dr Ari Ciment for his well Susan and William Ganz Erica & Ari Newman & Children prepared and informative lecture, Hilda and Jerome Heller Ben Berman for his engaging shiur Debbie and Israel Wiznitzer This week’s Announcements are which brought out a healthy debate, Sponsored by Mark Baranek for a moving talk about Pepita and Simon Bronner in honor coaching and how never to compromise There will be a two class of the birth of a new great grandson on values and Yiras Shomayim, born to their grandchildren Kevin Adir Shimon for his late night backup, extension to Rabbi Bixon’s and Jimmy and Fancy Saka for the series on Pirkei Avos. and Anna Jacobs. Mazel Tov to grandmother Mrs. slurpee machine!! This Shabbat Parshat Naso and Adina Bronner Acharon acharon Chaviv – next Shabbat Parshat Behaalotekha. Rabbi Jeff Ney for volunteering an Rabbi Bixon will be speaking entire year to help our teens in teen on Thursday June 23rd minyan and throughout many other at 12:00 pm programs along the way. The thoughtful Jewpardy game (thank you Rebetzin Ney as well) and spending the entire night with the teens are a testament to 3200 Southeast Financial Center the upstanding and caring Rabbi you 200 South Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33131 are! We are lucky to have you for our teens and in our community! Beth Israel Congregation Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro z”l Sanctuary Weekly Announcements th 770 W 40 St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Naso June 18th 2016 12 Sivan 5776 Special thank you to Dietrich for his punishment and why is the wife brought equally disdainful trustless wife”, the hard work on one of the toughest into the punishment!?!? One approach starting point of any successful marriage weekends of the year! offered by the T’Temimah (based on is from the lady- “an unfaithful undedicated woman leads to a אֵ ין מְ זוּגִין לֹו לְאָדַ ם אִ שָ ה Sotah 2a) is that Since a man gets a lady ungenerous man”- This is actually a -אֶ לֶא לְפִ י מָ עַשַֹ יו :DVAR TORAH BY DR. ARI CIMENT that he deserves, then if he is a non- more positive spin as it shows how a SOTAH: IF ONE DOESN’T GIVE generous stingy person, then she must dedicated faithful women is the real TZEDAKAH, HE GETS A SOTAH!?!? also be a bad apple and deserving of the fulcrum of a marriage. SO-TOUGH (So-tah) TO Sotah process! And now we can at last understand our UNDERSTAND To review so far once again then: the mishnah: Let your home be wide open, Parsha about tzedakah for the Kohen and let the poor be members of your יֹוסֵ י בֶןיֹוחָ נָן אִ ישׁ יְרוּשָׁ לַיִם אֹומֵ ר, ייְהִ בֵיתְ ָך precedes that of the wayward wife household. And do not engage in פָתוּחַ לִרְ וָחָ ה, ְו ִי ְהיוּ ֲע ִנ ִיּים ְבּ ֵני ֵבי ֶתָך, וְאַ ל because if a man is so stingy as to not excessive conversation with a תַּרְ בֶּה שִׂיחָ ה עִ ם הָאִ שָּׁ ה. בְּאִשְׁ תֹּו אָמְ רוּ... כָּל give tzedakah to a Kohen, it is likely woman... Engaging in excessive הַמַרְ בֶּה שִׂיחָה עִם הָאִ שָּׁ ה, םגֹּורֵ רָ עָה לְעַצְ מֹו, לוּבֹוטֵ ימִדִּבְרֵ תֹורָ ה, וְ סֹופֹו יֹורֵ שׁ גֵּיהִ נֹּם: that his wife is of a bad nature as well conversation with your woman is not the Let your home be wide open, and let and will become a Sotah- WOW, this purpose of marriage. Being able to reach the poor be members of your sounds pretty negative and is there a your potential to do good deeds together household. And do not engage in more positive way to analyze this please by opening your home, giving to charity excessive conversation with a so that no one calls the Woman etc.- those are the higher purposes of woman.... One who excessively Defamation League on me?!? marriage: Torah, Chuppah and only then converses with a woman causes evil to Maasim Tovim! I think a more optimistic approach is the himself, neglects the study of Torah, following. At a bris, we say that the boy Takeaway Message/s: The reason a and, in the end, inherits purgatory. man who doesn’t give his terumot to the לְתֹּורַ ה לְחוּפַּה וּלְמַ עֲשִֹ ים “ should grow up People have asked why does Kohen is destined to have a wife who is -”טֹובִ ים QUESTION: What does speaking marriage? a Sotah is not so much because “behind/לְחוּפַּה excessively with a woman have to do “good deed” follow אֵ ין with having an open home or being The answer is because a purpose of every bad man is a bad woman” a-la but מְ זוּגִין לֹו לְאָדַ ם אִ שָ ה אֶ לֶא לְפִ י מָ עַשַֹ יו gracious to poor people?! What’s so bad marriage is so that the married couple good deeds rather perhaps because the fact that the/מַ עֲשִֹ ים טֹובִ ים about speaking so much to your wife in can do the first place- wouldn’t that be a together! A good wife can be the man isn’t benevolent must be because potentially good thing? enabler to accomplish a much higher their marriage is faulty-> the purpose of ANSWER/ANALYSIS: Perhaps an level of good deeds than existed in marriage isn’t to talk excessively to your answer from the following analysis of single life before. wife but with her guidance, to become a benevolent unit: TORAH, CHUPPAH our parsha: The Sotah story comes after And so if a married man doesn’t exhibit AND ONLY THEN MAASIM the Parsha on Terumos/Ma’asrot (the the positive traits/good deed of tzedakah TOVIM!!!! Per Jon Gdanski request, chapter on the necessary gifts we must to the Kohen (a form of ) , will add three more punctuation ְמַ עֲשִֹ ים טֹובִ ים give the Kohanim) because the gemara then it may be sign that the wife isn’t marks!!! Berachos 63a says: “anyone who has really a dedicated and good wife- she Terumos/Maaasrot and doesn’t give it didn’t enable him to be a better man to to the Kohen will end up needing the do good deeds and may be someone Kohen for his wife! (i.e.: to preside destined to be a Sotah! Since the over the Sotah proceedings)” The married man was not enabled to do a Torah Temimah has a great question: if good deed, there must be an inherent a man commits the bad deed (of not problem in their marriage (the providing the Kohen with his due enabler/wife may have been MIA!)!!! tzedakah), then why should the wife suffer the fate of the Sotah process!?!? Instead of looking at the man and saying Shouldn’t the man have his own “the ungenerous man must have an .
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