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Shabbat and Yom Tov Schedule D’var with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Many commentators, among them the , have drawn attention to the Please help make our prayer service more influence of the number four in connection with the . There are four fours: meaningful by refraining from talking during the 1. The four questions service. 2. The four sons FRIDAY 7:05 pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv, 3. The four cups of wine (Shema should be recited after 8:02 pm) 4. The four expressions of redemption: ‘I will bring you out from under the yoke of (Earliest time for Kiddush is 8:03 pm) the Egyptians and free you from their slavery. I will deliver you with a demonstration of My power and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to Me SHABBAT - Pesach Day 1 as a nation.’ (Ex.6: 6-7). Parasha: Page 354 / Maftir: Page 892 It may be, though, that just as an X-ray can reveal an earlier painting beneath the surface of a later one, so beneath the surface of the Haggadah there is another pattern Haftarah: Page 1221 to be discerned. That is what I want to suggest in this chapter. 8:25 am: Daf Yomi The first thing to note is that there is, in fact, another ‘four’ on the seder night, namely 9:00 am: Shacharit the four biblical verses whose exposition forms an important part of the Haggadah: (One should eat Seudah Shlisheet before 1. ‘An Aramean tried to destroy my father . . .’ Mincha) 2. ‘And the Egyptians ill-treated us and afflicted us . . .’ 4:35 pm: HS Boys’ w/ Nathan 3. ‘And we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers . . .’ Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home 4. ‘And the Lord brought us out of Egypt . . .’ (Deut. 26:5-8) 5:50 pm: SHIUR by Rabbi Friedman - “That Fateful Night in Bnei Brak” There are, then, not four fours, but five. 6:50 pm: Mincha, followed by HAGGADAH In early editions of the tractate Pesachim (118a) there is a passage that perplexed the medieval commentators. It reads: ‘Rabbi Tarfon says: over the fifth cup TIDBITS ROUNDTABLE - Volunteer to Share we recite the great .’ The medieval commentators were puzzled by this because Your Seder Insights With Us elsewhere the rabbinic literature speaks about four cups, not five. The , for example, states that a poor person must be supplied with enough money to be able to 8:04 pm: Maariv / Earliest time for Kiddush buy four cups of wine. In both the Babylonian and the discussion 8:04 pm: Candle lighting revolves around the assumption that there are four cups on seder night. How then are we to understand the statement of Rabbi Tarfon that there is a fifth cup? SUNDAY - Pesach Day 2 Among the commentators three views emerged. The first was that of and the Parasha: Page 690 / Maftir: Page 892 Tosafists. According to them, there are only four cups on the seder night, and it is forbidden to drink a fifth. The statement of Rabbi Tarfon must therefore be a misprint, Haftarah: Page 1222 and the texts of the Talmud should be amended accordingly. 8:25 am: Daf Yomi The second was that of . He holds that there is a fifth cup, but unlike the 9:00 am: Shacharit other four, it is optional rather than obligatory. The Mishnah which teaches that a poor person must be given enough money to buy four cupfuls of wine means that we must 6:15 pm: SHIUR by Yoni Rabinovitch - “Shiur of ensure that he has the opportunity to fulfil his obligation. It does not extend to the fifth ‘Kezayit’: How Big WERE Those Olives??” cup which is permitted but not compulsory. Rabbi Tarfon’s statement is to be understood to mean that those who wish to drink a fifth cup should do so during the 7:05 pm: Mincha, followed by SHIUR with Shua recitation of the great Hallel. Friedman - “The of Learning - Brisk vs The third view, that of Ravad of Posquières, a contemporary of Maimonides, is that Breslav” one should drink a fifth cup. There is a difference in Jewish law between an 8:04 pm: Maariv / Havdalah obligation, hovah, and a religiously significant good deed, . The first four cups are obligatory. The fifth is a mitzvah, meaning, not obligatory but still —————————————————— praiseworthy and not merely, as Maimondes taught, optional. (Continued on Page 3) Weekday Schedule (Chol Hamoed) Learning Opportunities @ the DAT Minyan SHACHARIT • Kitzur : Daily, after Shacharit • Daf Yomi Shiur (30 min): Sun—Fri after Shacharit and 8:25 am Monday — Wednesday: 6:20 am and 8:00 am on Shabbat MINCHA/MAARIV • Mishnayot: Daily, between Mincha and Maariv • Halacha Chaburah: Sun, 10:00 am—11:00 am Monday — Wednesday: 7:10 pm • Wed. Evening Class: returns after Pesach Please see complete Pesach Schedule on Page 8 (Continued on page 3) for davening times on last days of Yom Tov • Thu. Evening Mishmar: returns after Pesach DAT Minyan is a dynamic and friendly Modern Orthodox for all ages and dedicated to meaningful personal spiritual development, community growth, youth involvement, Torah education, and Religious . DAT Minyan - 6825 E. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO 80224 - 720-941-0479 - www.datminyan.org DAT MINYAN NEWS, EVENTS AND LEARNING

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 The community is invited to the 7th Annual Breakfast of the Colorado Coalition of Genocide Awareness and Action, “From Rwanda to Myanamar: Yet Again and Again and Again,” Wednesday, April 11th, 8:00 am—9:30 am at the Mile High United Way CoBank Leadership Center, 711 Park Avenue West, Denver, CO 80205. Featured speakers are Chantal Furaha, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, and K. Nicole Robinson Asarch, of the social impact company Staffable, with offices in Denver and Uganda. To register: Click “donate” at ccgaa.org and write “breakfast” in Note Box. Fee is $40. For additional information: Roz Duman, 303-856-7334, [email protected].

 The Great Big Pesach Adventure, First Day Chol Hamoed Pesach, Monday, April 2nd from 11am-5pm. Exclusive to the Jewish community at Heritage Amusement Park. For more information and to buy tickets, please visit www.chabadcolorado.com/Pesach or call 303-329-0213. A community event sponsored by Bais Menachem.

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Where: DAT Kindergarten room. When: Shabbat afternoon between Mincha and Maariv (resumes after Pesach) Teen Parents Forum Details: We will explore how to dissect a Mishna and explore the text analytically. Ideal for pre-Gemarah prep. No previous background Join us for a candid discussion regarding ways to required. English and Hebrew text will be provided. enhance our DAT Minyan teen programming

Rabbi Sacks (Continued from page 1)

Thus there was a controversy over the fifth cup. Rashi said that we should not drink it; Maimonides that we may; Ravad that we should. What does one do, faced with this kind of disagreement? Jewish law tries wherever possible to propose a solution that pays respect to all views, especially when they are held by great halakhic authorities. The solution in the present case was simple. A fifth cup is poured (out of respect for Ravad and Maimonides) but not drunk (out of respect for Rashi). When a disagreement occurs in the Talmud which is not resolved, the sages often used the word Teyku, ‘Let it stand’. We believe that such disagreements will be resolved in the time to come when arrives to announce the coming of the . One of his roles will be to rule on unresolved halakhic controversies. An allusion to this is to be found in the word Teyku itself, which was read as an abbreviation of Tishbi Yetaretz Kushyot Ve’ibbayot, ‘The Tishbite, Elijah, will answer questions and difficulties.’ This therefore is the history behind ‘the cup of Elijah’ – the cup we fill after the meal but do not drink. It represents the ‘fifth cup’ mentioned in the Talmud. According to the , the reason we have four cups of wine is because of the four expressions of redemption in God’s promise to Moses. How then could Rabbi Tarfon suggest that there are not four cups but five? The fascinating fact is that if we look at the biblical passage there are not four expressions of redemption but five. The passage continues: ‘And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.’ (Exodus 6: 8) There is a further missing fifth. As mentioned above, during the course of reciting the Haggadah we expound four biblical verses, beginning with, ‘An Aramean tried to destroy my father.’ In biblical times, this was the declaration made by someone bringing first-fruits to Jerusalem. However, if we turn to the source we discover that there is a fifth verse to this passage: ‘He brought us to this place [the ] and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey’ (Deuteronomy. 26: 9). We do not recite or expound this verse at the seder table. But this strange since the Mishnah states explicitly, ‘And one must expound the passage beginning, “An Aramean tried to destroy my father” until one has completed the whole passage.’In fact we do not complete the whole passage, despite the Mishnah’s instruction. So there are three ‘missing fifths’ – the fifth cup, the fifth expression of redemption, and the fifth verse. It is also clear why. All three refer to God not merely bringing the Jewish people out of Egypt but also bringing them into the land of Israel. The Haggadah as we now have it and as it evolved in rabbinic times is, in Maimonides words, ‘the Haggadah as practised in the time of exile,’ meaning, during the period of the Dispersion. The missing fifth represented the missing element in redemption. How could celebrate arriving in the land of Israel when they were in exile? How could they drink the last cup of redemption when they had said at the beginning of the seder, ‘This year slaves, next year free; this year here, next year in the land of Israel’? The fifth cup– poured but not drunk – was like the cup broken at Jewish weddings. It was a symbol of incompletion. It meant that as long as Jews were dispersed throughout the world, facing persecution and danger, they could not yet celebrate to the full. One great sage of the twentieth century, the late Rabbi Menahem Kasher, argued that now that there is a State of Israel, many exiles have been ingathered and Jews have recovered their sovereignty and land, the fifth cup should be re-instated. That remains for the halakhic authorities to decide. What, though, of the four questions and the four sons? There was a fifth question. The Mishnah states that a child should ask: ‘On all other nights we eat meat that is cooked, boiled or roasted; but this night only roasted meat.’ This text can still be found in the early manuscripts of the Haggadah discovered in the Cairo . It refers to the time when the Temple stood and the food eaten at the seder night included the paschal offering, which was roasted. After the Temple was destroyed and the practice of eating a paschal lamb was discontinued, this question was dropped and another (about reclining) substituted. Was there a fifth child? The late Lubavitcher suggested that there is a fifth child on Pesach. The four children ofthe Haggadah are all present, sitting round the table. The fifth child is the one who is not there, the child lost through outmarriage and assimilation. Rabbinic tradition tells us that in Egypt, many Jews assimilated and did not want to leave. The Torah uses a phrase to describe the ’ departure from Egypt, Vachamushim alu bnei Yisrael miMitzrayim (Exodus 13: 18). This is normally translated as ‘The Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle.’ However Rashi, citing earlier authorities, suggests that hamush may not mean ‘armed.’ Instead it may be related to the word hamesh, ‘five’. The sentence could therefore be translated as, ‘Only a fifth of the Israelites left Egypt.’ The rest, he explains, perished in the plague of darkness. The plague itself was less an affliction of the Egyptians than away of covering the shame of the Israelites, that so many of their number did not want to leave. The loss of Jews through assimilation has been an ongoing tragedy of . How do we allude to it on seder night? By silence: the fifth child – the one who is not there. So the beneath the surface of the Haggadah we find, not four fours, but five fives. In each case there is a missing fifth – a cup, an expression of deliverance, a verse, a question and a child. Each points to something incomplete in our present situation. In the half-century since the Jewish people has emerged from darkness to light. The State of Israel has come into being. The has been reborn. Jews have been brought to safety from the countries where they faced persecution. In the liberal democracies of the West Jews have gained freedom, and even prominence and affluence. But Israel is not yet at peace. In the Diaspora assimilation continues apace. Many Jews are estranged from their people and their faith. Something is missing from our celebration – the fifth cup, the fifth deliverance, the fifth verse, the fifth question and the fifth child. That is a measure of what is still to be achieved. We have not yet reached our destination. The missing fifths remind us of work still to bedone, a journey not yet complete.

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Thursday Night Mishmar (returns after Pesach)

Join us from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm for an hour of learning - and choose your options:

Class, led by Rabbi Mendel Popack

 Mussar Chaburah (Madreigat HaAdam, by the Alter of Navardok), led by Rabbi YD Schwartz  Samson’s Secrets: Interpreting Judges 13-16 With the Help of Modern and Medieval Commentary, led by Rabbi Seth Herstic (8 sessions at $20, starting 4/12)  Or bring a Chavrusa and learn on your own! There will be a Maariv service at 9:00 pm, followed by refreshments!

Calendar of Events

April: 8th: Denver NCSY Yom Hashoa Program 11th: Belleview Latte N’ Learning 15th: Leetsdale Latte N’ Learning 17th: Beit Night 21st: Shabbat w/ DeNCSY 21st: Party with DeNCSY 22nd: Leetsdale Latte N’ Learning 25th: Belleview Latte N’ Learning

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The DAT Minyan wishes to acknowledge the following milestones* of our members in the coming week:

Marise Dobro, Aryeh Fishman, Amira Herstic, Philip Hirsch, Ari Hoffman, Ava Siegel, Nachson Zohari

Nachshon and Shoshana Zohari — 21 years

Rose Feldman — Tue., 4/3/18 (18 Nisan) Gilbert Stein — Wed., 4/4/18 (19 Nisan) Max Cohen — Thu., 4/5/18 (20 Nisan) Beatrice Pomeranz — 4/7/18 (22 Nisan) *These details were obtained from the DAT Minyan database, which contains information provided by the members when they joined. We apologize for any omissions or mistakes. For corrections or additions, please on to your account and update the information, or contact the synagogue office at 720-941-0479. This Day In Jewish History - 31 Mar / 15 Nisan  15 Nisan, 1713 B.C.E - On this day, the 3rd day following his circumcision at age 99, three Malachim / angels visit Abraham: Rephael healed him, and Michael informed Avraham and Sarah that in exactly one year, a son (Yitzchok / Isaac) would be born to them. (The third angel, Gabriel, proceeded to Sodom to destroy the wicked city). (Bereishit / Genesis 18:10).  15 Nisan, 1714 B.C.E. - "Hashem remembered Sarah as He had said; and Hashem did to Sarah as He had spoken. And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which Hashem had spoken to him... Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Yitzchak was born to him on this day. And Sarah declared: 'Hashem has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh ('yitzchak') with me'." (Bereishit / Genesis 21:1-6).  15 Nisan, 1312 B.C.E. - The plague of the firstborn strikes Egypt, and Pharaoh finally accedes to Moses' request to "Let my people go." That night, the Jews held the first Seder, eating matzah, bitter herbs, and the Passover lamb. The next morning, 3 million Jews left in the Exodus from Egypt, in what is known as the "birth" of the Jewish nation. This event is commemorated each year on Passover, when families gather to eat matzah, recite the Haggadah, and thank Hashem for sustaining our people till this day.  March 31, 1979 - Gali Atari, peforming with the group Milk and Honey, wins first place for Israel in the 24th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Hallelujah.“ The competition took place at the Binyanei Ha’ouama Center in Jerusalem.  March 31, 1995 - The first baseball game at Coors Field, and the day that the longest strike in major league baseball ends. The replacement Rockies beat the New York Yankees 4 to 1. Twelve years later, the Rockies would hire their first Jewish pitcher, Jason Hirsh, who would help the team win the National League Penannt in 2007 and bring them to the World Series. Unfortunately, the Rockies lost the Series to the Boston Red Sox in a four-game sweep. Hirsh struggled with injuries and was sent to the minors, eventually retiring from baseball and opening the Jason Hirsh Pitching Academy here in Denver. Refuah Shelayma Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shelayma. Names are kept on the list until the next . Help us keep the list accurate by verifying the necessary details each month on the Cholim Document at https://goo.gl/aeyJG2.

Avraham ben Yonita Lyudmila bat Roza

Baruch Getzel ha Cohen ben Esther Margola Hadassah bat Gitel Sarah

Borukh ben Eydya Moshe Feivel ben Rose

Chaya bat Malka Reuven Yehoshua ben Nechama

Chaya Sarah bat Tzirel Rifka bat Leah

Eliyahu Chaim ha Cohen ben Sara Rifka Rina bat Lea

Eliyahu Dovid ben Ita Sheiva Tziporah Rut bat Cissie

Ita Sheiva bas Udyah Yisroel ben Chana Pesel

Leetal bat Tzofit Yonah Mordechai ben Shprintze Breindel

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PESACH AT THE DAT MINYAN Thursday, March 29 7:05 pm Mincha/Maariv After 8:01 pm Bedikat

Friday, March 30—Erev Yom Tov 6:35 am Shacharit, followed by a Siyum 9:30 am Late Siyum at Brooklyn Pizza 10:31 am Latest time to eat Chametz 11:48 am Latest time to burn Chametz 7:04 pm Candle Lighting 7:05 pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv 8:03 pm Earliest time for Kiddush 1:04 am Chatzot (Midnight)

Shabbat, March 31—Pesach Day 1 8:25 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am Shacharit 10:00 am Groups Begin—NO EARLY CARE One should eat before Mincha 4:35 pm HS Boys’ Gemara w/ Nathan Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home 5:50 pm SHIUR: Rabbi Friedman - “That Fateful Night in Bnei Brak” 6:50 pm Mincha, followed by HAGGADAH TIDBITS ROUNDTABLE—Volunteer to Share Your Seder Insights With Us 8:04 pm Maariv/Earliest time for Kiddush 8:04 pm Candle Lighting

Sunday, April 1—Pesach Day 2 8:25 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am Shacharit 10:00 am Groups Begin—NO EARLY CARE 6:15 pm SHIUR: Yoni Rabinovitch - “Shiur of ‘Kezayit’: How Big WERE Those Olives??” 7:05 pm Mincha, followed by SHIUR: Shua Friedman - “The Love of Learning - Brisk vs Breslav” 8:04 pm Maariv/Havdalah

Monday, April 2—Wednesday, April 4 – Chol Hamoed 6:20 am Shacharit 8:00 am Late Shacharit 7:10 pm Mincha/Maariv

Thursday, April 5—Erev Yom Tov 6:20 am Shacharit 8:00 am Late Shacharit 7:10 pm Candle Lighting (don’t forget to make an Eruv Tavshilin!) 7:10 pm Mincha/Maariv

Friday, April 6—Pesach Day 7 7:30 am Hashkama Minyan 9:00 am Shacharit 9:30 am Groups Begin—Early Care at 9:00 am 6:20 pm SHIUR: Rachel Rabinovitch - “What’s the Big Deal About Yitziat Mitzrayim?” 7:10 pm Mincha/Maariv

Shabbat, April 7—Pesach Day 8 7:30 am Hashkama Minyan 8:25 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am Shacharit 9:30 am Groups Begin—Early Care at 9:00 am 10:30 am Yizkor (approximate time) 5:15 pm SHAWL: Yoni Rabinovitch - “And G-d Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart.” Are All Our Choices Really Our Own? 6:15 pm SHIUR: Aaron Brooks (title TBD) 7:00 pm Mincha, followed by SHIUR: Zev Narrowe (title TBD)