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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 • 21 E LUL 5779 • P ARSHAT KI TAVO SHABBAT SCHEDULE COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS EREV SHABBAT MAZAL TOV 6:40PM Candle-lighting Alvin Hellerstein , on becoming a great grandfather to a baby girl, 6:45PM Minchah (Main Sanctuary, 3rd floor) born in Shaare Zedek hospital to his granddaughter Ruth (Hellerstein) 6:45PM Young Leadership Kabbalat Shabbat (1st floor) Goldstein and Ephraim Goldstein September 8, 2019 (8 Ellul), and named (Eden Malka), in memory of Mildred Hellerstein SHABBAT 7:45AM Hashkama (4th floor) CONDOLENCES 8:30AM Kids Club with Levine Dr. Mark Kaufmann on the passing of his father Paul Kaufmann 9:00AM (5th floor) 9:15AM Hashkama with Rabbi Elie Buechler, Last Minute Teshuva THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS and the Tears of Rebbi Yehudah haNassi (lower level) Avi Schwartz and Arianne Thaler 9:15AM Young Leadership (1st floor) 10:00AM Youth Groups Thank you to our CSS members whose efforts help maintain a safe 11:00AM Scholar In Residence Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier, It’s All the shul for our community. Rage: A High Holiday Strategy to Control Your Anger 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) 5:15PM Pre-Minchah Shiur with Dr. Flatto, The Lonely Provencal Special thanks to our guest Chazzan this Shabbat, of Faith Elie Landau 5:30PM 6:15PM Minchah (1st floor) Moshe Green Tochnit Scholar In Residence with Dr. David Flatto, Slaves Wearing Crowns: Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier Renewal in the Thought of Maimonides Shabbat, September 21st at 11AM 7:39PM Shabbat Concludes It’s All the Rage: 10:30PM Pre Shiur with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, Starting the A High Holiday Strategy to Control Your Anger Selichot Season: Understanding the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier serves as the spiritual leader of 11:00PM Selichot Shir Hadash on Emek, in . He made aliya with his family in July 2015 from New York City, where he served as senior rabbi of Manhattan's THANK YOU TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: Fifth Avenue (2003-2015) and he previously served as rabbi of Hong Kong's Ohel Synagogue (1997-2003). The Members of the Board of Trustees and Administrative Committee are pleased to sponsor kiddush in honor of the Centennial renovation Pre-Minchah Shiur with Dr. David Flatto of our Sanctuary and to express our thanks to Michael Jacobs for his The Lonely Provencal of Faith tireless efforts in turning the vision for this project into reality. Please Seudah Shlishit see page 3 for a complete list of sponsors. Slaves Wearing Crowns: Renewal in the Thought of Maimonides Community Kiddush: Dr. Flatto is Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy at Rabbi Robert & Virginia Bayer Hirt in honor of Moish Jacobs for the Hebrew University. great job he did overseeing the renovation of the sanctuary Kathy & Milton Parnass in commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Milton's Annual Teshuvah Shiur with Rabbi Meir Goldwicht mother, Rose Parnass, Rochel Eydil bat R' Mordechai & there Brother- Wednesday, September 25th at 8:00PM in-law Sam Schechter, Shamaya ben R' Yehuda How Do We Merit God's Acceptance of our Prayer? Seudah Shlishit: At the home of Debbie & Philipe Benedict Esty & Moish Jacobs in commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Moish's 125 Riverside Drive (84-85) apt 7A father, Alexander Jacobs, Yeshaya Simcha ben Yehoshua Roberta, Jessica and Jeremy Sigall , in commemoration of the fourth APPEAL Yahrzeit of their beloved husband and father, Michael Sigall, Zev ben Aryeh Leib We have begun our annual Yom Kippur Appeal. The Yom Kippur Appeal is a critical fundraising campaign and helps The Jewish Center meet its operating budget and provide its many activities and services. We hope that you'll DAILY SERVICE TIMES consider giving early and generously. For questions, please do not hesitate to speak with our committee chairs, Scott Fisher & Drew Newton. To donate Sunday, Sept. 22 Monday, Sept. 23- Friday, Sept. 27 please visit jewishcenter.org and click on the ‘support us’ tab. See insert for 7:45AM Daf Yomi Thursday, Sept. 26 6:40/7:40AM Shach complete list of sponsors. 8:30AM Shacharit 6:40/7:40AM Shacharit 7:45AM Daf Yomi 6:35PM Minchah 7:45AM Daf Yomi 6:29PM Candle-lighting SAVE THE DATE 6:35PM Minchah 6:30PM Minchah Shabbat Shuvah Drashah by Rabbi Yosie Levine October 5th at 11:00AM WOMEN’S TEHILLIM GROUP: A History of Teshuva: Monday, September 23rd, 2019 at 7:15PM The Winding Path of Penitence and Where it Leads Contact Joyce Weitz for more information at 212-877-1176 The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 UPCOMING EVENTS Volunteer for Dorot Package Delivery Auschwitz Exhibit

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PREPARING FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS YOUNG LEADERSHIP UPDATES The high holidays are quickly approaching! YL Teshuva Shiur YL Musical Selichot with Rabbi Elie Buechler Wednesday, September 25th at Don’t forget to: Monday, September 23rd at 9:00PM 9:30PM • Order your and Is Teshuva Really Worth It? • Reserve meals in our Sukkah • Contribute to our Yom Kippur Appeal MOSHE GREEN TOCHNIT ELUL SHABBAT LEARNING AT THE JEWISH CENTER • Host guest for a Yom Tov meal Pre- Elul Series Visit our website or contact at September 21st, Dr. David Flatto : Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy at [email protected] for more information. Hebrew University. The Lonely Provencal of Faith

SHOFAR BLOWING September 28th, Ora Weinbach : Community Educator, Tensions of Testimony: When We would like to provide everyone with the opportunity to hear Emotions Get Involved in Declaring the New Year the on Rosh Hashanah. If someone you know will not be in shul and would like to have the shofar blown at home, or if you October 5th, Rabbi Noach Goldstein : Assistant Rabbi, Rabbi Soloveitchik's U-Vikashtem would like to volunteer to blow shofar, please contact Rabbi Elie Mi-Sham and the Journey From Rosh Hashanah to Buechler at [email protected]. Seudah Shlishit Series YOM KIPPUR CHESED OPPORTUNITY September 21st, Dr. David Flatto : Slaves Wearing Crowns: Renewal in the Thought of Each year on Yom Kippur, following a group heads out Maimonides to visit the home-bound in our community. It is a wonderful Dr. Flatto is Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy at Hebrew University. opportunity to enhance the spirit of the day for those who cannot be with us in shul. If you know of anyone who would September 28th, Rabbi Elchanan Poupko : The Harvard Loneliness Study & the Meaning appreciate a visit or if you are able to make a visit, please of Rosh Hashanah contact Rabbi Elie Buechler at [email protected]. Rabbi Poupko teaches at the Park East Day School and Hebrew School and is the president of EITAN-The American Israeli Jewish Network. JEWISH CENTER UNIVERSITY Semester begins September 9th, 2019 For more information visit our website or contact Rabbi Elie Buechler at [email protected] Daily: Friedman Daf Yomi with rotating JCU Faculty at 7:45AM MONDAY featuring great food and spirited learning and WEDNESDAY The Ultimate Trial: Understanding Akeidat Yitzchak discussion. For women only. Women of the Bible Rabbi Noach Goldstein The Women who Invented Teshuvah 8:00PM Rabbi Yosie Levine TUESDAY 11:00AM-12:00PM TUESDAY Teshuvah and the Afterlife Nosh and Drash Sadye & Henry Bayer Tanakh Class With Dr. Adena Berkowitz Rabbi Yosie Levine 10:15AM-11:30AM 7:30PM Join us for this weekly Parsha shiur focusing on intellectual and spiritual insights from the , Bikkurim: Gratitude for Present and Past Yosie Levine Parshat Ki Tavo 5779 Rabbi Rabbi Noach Goldstein, Assistant Rabbi Eliezer Buechler The dust is slowly settling from the most recent transmit that understanding to subsequent Assistant Rabbi Israeli election, and while we may still have no idea generations. That visceral sense of newness, of not- Noach Goldstein who the next prime minister will be (the wait for our to-be-taken-for-granted-ness, is preserved each Assistant Rabbi sanctuary renovation may seem like a breeze in year by transporting ourselves back to those early comparison), any Israeli election is an excellent days and treating the year’s new fruits as if they Ora Weinbach opportunity to take a momentary step back and were the first fruits we had ever harvested here. It is Community Educator marvel at the miracle we may so easily take for no coincidence that we recite these verses at the granted of a thriving Jewish polity in our homeland. Seder night, the night we imagine ourselves having Shua Brick just left Egypt. William Fischman Rabbinic Intern Bikkurim, the opening of our sedra, is all & Teen Coordinator about gratitude for the Land. But it is more complex The Chatam Sofer develops a second element as than that. We can identify at least two distinct ways well. (Sifrei 297) have an extremely Aaron Strum in which the mitzvah of bikkurim plays with enigmatic that seems to interpret Ki Tavo’s opening Executive Director chronology in order to produce a more profound verse as stating that Bnei Yisrael will merit to inherit and layered profession of gratitude than a simple the Land on condition that they enter the Land. To Batsheva Leibtag thank you, both of which are relevant to our current explain what on earth this could mean, the Chatam Director of reality. Sofer demonstrates from a number of examples Programming and Communications First, the impression of the farmer’s declaration that the Torah deems it essential to relate to Eretz when he brings his first fruits to the Mikdash is that Yisrael as our own even when we do not merit to Cromwell not only are the fruits new, but he himself is new to dwell there. Therefore, what the Sifrei means is that Youth Director the land. “I profess today to Hashem your God that if we live in the Diaspora with the attitude that the I have come into the Land that Hashem swore to our Land still belongs to us, that will generate the merit OFFICERS fathers to give to us” (26:3). Centuries after the for us to truly inherit the Land and fulfill the mitzvah Andrew Borodach Exodus, a tenth-generation farmer walks into the of bikkurim. President Temple and makes a declaration of gratitude that sounds as if he just got off the boat (figuratively) It is inspiring to think that the Chatam Sofer Mark Segall First Vice President from Egypt! And this is the ethos of the farmer’s advanced this theory in early 19th century Austria- entire subsequent statement, as he traces the course Hungary, when the idea of a Medinat Yisrael was a Len Berman of Jewish history from our descent to Egypt to our distant dream and had known nothing but Vice President arrival in the Land, culminating with the farmer now exile for nearly 1800 years. We were indeed able Aliza Herzberg bringing his first fruits. to come back because of our inexhaustible faith that Vice President one day we would do so. The simple need for The reason for this seems clear. We can imagine gratitude is obvious. But the mitzvah of bikkurim Michael Jacobs Vice President how obvious it felt in the first year Jews ever teaches that in order to properly sense and express brought bikkurim, right after entering and that gratitude, we have to consider not only the Scott Black miraculously conquering the country, that they owed present but the past as well, remembering both the Treasurer their enjoyment of the Land and everything in it to thrill of our beginnings in the Land and the long Daniel God’s generosity. The challenge was how to years of faith that it took to get there. Assistant Treasurer

ISRAEL UPDATE Naomi Goldman Secretary September 20th, 2019 Nearly 70% of Israelis Vote in Unprecedented Election LOCAL RESOURCES On Sept. 17, Israeli voters returned to the polls across the country to decide the newest members of Israel’s Yoetzet Halacha parliament, the Knesset. These unprecedented follow-up elections, the first in the country’s history, were Shiffy Friedman triggered by the Knesset’s dissolution vote in May after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to [email protected] 646-598-1080 form a new government. To encourage voter participation, Israel's Election Day is a national holiday. President Reuven Rivlin called it the "festival of Democracy." Parents were encouraged to bring their Jewish Center children to the polls and public transportation was free. Turnout in the race was 69.4 percent, higher than the previous election and notably higher than that of U.S. elections. Arab turnout was also up from the 212-724-2700 x555 previous election. The President of Israel must now choose a member of Knesset to form the next coalition. UWS Mikvah The strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship is rooted in both countries’ shared values and common interests. 212-579-2011 Regardless of the composition of the new government, which has yet to be determined, the U.S.-Israel relationship must remain strong and continue to transcend partisan politics, for the benefit of both nations. Hatzoloh 212-230-1000

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