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Congregation Torah Ohr 19146 Lyons Road, Boca Raton, FL 33434 (561) 479-4049 Rabbi Benjamin S May 22— 28, 2020 28 Iyar — 5 Sivan 5780 Congregation Torah Ohr 19146 Lyons Road, Boca Raton, FL 33434 (561) 479-4049 www.torahohrboca.org Rabbi Benjamin S. Yasgur President Jonas Waizer Office Hours Mon. - Thur. 9:00am - 3:00pm Friday 9:00am - 12noon SHABBAT SCHEDULE Bamidbar Shabbat Mevorchim Parasha pg. 726◆ Haftarah pg. 1207 FRIDAY, May 22nd CANDLE LIGHTING Earliest 6:40pm Standard 7:46pm Mishnah Yomit (online) 5:45pm SHABBAT Latest Shema 9:53am Shabbat Ends 8:44pm WEEKDAY SCHEDULE Earliest Davening (Fri-Thurs) 5:13am* Earliest Tallit/Tefillin (Fri-Thurs) 5:44am* Daf Yomi (online) 8:15am Gemara Brachos (online) 9:15am Mishnah Yomit (online) 5:45pm Mishnah Berurah (online) 8:00pm Daven Mincha (S-Th) prior to 8:06pm* Repeat Kriat Shema after 8:46pm* *These are the latest times during the week DAVENING and TOGETHERNESS While minyanim are suspended because of our commitment to preserving good health, we can give one another an emotional and spiritual boost by davening at the same times, whenever possible. Recommended times for Weekday Shacharit : NOTES on SHABBAT and the MONTH of SIVAN 7:30, 8:00 & 8:30 am Times for Weekday Mincha: This Shabbat is Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. We may bentch Rosh Chodesh at home. Earliest time is 1:52pm (ArtScroll Siddur page 452) Rosh Chodesh Sivan is one day, Sunday. The new moon will Recommended times for Weekday Mincha: have made its first appearance on Friday morning at 42 minutes and 13 chalakim/ 6:30pm & 7:55pm portions past 11:00am, Israel time. Because of the partial mourning customs during Sefirat HaOmer, we do recite Av HaRachamim following Rosh Chodesh Bentching. Recommended times for Weekday Ma’ariv: However, at Mincha, we do not recite Tzidkatcha Tzedek. After 8:46 (Tzait) After 8:08 (Shkiah) The Haftara for Shabbat Erev Rosh Chodesh is referred to as Machar Chodesh depicting Note: During the spring and summer months we the future King David’s tenuous safety in the presence of King Saul. David and Yonatan rely on the leniency to daven Ma’ariv after Plag have an emotionally charged meeting as David prepares to flee. The Haftara is found in when physically davening with a minyan. When a Sefer Shmuel Aleph Chapter 20 verses 18-42. minyan is not available, the earliest Ma’ariv should begin, Sunday-Thursday, is after sunset As Rosh Chodesh begins Motza’ai Shabbat, we add Ya’aleh V’Yavo starting with the (see times above). In order to extend the holiness Ma’ariv Amida. We do not recite Vehi Noam this Motza’ai Shabbat as we will celebrate of Shabbat, we may daven Friday’s Shabbat Chag HaShavuot during the coming week. Ma’ariv after Plag, this week after 6:40pm. As of Rosh Chodesh, we suspend the recitation of Tachanun. The minhag of Torah Ohr is One doing so should daven Mincha before Plag. to suspend its recitation through the 13th of Sivan. (Others suspend through the 12th; with some suspending only through the day following Shavuot, known as Isru Chag.) It is May our united prayers bring added blessings to the Ashkenazic custom to say Lamenatzai’ach in weekday Shacharit even during the days our community and Klal Yisrael. of the suspension of Tachanun. SPONSORSHIPS Year of Learning ע'ה Learning Friends in memory of Saul Chapman, Yisrael Kalman ben Moshe (ע'ה Charlotte Chandler Stone in memory of her brother, Steven Chandler (Shalom ben Moshe Dovid (ע'ה Dov Bodlander in memory of his wife, Adele Bodlander (Odel bat Yehudah Tzvi (ע'ה Dr. Paul Koenigsberg in memory of his brother, Dr. Sam Koenigsberg (Shimeon Reuven ben Laybish (ע'ה and Ed Goldberg’s cousin, Nissim Hara (Nissim ben Fardosah (ע'ה Paula and Bob Bromberg in memory of their dear friend, Julian Smith (Yehuda ben Yisroel Yisroel Dovid ben ,ע'ה Sarah bat Ephraim ,ע'ה In Memory of Malka Mann’s family murdered in the Holocaust; HaRav Tzvi Hersh ben Shlomo Yaakov ,ע'ה Miriam bat HaRav Tzvi Hersh ,ע'ה Adiya bat HaRav Tzvi Hersh ,ע'ה Ephraim ben HaRav Tzvi Hersh ,ע'ה HaRav Tzvi Hersh ע'ה Shmuel ben HaRav Tzvi Hersh ,ע'ה Shlomo Yaakov ben HaRav Tzvi Hersh ,ע'ה Shalom ben HaRav Tzvi Hersh ,ע'ה Pesel bat HaRav Tzvi Hersh Month of Learning Sponsored by In Memory of ע'ה Bea Peyser her father, Yissacher Dov ben Shmuel 4/24-5/22 ע'ה Haren and Mel Haller her father, Yosef Eliezer ben Tzvi Hirsch 5/1-5/29 ,ע'ה his father, Avraham ben Yehuda ,ע'ה Eva and David Love his mother, Raizel bat Ephraim 5/8-6/5 ע'ה and her father, Shimon Avraham ben Yosef ,ע'ה her mother, Chaya Alter bat Avroham ע'ה Friends of Rabbi Dr. Moshe Kranzler his sister, Zipporah Baila bat Yerachmiel 5/15-6/12 ע'ה Mel and Haren Haller his brother, Yaakov ben Avrohom 5/22-6/19 Week of Learning Sponsored by In Memory of ע'ה Marsha and Dr. Peter Brody her father, David ben Aliezer Yehuda 5/15-5/22 5/22-5/29 Minnie Shavrick All those we have lost to COVID-19 ע'ה and her cousin, Masha Leah bat Avraham ,ע'ה Marcia and Gary Schrager her father, Shmuel ben Meir 5/22-5/29 Day of Learning plus Torah Fund Sponsored by In Memory of ע'ה Judy Fuchs her sister, Tzirel bat Eliyahu 5/22 ע'ה Harry and Pesha Aftel his mother, Leah Dvora bat Lieber 5/26 Day of Learning Sponsored by In Memory of ע'ה Ernie Bloom his father, Binyamin ben Moshe HaCohen 5/22 ע'ה Judy and Bob Thaler her mother, Chana bat Dov 5/22 ע'ה Jerry and Rachelle Ebner his mother, Ronya bat Yaakov Yitzchak 5/25 ע'ה Silke Komin her mother, Gittel Ettya bat Yitzchok 5/25 ע'ה Eli and Sheila Zimmerman his mother, Chana bat Yisrael Yaakov HaLevi 5/26 ע'ה Milton and Gail Meller his wife, Tzivya bat Shmuel 5/26 ע'ה Bob and Judy Thaler his father, David Eliyahu ben Chaim Yaakov 5/27 ע'ה Zahava Baum her mother, Kayla bat Eliyahu 5/28 ע'ה Bob and Paula Bromberg his mother, Chana bat Yisroel Elimelech HaCohen 5/28 Do you have a Talis you are not using? Mazel Tov The Neshama Chapel has asked for our Judy Goldman on the birth of a grandson help in gathering talaisim which are no Barbara Goldfarb on the engagement of a granddaughter longer in use. Neshama is often called upon Karen and Marty Moskowitz on the Bat Mitzvah of a granddaughter to help a family secure a Talis as part of the final honor extended to the deceased. Condolences to Please place your donated Talis in a plastic bag and deposit it in the labeled box in ע'ה Natalie Baitner on the passing of her husband, Sam Baitner .on his passing front of the Shul ע'ה Condolences to the family of Jerry Avruch REFUAH SHELAYMAH Sam Colman (Shmuel ben Sarah Rachel), Ruth Dahan (Chaya Rachel Esther bat Aidle), Harriet Friedman (Ettel bat Batya), Avi Gittler (Avraham Maier ben Raizel), Martha Gittler (Charna bat Rivka), Ohra Hahn (Ohra Miriam bat Sarah), George Heino (Rafael Yaakov Yissocher Noson HaCohen ben Alta Elka), Rabbi Michael Kanterovitz (Rav Michael ben Batia), Art Kraut (Eliezer Anshel ben Perl Gittel), Aviva Levine (Aviva Rachel bat Tzila), Malka Levy (Malka bat Leah), Molly Lieberman (Malka bat Esther), Charles Meyers (Meier ben Chava), Mitchel Nerenberg (Menachem Mendel ben Leah), Heshy Plotkin (Elchanan Tzvi ben Rachel Leah), Jay Rosenfeld (Yehuda Baruch ben Golda), Rachel Rosner (Rachel bat Toiba), Barbara Sterman (Bracha bat Batya), Heni Weisfogel (Esther Hena bat Gitel), Susan Wertman (Chaya Sarah bat Leah), Reuven Eliyahu ben Shaindel Malka, Elchanan Yisrael Ben Devora Leah, Ahuva bat Tema, Aharon Dov ben Tiferet Chana, Zelda bat Kayla SEFER TORAH FUND DONATIONS (through May 22, 2020) ע'ה Barbara Hollander in memory of Marsha Federbush’s brother, David bat Menachem Mendel ע'ה Shirley and Marvin Weinstein in memory of Marsha Federbush’s brother, David bat Menachem Mendel ע'ה Shirley and Marvin Weinstein in memory of Abe Levy’s brother, Yosef ben Yehoshua ע'ה Eleanor Pimentel in memory of her mother, Hinda Miriam bat Yeruchem Shimon (ע'ה Pesha and Harry Aftel in memory of their friend, Adele Kaufman (Devorah Necha bat Mordechai Tzvi ע'ה Pesha and Harry Aftel in memory of Rabbi Moshe Kranzler’s sister, Zipporah Baila bat Yerachmiel (ע'ה Pesha and Harry Aftel in memory of Steven Love (Shimon ben Avraham ע'ה Pesha and Harry Aftel in memory of Eva Love’s mother, Chaya Alta bat Avrohom ע'ה Rosanne Barr in memory of her grandmother, Perel bat Shalom Leib ע'ה Rhoda Mashiah in memory of her sister, Esther Yacha bat Noach (ע'ה Lynn Rappaport in memory of her friend, Dr. Irma Hausdorff Presser (Chaya Leah bat Zeev HaCohain ע'ה Lynn Rappaport in memory of her mother-in-law, Shayna bat Avraham HaCohen ע'ה Chana Lanis in memory of her mother, Raisa Rachel bat Govshia Falik ע'ה Gloria Greenfield in memory of her brother-in-law, Chaim ben Yaacov ע'ה Shmuel and Henya Novick in memory of his mother, Leah bat Yaacov (ע'ה Sarah and Perry Grossman in memory of their friend, Carl Heit (Chaim ben Shlomo If you need to contact Rabbi Yasgur, the best number to use at this time is his cell phone, (203) 526-4014, or you may email him at [email protected] CDC Tips for Social Distancing Follow guidance from authorities where you live.
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