Youth Happenings @ Congregation Etz Chaim

June 3, 2016 Parshat Bechukotai 26 Iyar 5776

Parsha Bechukotai Times & Numbers: THE FARMERS TITHE Candle Lighting- 8:01 The final mitzvah in the book of Vayikra is for a farmer to give Mincha- 7:00 Shacharit- 9:00 am a tenth of his cattle to Hashem. If a Jewish farmer raises cows, NO Teen Minyan- Grad sheep or goats he has a mitzvah to give every tenth new born Kiddush animal to Hashem. This mitzvah is called "Ma'aser Behaima." Tot Shabbat- 10:15am Here's how it's done: Jr. Cong.- 10:15 Upstairs Mincha- 7:55pm Once a year a farmer takes all the animals born that year into a Shabbat Ends- 9:09 stable with a door too small for more than one animal to exit at a time. Their mothers are left outside so the young animals NUMBER OF MITZVOT: 12 will want to leave the stable. The farmer counts the animals as 7 MITZVOT ASEH (positive commandment) they leave. Every 10th animal that comes out is touched with a 15 MITZVOT LO TAASEH (negative stick that has been dipped in red paint. Then the farmer calls commandment – prohibition) out "This animal is Ma'aser." The farmer then takes these NUMBER OF PESUKIM: 78 chosen animals to Yerushalayim where the Kohain slaughters NUMBER OF WORDS: 1013 them. Next, the Kohain burns the inner parts on the Mizbayach NUMBER OF LETTERS: 3992 (Altar) as a sacrifice to Hashem and gives the meat to the farmer who is permitted to eat the meat only in Yerushalayim.

Part of Hashem's plan is to make sure that even a farmer who

@ The Youth House- Shavuot, works morning till night will find the time to study and appreciate . The farmer would then return to his family For Grades 7 and Monday, June 13 1:00pm with a great sense of understanding and welcome the up. Price:Shechina into every aspect of his life. All ages JOSHUA: THE INVINCIBLE CONQUERER !! Yoni’s after school class for teens. welcome Mondays at 6:00pm. Non-members welcome.

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“Quote of the Week” LIVINGSTON “I try to respect everybody without regard to which kind of yarmulke he wears on his head or if he wears a yarmulke at all." IS YONI???

NUMBEREvery OF Friday MITZVOT afternoon: 0 in June at -Rabbi David Stav

NUMBER OF PESUKIM: 52 NUMBER approx. OF WORDS: 1:45pm. 614 Yoni will be - NUMBERposting/sending OF LETTERS: out a 226 selfie in a local

establishment. The first 6 kids to figure

out where Yoni is and show up there DID YOU KNOW?

win prizes from that place of business!

Congregation Etz Chaim: www. etzchaimnj.org

Rabbi E. Samuel Klibanoff

Rabbi Natan Kapustin, Assistant Rabbi

Rabbi Shlomo Krupka, Rabbi Emeritus David Lentz & Shelly Paradis , Presidents Yoni Glatt, Youth Director .

YIDDLE RIDDLE! . THE FIRST KID TO TELL YONI THE ANSWER GETS $3 MM, THE SECOND GETS $2, AND THE THIRD GETS $1- NO BEST SHAVUOT EVER! TELLING THE ANSWER TO EACH OTHER! a nEW SHAVUOT ANNOUNCEMENT EACH WEEK!

this week: the amazing race is back! Sunday Shavuot is almost here, it’s the truth And on it we read the book of ruth afternoon at 5:00pm. Grades 1-7. Teams will be The midrash says she this nephew that was bad He was pretty big and died when he was mad made at the start of the race!

Last WEEK: WE WILL BE JOINED BY “TORAH TOURS” – A GROUP OF yu & Stern students who will be helping in all of our programming. Plus our very own JORDAN STARK will be doing a q Last Week: & a on his idf experience! Find this number, it’s not so distressing Just take the days we count with a blessing 2 weeks ago: all you can eat fresh pizza!! Our dairy ovens will be-a-burning as we prepare delicious Then add the day Jews go to Meron pie after delicious pie. Choose from 5 different cheeses, 3 different doughs, and loads of toppings, including kosher pepperoni & sausage. Served until 2:30am . This is easy, you can do it on your own (1 guess each!) 3 Weeks Ago: This year we will be having our first ever ALL-NIGHT RAFFLE! EVERY HOUR, FROM MIDNIGHT TIL 5:00AM, WE WILL A- 82 GIVING AWAY AN INCREDIBLE PRIZEs.

Basketball is back!!!!!!

Friday 4:::30 PM Rav David HaLevi Segal, also known as the Turei Zahav, or more famously The atBasketball the glatTS is back!!!!!! Taz, was born in Ludmir, Ukraine. He became a reputed Talmudic scholar, and

married the daughter of Rabbi Yoel Sirkis of Brest, Belarus whom he frequently BOYS Friday IN GRADES 3:::30 7 PM quoted in his works.After residing with his in-laws and continuing his Torah AND atUP the glatTS studies for several years, The Taz and his family moved to Kraków, Poland. He ARE WELCOme. was then appointed chief rabbi of Potelych, Poland, where he lived in great

Weather poverty. Later he went to Poznań, Poland where he remained for several years. permitting. ! Around 1641 he became rabbi of the old community of Ostrog, in Slovenia. There

The Taz established a famous , and was soon recognized as one of the great halakhic authorities of his time. In Ostrog, he wrote a commentary on R’ Joseph TALK IT OUT TORAH Caro's (Yoreh De'ah), which he published in in 1646. This

Jennifer Romanoff’s final commentary, known as the Turei Zahav ("Rows of Gold"), was accepted as one of the highest authorities on Jewish law. Thereafter, Segal became known by the school class will be acronym of his work, the TaZ.Two years after the publication of his commentary, on June 15- Grades 8-12. The Taz and his family had to flee the massacres of the Cossack insurrection under Dinner & snacks served. Bogdan Chmielnicki in 1648–1649. The Taz went to Steinitz, Moravia (Czech Always free & always fun! Republic), where he remained for some time. Not happy there, he returned to Poland as soon as order was restored, settling in Lemberg for the rest of his life. MIDOT MATTER MOST: In Lemberg, The Taz was appointed Av Beit Din & became chief rabbi as well.

USING BAD LANGUAGE DOESN’T The Taz’s last days were saddened by the death of his two sons, Mordechai and MAKE YOU COOL.; IT MAKES Solomon, who were killed in the riots occurring in Lemberg in the spring of 1664. YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE His wife had died long before; and The Taz married the widow of her brother, Rav TRYING TO BE COOL. Samuel Hirz. His third son from his first marriage, Isaiah, and his stepson, Aryeh

The most important word: Löb, were the two Polish scholars who were sent to Turkey in 1666 to investigate

Altruism- Al·tru·ism n. the claims of the false-Messiah, Shabbetai Tzvi. The two returned with a present

1. Unselfish concern for the welfare for Segal from Shabbetai Tzvi — a white silk robe, along with a letter in which the of others; selflessness. latter promised to avenge the wrongs of the Jews of Poland (he didn’t).

2. Zoology-behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be The Taz’s descendants were the Russian rabbinical family Paltrowitch, which harmful to itself but that benefits produced 33 rabbis over several generations; it’s believed actress Gwyneth others of its species. Paltrow and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords are also descendants. BE AN ALTRUIST!!!