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Erev Shabbat Schedule This Week’s Kiddush Earliest Candle Lighting 6:42 PM is Being Sponsored by: Calling Out to All Beth Israel Mincha 6:45 PM Congregation Members! Early Candle Lighting 7:00 PM Michelle & Adrian Green We Kindly Ask You to Submit Your Latest Candle Lighting 7:50 PM In Honor of Their Daughter Scheduled Simcha Dates (Such as

Shabbat Schedule Tiffany’s Upcoming Bar & Bat Mitzvahs) for the 2018 Marriage to Andrew Ross – 2019 Calendar Hashkama Minyan 7:30 AM Please Contact the Office Main Minyan 9:00 AM Teen Minyan 9:30 AM Mazal Tov Youth Groups Announcements

Mincha 7:50 PM Michelle & Adrian Green 9:15 Pre- Groups with Morah Esti Maariv 8:40 PM On the Upcoming Marriage Their 9:30 Regular Groups Begin with Shabbat Ends 8:47 PM Youth Leaders Daughter Sunday June 3rd – Friday June 8th Tiffany to Andrew Ross Mazal Tov Morah Esti Garfinkel Shacharit 7:00 AM & 8:00 AM on her forthcoming Marriage! Monday June 4th – Friday June 8th Brenda & Jeff Eisner Congratulations to this Past Additional Shacharit 8:45AM On the Birth of a Grandson Born Week’s to Their Children Sunday June 3rd – Thursday June 7th Reina & Eli Mendelson Diamond Daveners

Mincha / Maariv 8:00 PM Malkah & Harold Tokayer Moshe Bossewitch

th Shaya Silverstone HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: On the Birth of their 12 Great Aryeh Holzer, Marsha Schwartz, Grandchild Born to Middot Award Michael Reinhard, Seymour Feld, Ilana (Neufeld) Borg & Yehuda Borg Dean Wasserman, Kobi Roth, Sorelle Silverstone Freida Roth

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO: Farewell Shalosh Seudot to Alyssa & Menachem Baumgarten Song of the Week Tali & Warren Newfield the Ney Family Tiny Tots groups will be learning

Shabbat June 9th “Drippety Drippety Drop" & "2 Rabbi Bixon’s Weekday Trumpets to Make the Sounds"

Parshat Shelach Classes TEEN SHABBAT PROGRAMS No Monday Women’s Class All Beth Israel Congregants are TEEN MINYAN 9:15 AM invited to Bid Farewell to the Ney Begins at 9:30am We encourage Family & to Honor our Beloved Wednesday Advanced Talmud all of our teens to arrive on time Rabbi Ney for the Love &

After Maariv Dedication He Has Shown Our Teen Seudat Shlishit Teenagers at Beth Israel Seudat Shlishit will take place Sponsorship Available between Mincha & Maariv with Welcome! $36 per Family ~ Please Contact Rabbi Ney, Rabbi G. & The Beth Israel Congregation Bermanator – Ben Berman the Office Would like to Welcome Our CALLING ALL New Members Dads & Grads Kiddush BETH ISRAEL’S YOUTH Ilana & Dovi Lamet Shabbat June 16th June 9th ~ Parshat Shelah Parshat Korach Special Youth Shabbat Teens will be participating and helping Great Way to Honor the Fathers run the Main Minyan from Gabbai to

& Grads Leining, from Davening to Speaking

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Beth Israel Congregation Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro z”l Sanctuary

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770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Behaalotecha June 2nd, 2018 ~ 19 Sivan 5778 long for a long prayer if given for his TAKEAWAY MESSAGE: Moshe’s Parshat Behaalotecha sister! And so, to reiterate the above paradigmatic short but sweet prayer for question, is long prayer good or not? the healing of his leprous sister showed SET when he/קֶ בַע by: Ari Ciment that he was not ANSWER: Long prayer is indeed davened. He was so moved by the IS LONG PRAYER BETTER THAN praiseworthy: The gemara in Brachot horrific repercussions of her sin, that he SHORT PRAYER AND SHOULD 32b highlights the benefit of long did not want to potentially sin with his PRAYERS BE SET? prayer: If one prays long, his prayer very tefilah, by misleading people to does not pass unheeded!” So, then the think that she needed lots of tefilah to רַ בִּישִׁמְ עֹון אֹומֵ ר, ... וּכְשֶׁאַתָּה מִתְ פַּלֵּל, אַ ל 1st medrash that implies that long heal her! LONG PRAYER THUS IS תַּ עַשׂ תְּ פִ לָּתְ ָך קֶ בַע, אֶ לָּא רַ חֲמִ ים וְתַ חֲנוּנִים prayer is undesirable is the one that GENERALLY PREFERRED OVER לִפְ נֵיהַמָּ קֹום בָּרוְּך הוּא, “Rabbi Shimon would say: ... When needs explanation: “His sister is in SHORT PRAYER; PRAYERS you pray, do not make your prayers distress, yet he stands and prolongs his SHOULD BE SET BUT THE ONE prayer.” WHO PRAYS NEEDS TO BE [routine, but [an entreaty of/קֶ בַע Instead of looking at this medrash as a “MOVED” AND NOT SET!!!! DON’T mercy and a supplication before the knock on long prayer, there is another MAKE YOUR PRAYER “SET” BUT Almighty...” (ETHICS 2:10) way to look at it: Moshe knew that if he CHANGE SOMETHING TO MAKE QUESTION#1: What does it mean would prolong his prayer, people may YOUR PRAYER EFFICACIOUS! not to make your priorities routine? actually misconstrue that Miriam was so Don’t we strive to have set times for nefarious in needing such help- this would have been essentially passive shachrit, mincha and maariv and and lead (אַ בַק לַשֹון הָרַ ע) Lashon Hara kudos to all those that go to minyan people to needlessly think badly of on time? Miriam. Moses so internalized the An answer derived from the dangers of even the fringes of Lashon quintessential Tefilah found in this Hara, that he did not want to lead the week’s parsha after Miriam spoke people astray in their thoughts! Lashon Hara and was smitten with When the Tanna in Avos says that leprosy. Moshe screamed out: Tefilah should be SET, this is classically Rashi brings understood that tefilah should be rote; it וַ ִיּ ְצ ַעק ... ֵאל ָנא ְר ָפא ָנא ָלהּ down 2 midrashim: FIRST MIDRASH: shouldn’t be a fixed passage devoid of “Why did Moses not pray at length? So fluidity. But SET can also refer to the that the Israelites should not say, “His actual people praying as well: the tefilah sister is in distress, yet he stands and should be done in a way that changes prolongs his prayer.” [Sifrei the one praying so that he/she Beha’alothecha 1:42:13, Tanchuma demonstrates they are not SET but Tzav 13] Another interpretation rather “moved” by whatever they are (SECOND MIDRASH): So that Israel praying about. Moshe so internalized the should not say, “For his sister he prays dangers of Lashon Hara that he saw at length, but for our sake he does not affecting his very sister Miriam, that in pray at length.” - [Midrash Aggadah, response, his very prayer for her Yalkut Shim’oni, Midrash Lekach Tov] recovery was done in such a sensitive way so as not to smell of Lashon Hara in QUESTION #2: Acc to Rashi’s first and of itself! Moshe thus perhaps didn’t medrash, the implication seems to be limit his prayer’s length because people that long prayer is undesirable; after would think he should tend to her all, why would the Israelites find fault instead but rather he limited the prayer’s with Moshe praying at length unless length so that people wouldn’t err and there was something wrong with doing think that she was so bad and needed a nd that! Conversely, the 2 medrash lengthy prayer to recover! implies that long prayer is actually desirable; after all, Bnei Yisroel would