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In This Edition Rosh Hashanah 5781

Letter from the Editor...... 3 Yamim Noraim Message by Boruch M. Boudilovsky...... 4 Nachas (Since Pesach 5780)...... 6 Chairman’s Message by Graham Nussbaum...... 7 Chatan : Rabbi David Woolf...... 8 Chatan : Ronnie Lawrence...... 9 It’s Tradition by Hazel Broch...... 11 It Happened on Rosh Hashanah by Dr Mervyn Leviton...... 12 The Yamim Noraim Prayers by David Levy...... 14 Daf Corner – Removing Our Spiritual Corona Obstructions by Rabbi Ozer (Edward) Feigelman...... 17 Ecclesiastes: A Book of Hope and Purpose for the World that we read on Sukkot by Chaim Yosef Mendelbaum...... 18 Barkhi Nafshi by Anthony Felix ...... 22 D-day Memories by Graham Nussbaum...... 24 Celebrating the Extraordinary Life of Dr. Eugene Heimler — A True Jewish Hero of the 20th Century by Miriam Bracha Heimler...... 28 My Experiences on the First March of the Living in 1988 by Sender Lees...... 32 From Mask to Mask by Maureen Marcovitch...... 35 Ode to Shul WhatsApp by Avril Kormornick...... 35 My Meetings with the Great and Good of by Arnie Fine...... 37 Corona Thoughts by Natalie Green...... 38 Do you recognize him?...... 38 My Wartime Memories and Corona by Philip Platt...... 39 House of Glass — The Story of a Twentieth Century Jewish Family by Stuart West...... 40 Letter to the Editor from Ria Maissel...... 40 New Year Greetings 5781...... 42 Don’t Slip this Article — “Knit One Purl One” by Hazel Broch...... 43 A Chance Encounter? by Lynette Ordman...... 43 COMMUNITY REPORTS...... 44-49 Contacting the Shul by Email– A User’s Guide...... 49 Colour My Life by Janette Moore...... 49 Shiurim on Zoom...... 50 USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS...... 52

The YINN Magazine is edited by Alan Gold and Sharon Carr. Design by Therese Berkowitz. Photography: Avril Gatoff. Advertising Manager: Ivor Carr. Opinions expressed are those of the writers concerned and are not necessarily those of the editor or of the Young Israel .

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 1 Young Israel of North Netanya 39 Shlomo Hamelech, Netanya

Board of Management Honorary Life President: Aubrey Blitz Gabbaim:  Chairman: Graham Nussbaum David Feiler Vice Chairman: Alex Stuart Rev. Michael Plaskow Treasurer: Andrew Kaye Hilton Share Secretary: Sharon Carr Asher Edery Senior Gabbai: David Feiler

Board Gerald Barnett (co-opted) Elkan Levy Hazel Broch Ivor Lewis Janet Elkoubi Tony Plaskow Anthony Felix Eze Silas Alan Gold Vivienne Simenoff Andy Kormornick Hilton Share (ex-officio)

We wish all our congregants who are unwell or Would anyone who feels he has not received a indisposed a refuah shlema and we extend our deepest for some time, please accept our sincere apologies and condolences to all who have suffered bereavement. contact David Feiler who will be happy to remedy the Our congregants and their families wish Rabbi Boruch situation. and Esther Boudilovsky, Rabbi Eddie and Frankie Jackson and Rabbi Natan Morowitz and all their fellow congregants .שנה טובה ומתוקה and their families

About the Chevra Kadisha In time of sorrow, a kind word and a helping hand can services at the Shiva house. The care shown at this time is bring much needed comfort. As a Congregation, we must greatly appreciated and is its own satisfaction. be aware of the help we can give to all persons who are Members should know that the Committee is here to in mourning, be it by attending the funeral, visiting the help with all arrangements at these unfortunate times. mourners while they are sitting Shiva and attending

Contact Numbers: Home Mobile Rabbi Boruch Boudilovsky 054-525 9490 Eze Silas 09-862 8737 054-459 3209 Alan Gold 077-530 1758 050-215 0697 Yitzhak Bakst 09-887 2474 052-741 2228 Phyllis Carr 077 456 3750 052-379 0740

Tehillim Circle Bar & Bat Mitzvah Please join the group of women reciting the Book of Many people still do not know that they are entitled, Psalms for the Matzav, the Sick, Shidduchim, and Klal if a full member of the shul, to a Chumash for a child Yisrael every Monday at 5:00 pm. or grandchild celebrating their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Contact Ruth Lyons: 054-475 3637 Please advise Linda Lawrence, in good time, by email at [email protected] or phone 0548 646 466.

2 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Letter from the Editor INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition Aubrey Blitz...... 10 Galei Hotel...... 53 None of us realised when we were celebrating Purim and writing copy for King Solomon Development...... 26-27 the last edition of the YINN Magazine that these were the last hurrahs of Obar Printing...... 39 the pre-virus world. Indeed our first sigh of relief must be that there were no Manchester Curtain Company...... 10 repercussions from the public reading of the Megillah and the performance Motties Delicatessen...... 15 of the Purim Shpiel. Nikia Blumenthal...... 31 With the age profile of our kehillah, the consequences of first the closure Pope - Geri Insurance...... Inside Front Cover of the shul and latterly the severe restrictions on its usage, could have Shipony Insurance Agency Ltd.... Back Cover been disastrous. In fact we have come together in a remarkable way, chat Yochanan Real Estate...... 34 on Zoom replacing (not on the same day!) the weekly interface over the Yoram Sarusi...... 21 Kiddush tables. Zvi Centre...... 36 We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to our Rabbi for the inspiration and guidance that he has given us over this most challenging of times. At the same time the hands-on approach of our chairman Graham and senior gabbi David has been exemplary. If there is another shul anywhere with such dedicated leadership, they can count themselves as fortunate. Our two Chatanim, Rabbi David Woolf and Ronnie Lawrence, have been instrumental in ensuring the continuity of shul life and the honour conferred upon them has been richly earned. This magazine is offered to you as a piece of normality, a sign of our community’s spirit and creativity. However different this Rosh Hashanah, The Editors and the Young Israel Community of Yom Kippur and Sukkot may turn out to be, we are confident that in our North Netanya appreciate the support of our different ways they will prove as meaningful as any in the past. advertisers. Please let them know that you have seen their advertisement in this publication. On behalf of the magazine team, I wish you health, safety and prosperity YINN and the magazine team are not in any way in the hope that by the time of our next edition, the nightmare will have at responsible for the performance of our advertisers A very least begun to fade. Shana Tova U’Metuka. nor for the accuracy of their advertisements. In Alan Gold particular we do not guarantee the of any establishment advertising in this magazine.

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 3 Yamim Noraim Message by Rabbi Boruch M. Boudilovsky

‘Remember us for life, O King Who more, our quality of life has become The undignified, defenseless, and desires life, and inscribe us in the increasingly incomparable to that of dreadful weakness of the human Book of Life – for Your sake, O Living all our human predecessors. Even condition in earlier times made G-d.’ (Days of Awe Liturgy) people several decades ago, certainly dependence on G-d a vivid and real medieval and ancient man, could idea. But how can we, superb masters Any fair retrospect will highlight never have imagined our lifestyles. of our world, genuinely feel vulnerable how fortunate we are to live in times We can confidently declare that, and desperate before G-d? Lacking shaped by the luxuries of modernity. thankfully, we have emerged as the confidence to convince modern We enjoy unprecedented healthcare, extraordinary masters of our world. man and woman that these days of accessible long-distance traveling, Which is why over the years, as judgment are critical in determining valuable human rights, easily a Rabbi and educator, I admittedly our wellbeing and that our lives are available education, sophisticated avoided publicly exploring the literally on the line, I instead chose legal and law enforcement systems, central theme of Rosh HaShanah; themes which can acceptably appeal sustaining economies, opportunity our unmitigated human vulnerability to the state of mind of modern man in all realms of human interests, and unconditional dependence and woman such as, coronation, comfortable housing, to name just a on G-d. I (maybe wrongly) felt that accountability, resolution, confession, few. Each of these, was unimaginable this idea, as poetically illustrated forgiveness, renewal, universalism, only a century ago. From printing, throughout the Yamim Noraim (the biblical utopia, and more. Sadly, however, the past year has reminded us just how weak and Perhaps this year is an appropriate one to highlight an vulnerable the human condition additional theme, beyond the frail condition of human really is. Without underestimating the remarkable ability of modern science existence. G-d is a King who passionately desires and to identify, trace, and study the celebrates life. current global pandemic, we humbly realise how an invisible virus can aggressively spread and fatally attack soap, antibiotics, indoor plumbing, Days of Awe) liturgy and fearfully a human body, causing international electricity, aviation, engineering, highlighted in the Unetane Tokef panic, shutting economies and and communication, to space passage, would leave my audience borders, separating families, severely travel, internet, stem cell research, indifferent, uninspired, untouched, undermining people’s livelihood, touchscreen technology, and so much and possibly even dismissive. and brutally toppling our comfortable

4 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 way of life. We are reminded that achievements and success. beyond its already incredible value ultimately, we are not custodians of I pray to G-d: Remember us for life, on a biannual basis. I am therefore our fate, our future is never in our O King Who desires life, and inscribe especially grateful to the outstanding hands, and anything can happen us in the Book of Life – for Your sake, magazine team for all their hard work, to us, anywhere and anytime. This O Living G-d. time, and effort. Their dedication and year, as I stand before my creator professionalism is evident by the during the prayer of Unetane Tokef, As social distancing is necessary quality of this issue. I will have little difficulty finding the to ensure our safety and protection, Finally, on behalf of Esther myself liturgy relevant, humbling, and indeed our communal magazine is another and our children, I would like to wish frightening, even in the twenty first opportunity for us to engage with you and your families a safe, happy, century. each other unconventionally, healthy and sweet new year. A Perhaps this year is an appropriate one to highlight an additional theme, beyond the frail condition of human existence. G-d is a King who passionately desires and celebrates life. Our sincere sense of vulnerability is met by the creator of life with compassion and love. Rosh HaShanah does not only require us to feel deeply vulnerable and unconditionally humble. Rosh HaShanah also teaches us to find comfort and confidence in our relationship with G-d, more than in our human

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 5 Engagements Rabbi and Edward Feigelman Grandson Bella Fielding Granddaughter Annette Gordon Grandson NACHAS Lilian Green Granddaughter Granddaughter Anchel and Bella Klein מזל (Pesach 5780 טובSince) Gerald and Rita Levy Grandson Geoff and Rachel Marks Grandson Welcome to our Newest Members Martin and Caroline Moser Granddaughter Annie Attyasse Mark and Caroline Collins Rev Michael and Phyllis Plaskow Grandson Jorgen Konigshofer David Lonn Graham and Pauline Newman Avi and Sarah Schwartz Marriages Hyam and Sheila Corney Grandson Births Henry and Jane Dony Granddaughter Freddy and Freha Apfel Great Granddaughter Bella Fielding Granddaughter Gillian Berman Great Granddaughter Annette Gordon Grandson Jaques and Hazel Broch Great Granddaughter Angela Jenshil Granddaughter David and Miriam Bronner Great Grandson Brian and Nadia Lebetkin Granddaughter Steven and Estelle Brown Granddaughter Barry and Ruth Lyons Granddaughter Howard and Ruth Cohen Granddaughter Janette Moore Grandson Mark and Caroline Collins Grandson Sandra Rabinowitz Granddaughter Bella Fielding Great Granddaughter Julian and Slawa Rosenberg Granddaughter Rabbi Arnie and Chevy Fine Great Granddaughter and Grandson Lilian Green Great Granddaughter Beryl Sagal Grandson Diane Jesurun Granddaughter Yaakov and Orna Schuster Daughter Sylvia Kovler Great Grandson Lynda Struel Granddaughter Sender and Zelda Lees Great Grandson Avi and Cheryl Willinger Son Sheila Levitt Great Granddaughter and Great Grandson Special Anniversaries David and Lilian Levy 2 Great Granddaughters Simon and Helen Waingard 68th Wedding and a Grandson Anniversary Barry and Ruth Lyons Great Granddaughter Jeanette and Raymond Cannon 60th Wedding Ida Nemtzov Great Grandson Anniversary Yonatan and Dana Newman Daughter Rabbi Eddie and Frankie Jackson 60th Wedding Vivienne Oster Great Grandson Anniversary Geoffrey and MaryJane Pollack Grandson Norman and Cynthia Roberts 50th Wededing Renee Rabinowitz Great Granddaughter Anniversary Jack and Federica Reiss Great Granddaughter Dudley and Naomi Rogg 50th Wedding Stanley and Irene Ross Great Granddaughter Anniversary and Great Grandson Anthony and Cynthia Taub 50th Wedding Maurice and Myrla Sacofsky Great Granddaughter Anniversary Beryl Sagal Great Granddaughter Philip and Barbara Schwartz Granddaughter Special Birthdays Joyce Shohet Great Grandson Devorah Lev 98th Birthday Davey and Hilda Solomons Great Grandson Harold Fisher 91st Birthday Brian and Susi Sopher Granddaughter Enid Abrahams 89th Birthday Gerald Barnett 83rd Birthday Bar Mitzvah Brian Lebetkin 83rd Birthday Anthony and Louise Daulby Grandson Barry Lyons 83rd birthday Elkan Levy Grandson Anthony Marcovitch 80th Birthday Sandra Rabinowitz Grandson Anthony Plaskow 80th Birthday Norman and Cynthia Roberts 2 Grandsons Jenny Park 70th Birthday Eze and Gillian Silas Grandson Isaac and Melanie Wind Grandson Special Occasions Rabbi Boruch & Esther Boudilovsky New Home Bat Mitzvah David and Sylvia Krasner New Home David Glass Granddaughter Michael and June Manning New Home Andy and Avril Kormornick Granddaughter Rev Michael and Phyllis Plaskow 20th Anniversary Martin and Caroline Moser Granddaughter of their Eze and Gillian Silas Granddaughter Selwyn and Elaine Schaffer Aliyah Ferry Weitz Granddaughter Rabbi David Woolf Chatan Torah Ronnie Lawrence Chatan Bereishit A

6 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Chairman’s Message by Graham Nussbaum

WHAT’S NEW? ... WELL! or initially weekday Shacharit. We important part of the Rabbi’s Corona has reshaped our lives; it’s know we are part of the Shul and the work. His pastoral role is excellent, a plague which brought with it many Shul is part of us, a very comforting whatever the scenario the Rabbi problems. However, there was a reality to which you readily adapted. endeavours to help those in need. As silver lining to this black cloud: YOUR We now have three Zoom stars in our spiritual leader he is involved in response to the situation. There were our Community; Rabbi David Woolf, all aspects of the Community which is two aspects to this response. First David Feiler and Alan Gold who were most welcome. His personal qualities there was responsibility for each other responsible for creating a virtual mean that he is a pleasure to work and second was how to ensure that Shul. It was exactly what we all with. He is a person of humility which Shul would remain an important part needed during lock down and are still I feel is the bedrock of his success. of everyone’s lives. enjoying. Thank you. Parts of our building were past People contacted each other Yom Ha’atzmaut and Yom tired, they were exhausted! The regularly to ensure they were coping, Yerushalayim services were held foyer, Ladies’ and Gent’s toilets have a natural reaction for our members. on Zoom, each was followed by been renovated. We are looking at A group of volunteers who love to entertainment. Matan Rosenberg ways to improve the toilets on the chat to our members was organised presented an amazing Magic Show half landing at the back of the Shul. to see if any particular problems on Yom Ha’atzmaut and for Yom Thank you to Gerald Barnett for were highlighted. There were a few Yerushalayim tour guide Josh Hartuv overseeing the project. The cost of the renovations has been paid for by three generous donors who wish to For the Shul to remain relevant to the lives of our remain anonymous. Organising the services has been members the key was and still is communication. a challenge due to the ever changing By WhatsApp, Zoom and email, we have been able to rules and regulations. Thank you to those who have given their all to keep our Community together. ensure high quality services under very difficult circumstances. We have so many members who issues which were common to many, took us on a virtual tour of Har will do anything to help the Shul. for example shopping for food was a Habayit, which was a revelation. The Whatever your role may be, thank you problem, so a list of shops who had Community from Kenton Shul joined very much. a delivery service was circulated. us on the tour. Rowena and I wish Rabbi Boruch We tried our best to resolve every Various WhatsApp groups, within and Esther Boudilovsky, Rabbi Eddie problem that was raised. the community, were set up which and Frankie Jackson, Rabbi Morowitz For the Shul to remain relevant enabled easy contact particularly and the whole Kehillah Shana Tova to the lives of our members the key when we were all in lockdown and U’Metuka. A was and still is communication. By still continue albeit with less traffic. WhatsApp, Zoom and email we have The Rabbi has been using WhatsApp been able to keep our Community to send a weekly visual Pre together. Whether it is Shul news, D’var Torah to the members. This registration for Minyanim, reminders has been well received because the for Zoom events, including the message is pertinent and original. Monday Club, Shiurim, Melava Malka What can’t be seen is the most

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 7 Chatan

TorahRabbi David Woolf

Paulette and Rabbi David Woolf cast. She continues to work as an Kiryat Hasharon, and Elie who is still made Aliyah in 2016 from New Organisational Change management in Manhattan. York and are passionate about the consultant. David asked a friend what life community in North Netanya. Rabbi Rabbi David has given at least 60 would be like in Israel and his friend David says, “We didn’t make Aliyah shiurim since the start of Corona told him that he would recreate to retire but to live here.” He told me and currently gives a shiur his previous life here. Rabbi David about an old Zionist song that says, on a Thursday at 7.30pm and an says he was correct because they “We have come to Zion to rebuild it explanation of Tephillah on Tuesday were both extremely active in their and to be built by it”. He says they at 7.30pm on Zoom. He was behind previous community and in their both want to find opportunities to the idea of establishing the much Shul. He can see the Yad Hashem contribute as well as to learn and to loved Melave Malka programme, in what he did before in what he is grow. They certainly both do that. recognising that during lockdown doing now. A During their brief few years Shabbat was the hardest part V.S. they have been here they have of the week, and in establishing both had a tremendous impact. Zoom davening, all of which were Paulette has been part of the designed to allow us all to continue innovative Women’s’ Rosh Chodesh to feel connected and not feel alone. programme planning group, is We have so much to thank him for. now Vice-Chair of the AACI, was Paulette and David are blessed part of the MTC Women’s Beit with three children: Shira in , programme, and is a Aviva with her husband Ari and twin member of the YINN Purim Shpiel boys Zachy and Rafi who live in

8 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Chatan

BereshitRonnie Lawrence The decision to award the Subsequently he was to practice law Ronnie’s life-long passions include honour of being Chatan Bereshit for 20 years. cricket and chess and he enjoys to Ronnie Lawrence is one that The Lawrences were married following chess matches with the will be applauded throughout the in 1973 and have three children: current world champion on line. community. In pre-virus days he Simon who is Director of Jewish Apart from the responsibility of was one of a small group of regular Studies at the Carmel School, Perth, looking after three children and baalei kriya; during the emergency Western Australia; Debra in Modi’in Ronnie, Linda worked for many he has frequently been on duty and Joanna in - all years in Trotter’s Bookshop in twice every Shabbat. Always there together providing Ronnie and Linda the Sternberg Centre, one of the and ready to perform and always with six much loved grandchildren. highlights being a surprise visit accurate. He is equally at home as a Like many accomplished people, from the Duke of Edinburgh. In baal tephillah. It is no exaggeration Ronnie admits his debt to his Netanya she has been a worker to say that we would be lost without teachers, notably the late Sidney for Emunah, WIZO and runs the him. Sompter, former Headmaster of Chumash gift programme at YINN Ronnie and Linda made Aliyah Solomon Wolfson Primary School, for children, grandchildren and in January 1998, having lived all who taught Ronnie, his elder brother greatgrandchildren of members who their married life in Edgware, the John and later his son Simon. are bar or bat mitzvah. community where Ronnie was born Ronnie reflected that Sidney was The last time Ronnie was a Chatan and raised. Ronnie was educated at someone who never let a mistake was at Edgware United in 1997 with Christ’s College Finchley – a school go uncorrected and who believed his fellow Chatan a certain Hilton year higher than a certain Jonathan in mastering the basics in Jewish Share. It is as they say a small Sacks – going on to King’s College knowledge before moving on to world... A London where he received an LL.B. higher things. On a lighter note, A.G.

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 9 Aubrey Blitz Honorary Life President

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10 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 It’s Tradition by Hazel Broch

During our recent months of the children. lockdown, I feel certain we all had Even recently, here at YINN times of wonder, trials, projects, at our Children’s Corner, we memories and much, much more. invited Dr Mervyn Leviton to It began to cross my mind, when will blow shofar for our children we be free again to live our normal here. There was such lives, or will we live normal lives after excitement when Dr Leviton this pandemic? allowed them to have a turn. Guess Pesach and Shavuot are over, and what? A girl amongst our children was my father would before long, it will be Rosh Hashanah, the best blower! say to us, that is my mother and Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Where will we When Yomtov falls on a Shabbat us four girls, ‘Get out your machzorim be? and the shofar is not blown I feel we for Rosh Hashanah; we are going to Once again I am putting pen to are robbed of a very important part prepare the davening for Yomtov.’ paper (I am not a computer person). of the service. On Yom Kippur, after ‘But Daddy’ we would say, ‘We are The future ahead must be planned a long day of fasting and prayers, we all girls – do we have to do this?’ To and we must be prepared to be hear the sound once more before the which the reply was always ‘Come guided by our Minister of Health as to shofar goes away for yet another year. along, it does you good to know how our safety. How will it be for us this year if we are to daven, and know the beautiful No doubt our dear Alan Gold will still in this pandemic? choral parts.’ And so it began. We be sending out a message that our Every new month is blessed by us actually had a lovely family choir. We shul magazine will be produced and on the Shabbat before the month learnt to love Chazanut as one would articles are needed. Therefore, dear comes in, all except Tishrei. In the love opera. During our family recitals member of YINN, come along with me moth of Elul, we have the shofar my father would get ‘ferklempt’ – and share my thoughts and mingle blown on the weekdays to remind us emotional – and would cry. I said to with me. that Tishrei is coming, besides many him: ‘Daddy, why do you cry at this During the month of Elul, the other reasons. part?’ He replied: ‘I don’t know why, shofar is sounded every weekday We say Psalm 27 ‘A Psalm of David - but my father cried here too.’ That morning. That shofar, that sound The Lord is my light and my salvation’. was tradition. has accompanied us for thousands The Lord is my light – Rosh Hashanah; To this very day, I cherish these of years. We had an exceptionally and my salvation – Yom Kippur; for He memories, and if you see me wipe fascinating talk by Anthony Felix on will hide me in His tent – Sukkot. It is away a tear or two whilst davening on the whole meaning and symbolism of customary to give additional charity at Rosh Hashanah, it’s tradition and I the shofar. this time. love it. For me in particular, the sounds In Ashkenazi shuls a week before Let us hope and pray that we will are reminders from my childhood Rosh Hashanah, we recite Selichot be together in our shul for Rosh and adolescence in Dublin with my – special penitential prayers. Thus Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, parents in our shul. Many of their we are preparing a lot in Elul for the and every Shabbat. Let the old year generation would cry on hearing the arrival of Tishrei. Tishrei is no ordinary with its pandemic be gone, and the shofar blown. Later on in life, taking month – it is blessed with Rosh New Year and its blessings begin. the Children’s Service in our Beth Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. ShanahTovah. A Hamedrash Hagadol in Leeds, I would During the month of Elul, in the arrange for a competent member of years I spent in Dublin, every Friday our shul to blow 100 notes in all, for night after our lovely Shabbat dinner,

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 11 It Happened on Rosh Hashanah by Dr Mervyn Leviton

What you are now about to “But are you Jewish?” ‘’Tell me,’’ said Rabbi Levy, “How read took place in 1970 and is a The man smiled, “Yes we are. long are you going to be in London?” completely true and personally “Did you know that today is Rosh “We are here for only one week,” verified story. Every Rosh Hashanah Hashanah?” answered the husband. ‘’We return in it was the custom of Rabbi Levy, a “Yes” replied the man. another five days.” Rabbi (not his real name), “Have you been to shul today?” “If you have the time before you to walk from Stamford Hill in North The man smiled, “No, we are not return” continued the Rabbi, “I would East London to the London Hospital religious.” be honoured if you will come to visit in Whitechapel, a journey of several “Well,” continued the Rabbi, “I me in Chabad House in Stamford miles which would take him about assume that you haven’t heard the Hill. You can find our phone number one and a half hours each way. His sound of the shofar today. It’s a great in the London telephone directory. purpose was to blow the shofar for mitzva for every to hear the shofar Ask to speak to me, Rabbi Levy.” Jewish patients who were unable to on Rosh Hashanah. If you can spare “Thank you; we might just do that.” go to shul. just two minutes of your time, I would he replied.” The Rabbi watched them That year the Rabbi had arrived at like you to join in this mitzva.” cross the road confident that he the busy Whitechapel Road and was The man looked at his wife who would never meet them again and standing on the pavement opposite shrugged, smiled and nodded. went into the hospital. the hospital. About to cross the road, “Why not” he said. “But here, now, A few days later Rabbi Levy was surprised and delighted to receive a phone call from the doctors and “Although there is a large Jewish community in Buenos arranged to welcome them both to Aires, neither of us is what you would call observant ,’’ Chabad House the following morning. When they arrived the Rabbi greeted said the husband. them both warmly and said with a smile to the husband, “I’ll bet you haven’t put on tefillin this morning.” he was approached by a man and in this busy street?” “No” he said laughing, ‘’and not woman, “Excuse me,” said the man, Within two seconds Rabbi Levy had since my Bar Mitzvah.’’ “I wonder if you can help us. Is that produced his shofar. “I would be honoured if you will join the London Hospital opposite?” The wife immediately opened her me in this important mitzva. Copy me “Yes, you’re in the right place” said handbag and took out her camera. and do what I do.” Rabbi Levy handed Rabbi Levy. “Please, no photos” said the Rabbi. him a small tefillin bag. “Why not?” “Thank you’’ said the man. ‘’My wife She nodded and replaced the camera said the doctor with a smile. and I are doctors from Buenos Aires in her bag. When both men were standing and we have an international medical Rabbi Levy then blew the sounds together, Rabbi Levy turned to the conference to attend. We’re meeting on his shofar. Whitechapel Road was wife and said. “Now you can take there in half an hour and we want at its busiest and the pavements a photograph.” The doctor then to make sure that we are in the right crowded with pedestrians, many of repeated the brachot after the Rabbi place.” whom stopped and stared at this and both removed their tefillin. Rabbi Levy noticed that the woman unusual street entertainment. Refreshments were served and Rabbi was wearing a necklace with a Magen The two doctors were seemingly Levy asked them to tell him about David. unperturbed and stood smiling all their life in Buenos Aires and their “Excuse me for asking you” he said, through the shofar blowing. connection with .

12 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 It Happened on Rosh Hashanah by Dr Mervyn Leviton

“Although there is a large Jewish and had become involved with the Hashanah. Instead he simply asked community in Buenos Aires, neither Chabad movement. In fact, she them to join in and enjoy the mitzva of us is what you would call observant added, their son had his Bar Mitzvah of Tekiat Shofar even in a busy Jews,’’ said the husband. ‘’We have there. London street. a daughter aged 10 and a young son It all happened because Rabbi I wonder if this year we will be aged 4. They are staying with my Levy did not frown on non-observant listening to Tekiat Shofar in a street in mother-in-law until we return.’’ Jews who did not go to shul on Rosh Netanya? A “Please tell me” asked the Rabbi, “What was it that prompted you to telephone me?” “Pure curiosity” he replied. “We were both taken aback with what took place opposite the hospital and felt that we wanted to learn more about you before our return home. Of course we know something about Chabad but this was our first experience of actually meeting with a real Chabad Rabbi – and, believe me, it was quite an experience.” ‘’You might be interested to know that there is a Chabad house in Buenos Aires run by a close friend of mine. I’ve written his contact details on this paper. When you return home, please make an effort to be in touch with him. I’ll write and tell him about you.” said Rabbi Levy as he bade them farewell That was in fact, the last time that Rabbi Levy saw them. But the story doesn’t end there. Twenty years later I was the head teacher of Rosh Pinah school in Edgware, and was telling this story to the pupils at a school assembly. Then, one of the teachers who had lived in Buenos Aires for many years asked if she could continue the story. She told us that she knew these doctors well as they are friends of her family. They had indeed contacted the Chabad Rabbi in Buenos Aires

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 13 The Yamim Noraim Prayers by David Levy

Talmud, Berachot 40a and Chazal would not have changed security and continuity; as it says אֹל שָּלֻשְמַֽה טּוחַהְו Rambam, Hilchot Berachot 1:5 the ending of a blessing through in Koheles 4:12 A three-ply cord is“ קֵֽתָנִי הָרֵהְמִב warn that “Whoever deviates from Gematriya alone if there had not the formula prescribed by Chazal been an ancient text supporting not easily severed”. contains 50 זָכְרֵֽנּו לְחַיִים the Sages”) for the Blessings such change (apparently there was The verse“) letters and follows the view of the אֲדֹון הַשָלֹום has not fulfilled his obligation” but one concluding with The end of the Aruch HaShulchan that these 50 .(עֹשֶה הַשָלֹום Chazal have themselves instituted some changes and additions to the Kaddish in this 10 day period is letters correspond to the 50 gates .before of wisdom הַ usual wording of our prayers during also changed by adding פ though, as the Artscroll Few are aware that the letter) שָלֹום the Aseres Y’mei S’shuvah (“Ten days of Repentance”). It is not only Machzor notes, not all authorities alone is completely absent from the regular first blessing of the עֹשֶ ה the meaning of these prayers that are happy with this because is a Amidah but it is contained twice הַ (without the) שָלֹום בִּמְרֹומָיו has deep significance but also their בַּסֵֽפֶר .פ in חָפֵץ in זָכְרֵנּו לְחַיִים very fabric which has secret depths direct quote from Iyov 25:2) in beyond comprehension of the So during Aseres Y’mei S’shuvah (Peh) represents the mouth and ordinary person especially during the number 381 is encoded in the normally we have no right to open this time. first passage of the Amidah and our mouths to the King of Kings. In Nusach Ashkenaz (but not at the end of the closing passage. Avruhadram gives this as the Nusach Sefard) the end of the last What is significant about 381? reason why we always preface the אֲ דֹ נ ַי שְ פָתַ י Blessing in the Amidah for the It is suggested by Rabbi Joseph Amidah with the phrase Lord open“) תִּפְתָּח ּופִי יַגִּיד תְּהִלָתֶָֽך Aseres Y’mei S’shuvah changes to Pearlman in his Book “Pearls of my lips and let my mouth declare appears פ Your praise” – the letter פ represents security and continuity; as it says in 3 times in this phrase). So how is 3 verse (queries זָכְרֵֽנּו included in the קֵֽתָנִי הָרֵהְמִב אֹל שָּלֻשְמַֽה טּוחַהְו Koheles 4:12 the Tur) and how can we can ask “A three-ply cord is not easily severed”. for our personal needs in the first three blessings of the Amidah which are meant just for praise of Life” (upon which this short essay HaSh-m? He quotes Rav Hai Gaon הַמְבָרֵךאֶת עַּמֹו from) עֹשֶ ה הַשָלֹום because of a Gematriya is based) that 381 = 3 x 127. The that the needs of the public and the (בַּשָלֹום (total value in numbers of the number 127 occurs only twice in emergency situation of the Aseres letters of a word – Hebrew letters Tanach – Sarah lived for 127 years Y’mei 1 allow us to dispense with .and Queen Esther ruled over the normal etiquette עֹשֶ ה .(each have a numerical value and so is 127 provinces of Persia. Both have Perhaps also few know that only הַשָלֹום = and 381 = 381 Zayin - which as a word) ז the Gematriya of the letters of the a (not obvious) connection with the letter who is in Rosh Hashana: Sarah because she means: “weapon”) is normally סַפְרִ יאֵל name of the Angel charge of the Book of Life. So also is believed to have died on hearing absent from the second B’racha of does the Gematriya = 381 of the about the Akeidah which is the the Amidah yet in the Yamim the beginning of principal Torah reading for Rosh Noraim when the additional זָכְרֵֽנּו לְחַיִים words מִיכָמֹֽוך אַב הָרַחֲמִים זֹוכֵר the extra passage introduced into Hashana and source of the use of sentence is added the יְצּורָיו לְחַיִים בְּרַחֲמִים the first blessing of the Amidah a ram’s horn for the Shofar (and now appears; with the ז during this period. for Esther see below). 3 represents letter

14 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 salt). This) מֶלַח sword of the Angel of Death ּובְכֵן Zayin) becomes word) ז hovering over us was also the only (found in only 2 ז) .appropriate letter absent in the blessing given places in by Yaakov to Yehuda promising Tanach) was in the weekday Amidah; 2 x 13 = HaSh’m); 3 x 13 = 39 the) יקוק = Kingship of Israel but by words not used by Queen Esther (4:16) to 26 by the sword, Bereishit 49:8-12) show her apprehension at going number of prohibited kinds of work x 13 אֲ דֹ נ ָי ; Space permits us just one more unbidden to King Achashveirosh to on Shabbat; 5 x13 = 7 and also פ ִינ ְחָ ס = x 26 אָמֵן . example of the significance of plead for her people. We approach =8 . יֹוסֵף= x 26 י ַע ֲקֹ ב; x 26 = 6 י ִצ ְחָ ק ; numbers in our prayers namely 13 Hash’m in similar fear on Rosh 7 one); Hopefully a realisation of) אֶחָד which Hashana. 13 = value of) ּובְכֵן :and its multiples uniquely appears in the Yamim the number of the Divine the amazing relationship and Noraim Amidot) has a numerical Attributes; the total number of significance of these numbers can the inspire us to greater heights in our ; אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק יַעֲקֹב value of 78 i.e 6 x 13 – so letters in bread) and number of intermediate blessings prayers at this season. A) לֶחֶֽם incidentally does

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16 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Daf Corner – Removing Our Spiritual Corona Obstructions Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur by Rabbi Ozer (Edward) Feigelman

Recently our Daf Yomi Shiur was of Circumcision,” analyzes if the seed” (Devarim 30:6). There are honoured by Shiurim delivered by essence of the mitzvah lies in the various understandings of this verse. our Emeritus Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur, act of cutting, or perhaps there are According to one, the verse relates to Rev. Michael Plaskow on Perek additional actions that also constitute the total removal of human , as Rabbi Eliezer D’Milah, the chapter in an integral part of the mitzvah. The the Ramban explains (ad loc.): Masechect Shabbat which deals with fact that the Torah mentions “cutting “In the days of the Messiah, , including circumcision on of the flesh of the foreskin seems like choosing good will be a part of man’s Shabbat. we are dealing here only with an act of nature. His heart will neither yearn for cutting.” Harav Lichtenstein explains that which is improper nor desire it Circumcision of a Male Eight Days Old that “peri’a constitutes an integral whatsoever.” There are two “types” of circumcision and significant part of the process.” In mentioned in the Torah, circumcision fact the Rambam also mentions that Removing our Corona Obstructions of a male eight days old and if one had milah performed without The Circumcision of the Heart deals circumcision of the heart. The peri’a, he may be regarded as one with the mitzvah of teshuvah. Just Mitzvah to circumcise a male on the who has not undergone circumcision. as Brit Milah has its required steps, eighth day of his life occurs even on teshuvah has four steps outlined by Shabbat. One major Biblical source Circumcision of the Heart the Rambam: is in Parashat Lech Lecha: “And you Just as the Torah speaks about the 1. Regret (charata) – remorse and shall circumcise/cut [u-nemaltem] circumcision of the eight day old regret of having done wrong the flesh of your foreskin” (Bereishit male, the Brit Milah which serves as 2. Abandonment (azivat hachet) 17:11). In Parashat there is the means of entering the Covenant of – abandoning (putting a halt to) the also reference to milah as cutting the Abraham, the Torah also speaks twice sinful action foreskin. about circumcision of the heart in 3. Confession (vidduy) – sincere While teaching the Mishna in Sefer Devarim. confession while reciting Ashamnu Shabbat 133a, Rev. Plaskow was The first source is in Parashat : and Al Chet keen to explain the three absolute “You shall circumcise the foreskin 4. Resolve (kabalah) – resolve and requirements of Brit Milah: of your hearts” (Devarim 10:16). determination not to repeat the sin • Milah: cutting/removing the thick comments on this Pasuk that As we repent using the Rambam’s foreskin which covers the corona this refers to the foreskin that “seals guideline, we must tackle the • Peri’a: lit. uncovering, folding your heart and covers it.” The Torah difficulties in pealing away the many back the thin membrane that lies Temimah adds that this includes the sealed layers covering the “corona” under the thick foreskin impurities of the Yetzer Hara, the evil of our hearts, which include our • Mezitiza: suction of blood, dam inclination of man. spiritual impurities and Yetzer Hara milah, either direct or via a tube The second reference, is the (evil inclination). We need to work on (more commonly done today due to biblical source stressing the mitzvah removing the thick spiritual barriers hygienic considerations) of teshuvah, repentance. Harav little by little, one step at a time. Rev. Plaskow also stressed the Lichtenstein explains that this second May we have the strength to remove Mishna in Shabbat 137b regarding reference may possibly suggest that all the layers covering the “corona” milah without peri’a: there are additional components to of our hearts, to achieve a Teshuvah “If one circumcises but does not “circumcision,” i.e., circumcision of Shleimah. May we also be zoche to uncover the circumcision, it is as the heart is a multi-step process. The have the Corona pandemic removed though he has not circumcised.” Torah states in Parashat Nitzavim: from our midst. Harav Aharon Lichtenstein, “And the L-rd your G-d will circumcise Miriam joins me in wishing all a ZT”L, in his Shiur on the “Process your heart and the heart of your Ketiva Vachatima Tova.A

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 17 Ecclesiastes: A Book of Hope and Purpose for the World that we read on Sukkot by Chaim Yosef Mendelbaum

General Introduction: the future, and apostasy to God. The Socrates who lived 300 years BC, and The Purpose of the truth is that there have always been later the Romans, also walked in the Ecclesiastes’ book phenomena of heresy and apostasy line of thought of despair from the in human society, phenomena world and default in life. The Midrash says “the book of which are opposite to the thoughts opposed the despair of the Arab Ecclesiastes in Jerusalem was written of the people of Israel. It began, for philosopher Alrazi who claimed “evil in a Holy Spirit by Solomon son of example, with the snake’s claim is greater than good in reality, and David King of Israel; he was a King, “because God knows that on the day you will find that man’s life is a great son of a King, a wise man, son of you ate from this fruit you will be like calamity and evil imposed upon him.” a wise man, a righteous man, son God” Gen.3,5 or by Cain’s claim “I didn’t In modern times, Rabbi Kook called of a righteous man.” At the time of know that I am responsible for my atheist and communist views as King Solomon, the revelation of the brother”. Gen.4,9 Nimrod’s actions are “European despair”. prophecy already existed in Israel for also heresy against God: Rashi says over a thousand years with the spirit that his name comes from ‘Mored’ On the other hand, the Ecclesiastes and the hope of redemption as it is (rebel). And also Esau’s said “I am book of King Solomon brings morality, written in the Torah: “let give salvation going to die and why should I do the faith and hope in God, and comes to to the earth”,Lev. 25,24 “salvation will be firstborn deeds”. Gen.25,32 The spies in fight against apostasy and heresy. It is forever”,Lev. 25,32 but there were also in the desert reveal a heretic thought: written in a Holy Spirit and is eternal the same time several phenomena “We cannot go up to this land because for all kinds of skeptics, for all times! of heresy. King Solomon’s Book of the people is stronger” Numb.13,31 than He does not ignore reality and does Ecclesiastes came to argue with us and than God. King David also not argue with the real facts, so he these phenomena (which are called fought heresy, as he says in the answers the heretics: true there are in “Meenoot”) and came to present a psalms “Nabal said in his heart there this world ‘vanities’ and even ‘vanities Jewish position that opposes the is no God” Ps.14,1 and David responds of vanities’ (and even Solomon counts concepts of heresy and apostasy. from the Jewish faith (as his son them one by one). But, he teaches Kohelet does) “God looks from the sky that despite this reality, there is still The fight is between two sides: to see if Humans have the intelligence a direction in the world because God On the one hand, the heretics (in to seek Him”. Ps.14,2 The prophets guides everything. Therefore, man Hebrew ‘meenim’ also called ‘kofrim’ struggled against the bad kings must behave according to the laws or ‘Epicursim’ in the Gemara), think of Israel who criminally opposed of God, which are above nature. The that the world has evolved randomly, religion, such as “Jeroboam son of various events and instances of life without meaning, without direction Nabat who sinned and who pull Israel are not absurd. They are either tests and without purpose. They see the to sin”. Kings II-10,29 of God on men or the results of the world history as absurd, so they try In the period, the acts of men themselves, although to exploit the possibilities of living Sages nicknamed all types of Greek the cases in life seem to us general life most comfortably for themselves, philosophers “meenim”. For example, and even sometimes cyclical and and if this is not possible and Theognis (who lived 600 years BC impersonal. But there will be a there is no hope, then it is better during David and Solomon’s time), renewed life after death as a result of to leave this life. The concept of said “there is no happiness in life. the final judgement of man and his heresy is a failure to understand The whole world is evil and there is post-trial improvement. This is the the purpose of life, with despair, no punishment for the wicked. Only life called ‘the future world’. Indeed, disappointment, hopelessness in money is important in the world”. these things are elucidated in the

18 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 last verses of Ecclesiastes: “fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the entire man. Every deed God will bring to judgment– for every hidden thing, whether good or bad.” Not only in the last verses of Ecclesiastes has this Jewish concept come to fruition. This approach is reflected throughout the entire scroll. The name of God appears forty he gives meaning generations. times throughout the twelve to the creation of all the previous The concept of Abel (hevel) chapters of the scroll, to show and days (all previous pots), and he can characterises the history of humanity emphasise God’s leadership and breathe (with ‘hevel’) and sing the from the beginning to the end of time. judgment in the world and in all Psalm “for the Sabbath day, let us Another Midrash gives a life cases. In the twelve chapters of thank God”.Ps.92, 1 The Midrash adds wonderful parable that explains the the Book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon another concluding parable: the meaning of the word ‘hevel’ (steam, reviews all the possible cases in life entire world is like a ship built by air flow, something of no value): let and human actions. God in seven stages, one above the us imagine a person who heats seven other, and each deck supports the pots one above each other, where Ecclesiastes scroll meaning upper next one. In the final phase, the steam (hevel) of the pot at each God built the man as the captain on according to the Midrash level serves to warm the next upper the upper deck of the boat, and his The entire book is a search for pot, but the steam of the last upper work is to direct and guide the ship. meaning and hope for life in this one seems to go out without helping The man stands alone in front of world, with the one and only anything. Man’s work is compared the ship, and in his heart he seeks conclusion being that we must to the action of the fire which causes direction and purpose: Where should believe in God. To understand this, we the steam, so what is the purpose of he lead the ship? What is the final will look at the most famous concept man’s labor in this world? The same goal? Mankind wants to walk towards in the scroll: “hevel” (worthless Midrash goes on to say that the world a bright future, towards a bright vapor, steam, vanity) and “hevel was created in seven days in Genesis. horizon; Man (as a captain) must havalim” (fume of the fumes, vanity of The creation of every day is based on direct and guide the ship there! To vanities). The Midrash of Ecclesiastes the previous day, like seven pots on the future and promised salvation! associates the word ‘hevel’ with the top of each other. So every day has Thus, each of the steams (hevel) of name of one of the first of Adam’s no purpose and continuation in itself the lower and upper pots, i.e. each sons, Abel, based on the verse in until the next day is created after day is significant and purposeful. Psalms “Abel is like Adam”. That is, it (i.e. until the pot that sits above Ecclesiastes says that human life is King David (author of the Psalms, it, heats up). Each new day gives like worthless steam when “they are Solomon’s father) compares each meaning, purpose and hope to the under the sun” i.e. when one ignores man to the first man and to his son previous day’s work. On the last day the destiny of the world, and does not and this explains the begetting of the the creation of man is completed and continued on the following page YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 19 see above the sun, when he does not soul will stand alive and well and A time to give birth and a time to feel that there is God, with a judgment everlasting in the afterlife. die; a time to plant and a time to and redemption for the world. There uproot …etc. is no room for despair, the prophet All come from God (the name of God Jeremiah says also “let Man exult in Review of the Scrolls’ Chapters: appear 8 times in this chapter): God this: that he understands and knows has made everything in its time; also me, for I am the Lord Who practices 1st chapter (answer to the negative the [wisdom of] the world He put into kindness, justice and righteousness view of this world) men’s hearts. on the earth”Jer.9,22-23 i.e. do not glorify Vanity of vanities, said Koheleth; man for his deeds because everything vanity of vanities, all is vanity, what 4th chapter (be careful to the reward is in the hands of God. You have to profit has man in all his toil that he and punishment for your acts in this look for Him and in the end there will toils under the sun? you can go in the world) be a judgement and charity. ways of your heart, and in the sight of I returned and saw all the oppressed In his scroll, Ecclesiastes your eyes, but know that for all these, who are made [so] under the sun, investigates all kinds of acts and God will bring you to judgment after And I saw all the toil and all the situations that seem negative in this which I will give you a new heart, excellence of work, which is a man’s world. But at each step, he concludes and a new spirit will I put within you envy of his friend; this too is vanity by showing our need for seeking Ezekiel 36,26. and frustration; God will judge the moral behavior and awe in God. oppressor and free the oppressed, The root of this scroll structure 2nd chapter (trying to find a as David says The Lord performs stems from the book of Solomon’s meaning and a purpose in this charitable deeds and judgment for father King David, who says in the Psalm 103,6 world) all oppressed people and Psalms chapter 94: v.11: The Lord Kohelet adds Watch your feet when you go to the Temple of God, for they know not that they do evil. God has made everything in its time; also the [wisdom of] the world He put into men’s hearts. 5th chapter (save your words, don’t run after money and honors) let your heart not be hasty to utter a word before God, be careful for God is knows man’s thoughts that they are Try the joy: I said to myself, “Come in heaven, and you are on the earth, vanity. i.e. the vanity existing in the now, I will mix [wine] with joy and furthermore Whoever loves money will world stems from human thoughts, experience pleasure”; and behold, not be sated with money, and he who v.12: Fortunate is the man whom this too was vanity. loves to be honored in a multitude will God chastises, and You teach him Try the wealth: I made myself great want more, this too is vanity, since from Your Torah, i.e. the terrible and works; I built myself houses, and I as he left his mother’s womb, naked bad cases occurring in this world planted myself vineyards. shall he return to earth, and he will life come from the tests of God and Try the wisdom: The wise man has carry nothing with him. from the evil deeds of the wicked eyes in its beginning, but the fool people, v.14-15: the Lord will not goes in the darkness. 6th chapter (keep a moral way of life forsake His people, nor will He desert But Kohelet adds all this too have I before the judgement) His inheritance, until judgment will seen that it is from the hand of God. For there are many things that return righteousness in the heart, i.e. increase vanity; what will remain for God will support the righteous on the 3rd chapter (the only meaning in this a man? Who knows what is good for judgement-day, forever, after they world is to recognise God’s deeds) man in his lifetime - it is vanity; who pass away, v.17: Had not the Lord Everything has an appointed will tell man what will be after him been my help, in an instant my soul season, and there is a time for every under the sun? would remain silent, i.e. the righteous matter under the heaven.

20 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 7th chapter (moral advices: be a works are in God’s hand. Enjoy life whose king is a noble man, and your wise good man, fear God and accept with the wife whom you love all the princes are busy with wisdom and not what He gives you) days of the life of your vanity, whom in drinking. Be good: A [good] name is better He has given you under the sun. than good oil, and the day of death 10th-11th chapters (more advice: 12th chapter (in conclusion: behave than the day of one’s birth wisdom helps individuals and well with morality during this life) Be simple: Be not overly righteous, governments) Remember your Creator in the days and be not overly wise; why should Dying flies make putrid and foamy of your youth, before the days of evil you bring desolation upon yourself? the oil of a perfumer; so does a little come, and years arrive, and the dust Be not overly wicked, and be not a folly outweigh wisdom and honor. Evil returns to the earth as it was, and the fool; why should you die before your inclination can destroy good acts, and spirit returns to God, Who gave it. time? a small folly can destroy big wisdom The end of the matter, everything Fear God: On a day of good, be Send forth your bread upon the having been heard, fear God and keep among the good, and on a day of surface of the water, for after many His commandments, for this is the adversity, ponder, God has made it. days you will find it. Take good entire man. For every deed God will decisions and give tsedaka to ensure bring to judgment, for every hidden 8th-9th chapters (correct your view your unknown future, as you do not thing, whether good or bad. on life, death and God’s judgment) know what is the way of the wind, All of these are sentiments of truth Whoever keeps the commandment since will you not know God’s work, and wisdom transmitted by King shall know no evil thing, and the heart Who does everything. Solomon. A of a wise man knows time and justice, Woe to you, O land whose king is the righteous and the wise and their childish. Fortunate are you, O land,

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 21 Barkhi Nafshi by Anthony Felix

Barkhi Nafshi, psalm 104, was realms of creation are described as The prayer closes with a plea written in the Second Temple period having interdependent relationships that evil should disappear from the and copies were found at Qumran. and each of the natural components earth but teaches us to hate sin and The sages of the taught of creation is fulsomely described not the sinner. Ezekiel echoed this that sepulchres need not be made in poetic detail. The mineral world sentiment saying “As I live, saith the for tzaddikim, their words are their serves the plant kingdom; the Lord G-d, I have no pleasure in the memorial (Yerushalmi, Shekalim plant world serves the animal death of the wicked – but that the 2:5, 47a). world and man. Animals and man wicked should turn away from sin Among the words I remember are shown as partners in their use and live.” hearing from Rabbi Zalman of the resources of creation and This psalm’s amazing recognition Kossowsky, on many a Rosh both depend on the Creator, who of the overwhelming enormity Chodesh morning, were those either provides them with food or of the creation of not only our that told me how important Barkhi withholds it from them. environment, but also the creation Nafshi was and that it meant so The text is not so much a of our intellect. Without our intellect much to him. It was clear to me description of nature, as a we could not know what G-d wants that he said the psalm with great description of the works of G-d who of us. kavana, and I accepted what he created everything. The language Rabbi Tzvi Elimelekh, the author said, without question. employed by the psalmist reveals of the Benei Yissaskhar, found great I now ask myself, what I should his fierce desire to bless G-d for significance in the opening word of have asked him then. what was revealed to him in the Bereshit. It is said to be “the root creation. He cries out “How great of the whole of G-d’s teaching”. “Why is this psalm so important?” are Your works, O Lord! You have The Hebrew letters of the word can These thoughts are an attempt to made them all in wisdom. The earth be arranged to make the profound find an answer. is full of Your creatures”. statement “The fundamentals of Our psalm evidences the loving the faith of Israel: Creator, Torah The opening words of the psalm, kindness and goodness of G-d. reward”. translated into English, are “Bless It demonstrates G-d’s glory Kabbalists use descriptions my soul…” This is not a prayer for and greatness, as seen in the of the created world to reveal a person’s soul to be blessed but, description of enormous expanses. much about its Creator. Gerald rather, it begs that the person’s Above all, it teaches us the Schroeder, in his book “The Hidden soul should bless Hashem. The insignificance of man, who stands Face of G-d” explains that the importance of the prayer is clearly before his Creator, overawed by popular conception that Kabbala emphasized by summoning the soul having been given the power to rule is mysticism is in error. Kabbala is to bless Hashem, for the soul can over the created world by Hashem. logic, but such deep logic that it can bless with clarity as it sees beyond Man’s dependence on the lead to a mystical experience. The the corruption of the mortal body. inbuilt “clock” of nature is clearly Kabbalistic approach is basically We must ask ourselves “what is it portrayed. The eternal cycle of mathematical and that there are two that calls for such a blessing?” seasons and days, without which sides to the equation of existence. Barkhi Nafshi offers the most we could neither harvest nor sleep, The material world and the spiritual detailed and diversified description is another aspect of the wonders of world. Kabbala is not the study of nature in all of the Tanakh. The creation described in the psalm. of G-d but is the study of how the

22 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 infinite interacts with the finite echoed in the psalms “with the coming month and the prayer we creation. Word of G-d the heavens were recite, from 16b, also Genesis 1:1 is usually translated as formed” (33:6). Wisdom generates focuses on our physical dependency “In the beginning G-d created the information and is the link between on Hashem and expresses the dual heavens and the earth”. Unfortunately, the metaphysical Creator and theme of love and fear. We beg for that rendition misses the meaning of physical creation – it is “the hidden a life in which we have a “love of the Hebrew. The mistake stems from face of G-d”. Torah and a fear of sin.” the King James bible, first published Barkhi Nafshi calls us to thank Kohelet concludes with the in 1611 and based on the Greek G-d for creating us and our world injunction to “fear G-d and keep Septuagint that dates from over from the very depths of our soul. It his commandments, for that is the can mean causes us to contemplate, celebrate whole duty of man.” Rosh Chodesh בראשית .years ago 2200 “in the beginning of…” but not “in and praise the beauty and structure gives us the ideal opportunity the beginning”. The word “of” of the earthly and celestial entities. to give thought and voice to the demands a preposition and yet the It challenges us to receive G-d’s law expression of our humble gratitude. King James translation merely drops and, through our compliance, be Rabbi Aryeh Levin shared this it. The 2100-year-old translation of rewarded. It demands us to “know perspective and proclaimed, “Every Genesis into Aramaic takes a our place”, to control ourselves and creation utters its song (in praise different approach, realising the to humbly accept our insignificance of the Creator).” Rabbi Kossowsky Be’reasheet is a compound word, in the grand order of things. sang that song with every fibre of the prefix “Be”, “with” and The reason we read the psalm his being and he lived according to “reashit”, “a first wisdom”. Thus, on Rosh Chodesh is that verse its precepts. the Aramaic translation is “with 19 states “He made the moon to No wonder Rav Zalman expressed wisdom G-d created the heavens mark the seasons.” On Shabbat so fulsomely the importance of this and the earth.” This perspective is Mevarchim we look forward to the psalm. . A

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 23 D-day Memories From notes written by my Father, Asher Nussbaum, and newspaper cuttings. by Graham Nussbaum

“I and my fellow infantry men infantry men. As we approached the certain I was about to die. from the 3rd Division of the South beach many landing craft were hit I have a quirky recollection of this Lancashire Regiment’s 1st Battalion by enemy fire and exploded. Many day on Sword beach. I remember a sailed from the Isle of Wight late of my friends and comrades, who naval officer, dressed correctly, cap, on 4th June 1944 to Normandy. We joined the army at the same time as white roll collar, jumper and gum were apprehensive sailing into the me, died before setting foot on land. boots, standing on an ammunition unknown. The weather was so bad We disembarked 500 yards from the box directing tanks, heavy transport that we had to wait until the early beach because of rough seas, and all and Infantry, just as though he was on traffic control at Trafalgar Square. We advanced to the outskirts of We disembarked 500 yards from the beach because of Caen which was heavily defended. rough seas, and all I could think about was finding cover. During the ensuing battle I was wounded by mortar fire and spent When we made it to French soil “all hell” broke loose, the four weeks in an Advance Field fighting was intense. I was 19 years old and felt certain I Hospital. Whilst in hospital my was about to die. parents received a telegram saying I was “missing in action”. Two weeks later they were relieved to hear that I was alive, albeit in hospital. On hours of 6th June before we boarded I could think about was finding cover. discharge from hospital I returned to our landing craft. We headed towards When we made it to French soil “all my regiment and continued fighting “Sword” beach along with hundreds hell” broke loose, the fighting was through Belgium, Holland and across of similar craft all full of combat intense. I was 19 years old and felt the Rhine into Germany. I was in Belgium for Rosh Hashanah 1944 in a dugout, manning machine guns with three others from my company. We were waiting for a counter attack by German forces, who had broken through the American line in the Ardennes forest. We had one hour on duty and one hour off. During an hour off duty I started to read from the “Prayer Book” given to me by the Army Chaplain. I

24 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 started to think I was with my parents Israel. At that time, I received a letter Servicemen) pressed me to tell my and family in Shul and davened as from Regina saying they were all well story, which I did reluctantly. if it was actually the case. The other and so grateful. In 1995, with the help of a local soldiers looked at me curiously but I buried my memory of the war Jewish newspaper, I made contact said nothing. I still wonder what they years and refused to talk about them with the “children”. They live in thought. until my grandchildren started to America with their families and we are After the war had ended I was on ask questions and AJEX (Jewish Ex- in regular contact.’” A duty in Berlin. I received a letter from Rev Pearlman, Chazan at the Manchester Great Synagogue, asking me to try to trace his brother-in-law Max Rotenberg and family in Brussels. I was given compassionate leave for a week, a jeep and permission to use my weapon at will by my commanding officer. I had the address where the family lived. I managed to trace three children from the family who had been taken to a convent for safety. However, when I went to collect the children they denied they were there. I made it very clear that I would not leave without the children, being armed speeded up the process. I left with two boys aged 14 and 10 and a young girl who was 5 years old. I took the children to the Jewish Agency to be cared for. It transpired that their parents and their 19-year-old sister had been deported to Ravensbrook concentration camp. The parents were murdered but Regina survived and all the children were united in pre-state

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Tears flooded down my cheeks, me to be convinced, that his method useless and purposeless work would unending tears, and I was unable would work, because the man spoke attack the prisoners’ will to live, and to stop them… until he asked me truth. to ‘measure’ how many of them in fact lovingly: “Why are you crying, Little Teaching us his survival kit, he also would commit suicide. The prisoners One? We have come back. The people spoke about his feelings of anxiety were ordered to carry sand and rubble of Israel have survived!” each time he came to Germany and from one end of the compound to I could not reply. I could only feel about the love of his mother in his the other, about four miles, and then astonishing love oozing from this early childhood, without which, he to carry it back again. Within a few charismatic man sitting beside me, said, he would not have survived. He days ‘results’ began to accrue. Some whose aura enveloped the entire class. spoke about his safe childhood in a prisoners simply gave up the ghost It was in the autumn of 1977 in small town in Hungary and that he and died, and others ran against the Berlin that I met ‘the professor’ the was a well-established poet by the electrified wire that surrounded the first time. I sat together with about age of 17. camp and committed suicide; and thirty other social workers and He told us the dream he had as there were those who escaped into listened to this voice whose language a young boy, of wanting to become ‘internal immigration’ and became I did not yet fully understand. a writer and a psychologist. And insane. As much as I listened to his then, after his childhood paradise, ‘Why did some prisoners survive interpreter, I wanted to hear the man where he chased butterflies in the while others “gave up the ghost”? himself. There was something very meadows of his garden, and kissed On what does it depend, whether unusual about him. At that time, I his first girl at the bank of the river we are defeated by life or whether we could not define what it was, I only Gyongyos that flew dreamily through succeed?’ sensed that he was not one of us… us the peaceful little town, his heavenly ‘How does one survive a death Germans. Only later did I understand kingdom abruptly exploded into camp?’ he asked us. that what this man was transmitting hell: the ghettos, into which the SS ‘It appeared’, he wrote in his book to us was the love and compassion forced every Jew. In this ghetto he was Survival in Society, ‘that one can of a survivor, a survivor of the death married to his childhood sweetheart turn destructive forces towards some camps. Eva. From the heaven of his past form of construction, and “madness” I must admit, that I was hypnotized he was taken down to a present towards health, if one can redirect by his presence. of bestiality, brutality and blood- one’s own internal psychic energy in Not only had almost all his family thirstiness. an outward and positive direction. died in the ovens of Auschwitz and Together with all the Jews of his ‘Important was the relationship only he came back from this hell; hometown he was taken to Auschwitz, between past and present, not only had he originated a method then transported to Tröglitz, Berga- particularly as these affect the future.’ of healing with which he helped Elster and Buchenwald. And yet ‘It appeared, that whatever his past thousands of people to survive; he there were but few moments for him, experiences had been, provided a did the ultimate: he came to Berlin, when he could not see a future. He person was capable of finding some to Germany, in order to teach young wrote about his experiences in his satisfying ‘niche’ in the present, he Germans his approach. A survivor of remarkable book Night of the Mist. could function in the ‘here and now’ the death camps came to teach the Dr. Heimler told us about a ‘mental and find alternative choices for his children of his persecutors love. health experiment’ on which an SS future.’ For me this was quite enough proof. Commander embarked in one of these Looking back he realized, that the His very presence was enough for camps, to establish the way in which satisfying niche in his own case,

28 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Dr. Heimler in England after , writing MESSAGES – A SURVIVOR’S LETTER TO A YOUNG GERMAN when all other human satisfactions the question were absent and the last purposeful of freedom activity was also taken away, was – freedom a movement inwards, or rather of thought, backwards, into the past and he of speech, clung desperately to the love that of action, of he had received in his childhood. movement. These happy memories gave him the It was very strength to survive. important to As a child at home he had always use as much of dreamt of becoming a poet; before this freedom and during the war he had already as possible, in written and published poems. He had order to remain dreamt of becoming one day a well- mentally healthy. known writer. It was in the ghetto, The freedom to however, that he called himself a verbalize one’s chronicler, and now, in Auschwitz, thoughts is an this appointment was confirmed and indication that brought new meaning into his life. He one is not totally controlled by the to the camp, his escape had been became an eyewitness who registered inner and outer forces. It enables one a triumph; an action, that brought everything, so that he could one day to face the darkness and the enemy. with it danger, that defied the SS, a tell the world, what he had seen, in When Eugene Heimler could say to challenge against the SS, a sign, that the name of millions, who could no his comrades: ‘These monsters, these he was not totally in their power. longer speak or write. bastards will one day disappear from After the ‘experiment’ of the SS This task, this new intention, this the face of the earth!’, then this meant commander about meaningless new purpose of his existence, became that it was indeed a real possibility. and purposeless work, Dr. Heimler the bridge between his past dreams Freedom to act, especially realised, that meaningful work or and the future. That was enormously forbidden action, was also very activity is of the utmost importance important, because there had to be important. to people in order to survive and after a future, so that life could have a He told us that he knew that he had the war he developed a therapeutic meaning for him in the present. to do something in order to get out method that was of particular This new life purpose was not of this humiliating and dangerous importance to the unemployed and always in the foreground of his situation, so he decided to escape to people who were struggling to consciousness. There were times of from the camp. find meaning, purpose, and new pain and horror, in which he totally While he was interned in the camp possibilities in their lives. forgot it. But he returned to it time of Tröglitz, he was drafted to work in The Heimler Method of Social and again. It was also a private victory a factory. One day the factory was hit Functioning is about integrating over the SS guards, who of course by an American bomb and Eugene frustrating experiences as useful never knew that they were under Heimler used this opportunity to elements in the present and observation. escape. He describes this experience potentially satisfying elements for The problem of mental health and in Night of the Mist. Although he was the future. An integral part of the survival was also connected with terribly beaten once he had returned Heimler Method is The Heimler Scale

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YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 29 Dr. Eugene Heimler Berlin, 1980

constantly, consciously personal relationships, his wife, his or unconsciously, children, his security, and exposes transform ‘negative him to completely useless tasks, feelings’, experiences, could it not be that in some cases the past episodes, into internal psychological chemistry will positive ones. We choose an anti-social way ‘out’ while are not driven to our in others it may choose insanity or set goals through self-destruction? So a gifted surgeon, of Social Functioning – a therapeutic, intellectual curiosity alone, but by a for example, can become a sadist and diagnostic and prognostic tool, need to overcome our own perceived a murderer, if society takes away from which measures satisfactions and or unconscious injuries. him the ‘hook’, onto which he can frustrations and highlights a person’s Dr. Heimler came to realize after hang his own experiences. potential. the war, that the question of sanity or Prof. Heimler recognized that we ‘Insight is not enough,’ Professor insanity appeared to depend not so can exist as sane or useful people Heimler used to say. ‘Everyone can much on the fact of injury in the past only as long as we can transform have new insight. But what you but rather on a person’s ability or and utilize what we would term are going to do with it, how you inability to transform and to use such the negative in us. Then work and transform your insight into action, injury to grow. interest, financial security, family that is important and vital for your life, It became apparent that most of relationships, friendships and social because only new action can change us need some hooks in life on to contacts, all become channels or you and your life!’ which we can hang our past pains. ‘containers’ through which we can Pain and suffering, illness and Having done so, such ‘pains’ become transform our human weaknesses frustration and other so-called externalized and give a sense of into strengths. negative feelings of a human being reassurance or achievement. It was After having examined the lives are motivating forces, that we need then that Eugene Heimler began of so many people and not least in order to ‘function’ successfully to receive some answers as to why his own, Professor Heimler came to in our lives, provided those some of his comrades in the camp the conclusion that the difference negative forces are within a certain gave up the ghost, committed suicide between Auschwitz and our modern, relationship – between 1/5 – 1/3 or became insane: If one takes industrial world is only one of degree, of the satisfaction– that this person away from people the last vestige a difference that lies basically in the experiences subjectively. of usefulness (as the SS had done), fact that our modern society allows us We often want to sweep this so- the last purpose of being alive, Dr. to find niches, hooks and containers, called negative side under the carpet, Heimler contemplated, then nothing to transform our bestiality into deny it, only not to face it; but in order is left except to ‘drop out’ in some manhood. to create electricity, we need a positive way. The will to live is dependent on and a negative pole. If we take out the Another way ‘out’, in addition to feeling useful. Man must find out and negative pole, we have a short-circuit, self-destruction and insanity, is anti- be helped to find out, how he can use and we sit in the dark. social behaviour, which also occurred his negative side more constructively, The expressions ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in the camps. how he can transform his ‘weakness’ are our own creation, writes Dr. When one takes away from say a into strength, into activities that are Heimler. The positive and negative doctor of medicine the possibility of useful to them and to society. pole of the electricity is neither good working with his patients, and makes Indeed, what strength this man nor bad; it is simply positive and him feel totally and utterly useless had, a survivor of death camps and negative. Without such polarity, in an environment where doctors are horror, to use his own humiliating energy cannot be produced. That is a needed more than in any other place experiences in order to help other God given law of nature. in the world – like in Auschwitz; when human beings who, as he said, “carry In our human existence we one takes away from such a man the their own, very personal Auschwitz

30 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 with them!” with it; what lessons am I going to repair the blemish. The king was He emphasized again and learn from it? Through these insights sorely distressed. again, that “action is the end of one not only accepts pain, but uses it After some time, a gifted jeweller persecution”. for creativeness.” came to the king and promised to His motto was: Eugene Heimler continued coming make the rare diamond even more Man is not only what he was, to Germany for many years in order to beautiful than it had been before But what he does, deliver his message to the children of the mishap. The king was impressed And what he does, his persecutors. by his confidence and entrusted his Alters, who he is. Dr. Heimler’s work is beautifully precious stone to the jeweller’s care. Soon after Eugene Heimler began summed up in a famous Jewish story And the man kept his word. to live again, he wrote: from the Dubner Maggid: With superb artistry he engraved “Once one realizes that the form ‘A king once owned a large, a lovely rosebud around the of life we know is imperfect and beautiful, pure diamond of which imperfection and used the scratch to limited by death, one begins to make he was justly proud, for it had no make the stem.’ A meaning out of pain and suffering. equal anywhere. One day, the Miriam Bracha Heimler is the widow of This in consequence means that diamond accidentally sustained a Dr. Eugene Heimler. one is not broken by suffering, but deep scratch. The king called in the it becomes a source of insight. most skilled diamond cutters and For more information: Instead of asking why should this offered them a great reward if they www.newholocaustliterature.com and or that happen to me, one says: it is could remove the imperfection from www.heimler-international.com happening, so what am I going to do his treasured jewel. But no one could www.miriamshealingwell.com

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 31 My Experiences on the First March of the Living in 1988 by Sender Lees

In the 1980s South Africa was a In our group was the late Solly taxi driver, who had to be approved country that was unaccepted in the Yellin, a highly intellectual man and by the leader, to take us to Bransk. He world due to its apartheid policies a Pole by birth. He was coming down called in the morning to say he had a of racial segregation. Consequently the lift of the hotel when he overheard problem and that a friend of his would countries would not grant travel visas two Polish generals chatting in Polish take us, also an English speaker. The to South Africans to visit them. saying that they thought that they charge for the morning would be $100. The very first MARCH OF THE LIVING had killed all the Jews, what are they When we returned, the leader was due to be held in 1988 in Poland doing in this hotel, they must be was shaken that this driver was not and many of us South Africans wanted removed. Solly was totally shaken so approved and he would be in terrible to attend, but the visa situation was we decided there and then that we trouble because he did not get the a problem. The late Professor Harold would be walking the streets proudly approval. He was very nervous and Rudolf, a former Jewish mayor of with our kippot to show those killers shouted that we should have got Johannesburg, organised our visas that we had survived. his approval. Remember this was through Zimbabwe on a group basis. We arrived a few days in advance communism. This event was mainly geared to youth of the March which gave me an We found a man in Bransk who but the organisers decided to allow opportunity to visit my late Mother’s was about in his 80’s who, to my a limited number of adults, about shtetl, Bransk. This was such a small amazement, remembered my late 200 in all, of which we South Africans place which never appeared on any Zaida. He said he was the best tailor were about 33. My late Dad, who was maps, so I asked my late maternal in the village and was very respected and well known by everyone as a very honest decent person. Unfortunately In our group was the late Solly Yellin...a Pole by birth. He he could not recall where he had lived; there were no street names was coming down the lift of the hotel when he overheard in those days, which was a big two Polish generals chatting in Polish saying that they disappointment for me. We were thought that they had killed all the Jews, what are they shown where all the shuls had been, now only parks remained on these doing in this hotel, they must be removed. sites as also with the cemetery. I grew up always hearing about life in Bransk and here I was actually Russian, joined us; he was over 80. Zaida, then aged 93 (he lived to visiting this place, which was my Prior to leaving we were advised age 101) how far Bransk was from late Mother’s shtetl. It was a very that it was unsafe to wear kipot in the Warsaw. He answered in and emotional experience for me. My streets so we brought caps. For most in a flash that it was 6 hours in an ox father was with me on this visit; he of us this was our first visit to Poland. wagon which we thought would be came from Belo , from a place We were staying in the Forum Hotel in about 45 minutes by car. called Novogrudock which we were Warsaw where there was a convention My Bobba had felt that with the unable to visit on this trip. of Russian and Polish military stressful life of anti-Semitism and the I was amazed to find that Bransk generals dressed in their military difficult financial situation that the was so near to Treblinka concentration uniforms. This was the time before family should leave Poland and go to camp, where we were dropped by the glasnost and the fall of communism. South Africa which they did in 1926, taxi driver to meet the group. Our movements were very tightly which of course saved them from the B”H my grandparents and family controlled and we were only allowed Shoah (a story for another time). had left Poland in 1926. to go where we were accompanied by On our second day in Warsaw I In Treblinka the Nazis murdered a Polish guide. arranged with an English speaking between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews

32 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 At Treblinka memorial stones for each place where Jews lived in less than one year from July 1942. The Nazis gassed the Jews on arrival. The Nazis demolished all traces of their activities so as not to leave any evidence of their killing machines... Memorial stones were erected there with the names of all the places in Poland where Jews were murdered. It was our first contact with that period and it was very emotional to hear showing a wonderful blue sky shining daughter to visit the camps to see her about the history of this camp. on these Jews. mother’s experiences. The next day we traveled to We were waving Israeli flags To end off, after leaving Auschwitz Majdanek concentration camp, which showing that we had survived – in our Israeli Polish guide wanted to was on the outskirts of the famous our own free country. As this was the visit the cemetery of Kazimierz; a city of where there had been first March, the Poles living along few of his family had survived and many yeshivot and a thriving Jewish the route must have wondered how had come back to claim their homes. life. 45,000 Jews, one third of the we had survived at all. There was no Apparently, there were many who population, were all murdered. clapping nor anyone wanting to join came back to return to their homes. Majdanek was a work camp and us in this event. The Poles, who had taken possession thousands of Jews died from When we approached Birkenau of their homes, murdered them all malnutrition, diseases and being camp after about 45 minutes’ walk, and they were buried in a mass grave gassed. We saw huge mounds of the the clouds started gathering and in Kazimierz. Imagine surviving and body ash piled up from the gas ovens. when we walked under the entrance, coming to such an end. Our South African group of 33 the clouds once again became black The Poles state that they were people were mostly dati. When we reflecting the depressed state we wrongly implicated in the Shoah!!!!!!!!! first saw the gas ovens, Nathan were in. The experience of this visit has left Mowshovsky intoned a haskara in When Chief Rabbi Lau lit the a very deep mark on my emotions, front of the ovens which had us all first of the six candles it began and I have found it very difficult to crying like babies, when we all said to snow again. It was amazing as handle Shoah material. Kaddish. This event still stays with me though Hashem had orchestrated The impact it had on the 3,000 whenever the Shoah is referred to. the darkness of Auschwitz the sun young adults brought home the When we gathered in Auschwitz to shining on the free Jews and the tragedy of the Shoah for the Jewish begin the March of the Living the sky horror of Birkenau. The ceremony was people and how they as young people was black; as we started walking out very emotional with speeches from felt the need to carry the torch of under the ARBEIT MACHT FREI sign survivors describing their horrific remembrance, hope and optimism it began to snow, matching the very experiences. for the next generation. Even writing depressing sombre atmosphere of the Once back at Auschwitz we visited this article after 32 years has brought moment. the many halls and displays of back so many very vivid memories of Here were 3,000 free Jews peoples’ hair, spectacles and other the horrific experience which must walking out of this horrific place to personal effects. never be allowed to happen again. Birkenau concentration camp, where Walking into one of the halls there After Poland we were treated like thousands of Jews perished during was a huge picture of young girls, one VIP’s in Israel by attending Yom this march. of whom was recognized by one of Ha’Atzmaut as guests. To experience After about 10 minutes the snow our group as herself. She collapsed stopped and the clouds disappeared on seeing it. She had brought her continued on the following page

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 33 The Shul of the Rama in Krakow

which had the second We of course ran the services largest Jewish community which was very emotional. The few before the Shoah of very elderly Jews who attended had 60,000 of whom only no idea about the davening or the 1,000 survived. Under service, but on hearing we would be communist restrictions there came to make contact. all our movements were This old lady accompanied us, very tightly controlled. controlled, back to the hotel. We checked into After singing Shalom Aleichem the hotel and we were and making Kiddush we ate the accompanied by an old meal brought from Israel. We started Jewish lady (under the singing zimirot with such gusto and watchful eye of the police) emotion and many non Jews standing who took us to the shul around the dining room watching which had been opened this spectacle with such curiosity for us. and wondering who these Jews were. We visited the grave of We carried on until 2 am singing the re-birth of Am Yisrael as an the Rama Rav Moshe Isserles which every zemer and Ivrit song we could independent country was a very was in the cemetery attached to the remember, with no one wanting to necessary end to this traumatic trip. shul. We Ashkenazim follow the Rama lose the emotion of the moment. A We spent the Shabbat in Krakow for a p’sach.

34 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Ode To Shul WhatsApp by Avril Kormornick

From Mask To Mask YEA we can open up again but only 50 at a time by Maureen Marcovitch Its time to celebrate and have a glass of wine I was born during World War a tent-like transparent structure to How many services should we have 2 and remember being afraid of protect them from poison gas. The let’s do a WhatsApp to all the rubber gas masks hanging adults, of course, had their own But what happens in my parents’ hall closet. My masks. if we are oversubscribed grandmother donned her mask to The alert siren always seemed Does that mean we have to hire grate the horseradish for the Maror to sound when dinner was put a larger hall? for our Pesach Seder. on the table. But we ran to our We made Aliya in 1990 just Cheder Hatum and placed a cloth Oh no its down to 19 again before the outbreak of the Gulf soaked in bleach under the door as now what should we do? War. Shortly after arriving we instructed. There we stayed until Let’s do another WhatsApp to all were notified to collect our gas the “all clear” was given. Maybe our people will have a clue masks from the local depot. We We tuned our radio to “Recca” were instructed on how to wear the special channel designated for How many services them, including the special one this purpose. The announcements can we fit in this time for our nine year old son. It’s not were issued in several languages in order to do things right? so easy sending a nine year old to including Ivrit, of course, Arabic, Let’s do another WhatsApp school with a gas mask over his Russian, Amharic, Yiddish I hope there won’t be a fight shoulder. and sometimes, but not always, in We had prepared a sealed room English, French and Spanish Thank G-d for our WhatsApp “cheder chatum” (sealed room) for We arranged with our elder son and email emergency use and shelters were to notify us when we could take off Without it we would be in a mess made ready. (Now newer our masks and leave our sealed We will sort this shul out apartments are built with a mamad room. There were no mobile phones once and for all for this purpose) and sometimes he was unable But it is hard I must confess We lived in Netanya which was to call us on the landline. Azore in Azore Hey (Area 5). This also Hey was always the last area to be So for those who are working so hard included Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion checked for chemicals and gas, so, to enable us all to pray Airport both prime targets. Our sometimes we were stuck for hours The time will come older children lived in Jerusalem, in nasty rubber gas masks in a but I don’t know when Azore Alef. Our eldest daughter had sealed room. When we will all be able to say two small children and was due The war was officially declared to give birth to her third. The War over on Purim, when we all joyfully Do you remember that time started on 16th January 1991 and celebrated the Festival of masks. when it seemed the world came our third grand-daughter was born Who would have thought 30 years together as one? on the 6th January 1991. later that we would be wearing There was a really dangerous virus We heard the scuds and the masks again (thankfully not the out there Patriot Battery being fired from the rubber ones) ? And life wasn’t really that fun Netanya cliffs. Let’s hope that with the help In Jerusalem our three year old of HaShem this war against But now it’s just a memory grand-daughter had her own little the Corona Virus will also And life is as good as it can be gas mask which she was able to soon be over and that we can We will look back put on herself while her mother celebrate together once again. A at our Shul WhatsApps struggled to place her little sister And wonder what that could be. A and the new born in their “Mamat”,

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36 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 My Meetings with the Great and Good of Israel by Arnie Fine

During 1960-61 and 1964-65, I on Israel and the diaspora. Rav outside of his office. He left us for a had the great privilege to study in Tzvi Yehudah was Rosh of moment to insist that soldiers outside Jerusalem. In June 1960 I received my Mercaz HaRav, the spiritual father be quiet. Remember he was a general! university degree and was accepted of the national religious community, He probably studied with these for a teacher’s program at Haim who developed many settlements soldiers and thus we did not see Greenberg Institute, in September. even before 1948 and after 1967, anger but a bit of frustration. A few A major part of it was being exposed within and even across the Green requests the disturbance abated and to wonderful instructors, many of Line. I have met some of Rav Tzvi he gave us his undivided attention. whom were also teaching at the Yehudah’s students, as they and we, Of course, we all knew he was a Hebrew University. We were part of on grandparents’s day kvell with our Talmid Haham, who was dealing with discussions with Shai Agnon and Israeli grandsons in the high school huge issues in the armed forces and Haim Hazaz. We read Agnon with his yeshivot. Toward the close of our with people of many traditions and extraordinary secretary, Meshulam program, on a very hot and very dry outlooks. Tuchner, who also introduced us to day my classmates and I travelled to He pointed to a large stack of files Hazaz. Every Friday evening there Tel Aviv for a meeting with Rav Shlomo on his desk and revealed to us that were lectures on everything under the Goren, which was extraordinary. each of them contained the issues of sun in Hebrew. We were there to learn Rav Goren knew that 20 or so men, young women, whose husbands had and to do so with the best! It was a visiting with him in his quarters as the been sailors in an Israeli submarine, great experience! chief chaplain of the Israel Defense which had disappeared. This was a In 1964 Chevy, I and our four Forces, were not quite like the yeshiva few years before the Six Day War. He month old son arrived for another men, whom he commanded. He insisted that everything be done to year of study, as part of my rabbinical did not make any remarks about us facilitate these widows to remarry school program. We had classes and treated us as future colleagues, continued on the following page at the university and at the then who had come to meet and to learn relatively new building of the Jewish from a master and we were not Theological Seminary. Since we were disappointed. Rav Goren was already to become in a year or two, we a living legend not just in TZAHAL spent most of our time learning but but in the Israeli nation. He had a there was also the drive to introduce profound yeshiva education but he us to the very bright rabbinic and did not easily allow himself to be intellectual lights, who blessed drawn into the Chaplaincy Corps. In Jerusalem with their presence. These his autobiography he noted that in were great scholars and extraordinary the pre state days and during the War personalities, who not only knew of Independence he was a trained the books but also built or were sniper and he was quite satisfied with building great institutions. None of that. Pressure was placed upon him my classmates emerged from those to become the chief chaplain, with a experiences without being touched. high rank. He finally agreed but only if Among those we had the privilege he was allowed to return and continue and honor to meet that year was Rav as a sniper after hours. Truly amazing! Tzvi Yehudah HaCohen Kuk, the son His aide de camp, a captain I think, of the first chief rabbi of Palestine, was told that his session with us was who arrived before World War I and not to be interrupted. Soon, however, made and is till making great impact there was much noise in the corridor Arnie as a young man

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 37 with the full blessing of halakhah. It was not one solution fit for all and he used his profound knowledge of Torah, great imagination and determination to alleviate the situation of these women. Indeed, we heard many stories from him about a variety of issues he was working on. Corona Thoughts TZAHAL had and has many by Natalie Green religious soldiers, several of them of very high rank. In those days and Like all of you I deeply resent the out for people on their own has perhaps also today a general officer lost time that the Corona Pandemic been amazing. Communication becomes responsible for the safety has imposed on me. I am of an age with family and friends has been a and welfare of the Army and the when weeks and months are going constant joy. nation on Shabbat. The chief of staff too fast, so the wasted hours of not It has taught us resilience and shared a problem with Rav Goren. doing everything I may want to do is patience but I feel strongly about Religious generals would refuse to annoying. the people who won’t follow the take their turn for this responsibility Having retired from chairmanship rules who are adding to the time on Shabbat or holydays. His of an organization after four years, we have to endure this terrible response was not to preach or I was looking forward to a few pandemic. Reading of thousands cajole. He asked permission to days away and then time spent gathering at protests and weddings be the general-in-command on at museums or galleries or just with two thousand guests whilst we one Shabbat, with plenty of staff drinking coffee watching the world are forbidden to go to shul or hug with the necessary background go by. “You can still do these our grandchildren makes my blood backing him up. He remarked that things” I hear you say, but wearing boil. following his Shabbat duty there a mask and constantly watching We are living in very confusing were no longer any more issues like out for non-mask wearers is too times when selfishness and that. Can even a general officer be tiresome and no pleasure. selflessness are hand in hand. May more frum, pious, than the chief of It hasn’t all been bad, Zoom must the good triumph over the bad and chaplains? be the greatest invention ever and may the coming Chagim bring a Rav Goren taught all of us many the chap who started it should be start of new beginnings for us all. A lessons that day about scholarship, given a Nobel Prize. He probably responsibility and dedication. We has saved the sanity of many of us. all know that Rav Goren served The caring for others and looking during the Six Day War and we have seen the photo of him with a small Sefer Torah and a Shofar at the Kotel Maaravi, soon after the Western Wall was liberated. He became the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel after leaving TZAHAL. There were several difficult issues, which Do you recognize he was not ready to allow to remain him? unsolved. His creative approach, his imagination and dedication, Answer will appear along with his enormous Torah in our next edition. scholarship gave many people the help required to live a happy, as The Pesach edition featured ברוך זכרו .well as a halakhic life Richard Stareshevsky !ברוך May this coming year be one of good health for each of us, for Klal Israel and for the State of Israel! A

38 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 My Wartime Memories and Corona by Philip Platt

All this is bringing back the war time two rabbits one day. They gave the before our mothers came down to get and memories of my evacuation when dog the smaller and other one to us. us. Probably figured we stood better I was 4. 1939. Not sure why - probably It was cooked! I was with my cousin chances in the Battle of Britain than because they say this is the worst who is 11 months older. Probably in that small village in Somerset. We crisis since the war. wouldn’t have made it without him. For both caught chicken pox whilst there We were transported on a bus breakfast on Sunday we could have a and they put Meth Spirits on the sores. outside our school from Wood Street boiled egg (they kept chickens) or a Think it was pretty painful but at least - Walthamstow with parents waving pigs trotter. I usually chose the latter - no scars. I suppose we couldn’t have goodbye - then a train - I suppose it was more filling. We went to church been in a particularly good condition. from Paddington. We were lined up on every Sunday but I refused to recite I remember my cousin had a leg injury arrival and selected from inside a shed the ‘Lords Prayer’ even then. We found that wasn’t healing. The strange thing or school hut in Shipham - Somerset. out later that our folks were sending is that I can’t remember going to (well known for Shiphams Pastes). us food and clothing parcels. We never school there. We (my cousin and I) ended up in a saw them! Apparently the clothes went I guess that period had an effect bungalow with a couple who had a to their nephew - they had no kids. on my future life, decisions etc. Always small car. However as I recall we were treated acted solely - never had a business There was a dog - a fox terrier I quite well. partner etc (although had a few offers). think - called Scamp. He brought back Lasted there about a year I think My son is in the frame now. A

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 39 House of Glass — The Story of a Twentieth Century Jewish Family A Book Review by Stuart West

This amazing book, written by with the surviving members of her Painstakingly, she pieced together Hadley Freeman, was published on grandmother’s family. Until that trip, the mystery of her family’s past, 24th March this year, just as the first the only family on her father’s side discovering more about the lives wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic that the author knew of, were her of her grandmother Sara and her was forcing us into lockdown. The grandparents and her uncle Rich, her three brothers — Jacques, Henri, author takes us back in time to father’s brother, all living in Miami. and Alex. As the reader will find, a period when some of us were She was only aware of the fact that their stories reveal the broad range youngsters with our own traumatic her grandmother had to leave her of experiences of Eastern European experiences of World War II, as well as relatives behind in , when she Jews during the Holocaust. She was the years after the war. escaped from Europe before the War. to find out that in France all four of Hadley Freeman was born in New This was the first time in decades that them had changed their names. Back York in 1978, and is in the age members of the French side of the in Chrzanow, then in Austria-Hungary, group of many of our own children. family got together, and it was also they were respectively Sala, Jakob, She grew up in . When to be the last. After a week, Hadley Jehuda, and Sender, and the family she was five years old in 1983, her Freeman and her parents flew back to name of Glass was formerly Glahs. parents took her to Europe for the first the . Subsequently, the This called to mind my own family time to meet her French family. Her French relatives died, grandmother experience. My paternal grandfather paternal grandmother, Sara, and her Sara passing away in 1994, when was Rabbi Pesach Weitzman, who grandfather, Bill, flew over from their Hadley Freeman was sixteen. died some years before I was born, home in Florida, where they were then Her uncle, who was living in Sara’s but due to anti-semitism, my father living, to join them in getting together apartment, following her death, had changed our family surname before kept all her French-style clothes, my birth to West. This happened in and Hadley Freeman, now working many Jewish families in the 1920s as a journalist, thought of the idea and 1930s and likewise with Hadley of describing her grandmother’s Freeman’s grandmother and her relationship with fashion, as a way of siblings, making their home in France. writing about her. With this in mind, Her grandmother was part of the she returned to her grandmother’s generation of Ostjuden — eastern apartment, and it was then that she Jews — who headed west following opened the closet door and found, the upheaval of the First World War, tucked away, a shoebox containing including pogroms against the Jews. photographs of her grandmother Not only is this a thrilling family with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic saga, but it also illuminates the telegram from the Red Cross, and Jewish and immigrant experience a drawing signed by Picasso. Eager prior to and during World War II. to find out more, Hadley Freeman Hadley Freeman’s memoir is a embarked on a decades-long quest powerful story, which skillfully to uncover the significance of these uncovers family secrets, and also keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s addresses the themes of assimilation, archives in to a secret room identity, and home, that echo issues in a farmhouse in Auvergne, and that are still relevant today. from Long Island to Auschwitz. This captivating family memoir

40 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 LETTER FROM RIA MAISSEL

Dear Alan,

I would like to express my appreciation of all the activities carried out by YINN during the past few months.

Although many of us have been unable to attend Shul, Rabbi Boudilovsky’s Dvar Torah and the Melava Malka on Zoom each week, not forgetting all the various shiurim, have helped us to keep in touch and to feel united as a congregation. uncovers the breathtaking story of the lives of two generations of the As far as the services in the Shul are concerned, we have to thank Glass family, her grandmother having Graham and David for carrying out the unenviable task of ensuring been born Sala Glahs in 1910 in that the Shul is safe for those members wishing to attend. The Chrzanow. House of Glass is also regulations and restrictions seem to change every few days and a social and psychological study of they have to ensure there are sufficient minyanim for those who Jewish identity subject to the traumas wish to attend. What a difficult job! of the twentieth century, and the long shadow that history casts on future Every Monday afternoon our brains are enlivened when we generations. Caroline Sanderson have our Zoom social meeting. What a wonderful variety of of the “Bookseller” describes the entertainment we have had -debates, discussions, talks, quizzes book as “a triumph of research, and many more. Thank you, Alan, for organising these great virtual of accomplished writing, and of meetings. thoughtful analysis of what it means to be Jewish today”. On a personal note, I greatly appreciated the three messages of In this book, one can identify sympathy I received from Rabbi Boudilovsky, Eze and Graham on with the intrigue and excitement of the yahrzeit of my brother z”l. It is quite an undertaking to contact the author, while discovering her each person having a yahrzeit, but is particularly appreciated when family’s secrets and past, learning one is alone. who her ancestors were and where they lived, whether in Chrzanow in Thank you to everyone concerned in looking after the members of Austria-Hungary (now Poland) or our Shul and helping to keep us safe during this difficult time. Paris. Her impressive research has enabled Hadley Freeman to write With best wishes to all, the personal histories of all her Ria Maissel grandmother’s immediate family members in the context of the social, cultural, and economic histories of the communities in which those relatives lived. Obviously, the military Loneliness can be as much a menace to health and wellbeing situation during World War II also had as any pandemic. The shul has formed a Refuah Shlema group a profound impact on their lives. In of members who call people who are sick and isolated. There fact, she brilliantly recreates the dark has been an amazing response from the people who have been atmosphere of those years. contacted. More willing volunteers are needed to share this Those who have read The Hare With vital task. All you need is a few minutes of your time each week Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal and – and a telephone. East West Street by Philippe Sands will find that House of Glass is a book that Please contact Sender Lees on: is just as superbly readable; I very 0544 923592 or email: much commend the book . A [email protected]

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 41 New Year Greetings 5781 Enid Abrahams Elaine Feingold Monique and Jacques Mary Jane and Geoffrey Janice Alexander Daphne and Anthony Felix Korolnyk Pollack Freha and Freddy Apfel Bella Fielding Ruth and Ronnie Kotton Renee Rabinowitz Adrienne Arnold Gillian and Ian Fine Sylvia Kovler Sandra Rabinowitz Heather and Brian Bank Chevy and Arnie Fine Nadia and Brian Lebetkin Frederica and Jack Reiss Sadie Baigel Maureen, Colin and David Gelda and Sender Lees Claire Richman Valerie and Ivor Baum Frankel Erna Lemon Cynthia and Norman Roberts Rena and Yitzhak Bakst Judy Frankel Ruth and Mervyn Leviton Avril and Neville Gatoff Sheila Levitt Stephanie and Stuart Diana and Gerald Barnett Ronson Joyce and Basil Geller Lillian and David Levy Michael Beach Joanna and Harvey Howard Berger Eileen and David Gillis Rita and Gerald Levy Rosenberg Judy and Joseph Berger David Glass Ruth and David Levy Slava and Julian Rosenberg Anita and David Berke Ruth and Alan Gold Elkan Levy Susan Rosenberg and Joyce and Steve Berman Andee Goldman Rae and Ivor Lewis Brian Sopher Gillian Berman Rosalind Goldstein Lily Lindsay Sara and Arthur Rosenstein Desiree and Anthony Jeanne and Maurice Golend Susan and Stuart Ita and David Rubenstein Bernstein Marlene and Simcha Lustigman Rachel and Zvi Rubin Aubrey Blitz Gordon Ruth and Barry Lyons Myrla and Maurice Sacofsky Elaine Bloom Fraybin Gottlieb Ria Maissel Beryl Sagal Yvonne Bortz Ruth and Brian Gouldman June and Michael Manning Rosalind and Hilton Share Gill and Martin Boxer Natalie and Harvey Green Cecily and Philip Margolis Mottle Shaw Charlotte and Zvi Braun Irene Gremson Maureen and Anthony Joyce Shohet Marcovitch Rev Stanley and Beryl Clarice and Tony Hanstater Gillian and Eze Silas Caroline and Ian Marks Brickman Loretta and Judy Harstein Anne and David Silverman Rachel and Geoff Marks Hazel and Jaques Broch Myriam and Simon Hazan Vivienne and Charles Miriam and David Bronner Susan and Robert Hodes Betty and Georges Simenoff Mendlebaum Estelle and Steven Brown Anita and Mark Hoffman Yehudit and Leonard Jeffrey Milston Jeanette and Raymond Marlene and Stuart Solomons Cannon Horowitz Patricia and Serge Hilda and David Solomons Morgensztern Sharon and Ivor Carr Miriam and David Illfeld Helen and Richard Denise and Neil Morris Phyllis and Martin Carr Alf Jacobs Stareshefsky Caroline and Martin Moser Judith Cohen Angela Jenshil Sandra and David Stein Elaine and Ivor Newman Sandra and Mervyn Cohen Lydia and Cyril Karp Lynda Struel Pauline and Graham Alexandra and Alex Stuart Susan and Neville Cohen Judi, Maurice and Darren Newman Kay Reizel and Chaim Tugennes Sheila and Hyam Corney Sala Newton-Katz Nina and Elhanan Geraldine and Andrew Kaye Rochelle and Moishe Rowena and Graham Veeder Diesendruck Ruth Keene Nussbaum Betty and Joe Wahnon Janice and Ian Donoff Melinda and Rusell Kett Vivienne Oster June Weinberg Jane and Henry Dony Barbara and Geoffrey Keye Jenny and Phillip Park Helen and Simon Waingard Hilary and Jeff Dritz Rosemary and Harry Klahr Nelly Perry Naomi and Stuart West Paula and Asher Edery Leonard Klahr Emma and Ronnie Phillips Melanie and Isaac Wind Janet and Denis Elkoubi Bella and Anchal Klein Rev Michael and Phyllis Yvette and Hillel Factor Maureen and Phillip Klyne Plaskow Paulette and David Woolf Rabbi Ozer (Edward) and Marlene Knepler Frances and Mike Plaskow Janice Zemmel A Miriam Feigelman Avril and Andy Kormornick Stephanie and Tony Ziona and David Feiler Plaskow

42 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 A Chance Encounter? by Lynette Ordman

We were preparing to go on Aliyah years ago and hadn’t seen since then! My response was, “It’s alright, it’s and had a lot of things to sell that we She explained that she lived near by a long time ago now” and gave her weren’t going to take with us. On the and had just come out for a walk. a reassuring smile. She relaxed and Sunday we sold quite a few things at She introduced me to her daughter smiled back. Her husband was calling a Boot sale, but as the car was still and told her “We shared a flat her and she apologised she had to fairly full of things to sell I suggested together before we were married”. go. And that was the end of our very we do another Boot sale the following Her daughter said “That’s nice”. She brief reunion. day – which happened to be a Bank corrected her “No it wasn’t nice. “She I had never come to that area of holiday Monday. It was quite far, but paused and looked at me, “It was a London before and just happened to we decided to go. There were very few difficult time for both of us” she said, be there. We hadn’t sold anything, people browsing and only a few cars and I nodded in agreement. but us being there had given my ex- on that field selling their unwanted She continued, “I’ve been meaning flatmate the opportunity to say she goods. It was not going to be a good to speak to you. Our daughters go was sorry. And just as importantly, I day. to the same school and I saw you at was able to forgive her after all those A young girl came to our pitch and one of the concerts there. I wanted years. That chance encounter meant was looking at the books I had for to say...” and she broke off unable to everything to me. I was going to a new sale. She called her mother over speak as she was emotional. life in a new home and finally I was to look at the books. I looked up. I knew what she wanted to say. able to put that past episode well and Imagine my surprise when I saw the She had done me a great wrong truly behind me. A woman I had shared a flat with 40 and wanted to say she was sorry.

Don’t Slip this Article — “Knit One Purl One” by Hazel Broch

Over the years, we have had a and the wool. One ball of wool Please contact me and may I number of ladies from our shul who is sufficient for one hat. All I thank you in anticipation of your have helped to knit hats for our need is YOU to please phone me help. Shanah Tovah. A soldiers. and we will make the necessary Hazel Broch Tel No: My contact is a lady in who, arrangements to pick up the wool 09-834-2653 on receiving my parcel, sews a label and pattern. When knitted, you 054-779-2771 into each hat with the message may put the hat in my letter box at “Knitted with love and care”. The 45/33 Shlomo Hamelech. hats are then distributed. Soon the cooler weather will As time goes by, it is sad for me arrive, which makes it easier to to write that some of our knitters knit. Remember our soldiers need have passed away. We are in need the hats for the cold weather. of more ladies to help with this If we are still in lockdown, or important mitzvah for our soldiers. hopefully not, this knitting will It is a very easy pattern: “Knit give you a worthwhile task and is One Purl One”. I have the pattern beneficial to our IDF.

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 43 COMMUNITY REPORTS

YINN Charity Committee Please continue to generously and shivas. My thanks to Alex Stuart It has been a busy year for the support your Charity Fund. Charity who has relayed funerals by Zoom, Charity Committee. Donations have is a constitutional purpose of our and to David Feiler who has arranged been higher than previous years. community and a Halachic obligation. shiva visiting by Zoom, thereby The Charity Committee meets You can be assured that your giving mourners the comfort of being several times a year, but the members contributions will be carefully used connected to those who are unable of the committee are in constant and will bring light into the difficulties at this time to console on a personal touch with each other to deal with the and darkness of many homes. basis. needs of our community. This year has If you know of cases of need or wish The booklet of procedure and been complicated by the Coronavirus to talk to the Committee about its customs for Burial in Netanya, crisis which has added considerable work, please contact one of us. prepared and distributed some four demands on our limited resources. Rabbi Boudilovsky: [email protected] years ago, is still of assistance at the We observe strict confidentiality Joe Wahnon: [email protected] sad time of the loss of a loved one. If and we involve a professional social Eze Silas: [email protected] anyone, in particular new members who may not know of our service, worker to advise us, if appropriate. Eze Silas (Chairman) The social worker assesses needs and needs a copy, information or further recommends steps that the recipient explanation they may contact me or of our support should take to achieve any member of the committee. Chevra Kadisha self-sufficiency and to explore other I would like to express my thanks to local and National institutional While we are fortunate that none Rabbi Boudilovsky for his assistance sources of financial assistance. of our members has succumbed to in our work. Thank you, Alan Gold and Our activity depends considerably the Corona infection, it has been Yitzhak Bakst for your contribution on the funds donated at Kol Nidre. very hard for the families of those to all the work that we have been The Kol Nidre Appeal was remarkably members who have passed way in the obliged to do recently. successful and exceeded all previous last six months to have lost a loved Phyllis Carr has been organizing the years. It has taken considerable one, and not be surrounded by family mourner’s meal when necessary. I effort to collect some of the money and friends at levayot or be comforted thank you for always being so willing pledged in shul and, at the time as usual in their homes. Services at to do so. of writing, there are still several home have not taken place. Apart I hope that the Congregation will thousands of shekels pledged but from providing the mourner’s meal have little need of whatever limited not paid. It would be helpful if the when required, we have been unable, services we can provide at this time, pledges were to be redeemed more as previously, to provide meals for but all should know that each of us is promptly in future. The Purim and those people sitting shiva. willing and ready to assist whenever Pesach donations are all used to meet We have carried out our duty of called upon. immediate needs, as dictated by assisting mourners by arranging We wish all the members of the Halacha. funerals and stone settings and Congregation a Shana Tova U’Metuka. May you all remain safe and healthy. At the time of writing, only ₪17,000 by arranging minyanim for these remains available for distribution and occasions. Kol Hacavod to all our Eze Silas (Chairman) must be carefully managed until the gentlemen members who turned up at 2020 Kol Nidre funds are received. In funerals and stone settings to make the period since Kol Nidre 2019, the up a . Committee has given grants to those By use of technology we have been in need of more than ₪185,000. able to connect people to funerals

44 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 Children’s Corner Children’s Corner we really miss Over these months we are in a fix Realizing how much we need ge’zoomt”. male membership that we make every to Since the last issue of the Shul effort to recognize all Yahrzeits and Overcome this threatening plague magazine, we have completed two significant simchas with an aliya and Now we need to pray even more tractates of the 14th Daf Yomi cycle, a Mi Shebeirach where appropriate As another Jewish New Year comes to Berachot and Shabbat. We held the and that we keep careful track of each our door. Firstborn Siyum on Erev Pesach via member’s aliya record to ensure that Very happy to be available and Zoom on Masechet Berachot. everyone receives an aliya at least around Another major highlight was that twice a year. I would have described In our shul YINN to whom we are our Daf Yomi Shiur was honoured how we attempt to diversify the pool bound recently by having Shiurim delivered of speakers at the Seuda Shlishit and Ready to welcome our Children’s by our distinguished Emeritus Daf how we attempt to equitably allocate Corner Yomi Maggid Shiur, Rev. Michael the Haftarot each Shabbat. I probably Usually with some prayers, parsha, Plaskow MBE. Rev. Plaskow would have added a few words about fun, and laughter devoted an entire week teaching planning for the Yamim Noraim and Shana Tova full of blessings and good Perek Rabbi Eliezer D’Milah, the Simchat Torah. health too. chapter in Masechet Shabbat which But as we now know: Mensch tracht, discusses Brit Milah on Shabbat and un Gott lacht. Actually, I am sure Savta Hazel, Rivka and all our circumcision in general. We were all that G-d is not laughing at all, but He participants enlightened by his Shiurim, Divrei certainly has stuck a wrench in the Torah, and the extensive experiences works. Maybe, as theologians of many which he shared with us of his many religions have posited, He is testing Daf Yomi years as a Mohel in the UK. Thank you mankind’s social resilience and, for Since the last issue of the Rev. Plaskow for this most inspiring us Jews, our Emunah. Out of nowhere YINN Magazine, we have all been week. we have all had to drastically retool challenged with the worldwide I also wish thank all those who our lifestyles. For months we could Coronavirus pandemic. Yet YINN substituted for me during the time not see our grandchildren, we have has been Zooming along with the taken off for the recent marriage of members who have rarely ventured many Shiurim and lectures offered our granddaughter. out of the house since Purim, we through Zoom. Since the last week “celebrated” Seder night without Rabbi Ozer (Edward) Feigelman of March, the Daf Yomi has been friends and family and in a number delivered on a daily basis via Zoom of cases in our own community, there attracting 8-10 participants. We are were those who made Seder alone. even able to display the Gemara A Word from the Gabbai It boggles the mind—who would sources and diagrams online. While Had this been a normal year I would have remotely contemplated this six we discontinued coffee and biscuits, probably have written an article for months ago? we have our daily Zoom spiritual the journal describing the usual But our shul has attempted to “munchies” to keep us going, even mundane issues of being the Gabbai turn lemons into lemonade and though we sometimes feel “ois at YINN. I would have reassured the in doing so we have uncovered

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 45 latent strengths and talents. We was not to be suspended. Then we Shabbat. Even if we succeed in have become accomplished video moved on to where only fifty were finding open spaces we may still conferencers, a term that I only permitted in the shul so we diligently legally be limited to 20 participants associated previously with my office marked the seats two meters apart, there. Many of you responded to our life. The shul gabbai became the then, at the next stage, we were Yamim Noraim survey in which we Zoom gabbai, the monthly Monday restricted to only nineteen. Currently tried to estimate the level of interest Club became weekly, the Seuda we are at a maximum of ten inside in attending at least Kol Nidrei and Shlishit became a Melave Malka, the and twenty outside so we send out a Neilah services. Approximately Rabbi’s Shabbat sermon became weekly survey asking for members’ 140 men and women responded a weekly video drasha and more preferences for attending each of affirmatively to that question, recently also an extended podcast, the three indoor Shabbat morning assuming no additional tightening of the Rabbi’s women’s shiur and Daf services and assign them accordingly the regulations. That number presents Yomi migrated almost seamlessly to their preferred time.. Thanks are us with an enormous logistical to Zoom as did Rabbi David Woolf’s due to Ronnie Lawrence and Elie challenge which will now keep the shiurim. The Ivrit Parsha Group and Berlin for volunteering to lein twice shul management preoccupied for the YINN ulpan classes all successfully each Shabbat so that we can hold next few weeks. converted to Zoom. Along the way three Shacharit-Musaf services. Finally, grateful thanks to all our we all learned together what works Thanks also to Asher Edery and members who have shown patience and what does not work so well. Graham Nussbaum, my assistant in contending constructively with An attempt during our first week gabbaim, for each running one of the the current situation. Many of you of quarantine to conduct a Zoom Shabbat services smoothly. have submitted suggestions on how Kabbalat Shabbat service of sorts Weekdays we daven inside and to improve conditions for the shul taught us very quickly that communal outside where twenty are permitted and have also taken on themselves singing on Zoom is a notable failure so that provides tefilla options for up unfamiliar roles to smooth out the due to transmission delays and to forty men. way for all of us. Yishar kochachem! Internet weaknesses. Many of these The Zoom melave malkas are very David Feiler reengineered events attract more successful. Without the benefit of people now on Zoom than they did sharing food, drink and singing, in real life which will present us we are dependent on our talented with a new set of challenges as we speakers to hold our attention for Nashim exit from the current situation. Most some 40 minutes. I believe we It has been a very difficult time for importantly, especially for those have done so admirably, utilizing a all of us. Since I gave my last report, not venturing outside much, we combination of speakers drawn from there have been no functions due to harnessed the simplicity and ready our own talent pool as well as outside the Covid-19 virus, but, thank God, availability of WhatsApp to keep in speakers who, in many cases, have all our community have kept well constant contact with our members a family tie to YINN and are therefore which, under the circumstances, is in Israel and overseas and to inform more than willing to give their wonderful. them of forthcoming events and then parents’ shul an intellectual and/or Hazel Broch is stepping down from to remind them in a timely fashion as religious boost with their words of organising the rotas with Avril Gatoff. the event date approaches. Torah. It would be remiss of me not to thank With regard to services we started As I write these words in early her for all her inspiration, guidance with a total blackout period and August we have no firm answers to and support over the years and to responded to that with weekday the question on everyone’s mind: wish her continued good health and Shacharit services on Zoom. How will we cope with Rosh Hashanah happiness for many years to come. Approximately 12 men came on line and Yom Kippur? It all depends on Avril Gatoff will be organising the each morning, not as a minyan but the government rules in place at that new rotas for the five Kiddush teams as a group of individuals for whom time. Clearly, we cannot conduct for next year. We hope that there will Tefilla in a familiar group setting consecutive services as we do on be a vaccine and we can once again

46 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 have functions. Ruth Lyons is one of our team leaders and we wish her to continue in good health after her major operations, also a Refuah Shelemah to the other ladies who have had operations and been unwell. As this is my last year in the chair, I am delighted to have worked with a team of ladies who have always worked so hard and always given of We improve our strength, their visits here. their time and effort to make the Irgun flexibility, cardio, core, balance and The main event before shut down Nashim so successful. Thank you. proprioception during our classes. I was the ever popular Maurice Kriss Hopefully, we will be able to have take my background of rehabilitation open tournament which was once an AGM and until we do so, I will and create a fun-filled, energetic class again sponsored by his daughters. continue. To Betty Wahnon I wish that is focused on getting us stronger. Many thanks to them, it was greatly mazal and brachah in her new role My goal is to make our daily activities appreciated. The singles winner was as chairperson and to say that I will easier (walking, stairs, getting in/ Adin Glass. We were very proud of always be here to give any help when out the car, putting on socks without this as Adin was a home product and needed. sitting down!) and live our lives more started his table tennis with us as a On behalf of the Irgun Nashim, we functionally. young boy; Mazeltov Adin. The runner wish you all a Happy New Year in good As COVID19 has continued, we up was David Rosencweig who has health and stay safe. have become more creative with our been a regular since the early days Joanna Rosenberg exercise equipment. We’ve replaced and this was his first trophy. therabands with towels, dumbbells David R also partnered Geoff with bottles of Ketchup and exercise Keye in winning the doubles. Well Men’s & Ladies’ Exercise Class balls with cushions. There is no done David and Geoff. It was also stopping us! very nice to see David Gillis, a new Before we had the worries of Most importantly, we all leave the recent Aliyah arrival among the Medal masks and social distancing, I had class feeling lighter, stronger and winners as runner up in the doubles the honour of working with many most of the time SMILING! And we can partnering Anatoly. members of the YINN community even put on our masks standing on 1 Our next event should be the David during our Monday Morning Men’s leg! Band league matches. When ? your Exercise Class. Classes are 30₪ and are on guess is as good as mine We welcome Who am I? My name is Nikia Sundays 11h00 and Wednesday’s new members and remember that BlumenthalOlah from Jo’burg, South 16h00 table tennis is the best exercise. I Africa. I am a Biokineticist and hope you are all keeping well and Exercise Rehabilitation Therapist, and Nikia Blumenthal wish you all a Shonah Tovah I love working with SENIORS. Although I hate the word SENIOR, I love working Jaques Broch with people who are sick of feeling Table Tennis OLD! Well it was quite a good year until We began the year in the YINN play was stopped by you all know Tarbut – Cultural Committee hall, and when COVID19 struck, we what. At the beginning we had several The committee’s practice is to start had to take our classes to ZOOM - new members join who had recently preparation of the autum/winter in everyone’s individual lounges / come on Aliyah and of course we still programme, to take place in our Shul studies / balconies! Our class is now have a regular number of visitors from hall, in May of each year. open to EVERYONE! abroad who enjoy joining us during continued on page 61

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 47 This year we were faced with the Virtual Monday Club our Top Ten Quiz (more to follow!). uncertainty that the Shul hall would Rabbi Boudilovsky returned for be open and rather than abandon this A long long time ago in a universe very another impromptu question and valuable part of the Shul calendar, much like ours, I went to the last real answer session and, just before which is so enjoyed by our members time Monday Club – not that we knew Tisha B’Av, Tzvi Sperber gave us a and their guests, we decided to plan it there and then. I hadn’t seen South masterly illustrated summary of three all events to take place by Zoom. Pacific since 1958 and smoked salm- thousand years of . We have been succesful in planning on bridge rolls take a lot of refusing... At the time of writing, we await six new events and are hoping that the Scroll forward a few weeks. The our celebrity lecturer Dame Esther Evian Conferece, which was postponed lockdown is in force, we’re limited Rantzen heading an attractive last year due to weather conditions, to 350 metres from home and life is programme leading up to Rosh will take place as the seventh event. getting tedious and worrying. The shul Hashanah when we will take a break You will see the exciting programme to its credit is organising shiurim, for a few weeks. Whilst there can in the flyers inserted in this Magazine. drashot, a weekly Melava Malka to be no one in the community who Please enter all dates in your diaries replace the seudot – all well and isn’t hoping for the restrictions to be so as not to miss any event. good. But perhaps what was missing totally lifted, informal conversations We have chosen a wide variety was something in a lighter mode. together with an on-line survey of topics delivered by interesting So I sent the chairman a WhatsApp indicate that the vast majority of VMC speakers and look forward to the suggesting a virtual social group and I members want the Club to become a support of the Congregation by was told go ahead. Our Rabbi agreed regular fixture of the YINN calendar. attendance at all the events. to be our first speaker and answer I must thank David Feiler for all his Zoom details are in the flier and questions without prior knowledge; technical support in his capacity as will also be circulated by Whats App about forty people logged on which Zoom guru and all the friendly faces and through the Website before each indicated an audience of seventy or on the grid at tea time every Monday. event. The same details will relate to more. We were up and running. Now it’s back to the drawing board to all events except for the In next to no time, the VMC has find the programme material to keep Hanukkah party/Melava Malka. become an institution. We’ve them coming! There will be a Hanukka party and welcomed speakers from all over: Alan Gold Shul Melava Malka as last year. This Yanky Fachler from Dublin who is an evening enjoyed by all our spoke on Chutzpah and in a second members and friends. We will give appearance on the impact of Leon Shiurim by ZOOM During good notice of the entertainment Uris and Exodus, Rabbi Jeremy Covid 19 arranged for the evening and the Rosen from New York suggested This past year, despite and maybe Zoom details for participation. that chaos is the secret of Judaism, because of Covid 19, learning has My thanks go to my colleagues on Jeffrey Fisher celebrated Jewish exploded at the Young Israel of North the committee - Anthony Felix, Mervyn music, Daniella and Grant Crankshaw Netanya. The impact of Corona began Leviton, Mary Jane Pollack and Brian highlighted their pioneering work to be felt as Pesach approached. Sopher who were very helpful in in establishing English theatre in We took to the airwaves and started bringing together the programme. Ra’anana, Solly Kaplinski highlighted Zooming. We responded to Covid 19 I am particularly grateful to Anthony the issue of being the child of with a series of five shiurim focused Felix for the time he has given and Holocaust survivors, John Corre on understanding the Haggadah for the expertise with which he has explained his links to Sir Moses and how we could make our sedarim designed the flyer for all events. Montefiore, Elkan Levy examined meaningful in a challenging time. We wish all the Congregation be the early history and antecedents As Pesach gave way to the Omer, safe and healthy throughout the of the United Synagogue. Angela we continued and expanded our coming year. Jenshil was our first Desert Island learning. We began to learn about Shana Tova U’Metuka. Discs castaway and in a great piece the zemirot we sing every week. What of role reversal played interviewer so Eze Silas (Chairman) they mean and what they mean to us. that I became the second. We hope We learned how they are different in to make this a regular feature of our our diverse communities, Asheknazi, future programming. Tony Plaskow Sfardi and Eidot HaMizrach. We also organised two very successful learned about the unique nature of debates which aroused great each of our three Shabbat meals interest as did the first session of and how the zemirot reflect the

48 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 specialness of the meal and how they origins of our mourning practices. reflect our relationship with the KB”H Along the way, we have encountered and our yearning for the ultimate the questions of What do you REALLY Ge’ulah. need to do if a Torah falls to the At the same time, on Monday ground (L”A); Do Rabbis have the evenings at 7:30 pm we started right to dictate how you should spend investigating our tephilot. The goal of your money? Should you tell an ailing the shiur is to move our davening from relative s/he has suffered a loss? rote recitation to meaningful prayer. The only prerequisite for the shiur is We started with shacharit and have so a desire to learn and willingness to far covered the Berchot HaShachar, participate. Colour My Life Pisukei D’Zimra, and the Shema and We will be beginning a new topic will continue through the service. after the Yamim HaNora’im. We by Janette Moore The focus is on discussion and self will be learning the 4th perek in reflection. This shiur is ongoing and massechet Berachot which deals My soul is saturated all are welcome to join. with the origins of the Amida we say With wonderful, intense The Thursday Night Gemara shiur, every day. Have you ever wondered colours. which began 3 years ago, also why we say these 19 berachot? Who All my life continues to grow. Every Thursday wrote them? What did they hope to I have loved colours, evening at 7:30 pm we explore, in accomplish? All these questions and unusual colour combinations, depth, topics raised in the Gemara. more are waiting for us in the coming colour moods, bright colours, We are finishing the third perek year. Come join us. pastel colours, in Moed Katan which explores the dark and light colours; Rabbi David Woolf a kaleidoscope of colours, changeable, shifting, liquid, multicoloured, Contacting the Shul by Email psychedelic, ever-changing, fluid colours racing over the A User’s Guide canvas; complex combinations, membership guru Tony Plaskow Emailing the Rabbi: If there is intricate designs, will soon be in touch with help and any matter on which you wish to chaotic splatters of colours, advice. consult Rabbi Boudilovsky, use this A sunset of colours email address: [email protected] A sunrise of colours Chairman – Graham Hope springs from the Sometimes you may Office:The Office is closed due to Nussbaum: new dawn. the Coronavirus. want to make a comment or offer your opinion on areas within the For general enquiries: July 22nd 2019 email: [email protected] shul or even give a compliment. or phone: 09 832 1078 and your If so, this is the email address: call will be redirected. [email protected]

Magazine: If you have any ideas Social & Personal: To advise or want to know if an article you the Shul about your forthcoming are thinking of writing is suitable or Simcha contact Ruth Lyons our anything else about the magazine Social Secretary at: simply contact the YINN magazine [email protected] editor Alan Gold on magazine@ yinn.org Welfare: Please use this email address to tell the shul of anyone Membership: Thinking of joining who has just gone into hospital, YINN or maintaining or anything anyone who may need travel to do with membership just email assistance or help with shopping, [email protected] and our etc: [email protected]

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 49 Shiurim on zoom

YINN WEEKLY RECURRING SHIURIM ON ZOOM SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY MOTZEI ZOOM CODE and PASSWORD CONTACT PERSON SHABBAT Rabbi Ed Feigelman–Daf Yomi 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 821-0547-0919 / PW: 863161 Rabbi Feigelman Rabbi Boudilovsky–Women’s Shiur 10.15 a.m. 899-9170-5565 / PW: 565997 Rabbi Boudilovsky David Feiler–Ivrit Parsha 11.00 a.m. 535-123-017 / PW: 831718 David Feiler David Feiler–Ulpan Elementary 9:45 a.m. 254-155-717 / PW: 012471 David Feiler David Feiler–Ulpan Intermediate 12.15 p.m. 501-331-075 / PW: 082068 David Feiler Rabbi Boruch Taub–Parsha* 7.00 p.m. 888-974-573 David Feiler Rabbi Boruch Taub–Halacha* 7.00 p.m. 709-706-986 David Feiler Rabbi David Woolf –Gemara 7:30 p.m. 644-540-059 Rabbi David Woolf Rabbi David Woolf–Tefilla 7:30 p.m. 842-7203-6571 / PW: 451295 Rabbi David Woolf David Nemtzov Memorial Study Chaburah 10.15 a.m 823-3786-8875 / PW: 864187 Harvey Green Melave Malka 45 mins after Shabbat Ends 817-045-485 / PW:258868 David Feiler

Note: These are regular scheduled events for non-chag days. Check with each program’s coordinator for specific exclusion dates.

* In association with OU Israel

YINN WEEKLY NON-SHIURIM ACTIVITIES ON ZOOM MONDAY ZOOM CODE CONTACT PERSON Virtual Monday Club 3:30-5:30 pm 274-940-482 / PW: 820061 Alan Gold

50 | YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 YINN WEEKLY RECURRING SHIURIM ON ZOOM SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY MOTZEI ZOOM CODE and PASSWORD CONTACT PERSON SHABBAT Rabbi Ed Feigelman–Daf Yomi 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 821-0547-0919 / PW: 863161 Rabbi Feigelman Rabbi Boudilovsky–Women’s Shiur 10.15 a.m. 899-9170-5565 / PW: 565997 Rabbi Boudilovsky David Feiler–Ivrit Parsha 11.00 a.m. 535-123-017 / PW: 831718 David Feiler David Feiler–Ulpan Elementary 9:45 a.m. 254-155-717 / PW: 012471 David Feiler David Feiler–Ulpan Intermediate 12.15 p.m. 501-331-075 / PW: 082068 David Feiler Rabbi Boruch Taub–Parsha* 7.00 p.m. 888-974-573 David Feiler Rabbi Boruch Taub–Halacha* 7.00 p.m. 709-706-986 David Feiler Rabbi David Woolf –Gemara 7:30 p.m. 644-540-059 Rabbi David Woolf Rabbi David Woolf–Tefilla 7:30 p.m. 842-7203-6571 / PW: 451295 Rabbi David Woolf David Nemtzov Memorial Study Chaburah 10.15 a.m 823-3786-8875 / PW: 864187 Harvey Green Melave Malka 45 mins after Shabbat Ends 817-045-485 / PW:258868 David Feiler

Note: These are regular scheduled events for non-chag days. Check with each program’s coordinator for specific exclusion dates. Contact information for specific dates etc: * In association with OU Israel David Feiler [email protected] 054-663-6937 David Woolf [email protected] 058-470 7032 Ed Feigelman [email protected] 058-744-2066 YINN WEEKLY NON-SHIURIM ACTIVITIES ON ZOOM Alan Gold [email protected] 050-215-0697 MONDAY ZOOM CODE CONTACT PERSON Harvey Green [email protected] 052-307-5952 Virtual Monday Club 3:30-5:30 pm 274-940-482 / PW: 820061 Alan Gold Rabbi Boudilovsky [email protected] 054-525-9490

YINN Rosh Hashanah 5781 | 51 USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Rabbi Boruch Boudilovsky 054-525 9490

Executive Graham Nussbaum Chairman of the Board 054-748 9295 Alex Stuart Vice Chairman 09-861 5723 Andrew Kaye Honorary Treasurer 09 832 0898 Sharon Carr Honorary Secretary 09-773 5108 David Feiler Senior Gabbai 077-780 1369

Activities Art Group Sandra Catalove 09-862 1933 Building and Maintenance Gerald Barnett 052-403 7946 Chevra Kadisha Eze Silas (Chairman) 09-862 8737 Alan Gold 050-215-0697 Yitzhak Bakst 09-887 2474 Phyllis Carr 052-379 0740 Charity Committee Eze Silas 09-862 8717 Children’s Corner Hazel Broch 09-834 2653 Daily Minyanim Asher Edery 054-690 5646 Education / Tarbut Series Eze Silas (Chairman) 09-862 8737 Hospital Car Pool Neville Gatoff 058-766 8222 Irgun Nashim Joanna Rosenberg - Chairperson 09-834 4619 Ruth Gold - Treasurer 077-530 1758 Stephanie Plaskow - Secretary 054-6439062 Ladies Keep Fit to be advised Magazine Alan Gold 077-530 1758 Magazine Advertising Ivor Carr 09-773 5108 June Weinberg (Pesach greetings) 09-861 7710 Medical Susan Rosenberg 058 600 7086 Brian Sopher 058 549 5499 Sale of Seats / Seats for Yomim Noraim Barry Lyons 09-833 5041 Security Graham Nussbaum 054-748 9295 Shul Management Gerald Barnett 052-403 7946 Social Secretary Ruth Lyons 09-833 5041 Table Tennis Chug Jaques Broch 09-834 2653 Tiyyulim to Eilat Rosalind Goldstein 052-585-3025 Harvey Green 052-307-592 Virtual Monday Club Alan Gold 050-215-0697 Window Sales Eze Silas 09-862 8737 Yahrzeit Boards Tony Plaskow 054-653 0657 Alan Gold 050-215-0697 Youth Activities and Minyan Dr Yehoshua Lehman 09-882 1261 Youth Minyan Adin Glass 052-834 1019

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