Parshat Ki Teitzei 14 Elul 5779 Sept 13-14, 2019 Shaul Robinson Josh Rosenfeld Sherwood Goffin z”l Yanky Lemmer Tamar Fix Alan Samuels

ECHOD Senior Assistant Rabbi Founding Chazzan Cantor Executive Director President SCHEDULE THIS SHABBAT

5:51pm Earliest Candle Lighting 6:51pm Shabbat Candle Lighting Shabbat Morning

Friday Night 9:00am Services in the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Sanctuary. Drasha given by Rabbi Shaul Robinson followed by Musaf. 6:55pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat in Nathaniel Richman Cohen AJ Gindi will be speaking after Musaf on “Mystery Donor: The Sanctuary. Services officiated and Dvar given by Rabbi Story Behind the Tale.” Davening led by Chazzan Yisroel Lesches. Shaul Robinson. Davening led by Chazzan Yisroel Lesches. Shabbat Afternoon Shabbat Morning

7:45am Hashkama Minyan in the Belfer Beit Midrash followed by a 5:35pm Louis & Rhoda Lazar Memorial Shabbat Pre-Mincha Shiur in the shiur on the third floor given by Rabbi Moshe Sokolow. Nathaniel Richman Cohen Sanctuary given by Community Intern, 9:00am Services in the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Sanctuary. Mindy Schwartz on "She Shall Weep for Her Father and Mother Drasha given by Rabbi Shaul Robinson followed by Musaf. for a Full Month": The Eishet Yefat To'ar and Elul AJ Gindi will be speaking after Musaf on “Mystery Donor: The 6:30pm Women’s Tefillah Group Mincha Location: Belfer Beit Midrash Story Behind the Tale” 6:35pm Mincha/Seudah Shlishit. Community Intern, Mindy Schwartz Davening led by Chazzan Yisroel Lesches. will be speaking on “Aseret Yemei Teshuva: Should Our Eyes Be 9:15am Beginners Service led by Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald in Rm LL201 On the Rearview Mirror or the Road Ahead?“

9:42am Latest Shema AJ Gindi has served as the president of his shul, 9:45am Rabbi Herschel Cohen Memorial Minyan in the Belfer Congregation Magen Abraham, for 20 years, a trait he Beit Midrash inherited from his father and grandfather before him. He 10:00am Youth Groups for children ages 2-12 has also served as President of Sephardic Bikur Holim for 11:00am “Baby & Me” (ages 0-24 months, 3rd floor gym) 6 years and was on the initial board of founders of the Shabbat Afternoon Jersey Shore Hatzalah. The turning point of his life was

4:00pm Herb Weiss Bikur Cholim Society: Meets in the Shele on February 5th, 2013 when he became an altruistic Danishefsky Covlin Foyer to visit patients at Mount Sinai West. kidney donor. Today he serves as Renewal’s Community Advocate to help facilitate transplants and give others a Renewal of Life. (New volunteers needed and welcome) 4:50pm Beginners Mishna Chavura with Moshe Sheinwexler in the Renewal is an organization dedicated to facilitating living kidney Belfer Beit Midrash transplants. Founded in 2006, Renewal has been involved in well over 5:35pm Samson Raphael Hirsch Bible Class with Rabbi Ephraim 600 lifesaving transplants since inception. They save lives by helping Buchwald in Rm 211 facilitate kidney transplants for those suffering with chronic kidney 5:35pm Louis & Rhoda Lazar Memorial Shabbat Pre-Mincha Shiur in disease. They also provide guidance and support to help patients and the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Sanctuary given by Community their families navigate all the medical challenges of coping with their Intern, Mindy Schwartz Zolty on "She Shall Weep for Her condition. Their services are free of charge to anyone in need. AJ will Father and Mother for a Full Month": The Eishet Yefat To'ar speak in the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Sanctuary right after musaf. and Elul 6:30pm Women’s Tefillah Group Mincha Location: Belfer Beit Midrash Mindy Schwartz Zolty is a student at Yeshiva University’s 6:35pm Mincha/Seudah Shlishit. Community Intern, Mindy Schwartz Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) Zolty will be speaking on “Aseret Yemei Teshuva: Should Our and a MA candidate in Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Eyes Be On the Rearview Mirror or the Road Ahead?“ Graduate School. Mindy is a graduate of Stern College for 7:50pm Ma’ariv/Shabbat Ends Women, where she majored in Judaic Studies and Art History. Mindy previously served as the Adult and Teen Educator for Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck and as a HAKARAT HATOV lecturer and group leader at Congregation Oheb Zedek on the Upper

Mordechai Beilis for writing this week’s Dvar Torah. West Side. Mindy is a Wexner Fellow/Davidson Scholar and currently serves as a senior editor of The Lehrhaus, an online forum for articles on Sandra Kilstein and Enid Moskowitz for leading our LSS Hospitality Jewish scholarship and culture. Mindy lives with her husband, Yoni, on efforts for the last year. the Upper West Side. Thank you to our generous sponsors, whose donations covered last week’s Youth Department Back to Shul Puppet Show: Becky and Eitan Kimmelman, Talia and Liron David, Dr. Meryl and Benji Brown, and Estee and Eli Friedman NEXT SHABBAT

Motzei Shabbat, September 21: Leil Selichot: 10:30pm THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Join Chazzan Yanky Lemmer accompanied by Grammy Award winning trumpeter Frank London on harmonium and trumpet. Opening Hashkama Kiddush: Golda Hudes on the occasion of the 35th remarks by Rabbi Shaul Robinson. Location: 10:30pm in the Nathaniel yahrtzeit of her father Aaron Yohanan Chaim ben Menashe z”l. Richman Cohen Sanctuary, 12:55am in the Belfer Beit Midrash. Main Kiddush: Pauline and Evan Sehgal in honor of the birth of their .)איתא יעל( daughter, Edith Yael

Beginners Kiddush: Beatrice Stoller in commemoration of her MAZAL TOV mother's yahrtzeit, Sonia Mazur a"h and her husband's yahrtzeit, Elias Stoller z"l. Liz and Alex Taub and big sister, Keira, on the birth of a baby girl. Mazal Tov to grandparents, Hindy and Ruby Taub. Seudah Shlishit: Pauline and Evan Sehgal in commemoration of the fourth yahrtzeit of our beloved father Robert Sehgal, Ruvan Ben Debra and Avi Srulowitz on the birth of a baby boy. Shmuel HaLevi z”l. UPCOMING EVENTS WEEKLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Sunday: Sunday, September 15: 2G3G Holocaust Survivor Series: 5:00pm  *(Resumes after High Holidays) Sunday Morning Responsa Screening and discussion of “Numbers of my Great-Grandfather’s Monday: Arm” with special presentation by Elliott Stoinz. Cost: $10 per per- son, $36 for family of 4, and $5 per additional person. To register,  Chug Ivrit led by Harel Fenigstein 7:00pm-8:15pm. In this class, we read please visit www.jicny.com or email [email protected]. articles from the Israeli press, watch videos of news stories, Location: Rm 206/207 documentaries and comedy clips, listen to (and sing along!) to Israeli songs and chat in Ivrit. This year, we will have a special focus on Israeli Thursday, September 19: Challah and Cake Sale: 6:00pm poetry. Location: Rm 207

To preorder, please email [email protected]  Jewish Living Workshop: 7:30pm-9:00pm. The remaining 8 Location: Shele Danishefsky Covlin Foyer workshops will be on Mondays from 7:30-8:30pm. Sign up for “hands on” Jewish living experience. We learn by doing. Topic: Rosh Hashanah Thursday, October 10: Lulav and Etrog Sale: 7:00pm Email: [email protected] Location: Rm 208/210

Location: Shele Danishefsky Covlin Foyer Tuesday:

Thursday, October 10: Beginners Shopping: 7:00pm  The Marilyn & Sam Isler, “Studies in the weekly Parsha” led by Rabbi Shaul Robinson: 10:30am– 11:30am. Location: Rm LL201 Meet us to buy lulavim and etrogim at rock-bottom prices! Location: 135 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11201  Beit Midrash night, The M'lachim (Kings) Study Group led by Ron Platzer: 7:45pm-8:30pm. Location: Rm 211

Tuesday, October 29: Concerts in Motion: 5:00pm Wednesday: Join LSS and Concerts in Motion as we bring a private concert experience to you, right in the comfort of your own .  Hebrew Reading Crash Course Levels I and II 6:30pm-8:00pm. This is the third of five classes. Locations: LL201 & 211 Concerts in Motion is a New York City-based not-for-profit organization that brings personal live concerts to people who are  Teshuva Program: Elul: Days of Awe—Days of Love with Rabbi Shaul experiencing physical frailty, to veterans, or to those who simply Robinson. 7:30pm-8:30pm Topic: Becoming a Real “Ba’al Teshuvah”: Nachmanides and Blu Greenberg on All Over Again. find going to concerts in a crowded concert hall too overwhelming. This event is free and open to all. However, to help us anticipate Thursday:

attendance, please register at www.lss.org/event/concert.  Women’s Talk Time: led by School Psychologist Ruth Moser Riemer: 11:30am-12:30pm. Last Week’s Topic: Anti-Semitism: Rm LL201.

 *(Resumes after Sukkot) The Jacob Adler Parsha Class

2019 HIGH HOLIDAYS SCHEDULE KOL NIDRE APPEAL www.lss.org/hhschedule2019 It is this time of year that we again call upon our community to contribute to the HH appeal with a sense of renewed optimism, continuity, and, generosity. Within less than two weeks of the fall of the Notre Dame SEATING cathedral last spring, hundreds of millions of euros were pledged to www.lss.org/form/seats rebuild it. A large portion of these pledges came from the personal fortunes of Jewish families, French and non-French alike. How one Sold out: Womens Main Sanctuary, Women & Mens Kollel Minyan processes the largesse of these contributions is certainly up for debate Please note; seating is first comes first serve with no right answer. A common refrain at that time was that the Interested in becoming a dedicated seat holder? cathedral “is an integral part of our shared legacy and soul.” It was the Email: [email protected] or call (212) 874-6100 ext. 106 greatest act of bedek habaiit ever, reflecting what can be done in the hour of need. Our functioning, growing bayit, our shul, which “is an integral part of our shared legacy and soul,” to us and our children, should BOOK OF REMEMBERANCE similarly demand our support. Funds for brick and mortar, funds for day to To submit to the Book of Remembrance, please visit day function and perennial programming are all needed to maintain the www.lss.org/form/book-of-remembrance-2019.html splendor, vibrancy, and legacy of our shul.

Submission Deadline: Monday, September 23 Be generous, and many thanks in advance. Contributions can be sent through the shul website: https://www.lss.org/form/KolNidre19 FREE PUBLIC YIZKOR SERVICE BEGINNERS Wednesday, October 9: 3:30pm Remember your loved ones and honor their memory in a moving prayer ceremony. For security reasons, all  In need of meals for Rosh Hashanah? Contact Jessica by 9/23. bags are subject to inspection. Location: Ballroom Telephone: 646-871-0012 or Email: [email protected] **indicate specific meals needed. YOUTH HIGH HOLIDAY EVENTS  We are happy to announce that, once again, the Louis and Rhoda Lazar Memorial Fund is sponsoring the 50% off campaign for Pre Rosh Hashanah Events: Sunday, September 22: Beginners. Mezuzot: $21, : $320, Jewish books: 50% off. Expires Shofar Factory with Mendel & Tank: 10:00am 10/24. To place an order, please email Jessica at [email protected]. To register, please visit www.lss.org/event/shofarfactory2019.

Rosh Hashanah: Monday, September 30: MAGEN AVRAHAM TEEN DEPARTMENT Apples & Honey Cake Baking: 11:00am Pre Rosh Hashanah Events: Sunday, September 22: Rosh Hashanah: Tuesday, October 1: Dorot Chesed with Ariella: Rosh Hashanah Food Deliveries: 10:00am 613 Pomegranate Mitzvot Seeds: 11:00am Rosh Hashanah: Monday, September 30: Yom Kippur: Tuesday, October 8: Magen Avraham Teen Department Presents Tashlich with Ariella & Kol Nidrei Youth Supervision: 6:00—8:00pm Mendel: 4:00pm Meet in LSS lobby and return together for mincha. Yom Kippur Youth Groups: 9:30am—2:00pm Additional times, locations, and details to follow. DVAR TORAH Parshat Ki Teitzei September 13-14 The learn from this that not only Amalek, but any nation that Written by: Mordechai Beilis acts like Amalek should be destroyed. This maftir then carries with it the special mitzvah of being read on the Shabbat before Purim. Parshat Ki Teitzei, contains 72 mitzvot, more than any Parsha in our Torah. There is a story about Elisha Ben Abuya, who was a famous sage who

The second Aliyah starts with a man who had committed a sin and who lived at the time of Rabbi Akiva. One day he saw a father ordering his is punished with hanging. After he is dead, Hashem tells us “he should son to climb a tree to fulfill the commandment of chasing away the not be left over night, but surely be buried that day.” mother bird before taking her eggs. Two mitzvot are involved here: honoring one's parents, and sending away the mother bird; the Torah One might think, leave him over night so others can witness what promises long life for both mitzvoth. But the boy fell to his death from happens to a sinner. Or are we being told to bury this man because the the ladder. On seeing this, Elisha ben Abuya lost his faith. The Rabbis go dead body even of a sinner is precious to God and should be treated on to explain, that long life does not mean in this world but in Olam with respect? The Torah then continues to tell us why. “For a hanging Ha-Ba (the world to come). person is a curse of God and you shall not contaminate your land which Hashem, your God, gives you as an inheritance.” So God abhors the When I was about 10 years old, a bird built a nest under the sinner even in death; the land is so holy it cannot take a sinner even in air-conditioner of our tenant. We didn’t know there was a nest there death for too long. until the chicks had hatched. My father got a ladder and climbed up to the air-conditioner and chased away the mother bird. We brought the The Parsha ends with what God feels is the most heinous of all crimes: nest into the house, called the ASPCA and my father told me about this The nation Amalek, like other nations, not only disbelieves and disobeys mitzvah . I still remember looking with fascination at the nest with a him by attacking the Jewish people, but in cowardice, attacks the weak dozen or so little chicks chirping away, wondering if the mother bird had from behind. not been chased away and my father had not taken the nest, would the mother bird have had any understanding of what had happened. For this action God has a special mitzvah: “…you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven – you shall never forget.” As I got older and learned the details of this mitzvah and of Elisha ben

It is no coincidence that this mitzvah is given to us during the month of Abuya, this mitzvah became special to me. I knew that no matter what Elul. We are taught that in order to receive forgiveness from God we age my father lived to, he would be promised a long life in Olam Ha-Ba. must forgive others. So one might ask the question, do we need to After the initial shock of my father’s death, this promise become concretized to me. forgive a nation that tried to destroy us?

Yet God not only allows us but demands of us that we destroy Amalek. Dedicated to the memory of my father, Aharon Simcha ben Yitzchak, z”l.

YOUTH DEPARTMENT

:Seedlings (2 years old) Room 210 Dvar Torah זרעים Roots (3-4 years old) Room 211 שורשים As we enter into the month of Elul, we are preparing for all of the Buds (K-1st) Room 208 Chagim that are around the corner in the month of Tishrei. We learn ניצנים Flowers (2nd-7th) Room 206 that during this time of year it's Melech B’Sadeh, as if the King is in the פרחים

Branches (2nd-7th) Room 207 Field. What does that mean? It means that it’s as if Hashem is right ענפים here, nearby, eager, and waiting to hear all of our tefillot (prayers) and requests for the upcoming year. We start to hear the shofar blow, Shabbat schedule: which awakens us and strengthens our commitment to Torah and 10:00 am Drop Off (Rooms 206-211) Mitzvot. During the next few weeks we shower Hashem with “gifts” as 10:20 am Davening and Circle Time (Rooms 206-211) we would to a king; we daven, give extra tzedakah, and make sure to do 11:00am Parsha & Candy: Melech B’Sadeh 11:10 am Recreation, Games, and Rehydration (Rooms 206/207) many mitzvot. In return, Hashem will inscribe us in the book of life for a

11:45 am Groups End sweet and happy new year.

10:00am at 22 September Sunday, on factory Shofar The 3.

After Shul Ask Your Children: year upcoming the for requests and (prayers) tefillot our of all hear

Hashem is the King is in the Field, nearby, eager, and waiting to to waiting and eager, nearby, Field, the in is King the is Hashem

1. Which Jewish month is coming up? 2.

Tishrei

2. Who is the Melech B’Sadeh? 1.

3. Which upcoming LSS event gets us ready for Tishrei? Answers:

HOSPITALITY: WE NEED YOUR HELP! At the annual dinner last June, some of you volunteered to assist the The tasks are not difficult: access to the internet and minimal familiarity LSS Hospitality Committee. If you volunteered to host, you may not with Gmail and Google docs are all that are required for the realize that we need volunteers to link up prospective hosts and coordinators. Weekly volunteers will need internet access, but can be guests. The matches are all done via email, by volunteers who take a instructed as to how our site works. A volunteer who could take on that weekly shift monitoring the committee's gmail account for requests liaison role would also be a help, but we've managed so far. and then sending those emails you likely have been receiving. Just as we can't manage without hosts, we can't manage without the We urgently need volunteers to take a week and even more urgently coordinators who enable our hosts to welcome their guests. Please step need one to three volunteers to coordinate the weekly volunteer up-- with enough volunteers to put in ten to fifteen minutes for one rotations and backstop those volunteers if problems arise. For the past week, the rotation would come up only once in a few months. year, this was handled seamlessly by Enid Moskowitz and Sandy Without new volunteers, and most critically, new coordinators, LSS will Kilstein. They will be hard to replace, but, it should not be impossible. no longer be responding to requests through our website.

By next week, the coordinating position will be empty, no volunteers will be scheduled and visitors to our site will not receive a response to Judith Weil Epstein for The LSS Hospitality Committee their requests for RH and Shabbat meals. Weekly Prayer Schedule: Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Daf Yomi 7:45am 6:15am 6:20am 6:20am 6:15am 6:20am Shacharit 7:10am, 8:30am 7:00am, 7:50am 7:10am, 7:50am 7:10am, 7:50am 7:00am, 7:50am 7:10am, 7:50am Mincha/Ma’ariv 6:55pm 6:55pm 6:50pm 6:50pm 6:50pm 6:45pm

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