בס´´ד
בס״ד Shul Services and Contacts
Kiddush and Seudah Shlishit - To sponsor, go to www.yieip.org to reserve and pay for Kiddush. Please specify date and type of sponsorship; Kiddush is $200 (regular) or $250 (deluxe); Seuda Shlishit is $54. Shabbat Hospitality - In advance: contact [email protected], by the previous Tuesday if possible. In shul see Ilan Weinberger at the end of davening. Chesed - Know someone in need? Contact [email protected], or (for urgent needs) directly contact Joel Greenberg at (786) 553-6219, Ariela Greenberg at (301) 518-5237, or as a backup Sara Schneider at (301) 325-3245. Membership - To join the shul or for member benefits information, contact Joel Greenberg at (786) 553-6219 or [email protected]. 11618 Seven Locks Road Potomac, MD 20854, www.yieip.org Shiva - For arrangements or furnishings, contact Daniel Chefitz at (301) 610- Yosef Singer, Rabbi, (240) 603-8622 0844 or [email protected] or Adam August at (202) 491-3725 or March 16, 2019 ~ ”’ [email protected]. Tape Library - Contact Cliff Snapper (301) 983-6897 or [email protected] Parshat Vayikra/ to borrow Jewish theme tapes from the shul. Shabbat Zachor/ Facility Rental - For information or reservations, contact Daniel Ely at (301) 455-3993 or [email protected]. Deut. 25:17-19/-: Rabbi Yosef Singer - Contact at (240) 603-8622 or [email protected]. Haftorah: 1 Samuel 15:2-34 President, Joel Greenberg – (786) 553-6219 or [email protected]. Wednesday is Ta’anit Esther: Fast starts at 6:00 am, ends at 8:10 pm Gabbai, Daniel Chefitz – (301) 610-0844 or [email protected]. Purim is Wednesday night and Thursday Weekly Bulletin - To submit announcements for the weekly bulletin, email Robert Rubinoff at [email protected] or call (301) 299-1504 by Shabbat at a Glance Wednesday evening. Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat ...... 6:55 pm Donation Opportunities Candle Lighting ...... 6:57 pm Shacharit ...... 8:40 am Sefarim - Dedicate a chumash ($60), siddur ($40), or machzor ($15). Contact Z’man Kriat Shema ...... 10:18 am Beth Shapiro at [email protected]. Eitz Chaim Dedications - Inscribe a leaf for the YIEIP “Tree of Life” for any and Rabbi Singer: Nefesh HaChaim Class...... 5:55 pm all occasions. Contact Mark Ferneau at [email protected]. Levels include Mincha ...... 6:40 pm Copper ($250), Silver ($360), Gold ($500), or foundation stones (contact Cliff Seudah Shlishit between Mincha/Maariv Snapper [email protected]). Yartzeit Plaques - Contact Mark Ferneau at [email protected]. Maariv ...... 7:56 pm Kiddush/Seudah Shlishit - Contact [email protected]. Specify date & type of Shabbat Ends ...... 8:06 pm sponsorship; Kiddush is $200; Seuda Shlishit is $54.
Community Resources Davening Times During the Week Shacharit: Mincha/Maariv: Tomchei Shabbos- Do you know individuals or families who can’t afford to buy Sunday – 8:00 am Sun.-Tue. – 6:55 pm food for Shabbos? Yad Yehuda of Greater Washington will arrange local Shabbos Monday – 6:20 am Wed./Thu. – see Purim schedule food deliveries in a confidential manner. Contact Rabbi Singer if you know anyone who could benefit from this service. For more information on the Tuesday and Friday – 6:30 am Friday – 7:00 Foundation and this project, or to donate, please visit www.yadyehuda.org. Wednesday – 6:15 am GWC Kollel Maariv: YIP List – To join the shul email list, contact Mark Ferneau [email protected]. Thursday – see Purim schedule Sunday - 9:15 pm Potomac Jewish List – To join a general Potomac Jewish Community email list, go to www.potomacjewish.com.
Candle Lighting Next Shabbat – 7:04 pm Note: Please be careful to place this newsletter in a bag before disposal. Announcements and Community Events Youth Shabbat (kids 6-11): games, prayers, and Torah in the social hall (8:45- 11:15 am) Mazal Tov to Jacob and Shani Moer on the birth of a baby boy, and to Baby Shabbat (to age 2): upstairs classroom open during services for parents grandparents Arthur and Phyllis and the entire Moer family! and their babies
Kiddush this week is sponsored by Larry and Aviva Rosen in honor of the engagement of Atara and Rafi. Upcoming Yartzeits Purim is almost here! Go to www.yieip.org/purim to sign up for the YIEIP Purim Seudah; contact Daniel Ely at [email protected] to volunteer or sponsor. And see 10 Adar II – Benjamin Miller (father of 15 Adar II – Julius Kaminow (father of the separate Purim schedule for details of the schedule for davening, megillah Linda Garzon and Tammy Berman) Ira Kaminow) readings, and other exciting events! 11 Adar II – Martha Herman (mother of 15 Adar II – Arthur Snapper (father of Tue. Mar 19, 8:00 pm, at the Bender JCC, the GWCK Links program presents Sara Miller) Cliff Snapper) “Purim Unmasked: New and Old Perspectives to Make your Purim More 11 Adar II – Helene Berman (mother of 15 Adar II – Isaiah Jesse Ostroff Meaningful!”, with Rabbi Hillel Shaps. Details and sign up at linksgw.org/classes. Denny Berman) (father of Danny Ostroff) Fri./Sat. Mar 29/30, YIEIP will have a shabbaton with Dr. Mordechai Kedar on the 12 Adar II – Miriam Seidner (great- 18 Adar II – Morris Green (father of theme of “Israel, The United States and The Arab World”. This will include a aunt of Russ Chittum) David Green) dinner Friday night (RSVP required); details at www.yieip.org/kedarshabbaton. Please contact Daniel Ely at [email protected] to help with organization or to host To add a name to this list, contact Robert Rubinoff at [email protected] or (301) 299-1504
guests; contact Cliff Snapper at [email protected] to sponsor. Sun. Mar 31, 10:00-11:00am, at Kemp Mill Synagogue, the Golden Network's D’var Torah – In Brief Caregiver Support Group will have its first session. This group is geared towards Jewish women whose spouses are living at home or are in a medical facility and Overview of Parshat Vayikra are affected by a chronic illness or a cognitive condition. For more information or if you plan to attend please contact: Mrs. Hedy Peyser at [email protected], The Book of Vayikra (Leviticus), also known as Torat Kohanim – the Laws of the Priests -- deals Mrs. Esther Dziadek at [email protected], or Rabbi Shmuel Leigh at (301) largely with the korbanot (offerings) brought in the Mishkan (Tent of Meeting). The first group of 732-1773 or [email protected]. offerings is called korban olah, a burnt offering. The animal is brought to the Mishkan's Thu. Apr 4, at B'nai Israel Congregation, Aish HaTorah will have a gala honoring entrance. For cattle, the one bringing the offering sets his hands on the animal. Afterwards it is Rabbi Yakov and Lori Palatnik. For details or to RSVP, go to gala.aishdc.org. slaughtered and the kohen sprinkles its blood on the altar. The animal is skinned and cut into pieces. The pieces are arranged, washed and burned on the altar. A similar process is Shul and Community Torah Classes described involving burnt offerings of other animals and birds. The various meal offerings are described. Part of the meal offering is burned on the altar, and the remaining part is eaten by Rabbi Yosef Singer the kohanim. Mixing leaven or honey into the offerings is prohibited. The peace offering, part of - Gemorah - after Shacharit Sun morning (Men) which is burnt on the altar and part is eaten, can be either from cattle, sheep or goats. The - Women’s Mesilas Yesharim Shiur - Shabbat, 1 3/4 hours before mincha (will Torah prohibits eating blood or chelev (certain fats in animals). The offerings that atone for resume in late spring/early summer) inadvertent sins committed by the kohen gadol, by the entire community, by the prince and by - Nefesh Hachaim - Shabbat, 45 minutes before Mincha the average citizen are detailed. Laws of the guilt-offering, which atones for certain verbal transgressions and for transgressing laws of ritual purity, are listed. The meal offering for those Greater Washington Community Kollel who cannot afford the normal guilt offering, the offering to atone for misusing sanctified property, - Bet Medrash Program with Rabbi Menachem Winter, Rosh Kollel, and the Kollel Rebbeim: various simultaneous classes –.Sun 8:15-9:15 pm (Men) laws of the "questionable guilt" offering, and offerings for dishonesty are detailed.
Other Weekly Classes Haftorah: 1 Samuel 15:2-34 - Rebbetzin Sara Bluming – Weekly Roundtable, Tue. 10:00 am and Wed. 1:00 pm at Chabad (Women) Parshas Zachor is always read the week before Purim, because on Purim we celebrate our deliverance from Amalek's most notorious descendent -- Haman. Youth Programming The Haftorah of Parshas Zachor depicts another encounter with the descendants of Amalek: King Shaul was commanded to annihilate Amalek, but he failed to kill their king Agag. While in Youth Programming is available weekly for the full Shabbat morning davening captivity, the last of the Amaleki, Agag, managed to sire a child, and it was from this child that starting at 8:45 am. Parents are reminded to pick up their children promptly when Haman was descended. davening ends. If you have any question about the youth groups, please contact (Ohr Somayach; Torah Weekly) Aviva Rosen at [email protected] or the youth coordinators Shlomit Bernstein and Tali Chefitz at [email protected].
Tot Shabbat (ages 2-5): downstairs classroom (8:45-11:30 am)