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February 24 2017 Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Paula Tannen Preschool February 24, 2017 Shabbat Shekalim Parsha Mispatim 28 Shevat 5777 Light Candles 5:24 pm Two great events coming up: Havdalah Night - Come enjoy Havdalah, refreshments and a magician THIS Saturday night from 7:15 - 9 pm! Soille Shabbaton - Join Soille families March 3rd-4th for a fun Shabbat! Register at www.hebrewday.org —> Parents—> Shabbat Experience Registration It is official. We have nineteen 8th graders that will be competing in the Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair next month. All of their hard work is going to allow them this great experience. Great job 8th grade. #science-rocks! In This Issue: Calendar 2 Parshat Mishpatim 3 The Soille Scene 4 Staff Spotlight 8 Preschool Pages 9-10 3630 Afton Road · San Diego, CA 92123 · 858-279-3300 Community News 11 www.hebrewday.org Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Kolenu February 24, 2017 - 28 Shevat 5777 Calendar of Events February March S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 26 27 28 29 30 31 February 24, 2017 March 8, 2017 SPIRIT DAYS ADAR is here! Last day to order Purim baskets 5th Grade Poetry Jam Students can dress up for these special Shabbaton Registration Due March 13, 2017 themed days as we get ready for PURIM: February 25, 2017 9 am Start Crazy Hair - Color it, cut it, extend it. You Soille Family Havdalah Night 7:15 pm Shushan Purim decide your level of cray cray. Monday, 1 pm Dismissal February 27, 2017 Feb 27th Passover Candy orders due Rosh Chodesh Assembly 2:50 pm Around the World – Is that a kilt I see? March 14, 2017 No, it is a Samurai! Wed, March 1st February 28, 2017 8th Grade County Science Fair Set Up Teacher Imitator - Morah Weiser? Rabbi 3rd Grade Invention Convention @2pm Cohen? So hard to decide Friday, March March 3, 2017 March 16, 2017 3rd 2nd Trimester Ends 8th Grade County Science Fair Awards Ceremony—SDSU Cartoon Character – A preview to Comic March 3-4, 2017 Con Tuesday, March 7 Soille Hebrew Day Shabbaton March 17, 2017 Back in Time – Now that’s a decade to @ Beth Jacob Congregation K, 2nd & 4th Grade fieldtrip to JCC/Willy remember (or to forget) Wed, March 8 Wonka Play March 6, 2017 Future You – A personal crystal ball No School—Faculty Development June 4, 2017 Friday, March 10 Annual June Gala Shushan Purim – Costume of your choice New Children’s Museum 5:30 pm Monday, March 13 Our Administrative Team: Board of Directors: Head of School: Rabbi Simcha Weiser Dean of Students: President: [email protected] Giovanna Reinking Geoffrey Berg [email protected] Assistant Head of School: Members at Large: Rabbi Meir Cohen Preschool Director: Rachel Eden Josh Cohen Iliana Glovinsky [email protected] [email protected] Moises Eilemberg Gavin Horn Director of School Operations: Business Manager: Klara Lapp Allen Gruber Hilary Kleinman Estelle Workman [email protected] Yonina Kaplan Philip Silverman [email protected] Michael Leeman Yvonne Venger Director of Development: Director of Enrollment: Joyce Arovas Marilyn Williams Marcia Wollner Beth Licha [email protected] Missy Wrotslavsky Brian Zimmerman [email protected] 2 Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Kolenu February 24, 2017 - 28 Shevat 5777 Parshat Mishpatim OVERVIEW: Parshat Mishpatim (Ex. Ch. 21 – 24) The Jewish People receive a series of laws concerning social justice. Topics include: Proper treatment of Jewish servants; a husband's obligations to his wife; penalties for hitting people and for cursing parents, judges, and leaders; financial responsibilities for damaging people or their property, either by oneself or by one's animate or inanimate property, or by pitfalls that one created; payments for theft; not returning an object that one accepted responsibility to guard; the right to self- defense of a person being robbed. Other topics include: Prohibitions against seduction; witchcraft, bestiality and sacrifices to idols. The Torah warns us totreat the convert, widow and orphan with dignity, and to avoid lying. Usury is forbidden and the rights over collateral are limited. Payment of obligations to the Temple should not be delayed, and the Jewish People must be Holy, even concerning food. The Torah teaches the proper conduct for judges in court proceedings. The commandments of Shabbat and the Sabbatical year are outlined. Three times a year - Pesach, Shavuot and Succot - we are to come to the Temple. The Torah concludes this listing of laws with a law of kashrut - not to mix milk and meat. G-d promises that He will lead the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and help them conquer its inhabitants, and tells them that by fulfilling His commandments they will bring blessings to their nation. The people promise to ‘do and listen’ to everything that G-d says. Moshe writes the Book of the Covenant, and reads it to the people. Moshe ascends the mountain to remain there for 40 days in order to receive the two Tablets of the Covenant. (C) 2017 Ohr Somayach International DRASHA: The Talmud develops for us the details of the many how to create and maintain a fair, just and productive society. complex laws that are laid out here in this week’s Torah reading. Humankind has yet to come up with the perfect solution to this In fact, a great proportion of the tractates of the Talmud are basic problem. This is not for lack of trying and experimentation. involved in explaining the words, ideas and practical implications Nevertheless the search continues. The Torah reading of this week of the verses that appear in this week’s Torah reading. leaves me with the impression that the perfect society will not appear on this earth in this human cycle. Judaism is a religion of behavior and practicality and not only of soaring spirituality and otherworldly utopian ideas. It presupposes The laws of the Torah, as expressed in this week’s parsha, are that there will be physical altercations between people, that really those of damage control. They do not envision a world of property will be damaged, that human beings will behave in a less voluntary altruism on the part of all. There will be people who than sanguine fashion and that monetary and physical negligently cause damage to others. There will be people who will consequences for such behavior are necessary in order to allow do so willfully. The Torah says very little about preventing such for society to function. occurrences. It speaks only to legal and monetary consequences that these occurrences bring about. Above all else, the Torah is clear eyed about human nature and behavior. It does not believe that human beings left to their own This is not a pessimistic view of life and humans. Rather, it is a resources and ideas will behave in a good, honest and noble realistic assessment of human nature and of the inevitable fashion. The Torah stated at the beginning of its message to consequences that are always present in the interaction of human humanity that the nature of human beings is unhealthy and evil beings. By viewing the consequences of human behavior, only from the onset of life. Unless it is managed, controlled and then can one hope to influence this failure and to prevent strife channeled into positive deeds and thought processes steered and damage to others. towards higher and nobler goals, human beings will be little different than the beasts of prey, which inhabit the animal world. The nineteenth century posited that humanity had turned the corner and the societies in the world would only become better This is the reason why the Torah and Talmud go to such lengths and better. The twentieth century shattered that illusion. and detail to explain to us the laws and consequences of human Therefore, we should remain realistic, drive defensively and work behavior and of the interactions between one human being and on ourselves to become better people who will not allow another. This is what traditional Judaism meant when it said that lawlessness and anarchy to rule our world. Baba Kama – the laws of torts and damages – is the best book of Jewish ethics available. Shabbat Shalom. © 2017 by Rabbi Berel Wein The problem that has gnawed at human society over the ages is 3 Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Kolenu February 24, 2017 - 28 Shevat 5777 Ace Community Service Day At Your Service On Tuesday all 70+ middle schoolers mobilized for our ACE community service day! Already in its fourth year, we had four locations for Chessed. One group went to the Coastal Root Farm where they learned to give to others by planting the seeds which will yield fresh food for others. A second group visited our seasoned citizens at JFS, receiving wisdom of the aged while offering good cheer. At Hands Up Food Pantry our teenagers idle hands were put into service to fulfill food needs of those who otherwise would be hungry. The final group cooked healthy and tasty dinners which not only satisfied the recipients, but showed families that we are truly a caring community. Our children will carry forward the legacy of kindness and compassion forged by Abraham and Sarah, who not only welcomed the stranger but helped passers by find a secure place in Hashem’s world.
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