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We are excited to have new space for our shul in the main sanctuary at TRI for weekday and We invite men and women to sign Shabbat minyanim. Our deepest thanks to The Jewish Experience for hosting us over the last many up HERE for our in-person daily months. Thank you to Serota for welcoming the DAT Minyan into his building! and Shabbat minyan at TRI, located at 295 S. Locust st, and our additional Shabbat Outdoor D'var by Rabbi Sacks zt"l Auxiliary Minyan, located in the Rabbi Sacks z’’l had prepared a full year of & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Polotsky backyard at 7369 E Byers Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will carry on distributing these essays each , Ave. All davening times and classes so people around the world can continue to learn and be inspired by his Torah. are published on our website and It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty days calendar. had been communing with God, receiving from Him the Law written on tablets of

stone. Then God informed him that the people had just made a Golden Calf. He would Shabbat Minyan at TRI: have to destroy them. It was the worst crisis of the wilderness years, and it called for every Masks required. one of Moses’ gifts as a leader. FRIDAY Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv: 6:10 pm First, he prayed to God not to destroy the people. God agreed. Then he went down the mountain and saw the people cavorting around the Calf. Immediately, he smashed the SHABBAT tablets. He burned the Calf, mixed its ashes with water and made the people drink. Then Shacharit: 8:00am he called for people to join him. The heeded the call and carried out a bloody Mincha: 7:25pm punishment in which three thousand people died. Then Moses went back up the mountain Maariv: 8:30pm and prayed for forty days and nights. Then for a further forty days he stayed with God while a new set of tablets was engraved. Finally, he came down the mountain on the tenth Outdoor Auxiliary Minyan: of Tishri, carrying the new tablets with him as a visible sign that God’s covenant with Masks required. Israel remained. FRIDAY Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv: 7:20 pm This was an extraordinary show of leadership, at times bold and decisive, at others slow and persistent. Moses had to contend with both sides, inducing the to do SHABBAT teshuvah and God to exercise forgiveness. At that moment he was the greatest ever Shacharit: 9:30am embodiment of the name Israel, meaning one who wrestles with God and with people and prevails. Friday Night: (Shema should be recited after The good news is: there once was a Moses. Because of him, the people survived. The bad 8:27 pm) news is: what happens when there is no Moses? The Torah itself says: “No other Shabbat: has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face” (Deut. 34:10). What do (Shema to be recited before 9:28 you do in the absence of heroic leadership? That is the problem faced by every nation, am) corporation, community and family. It is easy to think, “What would Moses do?” But Moses did what he did because he was what he was. We are not Moses. That is why every human group that was once touched by greatness faces a problem of continuity. How does it avoid a slow decline?

The answer is given in this week’s parsha. The day Moses descended the mountain with the second tablets was to be immortalised when its anniversary became the holiest of days, . On this day, the drama of teshuvah and kapparah, repentance and atonement, was to be repeated annually. This time, though, the key figure would not be Moses but Aaron, not the Prophet but the High Priest. DAT Minyan is a dynamic and friendly Modern Orthodox congregation for all ages and dedicated to meaningful personal spiritual development, community growth, youth involvement, Torah education, and Religious Zionism. D'var Torah by Rabbi Sacks (continued)

That is how you perpetuate a transformative event: by turning it into a ritual. Max Weber called this the routinisation of charisma. A once-and-never-again moment becomes a once-and-ever-again ceremony. As James MacGregor Burns puts it in his classic work, Leadership: “The most lasting tangible act of leadership is the creation of an institution – a nation, a social movement, a political party, a bureaucracy – that continues to exert moral leadership and foster needed social change long after the creative leaders are gone.”

There is a remarkable in which various Sages put forward their idea of klal gadol ba-Torah, “the great principle of the Torah.” Ben Azzai says it is the verse, “This is the book of the chronicles of man: On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God” (Gen. 5:1). Ben Zoma says that there is a more embracing principle, “Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” Ben Nannas says there is a yet more embracing principle: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” Ben Pazzi says we find a more embracing principle still: “The first shall be offered in the morning, and the second sheep in the afternoon” (Exodus 29:39) – or, as we might say today, Shacharit, Mincha and Maariv. In a word: “routine”. The passage concludes: The law follows Ben Pazzi.

The meaning of Ben Pazzi’s statement is clear: all the high ideals in the world – the human person as God’s image, belief in God’s unity, and the love of neighbours – count for little until they are turned into habits of action that become habits of the heart. We can all recall moments of insight or epiphany when we suddenly understood what life is about, what greatness is, and how we would like to live. A day, a week, or at most a year later the inspiration fades and becomes a distant memory and we are left as we were before, unchanged.

Judaism’s greatness is that it gave space to both Prophet and Priest, to inspirational figures on the one hand, and on the other, daily routines – the halachah – that take exalted visions and turn them into patterns of behaviour that reconfigure the brain and change how we feel and who we are.

One of the most unusual passages I have ever read about written by a non-Jew occurs in William Rees-Mogg’s book on macro-economics, The Reigning Error.[4] Rees-Mogg (1928-2012) was a financial journalist who became editor of The Times, chairman of the Arts Council and vice-chairman of the BBC. Religiously he was a committed Catholic.

He begins the book with a completely unexpected paean of praise for halachic Judaism. He explains his reason for doing so. Inflation, he says, is a disease of inordinacy, a failure of discipline, in this case in relation to money. What makes Judaism unique, he continues, is its legal system. This has been wrongly criticised by Christians as drily legalistic. In fact, Jewish law was essential for Jewish survival because it “provided a standard by which action could be tested, a law for the regulation of conduct, a focus for loyalty and a boundary for the energy of human nature.”

All sources of energy, most notably nuclear energy, need some form of containment. Without this, they become dangerous. Jewish law has always acted as a container for the spiritual and intellectual energy of the Jewish people. That energy “has not merely exploded or been dispersed; it has been harnessed as a continuous power.” What have, he argues, modern economies lack: a system of self-control that allows economies to flourish without booms and crashes, inflation and recession.

The same applies to leadership. In Good to Great, management theorist Jim Collins argues that what the great companies have in common is a culture of discipline. In Great By Choice, he uses the phrase “the 20-Mile March” meaning that outstanding organisations plan for the marathon, not the sprint. Confidence, he says, “comes not from motivational speeches, charismatic inspiration, wild pep rallies, unfounded optimism, or blind hope.” It comes from doing the deed, day after day, year after

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service. D'var Torah by Rabbi Sacks (continued) year. Great companies use disciplines that are specific, methodical and consistent. They encourage their people to be self- disciplined and responsible. They do not over-react to change, be it for good or bad. They keep their eye on the far horizon. Above all, they do not depend on heroic, charismatic leaders who at best lift the company for a while but do not provide it with the strength-in-depth they need to flourish in the long run. The classic instance of the principles articulated by Burns, Rees-Mogg and Collins is the transformation that occurred between and , between the first Yom Kippur and the second, between Moses’ heroic leadership and the quiet, understated priestly discipline of an annual day of repentance and atonement.

Turning ideals into codes of action that shape habits of the heart is what Judaism and leadership are about. Never lose the inspiration of the , but never lose, either, the routines that turn ideals into acts and dreams into achieved reality.

DAT Minyan Announcements Shavuot programming under the leadership of Mor Shapiro is underway! We look forward to meaningful, tasty, and fun activities with learning opportunities for all ages. Please join Mor and others in a planning meeting this Sunday evening, Apr 25th at 6:00 PM if you are interested in helping out. Contact [email protected] for the Zoom link. Emtza NCSY runs weekly zoom programs for all 6th-8th graders. To join the Whatsapp group to get weekly updates, please Whatsapp Rabbi Nuszen at (720) 620-8720 with your child's name, grade, and school. Chana Feige Abrahams will be scheduling appointments at the Zussman Mikvah. Please call 720- 295-7718 and leave a message, or send a text message to 720-838-4093 to schedule an appointment.

Community Announcements EDOS will be hosting a memorial event to mark the Shloshim of Mr. Jack Greenwald on Tuesday April 27th, at 6:30 pm at 198 S. Holly Street. The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a presentation: MAGEFAH: Pandemics Throughout Jewish History, on May 5th at 6 pm MST. RSVP to yu.edu/magefah to recieve the zoom link. See the attached PDF of the statement from OU and RCA encouraging vaccination against COVID HERE. Click HERE to view a document with more info on getting the Covid Vaccine. A message from Scroll K Vaad Hakashrus of Denver: Please note our updated list of kosher establishments in our area. To view and/or download the list of kosher establishments click HERE.

Stay tuned for an update on our Shavuot schedule! Late-night learning, classes, and an ice cream kiddush! More info to come shortly!

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service. Weekly Learning Opportunities at the DAT Minyan!

Join Ellyn Hutt on Tuesdays from 2 pm– 3 pm for a women's "Words of Wisdom" class. Join Ellyn in delving deeper into the significance of Hebrew words from each week's parsha or related to the upcoming holiday for personal inspiration and spiritual connection. Meeting ID: 884 9530 8316. Parsha for Women class led by Ellyn Hutt on Thursdays from 11 am– 12 pm. Each week the Torah portion for the week gives us insight into how we can live our lives more meaningfully and mindfully. Join Ellyn as we explore and chart our spiritual journey in sync with the parsha. Meeting ID: 922 119 870 Spiritual Fitness Wednesdays with Chaya Parkoff: Join Chaya Parkoff Wednesday’s at 3pm and pump some spiritual iron together! How can you cultivate an attitude that can allow you to live with mental well-being no matter your current circumstances or the challenges you may face? Join Chaya for a weekly "spiritual fitness" class where you will learn from various Torah sources how to develop and strengthen the two most powerful spiritual muscles we possess: Emunah (faith) & Bitachon (trust). Zoom link HERE.

DAT Minyan acknowledges milestones* of our members this Shabbat and in the coming week:

Naftali Caplan, Danya Caplan, Hannah Katz, Nancy Kaufman, Moshe Khalepari, Uri London, Naama Mezer, Lillie Shafran

Joshua Sharf & Susie Sharf- 12 years

Yitzchak Leib ben Mordechai HaLevi- 10 Iyar

*These details were obtained from the DAT Minyan database, which contains information provided by our members when they joined. We apologize for any omissions or errors. For changes, please log on to your account and update the information as needed, or contact the synagogue office at 720-941-0479.

Refuah Shelayma Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shelayma. Names are kept on the list until the next Rosh Chodesh. Help us keep the list accurate by verifying the necessary details each month on the Cholim Document at https://goo.gl/aeyJG2.

Asher Menachem ben Y’shayah Guy Chaim ben Rita Mordechai ben Chaya Hannah Avraham Mordechai ben Chaya Leah Leah bat Simcha Raphael Lior ben Miriam Avram ben Golda Simma Levick Yitzchak ben Bracha Roshka bat Bryna Bella bat Malka Leya bat Sara Sara bat Laurel Borukh ben Eydya Malka bat Mazel Tov Shmuel Aharon ben Jenny Dina Bat Sara Mascha bat Rus Yehuda Eliezer ha cohen ben Sarah Rivka Dovid Mordechai Ben Bayla Rifka Mayer Benya ben Nechama Yonatan Leib Volf HaLevi ben Altahenya Shulamit Eliyahu Chaim ha Cohen ben Sara Rifka Mendel Ila ben Frida Miriam Yonatan Zeev ben Netaa Eliyahu Dovid ben Ita Sheiva Michael ben Kay Chaya Sarah Rivka bat Leah Eric Fagen, Mordechai ben Shanah Leah Michel ben Leah Yossef ben Dinah Gershon ben Galina Michoel Zisel ben Barbara Zusha Tzvi ben Chaviva Elianah Miriam Adina bat Sara

The in our community have created a registry for those that are ill with COVID-19. The Denver Cholim Registry can be accessed at www.denvercholimregistry.weebly.com. Should you or someone you know need to be added to this registry, please contact Rabbi Gitler.

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service.

THANK YOU LEGACY DONORS FOR INSPIRING FUTURE GENERATIONS WITH YOUR GENEROSITY!

We would like to thank our Legacy Society donors for investing in our future by naming the DAT Minyan with a gift in their will, trust, retirement account or life insurance policy. Our Legacy Society includes:

Annonymous Steve and Elly n Hutt Stuart Senkfor & Marc and Melanie Avner Nathan and R achel Rabinovitch Leslie Stewart Graeme and Irit Bean Mark and Sarah Raphaely Michael Stutzer

Myndie Brown Harley and Sara Rotbart Steve and Lori Weiser

You can add your name to this list with a legacy gift to the DAT Minyan. To arrange for your gift or for more information about our Legacy Society program, please contact any of the following Committee Members: Sarah Raphaely, Steve Weiser, or Maya Parkoff