בס”ד Congregation Ahavat Achim קהילת אהבת אחים שבת פרשת נצבים-וילך נא לא לדבר בשעת התפילה SHABBAT PARSHAT NITZAVIM-VAYEILECH 25 ELUL/SEPTEMBER 20 PLEASE NO CONVERSATION DURING SERVICES Pirkei .(שוש אשיש) Haftorah is Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Avot Chap.ters 5 & 6. Tonight after halachic WEEKDAY DAVENING INFORMATION midnight we begin saying Selichot. Chazzan Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday dons a Tallit without making a Bracha (Chazzan (9/21) (9/22) (9/23) (9/24) (9/25) (9/26) should borrow a Tallit from an individual as opposed to the shul with the intention that he is Earliest Talit 5:49 AM 5:50 AM 5:51 AM 5:52 AM not acquiring it to fulfill the Mitzvah of Tzitzit). Shacharit 8:15 AM 6:00 AM 6:00 AM 6:25 AM Half-Kaddish is intoned in the Gedolah 1:20 PM 1:19 PM 1:19 PM 1:19 PM אשרי After melodies of Yomim Noraim, followed by Mincha-Maariv 6:35 PM 6:35 PM 6:35 PM 6:35 PM Selichot; and then we recline in the usual fashion for Tachanun. Selichot continues every weekday Shkia 6:56 PM 6:54 PM 6:52 PM morning through Erev Yom Kippur. Tzait 7:41 PM 7:39 PM 7:37 PM Selichot 10:00 PM FRIDAY NIGHT CANDLE LIGHTING - 6: 41 PM MINCHA - 6:50 PM Suedah Shlishit is sponsored by the Agress family on the TZAIT - 7:44 PM yahrzeit of Amy’s father Ha’Rav Yisroel Yehudah ben .May his neshama have an aliyah .ז”לEphraim Michal Ha’Levi SATURDAY CHUMASH SHIUR - 8:00 AM SHACHARIT YOUTH - 8:20 AM Join the Sisterhood at this Shabbat’s Tea, Sept. 20, at 4:00 SHACHARIT MAIN - 8:45 AM PM, at the Schachter home, 41-15 Rys Terrace, featuring our LAST KRIAT SHEMA - 9:46 AM GEMARA SHIUR - 5:25 PM own Rebetzin Julie Goldstein. MINCHA - 6:25 PM SHKIA - 6:57 PM The shul’s Arba Minim Sale (with Bnei Akiva) and Men’s Club MAARIV/HAVDALAH - 7:42 PM SELICHOT - 12:50 AM Membership Drive takes place Sun., Oct. 5, 9:00 AM to Noon. ע”ה ————— We’re constructing the Sylvia Latkin Sukkah on Sun. ,Oct. 5 after Shacharit, and the annual Sukkah hop takes place on the first BULLETIN INFORMATION day of Sukkot, Thur., Oct. 9. If you can help with construction or TO REQUEST A BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT (BY 7:00 PM volunteer your Sukkah contact Elliot at 201-796-1893 or WEDNESDAY) OR DEDICATE A [email protected]. BULLETIN FOR $36 ($54 W/PHOTO), EMAIL [email protected]. Babysitting is available on both days of Rosh Hashanah from 10:30 CONGREGATION AHAVAT ACHIM AM - 1:30 PM, and on Yom Kippur from 10:30 AM - 2 PM. 18-25 SADDLE RIVER ROAD FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410-5909 If you know someone that cannot come to shul to hear the 201-797-0502 shofar, please contact Marty at [email protected] or the WWW.AHAVATACHIM.ORG Rabbi at [email protected]. Refuah Shelayma to Lielle Goldstein hospitalized this past week. Rabbi Uri Goldstein President Steven Winchester "1 Upcoming Events ע”הKiddush Information Gita Cooperwasser Kiddush cleanup for the month of Youth Program Sept. 27 - Suedah Shlishit sponsored by September is Rein, Riskin, Safier, This Shabbat the the Bernsteins n memory of Larry’s Schachter, Schwitzer, Shanblatt, youth leaders are: grandmother Pauline Swichar, Tziporah ע”הbat Herschel Smedresman, Sokoloff, Solomon, Justin Safier Oct. 10 - Kiddush sponsored by the Sonnenblick and Spier (Floater), Jacob Winchesters on the yarhtzeit of Steve’s Kiddush setup for this Shabbat is Levine & Serena Freund (Beit mother Helen Winchester, Miriam Hendl Heller, Solomon, Winchester ע”הMidrash - Group Aleph), and bas Shimon Kiddush setup for next Shabbat is Madeline Plotnick & Ben Shanblatt Oct. 21 - Board Meeting Kempin, Kor, Lewissohn (Purple Room - Group Bet). Oct. 24 - Oneg Shabbat series in ע”הTo sponsor a Kiddush Sun., Oct. 5, Brunch with bagels memory of Jonathan Garfunkel ($1000/$613/$318 plus scotch) send while making Sukkah decorations, resumes at the Garfunkel home, 8:15 PM an email to [email protected]. 9:30 AM at the shul (Turn in Torah Nov. 21 - Oneg Shababat at the Greene Dollars for Prizes!) home Adult Education Sun., Nov. 2 - Mitzvah Day - Feb. 7 - Yachad Shabbaton Packing school supplies for homeless May 9 Shimshon Goldstein Bar Mitzvah shelters/underprivileged kids. 9:30 May 16 - Eli Schachter Bar Mitzvah GEMARAH SHIUR - Rabbi's AM -12:30 PM at the shul. Shabbat afternoon gemarah shiur ע”הSat. night, Dec. 20, Chanukah The Gita Cooperwasser takes place one hour before Mincha. parent/child learning program, 7:00 Youth Prog ram is CHUMASH CLASS - Gerry PM to 8:30 PM at the shul. participating in Mitzvah Halpern’s Class - Shabbt morning Day 2014, packing up school supplies for kids in before Shacharit. The Sisterhood homeless shelters and underprivileged schools. Not until Sunday, Nov. 2, BUT WE - Mitzvah cards are NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT NOW! Numbers & Info back! Contact Eita Latkin Contribute school supplies to this effort - especially backpacks. Please buy now what ERUV UPDATE – 201-797-0502 at [email protected] to you can and contribute to this effort, and MIKVAH – 201-796-0350. At have an acknowledgement drop it off in the box in Rabbi Goldstein's Shomrei Torah, weekdays 9:00 PM– of a Simcha, a refuah office, or bring them to the Bernstein home, 13-03 Tanis Pl. This is shul drive - not just 10:30 PM, Motzei Shabbat from 11/4 shelayma or to extend condolences. youth! hours after Shabbat ends for 1.5 hours. - Annual coat drive for Save Our Kaylim Mikvah: Sunday 10 AM-3 PM Sisters Shelter is Sunday, November Team Ezra is forming to TWITTER: @AhavatAchimFL 2, 2014, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. honor Ezra Fineman in the FACEBOOK: facebook.com/ Bring your donations of outerwear Walk for Life, to be held groups/ahavat.achim/ (gently worn, but not torn) to the Oct. 26, Saddle River Park, Fair Lawn/Paramus. Sign Bickel garage, 36‐02 Hale Place, Fair up at http://www.giftoflife.org/njwalk/ Lawn. All sizes are needed. teamezra. Please get sponsors to support your walk and contribute generously. ערב ראש השנה EREV ROSH HASHANAH/WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 before the pre-dawn sky begins to brighten. Tachanun is said during ,"זכור ברית" We say the Selichot of Erev Rosh HaShanah that include Selichot, but not during morning or afternoon prayers. One who arose before dawn and at that time washed his hands in the prescribed manner, three times alternately on each hand, must wash them again three times after dawn (see Mishneh Brurah on Orach Chaim 4:4). We We do not blow the Shofar at all during the day so as to make a distinction between the voluntary shofar blowing of Elul and the .למנצח say obligatory shofar blowing of Rosh HaShanah. One takes a haircut and bath in honor of the approaching holiday. Immersion in a Mikvah, preferably not until a variable hour before halachic midday (11:36 AM), is appropriate so that we may enter the Day of Judgement in a state .over the candles "שהחיינו" and "להדליק נר של יום טוב" of holiness and purity. We make an Eirev Tavshilin. We make the Brachot Shirley Vann has dedicated this week’s Covenant & Conversation (used with permission of the Office .ע”הof Rabbi Sacks) in memory of her beloved mother Necha bat Yitzchok "2 IN ELUL WE REMEMBER . HEBREW CANDLE NAME DATE EVENING OF DEDICATOR RELATIONSHIP Ruth Epstein 8 September 2 Martin Epstein Mother David Schwitzer 14 September 8 Nate Schwitzer Father Marton Samuel 14 September 8 Charlotte Moskovitz Father Anita Tabatneck 19 September 13 Naomi Levine Husband's Cousin Frederick Shia Frankel 21 September 15 Elyce Smedresman Grandfather Miriam Amrani 26 September 20 Neil Amrani Grandmother SUPPORT YOUR SHUL Donate a Sefer, etc. Mishebayrach Sisterhood & Men’s Club The shul has Siddurim & Machzorim ($36) If you’ve made a Mishebayrach you’ve Please contact Elliot Greene at and Chumashim ($54) available to be pledged to give Tzedakah on behalf of [email protected] to join the Men’s Club. donated. Please contact Jeff Safier at those for whom you asked Hashem's To join Sisterhood, please contact Shelly rjsafi[email protected] for details. blessing. Contributions to the shul are Winchester at [email protected]. appropriate and can be made via Paypal to Yahrzeit Plaques [email protected], or via Honoraria Memorialize a loved one and receive MasterCard, Visa or Discover by sending Contributions to acquire honoraria in written notice of your upcoming yahrzeit the information to Elliot Greene (contact memory or honor of a loved one are every year. In addition, your loved one’s him at [email protected]). If paying welcome. The available Honoraria list will name will be mentioned during the public by check please indicate on its face “Aliyah be provided upon request by contacting Yizkor we recite on Yom Kippur and in the Donation.” Thank you for your generosity. Steven Plotnick at [email protected]. Bulletin. Plaques are $300 for members Social Hall Mitzvah Cards ע”הand $350 for non-members. For more David Schwitzer information, contact Sophie Infield at Please contact Steven Winchester at Want mitzvah cards, contact Eita Latkin at 791-5518. [email protected] to book the David 791-8940 or [email protected]. Cost is - Social Hall for an event or $3 per card. Also can be ordered in bulk ע”הSchwitzer Scrip special occasion. $250 per simcha ten cards for $25, which you send out Scrip is available from Men’s Club for Shop (members) / $500 paid in advance for non- yourself privately.