Candles: 6:58-8:13 Havdalah: 9:13 Welcome to the Shabbat Parshat Balak Parsha: p. 856 July 5, 2014 7 Tammuz 5774 Haftarah: p. 1189 .Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri שבת .Fri July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 Independence Day Shacharit 7:30, 9:00 8:00 6:35 6:45 6:45 6:35 6:45 Latest Shema 9:20 am 8:00 Mincha/Maariv 6:50 8:00/9:12 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:15 6:45 Earliest Shema 9:20 pm COMMUNITY KIDDUSH sponsored by the Zazulia family in honor of Aaron's birthday on the 4th of July and Corina's birthday on the 16th; and by Phillip, Iris, Rina, Sahpir and Mayahon Freedman in loving memory of Fern Freedman at her Yahrtzeit. SEUDAH SHELISHIT sponsored by the Shul. DAT MINYAN NEWS AND EVENTS Please note that with many people away, LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES several classes are not meeting this Shabbat. DAY TIME TOPIC TEACHER PLACE Please see box at right. Fri. After Mincha D’var Torah Dr. N. Rabinovitch MPR Eruv Notice—Thank You to all those who contributed to the Eruv’s emergency appeal. Not Meeting Tefillah Rabbi Klein N/A Thanks to the community’s support, the Er- 9:45 am Women’s Parsha Chavura 204 uv will not need to be taken down. You can Haft/Mussaf Pirkei Avot Rabbi Gitler 111 still donate anytime by going to the Eruv After Mussaf Derasha Reb Noam Horowitz MPR website, DenverEruv.org. 6:00 pm SHAWL Dr. R. Rabinovitch 111 Third Annual (Almost) 14’er Hike—July 13. “Women and Mitzvot Aseh Sheha’zman Grama, שבת We will be climbing Rosalie Peak, altitude: Women and Their Obligation in Positive, Time-Bound Mitzvot” 13,575 ft., a challenging and fun hike with 6:45 pm HS Boys Gemara Dr. N. Rabinovitch MPR some fantastic views. Hike organized and 7:00 pm Pre-Mincha Open Beit Midrash MPR led by Ari Hoffman of Avanim Adventures. Not Meeting 3-4 Grade Mishna Amichai Ungar N/A Hike will be followed by a BBQ at the Hoffman home, 355 S. Newport Way, at Not Meeting 5-6 Boys Mishna Rabbi Alter N/A $10/person (children under 10 years old are After Mincha Seudah Shelishit Ari Hoffman MPR Not Meeting Parsha Class Rabbi Klein N/A free). Anyone can attend the BBQ, but Tue. climbers get a special treat. Speak to Ari Lohf Shaiman Jacobs Hyman & Feiger PC—950 South Cherry St., Suite 900 Hoffman to RSVP for the hike, the BBQ, or both. Learn to sew your own maternity skirts in four two-hour Learn to Sew with Morah Gross—Rivka Gross is of- classes ($160). Prices do not include materials fees. fering three sewing courses this June and July: Basic, Speak to Morah Gross for more information. Altering/Mending, and Maternity. Learn sewing basics Please keep all food in the Multipurpose Room, and in four two-hour classes ($160). Fix-it-yourself sewing please ensure that your children and their friends do the workshop in four one-and-a-half-hour classes ($125). same! Coming this Tisha B’Av to the DAT Minyan … Rabbi Yaacov Glasser Rabbi Ari Lamm Rabbi Menachem Penner Mrs. Shoshana Schechter Rabbi Steven Weil David Mitzner Dean, William Fischman Max and Marion Director, Mechina, Senior Managing Center for the Rabbinic Intern, Grill Dean, RIETS Stern College for Women Director, OU Jewish Future The Jewish Center, NYC Please help make our Tefillot meaningful by refraining from talking during Davening. DAT Minyan Rabbi Asher Klein 6825 Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80224 www.datminyan.org Twitter: @datminyan In Memoriam: Weekly Halacha Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon courtesy of vbm-Torah.org Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (the Virtual Beit Midrash of Yeshivat Har Etzion) Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the British Empire Is one allowed to make instant soup, pasta or This past Shabbat we read the parsha of Chukkat mashed potatoes on Shabbat? How may one with its almost incomprehensible commandment of the red Q heifer whose ashes mixed with “living water” purified prepare instant baby food or formula on those who had been in contact with death so that they could Shabbat? enter the Mishkan, symbolic home of the glory of God. Al- We must examine how the prohibition of lash, most incomprehensible but not entirely so. kneading, relates to the increasingly pervasive phe- The mitzvah of the parah adumah, the red heifer, A nomenon of the past half-century: instant food. Very was a protest against the religions of the ancient world that often, preparing these foods means adding liquid to grains or glorified death. Death for the Egyptians was the realm of powder and stirring the mixture. Is this lisha? the spirits and the gods. The pyramids were places where, it We must note that aside from the issue of lash, prep- was believed, the spirit of the dead Pharaoh ascended to aration of these foods needs to avoid the prohibition of bishul heaven and joined the immortals. (cooking). To summarize: one may not prepare these in a pri- The single most striking thing about the Torah and mary vessel (the one “on the fire”) or in a secondary vessel Tanakh in general is its almost total silence on life after (which one pours into from the primary vessel), but there is death. We believe in it profoundly. We believe in olam room to do so in a tertiary vessel (poured into from the sec- haba (the world to come), Gan Eden (paradise), and tech- ondary vessel). (Nevertheless, it is best not to do this regular- ly, since this resembles cooking on Shabbat.) In cases where iyat hametim (the resurrection of the dead). Yet Tanakh the bishul issue has been overcome, the question then arises: speaks about these things only sparingly and by allusion. is there a problem of lisha in preparing instant food? Why so? Let us differentiate between three situations: Because too intense a focus on heaven is capable 1) If the instant food is a liquid, such as soup, or of of justifying every kind of evil on earth. There was a time similar consistency, there is generally no problem of lisha. when Jews were burned at the stake, so their murderers 2) If the instant food consists of pasta with sauce and said, in order to save their immortal souls. Every injustice the like, it may be as liquid as soup; but at on earth, every act of violence, even suicide bombings, can Cont’d on page 3 be theoretically defended on the grounds that true justice is reserved for life after death. Parsha Pointers Against this Judaism protests with every sinew of 1) When did Bilaam receive his prophecies? (22:8) its soul, every fiber of its faith. Life is sacred. Death de- 2) Why did the malach kill Bilaam's donkey? (22:33) dignity. human with concerned is d - files. God is the God of life to be found only by consecrat- G Bilaam." silenced ing life. Even King David was told by God that he would that donkey the "Here's say, and it see shouldn't people that So 2) not be permitted to build the Temple because Cont’d on page 3 night. at Only 1) Refuah Shleima Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shleima. 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 GoogleDoc. Bentzion ben Masha Yehudit Michael Aharon ben Hasia Nataniel ben Elisheva Avraham Shalom ben Henna Barak Mordechai ben Edit Yochanan ben Malka v'Yaakov Baruch Dov ben Sarah Yaffa Batya bat Fradel Boruch Getzel HaKohen ben Esther Chaim Benjamin ben Bracha chaim shmuel ben Miriam Channa Rochel bat Henna Chaya Esther Chava bat Sarah Devorah Leah bat Chanah Dina bat Hyla and Shayla Dov Shmuel ben nechama rivka Galina bas Rachel Chaya Eliyahu Chayim HaKohen ben Sarah Rivka Ida bat Esa Kalman ben Esther Leah bat Sarah Meyer Pesach ben Etel Miriam Tova Chaya bat Chanah Naomi Miriam bat Sarah Emanu Raphael Natan ben Shoshana Michal Raphael Yotam ben Efrat Rochel Leah Nechama bat Esther Sandra Miriam Shoshana bat Chanah Sarah Esther bat Faiyge Sarah Shoshanna bat Sarah Sheyna Esther Bat Sarah Shoshana Michal bat Sarah Simcha haKohen ben Chana Tova Leah bat Chana Yonna bat Esther Yosefa Aliza bat Sarah Leah Zvi Yehoshua Ben Ilana Faiga Avraham Asher ben Hinda Nachum Noach ben Sarah Raizel Shayna bas Basya Ita Sheiva bas Udya Yechiel Tzvi-Herschel Ben Zeisel Kayla Yitzchak Izik ben Nina Shalom ben Mnoochah (Rabbi) Tzvi Gershon ben Shaindel Shaina Raizel COMMUNITY CALENDAR Merkaz Presents Summer Shiurim: Rabbi Tzvi Mordechai Feldheim—Four part series: ”We Can Be Better People.” Mondays, 8:00-9:00 pm. July 7—”The World Was Created For Me.” July 14—”Meeting with G-d.” July 21—”Building Your Beis Hamikdash,” July 28—”More Meaningful Prayer.” Rabbi Freedman—Three-part series: “Shabbos: The Ultimate Kiddush Hashem.” Wednesdays, 8-8:45 pm. July 9—”The Laws Pertaining to Asking a Non-Jew for Help on Shabbos.” July 16—Medicine on Shabbos: Can I Or Can I Not?” July 23—”Shabbos: What It Does for Us.” Classes will be held at Merkaz Torah V’Chesed, 295 South Locust Street. All classes are for both men and women. The Jewish Women’s Theatre Company Presents Peter Pan July 13, 2:00 pm, at Aish Denver, 9550 E.