“ SHABBAT MORNING SERVICES Inaugural Shabbat in honor of Rabbi Yosef Weinstock 7:00 a.m. Shacharit Minyan, Main Sanctuary 8:00 a.m. Shacharit Minyan, Upstairs Rooms 1 & 2 8:45 a.m. Sephardic Minyan, Library 8:45 a.m. Minyan, House across the street 9:00 a.m. Shacharit Minyan, Main Sanctuary. There will be a short program after Mussaf in honor of Rabbi Weinstock’s YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE installation, at which point he will deliver his sermon. Groups to continue Rabbi Yosef Weinstock through the sermon. The children will come down for Ein Keilokeinu. Rabbi Edward Davis, Rabbi Emeritus 9:30 a.m. YP Minyan, Chapel Dr. P.J. Goldberg, President 9:30 a.m. Teen Minyan, Upstairs Room 5 3291 Stirling Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 9:30 a.m. Youth Minyan resumes, Modular 954-966-7877 email: [email protected] www.yih.org - For Weekday Daily Minyanim see Page 5- SHABBAT SHALOM. WE WELCOME ALL NEWCOMERS, VISITORS AND GUESTS JOINING US FOR SHABBAT. SHABBAT SCHEDULE OF CLASSES PARSHAT SHOFTIM 8:15 a.m., Parsha Shiur. 4 ELUL 5777 AUGUST 26, 2017 No Sefer HaChinuch Shiur this Shabbat with Rabbi Raphael Stohl,. TORAH READING Deuteronomy 16:18 Parsha classes with Rabbi Yitzchak Salid: 9:15 a.m. in Rm. 6, 10:15 a.m. in HAFTORAH Isaiah 51:12 Kiddush room in house across the street (access through glass door on north side Nach Yomi : Lamentations 4 of house). Daf Yomi : Sanhedrin 41 No Haftorah shiur with Rabbi Yitzi Marmorstein after the 8:00 a.m. Minyan. Shiur resumes September 2nd. Friday Night 9:00 a.m. Shiur Boker for Teens with Rabbi Moshe Nachbar, Room 5 7:15 p.m. & 7:29 p.m. Candle Lighting 10:45 a.m., following the Minyan: Open individual & group learning. Shiur in Sefer Hamitzvot with Rabbi Moshe Parnes resumes September 2nd. 7:00 p.m. Minchah/Ma’ariv, Main Sanctuary 6:20 p.m., : Gemara class (Hebrew) Tractate Gittin. 7:00 p.m. Minchah/Ma’ariv Sephardic Minyan, Library 6:35 p.m., Library: Daf Yomi. 7:40 p.m. Mincha/Ma’ariv in House across the 6:55 p.m. Modern Halachah for Teens with Rabbi Moshe Nachbar, Chapel. street Between Minchah & Ma’ariv, in : Class with Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch. Shabbat Afternoon 11th and 12th graders are invited to attend. 6:40 p.m. Rabbi Weinstock’s Class : The Life and Works of Immediately after Ma’ariv, Library: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5-minute class to start Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (On his 91st your week off learning Torah. Yahrtzeit) 7:25 p.m. Minchah, Main Sanctuary Seudah Shlishit after Minchah THIS PUBLICATION GOES TO THE PRINTER ON WEDNESDAYS. ALL SUBMISSIONS 8:26 p.m. Ma’ariv, Main Sanctuary MUST BE IN THE SHUL OFFICE BY WEDNESDAYS AT NOON. THIS INCLUDES EVENTS, 8:26 p.m. Shabbat Ends SPONSORSHIPS, NAMES FOR THE REFUAH SHLEIMAH LIST. 2 OUR YIH FAMILY…. D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock Mazel Tov: Yitz Stern on the Bat Mitzvah of his daughter, Julia, and to grandparents Zelda & It was October 14, 2003, Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s National League Bryan Stern and Gilda & Jack Burstein and to siblings Jared and Justin. Championship Series. The Chicago Cubs were playing the (then) Florida Marlins at th Rabbi & Mrs. Yehuda Fensterszaub on the Bar Mitzvah at AiSh HaTorah of their Wrigley Field. The Cubs led the series 3-2. With one out in the top of the 8 inning, son, Avi. Kiddush at L’Chaim restaurant at 12:00 p.m. the Cubs were 5 outs away from winning their first National League pennant since Izzy & Claire Rand on the recent marriage of their grandson, David, to Ayelet 1945. Marlins second baseman Luis Castillo was at bat, and he hit a foul ball to the Petrover. Mazel Tov to parents Drs. Jeffrey & Susan Rand and family. left side. Left fielder Moises Alou seemed poised to catch the ball in foul territory, but a man wearing headphones and a Cubs hat reached up to grab the foul ball. Jayne & Iz Warman on the birth of a granddaughter Talia Serach (Talia Rose), and That man’s name is Steve Bartman. As a result, Alou was unable to make the play. to parents Avi Kaplan & Rella Kaplowitz and to aunt & uncle Leah & Yoni Robins. Cubs fans fed off of Alou’s response and began showering Bartman with abuse. Welcome: Ultimately, Steve Bartman had to be escorted out of Wrigley Field that night by We are excited to welcome Rabbi & Mrs. Adam & Sara Frieberg to Hollywood. We security, for his own safety. The Cubs ended up blowing their three-run lead and look forward to their future contributions and leadership in our shul. losing Game 6. When the Cubs went on to lose Game 7, people began to point to We welcome the new B’not Sherut: Hillel NMB: Adi, Shaked, Nitzan, Reut. Ben that fan’s interference as the turning point that led to the Cubs meltdown. Gamla: Yakira, Naama, Bar, Shiraz People continued to threaten Steve Bartman until very recently. Alex Gibney, writer and producer of an ESPN film about the Bartman episode, notes that things did not THANK YOU TO OUR SHABBAT SPONSORS have to be that way. Fans could have let the episode go. They could have turned their attention to cheering on their home team, instead of focusing on the foul ball. 9:00 a.m. Minyan Kiddush in honor of Rabbi Yosef Weinstock’s installation: Ellen & Instead, the irony was that Cubs fans went to a really dark place at the stadium Jay Adler, Danny & Debby Aqua, Marlene & Dale Bergman, Alvin & Tamara known as “The Friendly Confines.” Cohen, Jamie & Edward Czinn, Judith & Jeffrey Dach & Family, The Danis Family, Last month, the Cubs gave Steve Bartman a 2016 World Series Championship Gabe Deutsch & Family, Jordan & Tammy Ditchek, Herb & Edie Fishler, Avi & ring. In explaining the gift, Cubs owner Tom Ricketts said: We hope this provides Sharon Frier, Robert & Zivia Gill, Rivka & Norman Ginsparg, PJ & Judy Goldberg, closure on an unfortunate chapter of the story that has perpetuated throughout our Hirsh & Company CPAs, Marcy & Martin Hoffman, Rabbi Yaakov & Reva Homnick, quest to win a long-awaited World Series. While no gesture can fully lift the public Imiak Family, Doron & DV Kahn, The Kogan Family, David & Joan Kornbluth, Dov burden he has endured for more than a decade, we felt it was important Steve & Racheli Lasry, Elana & Shimmy Lazar, Barry & Lois Levontin, Linzer Family, Alex knows he has been and continues to be fully embraced by this organization. After & Aliza Markovich, Willy & Harriette Moses, Michelle & Harrison Nadel, Avi & all he has sacrificed, we are proud to recognize Steve Bartman with this gift today.” Debra Naider, Cheryl & Ari Pearl, Ira Posner & Sheila Klee, Brenda & Alan Pritzker, In accepting the ring, Steve Bartman issued a statement, which read in part: I am Larry & Tobi Reiss, Joe & Lily Rosenblatt, Aliza Septimus & Alan Berger, Heather relieved and hopeful that the saga of the 2003 foul ball incident surrounding my & Sam Sered, Shamah Family, Joe & Myrna Ziegler Shapiro, Maish & Tziviah family and me is finally over. I humbly receive the ring not only as a symbol of one Staiman, Danielle & Oren Stier, Tanya & Tzvi Tuchinsky, Joshua & Sharona of the most historic achievements in sports, but as an important reminder for how we should treat each other in today's society.” Whisler, Rebecca & Michael Wiederhorn, Wolpowitz Family, Anonymous. (Any In this week’s Parsha we read about the mysterious mitzvah of Eglah Arufah. There additional sponsors will be listed next week) is an unsolved murder outside the city limits. The elders of the closest cities come Minyan Kiddush: Yitz Stern in honor of his daughter Julia’s Bat Mitzvah. together for a ceremony in which they declare that (21:7) “our hands did not spill this blood.” Do we really think that these distinguished leaders had anything to do Seudah Shlishit: Welcoming the B’not Sherut and this year’s Youth Dept. with the murder? From this mitzvah we learn the importance of collective Torah Dialogue: Alan & Brenda Pritzker in memory of their son Shmuel Chaim. responsibility. The elders do not say, “we didn’t do it, it’s not our problem.” Rather they declare that an unsolved murder is a problem for everyone, and everyone SATURDAY NIGHT Live Concert with Eitan Katz sponsored by must do their part to address the problem. For a long time Cubs fans scapegoated Steve Bartman. 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