“ YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Senior Rabbi Rabbi Adam Frieberg, Assistant Rabbi Rabbi Edward Davis, Rabbi Emeritus Dr. P.J. Goldberg, President 3291 Stirling Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 954-966-7877 email: [email protected]www.yih.org VAYAKHEL SHABBAT MEVORCHIM 25 ADAR I 5779 MARCH 2, 2019 TORAH READING Exodus 35:1 HAFTORAH Kings II 12:1 Nach Yomi : Psalms 50 Daf Yomi : Chulin 95 Daf Hashavua: Megilah 22 SHABBAT TIMES Candle Lighting 6:04 p.m. Shabbat Ends 7:02 p.m. Shabbat Shalom and welcome to all newcomers, visitors and guests Next Weekend! Annual Journal Dinner Friday March 8th Oneg warm-up with dinner entertainer Ronnie Baras Sunday March 10th Dinner at The Club of Emerald Hills Stephen & Roni Kurtz—Journal Dinner Honorees Tsachi & Jessica Baitner—Distinguished Service Award Stephen Clements—Presidential Leadership Award Jessica Schultz—Founders Award To reserve for the Dinner or place an ad in the Journal please click here www.yih.org/campaign/dinner2019 2nd Annual JNF Partnership Shabbat We welcome Guest Speaker Doreet Freedman See flyer for details of all the YIH/JNF events this Shabbat 2 OUR YIH FAMILY…. Mazel Tov: Yosh & Samantha Markell on the birth of their son. Shalom Zachor is Friday 9:00pm at the home of Shlomie & Aliza Friedman, 4800 N. 36th Ct., Hollywood. Nicole Miriam & Daniel Shalom Raz on the birth of their daughter. The Hoenig family on the birth of a granddaughter, Devorah Nesyah, to Eric & Suri Kinzbrunner of Silver Spring, MD. A special Mazel Tov to Nessie's 6 brothers! Steve & Susu Danis on the birth of a grandson born to Rachel & Avi Ginsburg of Riverdale, NY and to Avi’s parents Yale & Sahra Ginsburg, to newly-minted uncles Elliot, Jacob and Max and to great-grandmother Lois Danis. Rabbi Tzvi & Karen Nightingale on the birth of their grandson to Atara & Avi Gordon. Dr. Leonard & Dale Pianko on the birth of their granddaughter to Maurice & Zahava Pianko of Passaic, NJ. THANK YOU TO OUR SHABBAT SPONSORS 8:00 a.m. Minyan Kiddush Jennifer, Danny, Betzalel, Noam, Tali, and Ayelet Cohen in honor of their making aliyah, and to thank YIH and Hollywood for such wonderful (and fruitful) years Sephardic Minyan Kiddush Niad, Herzek & Einhorn families in loving memory of Heshy Niad, Tzvi Hersh ben Yitzchak Mordechai, on the occasion of his 8th yahrzeit, and in memory of Heshy’s brother Lester Niad, Lazer Fivel, and in honor of Lewis’ birthday Beit Midrash Minyan Kiddush Cheryl & Ari & Pearl in memory of their grandfather, Rabbi Abraham I. Brown in commemoration of his 25th yahrzeit 9:00 a.m. Minyan Kiddush The Machaneh Yehuda-style Gala Kiddush is being sponsored by Jewish National Fund. Don’t miss it! All other Kiddushim and Seudah Shlishit Shabbat Sponsors Group Shabbat Announcements Jennifer, Danny, Betzalel, Noam, Tali, and Ayelet Cohen in honor of their making aliyah, and to thank YIH and Hollywood for such wonderful (and fruitful) years Torah Dialogue Lois & Barry Levontin in memory of her father Charles Greenberg, Shlomo ben Moshe Reserved table at 9:00 a.m. Minyan Kiddush in Social Hall for our members who need it
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5:00pm Gemara Shiur on Gittin (in Hebrew) Beit Midrash
5:00pm Daf Yomi Library
5:15pm Rabbi Weinstock’s class. Topic: The History
and Halachot of Haftorah
Main Sanctuary
6:00pm Teen Minchah Room 5
6:00pm Minchah Main Sanctuary
After Minchah Halacha Chaburah with Rabbi Adam Frieberg Library
After Minchah Gemara Shiur with Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch Chapel
After Minchah Parsha Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Beit Midrash
Teen Seudah
Shlishit
With Rav Natan Rooms 3 & 4
7:02pm Maariv Main Sanctuary
Immediately
after Maariv
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5 min. class Library
7:30pm V’Shinantam Plus—The Finale Social Hall
8:30pm Guest speaker Rabbi Meir Goldwicht. See flyer on Page 8
Beit Midrash
Dvar Tefila
A weekly insight from the siddur to help enhance our prayer experience
Shacharit Amidah on Shabbat
(Artscroll Siddur pg. 424)
“And You did not give it, Hashem our G-d, to the nations of the lands, nor did You make it
the inheritance, our King, of the worshippers of graven idols. And in its contentment the
uncircumcised shall not abide – for to Israel, Your people, have You given it in love, to the
seed of Jacob, whom You have chosen.”
The Brisker Rav noted that Shabbat is referred to in two ways: It is a mitzvah
(commandment) and it is a matanah (gift). The Talmud (Shabbat 10b) quotes Hashem telling
Moshe “I have a wonderful present in my Treasure House and its name is Shabbat”. The gift
was given to the Jewish people. Any nation that was not a recipient of this present is not able
to observe Shabbat; and even if they go through the motions of observing it, they have not
fulfilled any mitzvah.
The novelty of this idea from the Brisker Rav is that in order to fulfill the mitzvah of
Shabbat, one needs to be included among the recipients of the gift. This is what we are saying
in the Shabbat Shacharit Amidah passage quoted above. The uniqueness of Shabbat is that we
must relate to the Day of Rest as a mitzvah, but also as a gift.
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D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock Take the 30 Day “No Talk Challenge”. Thank you to Avi Ciment for bringing this initiative to
our shul. The following is an article by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, recently written in
memory of his grandmother Mrs. Gussie Hartman, Gitel bat Tzvi Hersh HaLevi (slightly
condensed).
Grandmother spearheaded synagogue building campaigns wherever she lived: the Lower
East Side of Manhattan, Harlem, and finally Brooklyn. But it was not as a community activist
that she conveyed her spiritual fervor to me. Rather, it was when she drove me and my cousin,
in the shiny black Packard, to purchase kosher groceries in the “old neighborhood” every
Sunday morning. She would drive over the Manhattan Bridge, and just as we crossed the river,
she would point to a large gray stone building just under the bridge. Her eyes would tear and
her voice would choke every time we passed that building. In a very subdued voice, she would
deliver this message: “That building was once a sheel, built by angels. Now it is no longer
a sheel. It is a kloyster. Non-Jews worship there.”
When we asked her why “we” lost it and whether it was really built by angels, she would
respond evasively, in typical grandmotherly fashion, “You are too young for me to answer you.
One day, when you are older, you will understand.”
Grandmother passed away more than fifty years ago. Gradually, after her passing, I began to
understand who the angels were who built the shul and why “we” lost it. I discovered the
angels when perusing the Midrash Rabba on the Book of Kohelet one Sukkot afternoon. I came
across this passage:
“Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa observed the people of his city bringing materials for the
reconstruction of the Holy Temple. He wished to follow their example. He found a large
boulder that would serve well as part of the Temple’s new wall. He sculpted the stone and
polished it. But it was far too heavy for him to carry up to Jerusalem. He asked passersby to
help him, but they would only do so for a fee, which he could not afford. Finally, he beheld five
strangers approaching him. They agreed to carry the stone, but only on the condition that he
would place his hand on the stone. He did so and suddenly found himself, and the stone,
miraculously transported to Jerusalem. The five men were nowhere to be found. He entered the
Temple chamber in which the Sanhedrin sat and inquired after them. The sages told him that
they were not men, but angels.”
That passage in the Midrash taught me that those who simply lend a hand to a holy project
are granted the assistance of the angels. Angels build synagogues. That’s the good news. The sad news is that only angels can sustain synagogues once they are
built. Only when those who attend synagogue behave like angels, in a decorous and reverent
manner, do synagogues endure. Improper behavior in a house of prayer results in its ultimate
destruction. More than one of our great sages has identified irreverence in the synagogue as the
reason that many former Jewish houses of worship are now churches or mosques, theaters or
museums, and often entirely destroyed.
I can hear Grandmother speaking to me today: “Synagogues are built by angels, but we
must behave in them as angels would. If we don’t, we lose them.” She recognized that the old
grey building in Lower Manhattan may have been built by angels, but it wasn’t maintained by
angels. It was maintained by those who came to synagogue to chatter idly, gossip maliciously,
and cynically mock the rabbi and the cantor. No wonder “we” lost it.
Achieving proper synagogue decorum has been a perennial problem for the Jewish
community. When a community gathers to build a new synagogue, it does so as a group of
angels with noble motives. But as we grow accustomed to the synagogue, as it becomes too
familiar to us, we lose our “angelic” enthusiasm. Continued on next page….
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Rabbi Weinstock’s D’var Torah continued from previous page
The Zohar is excited by the Torah’s description of a successful building campaign, of
men and women generously donating gold and silver to the new Tabernacle. But then the
Zohar offers these words of caution: “Woe to the person who engages in mundane conver-
sation in the synagogue. He causes a cosmic schism, a degradation of faith. Woe to him, for
he has no portion in the God of Israel. He demonstrates by his levity that God does not exist,
and that He certainly is not to be found in the synagogue. He asserts that he has no relation-
ship with Him, that he does not fear Him, and that he is indifferent to the disgrace of the
Upper Celestial Realm.”
With these words, the holy Zohar expresses in mystical terms what my Grandmother
knew with her ample common sense. How well she taught me the lesson of our need to re-
main “angels” in the synagogue. I can still hear her tearfully grieving for that heilige sheel,
and all too numerous other sacred spaces, which “we” lost because of our callous indiffer-
ence to the Almighty’s presence.
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Baruch Zvi ben Rivka Batya (Rabbi Dr. Brian Galbut-Daniel Galbut’s cousin), Binyomin Simcha ben Adina Minya (Binny Ciment), Binyamin ben Chemla (Binyamin Israel), Chizkiyahu Moshe Aryeh Hakohen ben Devorah Rachel (Ari Kahn-Sheila & Larry Strulowitz’s son-in-law), David HaKohen ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s father), Eliezer HaLevi ben Chana (Leon Brauser-Joel Brauser’s father), Netanel Elan ben Shayna Tzipporah (wounded IDF soldier), Solomon ben Solika (Solomon Perez-Ilana Melnitsky’s father), Yaakov ben Mira (Jacques Vogel-Michel Vogel’s father), Yehuda Arieh ben Mindla (Philippe Leiberman’s father), Yisroel Yechiel ben Chaya (Michael Reinhard-Kenny Reinhard’s father), Yitzchak Chanoch ben Chana (nephew of Vanessa Shamah and Lauren Davis), Yoseph
Benyamin ben Cochava (Ralph Sharaby’s son) , Aryeh Lev ben Esther (Aryeh Posner).
Batya bat Sara, Chana Ety bat Zirel Libah, Chaya Sara bat Dubra (Irene Berlin-Reva Homnick’s mother), Devora bat Sheina Baila, Elka bat Tova (Leona Brauser-Joel Brauser’s mother), Feiga Necha bat Pessel (Fay Lerner), Masha bat Ruth (Marcia Chonchol-Craig Barany’s mother), Sara Leah bat Rochel (Cynthia Lynn Haber-Cheryl Hamburg’s sister), Sara Leah bat Bracha (Stacey Deutsch), Shira Raizel Esther bat Mina Zosha (Ruth Messer’s granddaughter), Tzirel Libah bat Frimed Mindel (Sylvia Lieberman-Philippe Lieberman’s
mother), Yocheved bat Tzril (Joan Niad).
REFUAH SHLEIMAH
UPCOMING EVENTS
93Queen movie screening presented by Eishet Chayil
Initiative and Bikur Cholim at Regal Cinemas Oakwood by
prior reservation only
Mon. Mar. 4
7:30pm
New! Pre-Purim 3 part mini-series presented by Rabbis
Adam Frieberg and Michael Goldberg in Beit Midrash. See flyer
for topics
Beginning this
Tues. Mar. 5
8:00pm
Chizuk Support Group for Jewish women struggling with
Shabbat Safety, Security & First Aid “Safety & Security is everyone’s responsibility. If You See Something Say Something!”
Talk to the President, Rabbis, or Executive Director.
AED (Automated External Defibrillator) & other equipment in closet next to Social Hall.
Safety Reflector Belts (a project of the OU) are in the closet for use by our congregants
Shabbat Crossing schedule: Stirling Road at SW 33rd Avenue Hollywood Police will control the light this Friday 5:30-10:30pm. Shabbat 7:45am-12:30pm & 3:30-7:30pm. The light will be manually changed between 6:45 & 7:10am.
When crossing Stirling Road, make sure to always wait until cars stop by the light before crossing. Jaywalking is extremely dangerous (& illegal). For the safety of you and your family, it is imperative to cross only in the cross walk
Access Controls With the help of the Homeland Security Grant, new front main lobby doors are
being installed along with new access control. The doors will remain locked at all
times during the week. All families are encouraged to select a five (5) digit code to
access the building. Codes will only give access for Minyanim, Daf Yomi, classes,
events etc. During office hours, the office will buzz you in through the office lobby
front doors. The building will remain locked at all times. Shabbat/Yom Tov protocols
will be different. We are asking each family for their personal 5 digit code. Please
submit your code online at https://www.yih.org/accesscode or call the shul office.
Vaccination Policy
The following resolution was passed by the Young Israel of Hollywood Governing
Board on December 26, 2018:
It is a religious requirement to get you and your child(ren) vaccinated for the safety
of each child and for the community at large. There is no such thing as a Jewish/
Halachic religious exemption to vaccinations. Shuls should protect their members
(especially those who are medically unable to be vaccinated) by restricting access
of those who choose to remain unvaccinated to shul programs and events.
Therefore, all adults, youth and teens attending Young Israel of Hollywood
programs or services, whether on or off our facility, must be fully vaccinated
according to standards of the State of Florida in order to participate in our programs
and services. The only exception to this policy is for those who are unable to
receive vaccines for valid medical reasons.
Inclusion Committee Our congregation is forming an inclusion committee. The goal of the committee is
to create a system to identify and address needs of any family that has special
needs in any area and to provide maximum inclusion for those with special needs
in the shul community. Anyone interested in volunteering for the committee should
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon sent a letter to the members of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, calling on them to act against Iran’s nuclear threat, The Jerusalem Post reported. In his letter, Danon mentioned that at the beginning of February Iran had failed an attempt to launch a satellite into space that was carried by a rocket that is capable of carrying a nuclear head. "Iran has clearly and blatantly ignored the call by the international community to cease this type of activity that violates Security Council Resolution 2231, which accompanies the nuclear agreement with the superpowers," Danon added. “The international community should view this as another provocative act that is part of Iran's hostile ballistic missile program,” Danon wrote. “Iran's efforts to promote this plan not only threatens its neighbors and the entire Middle East, but also a large portion of European countries.” Danon continued in his letter that “Iran has become the main supplier of ballistic missile technologies to Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq, while providing these capabilities to non-state actors and terrorist operatives.” He concluded by calling on the Security Council to “join countries that have already taken measures to curb the threat posed by Iranian missiles.”
Our synagogue partners with AIPAC, America’s pro-Israel lobby, in educating our community on issues affecting the U.S.-Israel relationship. We encourage you to learn more by contacting AIPAC at (202) 639-5200 or by visiting www.aipac.org.
78% of Florida voters believe parents should be able to decide where their
children go to school and 72% support expanding state Education Scholarship
Accounts to serve more students, according to a recent study by the
Foundation for Excellence in Education. If you want to advocate for expanded