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Shabbat Prayer Times äçðî Minha 6:10 p.m.

íéøéùä øéù Shir Hashirim 6:30 p.m.

úáù úìá÷ Kabalat Shabbat 7:05 p.m.

úåøð ú÷ìãä Candle Lighting 7:31 p.m.

(ïé÷éúå) à"ãéçä ïéðî úéøçù Shaharit Ha’Hida Vatikin 5:50 a.m.

úéøçù Shaharit (Main Synagogue/Barechu:9:35) 8:30 a.m.

íéìäú Tehilim 6:35 p.m.

äçðî Minha 7:05 p.m.

áåè òåáù Shabbat Ends 8:35 p.m.

Erev Shabbat, Friday April 12th, 2019 Minha 6:15 p.m. (Candle Lighting 7:39p.m.)

Weekday Services at Medrash Torah Vehayim

úéøçù Shaharit Sunday ïé÷éúå Vatikin 6:05 a.m.

íéîéã÷î Makdimim 8:00 a.m. íéòåá÷ Kebuim 9:00 a.m.

úéøçù Shaharit Weekdays ïé÷éúå Vatikin 6:05 a.m.

íéîéã÷î Makdimim 6:45 a.m. íéòåá÷ Kebuim 8:15 a.m.

äçðî Minha 7:35 p.m.

úéáøò Arbit 8:05 p.m.

Shabat Zemanim– Netz– õð– 6:51 am, Keriat Shema- òîù úàéø÷- 9:30 am, Shekia- äòé÷ù– 7:50 pm

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Welcome to our Synagogue ברוכים הבאים

Shabbat Shalom שבת שלום

President Meyer Keslassy

Vice President Jean-Claude Abtan

Rabbi Emeritus Haham Amram Assayag

Rabbi Rabbi David Kadoch

Shaliach Tzibur Marc Kadoch

Parnas Avi Azuelos

Parashat Tazria פרשת תזריעShabbat April 6th 2019, 1 / אי ניסן תשע"ט Nissan 5779

Parasha Page 608, Maftir page 348 Haftara Hachodesh 1218 in Artscroll

Kiddush Please join us for Kiddush after Shaharit services.

Everyone is welcome.

Seuda ShelishitThis Shabbat Seuda Shelishit is sponsored by:

Mr. and Mrs. Avi and Francine Azuelos in loving memory of his father Rabbi Yaakob Azuelos ì"æ Mr. and Mrs. Adam and Esther Ohayon in loving memory of her brother Joseph Edery ì"æ Mr. and Mrs. Leon and Denise Elmaleh in loving memory of his mother Marie Elmaleh ì"æ Everyone is welcome.

Nahalot Rabbi Yaakob Azuelos ì"æ 1 Nissan / Saturday April 6

Menahem Benadiba ì"æ 3 Nissan / Monday April 8

Molly Citron ì"æ 4 Nissan / Tuesday April 9

Mercedes Bensimhon ì"æ, Esther Cohen ì"æ 5 Nissan / Wednesday April 10

Rahel Esseis ì"æ, Marie Elmaleh ì"æ, Hananiah Cohen ì"æ 6 Nissan / Thursday April 11

Nahalot for the following week

Miriam Toby ì"æ 8 Nissan / Saturday April 13

Hanna Cohen ì"æ 9 Nissan / Sunday April 14

Shalom Abraham ì"æ, Marsye Benisti ì"æ 10 Nissan / April Monday 15

Haim Amiel ì"æ, David Hochman ì"æ 11 Nissan / Tuesday April 16

Solange Azoulay Himelfarb ì"æ, Samuel Elfassy ì"æ, Robida Assayag ì"æ, 12 Nissan / Wednesday April 17

Lucy Bensimon ì"æ, 13 Nissan / Thursday April 18

Maguy Pinto ì"æ, 14 Nissan / Friday April 19

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Torah Learning Opportunities at the SKC Sundays - Gemara Masechet Megila with Rabbi Kadoch - 7:15am-8am, Iraqi synagogue, coffee.

Mondays - Limud Torah with Rabbi Natan Dabush, 8PM, Medrash, men only

Tuesdays - Tuesday Night Live on the Parasha with Tomer Malca, 8PM, Medrash, beer and wings, men only

Wednesdays - Limud Torah with the Toronto Sephardic Kollel, 815PM, Medrash, refreshments, men only

Wednesdays - Mishmar with Yossi Azulay, 7PM, Iraqi synagogue/gymnasium, pizza and drinks, middle school boys

Thursdays - Advanced Gemara with Shimon Benmergui, 7:15pm, Iraqi synagogue, refreshments, High School/University boys

Thursdays - Halacha with Rabbi David Kadoch. Young adults. 8:30pm Upstairs Medrash following Arbit

Shabbat - Noam Elimelech on the Parasha with Rabbi David Kadoch, 8:15am-8:45am, Downstairs classroom, coffee and hot

chocolate, men only

Rosh Hodesh - Various Topics with Rabbi David Kadoch, 8PM, Lower Level Restaurant, refreshments, ladies only.

Shiurim Online: If you wish to access any of the Torah classes given during the week by Rabbi Kadoch, Tomer Malca or Rabbi Dabush, you can

listen to them at anytime by accessing them on our website: bit.ly/skctorah

Synagogue News Early Shabbat Summer Schedule

As a reminder, our summer schedule is now in effect. Minha will start promptly at 6:10 pm followed by Shir HaShirim.

Pearls of Judaism Ladies Shiur—Wednesday April 10th, 2019

The monthly shiur continues this Wednesday as Rabbi Kadoch explores the connection between Haroset and the Jewish woman.

All ladies are welcome. Lower Level Synagogue at 8:00pm.

HAROSET will be made next Sunday April 14th, 2019 B’’H

We are looking for Volunteers to help Rabbi David Kadoch and Mr. Yaakov Medina to prepare HAROSET for Pesah. Please contact

the office if you can volunteer

Come Together

Pre-Pesah Shabbaton - Friday April 12th & Saturday April 13th Shabbaton for Family, Friends, Food and Relief (Give your spouse a

break, Cost $40/Adult, $20/Child Friday Dinner

$75/Adult, $35/Child Both Meals (Family Max $250)

A Project by the JDOHSS Mom’s Association

Beautifully designed Sephardic Family Haggada available for only $5 each, Hebrew and English available in the office.

Bnei Akiva’s

SHA-SHA-SHABBAT SHALOM SKC!!! Bnei Akiva’s Kehila Snif is back and is excited to announce an amazing planned Snif for this

week! This weeks theme is a surprise! Come to Snif to find out what’s going on and for a chance to collect tickets for a raffle hap-

pening at the last snif! This weeks Snif is at 5:50PM!

Please try to grab out Akivaton for an amazing Dvar Torah and Question for the Chanichim to answer.

Kehila Centre Summer Employment for Students

The Kehila Centre has an exciting opportunity for students looking for summer employment to assist us. If you are interested ,

please submit your resume to [email protected].

Cemetery Plots

The SKC is pleased to announce the availability of Pardes Shalom cemetery plots to our members. In order to accommodate

the limited availability of these plots, we ask all interested members to contact either Sol Benchetrit at [email protected] OR

Dr. Adam Ohayon at [email protected].

If you have a Mazal Tov that you would like to share with the congregation or if you have a change of address or email please contact the office at

(905) 669-7654.

Please be advised that the cutoff time for insertion in the bulletin is Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.

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Tazria 5779 – Doctors and Interns להורות בין הטמא ובין הטהר זאת תורת הצרעת )יד:נז(

"To rule on which day it is contaminated and on which day it is purified;

this is the law of tzara'at" (Vayikra 14:57)

An interesting halachic question was brought before HaGaon

Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg shlita, the author of 'Tzitz

Eliezer’', which he answered based on the explanation of the

Netziv of Volozhin on this verse. A doctor in one of the Jerusa-

lem hospitals, wished to know if it is permissible to teach in-

terns by the bedside of patients, if the purpose is to teach the

students and not for the sake of helping the patient? Maybe this

contradicts the 'Doctors Oath', where a doctor swears not to

reveal the patient's condition to strangers?

The 'Tzitz Eliezer' answered that the oath is not a deterrent to

guiding the interns, for when taking the oath every doctor

knows that part of his career includes coaching interns by the

patients' bedside, just as he was taken around patients when he

studied medicine. This being the case, he certainly did not in-

tend to include this in his oath.

In fact, there’s an additional novelty and calculation he discov-

ered: There’s a rule in the Talmud that a teacher learns “from

his students more than from anyone.” This rule applies to every

form of expertise. By explaining the case to the interns, and

from the questions that will come up, it can often happen that

the doctor considers a new angle on how to treat the patient

and for the benefit of the patient. So, this practice of guiding

the interns can also bring benefit to the patient.

However, there is a different perspective that one must consider

when the doctor and the interns gather around the patient's

bedside. If it involves exposing places on the body where the

illness had an effect, especially if these are normally concealed

places, this could involve embarrassment for the patient. The

'Tzitz Eliezer' found an original proof for this idea from the

words of the Netziv in his sefer 'He’emek She’elah'. The Netziv

explained, according to the words of the Raavad in Torat Koha-

nim, that the words of the verse להורות ' to rule' in the above

mentioned pasuk, mean that at the very time when the account

comes before him, this is when the Kohen should teach.

He would call his students to show them the kind of affliction

and its particulars, on the day that it became contaminated and

also on the day that it was purified. This is how the verse ends:

"This is the law of tzara'at" – to teach us that this law is not valid

in every place, only here concerning tzara'at. For in truth, great

shame is caused to the person when the students gather and

look at the afflictions on his flesh, therefore definitely in other

similar situations it is forbidden to do this, for this causes em-

barrassment to the person who has come to ask the Kohen

about his status. The words "This is the law of tzara'at" will

serve as an atonement for him because he himself embarrassed

someone else. This is how the Netziv explains the above verse.

If so, the Tzitz Eliezer concluded his answer to the doctor, from

here we can derive a proof that it is forbidden to show the pa-

tients' wounds to students, due to the prohibition of shaming

other people. It is therefore in place that the doctor should ask

the patient for his permission and if he does not consent one

should avoid gathering the students around his bedside.

Parashat Tazria: Childbirth and Eliyahu Hanabi

The opening section of Parashat Tazria deals with the topic of

Tum’at Yoledet, the special status of Tum’a (impurity) that ap-

plies to a woman after childbirth. The Torah instructs that after

delivering a baby boy, a woman has a status of Tum’a for seven

days, whereas after the birth of a girl she is considered impure

for fourteen days.

Why does childbirth result in Tum’a? Delivering a child is pre-

cisely what women are supposed to do; it is the most joyous

and wondrous of events. In fact, our Sages teach that Mashiah

will come once all the souls in the heavens have been dis-

patched to the earth. Each birth thus brings us a bit closer to

our final redemption. Why, then, should it cause impurity?

Another question that arises from this section is the inclusion of

the Misva of Berit Mila. After mentioning that a woman is im-

pure for seven days after a boy’s birth, the Torah immediately

adds that the boy must be circumcised on the eighth day. Why

must this be mentioned in this context, amidst the discussion of

impurity?

The answer touches upon the fundamental nature of Tum’a gen-

erally. Tum’a surfaces when something that had been endowed

with holiness loses that Kedusha. Thus, for example, a human

corpse has the most intense level of Tum’a, because it had con-

tained within it a soul, which is part of God Himself. When

something possessed such a high level of Kedusha and was

then emptied of that Kedusha, the forces of impurity attach

themselves to it, resulting in the status of Tum’a.

Our Sages teach that during pregnancy, the infant studies Torah

with an angel. The body of a pregnant woman is endowed with

extreme sanctity, as it is occupied by an angel who sits and

teaches Torah to the child. This Kedusha is lost at the time of

childbirth, and this loss is what results in Tum’a. A place that

had been filled with high levels of holiness for nine months now

loses that special quality, and for this reason the woman be-

comes impure.

Why, then, is the Tum’a period briefer after the birth of a boy?

Why is a woman considered impure for fourteen days after the

birth of a girl, but only seven days after the birth of a boy?

The Torah itself answers this question by mentioning the Berit

Mila in this context. A week after the birth of a boy, a Berit Mila

is performed, and it is attended by Eliyahu Hanabi. As we know,

it is customary to designate a special chair for Eliyahu at a Berit

because he personally attends every Berit Mila ceremony. Eli-

yahu’s presence has a profound purifying effect. Just as Eliyahu

will come before the arrival of Mashiah to purify the Jewish peo-

ple and prepare them for redemption, similarly, whenever he

comes he brings purity to those around him. This is why, for

example, many people try to position themselves near Eliyahu’s

chair at a Berit, so they could be as close to him as possible and

come under the influence of his purification. More generally,

this is why attending a Berit Mila is such a valuable and signifi-

cant Misva, as it has a purifying effect by virtue of Eliyahu’s

presence.

This explains the distinction drawn by the Torah between the

birth of a boy and the birth of a girl, and why the Misva of Mila

appears in this context. The Berit Mila held a week after a

child’s birth has a purifying effect, and the mother’s period of

Tum’a thus ends at that point. Whereas the Tum’a following the

birth of a girl lasts for two weeks, it lasts only one week after a

boy’s birth because of the Berit Mila. Eliyahu Hanabi’s attend-

ance at the ritual brings purity to everybody in the room, and

especially to the child’s mother, enabling her to conclude her

period of Tum’a. The great prophet comes to the Berit and puri-

fies the mother who had lost the great levels of Kedusha she

had possessed during pregnancy, and at that point her purity is

restored through the powerful influence of Eliyahu.