“ YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE Rabbi Yosef Weinstock 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 SHABBAT SHALOM. WE WELCOME ALL NEWCOMERS, VISITORS AND GUESTS JOINING US FOR SHABBAT. PARSHAT SHOFTIM 4 ELUL 5777 AUGUST 26, 2017 TORAH READING Deuteronomy 16:18 HAFTORAH Isaiah 51:12 Nach Yomi : Lamentations 4 Daf Yomi : Sanhedrin 41 Friday Night 7:15 p.m. & 7:29 p.m. Candle Lighting 7:00 p.m. Minchah/Ma’ariv, Main Sanctuary 7:00 p.m. Minchah/Ma’ariv Sephardic Minyan, Library 7:40 p.m. Mincha/Ma’ariv in House across the street Shabbat Afternoon 6:40 p.m. Rabbi Weinstock’s Class : The Life and Works of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (On his 91st Yahrtzeit) 7:25 p.m. Minchah, Main Sanctuary Seudah Shlishit after Minchah 8:26 p.m. Ma’ariv, Main Sanctuary 8:26 p.m. Shabbat Ends 2 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 installation, at which point he will deliver his sermon. Groups to continue through the sermon. The children will come down for Ein Keilokeinu. 9:30 a.m. YP Minyan, Chapel 9:30 a.m. Teen Minyan, Upstairs Room 5 9:30 a.m. Youth Minyan resumes, Modular - For Weekday Daily Minyanim see Page 5- SHABBAT SCHEDULE OF CLASSES 8:15 a.m., Parsha Shiur. No Sefer HaChinuch Shiur this Shabbat with Rabbi Raphael Stohl,. Parsha classes with Rabbi Yitzchak Salid: 9:15 a.m. in Rm. 6, 10:15 a.m. in Kiddush room in house across the street (access through glass door on north side of house). No Haftorah shiur with Rabbi Yitzi Marmorstein after the 8:00 a.m. Minyan. Shiur resumes September 2nd. 9:00 a.m. Shiur Boker for Teens with Rabbi Moshe Nachbar, Room 5 10:45 a.m., following the Minyan: Open individual & group learning. Shiur in Sefer Hamitzvot with Rabbi Moshe Parnes resumes September 2nd. 6:20 p.m., : Gemara class (Hebrew) Tractate Gittin. 6:35 p.m., Library: Daf Yomi. 6:55 p.m. Modern Halachah for Teens with Rabbi Moshe Nachbar, Chapel. Between Minchah & Ma’ariv, in : Class with Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch. 11th and 12th graders are invited to attend. Immediately after Ma’ariv, Library: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5-minute class to start your week off learning Torah. THIS PUBLICATION GOES TO THE PRINTER ON WEDNESDAYS. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE IN THE SHUL OFFICE BY WEDNESDAYS AT NOON. THIS INCLUDES EVENTS, SPONSORSHIPS, NAMES FOR THE REFUAH SHLEIMAH LIST.
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Minyan Kiddush: Yitz Stern in honor of his daughter Julia’s Bat Mitzvah.
Seudah Shlishit: Welcoming the B’not Sherut and this year’s Youth Dept.
Torah Dialogue: Alan & Brenda Pritzker in memory of their son Shmuel Chaim.
OUR YIH FAMILY….
Mazel Tov:
Yitz Stern on the Bat Mitzvah of his daughter, Julia, and to grandparents Zelda &
Bryan Stern and Gilda & Jack Burstein and to siblings Jared and Justin.
Rabbi & Mrs. Yehuda Fensterszaub on the Bar Mitzvah at AiSh HaTorah of their
son, Avi. Kiddush at L’Chaim restaurant at 12:00 p.m.
Izzy & Claire Rand on the recent marriage of their grandson, David, to Ayelet
Petrover. Mazel Tov to parents Drs. Jeffrey & Susan Rand and family.
Jayne & Iz Warman on the birth of a granddaughter Talia Serach (Talia Rose), and
to parents Avi Kaplan & Rella Kaplowitz and to aunt & uncle Leah & Yoni Robins. Welcome:
We are excited to welcome Rabbi & Mrs. Adam & Sara Frieberg to Hollywood. We
look forward to their future contributions and leadership in our shul.
We welcome the new B’not Sherut: Hillel NMB: Adi, Shaked, Nitzan, Reut. Ben
Gamla: Yakira, Naama, Bar, Shiraz
SATURDAY NIGHT Live Concert with Eitan Katz sponsored by
the Sisterhood and Brotherhood. Raffle Drawing at the
concert. You may still purchase your winning ticket on Saturday night!
RESERVED SEATING SECTION for Raffle ticket holders and Inaugural
Kiddush sponsors only.
First prize: 2 nights at The Bonaventure Resort & Spa (includes 2 rounds
of golf at the Bonaventure Country Club and 2 massages at aLaya Spa).
Second prize: Gorgeous women’s necklace & earrings set sponsored by
Koosh Jewelers. Third prize: Apple i-Watch sponsored by the Chames
family. Thank you for your generosity again this year!
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It was October 14, 2003, Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s National League Championship Series. The Chicago Cubs were playing the (then) Florida Marlins at Wrigley Field. The Cubs led the series 3-2. With one out in the top of the 8th inning, the Cubs were 5 outs away from winning their first National League pennant since 1945. Marlins second baseman Luis Castillo was at bat, and he hit a foul ball to the 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. That man’s name is Steve Bartman. As a result, Alou was unable to make the play. Cubs fans fed off of Alou’s response and began showering Bartman with abuse. Ultimately, Steve Bartman had to be escorted out of Wrigley Field that night by security, for his own safety. The Cubs ended up blowing their three-run lead and losing Game 6. When the Cubs went on to lose Game 7, people began to point to that fan’s interference as the turning point that led to the Cubs meltdown. 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 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. Instead, the irony was that Cubs fans went to a really dark place at the stadium known as “The Friendly Confines.” Last month, the Cubs gave Steve Bartman a 2016 World Series Championship ring. In explaining the gift, Cubs owner Tom Ricketts said: We hope this provides closure on an unfortunate chapter of the story that has perpetuated throughout our quest to win a long-awaited World Series. While no gesture can fully lift the public burden he has endured for more than a decade, we felt it was important Steve knows he has been and continues to be fully embraced by this organization. After all he has sacrificed, we are proud to recognize Steve Bartman with this gift today.” In accepting the ring, Steve Bartman issued a statement, which read in part: I am relieved and hopeful that the saga of the 2003 foul ball incident surrounding my family and me is finally over. I humbly receive the ring not only as a symbol of one of the most historic achievements in sports, but as an important reminder for how we should treat each other in today's society.” In this week’s Parsha we read about the mysterious mitzvah of Eglah Arufah. There is an unsolved murder outside the city limits. The elders of the closest cities come 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 with the murder? From this mitzvah we learn the importance of collective 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 must do their part to address the problem. For a long time Cubs fans scapegoated Steve Bartman. They engaged in magical thinking, fooling themselves that Bartman’s alleged interference caused them to lose, instead of assigning the blame to where it rightfully belonged (or not assigning any blame and just moving on with life.) I am glad that when the Cubs won a championship, team officials took responsibility for the behavior of their fans, and tried in some small way to make amends. As a community we need to live the lesson of Eglah Arufah and collective responsibility. Even if we are not personally impacted by a problem, we must be sensitive, aware and prepared to address these challenge to the best of our abilities.
D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock
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Shabbat Safety & Security
“Safety & Security is everyone’s responsibility. If You See Something Say Something!” Talk to the President, Rabbis, or Executive Director.
Bahor ben Merhai (Boris Yusupov-Roman Yusupov’s father), Baruch Zvi ben Rivka Batya (Rabbi Dr. Brian Galbut-Daniel Galbut’s cousin), Binyamin ben Chemla (Binyamin Israel), David HaKohen ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s father), Eliezer HaLevi ben Chana (Leon Brauser-Joel Brauser’s father), Harav Yehuda ben Rivka Leah (Rivka Ginsparg’s father), 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), Yitzchak Chanoch
ben Chana (Vanessa Shamah’s nephew).
Bracha Etl bat Chana Nehorah (Ettie Langer), Chaya Mariam bat Blima (Harriet Bloom-Wendy Goldsmith’s mother), Chaya Sara bat Dubra (Irene Berlin-Reva Homnick’s mother), Chaya Shayna Sara bat Chane Esther (Shaani Splaver), Devora bat Sheina Baila, Elka bat Tova (Leona Brauser-Joel Brauser’s mother), 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)
If you know of a shul member in the hospital or who might appreciate a home visit, please let the Rabbis know by contacting the shul office. Please contact the office if someone on this list has, Baruch Hashem, recovered.
REFUAH SHLEIMAH
COMMUNITY NEWS
YIH Late Ma’ariv 9:30 p.m. Sun.-Thurs. and Early Minchah 2:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.
at Hollywood Community Kollel, 3670 Stirling Rd., in modular at Bnei Sephardim.
Book Fair this Sunday 8/27 1:00-3:00 p.m. Stirling Road Library. Fiction,
Children’s Books, Judaica, Non Fiction, Reference. $3 a bag. Coffee table books
and signed copies at special prices.
Chaverim of Hollywood 954-998-2648 – volunteer roadside assistance.
Children’s Bikur Cholim Cards for Hospital Patients Cards to be signed with the
child’s first name only and age. No Hebrew writing. Contact Jillian Galitzer.
Collection container for The Cupboard, Broward Kosher Food Bank, in front of the
garage of the Dennis home, 4550 N Hills Drive, Hollywood.
The Chesed House is open to out-of-town visitors, as well as to residents
whose loved ones are in hospital. Contact 786-565-2424
We're all incredibly busy, and sometimes our myriad responsibilities – work, social, health, etc. – clash with the core goal of giving proper attention to our children. So assuming we cannot give them optimal attention 100% of the time, how can we be assured that our children will have the secure feeling that we absolutely love them with full devotion? There's a story told about Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. One of Rav Moshe's grandsons was becoming a Bar Mitzvah, but Rav Moshe was unable to attend as it coincided with a major rabbinical conference taking place the same day. Rav Moshe's son, Rabbi Reuven Feinstein – the father of the Bar Mitzvah boy – was asked how he felt about his illustrious father not being able to attend. His answer: "It's alright. I know that my father loves me." He then described a few incidents in his childhood which served as a constant reminder of his father's great love for him: In the New York winter, before waking up his son for school, Rav Moshe would put the boy's clothes on the radiator so they would be toasty-warm. Over the years, many famous and important people joined the family's Shabbat table. Yet Rav Moshe never allowed any visitor – no matter how wealthy or well-connected – to supplant his son's seat next to his father at the table. Erin Kurt, who spent 16 years as a teacher around the world, would ask her students what their mother did that made them feel happy or loved. She reports that surprisingly, many of the responses were the same. Year after year, in every country she taught, and in every type of demographic, the students were saying the same things and had the same message: It's the small things that their parents did that meant the most and that they remembered. Here's a list of the top 10 things kids say they remember and loved the most:
Comes into my bedroom at night, tucks me in and sings me a song. She also tells me stories about when she was little. Gives me hugs and kisses, and sits and talks with me privately. Spends quality time just with me, not with my brothers and sisters around. Gives me nutritious food so I can grow up healthy. At dinner, talks about what we could do together on the weekend. At night, talks to me about anything – love, school, family, etc. Lets me play outside a lot. We cuddle under a blanket and watch our favorite show together. Disciplines me. It makes me feel cared for. Leaves a special message in my desk or lunch bag.
So what is the key to instilling a lifelong feeling of security, acceptance and love? Small acts of thoughtfulness that make your kids feel important and cared for. Good advice.
NEW! WHATSAPP GROUPS FOR MEMBERS WITH CHILDREN PRE-K
THROUGH 8TH GRADE. TO BE ADDED, CONTACT RONIT KORNBLUTH
OR ALIZA MARKOVICH.
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ISRAEL UPDATE August 18, 2017 SFRC to Ambassador Haley: Lead U.N. Campaign Against Palestinian Terrorist Payments On Aug. 3, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) sent a bipartisan letter to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) Nikki Haley urging her to lead a campaign at the U.N. against the abhorrent Palestinian Authority (PA) practice of providing salaries to terrorists and their families. “For years, Congress has raised alarm regarding the Palestinian Authority's practice of paying Palestinian prisoners serving sentences for terrorism in Israeli prisons, as well as the families of deceased terrorists,” wrote the senators. “We now urge you to use your position as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to raise the problem of PA payments for acts of terrorism at the U.N. Security Council. We also request that you urge other U.N. member nations on the Council, in the General Assembly, and across U.N. agencies to join the U.S. in calling on the PA to end this system immediately.” 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.
AIPAC Policy Conference 2018: March 4-6, 2018
Join Rabbi Weinstock, Young Israel of Hollywood-Ft Lauderdale members, and
over 18,000 pro Israel citizen activists for 3 of the most important days for
exploring and strengthening the US-Israel relationship.
To register go to www.aipac.org/pc. We also have a block of registrations that
can be purchased directly from the shul. The following members are already
signed up as part of our synagogue delegation:
Sheldon Levin, Faye Fingerer, Walter Fingerer, Harold Zombek, Nancy
Zombek, Heather Sered, Dahlia Sered, Sam Sered, Lisa Baratz, Phil Baratz,
Jonathan Gelman, Wendy Gelman, Michelle Mendelsohn,
Jay Mendelsohn, Jayne Kaplan, Akiva Hershenov, Gabrielle Slomowitz,
Linda Slomowitz, Rabbi Weinstock, Tziviah Staiman, Maish Staiman,
Myra Shulkes, David Genet, Monica Genet, Jana Chesal, Michael Chesal, Lily
Rosenblatt, Joe Rosenblatt, Kayla Marks, Lynda Levin
September 3, 2017 more details contact Jason Segalbaum
High School Youth Council
September 4, 2017, 8:00-9:30pm Location TBA
To join the council speak to Michal Amar or Adina Hirsch
Bnei Akiva Back to Year Event
September 10, 2017 more details to follow soon
Youth Leadership First Aid Training
September 10, 2017 6:00-8:30pm at YIH
Middle School Monday Mishmar
Starts September 11, 2017, 7:30-8:30pm at YIH
Bnei Akiva of Florida Leadership Shabbaton
September 15-17, 2017 at YIH
Rosh Hashana Carnival
September 17, 2017, 3:00-5:00pm at YIH
Looking Further Ahead
Succah Hop
October 6, 2017 - 2nd Day Succot
If you are willing to host in your Succah please email [email protected]
Congratulations to last weeks winners
Elementary School: Sarita Hirsch Middle School Winner: Uriel Williams
The first person to email [email protected] on Motzi Shabbat with the correct answer to the fol-
lowing question will win a prize!
Elementary School:
The parasha begins with the words “Shoftim” and “Shotrim.” Who were the shotrim and what was
their job?
Middle School:
In relation to the law, what are the three things mentioned in the beginning of this Sedra that the
September Events
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D’var Torah : Rav James
Among the many privileges we have today is that of Medinat Yisrael. The ability to live and breathe once again the joys of Jewish life in the Land where it was meant to be enjoyed. Over the next few weeks many of our youth will be heading for the journey that generations before them could only dream of - spending a year learning and connecting to Judaism in the only place one truly can. These young men and women of our community will have the amazing opportunity to not just study the Jewish texts but also to witness them. I remember a couple of years back I was doing my regular Thursday evening drive, heading home from work to collect the family to head over to Alon Shvut for our weekly lasagna dinner with family. As I came through the tunnels from Gilo into the Gush I hit standstill traffic. I looked out at the scenery that I pass every day and was surprised to realize that there are caves that I had never noticed before. Over dinner, I asked if anyone else had noticed them, and found out that they are actually ancient mikvahs from the time of the First Temple. How does this relate to the Parsha? Well it doesn't but stay with me… The year is 1982, I am only 1 year old so I don't remember, but Israel was in control of southern Lebanon when Lebanese Christian Phalangists attacked the predominately Muslim refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, and many refugees were killed. Huge protests took place in Israel against the killings which in turn forced the government to take action, resulting in convening a commission to assess the responsibility of the Israeli government and army. The Kahan Commission was established and chaired by Yitzhak Kahan, President of the Israeli Supreme Court. The commission concluded that the Gemayel Phalangists were directly responsible for the massacres; however Israel was to be held indirectly responsible. Now this is where my story and our Parsha link. The commission used the very texts that our youth will be studying to come to their conclusions. It says in this week’s Parsha, “If, in the land that the Eternal God is assigning you to possess, someone slain is found lying in the open, the identity of the slayer not being known, your elders and magistrates shall go out and measure the distances from the corpse to the nearby towns.” The elders will perform a lengthy and complicated ritual to ultimately determine who is responsible for the death. Why must the elders and magistrates of the town nearest to the corpse go through this strange ritual and ask for exoneration? Because they are presumed guilty. They bear indirect responsibility for the murder, because it occurred under their jurisdiction, on their watch, in their territory. Therefore the Kahan commission decided: “A basis for such responsibility may be found in the outlook of our ancestors, which was expressed in things that were said about the moral significance of the biblical portion concerning the ‘beheaded heifer’. It is said in Deuteronomy (21:6-7) that the elders of the city who were near the slain victim who has been found ‘will wash their hands over the beheaded heifer in the valley and reply: our hands did not shed this blood and our eyes did not see.’ ... The Jewish public’s stand has always been that the responsibility for such deeds falls not only on those who rioted and committed the atrocities, but also on those who were responsible for safety and public order, who could have prevented the disturbances and did not fulfill their obligations in this respect.” The Kahan Commission honored the Torah and breathed new life into the relevance of this week’s Parsha in our very own Justice system. We may not be the President of the Israeli Supreme Court and we may not even be sitting in our own Land. However we are sitting at this amazing crossroads in history where Am Yisrael are living B'Eretz Yisrael Al Pi Torat Yisrael and it is our personal responsibility to ensure we open both our eyes and our children’s eyes to the true connection with the Land and give them the opportunity to explore fully the Torah at its fullest.