11 / 12 MAY 2018 ד ׳׳ בסKOL KINLOSS NEWSLETTER OF FINCHLEY SYNAGOGUE SHABBAT AT KINLOSS WWW.KINLOSS.ORG.UK Shabbat commences at 8:25pm and terminates at 9:38pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 7:30pm Mevarachim Hachodesh HASHKAMA 7:45am in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash, followed by Kiddush and a short shiur. THE MINYAN 9:30am in the Nissan and Rifca Deal Hall. Kriat Hatorah by Carl White. Zoe Silverman will speak. Kiddush sponsored by Zoe and Jeremy Silverman. SEPHARDI SERVICE 9:00am in the Sephardi Synagogue, led by Rabbi Heller and Reuben Gorji. MAIN SYNAGOGUE 9:15am led by Chazan Eli Sufrin. Kriat Hatorah by Clive Onnie. Rabbi Lawrence will speak. SHABBAT LEARNING AT KINLOSS Shabbat Morning 8:30am: Sephardi Synagogue Talmud Tractate Berachot by Rabbi Heller 9:00am: Deal Hall Rambam: The Laws of Shabbat by Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum 9:15am: Youth Breakfast Banter Breakfast and Parasha Shiur Benchers Cafe with Barry Colman 10:30 - 10:50am in the Rabbi’s Office Study Group with Rabbi Laitner titled “Understanding the Yom Tov prayers“ Shabbat Afternoon There will be no Bnei Akiva until after the summer 7:10pm: Daf Yomi Shiur in the Nemetnejad Room 7:30pm Pre-Mincha Shiur by Rabbi Nisan Andrews 8:10pm: Mincha followed by Seuda Shlishit sponsored by Belinda and Jeremy Mindell to commemorate the Centenary of Battle of Megiddo and in memory of the British & Commonwealth forces who served in WW1 Shiur by Rabbi Michael Laitner Everyone is welcome 9:38pm: Ma’ariv This week’s Kiddush is sponsored by Eva Greenspan to thank the community for her re-election THE KIDS’ MINYAN 10:45am in the Newman Room, Yrs 5 and 6 אייר תשע״ח כ״זMazeltov to all children receiving Birthday Blessings this Shabbat YOUTH SERVICE 9:45am in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash, under the direction of our Youth Director, Barry Colman. בהר בחקתיBehar-Bechukotai
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11 / 12 MAY 2018
KOL KINLOSSבס׳׳דNEWSLETTER OF FINCHLEY SYNAGOGUE
SHABBAT AT KINLOSS
WWW.KINLOSS.ORG.UKShabbat commences at 8:25pm and terminates at 9:38pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 7:30pm Mevarachim Hachodesh
HASHKAMA 7:45amin the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash, followed by Kiddush and a short shiur.
THE MINYAN 9:30amin the Nissan and Rifca Deal Hall. Kriat Hatorah by Carl White. Zoe Silverman will speak. Kiddush sponsored by Zoe and Jeremy Silverman.
SEPHARDI SERVICE 9:00amin the Sephardi Synagogue, led by Rabbi Heller and Reuben Gorji.
MAIN SYNAGOGUE 9:15amled by Chazan Eli Sufrin. Kriat Hatorah by Clive Onnie. Rabbi Lawrence will speak.
SHABBAT LEARNING AT KINLOSS
Shabbat Morning8:30am: Sephardi Synagogue
Talmud Tractate Berachot by Rabbi Heller
9:00am: Deal HallRambam: The Laws of Shabbat
by Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum
9:15am: Youth Breakfast Banter Breakfast and Parasha Shiur
Benchers Cafe with Barry Colman
10:30 - 10:50am in the Rabbi’s OfficeStudy Group with Rabbi Laitner titled“Understanding the Yom Tov prayers“
Shabbat AfternoonThere will be no Bnei Akiva until after the
summer
7:10pm: Daf Yomi Shiur in the Nemetnejad Room
7:30pm Pre-Mincha Shiurby Rabbi Nisan Andrews
8:10pm: Mincha followed bySeuda Shlishit sponsored byBelinda and Jeremy Mindell
to commemorate the Centenary of Battle of Megiddo and in memory of the
British & Commonwealth forces who served in WW1Shiur by Rabbi Michael Laitner
Everyone is welcome9:38pm: Ma’ariv
This week’s Kiddush is sponsored by Eva Greenspan to thank the
community for her re-election
THE KIDS’ MINYAN 10:45amin the Newman Room, Yrs 5 and 6
כ״ז אייר תשע״ח
Mazeltov to all children receiving Birthday Blessings this Shabbat
YOUTH SERVICE 9:45amin the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash, under the direction of our Youth Director, Barry Colman.
בהר בחקתי Behar-Bechukotai
Some Thoughts on the SidraBY RABBI NISAN ANDREWS
Page No. SONCINO HERTZ ARTSCROLL
Sidra 764 531 696
Hafta-rah 789 551 1179
Behar StatisticsMitzvot: 24 of the 613 Mitzvot, 7 positive & 17 prohibitionsVerses: 57 (5th shortest of the 54 Sidrot)Words: 737 (5th shortest)Letters: 2817 (5th shortest)Haftarah: 22 verses (joint 39th longest of the 80 Haftarot)
Bechukotai StatisticsMitzvot: 12 of the 613 Mitzvot – 7 positive & 5 prohibitionsVerses: 78 (9th shortest of the 54 Sidrot)Words: 1013 (8th shortest)Letters: 3992 (8th shortest)Haftarah: 17 verses (joint 15th shortest of the 80 Haftarot)
This week’s Torah portion contains the verse that the rabbis of the Talmud cite as the source for the biblical prohibition against abusive speech. Halakha labels this prohibition “Ona’at Devarim” – verbal oppression – and it is laid out by the Rambam (Maimonides) in the following manner:
“For instance, if a person is newly religious one must not say to him: “Remember your former deeds”. If a convert comes to study Torah, one must not say to him: “Shall the mouth that ate unclean and forbidden food study Torah which has been given by the Lord?” If a person has been afflicted with disease and is suffering, or if he has buried his children, one must not say to him in the language used by Job’s companions in addressing Job: “… what guiltless man has ever perished?” (Job 4:6-7).” (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Transactions 14:13)
There is a common thread in all these examples the Rambam brings. People who have moved on in life, developed new identities, do not necessarily want to be reminded of their background. If someone is sick, they don’t need to be driven lower by the prospect that they have caused their misfortune. All of these specific cases are united in their humiliation or shame.
Emotional hurt is real, and the Torah drives this home by pairing via redundancy in the language of the parsha psychological injury, emotional pain, and financial damage. We read first regarding Ona’at Mamon (financial exploitation):“When you sell an item to your neighbour or purchase from your neighbour, you shall not mistreat (exploit - tonu) one another. (25:14)”
Only a few verses later we read what seems like a repetition:
“Do not mistreat (tonu) one another, but fear your God; for I, the Lord am your God. (25:17)”
This seeming repetition of themes, according to the Gemora in Bava Metziah (58B) comes to prohibit “mistreatment” through speech rather than any more concrete form of action.
THE RABBI WRITES
Return to Jerusalem The great medieval philosopher, physician and poet Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141) wrote from Toledo of his yearning to see Jerusalem.
MY HEART IS IN THE EAST My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west— How can I find savour in food? How shall it be sweet to me? How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain— Seeing how precious in mine eyes to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary. In 1140 he journeyed to Alexandria, and visited his great contemporaries, Shmuel HaNagid and Shmuel ben Chanania. He wrote of his voyage: I cry out to God with a melting heart and knees that strike against each other, While anguish is in all loins, On a day when the oarsmen are astounded at the deep, When even the pilots find not their hands. How shall I be otherwise, since I, on a ship's deck, Suspended between the waters and the heavens, Am dancing and tossed about? But this is merely a light thing, If I may eventually hold a joyous dance in the midst of you, O Jerusalem! On 14th May 1141 (28th Iyar 4901, exactly 877 years ago, he set sail for Israel. That date is our last confirmed point of contact with him. The assumption is that he arrived. There is an unsubstantiated rumour that he travelled to Jerusalem, where, as he davened at the Kotel, an Arab horseman ran him down. This tragic legend is referenced at the beginning of his celebrated 1967 poem “The Paratroopers Cry” by Chaim Hefer, one of the soldiers who retook the Kotel. This Kotel has heard many prayers This Kotel has seen many walls fall This Kotel has felt wailing women's hands and notes pressed between its stones This Kotel has seen Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi trampled in front of it This Kotel has seen Caesars rising and falling But this Kotel has never before seen paratroopers cry…
Details of Yehuda Halevi’s time in Egypt as well as some of his poetry and other writings were preserved in the Cairo Genizah – the repository of Holy (and other writings) in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo).
193,000 (representing the bulk of the) documents which were preserved there were brought to Cambridge in 1896 by the scholar R’ Solomon Schechter. It was exhilarating to visit that archive with a Kinloss tour on Tuesday and to hold fragments of Yehuda Halevi’s own handwriting as well as the writings of R’ Hai Gaon (d1083) Maimonides (d1204), R’ Yitzchak Luria (d1572) and R’ Yosef Karo (d1575).
Not only do these luminaries live on through their writings, the Genizah research has greatly enhanced and occasionally corrected our knowledge of their lives and their scholarship.
Halevi made a personal pilgrimage and intended to live out his days in the spiritual splendour of Jerusalem. On Wednesday evening we began our course on Zionist Visionaries with a look at Moses Hess (1812-1875). He was amongst the earliest to advocate a mass return to Zion, advocating the purchase of the lands from the Ottomans. Dubbed “the Red Rabbi” and a friend of Marx and Engels, Hess saw this both as a solution to the anti-Semitism in Europe, and also as a Messianic fulfilment of purpose.
“Even today the wholesome influence of the Jewish family life is noticeable in literature, art and science. How much greater will that influence be when once again we create history and literature, when once more the Torah will go forth from Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem?” (Hess, Rome and Jerusalem)
Join us in our exploration of the remarkable thinkers who transformed our history and continue to forge our destiny. The course runs on Wednesday evenings at 8pm. Details on p6. and www.kinloss.org.uk/visionaries
Shabbat Shalom & Yom Yerushalayim Sameach.
Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence
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THIS WEEK’S HAFTORAH BY RABBI ANDREWS This week’s Haftorah comes from the Book of Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah). The first two themes of this week’s reading encompass the last three verses of chapter 16 and the first three verses of chapter 17, have different thrusts but combine to make a surprising point.
The opening theme consists of Yirmiyahu complaining about the possibility that in the future other nations will come to realise the emptiness of their idol worship, while the Jews will still not fully repent of their sins.
The next theme speaks to how deeply entrenched the Jews are in those sins. The Talmud, citing the opinion of R. Yehuda in the name of Rav, explains that the original motivation for the idolatry was not the worship itself, but, instead, as a cover to allow them to engage in acts of licentious gratification. This implies that the Jewish people were willing to commit a worse crime to avoid being rebuked for a lesser one.
That said, after beginning this forbidden worship, the Jews eventually developed deep and honest affection for those idols. The pasuk (verse), “Their sons are their altars (17:2)” goes so far as to suggest the Jewish people came to regard their idols as members of their family.
This reminds us that once we begin specific behaviours, for whatever the reason, they can easily become a pull of their own, long after the original stimulus faded. So, for example, psychologists point out that people who pick up coping behaviours to escape stress can often find themselves still enmeshed in those activities long after the pressure dissipates.
If you find yourself at Kinloss over the course of the day, please stop by the office to say hello! I can usually be found there during the regular office hours (except Thursday)
Kids Pre-shavuot torah FactoryJoin us as we explore how a Sefer Torah is made and written.
Sunday 13th May, 2018 2.30 – 3.30pm and 3.30pm – 4.30pmNursery - Year 4
Participants are especially involved in this fascinating workshop!The Torah Factory shows the making of a Torah scroll.
Starting with rawhide, the process is followed through tanning and sanding
until the parchment is complete.Participants examine Tefillin and Mezuzot etc.
Participants can then try their hand at Scribe Arts using a quillwww.kinloss.org.uk/kidstorah
WEDNESDAY 16TH mAY 2018
12:15pm - Parasha Shiur with Rabbi Nisan Andrews 1:00pm - Speaker - Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash
Cost: £5, payable on the door, includes a light lunchor to book, please email [email protected] or call us on 020 8349 5269
Shavuot Learning at Kinloss 8.40pm – Mincha followed by a Shiur by Rabbi Andrews
9.51pm – Ma’ariv and Kaballat Yom Tov followed by a light dinner with a
Shiur by Rabbi Laitner (Rabstein Room) Pre-book by Wednesday 16th May at www.kinloss.org.uk/shavuotmeal
Tikkun Leil @ Kinloss
We extend special thanks to Mrs Devorah Harounoff, David and Michelle, who have kindly sponsored the Tikkun Leil Shavuot refreshments in memory of their husband and father,
Avraham Cohen Harounoff z”l
Doors open at 11:30pm 11:45 – 12:30: Keynote – Rabbi Aubrey Hersh
“The Jews who Observed Torah in Hiding” 12:30 – 1.15: Debbie Stone
“Choice or Coercion: The Tightrope Walk of Religious Life” 1:30 – 2:15: Rabbi Andrews
“Drashot and Insights on the Book of Ruth” 2:30 – 3:10: Rabbi Lawrence
“A Very Royal Wedding” 3:20: First Shacharit
20th May (First Day Shavuot) - Women’s Tikkun – 5-7.30pm
at the home of Sally and Scott Saunders Shiurim by Hannah Andrews, Rabbi Aubrey Hersh and Rabbi Lawrence
21st May (Second Day Shavuot) – Dessert Island Drash – 8pm
Join Rabbi Lawrence as he interviews a panel of guests including Rabbi Hersh, Hannah Andrews and Harris Bor on their favourite
and most inspirational passages of Jewish learning.
Wednesdays 16th, 30th May and
6th, 13th and 20th June
* Ian Addleson on the birth of a great grandson, son to Jonathan and Dina Davis. Mazel Tov also to grandparents Ruth and David Davis and Nina and Andrea Ingram, and great grandmothers Lena Davis and Eda Ingram.
Yom Yerushalayim @ KinlossSunday 13th May after the 7.45am Joint Shacharit
Join us for a light breakfast with a presentation with Rabbi Andrews
Free of Charge. All Welcome.
KINLOSS DAY TRIP TO CAMBRIDGECAIRO GENIZAH FRAGMENTS AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
KINLOSS AGMwill be on Sunday 13th May 2018 at 8:00pm.
The Minyan AGM will be on Monday 14th at 8pm.All members are welcome to attend
KINLOSS YOUTHKinloss Youth
Express Yourself!
Shabbat Behar-Bechukotai - Sephardi Takeover with ChazakBreakfast Banter 9.15am in Benchers Café – Breakfast and Parsha Schmooze with Rabbi Moshe
Levy of ChazakYouth Minyan 9.45am in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash
Followed by a Met Su Yan Kiddush sponsored by Chazak
Summer Chill6.30pm – Minchah in the Nemetnejad Room
followed by Seudah Shlishit with the community Board games, table tennis, friends, nosh and much more.
Project Impact - This Sunday, 13th May - 2 – 4.30pm Jewish Care, Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre
We will be volunteering with Jewish Care residents and Holocaust Surviviors at a Yom Yerusha-layim event with musical entertainment, quizzes, games and tea.
Learn2VolunteerConcludes Tuesday 15th May, 7.30 – 9pm in the Nemetnejad Room
Learn2Lead concludes Tuesday 22nd May
Daf Yummy - Thursdays during term timeJoin us every Thursday evening from 7.45 – 9pm in the Liora Graham Beit HaMidrash
Years 8 - 10, £5 per person, includes Pizza, chips and drinks
Tikkun Leil - Motsei Shabbat 19th MayKeynote speaker: Debbie Stone, Associate Director of Education NCSY
Shavuot BBQ - Monday 21st May, 1pm in the Youth Flat - Years 11 - 13
Flip Out - Kinloss Club & Kinloss Youth are going trampoliningSunday 3rd June, 6.30 – 8pm - Years 5 - 10
£13 per person. www.kinloss.org.uk/flipout
Fifa World Cup with Kinloss Youth We will be showing special screenings of England’s World Cup campaign this summer!
Tribe World Cup - Sunday 8th July, 2 - 5pm @ Power League, Mill Hill5-a-side football tournament
Years 7&8 and Years 9&10£12 per player - Register at www.kinloss.org.uk/worldcup
* Security Team 4. If you have any queries, please speak to Martin Shiers on 07831 836 031, or email [email protected]
* Tanya Burns, Mia Lyons and Aviva Steinberg of The Welcoming Committee
* Kiddush Rota Team
Sophie Permutt (8) Judah Marks (3)Zac Levitan (3) Raphael Marks (10)Sam Goldschmidt (6) Isaac Levene (6)Liron Aboody (10) Ora Martin (9)Emily Fenton (7) Maya Rodney (4)Livi Gray (3) Mia Samuels (10)Tali Rahamim (6) Nathan Speigel (10)
Mazeltov to the children in our community celebrating their birthdays this week:
9:45am Games Room in the Newman Room with Rav Melachi0 - 4 year olds with Sara Keen in the Kinloss Suite Foyer Reception up to School Year 2 with Natalie Sommer in the Avram Nemetnejad Room (2nd Floor)School Years 3 - 4 - with Dina Sufrin in the First Floor ClassroomsThe Kids’ Minyan - with Rav Melachi in the Newman RoomAll Children’s Services will start at 10:45am followed by Kiddush
TOMBSTONE CONSECRATIONS:TUES 15 MAY 10:30am in Bushey in memory of Philip Silverman SUN 27 MAY 12:00pm in Bushey in memory of Goldie DanielsSUN 27 MAY 12:00pm in Willesden in memory of Jack Fisher
ANIM ZEMIROT CLUBCome and learn to sing
Anim ZemirotOur club meets every Shabbat at 10:15am
