Young Israel of Century City • Office address: 9317 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 • 310-273-6954 • www.yicc.org

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If you would like to sponsor please contact our Shul Office – (310) 273-6954

October 12th , 2018 • 13th of Tishrei 5779 Volume 33 • Issue 94

This Week At YICC HA’AZINU & SUKKOT

PARASHAT HA’AZINU

SHABBAT SCHEDULE Kiddush sponsored by YICC

and our Kiddush Co-Sponsor Program

Candle Lighting (Friday, Oct 11) ............................... 6:07 pm Mincha (Schlesinger Sanctuary) .......................................6:15 pm Dr. Josh Rabinowitz Z”L Hashkama Shiur ............ 7:00 am Hashkama Minyan (Mintz Beit Midrash) ..........................7:15 am Sal Lowi Z”L Kiddush Sponsored by: Debra and Albie Cohen In memory of Albie's parents - Gitel bat Levi Yitzchak & Rivka Z"L, and Yakov Yonah ben Yehudah Leib & Sara Z"L Main Minyan (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ..............................9:00 am Young Community Minyan (Mintz Beit Midrash) .............9:15 am Kiddush sponsored by: Atara & Nachum Joel, Aiden & Molly ~ in honor of the birth of their daughter Aviya Sarit Library Minyan (Nagel Library Wing) ...............................9:30 am Teen Minyan (Levkowitz Teen Room) ..............................9:30 am Youth Program ................................... 9:00-until services end (Teichman Youth Wing) Mincha (Schlesinger Sanctuary) .......................................5:45 pm Seudah Shlishit with Shiur by Rabbi Dr. Zev Wiener Sponsored by Maariv .......................................................................6:58 pm Shabbat Ends ............................................................7:08 pm

Important Halakhic Times: October 13- 18 Alot HaShachar .................................................. 5:47 a.m. Earliest Talit & Tefillin ......................................... 6:10 a.m. Last Time for Shema .......................................... 9:49 a.m. Sof Zman Tefilah .............................................. 10:46 a.m. Earliest time for Mincha...................................... 1:09 p.m.

Shacharit (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ................... 6:45/8:00/9:00 am Candle Lighting ...................................................... 6:04 pm Mincha & Maariv (Schlesinger Sanctuary) .................... 6:10 pm

~ SUKKOT ~

1st Day, Monday, October 14

Kiddush sponsored by: Elizabeth & Howard Abramowitz in memory of

Howard’s mother – Ruth Harriet Abramowitz, A”H

Steve & Murielle Uretsky

Hashkama Minyan (Mintz Beit Midrash) .................... 7:15 am Sal Lowi, Z”L Kiddush sponsored by: Rita Lowi & Family In memory of Sal Lowi, Z”L’s immediate family members who perished in the Holocaust. Main Minyan (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ........................ 9:00 am Young Community Minyan (Mintz Beit Midrash) ........ 9:15 am Mincha (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ................................. 6:00 pm Shiur by Micha Hyman Maariv ..................................................................... 7:06 pm Candle Lighting ...................................................... 7:06 pm

2nd Day, Tuesday, October 15

Hashkama Minyan (Mintz Beit Midrash) .................... 7:15 am Main Minyan (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ........................ 9:00 am Young Community Minyan (Mintz Beit Midrash) ...... 9:15 am Mincha (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ................................. 6:00 pm Shiur by Sammy Schultz Maariv ................................................................... 6:55 pm Havdalah .............................................................. 7:05 pm

~ Chol HaMoed ~ Wednesday- Friday, October 16 - 18

Shacharit (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ....................... 6:00/7:00 am Shacharit (Mintz Beit Midrash) ............................ 7:45/9:00 am Mincha, Wed & Thu (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ............... 6:10 pm

Friday, October 18

Candle Lighting ...................................................... 5:58 pm Mincha/Maariv (Schlesinger Sanctuary) ....................... 6:05 pm

*Please note: Our Library Minyan resumes on Parashat Bereshit*

~ EREV SUKKOT~ Sunday, October 13

CHAG SAMEACH!

YICC Women's Tehilim Group for Cholim, Shiduchim & Israel

WILL RESUME AFTER THE HOLIDAYS

YICC’S KIDDUSH CO-SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM Kiddush co-sponsorships at $200 each help our Shul cover

the expense of those Shabbatot without a main sponsor and are a nice way to commemorate or celebrate an occasion. We encourage you to consider this option.

Our Program is Supported this Shabbat by:

Rabbi David & Gila Block in honor of the birth of their new son, Yaakov Yoshayahu

YAHRZEITS: Oct 12- 17 / Tishrei 13 - 19 Sat Oct, 12 Elisa Schoenfeld & Steven Oppenheim’s mother,

Hinda bat Moshe Chaim, Z”L Ronnie & Richie Sieger’s mother, Tzipora bat

Yosef, Z”L Ken Staub’s mother, Yetta bat Hirschel, Z”L Sun, Oct 13 Allan & Stan Kandel’s father, Yitzchak Moshe ben

Shimon, Z”L Mon, Oct 14 Irwin Lowi’s grandparents, Yosef ben Avraham

HaLevi, Z”L, Leah bat Shlomo, Z”L and Mayer ben Yosef Halevy, Z”L and Irwin’s aunt, Rivka bat Yosef HaLevi, Z”L

Tue, Oct 15 Joseph Iskovic’s grandfather, Yehuda Yosef ben Shlomo Yitzchak, Z”L

Dr. Ellen Jacobowitz’s father, Yisrael Yitzchak ben Eliyahu Baruch, Z”L

Jeff Coen’s father, Avraham Moshe ben Yitzchak Eliyahu HaCohen, Z”L

Wed, Oct 16 Howard Abramowitz’s mother, Henna Raizel bat Chaim Menachem HaLevy, Z”L

Chaim Plotzker’s father, Avraham ben Menachem Mendel, Z”L

Jack Cate’s father, Yochanan ben Avraham, Z”L Thu, Oct 17 Dr. Shelley Feldman’s father, Aharon Yisrael ben

Shalom HaCohen, Z”L Daniel Miller’s mother, Bernice Elaine bat Nathan,

Z”L

Please include the following names in your prayers, and may each be granted a Refuah Shleimah

DAF YOMI SPONSORSHIPS We offer our members the opportunity to sponsor a week of Daf Yomi

learning for $225 - a wonderful way to commemorate a Yahrzeit, celebrate a Simcha, or just support Torah learning in our Shul.

To sponsor please call or email the Shul office. This week is sponsored by:

Michael & Tina Loboda & Family in memory of Michael’s mother, Rebecca Loboda, Z”L, upon her 1st Yahrzeit

Halakhic Corner Q: What is the proper way to fulfill the Mitzvah of sitting in the Sukkah? A: Rav Yoel Sirkis, in his early 17th century commentary on the Tur, entitled Bayit Chadash (commonly known as the Bach) writes that a person should make it a point when sitting in the Sukkah to remember that he or she is doing so because G-d took the Jewish people out of Egypt and provided them with a protective cloud of glory during their sojourns in the desert. While it is important to always have in mind when performing any Mitzvah that one is doing so for the sake of G-d, it is especially important when sitting in the Sukkah as the Torah explicitly states, “So that your generations will know that I caused the Children of Israel to dwell in booths when I took them from the land of Egypt”. Since the Torah puts a special emphasis on knowing and understanding the reason behind the Mitzvah of Sukkah, special care must be taken to remember this fact while sitting in the Sukkah. If a person does not have the proper intentions in mind, Rabbi Yosef ben Meir Teomim in his 18th century work, Pri Migadim, posits that one has nonetheless fulfilled the mitzvah of Sukkah. The Mishnah Berurah adopts this opinion. Interestingly, Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, one of the great German Rabbis of the 19th century, in his Sefer on the laws of Sukkah entitled, Bikkurie Yaakov, rules that since the Torah has put special emphasis on remembering the reason behind Mitzvah, if one does not do soone has not fulfilled the Mitzvah. It is therefore critical to take a moment during the first meal on Sukkot to pause and think about why one is sitting in the Sukkah.

MAZAL TOV Rabbi Avraham Lieberman on receiving the prestigious Milken

Award for Jewish Educators! Aaron & Ariella Fishbein on the birth of a baby girl!

FESTIVE SIMCHAT TORAH KIDDUSH Looking for sponsors for a fine, festive, Kiddush

to culminate the Holidays on Simchat Torah! We thank Dr. Ari & Ilana Berenson and The Teichman Family who have already renewed their annual support of this Special Kiddush!

Please contact our Shul Office to sponsor.

• Akiva ben Miriam Devorah • Baruch Shmuel Halevi ben Penina • Bat Ami bat Beth • Bayla Bracha bat Malka Hinda • Chaim Menachem b/ Hena Raizel • Chaim Tzvi ben Necha Rivka • Chana bat Johanna • Chaya Necha bat Riva Leah • Devorah Sarah bat Chana • Eliezer ben Reshelshen • Gitta Rivka bat Chaya Risa • Gittel Zelda bat Malka • Ilanis Leah bat Chana • Leah bat Mattel • Liba bat Chana • Milka Yehudit bat Simcha • Mordechai Menachem Ben Shoshana Raizel

• Moshe Yehuda ben Yehudit • Moshe Mordechai ben Rachel • Chaya Necha bat Riva Leah • Nechama bat Dina • Ora bat Nechama • Ozer ben Leah • Rachel bat Julie Zohar • Raphael Daniel ben Malka • Refael David ben Ella ben Fayga

• Reuven Betzalel HaCohen • Rochel bat Esther • Sarah Chana Chaya bat Esther Bracha • Schmuel Zev ben Gitel • Sharona Baila bas Malka • Shmuel ben Rachel • Sima bat Liba Devorah • Sorah Gitel bat Chava Raitzl • Tuvia ben Ellie • Tzvi ben Masha • Yaakov ben Maasha • Yehoshua Dov Ben Sara

Esther • Yehoshua Yaakov ben Orna • Yehuda Yitzchak ben Gitel

Shifra • Yisrael Yehudah ben Miriam • Yisssacher Dov ben Frayda • Yitzchok Isaac ben Blima

Chana • Yosef ben Rachel • Yossi Levi ben Margalit • Yosef Lipa ben Blumah Leah

THANK YOU Ruby Weissman for decorating our Sukkah so beautifully with

such care, love and dedication. Yosef Yekutiel for donating our two gorgeous Sukkah wall

hangings in memory of his father, Emanuel Yekutiel, Z”L, who passed away getting ready to go to shul on Sukkot

YICC Youth & Teens

in the Teichman Youth Wing

Selah Fogel Oct, 13

Jared Lyons Oct, 13

Gideon Friedman Oct, 13

Yael Benarroch Oct, 16

Ezra Rostami Oct, 17

Jason E. Nagel Oct, 18

Our Youth Program Directors:

RABBI JJ & FRUMIE DUCHMAN Contact: youth@yicc.org

YICC TEEN MINYAN 9:30 AM in the Levkowitz Teen Room

Great Davening, Lots of Food, Surprise Raffles!

Kiddush this week is sponsored by:

Young Israel of Century City

Our 9 AM Shacharit Minyan for Teens (et al!) Meets on Sundays and National Holidays.

Note: This Minyan is not just for Teens. Fathers, Rabbis; ALL Adults are welcome!

(Email Minyan@Qntnl.com for info)

BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES

www.bneiakivala.org

(310) 248-2450; office@bneiakivala.org

Sun 10/15- Chevraya Alef Kick-Off for 3rd-5th graders. Meet at Circle Park. Tues 10/22- Simchat Torah Teen Minyan at YICC. Starting at 9:30am sharp! Fri 10/25- Teen Kabbalat Shabbat at Merkin Home. RSVP for Address. Sat 10/26- First Chevraya Alef Snif for 3rd-5th graders. Sun 10/27- Tour de Summer Camps. Tues 10/29- Vzach City and Valley Kick-Off. RSVP to (310) 248-2450 or Email yosefn@bneiakivala.org.

HEALTH ALERT There have been a few cases of Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease reported in children in Morah Stefanie’s group. We have taken all precautions possible: the carpets have been shampooed and all surfaces cleaned and treated. However, we request parents to please keep sick children home until they are well. Further info on this illness can be found on www.cdc.gov JJ & Frumie Duchman Co-Youth Directors

MISSING LIBRARY BOOKS Please return any Library books you may have borrowed or taken to read in another part of our building. We are specifically missing: Volume 2 of Minchas Chinuch, If you know where this book is, please return it to the Shul Office.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS • Avi Liberman will be heading to Israel to do a "Sukkot Special" series of shows with Elon Gold over Chol Hamoed. Proceeds will benefit the Koby Mandell Foundation. If you or anyone you know will be in Israel then, they would love to see you there. Come laugh and have a good time while benefitting a Tzedakah at the same time. All info for showtimes and locations can be found here: www.comedyforkoby.com • Save the Date!! American Israel Gap Year Fair (AIGYA) is just around the corner, on November 21st. Young Israel Century City is a proud sponsor of AIGYA and the Fair. Pick up a flyer displayed in our building or check out www.israelgapyear.org for all the details.

YICC UPCOMING EVENTS:

Shabbat Chol Hamoed Jewish History Lecture with Dr. Gil Graff

Topic: “Renewing the Sanhedrin? Two historic proposals revisited.”

5:50 pm Mincha 5:00pm

Shiurim for Women during Hakafot on Simchat Torah Led by Geri Wiener – In Conjunction with the OU Women’s

Initiative Simchat Torah Together 5780 Evening Shiur- 8:00pm / Morning Shiurim- 9:30-10:45am

IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS Hatzalah: 800-613-1911

Eruv: 877-378-8463

Mikvah: 310-550-4511

RCC: 212-389-3382

Ilana Gadish- LA Yoetzet Halakha:

Cell: 424-341-5601

Email: yoetzetla@gmail.com

EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR OUR RABBIS: Rabbi Elazar Muskin: rabbiemuskin@gmail.com

Rabbi James Proops: rabbiproops@yicc.org

Rabbi JJ & Frumie Duchman: youth@yicc.org

JOIN US

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WE NEED YOU!

David Weiss (CSS) made an

appeal on Shabbat urging more

people to join our Security Team

to keep our members and

community safe. We really

need to bolster our numbers.

Community Security Service

(CSS) provides the training for

FREE. Please email

security@yicc.org to get involved

today!

YICC SECURITY

For any security concerns,

please email: Security@yicc.org Either Daniel Silverman (VP Security) or Steven Silver

(Security Director) will respond accordingly. WE THANK OUR SECURITY TEAM FOR GUARDING US

OVER YOM KIPPUR & SHABBAT

Marsha Wasserman (CSS), David Abrams (CSS),

Max Gersht (CSS), Larry Platt, Neal Shapiro (CSS),

Joe Kempe (CSS), Ari Ruchlin (CSS), Steven Silver (CSS),

Allan Sternberg (CSS), David Weiss (CSS)

IN MEMORIAM: We are sad to inform you of the passing of;

• Cynthia Pearlman, Z"L, נחמה בת פייבל, mother of our

member Felisa Felsenthal. Shiva will be observed at the

Felsenthal home: 9316 Airdrome Street, Sunday: Shacharit

at 8:00 am. The family is not putting any restrictions on

visiting times since it will be a short Shiva. Shiva ends

Sunday Erev Sukkot.

• Deborah Gamson, mother of our member, Alan, and

Mark, Michael, Miriam Cohen, and sister of Naomi

Eisenstein. The funeral will be held on Sunday in Maryland

and Shiva will be observed until the onset of Sukkot. Alan

can be reached via email at alarcplan@hotmail.com

May the Almighty comfort the bereaved family along with all

mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

SHIURIM FOR WOMEN SIMCHAT TORAH MORNING - TUE, OCT 22

9:30-10:45 AM – shiurim start promptly In conjunction with

the OU Women’s Initiative Scholars Program Geri Wiener, Program Director Presented in the Nagel Library Wing

We are pleased to partner with the OU Women’s Initiative in Simchat Torah Together 5780 a national program featuring shiurim for

women on Simchat Torah morning in 44 shuls across North America. Learn more about this and other upcoming innovative initiatives at

ou.org/women

YICC’S EMAIL LIST We are updating our Email Distribution List.

If you would like to receive our Emails, please contact the Shul Office.

If you were receiving our emails and then they stopped, please contact the Shul office so we can help resolve the

problem. Most times it is your server suddenly blocking us as spam. If this happens you will not find our emails in your

junk folder. You will need to rejoin our email list from our website: www.yicc.org

Once you have rejoined, please inform our Shul office so we can ensure you

are in the correct group/s.

RELAXED PARKING FOR THE HOLIDAYS:

Please Note that Zones & Other Safety Violations Will Be Enforced!

Sukkot- Sunday, Oct 13th 5:00pm- Tuesday, Oct 15th 10:00pm Simchat Torah- Monday, Oct 21st 5:00pm- Tuesday, Oct 22nd 10:00pm

EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR OUR RABBIS:

Rabbi Elazar Muskin: rabbiemuskin@gmail.com

Rabbi James Proops: rabbiproops@yicc.org

SIMCHAT TORAH AUCTION

This year our Simchat Torah Auction will offer pre-Yom Tov bids. Anyone interested in bidding for any honor should please speak to David Gershov. The closing auction will take place on Shemini Atzeret, after Musaf in the Main Sanctuary. The following honors will be auctioned off: Hattan Torah Hattan Bereshit Kol Nearim Atta Horeata (night) Atta Horeata (morning) Maftir Yayin Kiddush V’Havdalah.

MEMBERSHIP 5780(2019-20)

Membership information is all available online at our website: www.yicc.org

If you are an existing member, please make sure to

go to “Renew” so that you don’t accidentally create a new account for yourself.

Should you need any assistance, please contact the

Shul Office; we are here and happy to help you.

Email: assistant@yicc.org

FROM YICC’S SEFER HA’MINHAGIM SUKKOT 1. On the first two nights of Sukkot and on Shabbat Hol

HaMoed we do not say Kiddush in the Shul after Maariv.

2. On the first two days of Sukkot, Hoshanot are recited after the repetition of the Musaf before Kaddish Titkabel.

3. During Hol HaMoed and Hoshana Rabbah, Hoshanot are recited immediately after Hallel.

4. One Sefer Torah is taken out of the Aron and held on the north side of the middle Bima throughout the Hoshanot. The Aron and Parochet are left open during the recitation of Hoshanot.

5. At the end of the Hoshanot the Hazan puts down his Daled Minim right before he says the verse of L'Ma'an Da'at. At this juncture the Sefer Torah is returned to the Aron. When the Torah is in the Aron the Hazan says L'Ma'n Da'at followed by Kaddish Titkabel.

6. On Hol HaMoed and Hoshana Rabba if everyone in the Shul has a set of Daled Minim and there is no Avel present, then the Sefer Torah is taken out of the Aron and placed on the Shulchan while everyone does the Hakafa around the Shulchan.

7. An Avel does not do Hakafot on Chol HaMoed and Hoshana Rabba but does Hakafot on the first two days. On Hol HaMoed and Hoshana Rabba he should hold the Torah at the Bima. If there is more than one mourner present, the other mourners just stand in their place and do not do the Hakafot.

SHABBAT CHOL HAMOED 1. On Friday night of Shabbat Hol HaMoed Bameh

Madlikin is not recited and Kabbalat Shabbat begins with Mizmor Shir Shel Shabbat.

2. On Shabbat Hol HaMoed, we do Hoshanot after Musaf. We only open the Aron, but we do not take out a Sefer Torah.

3. Kohelet is read on Shabbat Hol HaMoed. Even if a Klaf is used, no Brachot are said.

4. When Kohelet is read, we recite Anim Zemirot and Shir Shel Yom before reading Kohelet.

5. On Shabbat Hol HaMoed in Musaf, the Hazan does not say Adir Adirenu after Kedusha.

6. We do not say Kah Keli on Shabbat Chol HaMoed.

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