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Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades קדשים- שבת פרשיות אחרי מותShabbat Parashiot Acharei Mot-K’doshim May 6, 2017 | Iyar 10, 5777 25th Day of the Omer ATZMAUT SHABBAT!
Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisadesשבת פרשיות אחרי מות-קדשים
Shabbat Parashiot Acharei Mot-K’doshimMay 6, 2017 | Iyar 10, 5777
25th Day of the Omer
ATZMAUT SHABBAT!
TORAH STUDYThis Shabbat: Parashiot Acharei Mot-K’doshim
Sh’mot 16.1-20.27, pages 679-704
FIRST ALIYAH: Verse 16.2 says, “Speak to Aharon, your brother,” rather than the normal “speak to Aharon.” Why, suddenly, is the fact that he is Moshe’s brother emphasized?
FIFTH ALIYAH: We are told how to deal with the blind and the deaf, not to muzzle strong animals with weak ones, not to mix different seeds or cloth. What’s the common theme that runs through all the laws in Vayikra 19?
The haftarah, Y’chezkel 22.1-16, begins on Page 710.
Next Shabbat: Parashat Emor Sh’mot 21.1-24.23, pages 717-733
FIRST ALIYAH: “Ba-al b’amav” is translated in verse 21.4 as “a kinsman by marriage.” In the Old JPS version, it is translated as “being a chief among his people.” Which is correct, and does it matter?
FOURTH ALIYAH: The list on the sacred days begins at verse 23.4 with Pesach. Why not begin with Rosh Hashanah (and why is Rosh Hashanah on the first day of the seventh month)?
The haftarah, Y’chezkel 44.15-31, begins on Page 734.
For haftarot, we follow S’fardi custom.
YOU SHALL BE HOLYChapter 19 may be characterized as a brief torah (the word actually means instruction). It states the duties
incumbent on the Israelites as a people and includes a wide range of laws and commandments that are representative of the basic teachings of the Torah.
More specifically, it echoes the Aseret Hadibrot (the Ten Declarations, commonly referred to as the Ten Commandment). These features were noted by the ancient sages. In Vayikra Rabbah 24, we read as follows: “Speak to the entire Israelite people and say to them: ‘You shall be holy….’ Rabbi Chiya taught: These words inform us that this section is to be read before the people in an assembly. And why is it to be read before the people in an assembly? Because most of the essential laws of the Torah can be derived from it. Rabbi Levi said: Because the Aseret Hadibrot are embodied in it.”
The midrash then proceeds to list a series of parallels between chapter 19 and the Aseret Hadibrot. Some of the parallels require homiletical license, but even according to the strictest exegesis the following can be established:
Vayikra 19 The Aseret HadibrotReverence for parents (v. 3a) Honoring parents (no. 5)The Sabbath (v. 3b) The Sabbath (no. 4)Idolatry (v. 4) Idolatry; worship of other Gods (no. 2)Stealing and deceitful conduct Stealing (no. 8) (vv. 11a,13,15,35)False oaths (v. 12) False oaths (no. 3)“I am Adonai your God who freed you from...Egypt” (v. 36) “I am Adonai who brought you out...” (no. 1)
—Adapted from the JPS Torah Commentary to Leviticus
CBIOTP STANDARDS & PRACTICES
1. Men must keep their heads covered in the building and must wear a talit when appropriate. Women may choose to do either or both, but it is not mandatory.2. Anyone accepting a Torah-related honor must wear a talit, regardless of gender.3. Only one person at a time may take an aliyah.4. No one should enter or leave the sanctuary during a K’dushah.One should not leave the sanctuary when the Torah scroll is being carried from or to the ark.5. No conversations may be held in the hallway outside the sanctuary, or while standing in an aisle alongside a pew.
6. The use of recording equipment of any kind is forbidden on sacred days.7. Also forbidden are cell phones, beepers and PDAs, except for physicians on call and emergency aid workers (please use vibrating option).8. No smoking at any time in the building, or on synagogue grounds on Shabbatot and Yom Kippur.9. No non-kosher food allowed in the building at any time.10. No one may remove food or utensils from the shul on Shabbatot. An exception is made for food being brought to someone who is ailing and/or homebound.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYYesterday Ora Kiel, Petra LuchsMonday David BelsonWednesday Michael Newman
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Today’s kiddush and luncheon are sponsored by
BARBARA AND GABE NERI in honor of the CBIOTP community.
THE IMAHOT:Following is the text adopted by the Ritual Committee for use by the Prayer Leader in reciting the Amidah, and those wishing to insert the Matriarchs in their Amidot:
OFFICE HOURS:
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10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Other times by appointment
GOT SHABBAT?If you know children who might enjoy
Moreh Karen’s Shabbat morning programs, here are the dates through June:
This Shabbat: May 6June 3 and 17
This week’s Shabbat Booklet is sponsored by
RIVKA & ALEX GLICKMANin honor of their anniversary
yesterday, May 5, 2017.
Provisional Government of IsraelOfficial Gazette: Number 1
Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948The Declaration of the Establishment of
The State of IsraelThe Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity
was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, defiant returnees, and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country’s inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood.
In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country.
This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe—was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the community of nations.
Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland.
In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations.
On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
Accordingly we, members of the People’s Council, representatives of the Jewish Community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
We declare that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People’s Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People’s Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State,
to be called “Israel.”The State of Israel will be open
for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
The State of Israel is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947, and will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel.
We appeal to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the community of nations.
We appeal—in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months—to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
We extend our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
We appeal to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream—the redemption of Israel.
Placing our trust in the Almighty, we affix our signatures to this proclamation at this session of the provisional Council of State, on the soil of the Homeland, in the city of Tel-Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the 5th day of Iyar, 5708 (14th May, 1948).
David Ben-GurionDaniel Auster; Mordekhai Bentov; Yitzchak Ben Zvi; Eliyahu Berligne; Fritz Bernstein; Rabbi Wolf Gold;
Meir Grabovsky; Yitzchak Gruenbaum; Dr. Abraham Granovsky; Eliyahu Dobkin; Meir Wilner-Kovner; Zerach Wahrhaftig; Herzl Vardi; Rachel Cohen; Rabbi Kalman Kahana; Saadia Kobashi; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin; Meir David Loewenstein; Zvi Luria; Golda Myerson; Nachum Nir Zvi Segal; Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman; David Zvi Pinkas; Aharon Zisling; Moshe Kolodny; Eliezer Kaplan; Abraham Katznelson; Felix Rosenblueth; David Remez; Berl Repetur; Mordekhai Shattner; Ben Zion Sternberg; Bekhor Shitreet; Moshe Shapira; Moshe Shertok
May He who blessed | מי שברךMay He who blessed our ancestors bless and heal all those whose names are listed here, those whose names will be called out,
and those whose names we do not know because either we are unaware of their illness or they are.We pray He mercifully quickly restore them to health and vigor. May He grant physical and spiritual well-being to all who are ill. אמן
Sydelle KleinBonnie Pritzker AppelbaumDeenah bat Sarah LeahRut bat EstherMiriam Zelda bat Gittel D’vorahMiriam Chanah Sarah bat LibaMiriam Rachel bat ChanahHarav Mordechai Volff ben Liba MiryamAdina bat FreidelBaila bat D’vorahChavah bat SarahChayah bat FloraEsther bat D’vorahHaRav Ilana Chaya bat Rachel EstherLiba Ruchel bat MichlahMasha bat EtlMasha bat RochelMatel bat FrimahMindel bat D’vorahPinyuh bat Surah
Rita bat FloraRifkah bat ChanahSarah bat MalkaSarah Rifka bat SarahShimona bat FloraSura Osnat bat Alta ChayahTzipporah bat YaffaYospeh Perel bat MichlahMichelle BlatteisDiane FowlerFay JohnsonKatie KimElaine LaikinMira LevyRobin LevyKaren LipsyKathleen McCartyGail SchenkerNorma SugermanMary Thompson
Aharon Hakohen ben OodelAvraham Shmarya ben GittelAvraham Yitzhak ben MashaChaim ben GoldaEzra ben LuliGil Nechemiah ben YisraelaMoshe ben ShimonNaftali ben RachelHarav R’fael Eliyahu ben Esther MalkahHarav Shimon Shlomo ben Taube v’AvrahamYehudah ben LeahYisrael Yitzhak ben ShayndelYitzchak ben TziviaYonatan ben MalkaZelig Herschel ben KreintzehHarry IkensonShannon JohnsonItzik KhmishmanGabriel Neri
We pray for their safe return...May He who blessed our ancestors bless, preserve, and protect the captive and missing
soldiers of Tzahal—Ron Arad, Zecharia Baumel, Guy Chever, Zvi Feldman, Yekutiel Katz, and Zeev Rotshik—as well as those U.S. and allied soldiers, and the civilians working with them and around them, still missing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and all other areas of conflict, past and present.
And may He bless the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces and Tzahal, and those who serve the United States and Israel in foreign lands in whatever capacity, official or unofficial, members of our community or related to members, and their colleagues and companions. Guide them in peace and return them speedily to their families alive and unharmed. אמן
OUR VIRTUAL MEMORIAL BOARD
IS IN PLACE.
CALL THE OFFICE TO ADD THE NAMES
OF YOUR LOVED ONES
TO OUR MEMORIAL BOARD.
yahrzeits for today through next FRIDAY!May their memories be for a blessing — זכרונם לברכה Kaddish list
Regina BlankSelim ChamuelYaakov ChamuelSamuel DeutschLenore DreyfussDr. Jerry FinklesteinBlanche FriedmanHonora GershmanLawrence GlazerMoshe GlickmanClairice Estelle GreenbergFrieda GutfriendJeanette Shandolow HermanCara Horowitz
Rebecca KaplanFred B. KatzHaviva KhedouriPeter KoenigAlvin KrooksLeon LevyAlan LinickHarold RappoportDeborah Frankel ReeseCarl RoseDavid ShandalowPaul SingmanIsabelle SokoloffEd SoleimaniAlan SilversteinFrieda Suhotliv
6 Frieda Zelmanowitz, mother of Gloria Laermer
Hyman Tunick*
Kurt Stern*
Joseph M. Goldstein*
Herman Weissbard*
7 Ruth Hoffman*
David Tischler*
Lev Bronstein
Harry Safro*
8 Isidor Kaiser*
Sarah Rubenstein*
Frances Levine*
9 Jacob Feit*
10 Robert Silver*
Molly Birnbaum*, friend of Errol Kaget
11 Sol Savitt, father of Cantor Peter Savitt
Samuel Brooks*
Joseph Blacker*
Maurice Ludmer*
Pauline Nevins*
12 Irving Kamil, husband of Selma Kamil; brother of Phil Kamil
Jacob Baer*
Hattie Liebowitz*
* There is a plaque in this person’s name on our memorial board.
Are we in your will?Shouldn’t we be?
When people prepare their wills, they usually look to leave a mark beyond the confines of their families. Thus it is that general gifts are left to hospitals, and other charitable organizations.
All too often ignored, however, is the synagogue, even though its role in a person's life often begins at birth, and continues even beyond death. We come here on Yom Kippur and other days, after all, to say Yizkor, the memorial prayer remembering our loved ones.
Our Virtual Memorial Plaques remind everyone of who our loved ones were, and why we recall them. All of us join in saying the Kaddish on their yahrzeits.
Considering this, it is so unfortunate that, in our final act, we ignore the one institution in Jewish life that is so much a part of us.
The synagogue is here for us because those who came before us understood its importance and prepared for its preservation. By remembering it in our wills, we will do our part to assure that the synagogue will be there for future generations, as well.
Think about it. We have always been here for anyone who needed us in the past. Do not those who need us in the future have the same right to our help?
Of course they do. Do not delay! Act today!Help secure the future of your communal home.
Is there a yahrzeitwe should know about?
If it’s not listed, let us know.
Form of bequest to CBIOTPThe following form is suggested
for guidance in preparing a bequest:
I, the undersigned, give and bequeath to Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades, or its successor, the sum of $_______ for its educational and religious work.Signed: Date: Witness 1: Witness 2:
Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisadesק״ק בית ישראל של הפליסד207 Edgewater Road, Cliffside Park, NJ 07010-2201
207 Edgewater Road
Cliffside Park, NJ 07010-2201
Office: 201-945-7310;
Fax: 201-945-0863
websiteL www.cbiotp.org
general e-mail: [email protected]
Shabbat ends tonight with havdalah at 8:43 p.m. DST
Attention All Vets!If you’re not yet a member of
JWV Post 76,YOU SHOULD BE!
For more information, call 201-869-6218
May 15, 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto is destroyed.
The following day, it is symbolically razed.
May 15, 1948: The State of Israel is born.
עם ישראל חי! עוד אבינו חי!
Shammai Engelmayer, Rabbi [email protected] Blum, Chazzan [email protected] Massuda, Co-President [email protected] H. Bassett, Co-President [email protected] Golub, Vice-President [email protected] Kaget, Secretary [email protected] Glick, Co-Treasurer [email protected] D. Miller, Co-Treasurer [email protected]
