SHABBAT BULLETIN Serving the Orthodox Community of Houston for over 100 years June 29-30, 2018 16-17 Tammuz 5778 Torah Sefer: Bamidbar Parasha: Balak Haſtarah: Micah 5:6-6:8 ———–——-——————— Shabbat Kiddush aſter services. Shabbat Kiddush next week: Sponsorship is appreciated. Seudah Shlishit aſter services. Seudah Shlishit next week: Sponsorship is appreciated. United Orthodox Synagogues The David & Ruth Mitzner Building 9001 Greenwillow Houston, TX 77096 713-723-3850 Rabbi Barry Gelman Rabbi Emeritus Joseph Radinsky z’l Cantor Emeritus Irving Dean President Mr. Rick Guman The Eruv is up. The greatest chessed (kindness) you can do for someone in shul is to let them pray undisturbed. Please refrain from talking during services. LOUIS AND LEAH YAFFEE BNEI AKIVA PROGRAM: Shabbat There will be no Teen Minyan, Groups or Snif unl September. 10:30 am: Tot Shabbat Parents are asked to tell their kids that card playing is not permied in the Synagogue. The presence of card playing does not promote the type of atmosphere we are trying to create in the shul. Addionally, all youth should either be in groups or sing with their parents. Stay Connected: UOS: www.uosh.org Robert M. Beren Academy: www.berenacademy.org UOS Goldberg Montessori: www.uosgms.org UOS TIKKUN OLAM INITIATIVE Co-chairs: Doreen Lerner and Marisa Brown Summer, 2018 Tikkun Olam project Kiddush Hashem opportunity! Expressing our gratitude towards our local first responders – police and fire departments See page 4 for all of the details Mazal Tov Debbie and Sheldon Bootin on the birth of their grandson Desi and Max Blankfeld on the marriage of their daughter, Keren and Jonathan Taqqu Please see page 4 For new gate access information
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S H A B B AT B U L L E T I N
Serving the Orthodox Community of Houston for over 100 years
June 29-30, 2018 16-17 Tammuz 5778
Torah Sefer: Bamidbar Parasha: Balak Haftarah: Micah 5:6-6:8 ———–——-——————— Shabbat Kiddush after services. Shabbat Kiddush next week: Sponsorship is appreciated. Seudah Shlishit after services.
Seudah Shlishit next week: Sponsorship is appreciated.
United Orthodox Synagogues
The David & Ruth Mitzner Building 9001 Greenwillow Houston, TX 77096
713-723-3850
Rabbi Barry Gelman Rabbi Emeritus Joseph Radinsky z’l
Cantor Emeritus Irving Dean President Mr. Rick Guttman
The Eruv is up.
The greatest chessed (kindness) you can do for someone in shul is to let them pray undisturbed. Please refrain from talking during services.
LOUIS AND LEAH YAFFEE BNEI AKIVA PROGRAM:
Shabbat There will be no Teen Minyan, Groups or Snif until September. 10:30 am: Tot Shabbat
Parents are asked to tell their kids that card playing is not permitted in the Synagogue. The presence of card playing does not promote the type of atmosphere we are trying to create in the shul. Additionally, all youth should either be in groups or sitting with their parents.
Stay Connected: UOS: www.uosh.org
Robert M. Beren Academy: www.berenacademy.org
UOS Goldberg Montessori: www.uosgms.org
UOS TIKKUN OLAM INITIATIVE Co-chairs: Doreen Lerner and Marisa Brown
Summer, 2018 Tikkun Olam project
Kiddush Hashem opportunity! Expressing our gratitude towards our local
first responders – police and fire departments
See page 4 for all of the details
Mazal Tov
Debbie and Sheldon Bootin on the birth of their grandson
Friday June 29th 7:00 pm Mincha/Maariv 8:08 pm Candle
Saturday June 30th 9:00 am Shacharit No Class Gideon Miller 7:00 pm Class Rabbi Barry Gelman 8:00 pm Mincha/Maariv 9:08 pm Havdalah
Sunday July 1st Fast Of Tammuz 4:56 am Fast begins 8:00 am Shacharit 8:05 pm Mincha/Maariv 8:54 pm Fast ends
Monday July 2nd 6:00 Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv
Tuesday July 3rd 6:00 Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv Wednesday July 4th 8:00 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv Thursday July 5th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv
Friday July 6th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 7:00 pm Mincha/Maariv 8:07 pm Candle
Saturday July 7th 9:00 am Shacharit 6:45 pm Class Gideon Miller 7:00 pm Class Rabbi Barry Gelman 8:00 pm Mincha/Maariv 9:08 pm Havdalah
Shabbat Morning Services: Followed by a Shabbat Kiddush. Massechet Shabbat: with Gideon Miller, 1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha
in the trailer. There will be no class this Shabbat.
Shabbat Class: with Rabbi Gelman Seudah Shlishit: Will follow Mincha. Massechet Bava Metziah: with David Silberman, after Seudah Shlishit. —————————————————————————————————————
Ongoing Weekday Classes: Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yaakov Nagel. Daf Yomi is a daily regimen of Talmud
study. The entire Talmud is completed, one day at a time, in seven and a half years. Tens of thousands of Jews worldwide study in the Daf Yomi program. The class will take place in the Library 45 minutes before Mincha, Sunday through Thursday.
Mondays 11:15 am-1:15 pm: Women’s only Israeli Dancing—Beginner thru advanced telling the story of the Jewish People and Israel today thru Dance. Cost $6/session. Contact Rachel Weissblatt for details 713-776-9739.
Wednesdays 11:45 am (class 12:00 pm-12:30 pm): with Rabbi Gelman Lunch & Learn: Parshat Hashavua: A textual analysis of the weekly Torah portion. Class will be held in the UOS library, cost $6 (egg salad, tuna salad, fresh green salad and a drink) RSVP to [email protected] or online at www.uosh.org.
Wednesday 8:00 pm at the home of Vivian and Henry Blum. Rabbi Moshe Traxler teaching the Rambam's Mishneh Torah.
Daily minyan is a fundamental aspect of synagogue life. Help to assure that we have a minyan each time by joining the minyan WhatsApp group. Those in the group receive periodic reminders of minyan times as well as requests to come when we are short. Come when you can. Join the group to make sure those saying kaddish and others have a minyan. Email or text your cell # to Rabbi Gelman if you wish to join and download the WhatsApp app.
Rabbi Gelman is sending out a weekly inspirational message or link thru a WhatsApp group. Please text Rabbi Gelman at 713 922 2473 indicating that you would like to join the UOSInspiration WhatsApp group. Make sure you have a WhatsApp account.
Shabbat Class: with Rabbi Gelman ——————————————- 1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha: Massechet Shabbat with Gideon Miller, 1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha in the trailer. There will be no class this Shabbat. —————————————— After Mincha: Massechet Bava Metziah with David Silberman. ——————————————
45 minutes before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ———————
11:15 pm—1:15 pm: Israeli dance for Women. ——————— 45 minutes before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ———————
45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ——————
11:45 am(lunch) 12-12:30 pm(class) Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Gelman: Parshat Hashavua: A textual analysis of the weekly Torah portion. —————— Wednesday 8:00 pm at the home of Vivian and Henry Blum.
Rabbi Moshe Traxler teach-ing the Ram-ban's Mishneh Torah. ——————— 45 minutes before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel.
45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ——————
Welcome members, friends and guests to UOS. On behalf of the Board of Direc-tors, I invite you to engage in our com-munity and in our Shul. Please reach out to our Rabbi, me, or any of our com-mittee leaders as we work together to enrich each other and our community. Best regards Rick S Guttman
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Next Sunday is fast of 17 Tammuz.
17th of Tammuz
The 17th day in the Jewish month of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that have befallen our people on this ominous day. The purpose of such fasts in the Jewish calendar is to awaken hearts towards repentance..."
A HISTORIC DAY OF CALAMITY Going all the way back to Biblical times, Moses descended Mount Sinai on this day and, upon seeing the Gold-en Calf broke the first set of Tablets carrying the Ten Commandments (Shemot 32:19, Mishna Taanit 28b). In the First Temple Era: The priests in the First Temple stopped offering the daily sacrifice on this day (Taanit 28b) due to the shortage of sheep during the siege and the next year 3184 (586 BCE), the walls of Jerusalem were breached after many months of siege by Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces. In Melachim II 21:7 we find that King Menashe, one of the worst of the Jewish kings, had an idol placed in the Holy Sanctuary of the Temple, according to tradition on this date. The Talmud, in Masechet Taanit 28b, says that in the time of the Roman persecution, Apostomos, captain of the occupation forces, did the same, and publicly burned the Torah - both acts considered open blasphemy and desecration. These were followed by Titus and Rome breaching the walls of Jerusalem in 3760 (70 CE) and Pope Gregory IX ordering the confisca-tion of all manuscripts of the Talmud in 4999 (1239). In later years this day continued to be a dark one for Jews. In 1391, more than 4,000 Jews were killed in Tole-do and Jaen, Spain and in 4319 (1559) the Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted.
This year, the 17th of Tammuz falls out on Shabbat - June. 30 All the laws of mourning are suspended on Shabbat. The fast is postponed until Sunday, and the Shabbat is joyously celebrated. 17th of Tammuz (observed) - July 1, 2018 Fast begins on Sunday, July 5th at 4:56am - Shacharit Services at 8:00AM Evening services at services at 8:05PM The fast ends at 8:54PM
Pregnant and nursing woman should contact Rabbi Gelman before deciding to fast.
Please click on the link below for all of the information for the three weeks between17 Tammuz - 9av.
As we recite the prayer for members of the Israeli Defense Force on Shabbat and Yom Tov we keep in mind those Israeli Soldiers held in
captivity and missing in action
and those connected to our congregational
family in active IDF & US Military
Ron Arad Guy Chever Yehuda Katz
Zecharia Baumal Zvi Feldman
Zvi Boruch Altman Elad Imany
Akiva Gilad Brody Zach Katz
Azriel Oz Brody Yehuda Lajcher
Roni Buchine Reuben Morris
David Chertoff Gavriel Saitowitz
Yonaton Cytrin Jake Saitowitz
Samuel Gorme
Your Chesed committee has been hard at work. These are some of our activities.
Would you like to join us in these mitzvot? If so, please email [email protected]
We’d love to have you participate! As appropriate, kids and teens – and not just adults -
are welcome to be part of our committee.
Bikur Cholim Shiva visits Create, write and mail bereavement cards when a
shul member sustains a loss in their family Deliver Kaddish: Womens’ Voices to female shul
members who’ve experienced a loss Participate as a committee in Yom Chesed at Beren Chanukah candle-lighting project with homebound
members Deliver groceries after surgery for isolated members Transportation to medical appointments for isolated
members Provide food for Shabbos following surgery Phone calls to isolated/senior members Visits to senior/isolated members Participate in the shul’s quarterly Tikkun Olam
program If you learn of any Chesed needs in our community,
please be sure to let us know!
UOS TIKKUN OLAM INITIATIVE Co-chairs: Doreen Lerner and Marisa Brown
Summer, 2018 Tikkun Olam project Kiddush Hashem opportunity!
Expressing our gratitude towards our local first responders – police and fire departments
We’re seeking volunteers to bake (at home) or purchase baked goods that will be delivered to our local first responders on Wednesday, July 4th. We’re inviting kids and teens to contribute thank you notes/cards. If you and your family are able to help, please let Debbie Kupfer know what you will bake or purchase (prior to the delivery date): [email protected].
New Gate Access Information Dear Members, In order to provide better security and safety, we will be closing the Greenwillow car gate on Friday afternoon thru Saturday night and will reopen Sunday morning. During that time the entry points will be either thru the Greenwillow pedestrian door by Freedman lobby or thru the Braeswood car gate and doorway by the side ramp by the Mikvah. During the week, the Greenwillow street car gate will remain open and the Braeswood car gate will remain closed. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank You, Jeff Klein
Don't forget to sign up to study a chapter of the Torah in time for the Simchat Torah celebration. All we are asking in that you sign up to study a portion of the torah at your own pace...you can read it in english, study it with a commentary...alone or with a friend...Please contact Gabi Gelman at [email protected] if you have any questions or need guidance - follow this link to sign up - http://hadranalach.com/500
