Pirkei Avos Oneg with Yael Bleicher
February 26, 2010
Attention all High School & College Girls: Please join us for a new program - Pirkei Avos Oneg with Yael Bleicher. This week’s oneg will take place at the home of Ariella Lunzer (91 Bayview Avenue) at 6 pm on Shabbos Afternoon. If you would like to host an oneg in future weeks, please contact Yael atYaelBleicher@gmail.com.
Rabbi Ephraim Wolf Yahrzeit Page
February 24, 2010
Please follow the link on the home page to visit the special Yahrzeit page commemorating the sixth yahrzeit of our beloved Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Wolf.
Men’s Club & Sisterhood Event: Sunday,March 7
February 23, 2010
Dr. Melniker
Great Neck Synagogue
Men’s Club & Sisterhood
On Sunday morning, March 7th at 10:00am, the Sisterhood and Men’s Club presents Dr. Lawrence Melniker, Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at New York Methodist Hospital, who will talk about “How to Handle Collapse and True Emergencies for the Lay Person.” Rabbi Polakoff will also speak about how to handle medical emergencies on Shabbat. Thank you very much to Farla Frumkin for organizing this important event. Refreshments will be served.
Am Hasefer: Thursday, March 4
February 23, 2010
Rescheduled for Thursday,March 4, at 7:45 pm.
Dara Horn author of “All other Nights” will be here to discuss her book.
Tuesday, March, 9, 2010 7:45 p.m.Book Review:
Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb (Hardcover)
by David Kushner . Presented by the author.
Within Our Family: Feb. 27, 2010
February 23, 2010
Mazal Tov to Anita & Hal Beretz and Rachel & Michael Singer on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Elliot Harrison Beretz son of Suzanne & Stuart Beretz.
Mazal Tov to Zahava & Alf Slonim on the birth of a granddaughter, sister to Sophie, born to their children Rifki Zable & Yoni Slonim.
Mazal Tov to Elaine Wolf on the Bar Mitzvah of her great- grandson Yaakov Moshe Schmidman, son of Rabbi Abie & Adina Shmidman.
Mazal Tov to Sally Olshin on the birth of a granddaughter, born to her children Erica & Joshua Olshin.
Sponsorships: Feb 27, 2010
February 23, 2010
Kiddush is sponsored by Great Neck Synagogue
Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Roya & ben Shavolian
In memory of his Mother Hoori Shavolian, z”l
Purim Extravaganza
February 22, 2010
PURIM EXTRAVAGANZA
Black Eyed Peas!!!!
“I Gotta Feelin….”
Flash Mob!
Next rehearsal @ 6:15 pm Tuesday
in Youth Center
All ages can participate.
Boys & Girls!
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Review of steps learned in last rehearsal.
You can still join the group.
Starting point:
(When man in video has his back to you)
Bounce-8x ,Bounce -8x
Turn around with right hand in air & jump - 8x
Bow & Arrow 2x, swim right, swim left-Macarena
Monkey 4x then 2x
Boogie 3x and clap 2x
Lean 4x
Slide /Down/up/clap
Down and up/clap
Repeat the whole sequence
Parshat Tizaveh by Mark Gersten
February 22, 2010
THE VALUE OF EVERY JEW, THE POTENTIAL OF EVERY JEW.
The end of our sedrah,Ex 30:7,8 describes twice each day how the Cohen Gadol would offer the incense on the alter. The incense was made of eleven spices one of which had a foul odor itself but became nullified when mixed with the rest. If this “helbona” was omitted the entire mixture was invalid and the compounder of the mixture was worthy of death. These facts highlight a very special message to us by HASHEM. The Jewish People are looked at by HASHEM like a mixture of incense, even the most evil (represented by the ill smelling helbona) are important to HASHEM. The Jewish people are lacking and incomplete without them. Each and every Jew is important to HASHEM.
No Jew has the right to minimize or degrade the value of any Jew or group of Jews.
On Succot this becomes perfectly clear. If any of the four species is missing the Mitzvah is null and void. Even the absence of the “aravot”, the willow, with neither smell or taste (neither Torah learning or mitzvoth) renders the Mitzvah invalid. Just as the four species must be held together for the Mitzvah, the unity of the Jewish people is paramount before any final redemption can take place.
When we finish the book of Exodus , Moses calculation of all the silver used falls short of the amount donated. ,HASHEM tells him to look up at the silver hooks for the pillars, that is where the 1775 shekels of silver went that Moses couldn’t account for. One might consider that there was a reason Moses overlooked the hooks. Betzalel who designed the tabernacle had RUACH HAKODESH. He assigned a use to each donation based on the intention of the donor. Hence the silver that was donated with tainted intention was relegated for less holy use such as for the hooks. Moshe overlooked this silver in the count because it represented less than pure motivation of the donor. When HASHEM told Moses to look up at the hooks he was reiterating that where Jews interface with HASHEM the contribution of even the most unsavory person is still necessary. The tabernacle would not be erected correctly without the silver hooks. Both the hooks and their donors are important in HASHEM’s eyes.
Not only does every Jew have value but he also possesses potential, even if not for himself, certainly at least through future generations. The olive oil for lighting the Menorah we read about in this weeks sedrah was also used for the grain sacrifices, wine was used for the libations, It is interesting that the wood and stubble of the grape vine and the olive tree could not be used as wood to stoke the fire of the alter, This is because the offspring of these vegetations the oil and wine are worth much more than wood as they are directly used in the service of HASHEM .Therefore their tree and vine must be saved and protected for the sake of the offspring
We are meant to imply from this that the potential of a simple Jew to have his son become a great sage is not only plausible but has occurred many times in our history.
Never discount the potential of any Jew.
Women’s Tefilah Purim
February 22, 2010
BE HAPPY IT’S ADAR!!!
Women’s Tefila of Great Neck Synagogue
invites you to join them on
Purim morning for Megila Reading & Fun
Sunday, February 28, 2010
in the Beit Midrash
9:00 am Davening 9:30 am Megila Reading
The ages of the women reading will span from
Bat Mitzvah to Septuagenarians
Mini Seudah to follow Megila Reading
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The next Women’s Tefila March 20, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Program: Discussion of the Highlights of the
JOFA Conference March 13-14 at Columbia University
Sign up at www.jofa.org
Women’s Tefila: Saturday, April 24
February 20, 2010
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