September 1, 2012
August 31, 2012
Sept 1st Shabbat Announcements
Pass It Forward
August 29, 2012
GNS ANNUAL ROSH HASHANA PASS IT FORWARD
FOOD INITIATIVE
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
BRING THE SWEETNESS OF ROSH HASHANA TO THOSE IN NEED!
Now in its 5th year, the PASS IT FORWARD program of the GNS Hunger Initiativeprovides food to families for Yom Tov. Last year,volunteers packed and delivered over 1000 meals to needy individuals, families, kosher food pantries and North Shore Hospital BikurCholim.
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP!
Donate Food: If you have a kosher kitchen (separate meat and dairy utensils and kosher certification on all processed foods), make extra food (soup, main, side or dessert) and pack it in containers serving 4-8 (no bags please!) Deliver it to GNSCOAT ROOM LOBBY on Thursday September 13th, between 12 and 2 pm.
Donate $$: Purchase a special meal for a $15 contribution from Mazurs, Great Neck Glatt or Everfresh, which will be delivered on your behalf. Or make a donation directly to the GNS Hunger Initiative.
Donate Time: We need packers (from 11 am to 5 pm) and drivers for about 20 different routes, starting from 3:00 to 5:30 pm on Thursday September 13th, starting at GNS Coat Lobby.
Donate Creativity: Have your child create a special handmade Rosh HaShana card to be enclosed in the food delivery.
ALL VOLUNTEERS PLEASE EMAIL CINDY HODKIN: koshercookinggn@gmail.com
Do a Mitzvah…. Make Life Meaningful…. Rosh HaShana is coming….
Selichot at GNS Saturday Night: Sept 8, 2012
August 29, 2012
SELICHOT SERVICES AT GNS
Begin The High Holy Days Season with a Spiritual High
at Great Neck Synagogue,
Saturday Evening, September 8, 9:30pm.
Words of Inspiration by internationally acclaimed speaker
CHARLIE HARARY “How To Get Into The Book Of Life”.
An Uplifting Selichot Service featuring traditional and contemporary melodies by CANTOR ZE’EV KRON. Light refreshments to follow. Open to all.
KI TETZI by Mark Gersten
August 28, 2012
IN MEMORY of HELENE
THE LAW OF SHELUACH HAKAN, SENDING AWAY THE MOTHER BIRD IS A WELL KNOWN, BUT NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD MITZVAH. WE ARE PROMISED IMPORTANT REWARDS IF WE PERFORM IT. ONE REWARD IS LONG LIFE. THE OTHER IS CHILDREN FOR A BARRON WOMAN.
THE LAW STATES THAT IF YOU CHANCE UPON A NEST WITH A KOSHER BIRD SITTING ON OR HOVERING OVER HER CHICKS OR EGGS, YOU MUST CHASE AWAY THE MOTHER BIRD BEFORE YOU TAKE THE EGGS OR THE CHICKS. YOU MUST CHASE HER AWAY EVEN ONE HUNDRED TIMES, SO SHE IS SPARED SEEING THE CHICKS TAKEN AWAY.
THE RAMBAN SAYS THAT THIS MITZVAH IS MEANT TO SENSITIZE US TO MERCY. IF WE CARE ABOUT THE FEELINGS OF A MOTHER BIRD. THEN CERTAINLY, WE SHOULD SHOW MERCY AND COMPASSION TO HUMANS.
THERE ARE TWO WEAKNESSES WITH THIS POSITION. FIRSTLY, IS IT MERCIFUL TO CHASE AWAY THE MOTHER BIRD? SHE COMES BACK TO AN EMPTY NEST IN PANIC NOT KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER YOUNG. SHE FLIES AROUND FRANTICALLY LOOKING FOR THEM. IS THIS MERCIFUL? SECONDLY, WE ALREADY HAVE ANOTHER LAW THAT TEACHES US MERCY TO ANIMALS: ONE IS NOT TO SLAUGHTER A MOTHER AND ITS (CHILD ANIMAL) ON THE SAME DAY (FOR EATING). WHY DO WE NEED TWO LAWS TO TEACH THE SAME THING ? THE SECOND COMMONLY GIVEN REASON FOR THIS MITZVAH IS FOR PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES. IF YOU TAKE BOTH MOTHER AND CHICKS AWAY, IT WILL BE HARD TO PROCREATE ENOUGH BIRDS TO SUSTAIN THE SPECIES. THIS APPROACH ALSO HAS WEAKNESS. MOST COMMENTARIES TO THE TORAH TELL US THAT ONE MUST TAKE THE EGGS OR CHICKS EVEN IF HE HAS NO USE FOR THEM. IF THE LAW WAS TO PRESERVE THE SPECIES WHY NOT LIMIT THE NUMBER OF EGGS/CHICKS ONE CAN TAKE, OR AT LEAST NOT REQUIRE SOMEONE TO TAKE ALL THE EGGS/ CHICKS, EVEN WHEN HE DOES NOT NEED THEM THE THIRD REASON GIVEN IS A CHASIDISH APPROACH. WE ARE MAKING A PLEA TO HASHEM: LOOK AT THE MOTHER BIRD FLYING AROUND IN PAIN AND PANIC BECAUSE SHE LOST HER OFFSPRING AND SEES AN EMPTY NEST. BY INFERENCE YOU TOO HASHEM SHOULD REALIZE YOUR NEST THE HOLY TEMPLE IS EMPTY, NONE OF YOUR CHILDREN ARE THERE. WE USE THIS MITZVAH TO PLEAD WITH G-D TO BRING US BACK AND REBUILD THE TEMPLE AS THE MOTHER BIRD WHO FRANTICALLY WISHES TO RECOVER HER OFFSPRING AND HOME.
WHEN A KOSHER MOTHER BIRD IS SITTING ON HER NEST TO PROTECT HER EGGS AND CHICKS, SHE DOES HER VERY BEST THERE IS A TORAH LAW TO TAKE THE CHICKS BUT LEAVE THE BIRD ABOUT THIS LAW THERE IS SPECIAL CHASIDISH TORAH WORD WHEN SHE COMES BACK TO THE NEST HER ANGUISH HAS BEGUN THE NEST IS EMPTY VOID OF EGGS OF CHICKS, NOT EVEN ONE. WE PRAY AND HOPE THE HOLY ONE WILL ACT TO US THIS WAY WILL MISS US AND WILL PINE FOR US, BRING NEAR MOSHIACH’S DAY LORD ON THAT DAY RETURN US ALL YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TOO TO OUR NEST, YOUR TEMPLE MOUNT, WHERE WE CAN PRAY TO YOU
Upcoming Youth Events
August 27, 2012
8/29 KICK OFF BBQ- Atlas home, High School Youth 6pm-8pm
9/4 Mandatory Youth Meeting for all Youth Leaders and future leaders, 5pm
9/8 1st Annual Middle School/High School “Youth Selichot” 8:30 pm Gym, Game Room and Raffle
9/7-9/8 2nd Annual Youth leadership Training Shabbat (Friday night & Shabbat day)
9/9 K-4th grade Arts and Crafts with Morah Zehava 10 am-11:30 am
9/14 ONEG Friday evening Oneg Shabbat at the home of Dr. Mike & Zehava Atlas, 9 pm,
for High School Seniors and College age.
Men’s Club Upcoming Events
August 27, 2012
GNS MENS CLUB UPCOMING EVENTS
SUN. SEPT. 23 10:00 am: Joseph A Levy speaking on “Jews from Arab Countries”, highlighting Jewish history in Arab lands. Mr. Levy was born in Egypt and is a well known expert on the topic.
WED. OCT 24: Co-sponsored with the GNS Sisterhood, a talk by Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg of Detroit, on “Stress Management for Adults”. Rabbi Goldberg tours the country lecturing on the subject. He is also a co-founder of the “Kids Kicking Cancer” program.
SUN. OCT 28: The Mens Club semi-annual Blood Drive. Thanks to Al Liederman for organizing the Blood Drives.
Sun. Nov 4: Together with Dos Yiddish Vort, a bus trip to NYC to the Yiddish Theatre to see “The Golden Land”, a professional musical in both English and Yiddish. A light dinner will be provided after the performance. Cost is $65 per person (includes bus, theater and dinner). Checks to GNS Mens Club.
GNS Talmud Torah
August 27, 2012
GNS TALMUD TORAH
The Great Neck Synagogue Talmud Torah is a full Jewish after school program dedicated to excellence in an engaging and respectful learning environment in which Jewish children can become proud, caring, responsible, and dedicated members of the Jewish people and American society. The Talmud Torah meets weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Please contact the Synagogue office to register by September 1st.
As part of the expanded Talmud Torah program, we offer a special MATAN program for Bat-Mitzvah aged girls. The class is taught by Morah Netta Jansenson, an outstanding faculty member of North Shore Hebrew Academy, who is known for her creativity and warmth. The program will meet on Monday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and will begin after the Sukkot holiday in mid October for 12 classes to be completed by the end of January. Please contact the Synagogue office to register your child.
Within Our Family: Sept. 1, 2012
August 27, 2012
Mazal Tov to Drs. Laura & Scott Danoff on the engagement of their daughter Emily to Anosh Zaghi of Boca Raton, Florida.
Mazal Tov to Shirley & Martin Brownstein on the birth of their granddaughter Rebecca Florence born to his children and Stephanie & Michael Brownstein.
Mazal Tov to Ester & Eliezer Noy on the birth of a granddaughter born to their children Eran & Nina Noy.
Sponsorships: Sept. 1, 2012
August 27, 2012
Kiddush is sponsored by Great Neck Synagogue
Hashkama Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Mel Fox on the anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah and by David Hoenig and Holly Berns-Hoenig, on the Yahrtzeit of her father, Harold Berns, Tzvi ben Chaim Yidl.
Chesed Thank You
August 27, 2012
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