VIRTUAL COMMUNITY SHUL SCHEDULE TCS ZOOM ID: 6136132436 (ANY CLASSES WITH ALTERNATE ZOOM IDS ARE

LISTED IN PARANTHESIS BELOW) USE PASSWORD: 339749 All classes will still be given through zoom, unless noted otherwise.

FRIDAY: (AUGUST 14) - 7:22 PM: CANDLELIGHTING - 6:00 PM: MINCHA OUTSIDE SHUL (PRE-REGISTER ONLY!) AND ZOOM - 6:15 PM: PLAG - TORAS CHAIM—MICHAEL ABRAMSON - 8:10 PM: KRIAS SHEMA (EARLIEST TIME) SHABBOS: (AUGUST 15—SHABBOS RE’EH-SHABBOS MEVORCHIN) - 7:30 AM: SHACHRIS 1 “BORCHU”—OUTSIDE SHUL (PRE-REGISTER ONLY!) - 8:00 AM: KRIAS HATORAH 1—GAVRIEL COHEN - 9:15 AM: SHACHRIS 2 “BORCHU”—OUTSIDE SHUL (PRE-REGISTER ONLY!) - 9:30 AM: KRIAS SHEMA (LATEST TIME) - 9:45 AM: KRIAS HATORAH 2—GAVRIEL COHEN - 10:15 AM: DVAR TORAH—RABBI COHEN - 10:30 AM: MUSAF - 7:00 PM: MINCHA OUTSIDE SHUL (PRE-REGISTER ONLY!) - 8:40 PM: MAARIV OUTSIDE SHUL (PRE-REGISTER ONLY!) AND ZOOM SUNDAY: (AUGUST 16) - 7:30 AM: SHACHRIS OUTSIDE SHUL AND ZOOM—ONE MINYAN! - 5:26 AM: EARLIEST TALLIS - 9:36 AM: KRIAS SHEMA - 10:43 AM: LATEST SHACHRIS - 9:00 AM: KITZUR AND COFFEE—’LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF ELUL’-R’ COHEN - 1:00 PM: A CHASSIDIC APPROACH TO LIVING WITH JOY—YEHUDIT GARMAISE (ZOOM ID:780-1489-0500, PASSWORD: SIMCHA) - 1:31 PM: EARLIEST MINCHA - 7:25 PM: MINCHA/MAARIV IN SHUL AND ZOOM MON – FRIDAY: - 6:45-7:15 AM: SANHEDRIN 21B—’HOW MANY WIVES IS A KING ALLOWED TO MARRY?’— R’ COHEN - 7:15 AM: P’SUKEI D’ZIMRA - 7:30-8 AM: SHACHRIS OUTSIDE SHUL AND ZOOM - 8:30 AM: MISHNA BRURA—’ON HIATUS’—R’ COHEN - 7:35PM: MINCHA/MAARIV OUTSIDE SHUL AND ZOOM—R’ COHEN KITZUR SULCHAN ARUCH—’LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF ELUL’ SUNDAY-THURS: - 9:00 PM: MAARIV (ONLY!) OUTSIDE SHUL MON – WED: - 5:00 – 5:30 PM: NAVI SHMUEL (ZOOM)—ELCHONON COHEN (ZOOM ID: 8459893471) CANCELLED WED: - 7:30 PM: ‘SEASONS OF JOY’ (ZOOM ID:71646005392)—SAM GLASER THURS: - 12:00 PM: PIRKEI AVOS—HOWARD WITKIN (ZOOM ID: 4288024739) - 6:00 PM: MESILLAS YESHARIM (ZOOM)--MICHAEL ABRAMSON FRIDAY: (AUGUST 21) - 7:14 PM: CANDLELIGHTING (SHOFTIM) - 6:00 PM: FRIDAY MINCHA/MAARIV OUTSIDE SHUL (PRE-REGISTER ONLY!)

The Community Shul

9100 West Pico Boulevard

rabbicohen@thecommunityshul.com—424.666.2326

miryum@thecommunityshul.com—424.354.4130

thecommunityshul.com

Rabbi Moshe Cohen Community Rabbi

Miryum Schoen Community Director

Justin Levi President Jonah Light Vice President

Adam Karesky Gabbai Ilana Tatarsky Shabbos Engagement Coordinator

Ilana@thecommunityshul.com

Education Team Michael Abramson Avraham Gordon

Ben Elterman

Women’s Programming Rebecca Levi

Cookie Richards Yehudit Garmaise

Beth Firestone Rbtzn Yehudit Cohen

TCS “Boomers” Chair

Joanie Ziff

TCS’s Young Community Ariella Beyzer

Chessed Team

Lilian Russak Evey Leibow

Men‘s Club

Joshua Shapiro

The Boxenbaum Family Outreach Center

A place where people grow by living meaningful Torah lives.

ON HIATUS

Parshas Re’eh

Shabbos Mevorchin

Candlelighting: 7:22 PM | Shabbos ends: 8:24 PM

August 14, 2020 — 24 Av 5780

Short Vort – Toras Chaim

Straight talk

Devarim 13:19 "To do that which is "yashar" (straight) in the eyes of HaShem

The sections of the Torah of which deal with the false prophet, the seducer to idola-

try and the city of idolatry are all tests to follow HaShem and not to fall under the

influence of a persuasive leader or a seductive ideology. A person needs to make

sure that a leader's words are consistent with God's Torah Many Jews have been

enticed into idolatry and falsehood during the course of Jewish history. Life's lesson: A leader's message needs to make sense and be aligned with Torah

values

"Neither borrower AND lender be"

Devarim 15:6 You will lend other nations and not need to borrow. You will rule over

them, and not them over you. Chasam Sofer explains that these apparent opposites

are indeed possible even at the same time. When you are so dependent on your

possessions to the point that you cannot afford to ever miss a day of business, then

you may appear to be a lender, but in a real sense you are living like a person who is

a borrower. Similarly, if you have no time to develop your relationship with God be-

cause of your commitments to the values of the nations of the world, then the na-

tions of the world rule over you, even if you appear to be superior to them, intellectu-

ally and economically. Life's lesson: Know who is your master

If you are not going up you are going down

Devarim 11:26 See, I am placing before you a blessing and a curse

Sforno points out that God wants us not to choose complacency i.e.

“middle of the road.” Vilna Gaon points out that if we do not rise upward then we

fall downward. Life's lesson: Am I advancing or am I retreating?

Even easy mitzvos need chizuk

Devarim 12:23 "strengthen yourselves not to consume blood."

Rashi reminds us that not eating blood seems to be one of the easier prohibitions to

avoid as most people do not have a strong desire to consume blood. Nevertheless

the Torah tells us to strengthen ourselves to avoid transgressing.

Rav Nosson Tzvi Wachtfogel z"l explains that one needs strength even to avoid easy

transgressions. A lack of passion to avoid transgression will eventually lead to trans-

gression. Life's lesson: Do not underestimate the enemy (yetzer hara)

Good Shabbos,

Rabbi Cohen

SPONSORSHIPS

KIDDUSH:

Richard and Beverly Horowitz are sponsoring the kiddush this

week in gratitude for the bris this week in Israel of their great-

grandson, Eliyahu Horowitz, son of Eliezer and Eta Horowitz and

grandson of Sam and Ruth Horowitz.

Kiddush is sponsored in fond memory of Barbara Desatnik and

her commitment to helping women in the community grow in To-

rah and Yiddishkeit. May her Neshama have an Aliyah!

Rabbi Moshe and Judith Cohen are sponsoring Kiddush this week

in honor of the Yartzheit of Rabbi Cohen’s mother, Rita Cohen,

Reicha bas Yitzchok (29 Av). May her neshama have an Aliyah!

SEUDAH SHLISHIS:

We are still looking for a sponsor for Seudah Shlishis this week. To

sponsor, please contact the office after Shabbos.

LEARNING:

Dr. Michel and Rachel Mazouz are sponsoring learning his week

in honor of the first Yartzheit of Michel’s father, Maurice Moshe

ben Fortuna. (29 Av). May his Neshama have an Aliyah!

SECURITY:

Brad and Julia Berger are sponsoring Security this week in

memory of Brad’s beloved mother, Terry Berger, Tova. (27 Tam-

muz) May her neshama have an Aliyah!

THANK YOU

-Daniel Suriel for delivering this week’s Tomchei Shabbos route! -Chaim Sher for layening at both Minyanim last week.

MAZEL TOV - Richard and Beverly Horowitz on the bris of their great-grandson, Eliyahu Horowitz, son of Eliezer and Eta Horowitz and grandson of Sam and Ruth Horowitz. - Joshua and Delta Goldstein on the birth of a baby girl!

CONDOLENCES - It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Genendell bas Yaakov, beloved mother of Norm Pomeranz. Minyan & shiva will take place in person in the courtyard of the Pomeranz house - 1454 Glenville Drive LA, CA 90035 Minyan and Shiva times: Motsei Shabbos, August 14: Shiva 9:15 pm until 10:45 pm Sun & Mon, August 15 and 16: Shachris: 8:15 am Shiva after Shachris until 11:00 am Mincha/Maariv: 7:30 pm Shiva till 9:45pm Tuesday, August 17: Shachris 8:15 am. Shiva ends. - The entire community shul wishes to express its condolences to Heather Spiro on the passing of her father, Eli Miller, Eliyahu ben Moshe on August 13 (23 Av). His levaya is planned for Tuesday August 18th at 1:15pm at Riverside National Cemetery, Lemay Blvd, Riverside CA 92508. Masks and social distancing will be required. Shiva will be at 1439 Rexford Drive, Apt. 1 from Tuesday after levaya through Thursday. No visits between 1pm-3pm or after 9pm Condolences can be sent to Heather: 310-666-5759

Aish Jerusalem is offering its basic classes now on line for free

during this period of Corona. Check out the Aish.com website.

Elul – A month of opportunity

The Community Shul will be partnering with Project Inspire’s newly created

program for Kiruv/learning that is perfectly tailored to the current environ-

ment! The program starts in Elul and goes for 3-4 weeks, once a week. Rabbi

Melnick, the Aish Rabbi in Santiago, Chile has prepared sources/maareh me-

komos and will give guidance as needed for presentation and Project Inspire

has the software tools necessary to contact people, keep track of everyone’s

progress and to make contact and connection simple and efficient. Stay tuned

for more details in the coming weeks if you would like to be mentors/teachers

or student. The gedolei yisroel in Europe before WW2 said that the avodah of

Elul was CHESED! There is no greater chesed than kiruv rechokim!

Our High Holiday plans

A great deal of thought and discussion has gone into our High Holiday planning to ensure first and foremost your

personal safety, and the comfort for our members for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Assuming nothing changes be-tween now and the holidays, we have plans to use the en-tire back space of Milky Way and the shul, and also part of the alley, with a covered roof, outdoor seating using our

comfortable chairs and tables, market lighting and ceiling fans. We are contemplating two services both led by Rabbi Moshe Cohen and Elchonon Cohen, and depending on the governor’s decrees, we may in addition be able to use the

shul with social distancing. We thank you for your patience and commitment to our shul.

May you have a safe and healthy new year!