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MAZEL TOV
Mazel tov to Miriam Brander on receiving her MPA from NYU-Wagner
RABBI’S SHABBAT AFTERNOON CLASS
At 7:05 PM
Exploring the Notion of the Shemita Year In Thought and Action
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Affiliate of the National Council of Young Israel Synagogues, Member of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Sponsor of West Hartford NCSY, National Conference of Synagogue Youth, Kashrut Commission of Greater Hartford,
Mikveh Bess Israel of Greater Hartford, Eruv of West Hartford
Rabbi Tuvia Brander 561-271-4148 [email protected] Debra Luger 860-233-0300 or [email protected]
Shabbat Parashat Behar
May 28th , 2016 20 Iyar 5776
Kiddush
is sponsored by
The Shul
Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by
The Shul
Editor: Judie Patel [email protected]
UPCOMING EVENTS
Parent Child Shavuot Learning
June 12th • 1st day of Shavuot
Come learn Torah with your children as part of this annual Young Israel tradition. Dinner will be
served. Sponsorships are available, please speak to
Juanita Moss.
YIWH Shavuot BBQ!
Join friends and family for wonderful BBQ Yom Tov lunch on the second day of Shavuot, June 13th.
Sign up online with more details to follow.
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Wednesday June 22nd, 2016 @ 7 PM
The agenda will include voting on the slate of new
officers and board members as well as
presentations on new protocols including security
and Kiddush.
YOUNG ISRAEL OF WEST HARTFORD
2240 ALBANY AVENUE
WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117
www.YoungIsraelWH.org
BOARD NOMINATIONS
Nominations for the next Young Israel of West Hartford board are now open. If you are interested
or would like to nominate someone, please speak to Stu Kesler.
MIKVEH BESS ISRAEL SWIM-A-THON
Sunday, June 19th at the Mandel JCC
Separate times for women and men. Children and water-walkers welcome too.
For details and to register go to: www.bessisrael.org
MANY THANKS
Thank you so much to the families and individuals who came and made Sunday morning's clean up a huge success. Together, we sorted, cleared and dis-posed of years of shaimot, papers and junk.
Thank you so much to: Rabbi Tuvia Brander; Steve, Shai, Moshe and Ezra Bernstein; Elisheva, Zev, Gavriella, Adi, Yakira and
Kleila Davidovics; Sarah Elbaum; Lee Goldman; Shayne, Stu, Elijah, Eden, Nira and Lexi Kesler; Sam Leichtberg; Debbie and Steve Luger; Juanita, Yitz, Aliya, Neve, Cole and Gavin Moss; Sid Perew; Avi
and Chaya Robinson; Shalom Stein; Sandy and Mark Trencher and Ron Weinstock
Thank you so much for coming and working hard on behalf of all the members of the Young Israel. If you could not attend, please offer your personal thanks to these folks for job well done.
Special thanks to Sarah Elbaum for both transport-ing the shaimot to Weinstein’s and picking up our Pizza!
There will be an email going out shortly with pic-tures of the many lost & found items ( These items have all been move to the downstairs coatroom (either hanging or in a box) awaiting your pickup! Please help us keep our building clean! Please do not leave shaimot or other leftovers in the coatrooms and make sure to bring home with
you anything you bring with you to shul. Thank you for your cooperation!
WOMEN’S SHABBAT AFTERNOON MISHNAH CLASS
will resume next week
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Barbara & Ron Ashkenas Mazel Tov to Vera Schwarcz on the birth of a new Grand-daughter
Anita and Tsion Cohen In memory of Helaine, Barbara & Norman Spector’s beloved daughter In memory of Helene Ganeles, mother of Andrew & Carolyn Ganeles, and Miriam Silberman Mazel Tov to Vera Schwarcz on the birth of a new Grand-daughter
The Newman Family Mazel Tov to Vera Schwarcz on the birth of a new Grand-daughter
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BUY SCRIP:
22 Families have exceeded their $100 scrip earnings -- with several families doubling and tripling
that amount! The shul has gained $5537.00 in scrip income this year-- (a bit below last years totals at this
time- so keep on buying!) Please continue to get your supermarket cards from Daniella Robinson as well as shop online at the "shop
with scrip" site. Daniella Robinson [email protected]
cell: 516-286-0185 Home: 860-578-9515
NEW SCRIP OPPORTUNITY
5% of all sales or purchases will be donated to the YIWH. (*rare exclusions do apply)
BUY… SELL… TRADE
Gold Trader invites you to see our full service diamond shop and the area’s best selection of new
and estate jewelry all at low every day prices. WE BUY GOLD, SILVER, DIAMONDS, COINS
David Rosen (413) 335-5626 Gold Trader The Diamond Shop
1360 Allen Street, Springfield, MA (413) 304-2335 www.thegoldtraderstore.com www.iwantadiamond.com
YOUTH DEPARTMENT SHABBAT MORNING GROUPS
Groups meet weekly on Shabbat from 10:15 AM-11:15 AM.
Children ages 5 & under meet on the carpeted corner downstairs.
Children in Grades 1 -5 are invited to partake in our Junior Congregation downstairs
TOT SHABBAT CIRCLE
Held on the first Shabbat of the month starting at 10:30-11:15
Tot Shabbat Circle provides a warm, fun-filled Shabbat experience for young children with their parents. It includes davening, singing, parsha, &
story time, and is followed by a special Shabbat treat.
MUSSAF & MUNCH
Beginning right after the Haftorah in the main min-yan, our teens break away to have their own teen-led mussaf service and share a dvar torah by one of their
peers. Of course, Mussaf is always followed by a MUNCH: a delicious Kiddush with chulent, kugel,
chips, and soda….we think you get the idea. For more information, please see the flyer in the lobby
UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
HHNE 5K UNITY COLOR RUN
Wednesday, June 1st Learn more @ www.hhne.org
CHILDREN’S READING PARTNERS
Federation Literacy Program
Spelling Bee on June 2nd Contact [email protected]
WEEKLY YIWH LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
SUNDAY MORNING GEMARA SHIUR
Join us for a light breakfast as we explore the tractate of Horayot Sunday mornings
immediately following davening.
PONDERING THE PARSHA
Join us at 11:30 AM on Wednesdays at the JCC for a Lunch’n’Learn.
For more information, please contact Ann Feldman
BOOKKEEPING
Shul's fiscal year ends June 30. Bills went out this week via email, including scrip credits through May 5.
If you did not get a statement it means you have no balance due. Contact Maria with any questions: book-
SECURITY COMMITTEE
Thank you to all those involved in the coverage and rotations. If you are interested in being involved
please email: [email protected]
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Please include in your tefilot IDF soldiers as well as those have been injured in the recent wave of terror activity. Natan ben Odel, Odel bat Miriam, Moshe ben Orli, Meir Yitzchak ben Sarah, Dvir ben Shoshana, Aharon Moshe Chaim ben Chaya Chana, Ron Shai
bat Sigalit, Adi ben Rut, Niv ben Yardena, Moshe ben Daisy, Meor Efraim ben Fortuna Daniella,Yuval ben Miriam, Yarin ben Rivka, Moshe ben Edgach, Liat bat Yael, Or-El bat Limor, Yosef Chaim ben Zahava, Naor Shalev ben Rut Elisheva, Yom Tov Lipa ben Roiza,Yair ben Roizina, Samuel Ono ben
Antoni, Shoshana bat Lulu, Moshe ben Bracha, Maya bat Ilana, Ron ben Chana, Adiv ben Fortuna Mazel, Daniel Chaim ben Revital, David ben Sho-shana, Elon Chaim HaCohen ben Rita, Yehonatan Amiram ben Miriam, Pesach ben Rachel Miriam Hadassah, Yarden ben Orli, Meital Dikla bat
Ninette, Gilad ben Meirav, Tahel bat Sigal, Sigal bat Jacquline, Gal ben Na’ami, Yaniv ben Chana, Yotam ben Penina, David Shlomo ben Rachel, Nirit Chana bat Nitza, Daniel be Nano, Daniel HaCohen ben Yedidya, Yigal Chaim ben Chofit, Yehonatan ben Rut Ruchama, Ro'ee ben Rachel, Yitzchak
David ben Iris Ruchama, Gai ben Yocheved, Liad ben Amira, Lidor ben Revital, Raz ben Lidiya, Mazal bat Shoshana Shma’a, Harel Avraham ben Amalia, Edena ben Sarah, Shaul Chai ben Aviva, Yotam Shmuel ben Yael. Rachel bat Sara, Suzanne Sultana bat Nadjma, Moshe ben Romia, Oshrat bat
Yonah, Mordechai Aharon ben Leah Miriam.
May they all have a refuah shleima -- a full and speedy recovery among all the sick and wounded of Israel.
Dvar Torah by Rav David Silverberg :
We read in Parashat Behar of the mitzva of yovel, which establishes that all servants are released with the onset of the jubilee year: “It shall be a jubilee for you, and you shall return – each person to his estate and each person to his family” (25:10). The Gemara in Masekhet Makkot (13a) cites the view of Rabbi Yehuda that although ser-vants return to their “estate” and “family,” they do not return “to that which they had held onto from their fathers.” As Rashi explains, this refers to “serara” – a position of authority or stature that the person had held before being sold into servitude. Although the onset of the jubilee ends his period of servitude, it does not restore him to the prominent stature he had held before becoming a servant. This halakha is indeed codified by the Rambam, in Hilkhot Avadim (3:8).
It is hard to overlook the symbolic significance of this halakha. The purpose of shemitta and yovel, as the Torah emphasizes here in Parashat Behar, is to remind us that “the land is Mine; that you are but strangers and alien residents with me” (25:23). The laws of shemitta and yovel essentially limit a person’s control over his land and over other people. They convey the message that “the Israelites are ser-vants to Me; they are My servants” (25:55). As we all share the equal stature of ser-vants of the Almighty, no one has the right to assert unlimited control over property or over other people. Accordingly, the law that an indentured servant does not reassume his former position of stature perhaps assumes great symbolic significance. With the onset of yovel, we are to come down from our high stature, humbled by our newfound awareness of the fact that we are all servants of God. The lesson of yovel is that al-though society may operate on the basis of certain hierarchical systems, with certain people enjoying greater authority and respect than others, nevertheless, when all is said and done, “geirim ve-toshavim atem imadi” – we are all servants of God. The en-tire notion of “serara” becomes meaningless on yovel, the time when we are to focus on the fact that we are all equally small and powerless before our Master, the only One who truly exerts any type of “serara” over the world.
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YIWH Schedule of Services
May 27th - June 3rd, 2016 It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush
Shabbat Parashat Behar Or Seudah Shlishit!
Friday, May 27th - Erev Shabbat Shul handles set up & Clean up!
Shacharit 6:45 a.m. Contact Judie Patel at 860-761-3818,
Mincha/Maariv 7:00 p.m. or [email protected]
Candle Lighting NOT BEFORE 6:42 p.m. to check the availability of the date
Calendar Candle Lighting 7:57 p.m. you need & call Fran Wittenberg
at 860- 983-4837 or
Shabbat, May 28th [email protected]
Shabbat morning Chayei Adam Class 8:15 a.m. to make the arrangements for the
Shacharit 9:00 a.m. type of Kiddush you want.
Sof Zman Kriat Shma 9:04 a.m. Checks need to be received by Fran the
Youth Programming 10:15 a.m. Sunday prior to your Kiddush date.
Rabbi’s Shabbat Afternoon Class 7:05 p.m. There are three types
Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit & Maariv 7:50 p.m. of Kiddushim:
Shabbat Ends 9:07 p.m. Standard for $150,
Semi-Deluxe for $250
Sunday, May 29th - Thursday, June 2nd & Deluxe for $350
Earliest Tallit & Tefillin 4:17 a.m. With supplements available.
Shacharit…Sunday - Followed by Rabbi Brander's 8:15 a.m.
Gemara Class & Breakfast KIDDUSH SCHEDULE
Shacharit...Monday - Thursday 6:40 a.m.
Shacharit…Tuesday & Wednesday 6:45 a.m.
Mincha/Maariv 8:00 p.m. SEUDAH SHLISHIT
Friday, June 3rd - Erev Shabbat The cost to sponsor is $90.00
Shacharit 6:45 a.m. To set up Seudah Shlishit contact
Mincha/Maariv 7:00 p.m. Steve Luger [email protected]
Candle Lighting NOT BEFORE 6:46 p.m. Please send checks to YIWH or Steve.
Calendar Candle Lighting 7:57 p.m.
Check out the weekly schedule on the YIWH Website youngisraelwh.org/times
For Eruv Information: twitter.com/WHartfordEruv or youngisraelwh.org/eruv or Hotline - 860-232-6417
Ner La’Maor - Lights Edna & David Shamash
Pat La’Orchim
Yayin l’ Kiddush Ve'Havdalah
Kiddush Supplement Ann & Jeremy Pava
Seudah Shlishit Supplement Susan & Gil Fried
Daniella & Avi Robinson In memory of Daniella’s Grandmother
Mrs. Vivian Furst חיה גיטל בת מאיר צמח
5776 Candy Man You-Dah-Man
Audrey & Leon Laufer In honor of the original
Candy Man Gene Wittenberg
Ann & Jeremy Pava
Judy & Sam Leichtberg in memory of their parents
Israel & Frida Weiss Abraham & Miriam Leichtberg
אברהם בן שמואל ומרים בת יעקב אריה ישראל בן דוד וטויבה פרידה בת עזרא
Handy Man Good Humor Man
Edie & Sid Perew Debbie & Steve Luger