Kiddush this week is generously co-sponsored by:

Carol Newman in loving memory of her parents, Lilian Newman (Shevat 25) and

Abraham Newman, (Shevat 28); and also by David Sonenstein in loving memory of his

brother Bruce Sonenstein (Shevat 26)

May their neshamos have an Aliyah!

It is difficult, in the extreme, to understand the concluding part of this week's Torah reading. It is recorded that the noble people of Israel somehow gazed and saw the likeness of heaven and they were not immediately punished nor struck down for having done so. The Torah has made it abun-dantly clear in many places that no human being while alive can see, so to speak, a corporeal vision of the Lord. If this be the case, then what is this verse and the Torah telling us? What does it mean that these noble people were able to gaze upon the Divine presence? As is the case in almost all the narratives that appear in the Torah, there are various interpretations of this issue that have been advanced over the ages. Most of these opinions reflect the idea that, these great and noble people, gazing upon the Divine presence, is to be under-stood in a metaphorical sense, and not literally. After having experienced the revelation at Sinai and the granting of the Torah to the Jewish peo-ple, this cadre of special people now attempted to understand the methodology by which God runs the world. They thought that they had achieved such a level of spirituality that they were able to do so. They somehow combine the idea of physical reality in their understanding of God and for this they would later suffer negative consequences. Their ambition, even for spirituality, was a reach too far. In the Torah reading that we will hear in a few weeks, we will see that our great teacher Moshe also attempted this leap of understanding the Divine completely. God will tell Moshe of the impossibility of his request. Being human, no mat-ter how great one is, automatically limits one's understanding and true appreciation of the Crea-tor. It is a line that no human being can cross and retain life, as we understand it to exist. The Mid-rash seems to indicate that Moshe did have such an opportunity at the beginning of his mission, at his encounter with God at the burning bush. Moshe was not willing to avail himself of that op-portunity then and the Lord informs him now that it is far too late for that opportunity to be re-vised. Nevertheless, Moshe has the strongest rela-tionship with Heaven that any human being ever experienced or could experience. But even that relationship – the face-to-face conversations, so to speak, with God – is to be viewed as not achieving a complete understanding of the Divine and of the methodology employed by Heaven to guide the

world and human events. Perhaps that is what the rabbis of the Talmud meant when they said, “simply let them ignore and disassociate them-selves from Me and just observe the Torah that I have granted them.” Much of the world, at vari-ous times, confuse human beings with God or as being God. Judaism comes to tell us that there is an indelible line between the two that can and never will be crossed. Rabbi Berel Wein

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DAVENING TIMES Light Candles, Friday 2/1 4:49 pm

next week candle lighting will be 4:57 pm

Mincha: Friday 2/1 4:50 pm

Shacharit: Sat/Shabbat 2/2 8:50 am

Mincha: Sat/Shabbat 2/2 4:35 pm

Shabbat Ends 5:49 pm

Mincha: 2/3 - 2/7 4:55 pm

Shacharit: Sundays and Holidays 8:00 am

Shacharit: Weekdays 6:30 am

Insights from Rav Noach Weinberg ZT"L

Not all laughs have to be happy laughs, but they provide perspective just the same. There is more

than enough food in the world to feed everyone for at least a decade, yet tens of thousands of people

are starving. Why? Because of politics and greed. It's absurd! The first step in changing craziness

is to recognize it. We need to laugh just to acknowledge the absurdity of the situation,

so we can take action.

2/2/2019 This Week’s Parsha: Mishpatim 27 Shevat 5779

Seudat Shlishith is generously co-sponsored by:

Simon S and Mazal Abraham to welcome Adina and Mordechai Abraham

who are visiting our community. And also by,

Joanne and Yosef Beit Halahmi in memory of Yosef's grandfather HaRav Yitzchak Chai Boukobza

Seudah Shelishith is graciously prepared by:

Art and Leah Metz Visitors for Steve Paige 702-470-1153

Kindred Spring Valley: 5650 S. Rainbow

room 1406B. Please call first.

This weeks Newsletter prepared by Nancee France

Please continue to PRAY for a full recovery for: Amalia bat Sarah Geller, she is recovering from surgery.

Rosh Chodesh: The new moon for the month of

Adar Aleph will take place on Monday, February

4, 2019, 11:57 pm and 15 parts of a minute, local

Jerusalem time. It will be observed during shul

davening starting Monday evening, 2/4 and

continuing through mincha on Wednesday, 2/6.

Saturday/Shabbat Schedule 2/2

8:30 am Rabbi Soloveitchik: Religious Zionism & the State of Israel w/Rabbi Anderson 8:50 am Shacharit

9:45 am Torah Service

9:30 am / 10:30 am Youth Programs Begin 11:00 am Drasha w/Rabbi Wyne 11:30 am Mussaf Class w/Rabbi Wyne 11:45 am Community Kiddush

3:50 pm Class in Hebrew ~ Men & Women w/Rabbi Orlowek 3:50 pm Class for Women w/Rabbi Wyne

4:05 pm Men’s Class Damage Control: Mistakes that Occur During Davening w/Rabbi Anderson

4:35 pm Mincha / Seudah Shlishith

Community Havdalah following Maariv

Shabbat/Sat: 2/2

8:30 am Rabbi Solove-itchik: Religious Zionism & the State of Israel w/Rabbi Anderson

3:50 pm Class in Hebrew Men & Women w/Rabbi Orlowek

3:50 pm Class for Wom-en w/ Rabbi Wyne

4:05 pm Men’s Class: Damage Control: Mistakes that Occur During Davening w/Rabbi Anderson

Sunday

9:00 am Weekly Parsha

w/Rabbi Davidowitz

10:15 am Brachot Class

w/Rabbi Anderson

Tuesday 6:45 pm Hebrew Reading Crash Course w/Stuart Berliner

7:30 pm Lessons from the Exodus w/Rabbi Anderson

Wednesday 6:30 pm Daniel w/Rabbi Laxmeter 6:30 pm Ulpan w/Adi

7:30 pm Mystical Parsha w/Yosef Beit-Halahmi

Thursday 6:30 pm Pirkei Avot w/Yechiel Fleischman

None this week

Happy Wife Workshop Our next workshop will be on Monday evening,

February 18 at 7:30 pm at Leah Metz house.

We regret to announce the passing of Merle Gould,

Meerel Sooreh bas Schmiel Leib v’Raizel Shaindel

Mother of Rhoda Stock

Birthdays 2/1-2/7

Fran Moshkovski 2/1 Ayala Ben-Shimon 2/2 Roberta Zelkha 2/3 Lenard Schwartzer 2/3 Ray Zetoony 2/4 Dror Moshkovski 2/4 Bob Brown 2/4

Anniversaries 2/1-2/7 None this week

Yahrtzeits 27 Shevat - 3 Adar Aleph Shmuel ben Yosef (Sam), 28 Shevat father of Valerie Dubin

Louis Mayers, 1 Adar Aleph father of Gary Mayers

Selma Toran, 1 Adar Aleph mother of Cindy Schwartz

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