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GOOD SHABBOS!

 

 

Parshas Mishpotim

Feb 21, 2009/ 27 Shevat 5769

 

 

Shabbos Schedule

 

Fri. Feb 20

05:23 pm                              Candle Lighting

05:28 pm                              Mincha

The Laws of Candle lighting                              R Cohen

06:21 pm                              Krias Shema                                                           (earliest time)

 

Sat. Feb 21

08:15 am                              Chumash Shiur                                                      R Quinn

08:45 am                              ShacharisGabbai                                                  R Quinn

09:19 am                              Krias Shema (latest) – BEFORE DAVENING

09:45 am                              Krias HaTorah                                                       E Shmagin

10:15 am                              Spirituality 101                                                      R Heller

10:30 am                              Dvar Torah                                                              M Shmagin

10:50 am                              Bar Mitzvah Dvar Torah                                      E Shmagin

11:00 am                              Kiddush       

11:30 am                              Shiur                                                                          R Cohen

Jewish Unity

04:00 pm                              Kiruv Kollel                                                              M Abramson

04:15 pm                              Gemara Brochos                                                  R Denbo

05:00 pm                              Mincha         

05:30 pm                              Seudah Shlishis                                                     R Cohen

06:20 pm                              Maariv

 

 

Weekday Schedule

Sun Feb 22 – Fri Feb 27

05:47 am                              Earliest Tallis – Terumah

7:00/8:00 am                       Sun. Shachris

06:00 am                              Shacharis – Gabbai Eliezer (Rick) Kahn

07:30 am                              Shacharis – Gabbai Yona (Jonah) Light

09:19 am                              Latest Shema

10:15 am                              Latest Shacharis

12:35 pm                              Earliest Mincha

05:25 pm                              Weekday Mincha/Maariv

09:00 pm                              Maariv b’zmano

05:29 pm                              Candle Lighting next week – Terumah

05:34 pm                              Next Friday – Mincha

 

in-Reach Class Schedule

Sun 7:30 am                        Morning Kollel                                R Shenker

Sun 9:00 am                        Hilchos Tefils                                  N. Eisman

Mon-Fri 6:30 am                 Shachris- Kollel Boker                R Shenker

Mon-Fri 6:50 am                 Gemara Succah                            R Cohen

Mon-Fri 8:30 am                 Mishne Brura:                                R Cohen

Laws of Prayer 107

Tues 8:15 pm                      Tehillim Group                                Weinsteins

Wed 8:00 am                       Valley AM Learning                      R Heller

Wed 11:00 am                    Mommy, Me & Torah                    Rbzn Shenker

Thurs Noon                         Pirkei Avos                                      H. Witkin

 

Purim Schedule

 

We respectfully ask you to refrain from bringing your young children and babies to the megillah readings.

 

Mon March 9th Fast of Esther

Fast begins                         6:02 a.m.

Mincha                                  6:15 p.m.

Maariv                                   7:15 p.m.

Megillah                                7:30 p.m. Please be prompt!

Women’s Megillah             9:00 p.m. Please be prompt!

 

Tues  March 10th Purim

Shachris                              7:00 a.m.

Megilla                                  7:30 a.m. Please be prompt!

Early Mincha                       1:35 p.m.

Mincha / Maariv                  6:45 p.m.

Maariv                                   9:00 p.m.

 

Mishpotim – Good judgment

 

Shemos 21:1 “These are the judgments that you will set before them”

 

In the city where Rav Shlomo Kluger was the Rabbi, there lived a wealthy wine merchant who employed a Jewish steward who, one erev Shabbos, had hid a large sum of money amongst the wine barrels, and when he returned to retrieve them on motzei Shabbos, found that they were missing.  He went to Rabbi Kluger and accused the wine merchant of stealing the money. Immediately, the Rabbi summoned the wine merchant and questioned him about the money. The merchant denied having any knowledge of the whereabouts of the money. The Rav suspected that he was guilty, but there was absolutely no proof.

“Oy!” groaned the Rabbi “I was afraid that you would not know anything about the money. I knew that a Jew would never take the money on Shabbos. Therefore the only conclusion I can arrive at is that it must have been a gentile who took it. Now that raises a very serious question. The wine in your cellar is forbidden because it may be yayin nesech (wine used for an idolatrous purpose). It will be necessary to pour it all out. I shall have to send a messenger to shul to announce that no one should buy or use your wine.

When the merchant heard these words he understood what a calamity this would be to his business and immediately confessed. But the Rabbi refused to believe him. The merchant had no choice but to take the Rabbi to his home and show him where he had hid the money, and the merchant returned it to the grateful employee. 

 

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Moshe Cohen

 

HALACHA OF THE WEEK

Ask all your Jewish-related questions to Rabbi Cohen at asktherabbi@aishla.com.  All questions will be answered and a few will be published in the bulletin each week. 

 

Q: When davening shemonei esrei, is there a limit to how many people for whom we can pray for their physical well-being?

A: No.

 

Q: May one daven for personal needs on Shabbos?

A: For needs of spiritual nature, it is permitted.  Davening for shidduchim is considered spiritual. 

 

Q: If I wash on bread and put dairy butter on it, then decide I want chicken 15 minutes later, do I need to bench first?

A: Yes!

 

 

*If you think any of these cases apply to you, please make sure to ask your own question because your particular details may render a different answer. 

 

PURIM ALERT

Rambam Hilchos Megilla Chapter 2, Halacha 17

It is preferable to give more money to the poor on Purim than to have a huge meal and send gifts to one’s friends, because there is no greater and more beautiful joy than to gladden the heart of the poor and the orphans and widows…

 

The financial crisis in the America has hit the poor and particularly bnei Torah in Eretz Yisroel very badly. I am therefore encouraging everyone to fulfill the mitzvah of mishloach manos (Purim baskets) in the basic way – two items of food to one friend – and to give the money that they might have spent on elaborate mishloach manos to the poor and needy in Eretz Yisroel. This can be done through Aish or other organizations. Aish sends all the money raised for Purim to Eretz Yisroel.

 

Children should continue to send their “Purim goodie bags” to each other for the purposes of chinuch.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Kiddush SPONSOR

Kiddush is being sponsored by the Shmagin, Titlebaum and Hertzberg families in honor of Eitan's bar mitzvah and siyum on masechta Nezikin. 

 

seudah shlishis SPONSOR

No Seudah Shlishis sponsors this week.  Contact Tamar for sponsorship opportunities.  

 

THANK YOU

To Tali Gonik and Alison Linder for driving the Tomchei Shabbos route this week.

 

MAZEL TOV

Mazal Tov to the Shmagin family on the bar mitzvah of Eitan!

 

CONDOLENCES

To Alan and Bonnie Cohen on the passing of Alan’s mother, Faigal bas Aron Dov.

 

LOST!

Please contact Steve Winburgh if you have any information about a Red Razor scooter that his daughter lost at Aish last Shabbos.

 

SHLOSHIM

There’ll be a memorial service for our beloved Rosh HaYeshiva Moreinu HaRav Noach Weinberg zt”l to commemorate his shloshim on Mar 5, 2009, 8pm at Aish. The community will be addressed by R’ Braverman, R’ Cohen, R’ Heller, Mr. Richard Horowitz, and R’ Tendler.

 

PURIM – MATANOS L’EVYONIM

Every Purim, Rebbetzin Dina Weinberg from Eyhat distributes gifts to poor families and students in Yerushalayim. Your tax deductible check may be made out to Aish HaTorah, marked Purim gift, and given to the Aish office, and it will be given out to fulfill the mitzvah of matanos l’evyonim on Purim in Yerushalayim. All the money raised goes for this purpose.

 

KIDDUSH TEAM: CHOLENT UPDATE

The Kiddush Team is experimenting with different cholent recipes. Please be patient. If you have any feedback, please email smellycholent@gmail.com.

 

MISHEBERACH LIST

If you would like to receive an updated copy of the misheberach list each month, please email Tamar at tamar@aishla.com.

 

IF ANYONE HAS…

…a lightweight wheelchair or transporter that is available to loan out, contact Tamar.

…a laptop in any condition that they are willing to donate to an Aish rabbi, contact Tamar.

 

KOL SASSON V’KOL SIMCHA

The community is cordially invited to the wedding of Dan Rude & Sarah Fonteno which will IY”H take place on March 22 from 11 am to 3 pm at the Aish Center.  Please send your RSVP’s to sfonteno2@hotmail.com. They regretfully cannot accommodate children.  The couple is registered at Bed, Bath, & Beyond.

 

BNOS AT AISH

The Pico branch of Bnos is scheduled for 2:50pm in the Aish courtyard for girls in grades pre-1A to 7th grade. No charge. To sponsor a Shabbos, please contact Esther at (310) 838-4568. If it rains after noon on Shabbos, please consider Bnos cancelled.

 

WOMEN:

 

Come join us as we celebrate “The Future of Purim,” with an enlightening shiur by esteemed REBBETZIN TOVA UNION followed immediately by some Purim fun (BYOG -- bring your own groggers).  PURIM parodies with SAM GLASER. Tues, Feb. 24th @ 8pm, @ the home of Ellie Kulman. Sponsored by the Barbara Desatnik Fund.

 

COMMUNITY CORNER

 

Aish Community Member Meeting - Mar 29, 2009: General volunteer meeting with R’ Cohen & Mark Shmagin to discuss the community's direction, Team updates, programs and planning for the next 6-12 mnths.  Please join us at Aish, Sun. Mar. 29, 7:30pm.  Ma'ariv at 9pm.

 

AISH CLASS INFORMATION:

 

 

CHUMASH SHIUR

R Quinn gives a weekly Chumash shiur for all levels in the main shul at 8:15 am on Shabbos mornings. This is your chance to explore deeper insights in Chumash. All welcome.

 

Young couples class

Today at 11:30 am in the Sem Room, R Shenker will be speaking on, “Keeping the Horsemen out of you home or How to Stay Happily Married.” For men married less than five years

 

WEEKLY TEHILLIM GROUP

Ladies, please come to our weekly tehillim group and fulfill a tremendous mitzvah! Every Tues night at 8:15 at the home of Zev and Shoshana Weinstein, 1481 Edris.

 

NEW LECTURE SERIES

Dr. Sara Teichman is currently giving a lecture series on parenting. The 3rd lecture is on Feb 15.  Everyone is welcome, even if you missed the first two. Sun morning, 9 am, Seminar Rm.

 

MORNING KOLLEL

To join the daily morning learning program, please speak to R Shenker.  Shacharis is at 6:30 am (Sun’s at 7:30 am) and is followed by chavrusa learning of Arvei Pesachim.

 

Feb 11: Mommy, Me & Torah

For women & young children every Wed at 11am for one hour at Aish.  There is circle time with davening, songs, play, and snack time, followed by a 30 min parsha class with Rbtzn Shenker.

 

THE EXODUS: Fact or Fiction?

 

Jim D. Long, author of “The Riddle of the Exodus,” will present riveting historical and archaeological evidence of yetzias mitsrayim, including proof of the drowning of Pharaoh’s army in the sea and the Ten Plagues.

March 15, 2009 at 7:30 pm at the Aish Center