Date: 23-Oct-2017 3 Cheshvan 5778 Location: Ahavas Shalom Attending: Lev Seltzer, Micha Kushner, Aryeh Beer, Ari Waldman, Alan Lindsey, Avi Rosenberg, Yonah Kaufman Absent: None Summary by Micha Kushner Raffle About 330 tickets were sold, 80 less than last year. Possible cause of lower sales is competition from other campaigns (Shul and non-Shul related) YBHZ [...]
Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Noach 5778 You can sponsor an issue of the Ahavas Shalom Newsletter—Contact Lev Seltzer for details Reminders: Mincha Friday at 13:30, 17:08 and 18:30 This is the last “Early Shabbos” of the season! 3rd Shabbos Mincha is now 17:25. Tishrei 5778 Calendar is attached! Shabbos Shiurim: The Rav’s shiur on Beis Elokim [...]
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The Torah says “Noach was a tzaddik in his time.” Rashi quotes two explanations from Chazal on Noach’s status: 1) If he had lived in the generation of Avraham Avinu, perhaps his righteousness would have been greater than Avraham’s; or 2) if he had lived in Avraham Avinu’s generation, he would have been considered nothing [...]
כתוב בפרשה "נח איש צדיק תמים היה בדורותיו" רש"י מצטט שני פירושים על מעמדו של נח: 1) אם היה בדורו של אברהם אבינו, אולי היה צדיק יותר; או 2) אם היה בדורו של אברהם אבינו, לא היה נחשב לכלום. הביטוי "לא נחשב לכלום" תמיד הטריד אותי, שכן לצדיק צריך בהחלט להיות ערך מהותי - מלבד [...]
Shabbos Newsletter Sukkos 5778 Reminders: Mincha Erev Sukkos at 13:30, 18:06 The full Sukkos schedule appears in the attached newsletter. Double Mazel Tov to the Spira Family Pidyon Haben of their grandson on Thursday in their Sukkah 40/2 Lachish 21:30 Bar Mitzvah of Betzalel Dovid on Shabbos, with a Kiddush in the Ahavas Shalom sukkah. [...]
Bnei Yisrael merited to receive the mitzvah of Sukkah in order to relive the miracle of the anonei hakavod. The Mabit points out that we did not receive a mitzvah to relive the chesed that Hashem did with Bnei Yisrael by providing them with the mon and the water, via the be’er Miriam, during this [...]
בני ישראל זכו לקבל מצוות סוכה כדי לחוות שוב את נס ענני הכבוד. המבי"ט מציין שלא קיבלנו מצווה לחוות מחדש את החסדים שהקב"ה עשה עם בני ישראל על ידי נתינת המן כל בוקר, והמים דרך באר מרים, אף שהיו ממש באותה תקופה של נסיעתם במדבר. לכאורה, אנחנו צריכים גם להכיר טוב להקב"ה שסיפק לנו צרכינו [...]
Shabbos Newsletter Yom Kippur 5778 You can sponsor an issue of the Ahavas Shalom Newsletter—Contact Lev Seltzer for details Reminders: Mincha Friday at 13:00, 14:00 & 14:45 See Yom Kippur schedule below for detailed davening times NEW Tishrei Calendar is available here. There have been many small changes to the calendar, including: Maariv at 19:00 [...]
In the shemoneh esrei of Yom Kippur we say: זֵכֶר לִיצִיאַת מִצְרָיִם A day that is a remembrance of our exodus from Egypt. Most of us don’t put much thought into this line because in every shemoneh esrei of Shabbos and Yom Tov we say this line about the Exodus from Egypt. However, is the [...]
