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

WILL BE LISTED IN PARANTHESIS BELOW) WE ARE COMPILING RECORD-

INGS OF ALL OUR ZOOM CLASSES SO THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO THEM

AT YOUR CONVENIENCE. CHECK OUT OUR TCS WATSAPP. THIS SUNDAY: DEBORAH’S DVAR PESACH PREPARATIONS WITH

DEBORAH WOSNER AT 11 AM! WOMEN ONLY! ZOOM ID: 226-314-5836 MON – FRI: - 7:00 – 7:30 AM: SANHEDRIN 15A — RABBI COHEN - 7:30 AM: SHACHRIS - 8:30 AM: MISHNA BRURA HALACHOS OF THE SEDER —R’ COHEN MON – THUR: - 5:40 PM: MINCHA FOLLOWED BY KITZUR SHULCHAN ARUCH LAWS OF PESACH: 5 MINUTES —R’ COHEN THURS: - 12:00 PM: PIRKEI AVOS—HOWARD WITKIN (ZOOM ID: 4288024739) MON – WED: - 5:00 – 5:30 PM: NAVI SHOFTIM—ELCHONON COHEN (ZOOM ID: 8459893471) DAILY: - 8:30 PM: “Will your seder be b’seder?” WITH R’ COHEN - 9:00 PM: MAARIV FOLLOWED BY 5 MINUTE PEIRUSH ON TEFILLAH—R’ COHEN FRIDAY (MARCH 27 - PARSHAS VAYIKRA): - 8:00 AM: SHORT TORAS CHAIM VORT ON PARSHA WITH R’ COHEN - 5:40 PM: MINCHA (ZOOM) - 6:52 PM: CANDLE-LIGHTING - 7:38 PM: KRIAS SHEMA (EARLIEST TIME) MOTSAI SHABBOS: - 8:00 PM: MAARIV (ZOOM) SUNDAY: - 8:00 AM: SHACHRIS - 6:00 AM: EARLIEST TALLIS - 9:52 AM: LATEST SHEMA - 10:54 AM: LATEST SHACHRIS - 1:30 PM: EARLIEST MINCHA - 8:30 AM: KITZUR AND COFFEE WITH R’ COHEN - 1:00 PM: PARSHA AND CHASSIDUS WITH YEHUDIT GARMAISE (ZOOM ID: 2889690909) - 7:00 PM: MINCHA/MAARIV

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Rabbi Moshe Cohen Community Rabbi

Miryum Schoen Community Director

Justin Levi President Jonah Light Vice President

Ed Ryaboy Gabbai Ilana Tatarsky Shabbos Engagement Coordinator

Ilana@thecommunityshul.com

Education Team Michael Abramson Avraham Gordon

Ben Elterman

Women’s Programming Rebecca Levi Aviva Stepen

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

Shabbos Vayikra

Candlelighting: 6:52 PM | Shabbos ends: 7:56 PM

March 28, 2020 — 3 Nissan 5780

Short Vort – Toras Chaim

The Torah of life

Vayikra 1:1 “And he called to Moshe…”

The Midrash comments that a talmid chacham who lacks derech eretz is less

than a carcass. The Midrash proves this point from Moshe who did not enter

the tent of meeting until he was called. Why is this talmid chacham com-

pared to carcass? Rav Aharon Kotler z”l explained that if one does not act

with derech eretz, because If a person is not consistent internally with the

Torah that he has learned, he is an empty vessel – a dead container.

Lesson: Live what you learn

Get real with God

Vayikra 2:11 “All sourdough and honey cannot be offered as a sacrifice”

Why are sourdough and honey forbidden to be brought in a Mincha offer-

ing? These ingredients are symbolic of the yetzer hora. Sourdough causes

things to puff up in the way arrogance cause a person to feel superior. Hon-

ey makes things that do not taste good seem sweet.

Lesson: Don’t be arrogant. Be real and authentic.

Robbing Hood

Vayikra 1:2 When a man shall offer a sacrifice…..

Rashi comments that the use of the word “Adam” for “man” in the pasuk,

reminds us that just as Adam did not bring a Korban from things that were

stolen, so too, we should be careful not to bring a korban from things that

are stolen. This prompts a question at the comparison. Adam owned every-

thing. It would have been impossible for him to steal anything. Chofetz

Chaim explained that we need to be as sure as Adam was that we have not

stolen and therefore be constantly be on the alert to the possibility that we

have misappropriated from others or from HaShem.

Lesson: Make sure that you are not stealing (money, time, etc.) from others

or from HaShem!

Good Shabbos,

Rabbi Cohen

SPONSORSHIPS

This week’s virtual Seudah Shlishis is sponsored by Deborah Procel!

THANK YOU -A HUGE thank you to Mehran Senehi for purchasing and donating a new laptop to the office! -To Frankie Horowitz and Daniel Suriel for delivering this week’s Tomchei Shabbos route!

MAZEL TOV -To Jeff and Judy Gruen on the birth and bris of their newest grandson, Yaakov Moshe! -To Rabbi Aryeh and Rochel Markman on the birth of a granddaugh-ter to Yaakov and Zeesie Mirman! -Congratulations to last week’s photo contest winners: THE HIRSCH-MANNS & THE WITKINS! You can still submit your photo for this week’s contest! CHECK OUT THE WINNING PHOTOS….

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY SHUL

With HaShem’s help and everyone else’s cooperation we have successfully set up online davening and learning programs through ZOOM. This is an application which can be downloaded on your smartphone or laptop. In order to join a ZOOM meeting, you must click “join meeting” and use the specific ZOOM ID number for that meeting. Our ID number(s) are listed on the schedule which is located on the back of this bulletin, which we will now send out weekly. Our next goal is to make recordings of these classes available for those who would like to listen at a more convenient time.

Due to recent events, the community watsapp has become a place to help support, encourage, share, and ask for help. We want to keep this platform open to allow anyone who wants to make such a post there. However we want to give you the opportunity to join our second chat, which will only have admin posting and essential information regarding shul events, clas-ses, and times. You can also mute the notifications on either chats, if you want to stay a part of both but don’t want the constant buzz or ding of notifications. If you would like to be added to either of the community shul watsapp chats, please email me at miryum@thecommunityshul.com with your phone number.

Thank you for all your help and patience! It is inspiring to see what the community shul has “virtually” built.

B’virkas shmiras hanefesh v’haguf!

- Miryum Schoen

TORAH ETHICS—A RISKY BUSINESS

Q. Reuven organized a fund raiser for a widow and her six orphaned children in his

town. The campaign was successful, and over $100,000 was raised. A very prominent

and successful businessman with a sterling reputation approached Reuven and offered

to provide a guaranteed 20% return on the funds on behalf of the widow and her chil-

dren, if Reuven would invest the funds with him. Reuven agreed. The businessman

paid the dividends in a timely manner for six months, but unfortunately went bankrupt

after that, and the entire sum was lost. Does Reuven have any responsibility to replace

the funds?

A. Lending or investing funds earmarked for charity without securing the transaction

with collateral that can be used to collect from in case the transaction is defaulted, is

considered as if the trustee personally damaged the people for whom it was intended.

So, Reuven must reimburse the full amount that he had collected and then lost from

his private funds, unless the widow and orphans (upon becoming adults) explicitly

forgive his obligation to them. However, Reuven is permitted to deduct the dividends

paid during the six months that the widow had received from the total amount owed.

MAOS CHITIM

Dear Community Member,

While we have Baruch HaShem successfully transferred our operations, learning, and davening to the internet (via zoom), there are aspects of our shul life that will no longer be functioning until this current danger has passed. We will not have kiddush and seudah shlishis or Shabbos meal hospi-tality for the next few weeks and possibly months ahead. This will be a sig-nificant hardship for some members of our community, who cannot afford to have Shabbos lunch or dinner, and who normally attend these events. In addition, since we are being told to avoid inviting others for Shabbos/Pesach to maintain the social distancing, they will not be able to come to our homes for a while. With this in mind, we are encouraging people to sponsor part or all of our (non-) kiddush and (non-) seudah shlishis, so that these people have what to eat for the next few weeks and over Pesach. Since we are not going to incur any hard costs for the shul, we will pass all the funds on to those who need financial help now and for Pesach.

Wishing everyone a bri’us hanefesh v’haguf,

Rabbi Moshe Cohen

PESACH Power of attorney forms can be submitted virtually to

Miryum@thecommunityshul.com. Please indicate whether or not you require an early sale. PDF’s have been sent out in our weekly email and watsapp chat groups. If you missed it, feel free to email or message Miryum for a copy!