Welcome to the DAT Minyan! Shabbat Noach

October 13, 2018 - 4 Cheshvan, 5779 Joseph Friedman, Rabbi | Mark Raphaely, President

Candle Lighting

Havdalah

6:08 pm 7:04pm

DAT Minyan is a dynamic and friendly Modern Orthodox synagogue for all ages and dedicated to meaningful personal spiritual development, community growth, youth involvement, Torah education, and Religious Zionism.

DAT Minyan - 560 S. Monaco Pkwy., Denver, CO 80224 - 720-941-0479 - www.datminyan.org

D’var Torah with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

The parsha of Noach brings to a close the eleven chapters that precede the call to Abraham and the beginning of the special relationship between him and his descendants, and God. During these eleven chapters, the Torah gives prominence to four stories: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the generation of the Flood, and the Tower of Babel. Each of these stories involves an interaction between God and humanity. Each represents another step in the maturation of humanity. If we trace the course of these stories, we can discover a connection that goes deeper than chronology, a developmental line in the narrative of the evolution of humanity.

The first story is about Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit. Once they have eaten, and discovered shame, God asks them what they have done:

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

The man said, “The woman You put here with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” (3:11 –13)

Faced with primal failure, the man blames the woman, the woman blames the serpent. Both deny personal responsibility: it wasn’t me; it wasn’t my fault. This is the birth of what today is called the victim culture.

The second drama is about Cain and Abel. Both bring offerings. Abel’s is accepted, Cain’s is not – why this is so is not relevant here. In his anger, Cain kills Abel. Again there is an exchange between a human being and God:

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

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Learning Opportunities @ the DAT Minyan • Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: Daily, after Shacharit • Daf Yomi Shiur (30 min): after Shacharit on Sun through Fri , and 8:25 am on

Shabbat • Mishnayot: Daily, between Mincha and Maariv • Halacha Chaburah: Sun, 10:00 am—11:00 am, resumes 10/21/18 • “Short & Sweet Talmud Class” (30 min-never longer): Wed, 9:20 am, DAT

Minyan offices at BMH-BJ (men only) • Rabbi Friedman Wed. Night Class: 7:30 pm, Part 1 (Marriage), of new series

on “Relationships“ • SHAWL: Shabbat afternoon women’s only study group

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Shabbat Schedule (All Shabbat services take place in BMH-BJ Fisher

Hall, 560 S. Monaco Pkwy)

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service. FRIDAY

6:05 pm: Mincha/Maariv

(Shema should be recited after 7:04 pm)

SHABBAT

Parasha: Page 30 / Haftarah: Page 1131

7:30 am: Hashkama Minyan

The Hashkama Minyan kiddush is sponsored by David and Nancy Kaufman in honor of their

children, Sam, Simon and Alana

8:25 am: Daf Yomi

8:30 am: Tefillah Warm-up with Ellyn Hutt

9:00 am: Shacharit

Kiddush this week is co-sponsored by William Silvers in memory of his father Leo Silvers on his

yahrzeit, and by Eve Rabinovitz in memory of her daughter Elianna Chaya Lee Rabinovitz-

Randone

SHAWL, our women’s Shabbat learning group will not meet this week

4:40 pm: HS Boy’s Gemara w/ Nathan Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home

4:55 pm: Rabbi Friedman presents Part 3 of his new 6-part Shabbat Afternoon series, “Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden”

5:55 pm: Mincha, followed by Seudah Shlisheet

7:04 pm: Maariv / Havdalah —————————————————— Weekday Schedule

(Non-Yom Tov weekday services Sunday through Friday morning take place at DAT School, 6825 E.

Alameda Ave.) SHACHARIT

Sunday: 8:00 am

Monday through Friday: 6:35 am

MINCHA/MAARIV

Monday - Thursday : 6:10 pm

Friday: 5:55 pm, Community Shabbat Dinner 7:00 pm

DAT MINYAN NEWS, EVENTS AND LEARNING

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Mazal Tov to Ella Pomeranz, and parents Alan and Mimi, on her Bat Mitzvah Saturday evening!

Mazal Tov to Jayne and Ted Brandt on the marriage this Sunday in California of their daughter, Yael, to Max Miller, son of Howard Miller and Amy Toltz-Miller!

Our thanks to the generous sponsors of our Community Shabbat Dinner next Friday night (October 19th): Marc and Claudia Braunstein, David and Shira Fishman, Fred and Pia Hirsch, Michael Joshua, George and Oksana Khavasov, Evan and Evi Makovsky, Jonathan and Lisa Perlmutter, Mark and Sarah Raphaely, Butler Rents, Jewish Colorado and Rosenberg’s Kosher.

It’s really not too soon to be thinking about Purim! If there are women who would like to learn how to read Megilla, please contact Julie Lieber at lieberjul@yahoo.com .

Construction is underway on the new Denver Academy of Torah High School building. As a result, access to DAT’s north parking lot at Oneida is now restricted. Fencing has been rerouted to allow pedestrian traffic from the Lex to DAT and Ekar Farm, but much of the sidewalk on the north side of the property will be restricted, and access through the property will limited to use of the lawn only. Please note that as construction progresses, there may be times when access is completely limited. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Have you noticed something different about our webpage? We are in the process of updating and streamlining our website, www.datminyan.org. Please bear with us while we make final adjustments and changes to assure we achieve a great final product. If you notice any typos, or wish to share content suggestions and constructive feedback, please contact Rachel Rabinovitch or Aaron Segall. And, if you were not already aware, our website includes a membership directory which is available to all members once you’ve logged into your DAT Minyan account and set up a password.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS #LIFEHACK for Teens: Unlocking the Secret to Mental Wellbeing Sundays Oct 14, 21, 28 & November 18 3:00 pm-5:00

pm @ The Jewish Experience Cost: $125. Contact Chaya Parkoff at chaya.parkoff@gmail.com for more information or to register.

Tali Berman, Autism Specialist and author from Israel, will be hosting a 2-hour workshop sharing an innovative and integrative approach to autism, taking place on Sunday, October 14th, from 10:00 am to noon at Green-Spaces, 2590 Walnut St., in Denver. Registration fee is $25 per person. For more information and to reserve your seat, go to https://whole_child_autism_workshop_denver.eventbrite.com .

The community is invited to a free musical evening with singer and guitarist Yosef Karduner, Sunday, October 14th, 7:00 pm in the BMH-BJ Chapel. For free tickets, go to http://tiny.cc/Karduner .

JCRC and the National Council of Jewish Women present Candidates Forum 2018, Tuesday, October 16th at Temple Emanuel. Meet and greet the candidates for state and federal offices and learn about ballot initiatives at 6:00 pm, then hear from the candidates during their Forum at 7:00 pm. Registration is required at Jewishcolorado.org/CandidatesForum .

The Shabbat Project presents the Mega Challah Bake of Colorado, Wednesday, October 25th, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at BMH-BJ Synagogue. Join fellow Jewish women of Colorado in an evening of challah baking, fun and inspiration. Pre-registration online by October 15th, $20 per person or $40 at the door. Register at http://denverchallahbake.eventbrite.com .

Israel Bonds Denver presents”What World Leaders Really Want,” an evening with former Director General Eli Groner, Sunday, November 4th, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Crestmoor home of Lisa and Jonathan Perlmutter . Light dinner and refreshments. Registration required at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?

We would like to thank our Legacy Society donors for investing in our future by naming the DAT Minyan with a gift in their will, trust, retire-ment account or life insurance policy. Our Legacy Society includes:

Graeme Bean

Steve and Ellyn Hutt

Rachel Rabinovitch

You can add your name to this list with a legacy gift to the DAT Minyan. To arrange for your gift or for more information about our Legacy Society program, please contact any of the following Committee Members: Rob Allen, Myndie Brown, Sarah Raphaely or Steve Weiser.

THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING FUTURE GENERATIONS WITH YOUR GENEROSITY

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground (49:9-10).

Once again the theme is responsibility, but in a different sense. Cain does not deny personal responsibility. He does not say, “It wasn’t me.” He denies moral responsibility. “I am not my brother’s keeper.” I am not responsible for his safety. Yes, I did it because I felt like it. Cain has not yet learned the difference between “I can” and “I may.”

The third is the story of Noah. Noah is introduced with great expectations: “He will comfort us” (5:29), says his father Lamech, giving him his name. This is the one to redeem man’s failure, to offer comfort for “the earth which God cursed.” Yet though Noah is a righteous man, he is not a hero. Noah does not save humanity. He saves only himself, his family and the animals he takes with him in the ark. The Zohar contrasts him unfavourably with Moses: Moses prayed for his generation, Noah did not. In the end, his failure to take responsibility for others diminishes him as well: in the last scene we see him drunk and exposed in his tent. In the words of the Midrash, “he profaned himself and became profaned.”[2] One cannot be a sole survivor and still survive. Sauve-qui- peut (“let everyone who can, save himself”) is not a principle of Judaism. We have to do what we can to save others, not just ourselves. Noah failed the test of collective responsibility.

The fourth is the enigmatic story of the Tower of Babel. The sin of its builders is unclear, but is indicated by two key words in the text. The story is framed, beginning and end, with the phrase kol ha’aretz, “the whole earth” (11:1, 8). In between, there is a series of similar sounding words: sham (there), shem (name), and shamayim (heaven). The story of Babel is a drama about the two key words of the first sentence of the Torah: “In the beginning God created heaven (shamayim) and earth (aretz)” (1:1). Heaven is the domain of God; earth is the domain of man. By attempting to build a tower that would “reach heaven,” the builders of Babel were men trying to be like gods.

This story seems to have little to do with responsibility, and to be focusing on a different issue than do the first three. However, not accidentally does the word responsibility suggest response-ability. The Hebrew equivalent, ahrayut, comes from the word aher, meaning “an other.” Responsibility is always a response to something or someone. In Judaism, it means response to the command of God. By attempting to reach heaven, the builders of Babel were in effect saying: we are going to take the place of God. We are not going to respond to His law or respect His boundaries, not going to accept His Otherness. We are going to create an environment where we rule, not Him, where the Other is replaced by Self. Babel is the failure of ontological responsibility – the idea that something beyond us makes a call on us.

What we see in Genesis 1–11 is an exceptionally tightly constructed four-act drama on the theme of responsibility and moral development, presenting the maturation of humanity, as echoing the maturation of the individual. The first thing we learn as children is that our acts are under our control (personal responsibility). The next is that not everything we can do, we may do (moral responsibility). The next stage is the realisation that we have a duty not just to ourselves but to those on whom we have an influence (collective responsibility). Ultimately we learn that morality is not a mere human convention, but is written into the structure of existence. There is an Author of being, therefore there is an Authority beyond mankind to whom, when acting morally, we respond (ontological responsibility).

This is developmental psychology as we have come to know it through the work of Jean Piaget, Eric Erikson, Lawrence Kohlberg and Abraham Maslow. The subtlety and depth of the Torah is remarkable. It was the first, and is still the greatest, text on the human condition and our psychological growth from instinct to conscience, from “dust of the earth” to the morally responsible agent the Torah calls “the image of God.”

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Sacks (Continued from page 1)

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RABBI SACKS (continued)

DAT MINYAN MEMBER MILESTONES

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The DAT Minyan wishes to acknowledge the following milestones* of our members in the coming week:

*These details were obtained from the DAT Minyan database, which contains information provided by the members when they joined. We apologize for any

omissions or errors. For changes, please log on to your account and update the information as needed, or contact the synagogue office at 720-941-0479.

Refuah Shelayma Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shelayma. Names are kept on the list until the next Rosh Chodesh. Help us keep the list accurate by verifying the necessary details each month on the Cholim Document

at https://goo.gl/aeyJG2.

Baruch Getzel ha Cohen ben Esther

Bella bat Malka

Carmel ben Tirtza

Chaim Shmuel ben Miriam

Chaim Tuvia ben Dina

Chana Yetta bat Bryna

Channa bat Henny Rus

Chaya Chanah Elisheva Rivka bat Sarah

Chaya Miriam bat Shoshana

Chaya Orah bat Sarah

Chaya Sarah Rivka bat Leah

Devorah Leah bat Chanah

Dinah bat Chayala

Doniel ben Chana

Dovid leb Avraham Halevi ben Dina Esther

Eliyahu Chaim ha Cohen ben Sara Rifka

Ephraim ben Henna

Esther Leah bat Rachel

Esti bat Sara

Faige bat Sarah

Gavriel Yehoram ben Leah Cecil

Geula bat Chana

Guy Chaim ben Rita

Hadassah bat Fruma Rahel

Hersch Leib ha Cohen ben Feige Rifka

Hillel Yerachmiel ben Ariella

Ilana Dintza bat Ita Mirrel

Jerry ben Chaya Chana

Kalia bat Miriam

Keile bat Sarah Leah

Leah Devora Kivitiya bat Chaya

Levick Yitzchak ben Bracha

Leya bat Sara

Malka bat Sarah

Mendel Ila ben Frida Miriam

Michel ben Leah

Michoel Zisel ben Barbara

Mikimia bat Pesha Baila

Miriam Tova Chaya bat Chanah

Pinchas ben Beula Batya

Rifka bat Leah

Rivka bat Penina

Roshka bat Bryna

Sarah Shoshanna bat Sarah

Shashi bat Batya Baila

Shifra Hadassah bat Chaya Leah

Shira Chana bat Sara

Shirley bat Hasia Devorah

Shoshanah bat Miriam

Shoshanna bat Liora

Shoshanna bat Smadar

Shoshanna Miriam bat Chanah

Shulamit Leah bat Chava

Tirtza bat Sarah

Tomas ben Galit

Tova bat Nechama

Tzvi Gershon ben Shaindel Shaina Raizel

Yasmine bat Miriam

Yehuda Mordechai Shrage ben Roiza Feige

Yehudit bat Leah

Yisroel Yaakov Moshe ben Sarah

Yitzchak Isser ben Sima

Yochanan ben Sarah

Yona Malka bat Pola

Yonatan Zeev ben Netaa

Yosef ben Bruria Katrina

Yosef ben Malka Machla

This Day In Jewish History - 13 Oct / 4 Cheshvan 4 Cheshvan, 1541 - The Jews of Algeria institute the holiday of “Purim Edom” (Red Purim), when they escape being

overtaken by the Spanish army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Admiral Andrea Doria. Legend has it that when the Spaniards landed at Algiers, their fleet was destroyed by a wind storm due to the prayers of Rabbi Solomon Duran, grandson of the famous medieval Rabbi Solomon ben Simon Duran. To celebrate their good fortune to have survived the Spanish invasion, Algeria’s Jews initiated their own Purim holiday.

October 13, 1843 - At Sinsheimer’s Café on New York’s Lower East Side, Henry Jones and 11 other German-Jewish immigrants gather to confront what they describe as “the deplorable condition of Jews in this, our newly adopted country.” As a result of that meeting, the B’nai Brith (children of the covenant) organization is created. The first action of the organization was to create an insurance policy that would award Jewish widows $30 toward the funeral expenses of their spouse, a stipend of $1 per week for the rest of their lives plus a stipend for all male children, in addition to teaching them a trade. From this, the organization grew into a system of fraternal lodges and chapters offering humanitarian aid throughout the world.

October 13, 1988 - More than 4,000 people attend the first concert held at Masada, concluding Israel’s celebration of its 40th anniversary. Ticket prices ranged from $150 to $950 and featured actor Gregory Peck as the Master of Ceremonies. The challenges of staging the concert at this location were said to be symbolic of the reason the site was selected for the event; the Jews’ refusal to submit to foreign domination.

October 13, 2016 - American singer-songwriter and author Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, and given the Hebrew name Shabtai Zisi ben Avraham, Dylan distanced himself from his Jewish upbringing in the years following his Bar Mitzvah and converted to Christianity in 1978, though has visited Israel and remains supportive of Jewish causes.

Levi Bean, Holden Demain, Avi Mordechai Earlix, Nathan Hill, Jonathan Perlmutter, Rachel Rabinovitch, Emma Raphaely, Julia Raphaely, Craig Schottenstein

Mickey Barter – Sat., 10/20/18 (11 Cheshvan)

YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

All teens are invited to join us for

our new weekly program,

“Morning Motivation,” 10:30

am in the Library, each Shabbat

other than Shabbat Mevarchim,

when we will have our monthly

Teen Minyan

We welcome all children through 6th grade to

join our Junior Congregation Program.

ALL youth groups meet at 9:00 am.

If you or someone you know (college age and

above) is interested in working in the Youth

Groups Program, please contact Mor

at youth@datminyan.org.

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Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service.

NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

NEW SERIES ON RELATIONSHIPS BEGINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT, OCT. 17TH, AT DAT

With 25 years of marriage counseling experience - with training both as a rabbi and as a military chaplain - Rabbi Friedman has helped dozens of individuals and couples navigate the difficult road we call "relationships." This series is perfect for those who are married, those who are dating, those who have a great relationship but want to make it better, as well as those whose relationship could use some tweaking... this series has something for you.

The classes all build on each other, so plan to commit to these four Wednesday nights at 7:30 - we'll see you there!

DAT MINYAN SPECIAL EVENTS

DAT MINYAN SPECIAL EVENTS