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Benjamin Yudin, Rabbi Andrew Markowitz, Associate Rabbi
Shomrei Torah Parshat Metzora - Shabbat Hagadol
8 Nisan, 5779 / April 13, 2019
HAKARAT HaTOV Ba’al Kriah Upstairs - Ari Mayefsky Ba’al Kriah Downstairs - Adam Karp Kenny Frank Youth Minyan Kiddush- Sponsored by Carol and Jeff Cohen in honor of Ari Mayefsky, who taught Jeff how to daven Shacharis and taught Gabe how to lein.
Rabbi Yudin's Shabbat HaGadol Drasha is sponsored by Ann and Joel Pogolowitz in memory of C.H. Fine (Tzvi Leib Ben Eliyahu) ז''ל, Joel's grandfather; and Aaron Schwartz (Aharon Ben Avraham Moshe) ז''ל, Ann’s father.
PACHIM KETANIM FROM RABBI YUDIN—In Honor of Parshat Metzora and Shabbat Hagadol
The opening verse of the parsha (14:2), which describes the purification of the one afflicted with tzara'as - leprosy, teaches "vehuva el haKohen" - he should be brought to the Kohen. Rav Yeruchum Levovitz z"tl, the mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva, notes the contrast between the metzorah and the Nazir - the nazirite - regard-ing whom, in conjunction with his purification in Parshas Naso (6:13), the Torah says "yavi oso" and Rashi teaches, he brings himself. Regarding the metzorah, who too often was a follower of the wrong crowd, with whom he spoke lashon hara, he needs to "switch gears" - change his crowd, and agree to be brought for the purification process that ultimately will lead him to his new noble way of life. This is in contrast to the Nazir who has the strength of character, knows that he wants to grow spiritually, and therefore brings himself even if there are no others to support him. The Korban Pesach was brought b'chaburah - in a group; we too must be especially careful to be with an uplifting chaburah.
Parsha/Haftorah: ArtScroll. 620/1220; Hertz. 470/1209; Living Torah 568/1005
Shabbat Schedule Erev Shabbat - April 12 Early Mincha 6:00pm Earliest Candle Lighting 6:15pm Candle Lighting 7:15pm Mincha/ Kabbalat Shabbat 7:20pm Shabbat - April 13 Morning Sof Z’man Kriyat sh’ma 9:39am Daf Yomi - Chullin 137 8:15am Shacharit Downstairs Beit Medrash 8:15am Shiur by Rabbi Markowitz: “The Fastest Way to Say the Haggadah” Main Shul 9:00am -Preceded at 8:45am by Rabbi Yudin’s shiur Shabbat Afternoon Shabbat Hagadol Drasha 5:55pm with Rabbi Yudin Mincha 7:05pm Seudah Shlishit shiur with Rabbi Nesanel Yudin Havdalah 8:24pm
Early Mincha On Shabbos Is 5:00pm
Bulletin sponsored by:
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Direct phone 201-390-6600
Weekly Schedule April 14-19 Sun. Shacharit 6:30,7:00,8:00am Mincha 2:00,7:25pm Ma’ariv 7:47,9:00pm Shacharit Mon., Thurs. 5:45,6:30,7:45am Tues., Wed. 5:55,6:30,7:45am Fri. 5:35,6:30,7:45am Mincha
Mon. - Thurs. 7:25pm
Ma’ariv Mon. - Thurs. 7:47,9:00pm
Erev Pesach - Erev Shabbat - April 19
Siyum Bechorim by Dr. Adam Karp will be at 5:35am minyan
Eat Chometz until 10:21am Burn Chometz before 11:36am Candle Lighting 7:22pm Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 7:27pm Seder: Not before 8:21pm
Pesach - Shabbat, April 20
Shacharit 8:15, 9:00am Sof Z’man Kriyat Sh’ma 9:33am Mincha 7:20pm Candle lighting 8:31pm Seder: Not before 8:31pm
LEARNING SPONSORSHIPS A Week of Learning
April 7- April 13
Sponsored by Jo-Ann and Bruce Goldstein to commemorate the Yahrzeit of Bruce's father, Aaron Goldstein, Aharon ben Avraham ז''ל.
April 13- April 19
Sponsored in the zechus of a refuah sheleimah for Shimon Simcha Ben Penina Yehudis.
A Day of Learning April 15- Sponsored by Arlene and Andre Helcman to commemorate the Yahrzeit of Sophie Helcman, Shaindel bat Avrohom Shmuel ז''ל.
MECHIRAT CHAMETZ SCHEDULE Sunday, April 14th: Hechsher Keilim 7– 9pm Mechirat Chametz: 9am-12pm with Rabbi Yudin
Monday, April 15th: 9-10pm with Rabbi Yudin Tuesday, April 16th: 8-10pm with Rabbi Yudin
Wednesday, April 17th: 8:30-10:30pm with Rabbi Markowitz
DAYS OF FREEDOM - TORAH WEB BOOK FOR SALE Torah Web has produced a new book called Days of Freedom featuring Divrei Torah on Pesach, Sefira and Shavuos by Rabbi Yudin, Rabbi Hershel Schachter and Rabbis Haber, Koenigsberg, Neuberger, Rosensweig, Yonason Sacks, Sobolofsky, Stein, Twersky and Willig. $10 per book (in stores it is $20!). Contact Michael Glass [email protected] or 973-462-3078 to purchase.
MAZAL TOV Rochelle and Irving Gerber, on the Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat Hagadol of their granddaughter Rebecca Shira (Chana Shira), daughter of Dr. Natalie Gerber. Hannah Lee and Robert Gold (of Wayne) on the birth of a granddaughter, born to their children Bri-anna and Avraham Davydov (of Brooklyn). Mazal tov to Uncle Jason Gold on the birth of a niece. Dr. Hadassah Kovacs, on the Bar Mitzvah of her grandson, Elan Eliezer Kovacs, son of Shalom and Aviva Kovacs of Baltimore. Emma and Jeff Lebowitz on the birth of a grandson. Mazal tov to new parents Benjy and Aviva Lebowitz and big brother Gavriel.
ברוכים הבאיםGabrielle and Akiva Berger who have just moved into the community. Rabbi Yonah and Mrs. Mary Fuld, parents of Ari Fuld, H”YD, who are visiting with us.
YOM HAZIKARON-YOM HA’ATZMAUT OBSERVANCE
This year’s community observance and subsequent celebration will take place on Wednesday evening, May 8th at 7pm. The security boulders in front of Shomrei Torah will be dedicated in memory of Ari Fuld, H”YD and other victims of terror, including those lost at the Tree of Life synagogue. The committees for the dedication and celebration are in formation. If you would like to participate in either, please email Larry Bravman at [email protected] or leave a message at 201-796-8544.
YUDIN TRIBUTE UPDATE What an amazing, meaningful and memorable evening we enjoyed last Sunday evening. We broke every fundraising and participation record as we gave the Rabbi and Shevi their much-deserved hakarat ha-tov. The Shul's website: https://www.shomrei-torah.org/yudintributevideo# has links to the videos from the evening, as well as to wonderful articles from the JewishLink, the Jewish Standard and Mishpacha maga-zine. Thank you to all!
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES [email protected]
To sponsor Seudah Shelishit- Esther Silvestri at 201-741-5341 or [email protected].
MIKVAH SCHEDULE Beginning Sunday, April 28, Sunday Through Thursday Hours Will Be 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm. Current Mikvah hours are Sunday – Thursday from 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm The Mikvah opens on Motzei Shabbat and Motzei Yom Tov approximately 1- hour after Shabbat and Yom Tov ends, and stays open for 1-1/2 hours. On Motzei Pesach / Motzei Shabbat, April 27, the mikvah will be open 10:15 pm – 11:45 pm. Any arrival after 1/2 hour before closing time will incur a $25.00 late fee. For further details, see Mikvah webpage on Shomrei-Torah.org, under Services or call the Mikvah tape for updates and information: 201-796-0350. Please call Dossy Brandstatter with any questions or concerns: 201-796-5839. For a Friday or Yom Tov night appointment, please call 201-401-2386.
REFUAH SHELEIMAH Bayla Leah bat Raizel; Chava Shalvah Gavriella bat Shani Aliza; Eliyahu ben Batsheva; Ruvain Ephraim ben Chaya Leah; Mordechai ben Chaya Malka and Shimon Simcha ben Penina Yehudit.
SHOMREI TORAH LEARNING SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM To sponsor a day, month, or year of learning visit www.shomrei-torah.org/learning or contact Mendy Aron, Mike Glass, Milty Frank or Neil Gordon.
SHIURIM SCHEDULE FOR WEEK OF APRIL 14 - 19 Naftali Aron Torah Enrichment Program: Monday- Rabbi Yudin at 9:00am; Tuesday- Rabbi Markowitz at 8:45am (note early start), followed by Rabbi Yudin; Wednesday- Rabbi Markowitz at 9:00am; Thursday- Rabbi Yudin at 9:00am and Rabbi Goldstein at 9:30am.
Monday -Thursday 8-10pm- Fogelman Memorial Beit Medrash learning. Bring a Chavruta and learn in our Beit Medrash, along with our Fellows.
Mondays 8:15pm - Challenges from the Parsha with Rabbi Yudin
Tuesday 8:15pm - Gemara Megillah Chaburah with Rabbi Markowitz.
Tuesday 9:15pm - Join our weekly chavruta learning of Mishnayot Sanhedrin, with the goal of making a siyum when completed.
Wednesday 12:45pm - Women’s shiur with Rabbi Yudin
Wednesday 8:15pm - No Gemara Megillah class with Rabbi Markowitz this week.
Wednesday 9:15pm - Gemara Beitzah with Rabbi Yudin
Thursday 8:35pm - Fogelman Memorial BMP Parsha Schmooze will not take place this week.
Thursday 9:15 pm- Q&A on the Parsha will not take place this week.
Daf Yomi: Sunday after the 7am minyan, with either Rabbi Yudin, Rabbi Marko-witz or Rabbi Leifer; Mon-Thurs. at 8 pm, with Rabbi Zvi Loewy.
YOUTH DEPARTMENT SCHEDULE Kenny Frank Youth Minyan will meet this week. Teen Minyan MVP Program (Boys ages 9-11/ Grades 4, 5, and 6) will meet in the Jr Cong room at 9:00am. Cocoa and Conversation (Girls ages 9-11/ Grades 4, 5, and 6) will meet in the Jr Congregation room at 9:00am. Junior Congregation (ages 7-8/ Grades 2 and 3) will meet at 9:00am in the Jr Congregation room. Super Siddur Program (ages 5-6/ Kindergarten and 1st grade) will meet at 9:00am in the first classroom on the left. Busy Beginners Program (ages 2.5-4) will meet at 9:00am in the middle class-room. Tot Shabbat (ages 0-3) will meet at 10:30am in the upstairs infant care room.
NURSERY SCHOOL NEWS The Nursery School children are experiencing Pesach with all of their senses. They tasted sweet, salty, bitter and sour foods dipped into all sorts of interesting concoctions! The Young Explorers had a bread tasting culinary experience where they sampled ba-gels, crackers, breadsticks and croutons. They chose the croutons as their favorite cha-metz product! They also did some amazing science experiments replicating the splitting of the Yam Suf using milk, water, food coloring and pepper! Their reaction was priceless, much like the Jewish people leaving Mitzrayim. They learned about triangles and pyra-mids and built pyramid towers out of blocks and cups. They cleaned the classroom and “changed over" the dishes in the kitchen center to Pesach plates and cutlery. All of the children enjoyed singing Pesach and Spring songs during Music with Morah Evelyn, where they built big towers out of drums. The highlight of the week was baking matzahs at Morah Esther's Matzah factory! The children poured water and flour, shaped their own round matzahs and pierced holes in them with forks. They baked the matzahs quickly and enjoyed them as a yummy snack with cream cheese! The Infant- Toddlers also learned about baking matzah and pizza with a peel. They love the matzah ball song and the story about Lotsa Matzah!
SCRIP NOTICE
Pesach is coming. Place your orders now so that we can ensure that we have everything you need in stock. Did you know that we can have SCRIP for Food Showcase, Cedar Market, and Glatt Express deposited directly into your store account? You can also easily put your ShopRite, Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks cards directly into your store accounts and apps without having to worry about losing your gift cards. This makes your shop-ping trip seamless! In addition, as always, you can have your SCRIP deliv-ered directly to your home at a convenient time. SCRIP is also available for all the other Kosher stores, including Ma'adan, Petak's, Zadie's, Grand and Essex and Season's.
To order SCRIP contact: Milty Frank 201-916-9721 or [email protected]; David Heiser, 201-978-5347 or [email protected]; or order online by visiting www.shomrei-torah.org/scrip. See www.shomrei-torah.org/scrip for a complete listing of all stores accepting our SCRIP.
IMPORTANT NORPAC MISSION TO WASHINGTON
Please join us for this year’s NORPAC’s Mission to Washington, DC on Tues-day, May 21st , for the single most important day of US-Israel relations advo-cacy! This year, there are more new Members of Congress than ever before who have not had experience with these issues, and who are targets of ex-tremist, anti-Israel propaganda. To register visit https://norpac.net/mission-registration. Contact Caren Eisenstadter at [email protected] for more information.
JNF BRUNCH WITH PROFESSOR ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Jewish National Fund invites you to an in-depth and dynamic discussion with Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and JNF CEO Russell F. Robinson at The Rockleigh, 26 Paris Ave., Rockleight, NJ, on Sunday morning, May 5th. To register:https://www.jnf.org/events-landing-pages/brunch-with-alan-dershowitz. For further information, contact Michael Bodner [email protected].
CHOMETZ AND MATZOH AT THE PATERSON MINYAN! Please help make any of the upcoming 9am Minyanim @ Federation Apart-ments 510 E. 27th Street/12th Ave. April 13- Parshat Metzorah / Special Shabbat Hagadol Drash by Nachum Nachum; Pesach, Chometz-free Minyanim: Sunday, April 21 & Saturday, April 27. Your participation helps benefit Jewish senior citizens from all backgrounds. Visit: www.patersonshul.org or contact [email protected].
JFCS PANTRY IS STOCKED WITH KOSHER-FOR-PASSOVER FOOD! Thanks to the Jewish Federation of Northern NJ and the Orthodox Union, Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern NJ has received a sig-nificant donation of Kosher-for-Passover food. Those in need may make an appointment with JFCS to visit our Food Pantries in Teaneck or Fair Lawn during the first two weeks of April Call 201-837-9090 to make an appointment or to learn more. Appointments are completely confidential. If you have any questions about any of the JFCS services, please also contact us at 201-837-9090.
SHOMREI TORAH PHOTO DIRECTORY - THIS SUNDAY Our next photography date is this Sunday, April 14. Due to increased inter-est, we have added more time slots for this Sunday. Please sign up HERE to have your photo taken this Sunday.
CHAMETZ DONATIONS From Tuesday April 9 - Wednesday April 17 at 9am, there will be a box in the shul’s back lobby to leave your unopened containers of chametz for dona-tion to the Fair Lawn Food Pantry. For any questions, please contact Michael Glass at 973-462-3078 or [email protected]
TZEDAKAH NEEDED With Pesach coming, the need for tzedakah is very high and our Shul’s chari-ty fund is in need. Please see Irwin Markow or the Rabbi or simply drop a check in the lockbox made out to the charity fund.
NAFTALI ARON T.E.P. ANNUAL BREAKFAST We are pleased to announce that the "M&M Boys", Milty Frank and Michael Glass will be honored at the Naftali Aron Torah Enrichment Program 13th Annual Breakfast. The breakfast will take place on Sunday, May 5th at 9:15 am. To make a reservation and/or sponsor please contact Mendy Aron at [email protected] or visit https://www.shomrei-torah.org/event/natep. All reservations must be made by May 1 The cost of admission for the Breakfast is $25 per person and an additional $25 to sponsor. The winner of 4 tickets to a Yankee vs Astro's game worth $520.00 will be drawn at the Breakfast. If interested in taking a chance, contact Mendy Aron at [email protected].
NEW JERSEY NCSY ANNUAL BERGEN COUNTY BREAKFAST
New Jersey NCSY will be hosting our Annual Bergen County Scholarship Breakfast on Sunday, May 12th, 9am, at the home of Alissa and Shimmie Horn, 465 Winthrop Road, Teaneck. This year, our honorees in-clude: Rebbetzin Shira and Rabbi Jeremy Donath; Debbie and Orin Golubtchik; Valerie and Etan Mirwis; Nechama and Steven Pudell; and Mere-dith and Kenny Yager.
THIS SUNDAY AT DAUGHTERS OF MIRIAM
This Sunday, April 14, we visit the Daughters of Miriam. Davening starts at 9am followed by breakfast and visits with special people. Chesed hours are available! Join us. For information contact Sam Heller at [email protected] or Rabbi Mirsky at [email protected]. Your attendance would be greatly appreciated!
YOUTH DIRECTOR SEARCH Shomrei Torah is looking for a new Youth Director! Know anyone who would be interested in the role? Please email [email protected] for more infor-mation.
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