11/29/2024 09:59:28 AM

Nov29

11/29/2024 09:55:13 AM

Nov29

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored by
Allan & Lorraine Sheps in memory of Allan's father Samuel Sheps
&
Manya Gilbert and family in memory of Manya's husband Jerry Gilbert
on his 9th yahrzeit
&
Rebecca Golosky and Elaine and Gerry in memory of Rebecca's husband Albert (Bugsy) Golosky

November 30, 2024

29 Heshvan 5785

Shabbat Mevarhim - Mahar Hodesh

Rosh Hodesh Kislev begins the evening of Saturday, November 30 and ends
the evening of Monday, December 2, 2024.

SHABBAT SERVICES

(November 30)

Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...4:15PM

No Kabbalat Shabbat services until further notice

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(December 1 to 6)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday Evening...5:00PM *Note time
Monday to Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

Candlelighting: 4:24PM

Shabbat Ends: 5:24PM

Parashat Toldot

Torah: Genesis 27:28-28:9 (p. 157) Maftir: Genesis 28:7-28:9 (p. 161)
Haftarah: I Samuel 20:18-42 | Shabbat Mahar Hodesh (p. 1216)

Upcoming Shabbat Morning Experiences

December 7: Two Simultaneous Minyanim

Service “k’regil” (in the usual manner) in the Sanctuary, beginning at 9 am.
קשר/Kesher (Connection) Minyan in the Sisterhood Hall, beginning at 9 am,
led by Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell. The Kesher Minyan will follow the
general structure of the morning service but will include song, silence, prayer, mindfulness, an opportunity to go outside, as well as study and discussion on the parashah (no Torah reading).

Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested in this
special Shabbat experience!

After services we will join together for a Kiddush Lunch which will include a special text learning/ discussion led by Rabbi Jordan.

December 14: Special Guest Darshanit

Sharon Zohar, will speak during the main sanctuary service about the collection of poetry she recently edited that explores our post-October world.

SHABBAT SPONSORSHIPS
Havdallah is sponsored by Elaine & Paul and children and grandchildren
in memory of Jean Mahl

Seudah Shlisheet is sponsored by Ava Weinberger Cross
in memory of her beloved mother Sophie Weinberger

Message from Rabbi Philip Scheim

Toldot

As was her custom on Thursday nights, Shmerl’s wife was preparing the Shabbes meals. This night, however, something was wrong. She turned to her husband and said, “Shmerl, something isn’t right with this chicken. It doesn’t look right. I’m going to throw it out and cook another one.”

Shmerl offers another suggestion. “You know dear, instead of throwing it out, Beryl doesn’t have very much money. He can’t afford to buy a chicken for Shabbes. Let’s give him this chicken. That way, it won’t go to waste, and we’ll do a mitzvah.”

And so, they do. Next morning, Shabbes, in shul, Shmerl sees that Beryl isn’t there. He asks around and learns that Beryl is home, very sick. Shmerl comes home from shul, tells his wife that Beryl is sick, and announces his intention to visit him. “You know, he tells her, bikkur holim, visiting the sick is a very big mitzvah.” He visits Beryl, finds him suffering a severe stomach disorder, and returns home.

Next Shabbes, Shmerl returns to shul, and again, Beryl isn’t there. He inquires and learns that Beryl has died. After services, he returns home, tells his wife, and announces his attention to attend the funeral the next day. “You know, halvayas ha-meys, attending the funeral, it’s a very big mitzvah.”

After the funeral, he says to his wife, “Let’s go to Beryl’s house to pay a shivah visit. You know, nihum aveylim, comforting the bereaved is a great mitzvah.” They make the visit. Upon leaving the house, Shmerl turns to his wife and says, “You know dear, it’s amazing! From one lousy chicken, four mitzvos!”

Too many supposed acts of friendship are motivated by the doer’s self-interest. Shmerl derives satisfaction from the mitzvot he can fulfill at Beryl’s expense, satisfaction that Beryl’s untimely demise does nothing to dispel.

Pirkei Avot (5:16) teaches: “Any friendship without ulterior motive, will never come to an end.” Example: the friendship between David and Jonathan, the Haftarah read this Shabbat, a friendship all the more remarkable in light of the hatred of Jonathan’s father, Saul, for David, a pathological hatred that sought David’s destruction, at the very time that Jonathan vowed to protect his friend no matter what the personal cost.

Jonathan, in our Haftarah, reaffirms his love for David by warning David of Saul’s plans to kill him. The friendship pact between David and Jonathan at the conclusion of our Haftarah, spoken in tearful embrace, cements their friendship into eternity: “The Lord shall be between me and you, between my descendants and yours, forever.” Theirs was a relationship typified by unhesitating acts of self-sacrifice for the good of the friend, and sometimes, as in Jonathan’s case, for the good of the nation.

The eleventh-century Hebrew poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol, shared the following, “A wise man was asked, ‘Whom would you love more, your brother or your friend?’ He answered, ‘I will not love my brother until he becomes my friend.’ ”

Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Philip Scheim

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, November 30 • 29 Heshvan

Hymie Applebaum,

Father of Bryan Applebaum

Natasha Barer,

Cousin of Brenda Kaman

Sadie Black,

Grandmother of Janice Goldmintz

Rebecca Huberman,

Mother of Rae Goodman and Grandmother of Anne Goodman-Cuttler

Julia Klein,

Mother of Sue Smith

Sidney Levitt,

Brother of Belle Yaphe

Murray Lieberman,

Father of David Lieberman and Steven Lieberman

Menahim Solomon,

Father of Ann Samson and Grandfather of Fleur Samson

Sunday, Dec 01 • 30 Heshvan

Jerry Gilbert,

Husband of Manya Gilbert

Monday, Dec 02 • 1 Kislev

Rae (Rachel) Astroff (Ostrovsky),

Mother of Howard Astroff

Sarah Shevah Goldstein,

Mother-In-Law of Jerry Rosenbloom

Sheila Klarman,

Mother of Judith Klarman Carol Klarman

Harry Kliaman,

Friend of Beth David

Harvey Pacter,

Father of Michael Pacter

David Starr,

Father of Rita Drutz

Bernard Tugg,

Uncle of Greg Tugg

Tuesday, Dec 03 • 2 Kislev

Fanny Bukmuz,

Mother of Rica Berger and Nadine Bukmuz

Albert Golosky,

Husband of Rebecca Golosky

Jennie Lipson,

Grandmother of Richard Friedman

Rhoda Helen Pappenheim,

Aunt of Beverley Spagat

Carl Rotman,

Husband of Donna Rotman

Samuel Sheps,

Father of Allan Sheps and Father-in-law of Elaine Rumanek

Wednesday, Dec 04 • 3 Kislev

Minnie Gold,

Mother of Joe Gold

Max Goldsman,

Friend of Beth David

Mary Lubek,

Mother of Marvyn Lubek

Joseph Lubek,

Father of Marvyn Lubek

Ethel Shulman,

Sister-In-Law of Bertram Shinwell

Thursday, Dec 05 • 4 Kislev

Harry Clayman,

Father of Frances Winer

Cheryl Ann Federman,

Daughter of Alan Federman

Rose Freedman,

Friend of Beth David

Eli Kabatznik,

Grandfather of Beverley Spagat

Zelda Marshall,

Friend of Beth David

Dina Oppenheimer,

Mother of Harold Oppenheimer

Dora Swartz,

Mother of Howard Swartz

Sophie Weinberger,

Mother of Ava Cross

Ruth Weiner,

Mother of Jerry Weiner

Friday, Dec 06 • 5 Kislev

Samuel Joshua Berman,

Father of Wendy Berman and Corinne Berman

Helen Feigen,

Mother of Eleanor Weinberg and Grandmother of Brenda Dimitry

Leo Jacobson,

Uncle of Marion Tully

Gershon Naftolin,

Grandfather of Paula Sonshine

Yosipha Wise,

Friend of Beth David

Weekday Minyanim

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Monday, December 2
Chaim Birbrager marking the end of the Kaddish recitation for his mother,
Shirley Birbrager

Wednesday, December 4
The Lubek family in memory of Marvyn's parents Mary Lubek and Joe Lubek

PLEASE HELP KEEP OUR MORNING and EVENING MINYANIM VIABLE.

Those of you who have come to say kaddish either for a yahrzeit or during the 30 days or 11 months know how meaningful it is to perform this act with the support of your own community and congregation.
Thank you for taking on this important responsibility.

'Kol Yisrael areivim ze lazeh!
All the people of Israel are responsible for one another.'

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.
℘℘℘℘

Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90
Shabbat morning Kiddush $500.00 | Seudah Shlisheet $400 | Weekday Breakfast $250

Weekday Afternoon/Evening Minyan  $36 | Saturday Evening Havdallah  $36
Weekday Morning Minyan  $54 | Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat  $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter  $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter  $100
Shabbat morning Livestream Service  $100 | Clergy Classes $100 for per session

CONTACT THE SHUL

Staff

Morah Fenning, Interim Executive Director
416-633-5500 ext. 22 morah@bethdavid.com

Faye Major, Administrator
416-633-5500 ext. 0 (office) or 437-770-2302 (mobile) faye@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager
437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper
thanuja@bethdavid.com

Clergy

Philip S. Scheim, Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer, Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Jordan Bendat-Appell, Rabbi
rabbijordan@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual
mrubin@bethdavid.com

11/22/2024 08:17:30 AM

Nov22

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored
By Sharon & Ken Fuller in memory of Sharon's brother Michael Mandel
&
In memory of Helen Lax, mother of Arlene Lax and Sharon Lax and Esther Foorer and mother-in-law of Leonard Vanek and Benjamin Foorer
&
By Synthia & Gary Goldfarb in memory of Synthia's father Fred Fink

November 23, 2024

22 Heshvan 5785

SHABBAT SERVICES

(November 23)

Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...4:15PM

Until further notice, there will be no Kabbalat Shabbat services - please see
Michael Rubin's message

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(November 24 to 29)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday Evening...5:00PM
Monday to Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

מזל טוב

Mazal Tov to Alannah Lax-Vanek & Sam Paisley on the naming of their daughter.

Candlelighting: 4:28PM

Shabbat Ends: 5:27PM

Parashat Hayei Sara

Torah: Genesis 24:53-25:18 (p.137) Maftir: Genesis 25:16-25:18 (p.141)
Haftarah: I Kings 1:1-31 (p.143)

UPCOMING SHABBAT MORNING EXPERIENCES

Registration is preferred (for purposes of planning) but not required

Rabbi Bendat-Appell: Saturday, December 7 Parashat Vayeitze
"I’ll be back after a good night’s sleep!!!!"
Click here to register.

Rabbi Cantor Loomer: Saturday, January 11 Parashat Vayechi
"Jacob planned his own funeral??"
Click here to register.

SHABBAT SPONSORSHIPS
Kiddush this morning is sponsored by Arlene Lax & Leonard Vanek in honour of
the naming of their granddaughter

Havdallah is sponsored by
Synthia & Gary Goldfarb in memory of Synthia's father Fred Fink
&
Sam, David and Mike Cohen in memory of their mother Louise Cohen

Message from Michael Rubin

Three Times Daily? Every Day?!

Continuing with the narrative of Abraham and Isaac in Hayei Sarah and only one week away from encountering Ya’akov, we might consider the tradition of prayer associated with each of the Patriarchs; Abraham - Shacharit, Isaac – Mincha, Ya’akov – Ma’ariv (as per the Talmud, tractate B’rachot 26b, based on the respective personalities of those three and their specific experiences.)

There is an expected excitement and enthusiasm when you might be the one initiating a new method of attempting to encounter the Divine through regular, routine prayer before it has become convention and habit. I wonder if the anachronistic association of each of the daily liturgical experience was one in which the Patriarchs engaged daily or according to circumstances and mood.

We speak of our striving to maintain that daily routine in order to be prepared for those all too rare occasions on which we might experience the enthusiasm and spirituality attributed to our ancestors. This is a big ask in today’s world with the distractions and multiplicity of activities in which we engage every day.

As you are all aware, it has become no small challenge to achieve a minyan every morning and every evening here at Beth David and we are not alone in this. And although it is a small group of resolute members who do their best to ensure the presence of that preferred quorum, there are many more who express disappointment when we occasionally announce that we may be discontinuing some of those daily minyanim. Some of those expressions even extend to lament and despair as yet another indication of the imminent collapse of our community.

This is far from our reality. We should be grateful that we have people who demonstrate the dedication to lead our community, to plan and implement engaging and relevant programs, to care for those who require support of whatever nature, and to be present for a daily minyan as often as possible. We should be proud of all the things we do well.

We should not be despondent about those tasks and goals which we are not always able to realize. And we can strive to find ways to do them better and more consistently as we view our community as a work in progress, constantly adjusting to circumstances and our changing membership demographics.

All this is my way of explaining that when we temporarily cancel the weekly Kabbalat Shabbat minyan because we are not able to gather enough attendees during the winter months when it is a challenge for most members to attend a service at 4:30 pm on a Friday afternoon, it is far from a disaster or portending of community disintegration. If our congregation makes the decision with their feet that this minyan, whether in the winter or on a weekly basis, is not a priority, so be it. There are so many other ways to demonstrate vitality, relevance and caring.

We do not need to attempt to be everything to everyone at all times. There is no need to preserve as our mantra or mission statement that without a minyan every day and evening, we are not doing what we must to be considered a sustainable and dependable community. Let us focus on what we do successfully and ensure that we constantly seek to do all that even better.

Whether or not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were the initiators of the daily services in whatever form, I do not know. What I would imagine, and as indicated in the narrative, is that they all, as well as the Matriarchs, found meaningful ways to encounter the Divine on occasion -not daily, with life getting in the way- and sought to focus on those activities which they did well, and which offered them satisfaction. Of course, they all failed in various endeavours, which is no small reason for our love for them and inclination to identify with them.

Let us be as forgiving and loving of ourselves and our community.

Shabbat Shalom,

Michael Rubin

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, November 23 • 22 Heshvan

Fredric Herrold Fink,

Father of Synthia Goldfarb

Jacob Green,

Uncle of Sheila Kornblum

Sylvia Kane,

Mother of Brenda Kane-Cipin

Helen Lax,

Mother of Arlene Lax

Chayim Lax,

Father-In-Law of Millie (Mildred) Lax

Allan (Andy) Schwartz,

Brother of Beverley Spagat

Myer Sokoloff,

Father-in-law of Anne Sokoloff

Sunday, November 24 • 23 Heshvan

Louise Cohen,

Mother of Sam Cohen and Mike Cohen

Georgina Daurio,

Mother of Glenn Daurio

Aaron Kates,

Father of Arthur Kates

Neil Koven,

Brother of Cheryl Rudolph

Michael Mandel,

Brother of Sharon Fuller

Clarence Rosenhek,

Father of Jack Rosenhek

Dorothy Rubin,

Grandmother of Michael Rubin and David Rubin

Eli Schwartz,

Father of Hyman Schwartz

Estelle Young,

Friend of Beth David

Monday, November 25 • 24 Heshvan

Ruth Bitnun,

Mother of Ari Bitnun

Dora Brown,

Mother of Anna Bloom

Goldie Cross,

Mother of Trudy Appleby

David Cross,

Father of Trudy Appleby

Bert Deltoff,

Uncle of Janice Goldmintz

Rose Horwich,

Mother of Wilfred Horwich

Abraham Marshall,

Friend of Beth David

Sol Morris,

Father of Phillip Morris

Sam Wolfe Silver,

Brother in law of Ruth Silver

Louis Swartz,

Father of Howard Swartz

Samuel Tytel,

Father of Honey Wise

Rhoda Welt,

Sister of Manuel Litwin

Tuesday, November 26 • 25 Heshvan 5723

James Ephraim Black,

Father-In-Law of Bette-Lou Black

Levi Brodbaker,

Uncle of Freda Brodbaker

Sara Cohen,

Mother of Donna Morris

Mary Feldman,

Mother of Esther Altman

Ethel Levine,

Grandmother of Carol Manilla

Ann Lexchin,

Mother of Larry Lexchin

Philip Moscoe,

Father of David Moscoe

Emanuel Schimmer,

Father of Bernard Schimmer

Fred Sherman,

Father of Arlene Potashner

Abby J. Sone,

Father of Marshall Sone

Wednesday, November 27 • 26 Heshvan

Nathan Bukmuz,

Father of Rica Berger and Nadine Bukmuz

Marilyn Goody,

Friend of Beth David

Mary Hain,

Mother of Judy Hain-Cohen

Miriam Wagman,

Grandmother of Lawrence Manilla

Thursday, November 28 • 27 Heshvan

Barbara Feld,

Mother of Lisa Feld

Diane Gillman,

Mother of Barry Smith

Esther Goldfluss,

Grandmother of Esther Bortnick

Sabina Zofia Korman,

Mother of Ita Pechenick

Jean Mahl,

Mother of Elaine Gudofsky

Ann Moran,

Sister of Marilyn Swartz

Alice Telio,

Friend of Beth David

Sydney Weiner,

Father of Jerry Weiner

Friday, November 29 • 28 Heshvan

Oscar Bender,

Father of Lynda Weinberg

Avraham Goldberg,

Grandfather of Hennie Elkind

Solomon Goldberg,

Father of David Goldberg

Edna Haniford,

Mother of Sharon Haniford

Ernest Rosenblat,

Father of Rob Rosenblat

Philip Swartz,

Father of Maris Berk

Doris Wiseman,

Aunt of Philip Scheim

Weekday Minyanim

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Monday, November 25
Annette Faynwachs & Eric Engel in honour of their son Chad becoming Bar Mitzvah

PLEASE HELP KEEP OUR MORNING and EVENING MINYANIM VIABLE.

Those of you who have come to say kaddish either for a yahrzeit or during the 30 days or 11 months know how meaningful it is to perform this act with the support of your own community and congregation.
Thank you for taking on this important responsibility.

'Kol Yisrael areivim ze lazeh!
All the people of Israel are responsible for one another.'

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.
℘℘℘℘

Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90
Shabbat morning Kiddush $500.00 | Seudah Shlisheet $400 | Weekday Breakfast $250

Weekday Afternoon/Evening Minyan  $36 | Saturday Evening Havdallah  $36
Weekday Morning Minyan  $54 | Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat  $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter  $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter  $100
Shabbat morning Livestream Service  $100 | Clergy Classes $100 for per session

CONTACT THE SHUL

Staff

Morah Fenning, Interim Executive Director
416-633-5500 ext. 22 morah@bethdavid.com

Faye Major, Administrator
416-633-5500 ext. 0 (office) or 437-770-2302 (mobile) faye@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager
437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper
thanuja@bethdavid.com

Clergy

Philip S. Scheim, Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer, Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Jordan Bendat-Appell, Rabbi
rabbijordan@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual
mrubin@bethdavid.com

11/08/2024 11:38:16 AM

Nov8

11/08/2024 11:16:27 AM

Nov8

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored by Brenda & David Dimitry in honour of their 50th wedding anniversary

מזל טוב

Mazal Tov to Arlen Ekstein and Jadran MacLeod in honour of their aufruf on
Thursday November 14 for their upcoming marriage

November 9, 2024

8 Heshvan 5785

SHABBAT SERVICES 

(November 8 & 9)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat.....4:30PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...4:15PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(November 10 to 15)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM
Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM
Sunday to Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

Candlelighting: 4:40PM

Shabbat Ends: 5:40PM

Parashat Lech-Lecha

Torah: Genesis16:1-17:27 (p. 86) Maftir: Genesis 17:24-17:27 (p. 93)
Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16 (p. 95)

Kiddush this morning is sponsored by Ian Hendry in honour of Karen's 67th birthday

JOIN US FOR SOME DIFFERENT SHABBAT MORNING EXPERIENCES.

Registration is preferred (for purposes of planning) but not required

NEXT SHABBAT

Michael Rubin: Saturday, November 16 - Parashat Vayera
Shabbat of Davening, Deliberating, and Dining!
◊ All in the Ganz Family Social Hall ◊

We will sit facing each other at round tables as we explore aspects of the morning service, weekly portion and kiddush!
Some of the questions from this morning's Parashah to be considered are:
• Do I need to buy a plot
• Who will be next to whom?
• What should I put on the Matzevah?
(Yes, you’re right! It sounds like the following week’s Parashah!)

Click here to register.

Note: Because of the location of this morning service, there will be NO livestream.

UPCOMING SHABBAT MORNING EXPERIENCES

Rabbi Bendat-Appell: Saturday, December 7 Parashat Vayeitze "I’ll be back after a good night’s sleep!!!!" Click here to register.

Rabbi Cantor Loomer: Saturday, January 11 Parashat Vayechi "Jacob planned his own funeral??"

Click here to register.

Message from Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell

Lech L’cha 5785/ 2024
The Human Being is Called a Walker

As Rabbi Scheim taught us over Rosh Hashana (quoting R. Jacob Schachter), the Jewish story is one that can be encapsulated by the two Torah verses we recite during the Torah service that are surrounded by the Hebrew letter nun, inverted (Num. 10:35-36)

וַיְהִי בִּנְסֹעַ הָאָרֹן וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה קוּמָה ה׳ וְיָפֻצוּ אֹיְבֶיךָ וְיָנֻסוּ מְשַׂנְאֶיךָ מִפָּנֶיךָ׃

When the Ark was to set out, Moses would say:
Advance, O YHVH! May Your enemies be scattered, And may Your foes flee before You!

וּבְנֻחֹה יֹאמַר שׁוּבָה ה׳ רִבְבוֹת אַלְפֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃

And when it rested, he would say:
Return, O YHVH, You who are Israel’s myriads of thousands!

The first verse reflects a reality of movement and challenge, and the second reflects an experience of rest and return. As Jews and human beings both are part of our experience to varying degrees. In this week’s parasha, Lech Lecha, we shine a light on the experience of movement and journey as being at the core of the Jewish story. At the beginning of Lech Lecha, Avraham (then called Avram) is called by God to leave all that he knew and to journey forth to an unknown land (Gen. 12:1)

וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אֶל־אַבְרָם לֶךְ־לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ׃

YHVH said to Avram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Sometimes in life we are called upon to move forward– sometimes this is by choice and at other times it is thrust upon us. The Hasidic master, the Sefat Emet ,saw this as being at the core of the human experience:

שהאדם נקרא מהלך שצריך תמיד לילך ממדרגה למדרגה כי ההרגל נעשה טבע. והטבע משכח ומסתיר פנימיות החיות ואפילו בתורה ומצות אם נעשין הרגל נעשה טבע, ושוכח הפנימיות.

…וזה שכתוב ’לך לך’ לעולם צריך להיות מהלך ’אל אשר אראך’ תמיד השגה חדשה. לכן נקרא האדם מהלך שכל שעומד בלי התחדשות, מיד הטבע שולטת בו….

The human being is called a “walker”, always having to go from one level to another, for habit becomes as [second] nature, and this sense of “nature” makes one forget and hides one’s inner life-force. This is true even of Torah and the mitzvot: when we do them out of habit, they become [second] nature and we forget their inward power (Lech Lecha, 1903)

To the Sefat Emet, we humans are fundamentally walkers, always moving forward. This movement is important as it helps us to not be weighed down by the power of habit, which keeps us from being connected to an inner power (penimiyut). The Sefat Emet understands that this inner power is always present, but is too often hidden underneath layers of habit.

As we also connect with the quality of menucha, rest, every shabbat–and reflect on the ways in which we may feel “at rest” here in Toronto, and more broadly in our lives, so too may we embrace this time of lech lecha as an opportunity to affirm our identities as “walkers”, always moving forth courageously.

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, November 09 • 8 Heshvan

Jennie Beber,

Friend of Beth David

Paula Nemer Kates,

Mother of Howard Kates

Dora Nurgitz,

Grandmother of Richard Nurgitz

Sam Orlan,

Father of Rosie Shelson

Jack Stein,

Father of Lisa Levine

Abraham Willer,

Brother of Anne Sokoloff

Sunday, November 10 • 9 Heshvan

Irving Bain,

Grandfather of Jodi Kaiman

Beatrice Elkind,

Mother-in-law of Hennie Elkind

Ike Golosky,

Father-in-law of Rebecca Golosky

Manuel Greenblatt,

Father of Irwin Greenblatt

Samuel Isenberg,

Friend of Beth David

Philip Harvey Schwartz,

Brother of Sheila Mogul

Irving Silverstein,

Father of Alan Silverstein

Monday, November 11 • 10 Heshvan

Jerry Diamond,

Father of Elaine Simkevitz

Stephen Futerman,

Son of Brian Risman

Harold Gordon,

Father of Andrew Gordon

Irving Murray Noble,

Brother of Jack Noble

Lillian Waxman,

Sister of Ruth Silver and Aunt of Sondra Mendlowitz

Tuesday, November 12 • 11 Heshvan

Max Funger,

Great Uncle of Joseph Pollock

Morris Gertner,

Father of Fay Ganz

Enid Muchnik,

Friend of Beth David

Sandra Weinberger,

Sister of Ava Cross

Cesia Wolfowich,

Friend of Beth David

Wednesday, November 13 • 12 Heshvan

Norma Bain,

Grandmother of Jodi Kaiman and Aunt of Faye Major

Bernice Bernstein,

Grandmother of Alan Bernstein

Rose Friedman,

Mother of Lorraine Levene

Sonia Garber,

Mother of Joe Garber

Goldie Horenfeldt,

Mother-In-Law of Grace Horenfeldt

Rabbi Mordechai (Max) Maser,

Grandfather of Janice Maser

Molly Rosenberg,

Mother-in-law of Irving Foreman

Thursday, November 14 • 13 Heshvan

Sylvia Baker,

Sister of Samuel Kleinberg

Morris Korn,

Father of Sheryl Korn

Sydney Lanys,

Friend of Beth David

Charles Joseph Naiman,

Grandfather of Beth Karstadt

Lawrence Shessel,

Friend of Beth David

Tema Simlewitz,

Grandmother of Mimi Birbrager, Lee Birbrager and Chaim Birbrager

Friday, November 15 • 14 Heshvan

William Hennick,

Father-In-Law of Samuel Kleinberg

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their son Arlen to Jadran MacLeod

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11/01/2024 11:31:39 AM

Nov1

FALL BACK!

Daylight savings time ends at 2am on Sunday, November 3, 2024.

Remember to turn your clocks back 1 hour this weekend!

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored by

Shelli & Joey Pollock and Jeffrey & Lorette Rosin in honour of the birth of their grandson

and by

Genia Godelewicz in memory of her mother Malka Bornstein and her father Hirsch Bornstein

November 2, 2024

Shabbat Rosh Hodesh

1 Heshvan 5785

Rosh Hodesh Heshvan began the evening of Thursday, October 31 and ends the evening of Saturday, November 2, 2024 .

SHABBAT SERVICES

(November 1 & 2)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat.....5:30PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...5:30PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(November 3 to 8)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday to Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

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🕯🕯 Candlelighting: 5:49PM

Shabbat Ends: 6:48PM 🕯

PARASHAT NOAH

Torah: Genesis 11:1-11:32 (p. 31)
Maftir: Numbers 28:9-28:15 | Shabbat Rosh Hodesh (p. 930)
Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 | Shabbat Rosh Hodesh (p. 1220)

Kiddush is sponsored by Jozef Cipin & Brenda Kane-Cipin in honour of their great-grandson Moshe Aryeh Kaufman becoming Bar Mitzvah

Message from Rabbi Philip Scheim

The episode of the Tower of Babel and the confounding of human speech that emerges as punishment is read not long after we recited the “Al Heyt” confessional on Yom Kippur, which fixates largely upon sins of speech, ever frequent in these turbulent times.

Often of late I have witnessed funeral speakers eulogizing family members or friends, spicing up their remarks with expletives that would have been beeped out by broadcast networks. And social media platforms spew hatred far and wide, as comment sections on media websites wreak violence of human discourse. Is there any chance that the “Al Heyts” we so earnestly recited so recently will penetrate, and cause us to think twice before vulgarities and hatred penetrate our verbal expression?

Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk was reputed to have said that “not every thought should be said, not everything said should be written down and not everything written should be published.” Spontaneity in speech and lack of careful consideration of written words can diminish the quality and the effectiveness of human communication. The immediacy of electronic communication tends to rush our words without the deliberation and consideration that would be less harmful to relationships. In the vanishing world of snail mail, when writing a critical or an angry letter, common advice was to hold on to the letter for twenty-four hours, then reread it and decide whether or not you really wanted to send it. My latest smartphone software upgrade includes a welcome new feature, allowing for emails or text messages to be sent later, enabling that rethinking possibility, when anger may have begun to subside. Hurt feelings and worse, often result from writing or responding too quickly, without time to reassess and reconsider.

Perhaps the words of Kohelet, also recently read during Sukkot, would help here: “There is a time to be silent, and a time to speak.” To say of another, “S/he has no filter,” should not be taken as a complement. Sometimes not speaking is the preferred course.

Our Torah reading, human history, political election campaigns all remind us of the difficulties that words, language and tone, represent. It is our challenge, our responsibility, and maybe even our mission to remember how much we can achieve by choosing our words well, ensuring that they reflect the best that we have to offer. Through that effort, others may be more likely to listen to us.

Rabbi Philip Scheim

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, November 02 • 1 Heshvan

Roy Babbin,

Father of Jerry Babbin

Albert Gertzbein,

Uncle of Ruth Cappel

Frances Klaiman,

Mother of Howard Klaiman

Morris Rottenberg,

Father of Robert Rottenberg

Rebecca Samson,

Mother of Solomon Samson and Grandmother of Fleur Samson

Benjamin Shelson,

Friend of Beth David

Joseph Shore,

Brother of Ray Hoffman

Louis Tator,

Grandfather of Marla Levant-Bornstein

Helen Winters,

Mother of Debra York

Sunday, November 03 • 2 Heshvan

Masha Haniford,

Grandmother of Allan Haniford

Gordon Hayward,

Husband of Sandra Hayward

Helen Shiff,

Mother of Jeffrey Shiff

Monday, November 04 •3 Heshvan

Bess Lome Agulnik,

Aunt of Arnold Agulnik

Morris Feldman,

Husband of Delores Feldman and Father of Pamela Feldman-Cukier

Peter Joseph,

Father of Sam Joseph

Shaindel Luft,

Friend of Beth David

Zalman Luft,

Friend of Beth David

Abraham Schwartz,

Grandfather of Ellen Babbin

Tuesday, November 05 • 4 Heshvan

Yetta Bornstein,

Mother of Sheldon Bornstein

Bernie Goldberg,

Uncle of Cheryl Kalpin

Wolf Gordon,

Father of Carl Gordon

David Kleinberg,

Brother of Samuel Kleinberg

Chaya Faiga Miller Witenoff,

Grandmother of Joseph Pollock

Morris Schwartz,

Father of Shay Schwartz

Lillian Silver,

Mother of Roslyn Kotkovski

Anne Wolfe,

Sister of Irving Wolfe

Wednesday, November 06 • 5 Heshvan

Hirsch Bornstein,

Father of Genia Grossman

Chaya Cohen,

Mother of David Cohen

Israel Gelbard,

Friend of Beth David

Rivka Klaiman, Chaya Klaiman, David Klaiman, Eliezer Klaiman, Joseph Klaiman, Manish Klaiman,

Friend of Beth David

Norman Loomer,

Father of Claire Pizer

Harry Modlinsky,

Father of Nelson Modlin

Ada Pernica,

Mother of Sheila Kornblum

Raymonde Schroeder,

Sister of Berthe Morris

Saul Weinrieb,

Father of Steven Weinrieb

Leslie Wise,

Father of Rochelle Pollock

Thursday, November 07 • 6 Heshvan

Lillian Freedman,

Sister of Grace Horenfeldt

Louis Langer,

Grandfather of Richard Langer

Sadie Modlinsky,

Sister of Nelson Modlin

Gene Opler,

Father of Michael Opler

Max Pelcowitz,

Father of Robert Pelcowitz

Rose Schwartz,

Grandmother of Ellen Babbin

Solomon Shulman,

Father-In-Law of Bertram Shinwell

David Weinrib,

Friend of Beth David

Friday, November 08 • 7 Heshvan

Annie Levine,

Grandmother of Elaine Bisgould

Morris Levine,

Father-In-Law of Lorraine Levene

Harry Moses Lightman,

Father of Floyd Lightman

Pearl Marcus,

Friend of Beth David

Simhat Torah Kiddush was co-sponsored by Beth David, Baila & Marvyn Lubek, Rosalie & Avram Selick, Esther & Allan Bortnick, Ava Cross, Janice Maser, Mike Cohen, Elaine Simkevitz and Libby & Igor Ellyn in honour of Leonard & Celia Golberg as our Hatan & Kallat Torah and Rosalie & Avram Selick as our Kallat & Hatan Breishit

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Friday, November 1
Breakfast is sponsored by Lorraine & Allan Sheps in memory of Lorraine's mother Tillie Lubek

MINYAN SPONSORS

Wednesday, November 6
Morning minyan is sponsored by Sheila & Jake Kornblum in memory of Sheila's mother Ada Pernica

10/29/2024 12:34:05 PM

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🕯️🕯️ Candlelighting Wednesday, October 23 at 6:02 pm
🕯️🕯️ Candlelighting Thursday, October 24 at 7:01 pm

October 24 & 25, 2024

22 & 23 Tishrei 5785

Shabbat/Weekday Livestream link: https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

Shemini Atzeret

Torah: Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17 (p.1074)
Maftir: Numbers 29:35-30:1 (p. 936)
Haftarah: I Kings 8:54-66 (p.1263)

Wednesday, October 23 Hoshanah Rabah/Erev Shemini Atzeret
Evening Service at 5:45 pm

Thursday, October 24 Shemini Atzeret-Yizkor-Plaque Dedication
Morning Service at 9:00 am

Simhat Torah

Torah: Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12 (p. 1202); Genesis 1:1-2:3 (p. 3)
Maftir: Numbers 29:35-30:1 (p. 936)
Haftarah: Joshua 1:1-18 (p. 1266)

Thursday, October 24 Erev Simhat Torah - Hakafot🚩
Evening Service at 6:15 pm

🍧🍦🍨 FOOD! MAKE YOUR OWN SUNDAE! QUIZZES!🍧🍦🍨
Enjoy celebrations with our ShinShinyot, Noya & Hila

Friday, October 25 Simhat Torah - Hakafot
Morning Service at 9:00 am

TORAH READING STATIONS
We encourage you to experience your own Aliyah at one of our 3 lay-led reading stations.

Honouring our Hatan & Kallat Torah and Kallat & Hatan Breishit

Kiddush is co-sponsored by Beth David, Baila & Marvyn Lubek, Rosalie & Avram Selick and Janice Maser in honour of Leonard & Celia Golberg as our Hatan & Kallat Torah and Rosalie & Avram Selick as our Kallat & Hatan Breishit

Evening Services/Kabbalat Shabbat 5:45 pm

Message from Michael Rubin

A time for mourning and a time for dancing;

עֵ֥ת סְפ֖וֹד וְעֵ֥ת רְקֽוֹד׃

Dancing Through Tears

The above title is the theme and message of a wonderful endeavour – The Simchat Torah Project – involving hundreds of Jewish Communities around the world and in which our own Beth David is participating. As the creators of this, Mizrachi, explain:

October 7th, 2024, was Simchat Torah in Israel. Over 1200 people were murdered and hundreds more were taken hostage. This October will mark the first Simchat Torah since those horrific events.

Simchat Torah is a day of joy, celebration, and hakafot - we dance – but Simchat Torah 5785 will also mark the first yahrzeit of the 1200 victims of October 7th. How do we, the Jewish people, respond? On Simchat Torah, will we dance? Should we dance? How do we commemorate this poignant and difficult anniversary?

King Solomon offers us guidance in Kohelet, which we will read on Sukkot, “There is a time for everything under the Heavens…. a time to mourn and a time to dance.” This Simchat Torah, with tears in our eyes, we will dance. Synagogues around the world will open their Aron HaKodesh on Simchat Torah night and take out several Torah scrolls. One, will be adorned with a new me’il (Torah cover), designed to mark the first yahrzeit of October 7th. This me’il will be identical to the ones which will be created for 1600 synagogues across the world. This beautifully designed me’il will proclaim that this Torah is dedicated in memory of the 1200 souls and the many soldiers and hostages who have since died.

Each Torah me'il will feature the name of one of the kedoshim embroidered onto it. Communities around the world will dance with these Torah scrolls – with hundreds of thousands of Jews being connected through this project. The Jewish world will be unified, knowing that across the globe, Jews are dancing with Torah scrolls that collectively link us all with the events of October 7th, and inspire us to realize that “Am Yisrael Chai.”

Synagogues will encourage their members to come and dance with the newly robed scroll, to remember the fallen, by holding their Torah high, so that they can say: “We will not forget what happened on Simchat Torah last year, but we are determined to dispel the darkness with light.” This project will symbolize the Jewish People’s resilience, our ability to find hope in the face of tragedy.

We are grateful for the generous support of Janet and Jay Harris for sponsoring our participation in this beautiful project of solidarity.

Please join us on Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah as we demonstrate our commitment to honouring those so ruthlessly taken from us on October 7 and our determination to express our pride in Jewish life and continuity.

In addition, we have been supporting Kibbutz Kissufim directly and are helping them write a Sefer Torah in memory of Sa’ar Margolis, a kibbutz member killed on October 7 during his efforts to save members of the kibbutz from the Hamas assault. They will also be dedicating that Sefer Torah in the coming days. We are grateful to all those who have generously donated to the BD Israel Emergency Fund over the past year for this purpose and the support of other organizations in Israel such as Friends of S’derot and the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem.

Hag Samei’akh and looking forward to dancing with all of you!

Michael Rubin

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored by Allan & Esther Bortnick in memory of Allan's father Louis Bortnick and Esther's father Joseph Goldfluss

🕯️🕯️Candlelighting Fri. Oct 25 at 5:59 pm

Shabbat Ends Sat. Oct 26 at 6:58 pm🕯️

October 26, 2024

Shabbat Mevarchim

24 Tishrei 5785

Rosh Hodesh Heshvan begins the evening of Thursday, October 31 and ends the evening of Saturday November 2, 2024.

✡ מזל טוב ✡

Mazal Tov to Michelle & Aaron Chesley on the naming of their daughter.

Parashat Bereshit

Torah: Genesis 5:1-6:8 (p. 30)
Maftir: Genesis 6:5-6:8 (p. 34)
Haftarah: Isaiah 42:5-43:10 (p. 36)

Friday, October 25
Kabbalat Shabbat 5:45 pm

Saturday, October 26
Morning Service at 9:00 am

Kiddush this morning is sponsored by Rita & Carey Drutz in honour of the naming of their newest granddaughter, Sylvia Starr Chesley. Proud 1st time parents are
Michelle (Drutz) Chesley and Aaron Chesley, and Mazel Tov to Nana Marsha Chesley

Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah at 5:30 pm

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, October 26 • 24 Tishrei

Magdolna Daniel,

Mother of Frank Daniel

Samuel Galet,

Father of Manya Gilbert

Manuel Mayers,

Father of Deborah Nirenberg and Harvey Mayers

Moe Pancer,

Friend of Beth David

Bernice Pasternac,

Mother of Esther Lieberman

Pearl Pearl,

Grandmother of Alden Pearl

Bennie Witkin,

Uncle of Joyce Gordon

Sunday, October 27 • 25 Tishrei

Arnold Bensky,

Uncle of Gary Bensky

Belle Feldman,

Mother of Marty Feldman

Herbert Pascoe,

Father of Andrew Pascoe

Mannie Posner,

Father of Sharon Paskowitz

Ann Resnick,

Aunt of David Goldberg

Monday, October 28 • 26 Tishrei

Louis Bortnick,

Father of Allan Bortnick

Morris Cappel,

Father-in-law of Ruth Cappel

Louis (Scottie) Freedman,

Friend of Beth David

Bernard Kurtz,

Friend of Beth David

Ernie Risman,

Father of Andrew Risman

Tibel Steinberg,

Mother-in-law of Alan Federman

Tuesday, October 29 • 27 Tishrei

Shirley Gladstone,

Friend of Beth David

Joseph Goldfluss,

Father of Esther Bortnick

Gordon Murray,

Friend of Beth David

Molly Sherman,

Mother of Doreen Bornfreund

Ruth Stein,

Mother of Brian Stein

Harry Waldman,

Father of Francine Feder

Louis Wronzberg,

Father of Richard Wronzberg

Wednesday, October 30 • 28 Tishrei

Michael Budlovsky,

Father of Daniel Budlovsky

Annie Peres,

Beloved of Paula Sonshine

Shragah Phyvle Rosensweig,

Friend of Beth David

Fanny Weinberg,

Mother of Allen Weinberg

Sandor Weinstock,

Uncle of Vivian Weinstock

Joseph Weinstock,

Uncle of Vivian Weinstock

Issi Yablo,

Friend of Beth David

Thursday, October 31 • 29 Tishrei

Basia Bielak,

Friend of Beth David

Messod Dadoun,

Father of Morris Dadoun

Ruth Daniels,

Grandmother of Doron Daniels

David Elkind,

Father of Randi Elkind

Jack Fuller,

Father of Ken Fuller

Joseph Goldmintz,

Friend of Beth David

Catherine (Kato) Matyas,

Mother of Hedy Matyas

Yosef David Minuk,

Father of Miriam Telem

Anthony Pruskin,

Husband of Nancy Pruskin and Father of Zane Pruskin

Sheldon Reinsilber,

Friend of Beth David

Hannah Silverstein,

Wife of Alan Silverstein

Mendel Yankoo,

Father-in-law of Joe Hoffman

Friday, November 01 • 30 Tishrei 5775

Molly Franklin,

Friend of Beth David

Tillie Lubek,

Mother of Lorraine Sheps

Jacqueline Rotblott,

Mother of Sheri Goldberg

09/19/2024 07:43:57 PM

Sep19

This issue of the Shabbat Shalom is sponsored,
In loving memory of Sidney Feld on his 45th yahrzeit by his children Lisa,
Randy and Joanne and his granddaughter Sidney Hacker
&
By Ruth Shapiro in honour of her grandson Natan Chelsky son of
Steven & Rebecca Chelsky becoming Bar Mitzvah in Israel
&
By Karen Bernstein & Ian Hendry and Bill & Jodi Bernstein and families
in memory of their great aunt Bea Dunn and their great uncle Joe Dunn

September 21, 2024

18 Elul 5784

SHABBAT SERVICES

(September 20 & 21))

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat.....6:00PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...6:30PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(September 22 to 27)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday to Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

Selihot: Sunday, September 29 at 8:30 AM

Candlelighting: 6:59PM

Shabbat Ends: 7:59PM

PARASHAT KI TAVO

Torah: Deuteronomy 26:12-28:6 (p. 1142)
Maftir: Deuteronomy 28:4-28:6 (p. 1149)
Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1-22 (p. 1161)

מזל טוב

Mazal Tov to Romi Udell and Zain Udell and their family on becoming
B'nai Mitzvah this morning.

Message from Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell

Ki Tavo 5784
Moonlight
Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell

כ לֹא יָבוֹא עוֹד שִׁמְשֵׁךְ וִירֵחֵךְ לֹא יֵאָסֵף כִּי ה׳ יִהְיֶה לָּךְ לְאוֹר עוֹלָם…

;Your sun shall set no more, your moon no more withdraw
.For YHVH will be a light to you forever

Isaiah 60:20 (haftarah for Ki Tavo)-

The other night, while walking to my car in the late evening, I raised my eyes to the night sky. I froze as I was struck by the light of the moon shining down with an intense brightness-- a brightness that was in stark contrast to the surrounding ink-black sky.

And as I gazed at the moon, I was moved by the realization that all of the light that I was seeing was in fact coming from the sun.

There is an important distinction to be made between the sun and moon. The sun is an always shining, powerful source of light. The moon has no light of its own, but reflects the light of the sun. This is a distinction that our tradition is interested in as well, with many sources exploring the differences between the sun and moon (see, for example, Zohar 1:238a and Likutei Moharan 1:2)

There are different ways to bring light into the world. We may believe that in order to illuminate the world we must be sun-like, generating light all of the time. However, we must not underestimate the importance of being moon-like, reflecting the light of the Divine back into the world around us.

This week’s haftarah from Isaiah (60:1–22), the sixth of seven haftarot of comfort linking Tisha B’Av to Rosh Hashanah affirms that, indeed, at this time we are called upon to bring light into the world--not our own sunlight, rather we are called to be moon-like, reflecting a greater light into the world. In language that is also quoted in Lecha Dodi, Isaiah teaches:

:א קוּמִי אוֹרִי כִּי־בָא אוֹרֵךְ וּכְבוֹד ה׳ עָלַיִךְ זָרָח: ב כִּי־הִנֵּה הַחֹשֶׁךְ יְכַסֶּה־אֶרֶץ וַעֲרָפֶל לְאֻמִּים וְעָלַיִךְ יִזְרַח ה׳ וּכְבוֹדוֹ עָלַיִךְ יֵרָאֶה

1 Arise, shine, for your light has dawned;
The Presence of YHVH has shone upon you!
2 Behold! Darkness shall cover the earth,
And thick clouds the peoples;
But upon you YHVH will shine,
And the Divine Presence be seen over you.

Isaiah urges us to believe in our own light (אוֹרֵךְ/oreich/your light) and to feel empowered by its existence– but, to also understand that source of the light is in fact the Divine Presence shining upon us. Like the moon in the night’s sky, Isaiah speaks of a time of darkness through which God’s light is reflected upon us.

During this month of Elul, as we strive for clarity about who we are and who we want to be, we are encouraged to redouble our efforts to bring light into dark places. This is perhaps needed now more than ever this year following the horrors of Oct. 7 and its aftermath. In this context, we can still seek out the good, and are invited to be moon-like, reflecting the Divine light into the world. Instead of the overwhelming and exhausting prospect of always generating the light ourselves, we can focus on reflecting and magnifying the light that is already present, even if hidden.

How do we reflect the Divine light that is already present into the world? Being moon-like is about actively affirming and magnifying the goodness and Godliness of each person. We can reflect the Divine light that shines forth from each face and from each heart. When we smile at others, or thank others, and when we acknowledge the good that others do, we are receiving their light and shining it forth. We don’t need to produce this light --for it is already there-- but simply to shine it outwards like a polished mirror.

Being moon-like supports the thriving and joy of others. What a powerful message that our tradition offers through evoking this moon-like orientation as we near Rosh Hashanah.

Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, September 21 • 18 Elul

Alvin Abram,

Husband of Marilyn Abram and Father of Lori Brown

Bea Dunn,

Great-Aunt of Karen Bernstein

Dave Samuels,

Uncle of Lynne Lurie

David Buchstein,

Father of Miriam Devon

Fanny Solish,

Grandmother of Sharyl Solish and Elaine Solish

Joe Dunn,

Great-Uncle of Karen Bernstein

Julius Wise,

Husband of Honey Wise

Malka Leah Schneider,

Grandmother of Terry Gordon

Matthew Panzer,

Son of Kathy and Danny Panzer and Brother of Jessica Panzer

Merle Biederman,

Sister of Eleanor Schimmer

Sam Klaiman,

Father of Howard Klaiman

Sunday, September 22 • 19 Elul

David Polansky,

Friend of Beth David

Evelyn Avruskin,

Friend of Beth David

Lillian Rose,

Mother of Marlyne Abramson

Louis Goodman,

Father of Donna Wolfe

Louis Haniford,

Uncle of Sharon Haniford

Mollie Rothman,

Aunt of Esther Lieberman

Sylvia Greenspan,

Mother of Saul Greenspan

Monday, September 23 • 20 Elul

Arnold Goldhar,

Father of Marty Goldhar

Arthur Feuer,

Uncle of Mindy Ganz and Howard Ganz

Bessie Tepperman,

Mother of Susan Halpern

Brendl Einhorn,

Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Chaya Bitterman,

Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Fridel (Asher Zalke) Bitterman,

Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Gary Eddie Pernica,

Brother of Sheila Kornblum

Gittel Bitterman,

Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Jack Freedland,

Father of Gloria Agasee

Leah (Ya'akov & Brendl) Einhorn,

Cousin of Harvey Bitterman

Liba Yehudit (Ya'akov & Brendl) Einhorn,

Cousin of Harvey Bitterman

Matilda Solomon,

Mother of Ann Samson and Grandmother of Fleur Samson

Molly Frankel,

Friend of Beth David

Molly Shelson,

Friend of Beth David

Moshe Aharon (Avraham & Rachel) Bitterman,

Cousin of Harvey Bitterman

Nachum Bitterman,

Uncle of Harvey Bitterman

Rachel (Avraham Simcha) Bitterman,

Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Sarah Bitterman,

Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Shifra Bitterman,

Grandmother of Harvey Bitterman

Sidney Feld,

Father of Lisa Feld

Terrance Hayward,

Brother in law of Sandra Hayward

Wolf (Asher Zalke & Fridel) Bitterman,

Cousin of Harvey Bitterman

Ya'akov Einhorn,

Uncle of Harvey Bitterman

Yehudit (Avraham & Simcha) Bitterman,

Cousin of Harvey Bitterman

Tuesday, September 24 • 21 Elul

Cantor Morris Goldlust,

Friend of Beth David

Ida Rotstein,

Mother of Frances Temple

Jack Altman,

Father of Sandra Sigal

Julius Steiner,

Father of Cecile Myerson

Maurice Cicurel,

Uncle of Etty Alami

Milton Book,

Father of Allan Book

Morris Swartz,

Father of Doris Applebaum

Myra Shinwell,

Wife of Bertram Shinwell and Mother of Joanne Shinwell

Sam Bloom,

Father of Molly Bloom

Wilfred Schwartz,

Father of Mendl Schwartz

Wednesday, September 25 • 22 Elul

David Bloom,

Husband of Molly Bloom and Father of Michael Bloom

Dinah Meslin,

Mother-in-law of Stanley Goldfarb

Dolly Lipman,

wife of Arthur Kates

Dora Altshuller,

Mother of Ann Shour and Grandmother of April Laufer

Harry Finkelstein,

Friend of Beth David

Hilda Mandel,

Mother of Sharon Fuller

Ibrahim Saber,

Father of Jacqueline Saber

Kalman Burstyn,

Father of Hermi Spears

Lil Kopel,

Mother-In-Law of Lynn Stone

Max Hoffman,

Father of Joe Hoffman

Morris Levine,

Grandfather of Carol Manilla

Sydney Shapiro,

Father of Marilyn Shapiro

Thursday, September 26 • 23 Elul 5767

Alison Davison,

Sister of Barry Smith

Hymie Feldman,

Father of Gary Feldman

Judith Ingroff,

Sister of Estelle Shane

Reuben Cipin,

Father of Jennifer Tugg and Marla Dan

Ruth Dalfen,

Aunt of Stephanie Caplan

Saul Mintz,

Father of Rhonda Strasberg

Steven Jay Rittenberg,

Friend of Beth David

Friday, September 27 • 24 Elul 5709

Bessie Starkman,

Mother of Doreen Strom

Chaya Grina Tenenbaum,

Grandmother of Linda Ennis

Ephraim Pick,

Father of Janice Pick

Evelyn Streicher,

Mother of Rhonda Schlanger

Helen Risman,

Friend of Beth David

Morris Silver,

Husband of Ruth Silver and Father of Sondra Mendlowitz

Sarah Grimson,

Friend of Beth David

Children will have the opportunity to meet & engage with our new Shinshinyot, Hila and Noya during some fun after-dinner activities. Click HERE or on image to register.

DEADLINE to register for the dinner is MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
bethdavid.com or call 416-633-5500

Get ready for the High Holy Days with a brief Selihot service just before the morning service on Sunday, September 29. Repentant breakfast following.

Weekly D'var Torah Your Time! Your Way! Learning for You!!

This week's Parsha Ki Tavo:

Hadar:

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/against-entitlement

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/between-fear-and-awe-forgetting-self

Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS):

www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online

My Jewish Learning (MJL):

www.myjewishlearning.com/torah-portions
www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/host/hey-alma

Hadar’s Weekly Parashah Magazine for Children & Families

https://www.hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/devash-parashat-ki-tavo-5784

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Monday, September 23
In loving memory of Sidney Feld on his 45th yahrzeit by his children Lisa, Randy and Joanne and his granddaughter Sidney Hacker
&
Harvey Bitterman in memory of the majority of his father's family who perished in the Shoah

Thursday, September 26
Heather & Michael Goldberg in honour of the upcoming marriage of Grant Goldberg to Aviva McLeod-Engelhard

MINYAN SPONSORS

Monday, September 23 morning minyan
Sheila & Jake Kornblum in memory of Sheila's brother Gary Eddie Pernica

Friday, September 27 morning minyan
Janice Pick in memory of her father Ephraim Pick on his 10th yahrzeit

Membership Renewal

We thank those that have renewed their 2024/25 membership.
If you have not yet renewed, time is running out!
Click here to renew your place in the Beth David community!

Tickets

High Holy Day Tickets have been mailed out to members who renewed their membership by Sunday, September 15.
Members who renewed after this date can pick up tickets from the office beginning Monday, September 23 until October 1. After this time, tickets will be available for pick-up at the door during High Holy Day services.

!Participate in Our High Holy Day Services!

The following opportunities are available:
Read Torah • Open the Ark • Carry the TorahHagbah or Gelilah • Take an Aliyah
Contact Faye 437-770-2302

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.
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Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90
Shabbat morning Kiddush $450 | Seudah Shlisheet $350 | Weekday Breakfast $200

Weekday Afternoon/Evening Minyan  $36 | Saturday Evening Havdallah  $36
Weekday Morning Minyan  $54 | Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat  $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter  $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter  $100
Shabbat morning Livestream Service  $100 | Clergy Classes $100 for per session

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Effective November 1, 2024, the price for breakfast will increase to $250, for
Seudah Shlisheet to $400, and for Shabbat morning kiddush to $500.00.

Book a sponsorship now for after November 1 and pay the current rate

CONTACT THE SHUL

Staff

Ian Borer, Executive Director
416-633-5500 ext. 22 ian@bethdavid.com

Faye Major, Administrator
416-633-5500 ext. 0 (office) or 437-770-2302 (mobile) faye@bethdavid.com

Rebecca Joffe, Program and Communications Manager
647-632-9156 rebecca@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager
437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper
thanuja@bethdavid.com

Clergy

Philip S. Scheim, Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer, Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Jordan Bendat-Appell, Rabbi
rabbijordan@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual
mrubin@bethdavid.com

08/30/2024 12:25:59 PM

Aug30

The synagogue office will be closed Monday, September 3 for Labour Day

The August 24th Shabbat Shalom was sponsored by
Ronnie & Marsha Klein in loving memory of Ronnie's mother Phyllis Klein
on her 44th yahrzeit
&
Jacob & Mindy Galper and family in loving memory of Jacob's father Abe Galper

Aug 31, 2024

Shabbat Mevarchim

27 Av 5784

Rosh Hodesh Elul begins the evening of Monday, September 2 and
ends the evening of Wednesday, September 4, 2024.

SHABBAT SERVICES

(August 23 & 24)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat.....6:00PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...7:15PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(August 25 to 30)

Sunday & Monday* Mornings...8:30AM *Labour Day

Tuesday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday to Friday Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

Beth David is a SCENT-FREE space

Cell phone use is prohibited on Shabbat

We welcome Sorele Urman
as our Guest Darshanit on Shabbat morning

PARASHAT RE'EH

Torah: Deuteronomy 12:29-14:29 (p. 1068)
Maftir: Deuteronomy 14:22-14:29 (p. 1074)
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:11-55:5 (p. 1085)

Candlelighting: 7:37 PM

Shabbat Ends:8:37 PM

Shabbat Sponsorships

Kabbalat Shabbat on August 23rd was sponsored by Robin Zionce-Garber &
Richard Garber in memory of Robin's mother Faye Zionce

Kiddush this morning is sponsored by
The Feffer family in loving memory of Rabbi Abraham Feffer
&
In honour of Larry Goldblatt's 90th birthday

Next Shabbat, August 31st, our Guest Darshan is Howard Simkevitz.

Message from The Jewish Theological Seminary

Re'eh - Balancing Peshat and Sensitivity by : Matthew Berkowitz Former Director of Israel Programs, JTS

Parashat Re’eh contains a categorical pronouncement against idolatry in the Land of Israel. Once the Israelites enter and dwell in the Promised Land, they are commanded to destroy the devotional sites of other nations: “You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshipped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree. Tear down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site” (Deut. 12:2–3). The law is clear cut—zero tolerance for the practices of other peoples in the Land; their ways will corrupt the People and lead them astray from the God of Israel. One need look no further than Israel’s journey through the wilderness (especially the episode of Ba’al Peor) or the book of Judges to understand the rationale behind this law. Clearly the Israelites are easily seduced by the idolatrous fetishes of their neighbors. Yet, how may we, as both loyal heirs to the biblical tradition and modern readers, understand this harsh pronouncement of Deuteronomy? Is a more nuanced interpretation possible?

Joseph ben Isaac B’khor Shor softens the blow of Torah’s legislation. Echoing the wisdom and discomfort of the rabbinic tradition, he explains that the law of Deuteronomy does not involve the utter and complete destruction of these devotional sites.

The verse refers to instruments used in the service of idolatrous practice. For it is impossible to destroy the sites. And it is understood that the land itself is not forbidden. Torah states it is the places where they worship their gods—the mountains do not belong to their gods. For if an idolater bows down to a mountain, the mountain does not become forbidden [to the Israelite]—and so too is the case with hills.

And more than that, he explains that the Land itself does not become tainted through these practices. While the B’khor Shor’s approach is a departure from the peshat, or literal sense, of Torah (which literally mandates “obliterating their name from that site”), he is also in the vein of Rabban Gamliel.

Mishnah Avodah Zarah 3:4 relates the story of Rabban Gamliel, who finds himself bathing in the presence of a statue of Aphrodite. When challenged by Proclus, a Roman, as to why he would be allowed to bathe in the presence of a Greek goddess, Rabban Gamliel responds brilliantly: “I came not within her limits, she came within mine! People do not say, ‘Let us build a bath as an adornment to Aphrodite’ but ‘Let us make a statue of Aphrodite as decoration for the bath’ . . . what is treated as a god is prohibited, but what is not treated as a god is permitted.” Since Rabban Gamliel was immersed in Hellenistic culture, he wisely recognized the need for accommodation. One could not be a purist as commanded by Deuteronomy 12:2–3. Such action would have cost Rabban Gamliel his life. In his wisdom, Rabban Gamliel softens the text of Deuteronomy, allowing Judaism to stop short of “obliterating their name.” Both the B’khor Shor and Rabban Gamliel teach us an important lesson in recognizing the life-affirming shades of grey in Torah. Far from demanding a black-and-white interpretation, we, the loyal readers of Torah, are challenged time and time again to read sensibly and sensitively.

Shabbat Shalom.

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, August 31 • 27 Av

Allen Bernick,

Father of Mark Bernick

Robert Bernstein,

Father of Malcolm Bernstein

Abraham Feffer,

Husband of Beth Feffer and Father of Miriam Feffer

Charles Abraham Goldenberg,

Father of Bernice Bruman

Ernest Richard Pearl,

Uncle of Alden Pearl

Sunday, September 1 • 28 Av

Isadore Fine,

Brother of Marie Rubin

Gordon Ludzki,

Father of Avra Goldhar

Monday, September 2 • 29 Av

Anne Bagelman,

Mother of Jerry Bagelman

Lily Mandel,

Mother of Rebecca Golosky

Tuesday, September 3 • 30 Av

Ruthe Mann,

Sister-in-law of Geraldine Longert

Helen Pukerman,

Mother of Esther Rodzynek

Lillian Salsberg,

Mother of Tena Lexchin

Wednesday, September 4 • 1 Elul

Rebecca Bloom,

Mother-In-Law of Anna Bloom

Ann Gold,

Niece of Joyce Binstock

Leo Greenspan,

Father of Saul Greenspan

Gloria Klein,

Wife of Morris Klein

Billie Kornbloom,

Grandmother of Bonnie Marks

Rachel Lanbersky,

Mother of Penny Geffen

David Marks,

Husband of Helen Marks

Laura Schwartzbein,

Mother of David Schwartzbein

Libby Silver,

Mother-In-Law of Ruth Silver

Diane Sue Solursh,

Stepmother of Fern Haniford

Tova Starr,

Grandmother of Rita Drutz

Thursday, September 5 • 2 Elul

Jack Louis Greenfield,

Brother-in-law of Rosalind Greenfield

Sandra Lanys,

Wife of Michael Lanys

Norman Maser,

Father of Janice Maser

Nathan Nosov,

Father of Shelly Davine and Jody Weintraub

Herbert Oppenheimer,

Father of Harold Oppenheimer

Albert Shreiber,

Father-in-law of Arthur Kates

Dora Sobel,

Mother-In-Law of Doreen Sobel

Friday, September 6 • 3 Elul

Regina Buchman,

Mother-In-Law of Roma Buchman

Nathan Fine,

Father of Marie Rubin

Harry Goodman,

Step-father of Debra Giller

Louis Greenspan,

Grandfather of Larry Lexchin

Sylvia Weinrieb,

Mother of Steven Weinrieb

Your Time! Your Way! Learning for You!!

Weekly D’var Torah and resources from the Hadar Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and My Jewish Learning (MJL)

This week's Parsha Re'eh:

Hadar:

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/women-deuteronomy-and-beyond

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/opening-our-hearts-and-our-hands

JTS:

www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online

MJL:

www.myjewishlearning.com/torah-portions
www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/host/hey-alma

Weekday Minyanim

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Tuesday, September 3
In memory of Anne Bagelman, loved mother, in observance of her 7th yahrzeit dedicated by her children Jerry and Georgi Bagelman

Thursday, September 5
Michelle Markowitz & Brad Goldsmith in honour of their son Charlie's Bar Mitzvah aufruf

MINYAN SPONSORS

Monday, September 2 morning minyan
Rebecca Golosky in memory of her mother Lily Mandel

Special Shabbat coming soon!

Youth-led morning services & Youth-friendly Kiddush

WE ARE ASKING...
...those of you who borrowed a High Holy Day Mahzor and still have them in your homes, please return them to Beth David no later than September 15th.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.

Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90
Shabbat morning Kiddush $450 | Seudah Shlisheet $350 | Weekday Breakfast $200

Weekday Afternoon/Evening Minyan  $36 | Saturday Evening Havdallah  $36
Weekday Morning Minyan  $54 | Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat  $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter  $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter  $100
Shabbat morning Livestream Service  $100 | Clergy Classes $100 for per session

Effective November 1, 2024, the price for breakfast will increase to $250, the price for Seudah Shlisheet will increase to $400, and the price for Shabbat morning kiddush will increase to $500.00

CONTACT THE SHUL

Staff

Ian Borer, Executive Director
416-633-5500 ext. 22 ian@bethdavid.com

Faye Major, Administrator
416-633-5500 ext. 0 (office) or 437-770-2302 (mobile) faye@bethdavid.com

Rebecca Joffe, Program and Communications Manager
647-632-9156 rebecca@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager
437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper
thanuja@bethdavid.com

Clergy

Philip S. Scheim, Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer, Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Jordan Bendat-Appell, Rabbi
rabbijordan@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin, Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual
mrubin@bethdavid.com

08/23/2024 08:56:47 AM

Aug23

Aug 24, 2024

20 Av 5784

SHABBAT SERVICES

(August 23 & 24)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat.....6:00PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...7:15PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(August 25 to 30)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sun, Wed &Thurs Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

📵 Cell phone use is prohibited on Shabbat Beth David is a SCENT-FREE space

✡ מזל טוב ✡

Mazal Tov to Eden Benzaquen and his family on becoming Bar Mitzvah
on Monday August 26, 2024

We welcome Janice Goldmintz
as our Guest Darshanit on Shabbat morning

PARASHAT EIKEV

Torah: Deuteronomy 9:4-10:11 (p.)
Maftir: Deuteronomy 10:9-10:11 (p.)
Haftarah: Isaiah 49:14-51:3 (p.)

🕯🕯 Candlelighting: 7:49 PM

Shabbat Ends:8:49 PM 🕯

Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, August 23 at 6:00 pm

Shabbat Morning Saturday, August 24 at 9:00 am

Next Shabbat, August 31st, our Guest Darshanit is Sorele Urman.

Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah Saturday, August 24 at 7:15 pm

Message from The Jewish Theological Seminary

Love the Stranger

Eikev by : Ethan Linden JTS Alum (Rabbinical School), Director, Camp Ramah in the BerkshiresTorah Portion

In our parashah this week we find an odd statement masquerading as banal—a revolutionary idea that at first glance seems familiar, but is something else entirely. In Deuteronomy 10:19 the Torah commands: “Ve-ahavtem et hager ki gerim hayitem be-eretz mitzrayim” (“Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt”).

We find very similar statements elsewhere in the Torah, of course, but with a crucial difference. Consider Exodus 22:20, for example: “Veger lo toneh velo tilhatzenu” (“Do not wrong a stranger, do not oppress him”). The end of this verse—which provides the reason for the law, or perhaps the reason why the people should take care to follow it—is the same as that in Deuteronomy: for you were strangers in the Land of Egypt. But in Exodus, and in most of the other biblical verses that address this issue, the command is: Do not harm, do not oppress. In Deuteronomy 10:19, we are told: Love. One is a negative injunction—do not act in such a way toward a stranger—while in this week’s parashah we have an affirmative requirement: Seek a ger out and show favor to him or her.

It is perhaps the oddity of this that leads Rashi to his interesting comment on this verse. He quotes from the Talmud (BT Bava Metzia 59b): “Do not taunt your fellow with the blemish you yourself have.” This is an unexpected take on the verse—and one that affects the level of difficulty of this mitzvah. After all, not oppressing someone is easier, and takes far less effort, than acting affirmatively to befriend them, to try to understand and love them. While the Exodus version of the command can be followed simply by staying out of the way of a ger, this Deuteronomic version in our parashah seems to require the exact opposite: to get in their way such that we can see the ger, and the ger can see us. Rashi, perhaps sensing this difference, reads the verse as being less about public policy and more about public comity. We all have blemishes, Rashi seems to be saying, and perhaps we should remember that when we are interacting with our neighbors.

Rashi’s reading of the verse seems to indicate that this command is not just about the ger but about the way we interact in general with those around us. And indeed, the Talmudic context for the comment that Rashi brings to bear on this verse is noteworthy in that it is all about the power of wounded feelings to bring great harm into the world. The narrative immediately preceding the Talmudic discussion of hurt feelings is the famous story of the oven of Akhnai, the rabbinic debate about the ritual purity of a particular oven that ends with a voice coming forth from heaven to declare, “These and these are the words of the living God.”

This story is often understood as proof of divine pluralism, or perhaps as a programmatic statement about majority rule. But we often stop reading right before the story gets to its ultimate point: Rabbi Eliezer, who holds the minority opinion, is excommunicated, his positions on all legal matters spurned, because of his willingness to disagree with the majority. Many hurt feelings follow, with the result that Rabbi Eliezer prays for the death of his primary antagonist, Rabban Gamliel. His prayer is granted, he is informed by his wife (who also happens to be Rabban Gamliel’s sister!), because “the gates of wounded feelings are always open.”

This is a rather cryptic statement, though it probably means that the prayers of those who have been insulted are allowed to reach heaven and be answered. But perhaps it can be read as more human than heavenly: some wounds do not close. And if that is so, we must be diligent in our ways of speaking to people, careful in how we interact. This is not simply a matter of staying out of everyone else’s way, of not interfering. This is a matter of finding ways to love those with whom we live: our family, our friends, our larger communities.

The Talmud understands that the easiest fault to find in others is that which we find within ourselves. Rashi applies that concept to the law of loving a stranger, and in doing so, he universalizes the command. To each other, we are all strangers, in one sense or another, and we must find ways to reach across the chasms that divide us. To begin, to take the first step, we must not wound, we must not harm. And then, having made our careful first approach, we must come nearer still and find within the other not just the faults we know we bear as well, but the depth of love-worthy humanity that every person carries as a birthright.

The gates of wounded feelings are never closed, and if we try hard to love each other, perhaps we can avoid opening them in the first place.

Shabbat Shalom.

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

20 Av ⦁ Saturday, August 24

Hyman Goldhar,

Grandfather of Ruth Cappel

Prosper Mastey,

Father of Elie Mastey

Al Sherman,

Father of Lloyd Sherman

Faye Zionce,

mother of Robin Zionce-Garber

21 Av 5751 ⦁ Sunday, August 25

Morris Agulnik,

Father of Arnold Agulnik

Anne Page,

Mother-In-Law of Janet Page

22 Av ⦁ Monday, August 26

Max Baker,

Father of Bonnie Baker

Brauna Berkovich,

Mother of Alec Berk

Helen Cohen,

Mother of Frances Harris

Alice Feldman,

Sister of Morris Dadoun

Sarah Faige Hattin,

Grandmother of Carol Manilla

Hilda Hilf,

Great Aunt of Harvey Bitterman

Rose Silver,

Mother of Norman Silver

Julius Jacob Sokoloff,

Husband of Anne Sokoloff

Saul Spears,

Husband of Hermi Spears

Jean Strasberg,

Mother of Lorne Strasberg

23 Av 5754 ⦁ Tuesday, August 27

Samuel Balaban,

Father of Estelle Shane, Grandfather of Karen Shane and Steven Shane

Aaron Frankel,

Grandfather of Rhonda Franklin

Rosemary Fromm,

Sister of Fern Dworkin

Miriam Ganz,

Great Grandmother of Rochelle Pollock, Mindy Ganz and Howard Ganz

Joseph Fred Goodman,

Brother-in-law of Rae Goodman and Uncle of Anne Goodman-Cuttler

Molly Gotlieb,

Mother of Nancy Pruskin

Ronald Nefsky,

Father of Brenda Zysman

Harvey Peranson,

Father of Elliott Peranson

Allen Shandler,

Brother of Linda Friedman

24 Av ⦁ Wednesday, August 28

Henca Feuer,

Aunt of Howard Ganz and Mindy Ganz

Carl Feuerstein,

Father of Sophie-Renee Moses

Abraham Galper,

Father of Jacob Galper

Yisrael Perel,

Grandfather of Rae Goodman and Great Grandfather of Anne Goodman-Cuttler

Meyer Rotstein,

Father of Frances Temple

Yetta Starkman,

Mother of Pauline Sharpe

25 Av ⦁ Thursday, August 29

Rose Babbin,

Mother of Jerry Babbin

Michael Bienstock,

Father of Lena Shugar

Goldie Brown,

Sister of Irving Switzman

Abe Dubnove,

Cousin of Marla Levant-Bornstein

Frances Faye Hoffman,

Sister-in-law of Ray Hoffman

Rebecca Lightman,

Grandmother of Floyd Lightman

Ben Tully,

Father-In-Law of Marion Tully

26 Av ⦁ Friday, August 30

Audrey Bensky,

Mother of Gary Bensky

Carrie Mida,

Wife of Israel Mida, Mother of Arielle Mida and David Mida

Aaron Jaan Saber,

Brother of Jacqueline Saber

Herman Weisz,

Grandfather of Rochelle Pollock

Your Time! Your Way! Learning for You!!

Weekly D’var Torah and resources from the Hadar Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and My Jewish Learning (MJL)

This week's Parsha Va'ethannan:

Hadar:

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/god-so-close-and-laws-so-righteous

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/coveting-craving-and-being-free

JTS:

www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online

MJL:

www.myjewishlearning.com/torah-portions
www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/host/hey-alma

Weekday Minyanim

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Monday, August 26
Harvey Bitterman in memory of his maternal great-aunt Hilda Hilf
&
Norm & Judy Silver in memory of Norm's mother Rose Silver on her 51st yahrzeit
&
Rotem Stark & Goshen Benzaquen in honour of their son Eden Benzaquen becoming Bar Mitzvah

MINYAN SPONSORS

Thursday, August 28 morning minyan
Irving Switzman in memory of his sister Goldie Brown

Special Shabbat coming soon!

Youth-led morning services & Youth-friendly Kiddush

NOTE: A door code is required to enter the shul for the weekday minyanim.
Please email faye@bethdavid.com if you need the code.

When using the keypad for entry to the shul, please ensure that you enter alone and that the door closes securely behind you. When you leave, please ensure that the door securely locks behind you.

2024-2025 Beth David Leadership Team

Baila Lubek, President (president@bethdavid.com)

Nava Blankenstein, Vice-President, Finance and Administration (nava@bethdavid.com)

Janice Goldmintz, Vice-President, Programming and Ritual

Gary Goldfarb, Vice-President, House and Property

Rosalie Selick, Secretary | Steven Picov, Treasurer

Marty Feldman, Chair of the Board

• DIRECTORS •

Igor Ellyn - Past President, Dorothy Astroff, Chaim Birbrager, Mike Cohen,
Jeff Cooper, Lisa Feld, Celia Golberg, Ian Hendry, Adele Randall, Ken Shelson, Cyla Shiffman, Miriam Telem, Ellen Haspel, Alex Roth

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

📌
To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.

Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90
Shabbat morning Kiddush $500 | Seudah Shlisheet $400 | Weekday Breakfast $250

Weekday Afternoon/Evening Minyan $36 | Saturday Evening Havdallah $36
Weekday Morning Minyan $54 | Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter $100
Shabbat morning Livestream Service $100 | Clergy Classes $100 for per session

CONTACT THE SHUL

Staff

Ian Borer, Executive Director
416-633-5500 ext. 22 ian@bethdavid.com

Faye Major, Administrator
416-633-5500 ext. 0 (office) or 437-770-2302 (mobile) faye@bethdavid.com

Rebecca Joffe, Program and Communications Manager
647-632-9156 rebecca@bethdavid.com

Adina Krupnik, Youth and Family Engagement Coordinator
647-278-4259 adina@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager
437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper
thanuja@bethdavid.com

Clergy

Philip S. Scheim, Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer, Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual
mrubin@bethdavid.com

08/09/2024 08:26:35 AM

Aug9

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored by Faye Major in loving memory of her father Harold Zweig on his 37th yahrzeit, and her grandfather Sam Bader on his 87th yahrzeit and her mother-in-law Rella Major on her 59th yahrzeit

August 10, 2024

Shabbat Hazon

6 Av 5784

SHABBAT SERVICES

(August 9 & 10)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat.....6:00PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...7:45PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(August 11 to 16)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sun, Wed &Thurs Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

🚫 Beth David is a SCENT-FREE space

📵 Cell phone use is prohibited on Shabbat

✡ מזל טוב ✡

Mazal Tov to Daniel Mester and Rachel Zevy in honour of their aufruf for their upcoming marriage

We welcome Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell
as our Guest Darshan on Shabbat morning

PARASHAT DEVARIM

Torah: Deuteronomy 2:2-2:30 (p. 990)
Maftir: 2:26-2:30 (p. 994)
Haftarah: Isaiah 1:1-27 (p.1000)

🕯🕯 Candlelighting: 8:11 PM

Shabbat Ends:9:10 PM 🕯

Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, August 9 at 6:00 pm

Shabbat Morning Saturday, August 10 at 9:00 am

Next Shabbat, August 17th, our Guest Darshanit is Beth Feffer.

Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah Saturday, August 10 at 7:45 pm

Havdallah is sponsored by Alex Roth & Elise Rose in memory of
Alex's mother Helen Roth

Message from The Jewish Theological Seminary

Devarim | Tishah B'Av by : Eitan Fishbane Professor of Jewish Thought

With this parashah, we begin the book of Deuteronomy, the opening of a book of memory—a recalling of the forty years of desert wandering while simultaneously anticipating the entrance of the people into the Land of Israel.

Eleh hadevarim, “these are the words”; the words that recount the life and journey of a people, their entrance into covenant at Sinai. But as the Hasidic teachers frequently remind us, the Torah is eternal, reverberating anew for each individual Jew in every generation. And so, the guiding theme of remembering also takes place in the mind and heart of each person.

We are part of a people and a community, and we are also individual selves, bound up in our personal relationships and in self-examination. This is how we may understand the strong themes of justice and love that are expressed in Deuteronomy—wise discernment and compassionate care for the other, the urgency of love in devotion. These ethical and theological imperatives flow directly from the exclamations of Parashat Devarim—the introspection, self-examination, and turn to memory.

Indeed, if Deuteronomy as a whole may be understood as an exhortation to justice and care of the vulnerable as a precondition for proper love of God, then so are we to understand the rabbinic choice to make Parashat Devarim also ShabbatḤazon—the latter name deriving from the opening word of the haftarah linked to this occasion, Isaiah 1:1–27. This is a haftarah of harsh admonition and rebuke, an attempt by the prophet to awaken the urgency of repentance, the imperative of social justice in the form of care for the wronged and the vulnerable:

“Cease to do evil;
Learn to do good (limdu heitev).
Devote yourselves to justice (dirshu mishpat);
Aid the wronged.
Uphold the rights of the orphan;
Defend the cause of the widow . . .
Be your sins like crimson,
They can turn snow-white . . . " Isa . 1:16–18

This is the essence of piety: not the external formalities of ritual performance alone, but animated by interpersonal acts of justice and compassion. “What need have I of all your sacrifices,” the prophet Isaiah says in the name of God.

“Who asked that of you?
Trample my courts no more;
Bringing oblations is futile,
Incense is offensive to Me . .
Though you pray at length,
I will not listen.
Your hands are stained with crime—
Wash yourselves clean;
Put your evil doings
Away from My sight.” Isa. 1:12–16

Religious ritual and prayer without teshuvah (repentance) for moral transgressions, for evildoing and lack of care for the vulnerable, is useless and unwanted by God. Spiritual practice must be grounded in the moral imperative of compassion and care to achieve depth and authenticity.

Let it be in this spirit that we view the trajectory of time progressing toward the yamim noraim (High Holy Days), toward the aseret yemei teshuvah (Ten Days of Repentance). This time in which we find ourselves—the three weeks of collective mourning during the second half of the Hebrew month of Tammuz and the first part of Av—this is our reenactment of the brokenness that culminates in Tishah Be’Av (Ninth Day of Av), which commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and has also come to symbolize the many catastrophes that have befallen the Jewish people over more than two millennia.

I suggest that we understand the ruined House of God not just in its literal sense as the historical Beit Hamikdash, but as the sacred space of peace, balance, and kindness within each of us. Perhaps this is a figurative way to read the classical idea that the Temple was destroyed because of sin’at hinam—baseless hatred between people—a lack of compassion, kindness, and peace.

Read this way, the haftarah of Shabbat Ḥazon may remind us of the inner brokenness and the pain in others that is caused by our callousness and indifference to suffering. That is the deep wail of Eikhah (Lamentations) that we recite in reenacted despair on Tishah Be‘Av; a howl over the brokenness and ruin that has come about as a result of our actively destructive behavior and our apathy toward those in a state of vulnerability who need our intervention, our work of justice, compassion, and love.

The wail of lament and despair includes an introspective awareness of the ruined interior Temple of our hearts. Only through the breaking open of our hearts can we rediscover the compassion that is needed to work for the betterment of the wronged and the alleviation of suffering.

Interpersonal justice is itself a prayer come to life. It prepares our hearts—once hardened, judgmental, and indifferent, arrogant and angry—to be softened into compassion and care, to lift up the broken remnants of the Temple, transforming them into moral piety. Only then will our hearts be truly opened to sincere prayer, only then will we even have the right to speak our prayers before the One who spoke and the world came into being.

Shabbat Shalom.

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, August 10 • 6 Av

Harry Bocknek,

Friend of Beth David

Samuel Levine,

Father of Myrna Schwartz

Arthur Joseph Rosen,

Father of Marlene Abella

Daniel Allan Soberman,

Father of David Soberman

Harold Zweig,

Father of Faye Major and Howard Zweig

Sunday, August 11 • 7 Av

David Bardenstein,

Grandfather of Michael Rubin and David Rubin

Brenda Berlin,

Beloved of Lawrence Shulman

Helen Roth,

Mother of Alexander Roth

Norma Rubin,

Mother of Michael Rubin and David Rubin

Lawrie SIlverberg,

Father of Marlene Silverberg

Anne Stocker,

Sister of Harold Stocker

Monday, August 12 • 8 Av

Sam Day,

Father of Sharon Day-Feldman

Robert Eisen,

Father of Martin Eisen

Doris Feldman,

Mother of Joseph Lifshitz

Betty Gillston,

Friend of Jacqueline Saber

Susan Librach,

Mother of Barbara Librach

Rose Lowie,

Mother-in-law of Thomas Simon

Rhoda Pascoe,

Mother-in-law of Sharon Paskowitz

Eva Shack,

Mother-In-Law of Rhoda Shack

Myer Shelson,

Father of Monty Shelson

Beryl Silverman,

Sister of Elaine White

Edward Spiegelman,

Grandfather of Jeffrey Spiegelman

Benjamin Steinberg,

Father-in-law of Alan Federman

Ester Warsh,

Mother-in-law of Melvern Katzman

Tuesday, August 13 • 9 Av

Belle Brodsky,

Mother of Gloria Dadoun

Joyce Clodman,

Friend of Beth David

Moses Horwich,

Father of Wilfred Horwich

Sarah Kornblum,

Mother of Jack (Jake) Kornblum

Maurice Pasternac,

Father of Esther Lieberman

Maurice Shopiro,

Friend of Beth David

Ray Wolfe,

Mother of Irving Wolfe

Wednesday, August 14 • 10 Av

Rita Clayman,

Mother of Frances Winer

Andrew Dunn,

Cousin of Karen Bernstein

Marion Kates,

Mother of Arthur Kates

Stanley Levene,

Husband of Lorraine Levene

Arthur Mark Lightstone,

Friend of Beth David

Wolfe Jacob Myerson,

Grandfather of Dianne Rubinoff

Bernie Rodin,

Father of Lisa Rodin-Gardner

Thursday, August 15 • 11 Av

Benjamin Bernstein,

Son of Malcolm Bernstein

Gershon Feffer,

Son of Beth Feffer

Alex Giverts,

Father of Carol Pacter

Max Kingston,

Friend of Beth David

Chame Lanys,

Friend of Beth David

Hershel Pakman,

Father of Dorothy Astroff

Faigie Rabinovitch,

Mother of Gordon Rabinovitch

Miriam Rok,

Mother of Emily Korson

Aron Dovid Rosenzweig,

Father-in-law of Alan Silverstein

Friday, August 16 • 12 Av

Sam Bader,

Grandfather of Faye Major

Phyllis Chisvin,

Friend of Beth David

Esther Stein,

Grandmother of Edward Fox

Your Time! Your Way! Learning for You!!

Weekly D’var Torah and resources from the Hadar Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and My Jewish Learning (MJL)

This week's Parsha Devarim:

Hadar:

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/man-many-words

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/do-not-be-afraid-anyone

JTS:

www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online

MJL:

www.myjewishlearning.com/torah-portions
www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/host/hey-alma

Upcoming Shabbat Experiences at Beth David

We will be providing an Israeli Hummus Bar for refreshments.

Registration required by Monday, August 12. Click here or on above image to register.

DONATIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED

Youth-led morning services & Youth-friendly Kiddush

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Monday, August 12
Rachel Zevy and Daniel Mester in honour of the aufruf for their upcoming wedding

Thursday, August 15
The Feffer family in loving memory of Gershon Feffer

Weekday Minyanim

NOTE: A door code is required to enter the shul for the weekday minyanim.
Please email faye@bethdavid.com if you need the code.

When using the keypad for entry to the shul, please ensure that you enter alone and that the door closes securely behind you. When you leave, please ensure that the door securely locks behind you.

2024-2025 Beth David Leadership Team

Baila Lubek, President (president@bethdavid.com)

Nava Blankenstein, Vice-President, Finance and Administration

Janice Goldmintz, Vice-President, Programming and Ritual

Gary Goldfarb, Vice-President, House and Property

Rosalie Selick, Secretary | Steven Picov, Treasurer

Marty Feldman, Chair of the Board

• DIRECTORS •

Igor Ellyn - Past President, Dorothy Astroff, Chaim Birbrager, Mike Cohen,
Jeff Cooper, Lisa Feld, Celia Golberg, Ian Hendry, Adele Randall, Ken Shelson, Cyla Shiffman, Miriam Telem, Ellen Haspel, Alex Roth

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

📌
To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.

Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90

Shabbat morning Kiddush $450 | Seudah Shlisheet $350 | Weekday Breakfast $200

Weekday Afternoon/Evening Minyan $36 | Saturday Evening Havdallah $36
Weekday Morning Minyan $54 | Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter $100
Shabbat morning Livestream Service $100 | Clergy Classes $100 for per session

CONTACT THE SHUL

Staff

Ian Borer, Executive Director
416-633-5500 ext. 22 ian@bethdavid.com

NOTE: Ian Borer is receiving calls and messages from his extension on the main line
416-633-5500. The rest of the staff are using only their synagogue mobile numbers listed below.

Faye Major, Administrator
437-770-2302 faye@bethdavid.com

Rebecca Joffe, Program and Communications Manager
647-632-9156 rebecca@bethdavid.com

Adina Krupnik, Youth and Family Engagement Coordinator
647-278-4259 adina@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager
437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper
thanuja@bethdavid.com

Clergy

Philip S. Scheim, Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer, Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual
mrubin@bethdavid.com

07/26/2024 09:17:46 AM

Jul26

This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored in memory of Jack Spring
on the occasion of his 55th yahrzeit, remembered with love and respect by his children Georgi and Jerry Bagelman

July 27, 2024

21 Tammuz 5784

SHABBAT SERVICES

(July 26 & 27)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat...6:00PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...8:00PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(July 28 to August 2 )

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday-Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

🚫 Beth David is a SCENT-FREE space

📵 Cell phone use is prohibited on Shabbat

We welcome Hana Werner as our Guest Darshanit
on Shabbat morning

PARASHAT PINHAS

Torah: Numbers 26:52-28:15 (p. 924)

Maftir: Numbers 28:11-28:15 (p. 931)

Haftarah: Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 (p. 968)

🕯🕯 Candlelighting: 8:35PM

Shabbat Ends: 9:35PM 🕯

Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, July 26 at 6:00 pm

Kabbalat Shabbat is sponsored by Rochelle Feldberg, Marla Morrison and
Paul Farberman in memory of their father Reuben Farberman

Shabbat Morning Saturday, July 27 at 9:00 am

Kiddush this morning is sponsored by Sharin & Peter Reynolds in memory of Sharin's mother Rose Jennisen and Peter's father Kenneth Reynolds

Next Shabbat, August 3rd, our Guest Darshanit is Baila Lubek, President

Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah Saturday, July 27 at 8:00 pm

Havdallah is sponsored by Paula & Stanley Epstein in memory of Paula's mother Lillie Gorman

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

21 Tammuz

Jack Bercuson,

Sara Brettler,

Harold Risman,

Jack Spring,

July 27

Father of Sue-Anne Mayers

Mother of Kalman Brettler

Friend of Beth David

Father of Georgi Bagelman

22 Tammuz

Miriam Bagelman,

Jennie Chippin,

Lillie Gorman,

Frances Levy,

Kenneth Reynolds,

Shirley Roll,

Ethel Silverstein,

Fanny Tessler,

July 28

Great Grandmother of Jerry Bagelman

Sister of Sam Rubin

Mother of Paula Epstein

Mother of Gilbert Levy

Father of Peter Reynolds

Sister of Rae Goodman

Mother of Alan Silverstein

Sister of Cecile Myerson

23 Tammuz

Fanny Goldhar,

Marvin Meretsky,

Ruth Miller,

Ozer Starkman,

Hyman Wosnick,

July 29

Grandmother of Mark Gertzbein and Ruth Cappel

Father of Joanne Rosen

Mother of Netta Greenblatt

Grandfather of Ann Houpt

Brother-in-law of Ettie Wosnick

24 Tammuz

Morris Binstock,

Yitzchak Brodbaker,

Frank Kaplan,

Ruth Lanys,

Arlene Shessel,

Sarah Steiner,

Jack Tanenbaum,

July 30

Father of Martin Binstock and Brother-in-law of Joyce Binstock

Father of Freda Brodbaker

Friend of Beth David

Mother of Jeffrey Lanys

Friend of Beth David

Mother of Cecile Myerson

Uncle of Randi Elkind

25 Tammuz

Freda Garshowitz,

Esther Kirshenblatt,

Esther Zasloff Zinman,

July 31

Mother of Eunice Freedman

Friend of Beth David

Mother of Bram Zinman

26 Tammuz

Sadie Gosewitz,

Lillian Jacobson,

Moshe Kalina,

Ralph Orvitz,

Chaya Rachel Zimmerman,

August 1

Mother-In-Law of Annette Gosewitz

Aunt of Marion Tully

Father of Miriam Finklestein

Father of Zvi Orvitz

Grandmother of Rochelle Plender

27 Tammuz

Mary Altman,

Esther Sheindel Friedman,

Zvi Kafri,

Michael Jay Kleinberg,

August 2

Mother of Sandra Sigal

Grandmother of Lorraine Levene

Friend of Beth David

Husband of Marla Kleinberg, Son of Samuel Kleinberg and
Father of Jonathan Kleinberg

Elka Naftolin,

David Neuberger,

Shaina Neuberger,

Thomas Radzinski,

Riva Silverstein,

Grandmother of Paula Sonshine

Friend of Beth David

Father of Sheila Isenberg

Mother of Ruth Kartzowitz

Message from Exploring Judaism

... the digital home for Conservative/Masorti Judaism

Moshe’s Forced Retirement
by Ilana Kurshan

At the end of the Israelites’ journey in the wilderness, Moshe’s job is terminated prematurely.

Moshe is Moving Forward

He is not ready to die, and he wishes that he could accompany the Israelites in the next stage of their journey.

But his time has come.

Moshe, who initially resisted his leadership role at the burning bush—“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh” (Exodus 3:11)—now realizes with the same degree of humility that he is no longer suited for the task. He will not be permitted to enter the land, and someone else will lead the people in his stead.

The midrashic account of the transfer of power from Moshe to Joshua in this week’s parashah offers us a valuable lesson in how we let go and move on, even when we are not quite ready.

Moshe wishes he could keep leading the people. As he later tells them, he pleads with God, “Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan” (Deuteronomy 3:25).

The midrash explains that even in our parashah, when bringing the case of Tzlof’chad’s five daughters before God, Moshe retained the hope that he would be the one to oversee the conquest and division of the land. In ruling about the case of the five daughters, God commanded Moshe, “You shall indeed grant them a portion” (Bamidbar 27:7). Moshe heard this and grew excited, hoping that God’s words might be interpreted literally and that it was indeed he—Moshe—who would grant Tzlof’chad’s daughters their portions following the conquest.

“Behold I am entering Israel,” Moshe thought, as per the midrashic account (Tanchuma Pinchas 9).

In response, God assured him, “My decree remains in place”—it was not Moshe himself who would assign the land to the daughters, but his successor. The midrash, picking up on the juxtaposition of the case of Tzlof’chad’s daughters with the story of Moshe’s request for a successor in the very next biblical passage, notes that it was God’s reiteration of Moshe’s forced retirement that prompted Moshe to plead with God to choose a new leader.

To Moshe’s credit, he is able to put aside his own pain and dejection about his job termination and focus on the people’s needs.

Notably, it is not God who instructs Moshe to appoint a successor, but rather Moshe who initiates this transition: “Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, ‘Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone over the community … ’” (Bamidbar 27:15-16).

Moshe is more concerned about the people than about himself; he is more committed to ensuring that they have a leader than to trying to retain that role. In nine concise but poignant verses, the Torah describes how Moshe appeals to God to appoint a new leader “so that the Lord’s community may not be like sheep that have no shepherd” (Bamidbar 27:17).

As the midrash on this biblical passage teaches, “This is to apprise us of the virtues of the righteous, that when they are about to die, they put aside their own concerns and occupy themselves with those of the congregation” (Sifrei Bemidbar 138).

When Moshe invests Joshua with the authority to rule, he does so wholeheartedly. Immediately after God finishes instructing him regarding the transfer of power, Moshe complies: “Moshe did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua … He laid his hands upon him and commissioned him—as the LORD had spoken through Moshe” (Bamidbar 27:22-23).

Moshe’s lack of hesitation suggests that he is no longer thinking about his own regret at having to give up his role, nor is he resentful that his own sons or nephews were not chosen for the job. As the midrash puts it, “He did so with joy, undiluted with regret for his son and his brother’s sons” (Sifrei Bamidbar 141). Perhaps Moshe’s awareness that his own authority as a leader comes from God enables him to put himself and his own needs aside.

Moshe’s Reassurance of Joshua

When Moshe places his hands on Joshua’s head, he seeks to fill Joshua with the same divine spirit that has accompanied him ever since God promised him at the burning bush, “I will be with you” (Exodus 3:11).

The Talmud (Sanhedrin 105b) notes that whereas God commanded Moshe to “lay your hand” (27:18) upon Joshua, Moshe in fact “laid his hands” (Bamidbar 27:23) upon him.

In resting not just one hand upon his successor’s head, but two, Moshe wished to impart to Joshua even more than God commanded him. He infused him not just with the divine spirit, but also with all the Torah he had received on Sinai.

The very first Mishnah in Pirkei Avot teaches that Moses received the Torah on Mount Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua.

The midrash explains that this moment of transmission took place here, in our parashah, when Moshe brought Joshua before Elazar the priest and before the whole community and laid his hands upon his head. In placing his hands upon Joshua’s head, Moshe made Joshua into “an overflowing vessel of Torah” (Sifrei Bamidbar 141), capable of ruling independently in matters of law much like his teacher Moshe.

The Talmud cites this moment of transition as evidence that “a person does not grow jealous of one’s student” (Sanhedrin 105b).

A good teacher is not threatened by a great student, and this is true of a leader and his successor as well. As Moshe’s example teaches us, a hallmark of a good leader is that one cares more about the mission than about his or her own involvement in it.

Moshe’s genuinely generous transfer of authority to Joshua is a reminder of the consolation that may come after we are forced to give up our role in an enterprise in which we are deeply invested.

Though we may no longer be involved, we can hopefully rest assured that the enterprise will continue in good hands in our absence. Even after Moshe breathes his last breath, God—“Source of the breath of all flesh” (Bamidbar 27:16)—will guide Moshe’s successor as the people of Israel realize the next stage of the covenant, making their home in the Promised Land.

Shabbat Shalom

Your Time! Your Way! Learning for You!!

Weekly D’var Torah and resources from the Hadar Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and My Jewish Learning (MJL)

This week's Parsha Pinhas:

Hadar:
Parsha Pinhas:

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/between-zealotry-and-self-righteousness

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/when-zealotry-metastasizes

JTS:

www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online

MJL:

www.myjewishlearning.com/torah-portions
www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/host/hey-alma

Upcoming Shabbat Experiences at Beth David

Registration preferred (but not required) by Monday, August 12.
Click here or on above image to register.

DONATIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED

Youth-led morning services & Youth-friendly Kiddush

Weekday Minyanim & Sponsorships

The Sunday, July 28 breakfast is sponsored by Gil Levy
in memory of his mother Frances Levy

NOTE: A door code is required to enter the shul for the weekday minyanim.

Please email faye@bethdavid.com if you need the code.

When using the keypad for entry to the shul, please ensure that you enter alone and that the door closes securely behind you. When you leave, please ensure that the door securely locks behind you.

2024-2025 BETH DAVID LEADERSHIP TEAM

Baila Lubek, President (president@bethdavid.com)

Nava Blankenstein, Vice-President, Finance and Administration

Janice Goldmintz, Vice-President, Programming and Ritual

Gary Goldfarb, Vice-President, House and Property

Rosalie Selick, Secretary | Steven Picov, Treasurer

Marty Feldman, Chair of the Board

• DIRECTORS •

Igor Ellyn - Past President, Dorothy Astroff, Chaim Birbrager, Mike Cohen,
Jeff Cooper, Lisa Feld, Celia Golberg, Ian Hendry, Adele Randall, Ken Shelson, Cyla Shiffman, Miriam Telem, Ellen Haspel, Alex Roth

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITES

Click online here or contact Faye at 437-770-2302

📌

To be included in the Shabbat Shalom, sponsorship requests must be received by Tuesday at noon of the week before the sponsorship date.

Dedicate a Weekday Sim Shalom Prayer Book $90

Shabbat morning Kiddush $450 | Seudah Shlisheet $350

Weekday Breakfast $200 | Weekday Evening Minyan $36

Saturday Evening Havdallah $36 | Weekday Morning Minyan $54

Friday Afternoon Kabbalat Shabbat $100
Shabbat Shalom newsletter $100 | Events & Opportunities newsletter $100
Shabbat morning Livestream $100 | Clergy Classes $100 per session

STAFF

Ian Borer, Executive Director

416-633-5500 ext. 22 ian@bethdavid.com

NOTE: Ian Borer is receiving calls and messages from his extension on the main line 416-633-5500. The rest of the staff are using only their synagogue mobile numbers listed below.

Faye Major, Administrator

437-770-2302 faye@bethdavid.com

Rebecca Joffe, Program and Communications Manager
647-632-9156 rebecca@bethdavid.com

Adina Krupnik, Youth and Family Engagement Coordinator
647-278-4259 adina@bethdavid.com

Helene Jacobs, Administrator
437-770-2756 helene@bethdavid.com

Jeev Logan, Finance Manager

437-771-1606 jeev@bethdavid.com

Thanuja Perera, Bookkeeper

thanuja@bethdavid.com

CLERGY

Philip S. Scheim
Rabbi Emeritus
rabbischeim@bethdavid.com

Marshall Loomer
Rabbi Cantor
cantor@bethdavid.com

Michael Rubin
Director of Engagement, Education & Ritual

mrubin@bethdavid.com

Beth David B'nai Israel Beth Am

55 Yeomans Road Toronto ON M3H3J7

info@bethdavid.com 416-633-5500

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07/05/2024 03:07:06 PM

Jul5

July 6, 2024

Rosh Hodesh Tammuz

30 Sivan 5784

SHABBAT SERVICES

(July 5 & 6)

Friday Kabbalat Shabbat...6:00PM
Shabbat Morning Services...9:00AM
Minhah-Seudah-Havdallah...8:15PM

WEEKDAY SERVICES

(July 7 to 12)

Sunday Morning...8:30AM

Monday to Friday Mornings...7:30AM

Sunday-Thursday Evenings...7:00PM

Shabbat & Weekday LIVESTREAM

https://livemedia.biz/BethDavid.html

🚫 Beth David is a SCENT-FREE space

📵 Cell phone use is prohibited on Shabbat

PARASHAT KORAH

Torah: Numbers 16:20-17:24 (p. 863)

Maftir: Numbers 28:9-28:15 (p. 930)

Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 (p. 1220)

🕯🕯 Candlelighting: 8:43PM

Shabbat Ends: 9:44PM 🕯

Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, July 5 at 6:00 pm

Shabbat Morning Saturday, July 6 at 9:00 am

Kiddush this morning is sponsored by

The Birbrager family in memory of their beloved father Jacob Birbrager

on his 11th yahrzeit

Minha-Seudah-Havdallah Saturday, July 6 at 8:15 pm

We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.

Saturday, July 6

Annie Applebaum,
Jacob Birbrager,
Israel Ellenberg,
Jerry Goldberg,
Kitty Karstadt,

Helen Risman,
Morris Sherman,
Philip White,

30 Sivan

Mother of Barry Applebaum
Father of Chaim Birbrager and Lee Birbrager
Father-in-law of Ida Ellenberg
Uncle of David Shaw
Grandmother of Beth Karstadt and Charles Karstadt and Mother-In-Law of Reva Karstadt
Wife of Brian Risman
Father of Doreen Bornfreund
Husband of Trudy Appleby

Sunday, July 7

Max Baine,
Marshall Korn,
Lillian Rosen,
Peter Stern,
Sam Yuchtman,

1 Tammuz

Father-in-law of Faye Baine
Father of Brenda Bader
Mother of Ronald Rosen
Husband of Victoria Stern
Father-in-law of Ronald Rosen

Monday, July 8

Irving Bornstein,
Morty Flomen,
Rina Loomer,
Berry Minuk,

2 Tammuz

Father of Sheldon Bornstein
Father of Lana Lewin
Grandmother of Marshall Loomer
Brother of Miriam Telem

Tuesday, July 9,

Lena Brown,
Freda Federman,
Samuel Goldstein,
Bluma Kalina,
Harry Longert,

Leah Papernick,
Nathan Reiber,
Mannie Yellan,

3 Tammuz

Grandmother of Miriam Finklestein
Mother of Alan Federman
Grandfather of Randi Elkind
Mother of Miriam Finklestein
Father-in-law of Geraldine Longert and Grandfather-in-law of Paula Sonshine
Friend of Beth David
Father of Terrence Reiber
Father-In-Law of Sam Joseph

Wednesday, July 10

Harry Capp,

Lil Freedman,
Isaac Friedman,
Goldye Levin,
Norem Litvak,
Harry Warsh,

4 Tammuz

Father of Esther Tozman and Grandfather of Frances Kraft
Mother of Ruth Magder
Grandfather of Lorraine Levene
Mother-In-Law of Bernice Levin
Friend of Beth David
Father-in-law of Melvern Katzman

Thursday, July 11

George Daniels,
Murray Friedman,
Tillie Goldberg,
Robert Igel,
Harry Jack March,
Dorothy Rubin,
Paul Percy Weinberg,

5 Tammuz

Uncle of Doron Daniels
Father of Richard Friedman
Mother of Michael Goldberg
Husband of Mira Igel
Brother of Marilyn Shupak
Sister of Sam Rubin
Husband of Eleanor Weinberg and Father of

Brenda Dimitry and Robert Weinberg

Friday, July 12

Harry Burstyn,
Bernice Dworkin,
Ellis Haniford,
Saul Mintz,
Sarah Ritchie,

6 Tammuz

Brother of Hermi Spears
Mother of Martin Dworkin and Noreen Solomon
Father of Sharon Haniford and Allan Haniford
Friend of Beth David
Mother-In-Law of Francine Ritchie

Message from the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)

Korah Had Options and So Do We
by Stephanie Ruskay Associate Dean, The Rabbinical School

Korah is most famous for challenging Moses’s authority, framing rebellion in the guise of populism, and calling on Moses to share power and religious titles. The Rabbis understand Korah’s call for shared leadership and responsibility as a selfish desire to see himself awarded the role of the kohen gadol. He did not actually want “people” to have power; rather, he personally wanted authority and prestige and framed rebellion as something he was doing for the greater good.

Aren’t we all sometimes susceptible to wanting power and authority for selfish and ego-driven reasons? Isn’t it difficult to know if our ideas about how our communities, institutions, country, and world function are motivated by a commitment to justice or a desire to be the one leading?

The Rabbis are quick to recognize that ego and drive are not entirely bad. We learn in the Talmud (BT Yoma 69b and in Genesis Rabba 9:7) that without ego, drive, and the evil inclination, we would neither create nor advance. We would still be stuck in the Garden of Eden and procreation would cease.

There was, however, a quality to Korah’s drive that the rabbis refer to as jealousy and warn of as a liability. Rabbeinu Bahya on Bemidbar 16:1 describes Korah as “dressed” in jealousy. Rabbeinu Bahya explains that jealousy is a negative character trait for which there is no therapy. He asserts that when one makes choices motivated by insatiable jealousy, even if they achieve what they sought, they remain unhappy. They have accustomed themself to act in a scheming fashion.

This has a been a polarizing year for our society. Many of our systems are broken. Times such as these call on each of us to actively participate in building the kind of society in which we feel called to live. I have been inspired by the Mussar tradition as I consider how to react and I have also wondered how the Korah story might have ended differently, had he been a Mussar practitioner.

The Mussar tradition suggests that a regular practice of meditation and soul-refinement exercises can help us discern if our interest in reform or revolution is motivated by a desire to aggrandize ourselves or by a more grounded desire for making the world whole.

Author David Jaffe in his book Changing the World from the Inside Out shares Mussar suggestions for regular discernment. The following are practices that in my imagination could have yielded different outcomes for Korah and his followers.

Hitbodedut is the practice of regularly speaking from the heart in one’s own language directly to God. The act of pouring out one’s soul can reduce the toxic emotions we carry around and allow us to feel and name what is most important to us—our true desire. If Korah had engaged in hitbodedut, he could have given voice to his envy and acknowledged his fervent desire for more power and prestige. He would then have opportunities for both inner and outer work. He could have identified a position of leadership that was not yet occupied. And he could have worked to confront his desire for attention. By articulating to God his jealousy of Aaron’s role as the High Priest, he might have alleviated some of the sting and freed himself up for creative work.

Kibbush Hayetzer is conquering your inclination and transforming it through practice. Through this practice, we acknowledge the urges we have and then we choose not to act on them. Through hitbodedut Korah could have given voice to his desire to become the High Priest and his disappointment that Moses and Aaron had the highest honors. He then could have conquered this desire by choosing not to act upon that disappointment. By repeatedly engaging in kibbush hayetzer and choosing not to act on the impulse to lash out, he would improve his chances of minimizing his jealousy.

In Mussar we learn that everybody always has some sort of choice. Developing a behira (choice) practice allows you to keep spotting and making choices that bring you closer to God and closer to who you want to be in the world. The more frequently you recognize opportunities to choose, the more you shape your path and orient it toward service to God. Korah had several choice points, however he mainly did not recognize them as choices. Identifying these moments as choices and then choosing different reactions could have led him to a different outcome that did not involve being swallowed up by the earth, along with his followers.

We learn in Ethics of the Fathers 2:4 that we should not separate ourselves from the community. Korah did separate himself and he took 250 leaders of the community with him. Instead of fomenting rebellion, he could have gathered those people and asked them what keeps them up at night. It is possible that as he heard people’s troubles he would have reconsidered whether his own trouble—that he was not the kohen gadol—was a cause worthy of rebellion. He was envious, but was that real trouble? Instead of separating himself and privileging his own needs, he could have strived to gain a fuller perspective of the community’s needs and acted for the greater good.

Moses also offers us an opportunity for Mussar learning in this parashah. When Korah challenges him for taking too much power for himself, Moses’s first reaction is to fall upon his face humbly. Later in the parashah he does not act quite as nobly, urging God to punish Korah and his supporters in a public and deadly spectacle. Moses’s choice to urge God to act that way was likely driven by his ego. According to the Mussar tradition, well-cultivated humility means knowing when and how to make oneself small, and when and how to act boldly. Korah seems to lack humility entirely in the story as we know it. Moses has it, but it is a practice, and in this story, we see him model it both well and poorly.

We are living at a time with numerous threats and challenges and each of us must be involved in repairing the world. Informed by Korah and his followers and Moses, I invite us to ask ourselves the following questions daily:

What is really in my heart? Have I communicated it in conversation with God, laying my heart bare and honestly speaking my yearnings into being? Hopefully, this naming of feelings and motivations will take away some of the power of the hardest ones. It will also reveal the feelings on which we need to work because they do not represent our best selves. Finally, it will clarify what is in our hearts at the core, on which we can act.

Did I regularly make choices today that advance my connection to God?

How am I managing humility?

May the Mussar lessons we learn from Korah and his followers, as well as Moses, help us to know ourselves and summon our best intentions and skills to create a just world.

Shabbat Shalom.

Summer Guest Darshanim - An Invitation

We are inviting anyone who would like to be a Guest Darshan or provider of a D'var Torah on Shabbatot this summer to come forward. The focus can be the weekly Parashah, the Haftarah, our liturgy or current issues. Length is 4-10 minutes. Please contact Michael Rubin.

List of Shabbatot available.

July 13, 20 August 10

Weekly D’var Torah and resources from the Hadar Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and My Jewish Learning (MJL)

This week's Parsha Korah:

Hadar:

JTS:

MJL:

https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/every-jew-high-priest https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/truth-about-power-and-divine-service

www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online

www.myjewishlearning.com/torah-portions
www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/host/hey-alma

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