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May 9, 2020 15th of Iyar, 5780 Parshas Emor

SHABBOS SCHEDULE

Friday at home

Early Mincha at home 6:18 pm

Early Candle Lighting 6:48 pm

Candle Lighting 7:38 pm

Mincha at home 7:41 pm

Shabbos at home

Early Shachris 7:30 am

Shachris 9:00 am

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Rabbi Peled

מסילת ישרים

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Sedrah Shiur

Rabbi Lehrfield 6:35 pm

Mincha at home 7:31 pm

Maariv & Havdalah 8:38 pm

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Shachris

Sunday 6:45 am

8:00 am

9:00 am

Mon & Thur 6:30 am

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Tue, Wed, & Fri 6:45 am

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Latest Mincha at home

Sunday 7:47 pm

Monday 7:47 pm

Tuesday 7:48 pm

Wednesday 7:48 pm

Thursday 7:49 pm

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בס״ד

Young Israel Kehillas Ahavas Shalom

990 NE 171 Street

North Miami Beach, FL 33162

Phone: 305 651-3591

Fax: 305 651-3501

E-mail: yikasnmb@gmail.com

Today’s Sedra gives us a review of all our Yomin Tovim. The 1st Yom Tov mentioned is Shabbos. How is Shabbos included in our Holidays if it comes every week? Yes, it comes every week, but is it the most important Yom Tov? It represents Hashem's creation of the world. Appreciating the world and what Hashem gives us is a continuous Yom Tov.

Parshas Emor in a Nutshell chabad.org

The Torah section of Emor (“Speak”) begins with the special laws pertaining to the kohanim (“priests”), the kohen gadol (“high priest”), and the Temple service: A kohen may not become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, save on the occasion of the death of a close relative. A kohen may not marry a divorcee, or a woman with a promiscuous past; a kohen gadol can marry only a virgin. A kohen with a physical deformity cannot serve in the Holy Temple, nor can a deformed animal be brought as an offering.

A newborn calf, lamb or kid must be left with its mother for seven days before being eligible for an offering; one may not slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day.

The second part of Emor lists the annual Callings of Holiness—the festivals of the Jewish calendar: the weekly Shabbat; the bringing of the Passover offering on 14 Nissan; the seven-day Passover festival beginning on 15 Nissan; the bringing of the Omer offering from the first barley harvest on the second day of Passover, and the commencement, on that day, of the 49-day Counting of the Omer, culminating in the festival of Shavuot on the fiftieth day; a “remembrance of shofar blowing” on 1 Tishrei; a solemn fast day on 10 Tishrei; the Sukkot festival—during which we are to dwell in huts for seven days and take the “Four Kinds”—beginning on 15 Tishrei; and the immediately following holiday of the “eighth day” of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret).

Next the Torah discusses the lighting of the menorah in the Temple, and the showbread (lechem hapanim) placed weekly on the table there.

Emor concludes with the incident of a man executed for blasphemy, and the penalties for murder (death) and for injuring one’s fellow or destroying his property (monetary compensation).

WEEKDAY SHIURIM

RDL=Rabbi Dovid Lehrfield RNP=Rabbi Noach Peled SM=Shimshon Mindick RY=Rabbi Avrohom Yachnes RE=Rabbi Ira Eisenman

* 35 SW 12th Avenue, Suite 105, Dania Beach, FL 33004

Gemara RDL 7:25 am Sunday-Friday

Parshas Hashavua RDL Between Mincha/Maariv Sunday-Friday

Kollel Boker 6:40 am Monday-Friday

Halachos & Inspiration on the topic of Lashon Hara RNP After 7:20 Shachris Monday-Friday

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Halacha RAY 45 minutes before Mincha Mon/Tue/Wed

Chovos Halevavos: Shaar HaBitachon RNP 8:15 am Sunday

Sefer HaChinuch RNP After 9:00 am Shachris Sunday

Arvei Psachim (Gemara) RNP 8:15 pm Monday

Hilchos Shabbos RIE 7:00 pm Tuesday

Ohr Fellowship Learning-Teaching Program RNP 8:00 pm Tuesday

Neveim Melachim RDL 8:00 pm Wednesday

Lunch and Learn at BookXchange* RNP 1:15 pm Thursday

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

● Mazel Tov to Moshe and Ruth Sussman on the graduation of their daughter, Dr. Yael Fay (CRNA, DNP) from U of Missouri-KC & Truman Medical Center School of Nurse Anesthesia.

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We have reserved the first 2

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building for Rabbi Lehrfield and

Rabbi Peled. Please do not park

there.

HOSPITALITY

Due to the Corona virus we will

not be providing hospitality or

meals for Shabbat or Yom Tov.

Once it is safe to do so we will

resume hospitality. Please contact

Ron Fisher of the YIKAS

Hospitality Committee if you have

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Email: fisher@fiu.edu

Tel: 305-653-4970

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Emor Haftorah in a Nutshell Chabad.org

Ezekiel 44:15-31

This week's haftorah discusses various laws that pertain to the kohanim, the priests, a topic also discussed at length in the first part of the week's Torah portion.

Ezekiel prophesies about the service of the kohanim in the third Holy Temple which will be rebuilt after the Final Redemption. The prophet describes their priestly vestments, their personal care, whom they may and may not marry, and their special purity requirements which preclude them from coming in contact with a corpse, unless it's for a next of kin. He also discusses their calling as teachers and spiritual leaders.

The prophet conveys G-d's word: "You shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession." The kohanim do not receive a portion in the Land of Israel, instead they partake of the sacrifices as well as various tithes.

Aharon Dovid ben Chaya

Yochanan Baruch HaKohen ben Frumma Etta

Etta Mindel bas Chana

Tzofia bas Shoshana

Daniel Yaakov ben Masha Tzvia

Leora Rachel bas Chaya Raizelle

Boruch ben Sorah Gittel

Etel bas Chana Perel

Devora bas Sora

Sara Aria bas Masha Raizel

Tuvia Chaim ben Shulamit

Chana bas Yaakov

Devorah bas Malka

Yisroel Yehuda ben Rachel

Mindal bas Chana

Yitzchak ben Zisel

Shmuel ben Sarah

Ezra Chaim ben Rivka

Yosef Noach ben Leah Tzivia

Esther bas Frayda

Leah bas Sara

Shifra Yehudis bas Yafa Leah

Yehuda Reuven ben Rachel

Yakov ben Chasya

Nechama Aidel Malka bas Sara Leah

Yehuda Meir ben Tzipora

Netanel Ilan ben Sheyna Tzipora

Shimshon ben Hassiba

Itai ben Tzipora

Pesachya Pinchas ben Ruchel

Reuven ben Sarah Nemani

Etel bas Malka Yita

Rochel Miriam bas Sarah

HaRav Refael Dovid ben Etta Riva

Shlomo Gershon ben Dubba Meril

Nechama Malka bas Blima

Rivka Fremed bas Faiga Malka

REFUAH SHLEIMA

The Highest Level of Tzedaka Rabbi Aharon Ziegler

Associate Member, Young Israel Council of Rabbis

Parashat Emor is known as Parashat Mo’adot, the parasha of the festivals; for every Yom Tov of the year is included this parasha. Strangely though,, between the holiday of Shavuot and Rosh HaShana there is a pasuk that commands us to give Matnat Ani’im, (gifts to the poor), namely, LEKET, SHIK’CHA AND PE’AH (23:22), which is a

form of Tzedaka. The obvious questions that we may ask is, why is the Mitzvah of giving charity to the poor inserted right here between the holidays? Also, these specific forms of charity-LEKET, SHIK’CHA AND PE’AH, have already been recorded in the previous parasha of Kedoshim (19:9) “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not complete your reaping to the corner of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not take, and the fallen fruit of your vineyard you shall not gather, for the poor and the proselyte you shall leave them”. Finally, the general Mitzvah of giving charity is well documented in parashat Re’ei (Devarim 15:7-12) so why be

interrupted with the Mitzvah of leaving Leket, Shik’cha and Pe’ah, in the midst of the festival discussions?

I would suggest, based on the Midrash that states, since the festivals were a time when offerings were brought up to Yerushalayim, the Torah is teaching us that a person who leaves for the poor his “Leket”-grain which falls from the harvester and “Shik’cha”-grain which is forgotten by the harvester, and “Pei’ah”-a corner of the field that is left for the poor, is considered to have built the Beit HaMikdash and offered Korbanot within it. Now why is this praise reserved for one who performs Mitzvot of Leket, Shik’cha and Pei’ah and not for one who gives Tzedaka

regularly? Why do Chazal make this statement only in regard to Matnot Aniyim?

We see from here that when one gives Tzedaka as a response to the plight of the poor, he is not giving because he wishes to fulfill the will of HaShem but out of his own compassionate heart. Our performance of Mitzvot is

governed by the principle of “Gadol HaMetzuvah VeOseh Mimi SheAino Metzuveh VeOseh”. “One who performs Mitzvot because he is commanded to is greater than one who performs them when he is not commanded

to” (Kiddushin 31a). Matnot Aniyim are not given in response to any pleas from someone who desperately needs financial help, but rather they are left for the poor to collect. Therefore, this type of charity is done solely because it is HaShem’s will. Farmers do not necessarily see the poor, and when they leave their Leket, Shik’cha, Pe’ah, they

do so not because they feel compelled to help someone in need, but only because HaShem commanded the harvester to leave them behind. Unlike regular Tzedaka, Matnot Aniyim are completely altruistic, and therefore, one

who fulfills Matnot Aniyim specifically is likened to one who has offered a Korban to HaShem

It is surely a great Mitzvah to give Tzedaka when someone is in need. The action provides the person giving with a feeling of magnanimity, giving him the perception that he is giving away something that belongs to him. Leket,

Shik’cha and Pe’ah are unique, for the landowner does not give anything to the poor; he is forbidden to collect the produce, and prevents him from determining who will receive it. This procedure drives home the concept to the

farmer that he does not control the wealth; rather, charity is merely the means by which HaShem distributes His wealth.

When a person fulfills these Mitzvot, which are the most difficult forms of charity, for they preclude the feeling of satisfaction from having actually given, it is as if he built the Beit HaMikdash and offered Korbanot. May we merit

seeing the real Beit HaMikdash built speedily in our time. Shabbat Shalom.

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