Rabbi Ari Perl Murray Voroba Jayne Luger Mark Ramer Rabbi Saul Haimoff Charles Muhlbauer

Rabbi Ritual Director Executive Director President Youth Director Chazzan

www.jcabonline.org (516) 371- 0972 jcaboffice@gmail.com

Ki Tavo / 18 Elul 5777 | September 9, 2017

Shabbat Times Shabbat Classes & Lectures

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat 6:45 PM

Candle Lighting 6:58 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - Sefardic 7:00 PM

Hashkama Minyan 7:40 AM

Shacharit 9:00 AM

Sefardic Minyan 9:30 AM

Mincha (Main Sanc.) & Seudah Shlishit 6:45 PM

Shabbat Ends Maariv begins~8-10 minutes earlier 7:56 PM

K I D D U S H

Thank you to all of this week’s sponsors:

Shabbat Kiddush Lunch Co-sponsors Elisa & Alan Pines and Carol & Seymour Pinewski in memory of their father Hillel l

Pinewski,, ob”m, and Jane & Will Senders in honor of JCAB.

ORNER

Hashkama Shiur Rabbi Simcha Willig

~9:20 AM Social Hall

Parshat Hashavua Rabbi Baruch Freedman

8:30 AM Main Sanctuary

Exploring the Weekly Parsha Rick Magder & Eddie Karan

10:30 AM Classroom

Afternoon Lecture Rabbi Baruch Freedman

5:45 PM Beit Midrash

High Holiday Seating Forms Please return your HH Seating forms . A link to the form is

available on the JCAB website. Please note that in order

for your seats to be assigned your JCAB account must be

current.

New Sefardic Minyan at JCAB We are excited to announce that beginning this

Shabbat (9/9), we will be having a Sefardic Minyan on

both Fri. Night (7:00pm in the Main Sanctuary) & Shabbat

morning (9:30am in the Irwin Peyser Beit Midrash).

Sefardic treats to follow!

Security at JCAB Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our

Emergency Evacuation Plan printed on orange cards

throughout the sanctuary.

8:00 PM Weekday Maariv Begins This Week Beginning this week, our daily evening minyan switched

from Mincha/Maariv (at sunset) to late Maariv at 8:00pm

(Mon-Thu). Please help keep our daily 8:00pm Maariv

minyan strong; members who saying kaddish are

counting on your assistance. We aim to begin promptly

at 8:00pm every night; out of respect for our members’

time, we will not wait more than 10 minutes for a

minyan. As a result, we will NEVER finish later

than 8:18pm. Surely, you can spare 18 (chai) minutes in

the evening to help keep our minyan strong!

We are dedicating this year’s Maariv minyan to the

memory of our dear friend, Jesse York, ob”m, who

worked so hard to keep our evening minyan strong

through the winter months. Please help us honor his

memory and perpetuate his legacy.

Rabbi Perl in Israel Rabbi Perl will be in Israel for a family simcha thru Sun.

(9/10). Contact the JCAB office or R’ Simcha Willig (914)

874-1171 for assistance while R’ Perl is away.

Year-Round Rabbinical Position & Candidate We welcome Linda & Rabbi Baruch Freedman (& 3 mo.

old Sarit!) back to JCAB this Shabbat. R’ Freedman is a

candidate for our year-round rabbinical position that

combines the many rabbinic roles previously filled by

Rabbis Block & Willig (who just purchased a home in

Bergenfield, NJ– Mazal Tov!), Torah Reading

responsibilities and leading services on shabbatot when

our Chazzan, Chuck Muhlbauer, is not at JCAB. R’

Freedman's many talents and experience make him well-

suited for this unique position and the many skill-sets it

demands. R’ Freedman will lead Kabbalat Shabbat and

share a Dvar Torah at services this Friday Night. On

Shabbat morning he will teach the Parsha Class and give

the drasha (sermon) in the main sanctuary. On Shabbat

afternoon, Rabbi Freedman will be teaching the

afternoon class (5:45pm) and sharing a dvar torah at

Seudah Shlishit. We encourage you to attend his various

talks and classes over shabbat, to interact with him

personally at Kiddush Lunch, and then share your

feedback with the officers.

Daily Tefilla Times

Shacharit (Sunday) 8:00 AM

Shacharit (Mon. & Thurs.) 6:50 AM

Shacharit (Tues., Wed. & Fri.) 7:00 AM

Latest Time for Shema 9:38 AM

Mincha/Maariv (Sunday) 7:00 PM

Maariv (Mon.-Thu) 8:00 PM

Shabbat Morning Youth/Teen Programming Programming runs from 10:00 until the end of Tefilla

Nursery-Kindergarten (Youth Room, Miss Merri). Children <2 yrs. old welcome when accompanied by an adult.

Grades 1-3 (Back of Youth Room)

Jr. Congregation (4th-6th graders, outside with Rabbi Saul)

Rabbi Saul is on vacation this

Shabbat.Youth Programming will

continue next week!

Burt Fried

Isaac Freilich

Judith Guedalia

Danya Jacobs

Susan Junger

Brenda Levine

Brett Ringelheim

Avi Shaul

Deena Shiff

YAHRZEITS Shabbat Joseph Fried (Mother, Roysa Fried, ob”m)

Monday David Sharin (Mother, Miriam Sharin, ob”m)

Tuesday Toby Nussbaum (Father, Jack Maziar, ob”m)

Tuesday Shoshana Offir (Father, Chaim Bass, ob”m)

Wednesday Dasha Gelbtuch (Mother, Mindel Konstam, ob”m)

Wednesday Jerald Levine (Father, Albert Levine, ob”m)

Wednesday Armand Lindenbaum (Father, Nathan Lindenbaum,

ob”m)

Thursday Raphael Amoona (Son, Daniel Amoona, ob”m)

Thursday Marcel Junger (Father, Sam Junger, ob”m)

Thursday Ilana Milstein (Brother, Yehuda Bayme, ob”m)

Thursday Diedra Sehr, Corey Steinbock (Mother, Ruby Steinbock,

ob”m)

REFUAH SHELEIMA Please include the following individuals in your

Tefilla as we wish them a speedy recovery:

Ann Frenkel Chana Chaya bat Golda Malka

Judi Guedalia Chaya Sarah Tzipora bat Rivka

Miriam Gruenfeld Mirel Maryam bat Liba Malka

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MAZAL TOV To Sonya & Nathan Begelman on the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter, Mikaela Sosland, this Sun. in Pearl River, N.Y.

To Monique & Andrew Rechtschaffen on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Jordan in NYC.

To Howard Schulder upon the Bat Mitzvah of his granddaughter Sophie Leah Barkan.

To Barbara & Mark Silber on the marriage of their son Alex to Aliza Chesir.

CONDOLENCES To our dear friend Yael Zar on the passing of her father, The funeral took place in Israel, where Yael is sitting shiva y thru

Sunday, when she will be returning home to Cedarhurst for the remainder of shiva.

To Elliot Freilich (Helen) upon the loss of his father Dr. Dennis Freilich. Shiva is being observed through Wednesday

morning, 9/13 at 120 East 81st Street , PH H, NYC 10028. Visiting hours are until 9:30 pm (1 :00 pm Friday, 10:45 pm

Saturday night) with breaks for lunch from 12-1 pm and dinner 5:30-6:30 pm. Morning minyans are 7:15 am (Sunday at

8:30 am) and evening minyans are at 6:45 pm .

Paula & Miles Garnett

Judith & Harris Guedalia

Monique & Andrew

Rechtschaffen

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

NEW NEIGHBOR? LET US KNOW! JCAB has recently formed a Welcoming

Committee that reaches out to new families in

our neighborhood. If you notice a new

neighbor or know of a family that has recently

moved to AB (homeowner or renter), please

send us their name & contact info.

Help us extend a warm greeting to our

newest neighbors!

HOUSTON HURRICANE RELIEF At this point, the most effective ways to get funds to families in need are to make a donation through one of the major

organizations that has access to the disaster region, such as UJA/Federation, Hebrew Free Loan Society and The

Orthodox Union. Make a donation to a specific relief project being undertaken at JCAB (see below for details.

JCAB to Co-sponsor Kosher Food Relief Efforts in Houston

The Orthodox synagogues of Dallas have mobilized a food relief effort designed to provide Houston with kosher food,

the supply of which has dwindled over the past week. Food is being prepared in Dallas by local kosher caterers, then

driven to houston in refrigerated trucks, and heated in mobile catering stations that have been set up at the Beren

Academy and the Meyerland Minyan. ~20% of the operation is being subsidized by the Dallas Jewish Federation; the

balance has to be raised privately and the organizers are looking for community partners in order to keep the

operation going for a few weeks. JCAB has committed funds to co-sponsor the project this week. In addition to food,

the operation will expand to provide emergency cash, clothing and other needs as yom tov approaches, both on

the ground in Houston and for families who will be relocating, temporarily, to Dallas for Shabbat and Yom Tov.

Donations to this project can be made by check to the JCAB Benevolent Fund (’Houston Relief’ in the memo).

As the specific needs on the ground in Houston continue to become clearer, we will continue to seek

opportunities to provide direct and meaningful assistance to that community over the coming weeks.

PARSHAT KI TEITZEI Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel — “Do not withhold the wages due to your

hired hand…that very day shall you give him his

payment” [Deut. 24:14–15].

This Shabbat, the Eleventh of Elul, marks 47 years to the

day of one of the most transformative moments in my

life, in the most unlikely of places and circumstances. It

was on this date in September 1970 that I was in the

synagogue of Riga, Latvia, in the former Soviet Union,

carrying out a mission personally requested of me by

the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory, to

establish four underground yeshivas.

These yeshivas were to be established under the radar

of a regime that had made every aspect of Jewish life

forbidden. Owning a Hebrew primer was punishable

by exile to Siberia. Thank God, I had succeeded in

Moscow and Leningrad, but when I left my hotel in

Riga that Shabbat morning I noticed that I was being

followed by four very tall and burly individuals who

barely gave me breathing space.

These KGB agents literally surrounded me in the

sanctuary where I was seated in splendid isolation in

the extreme corner of the right side. The other twenty-

eight congregants, each clearly over the age of sixty-

five, were sitting together on the extreme left side of a

large sanctuary built for six-hundred.

The cantor and choir chanted the service as if they

were performing before thousands. The gabbai, a

short man with white, wispy hair, whispered to me in

Yiddish, “We are thirsty for Torah. We have a Kiddush

after the service downstairs. We expect you to teach

us. Please come down after the davening – but

without your friends.”

The interminable service ended at exactly Noon. The

four goons miraculously disappeared, and I went

down into a pitch black room where fifteen people

were seated around a table. The table was set with

many bottles of clear white liquid and slices of honey

cake. A chair of honor was set for me with a large

Kiddush cup.

The gabbai repeated, “We are thirsty for Torah,” as he

poured me a full glass of liquid, which he told me was

vodka. I chanted the Kiddush, gave a D’var Torah,

they sang a niggun, they did a dance, and then

poured me another vodka. Another D’var Torah, a

niggun, a dance, and again more vodka – nine times!

At that point, I asked the Torah reader from the

synagogue, Yisrael Friedman, a Chabadnik, to give a

D’var Torah, and his words literally changed my life.

He related that Elisha ben Avuya was a great rabbi of

the Mishna who became a heretic upon witnessing

the tragedy of a boy who had climbed a tree to bring

down a pigeon for his father after sending away the

mother bird. In doing so, the child had performed two

commandments that promise the reward of long life,

yet he had fallen from the tree and died. “There is no

judge and no judgment!” was Rabbi Elisha’s defiant

reaction [Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 39b].

Elisha’s grandson, Rabbi Yaakov, noted that had his

grandfather understood a major axiom of Jewish

thought he would never have left the Jewish fold:

“There is no reward for the commandments in this

world” [ibid.].

Yisrael looked out at the basement assemblage with

blazing eyes and then looked Heavenward. “But God,

that’s not fair! How can You expect Your Jewish

servants to pay the day laborer on that very day when

you withhold our reward for the commandments till

after our lifetime, in the world to come?!”

He answered his own question: The Talmud [Bava

Metzia] differentiates between a day laborer and a

contractor. Yes, a day laborer must be paid at the

end of the day, but a contractor is to be paid only at

the end of the project. We, vis-à-vis God, are not day

laborers; we are contractors. Each of us, given his/her

unique gift and the time and place in which he/she

lives, must do his share in helping to complete the

world with the Kingship of God.

Whether we have fulfilled most of our mission or just a

little of it can only be determined at the end of our

lifetimes. For us contractors, there is no reward for

commandments in this world.

I was moved to tears. After witnessing first-hand the

persecution of Soviet Jewry, I was overwhelmed by

thinking of God’s great gift of a newborn State of

Israel, and felt deeply in my heart that I could not

possibly have been born in a free country in these

most momentous times in order to fulfill my mission in

New York.

And so in the basement of Riga I made an oath: I will

bring my family to the State of Israel and hopefully

there realize my true calling. And when I get to Israel I

will make Kiddush on vodka every Shabbat day in

memory of this experience. I am thankful to God to

report that I indeed arrived with my family in Israel,

and to this day, 47 years later, I still make the Shabbat

day Kiddush using vodka, forever reminding me of that

moment, and the lesson I learned from a refusenik in

Riga.