D’var Torah with Rabbi Wein The menorah has been one of the symbols of the Jewish people from time immemorial. It remains so today as well, it being one of the major symbols representing the Jewish state of Israel. The original menorah was cast and fashioned from one solid, large piece of gold. According to Jewish tradition, the construction of this great artifact was so detailed and complicated that it was beyond the ken of human talent and ability.

It was created miraculously, simply by somehow taking this great piece of gold and throwing it into a fire. From the midst of the fire sprang forth the menorah in all of its grandeur and beauty. The menorah represented the light of Torah, of Godly wisdom and holy erudition. It represented not only light that illuminated the outside world and society but rather it spoke to Israel of an inner glow that emanated from the soul and from the physical senses of human beings.

In the words of the great rabbis of Torah: “does the Lord require its light?” The menorah itself was situated in the structure of the Temple in such a way that most Jews were never able to actually see it and benefit from its glow. So it was that the light, so to speak, was really not on public display and was and is an inner light that made the menorah so symbolic of the Jewish people and its beliefs. Believe it or not, Judaism is truly more concerned with the spirituality and holiness of the individual rather than on outward appearances and public displays of piety.

Human beings instinctively treasure light and abhor darkness. Darkness covers evil deeds and nefarious plots. The animals of prey prowl at night in the dark. In a world of secrets, darkness is the most accessible cover. The menorah came to dispel such darkness. It is the light that was meant to reach all of humankind and to illuminate the otherwise dark recesses that lurk within us. It is no wonder then that this light was deemed to be an eternal one, constantly lit in the Temple and renewed day in and day out.

In our modern world, genius or the activity of ideas and innovation is often represented by cartoonists as a light bulb going on in our brain. This is because the

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Welcome to the DAT Minyan! Shabbat Beha’aloscha

June 10, 2017 - 16 Sivan, 5777 Joseph Friedman, Rabbi | David Fishman, President

Candle Lighting

Havdalah

8:08pm 9:16pm

Shabbat Schedule

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the service.

FRIDAY

6:40 pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv (Shema should be recited after 9:15 pm)

SHABBAT

Parasha: Page 774 / Haftarah: Page 1182

Kiddush this week honors our graduates and is generously sponsored by the families listed on

page 5 of our Newsletter

7:30 am: Hashkama Minyan

Tefillah Warm-up with Ellyn Hutt is cancelled this week and next and will resume 6/24

9:00 am: Shacharit (drasha by Rabbi Zalesch)

6:40 pm: HS Boys Gemara w/ Nathan Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home

6:50 pm: SHAWL, this week for men and women, features Boulder spiritual leader and Torah scholar Morah Yehudis Fishman, on teachings by the Netivot Shalom, “Dealing With Life’s Setbacks-With Help From Above and Below,” and is sponsored by Rachel Rabinovitch in the merit of a refuah shlema for Hillel David ben Ahuva Miriam

Shabbat Afternoon Class with Rabbi Friedman is cancelled this week

7:55 pm: Mincha

Seudah Shlisheet this week is sponsored by the shul

9:16 pm: Maariv / Havdalah

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Weekday Schedule

SHACHARIT

Sunday: 8:00 am

Monday—Friday: 6:35 am

MINCHA/MAARIV

Sunday—Thursday: 6:40 pm

Friday: 6:40 pm

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

DAT Minyan - 6825 E. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO 80224 - 720-941-0479 - www.datminyan.org

Learning Opportunities @ the DAT Minyan

• Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: Daily, after Shacharit

• Mishna Berurah: Daily, between Mincha and Maariv

• Nefesh HaChaim: Sat & Sun, after Maariv

• Women’s Tuesday Parsha Class: 10:00 am at the DAT Minyan offices at BMH-BJ (call for directions)

DAT MINYAN MEMBER MILESTONES

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

*These details were obtained from the DAT Minyan database, which contains information provided by the members when they joined. We apologize for any omissions or mistakes. For corrections or additions, please log on to your account and provide the information, or contact

the synagogue office at 720-941-0479.

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

at https://goo.gl/aeyJG2.

Ariella Bracha bat Sarah

Ariella Leah bas Yael Meira

Avraham Ben Mirel

Avraham Shalom ben Henna

Ayelet bas Aliza Yaffa

Baruch Getzel ha Cohen ben Esther

Carmel ben Tirtza

Chaim Tuvia ben Dina

Chana Yetta bat Bryna

Chaya Chanah Elisheva Rivka bat Sarah

Chaya Miriam bat Shoshana

Chaya Orah Bat Sarah

Chaya Rochel bas Miriam

Chaya Sarah bat Tzirel

Devorah Leah bat Chanah

Dinah bat Chayala

Doniel ben Chana

Dovid en Ita Sheva

Dovid ben Leah

Eliakim chaim ben rivka

Eliyahu Chaim ha Cohen ben Sara Rifka

Ephraim Ben Henna

Feigie bat Sarah

Gitel Sarah bat Ita Golda

Guy Chaim ben Rita

Hadassh Bat Fruma Rahel

Hillel David ben Ahuva Miriam

Hillel Yerachmiel ben Ariella

Ida bat Esa

Ita Sheiva bas Udyah

Kalia bat Miriam

Laizer ben Yaffa

Leah bat Sarah

Leah Devora Kivitiya bat Chaya

Leya bat Sara

Malka bat Sarah

Menachem Yitzchak ben Yisraela

Michael ben Leah

Miriam Tova Chaya bat Chanah

Moshe Feivel ben Rose

Naftali Yisroel ben Yisraela

Nataniel ben Elisheva

Nechama bat Chaya

Noa Shani bat Chaya Bracha

Raphael Yotam ben Efrat

Rina bat Lea

Sara Chana bat Shaina

Sarah Shoshanna bat Sarah

Shaina Meryl Bat Rivka

Shashi bat Batya Baila

Shira Chana bat Sara

Shirley Hasia bat Devorah

Shoshanna bat Liora

Shoshanna Bat Smadar

Shoshanna Miriam bat Chanah

Shulamit Leah bat Chava

Tirtza bat Sarah

Tirtza Chana bat Malka

Tomas ben Galit

Tziporah Rut bat Cissie

Tzvi Gershon ben Shaindel Shaina Raizel

Yaakov Mordechai ben Chana

Yaakov Roni ben Margolit

Yehudit bat Leah

Yehudit bat Sara

Yona Malka bat Pola

Yonatan Zeev ben Netaa

Yosef ben Malka

Zev ben Yehudis

Ziporah Sarah Mirrel bat Miriam

This Day In Jewish History - Jun 10 / 16 Sivan 1510 — A scheduled bonfire to destroy Jewish Books in Germany is averted by John Reuchlin, a member of Emperor

Maximilian’s Committee. Reuchlin, who devoted himself to the mastery of Hebrew, convinced the Emperor that instead of burning the Hebrew books, German universities should institute courses in Hebrew as a way to lead Jews into accepting Christianity.

1679 — Pope Innocent XI suspends the Portuguese Inquisition due to its severe treatment of Spanish Jews who converted to the Christian faith to escape persecution but who continued to secretly practice Judaism (Marranos).

1716 — The ship Restoration arrives in Massachusetts from London, with several Jewish merchants aboard, creating the core of the first substantial Jewish settlement in New England. It would not be until 1840, however, that the first synagogue was established in Boston.

1940 — French Marshall Petain surrenders to the Germans and leaves England to fight Germany alone. 1941 — Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 21 Jews.

Aryeh Basch, Zev Basch, Kobi Benel, Dean Earlix, Phillip Freedman, Noam Horowitz, Samuel Lampert, Barbara Schwartz, Kerry Schwartz, Natan Shafran, Tovit Shafran, Kristen Winkel

Alan and Mimi Pomeranz — 20 years

DAT MINYAN NEWS, EVENTS AND LEARNING

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Men and women of the community are cordially invited to attend a Dessert Reception to benefit the Westside Mikvah at 7:15 pm Sunday evening, June 11th at the home of R’ David and Sivia Fine, 1664 Wolff St. Special tribute to Mrs. Zipora Heisler, devoted Attendant of 44 years, featuring Rabbi Tzvi Mordechai Feldheim. To RSVP or for more information, please contact Mrs. Esther Wershaw at 303.820.2300 or estherq40@aol.com

SAVE-THE-DATE! The Denver Community Adopt A Kollel invites you to join us at one of the Open Houses for men and women to be held Sunday June 18 and Monday June 19. West Side - Sunday June 18 5:45 PM at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Barry Baxman. Southeast - Monday evening 8PM at the home of Dr. Effie & Mrs. Simmy Sonstein 9142 E Tufts Circle. East Side TBA. In gratitude to the community of Denver for its support, Kollel Aish Tamid would like to invite all past, present, and future participants of the Adopt A Kollel program to take the opportunity to receive a free ספר . On display will be a selection of Hebrew ספרים authored by the kollel avreichim, and English sefarim authored by members of the 6 batei midrashim in which the kollel is housed. בע"ה over 50 sefarim will be exhibited!

The Jewish Experience presents Women's Night Out: Build Your Business, Monday evening, June 19 at 7:00 pm. Rachel Lubchansky of REL Impact will present a special workshop for women on building and developing a profitable business. Admission is $18. For more information: 303-316-6412 or theje.com/BYB.

The Jewish Life Center in Stapleton presents Jewish Heritage Night when the Colorado Rapids plays the LA Galaxy in soccer on Wednesday, June 21st, 7:00 pm at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Jewish Heritage Group Tailgate Area at 5:00 pm. Delicious kosher food options for sale, access to Burgandy Boulevard with pre-game inflatables and activities. For tickets, visit Jewishstapleton.com/rapids.

WANTED – Male or female individual with managerial and market experience to manage thrift store. Seniors welcome. Call: Lola Zussman, 303-961-4186

This month’s Golden Tassel Club is sponsored by Seth and Chaya Parkoff in honor of the engagement of their daughter, Yael, to Yakov Deutscher of Brooklyn.

Thank-you to all of those who contribute to our Shabbat services by signing up to help with our weekly leining. We remain in need of continued help with this and all able-lainers are encouraged to please volunteer! In addition, with a goal of expanding our roster of Haftarah readers, we have now opened up the weekly Haftarah portions for sign-up as well. The sign-up website is www.datminyan.org/laining. Please contact Steve Hutt for questions and additional information.

Looking for a way to make your donation to the shul really go the distance? We can use your Frequent Flyer miles to fly in our Scholars in Residence, saving the shul a great deal of money! Please contact the synagogue office to make a mileage donation.

Your help in maintaining the order of our DAT Minyan davening space is most appreciated. With seating sometimes challenging, please utilize the tables in the hallway for your tallit bags and other items that may require storage during davening. Please make every effort to retrieve these items after davening and motzei Shabbat. The tables are removed after Shabbat and we cannot be responsible for items that are left with us. Similarly, we thank you for helping us by returning chumashim and siddurim to the bookshelves from which you found them at the conclusion of davening.

SAVE-THE-DATE for the DAT Minyan Annual meeting, Tuesday, June 13th at 7:00 pm (check-in starting at 6:45 pm). Proxy information has been emailed. Please contact the synagogue office if did not receive it. Your account must be current in order to participate in voting.

The Denver Academy of Torah will be offering an important parent education class entitled “Protecting our Children from Predators.” The program will feature Leora Joseph, Senior Chief Deputy in the Denver District Attorney’s Office, and takes place on Wednesday, June 14th at 7:00 pm at DAT. This important program is open to the community, although given the sensitive nature of the content discussed in this class, is for adults only.

SAVE-THE-DATE of June 24th for a special SHAWL Women’s Farewell to Mara Baraban.

The DAT Minyan Social Action Committee, chaired by Isa Bielsky, invites the community to participate in the PurpleStride Walk for Pancreatic Cancer on June 25th at 8:00 am in Washington Park. We know that many of our DAT Minyan members have been affected by this disease and several of them will be walking in this event. The link to register is http://support.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?fr_id=1107&pg=entry. Please let Isa know once you have registered and she will help organize our group.

Join us at DAT, Sunday, June 25th, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, for a Symposium dealing with the important topic of “Women Dancing with a Torah on Simchat Torah.” Childcare will be provided.

Rabbi Tuvia Negreann, a Denver native, is an expert Sofer specializing in writing and checking Mezuzot, Tefillin, and Megilot. For a testimonial of his services, feel free to speak with Aryeh Fischer as Rabbi Negreann served as the Sofer for Ezra Fischer’s Tefillin. Rabbi Negreann’s contact information is 720-271-5555 or tnegreann@gmail.com

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

YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

flash of brilliance is always characterized as somehow seeing the ‘light.’ The initial creation of the universe, so to speak, is itself described as the beginning of light. The menorah carries with it this message of light, holiness and of hope and optimism. That is why there can be no more fitting symbol for the Jewish people and for Israel than that of the menorah.

In King Solomon’s wisdom, he constructed ten additional menorot to adorn the Holy Temple. The subtle message here is that there can never be enough light, for it nurtures our souls and guarantees our eventual success in physical and spiritual terms.

Shabbat shalom

Rabbi Berel Wein

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End of the Year BBQ, 5:00 pm Sunday, June 18 at the home of the Licht’s

5359 S. Kearney St. Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Attention incoming 8th graders and up

We are looking for new Advisors for next years’ groups. If you are interested in

working or subbing, please email Mor at youth@datminyan.org

Our thanks to Donny and Jodi Basch for sponsoring the ice cream for today’s Youth Snack this Shabbat in honor of Zev’s Upsherin and Aryeh’s birthday.

Junior Congregation for 4th-6th graders will be on summer break starting next Shabbat. Regular groups for all ages will continue throughout the summer.

MEET THE ADVISORS… ARIELLA ZAZULIA

Hi I’m Ariella. I’m a junior

at the DAT High School and

I have been working in the

Pre-K/Kindergarten group

for 3 years. I love the

atmosphere of the group. The energy and

excitement the kids bring in with them

every week always puts a smile on my face.

I’m so grateful to have this amazing

opportunity in my life!

MAZAL TOV to all of our graduating advisors and subs, past and present

To AARON BROOKS on graduating from DAT High

School

From Mark Brooks and Terry Samuels

To NOAH HILL on graduating from DAT Middle School

From Steven and Robyn Hill

To ELIANA AVNER on graduating from DAT Middle School

From Marc and Melanie Avner

To MATANYA LOEWENTHAL on graduating from DAT High School

From Matthew Winne

To ALIZA MAKOVSKY on graduating from DAT High School

From Evan and Evi Makovsky

To KYRA FISCHER on graduating from DAT High School From Aryeh and

Dorit Fischer, and Evan and Evi

Makovsky

To ELLA POMERANZ on graduating from 5th Grade

From Alan and Mimi Pomeranz

To LENA POMERANZ on graduating from 8th Grade

From Alan and Mimi Pomeranz

To AVI ZOHARI on graduating from High School

From Nachshon and Shoshana Zohari

To TAMAR GELLER FINE on graduating from DAT Kindergarten

From Joshua Fine and Julie Geller

To ROSELLE RASCOFF on graduating from DAT Kindergarten

From Joshua Fine and Julie Geller

To ILAN GELLER FINE on graduating from DAT Middle School

From Joshua Fine and Julie Geller

To MEENA BARABAN on graduating from Kindergarten

From Josh and Mara Baraban

To MOSHE BARABAN on graduating from Pre-K

From Josh and Mara Baraban

To NILI FISCHER on graduating from DAT Middle School

From Aryeh and Dorit Fischer, and

Evan and Evi Makovsky

To TOVA NARROWE on graduating from DAT High School

From Joshua and Adrienne Narrowe

To NOAM NARROWE on graduating from DAT Middle School

From Joshua and Adrienne Narrowe

To TALIA BEAN on graduating Stern College with a BA Degree with honors

From Graeme and Irit Bean

To CARMIELLE BEAN on graduating Bais Yaakov

From Graeme and Irit Bean

To ARIELLA SEGALL on graduating from Rodef Shalom Preschool

From Aaron Segall and Cheryl Miller

To CHAYA PARKOFF on obtaining her MSW from Metro State University

From Seth and Chaya Parkoff

To ZAVI PARKOFF on graduating from DAT High School

From Seth and Chaya Parkoff

To SHEVI PARKOFF on graduating from DAT Lower School

From Seth and Chaya Parkoff

MAZAL TOV TO OUR GRADUATES BEING HONORED AT TODAY’S KIDDUSH AND THANK-YOU TO THEIR SPONSORS

To DOV COHEN on graduating from DAT High School and the rest of the DAT

HS Class of 2017

From Mitch and Rebecca Cohen

To DANIELLA LEV on

graduating from Kindergarten, all other DAT Kindergarten graduates and gradu-

ates from all DAT Schools

From Dovid and Naomi Lev

To NATHALIE HIRSCH BIRNBAUM on graduating as a Doctor from

NYIT Medical School

From Fred and Pia Hirsch