Youth Happenings @ Congregation Etz Chaim

May 13, 2016 Parsha Kedoshim 5 Iyar 5776

For Grades 7 and

up. Price:

Parsha Kedoshim Times & Numbers: Candle Lighting- 7:48 Mincha- 7:00 Shacharit- 9:00 am Teen Minyan- 9:45 am Tot Shabbat- 10:15am Jr. Cong.- 10:15 Upstairs Mincha- 7:45pm Shabbat Ends- 8:46

NUMBER OF MITZVOT: 51 13 MITZVOT ASEH (POSITIVE COMMANDMENT) 38 MITZVOT LO TAASEH NUMBER OF PESUKIM: 64 NUMBER OF WORDS: 868 NUMBER OF LETTERS: 3229

NUMBER OF MITZVOT: 0 NUMBER OF PESUKIM: 52 NUMBER OF WORDS: 614 NUMBER OF LETTERS: 226

JUST LEAVE IT This parsha has a “three parter” that can only be fulfilled in Eretz Yisrael. Firstly, every farmer has to put aside a corner of his field for poor people. This Mitzvah is called PAY-YA. How much of the field, you ask? Well, the average is one fiftieth of the field. If you're more generous, 1/40 and if you're feeling on the cheap side but you still want to fulfill the Mitzvah, 1/60th will do. Now, let's say you've got a worker collecting stalks of grain and he/she drops one or two. You're not allowed to pick them up. Hashem wants you to leave them for poor people. This Mitzvah is called LEKET.

The third part of the Mitzvah is that once the stalks have been bundled up, if one bundle is accidentally left in the field it goes to the poor. This is called SHIK-CHA. These three Mitzvot apply to grains, olives and grapes, but not greens or vegetables.

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JOSHUA: THE INVINCIBLE CONQUERER

Yoni’s after school class for teens.

Mondays at 6:00pm. Non-members welcome. FRESH PIZZA & PASTRIES!

Congregation Etz Chaim: www.etzchaimnj.org

Rabbi E. Samuel Klibanoff

Rabbi Natan Kapustin, Assistant Rabbi

Rabbi Shlomo Krupka, Rabbi Emeritus

David Lentz & Shelly Paradis, Presidents

Yoni Glatt, Youth Director

Returning This Shabbat

Junior. Cong.

Grades 1-6

DID YOU KNOW? Did you know that the 5708th verse of the Torah

(Devarim 30:5) reads, “And Hashem will bring you to

the Land inherited by your forefathers, and you will

take possession of it, and He will do good to you”? So

you might ask, what’s so amazing about that? Well the

state of Israel was founded in the Hebrew year 5708!!

MORAH GOLDSTEIN IS RETURNING

NEXT SHABBAT! morning program for

girls in grades 6-8 and afternoon Pirkei Avot (time & location to be announced next week)

“Quote of the Week” “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to

the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the

never haves...then listen close to me... Anything can happen,

child. Anything can be.”

-Shel Silverstein

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YIDDLE RIDDLE! THE FIRST KID TO TELL YONI THE ANSWER GETS $3

MM, THE SECOND GETS $2, AND THE THIRD GETS $1- NO

TELLING THE ANSWER TO EACH OTHER!

Such a powerful weapon this could be It’s killed and enslaved those who were free The wicked do it without blinking While the innocent do it without thinking

Last Week: I'm too young to be Parve. Who am I? A- An egg still in a chicken

Basketball is back!!!!!! Friday 3:::30 PM

at the glatTS

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TALK IT OUT TORAH

Jennifer Romanoff’s after

school class will return

on May 18- Grades 8-12.

Dinner & snacks served.

Always free & always fun!

MIDOT MATTER MOST: THE WORTH OF A FRIEND ISN’T HOW

MUCH THEY SPEND ON YOU, BUT

HOW MUCH THEY CARE FOR YOU.

The most important word: Altruism- Al·tru·ism n.

1. Unselfish concern for the welfare

of others; selflessness.

2. Zoology-behavior by an animal

that is not beneficial to or may be

harmful to itself but that benefits

others of its species.

BE AN ALTRUIST!!!

Basketball is back!!!!!! Friday 3:::30 PM

at the glatTS BOYS IN GRADES 7 AND UP ARE WELCOme. Weather permitting.

Rav Bezalel Ashkenazi (RAB) was one of the leading Talmudists and rabbis of

his day. Descended from a family of German scholars, he was born in Israel,

but moved to Egypt with his family shortly after, as it was very difficult for

Jews to make a living in Israel at that time. In Egypt he received his Talmudic

education from R’ David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and R’ Israel de Curial.

RAB would become the teacher to many great scholars, including Rav Isaac

Luria (The Ari) and Rav Solomon Adeni. In 1556 he was elected head of the

Jewish community in Cairo. He would later (controversially) help abolish the

Nagid (princely leader) position in the community, as he saw the Nagids

becoming increasingly corrupt. When, in 1587, a dispute occurred in Jerusalem

over the point whether scholars not engaged in business should contribute to

the taxes paid by the Jewish community to the pasha (Turkish ruler), and to

what extent. RAB together with several other rabbis, took the stand that Jewish

scholars, being usually compelled by love and devotion to emigrate to Israel,

and being scarcely able to support themselves, should be relieved from all

taxes. However, upholding this ruling was easier said than done.

Later that same year, RAB settled in Jerusalem, where he was recognized as

the chief rabbi by both the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim. The conditions in

Jerusalem were oppressive for Jews; and it was mainly due to RAB's influence

that the congregations of the city were not dissolved. The German Jews, who

ordinarily did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Sephardim, and who, being

largely scholars, refused to pay the Jews' tax, nevertheless bowed to

Ashkenazi's authority. The Ashkenazim had to contribute to the Jews' tax one-

sixth of the sum that was sent from Europe for their support, otherwise the

impoverished Sephardim, could not have remained in Jerusalem under the

merciless exploitation of the Turkish pashas. This peaceable arrangement

between the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim was due solely to the personal

influence of RAB. Sadly following RAB’s his death the agreement crumbled.

Rabbi Betzalel Ashkenazi is most famous for his popular notes and commentary

on the Talmud called "Shitta Mekubetzeth."

BEST SHAVUOT EVER! a nEW SHAVUOT ANNOUNCEMENT EACH WEEK:

This year we will be having our first ever ALL-NIGHT RAFFLE! EVERY HOUR, FROM MIDNIGHT TIL 5:00AM, WE WILL GIVING AWAY AN INCREDIBLE

PRIZE (YES, THERE WILL BE AN IPAD). BUT THE ONLY CATCH IS THAT YOU MUST BE IN SHUL AT THE

RAFFLE TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN!

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