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OCTOBER 28– NOVEMBER 3 , 2016 • 26 TISHRI - 2 Cheshvan 5777
BERESHIT
CONGREGATION MOGEN DAVID
9717 W PICO BLVD, LA, CA 90035 • 310.556.5609 •
RABBI GABE ELIAS, Senior Rabbi/Executive Director
NOEY JACOBSON, Cantor
RABBI YEHUDA MOSES, Rav Kehila, Sephardic Minyan
RABBI MICHAEL ABRAHAM, Assistant Rabbi/Hazan
SEPHARDIC MINYAN
Erev Shabbat
Candle lighting: 5:46pm
Mincha: 5:45pm
Shabbat
Shacharit: 8:45am
Mincha: 5:35pm
Arvit: 6:30pm
Havdalah: 6:35pm
Sunday
Shacharit: 8:00am
Mincha: 5:45pm
Mon—Fri
Shacharit: 6:30am
Tues & Wed Rosh Chodesh
Mon—Thurs
Mincha: 5:45pm
Erev Shabbat
Light Candles 5:39pm
Mincha/Arvit: 5:40pm
PLEASE, MAKE AN EFFORT TO JOIN US FOR EVENING MINYAN
OCTOBER—NOVEMBER
Daphna & Benjamin Gerendash •
David & Jessica Abian • Eliyahu & Gila Hazani
David & Amy Minc • Sheldon & Harriet Markman
Abraham & Parstoo Kashani • Neil & Rachel Sheff • • • • • • • •
ASHKENAZI MINYAN
Erev Shabbos
Candle lighting: 5:46pm
Mincha: 5:45pm
Shabbos
Shacharis: 9:00am
Mincha/Ma’ariv: 5:40pm
Ma’ariv: 6:30pm
Havdalah: 6:35pm
Sunday
Shacharis: 8:00am
Mincha: 5:45pm
Mon—Fri
Shacharis: 6:30am
Tues & Wed Rosh Chodesh
Mon—Thurs
Mincha: 5:45pm
Erev Shabbos
Light Candles 5:39pm
Mincha/Ma’ariv: 5:40pm
PLEASE, MAKE AN EFFORT TO JOIN US FOR EVENING MINYAN
OCT 28—NOV 3
• Noa Ezran • Seymour Pressman •
• Daniel Dallal • Ayva Kashanian •
• Sarah Ryzman • Dina Moses • Elizabeth Grunfeld •
• Eliyahu Hazani • Robert Millman •
• • • • • • • • • AVY AZEROUAL, President
BIRCHAT HACHODESH ROSH CHODESH
Important Halalhic Times
Earliest Talit & Tefillin
Last Time for Shema
Last time for Shacharis
Earliest time for Mincha
6:24am
9:16am
10:48am
1:04pm THIS WEEK WE THANK OUR SPONSORS
Kiddush is sponsored by Avishai and Aliza Shraga in honor
of the birth of their new son.
Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by the Shul.
the Simchat Torah lunch was co-sponsored by Haim &
Helen Dayan, Amram Azeroual, Oved Anter, and Marty
and Evelyn Pollack. The Goodie-Bags for the kids were
donated by Avraham Moradi.
*We are in need of additional co-sponsors for the Simchat Torah
Lunch—Please contact the office to help co-sponsor this event.
To Sponsor or Co-Sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit in honor of a Birthday, Anniver-
sary, Wedding, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, New Baby, Simcha, New Job, or honor a Memory of a
loved one; contact the office 310-556-5609
IN MEMORIAM:
OCT 28—NOV 3 / 26 TISHRI—2 CHESHVAN
Aleksander Skowron • Eliyahi Sadetski • Miriam Safren •
Beatrice Wacht • Pearl Mogtader • Rabbi Chaim Rand •
• Lawrence Friedrich • Sigmund Kreuz • Jack Port •
Theodore Pariser • Salvatore Piha • Jacob Karasik•
• • • • • • • •
Honorees for the 30th Anniversary ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL;
Academy Award Winning—Actress—Filmmaker
Natalie Portman, Award Winning - Actress -
Humanitarian Sharon Stone and Jay Sanderson, President
of the Jewish Federation of Greater L.A.
PLEASE REDEEM YOUR PLEDGES FROM YOM KIPPUR
Please remember to give us a SEPARATE CHECK to pay a
Gmach pledge. Thank you so much for your support
REFUAH SHLEIMAH:
Yosef Lev ben Sarah • Alfredo ben Petra •
Mordechai ben Simcha • Reuven Ben Goel •
Haim Menachem ben Hena Raizel •
Baruch Pelech ben Chana • Avraham Meir ben Batya •
Avraham ben Dolat • Shimon Dov ben Shifra •
Shalom bat Chana • Yitzchak ben Kalomeera •
Moshe Mordechai ben Rachel •
Raphael Dovid ben Ella • Aaron Yosef ben Chana •
Yisrael Meir ben Esther • Ruven ben Raisel •
Efriam ben Ida • Ozer ben Leah •
•Rochel bat Miriam • Esther bat Chana • Matana bat Rachel •
Sara bat Etta • Tzvia Nechama bas Chana Rochel •
Sarah bat Elka • Dafna bat Sima • Chana Ruhal bat Selma •
Rivka Devorah bat Haya Sarah •
Chava Golda bat Rachel Leah •
Neima bat Sara • Silvia Neche bat Rosa • Rachel bat Chana •
Shifra bat Chaya Esther • Yona bat Pesiah • Esther bat Gital •
Miriam bat Sarah • Chaya Rachel bat Simcha •
Elana bat Rachel •Shayna bat Chave • Rivkah bas Chemda •
Bracha bat Niktzan Rina • Sara bat Rachel •
• Sara Chana bat Tziporah •
Rivka Devorah Brainah bat Avigyil Faiga •
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from having a well-constructed Eruv. Our Eruv now needs our
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MAZAL TOV !
to parents Avishai and Aliza Shraga
on the birth of their son
to siblings Liel, Eyal and Gabriel,
And the whole family.
May they raise him up to
Torah, Chupa, and Massim Tovim.
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BERESHIT
We have just completed the Holiday period that marked
the beginning of the Jewish calendar year. This parsha of
Bereshit is the beginning of another important event in the
religious cycle of the year. It is the time when the first par-
sha in the Torah is read in its entirety in the shul. Part of the
parsha, the first chapter and three verses of the second,
were just read on Simchat Torah following the conclusion
of the reading of the last portion of the Torah. Thus, on the
happiest holiday of the year, we conclude one round of
public reading and immediately begin another. This im-
pressive and inspiring scene is enacted year after
year. We learn from this that one never really completes
the Torah, that one never knows all the profound mean-
ings that are expressed on its scrolls. A second reason is to
teach us that we have yet another chance beginning
with Bereshit to start anew, correct ways, and make up for
what we missed or underachieved during the past year.
The parsha begins with "in the beginning Hashem created
the heavens and the earth."
I heard an interesting point made by one of my col-
leagues. Just after the Crusades when the Crusaders were
locked in battle with the Muslems for control of Jerusalem,
Jewish hopes were in tatters.
In light of the existential crisis facing the Jewish people, at
that time, the last thing one would expect would be for
the famous commentator on the Torah, Rashi, to have em-
phasized in the very first comment on the Torah the Jewish
claim to the land of Israel. Notwithstanding, Rashi pointed
to the Jewish claim on the Holy Land as the reason for the
Torah's beginning with the creation of the world. Because
the earth is the Lord's, it is His alone to distribute. Because
he gifted Israel to the Jewish people, no subsequent claim
to that land by other peoples can have validity regardless
of UNESCO or the UN or any other entity deciding other-
wise
More than a thousand years since his commentary, coun-
ter claims are being made on the land and Jerusalem, its
eternal capital. There is dispute about sovereignty and
borders. There are many who feel that boundaries need
to be delineated as to their exact locations. Unfortunate-
ly, even Jews are not united on our historical right to the
land and Jerusalem. Is this what Rashi had in mind? Will
the Jewish people, at least finally take prophetic com-
ment seriously?
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Gabe Elias
PARASHAH BERESHIT
The creation of the world is introduced to us in two different
ways: Each of the days of creation is prefaced by the
phrase, "vayomer Elokim," and the entire account begins
with, "Bereishit bara Elokim" ; the shem Hashem is not used.
However, when the Torah repeats the story, the shem Ha-
shem is used, as it says, "Hashem Elokim" (2:4-21). Rashi (1:1)
explains that originally the world was to be created
through middat hadin - the strict attribute Divine Justice, as
the name Elokim implies. However, the world could not
function on such terms and was eventually created ac-
cording to the rules of justice and mercy combined. This
partnership of middat hadin and middat harachamim is
alluded to in the description of Hakadosh Baruch
Hu as, "Hashem Elokim". Elokim refers
to din, and Hashem to rachamim.
The culmination of creation also occurred in two stag-
es: Chazal teach us that the entire creation of the world
was dependant upon whether the Jewish people would
accept the Torah. The first kabbalat hatorah occurred un-
der the rules of middat hadin, so that when Benei Yisra-
el sinned they should have immediately been de-
stroyed. Middat hadin dictates that immediate and com-
plete punishment be meted out to one who sins. Eventual-
ly, Hashem gave Benei Yisrael another chance and instruct-
ed them in the 13 middot shel rachamim , thereby enabling
a second kabbalat hatorah. It is this second kabbalat hato-
rah that binds us today a world of the combined middot.
This change from a pure middat hadin to one tempered
by middat harachamim is not an event that occurred only
at the time of creation or at the time of matan torah- this
shift takes place every year. Rosh Hashana is the yom
hadin in the strict sense. Corresponding to the original crea-
tion, the world should be judged according to the middat
hadin. Yet, Hakadosh Baruch Hu knows that we cannot
withstand judgement under those terms so He gave us Yom
Hakippurim as a chance to be judged according to middat
harachamim.
As the Chagim have officially come to a close, and as we
begin the Torah anew with Sefer Bereishit, we should re-
member the lesson of balancing the middat ha-din (justice
and judgment) with the middat ha-rachamim (mercy and
comnpassion). One of the ways we accomplish this is to
[when possible] view others in a favorable light--dan l'kaf
zechut. I look forward to beginning the Torah and all our
learning opportunities in the Kehilla as we begin another
season of learning Torah together.
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Yehuda Moses
KOLLEL & CLASSES
Daily Classes
SUN-FRI: Chok Le’Yisrael w/Haim Dayan
SUN@ 8:45am; Mon—Fri @7:30am
Weekly Classes
SUN:
Shiur: w/R’Adler following Shacharit
Guide to Belief: @9:30am w/David Sacks
MON:
Parsha Class: w/R’Elias @Pico Café 7:45am
Next Class OCTOBER 31, NOVEMBER 7
TUES: 11.8.16
7:45pm The 613 Mitzvot w/R’Moses
WED:
12.00pm Lunch & Learn:(Weekly Parsha) w/R’Elias
Next Class Nov 2, 9
THUR: 11.10.16
Gemara Class: @8:00pm w/R’Moses
Beginning Talmud Shiur: @8:00pm w/R’Elias
Kollel Classes are Sponsored by Avy and Sandra Azeroual;
Dedicated in memory of ADA BAT HANNA AZEROUAL; and to
the memories of JACK E. GINDI and
ESKANDAR RASHIDI DOOST.
We offer the opportunity to sponsor a week of Kollel learning for $180 as a
way to commemorate a Yahrtzeit or Hazkarah, to celebrate a joyous
Simcha, or to help and support the Torah learning at our Shul. Please call
or email the office to choose a week to sponsor a class.
BERESHIT
COMMUNITY NEWS
Bnei Akiva Events-Shabbat 10/29 Snif Shluchot-5:20pm-Beth Jacob
(walking group leave Canfield/Airdrome at 5:00pm; Snif Saad-5:30pm
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Moshava California Open House! Tues. Nov 1 at the Prero home,
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HARKHAM-GAON ACADEMY, OPEN HOUSE is around the corner! Join
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latte-learning. NCSY CONNECT ALUMNI “THROWBACK THURSDAY” Nov
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Los Angeles Israel Gap Year Fair, Thurs Nov 17 6:30 to 9:30 pm @ Bnai
David-Judea. Parents & Students can meet over 40 diverse Israel gap
year providers all together. Free!!! But advance registration makes
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YULA Boys High School Open House; November 9, 6:30pm at YULA
Boys Campus -9760 W. Pico Blvd LA. Info, contact Sandy Roessler at
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