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MIZRACHI MATTERS – PARSHAT BERESHIT Friday, 25 October (26 Tishrei)

Mincha & Ma’ariv: 6:10pm1

Candle Lighting: 6:30-6:35pm Dvar Torah: R’ Danny Mirvis

Mincha & Ma’ariv: 7:15pm1 Later Candle Lighting: 7:28pm

Dvar Torah: R’ Mottel Krasnjanski Friday

25 October 26 Tishrei

Saturday 26 October 27 Tishrei

Sunday 27 October 28 Tishrei

Monday 28 October 29 Tishrei

Tuesday 29 October

ראש חודש חשוון

Wednesday 30 October

ראש חודש חשוון

Thursday 31 October 2 Cheshvan

Friday 1 November 3 Cheshvan

1. Beit Yehuda 2. Kehillat Ohr David 3. Beit Midrash (Beit Haroeh Shabbat Morning) 4 . Bnei Akiva 5 . Elsternwick 6 . Midrashah 7 . Goldberger Hall

Shacharit 6:30am1; 7:00am2

7:30am1 7:30am1

9:30am1,2,3,4 7:00am1; 8:00am1:

9:00am4

6:20am1; 7:00am2 7:30am1

6:15am1; 7:00am2 7:15am1

6:15am1; 7:00am2 7:15am1

6:20am1; 7:00am2 7:30am1

6:30am1; 7:00am2 7:30am1

Dawn 5:11am 5:10am 5:08am 5:07am 5:06am 5:05am 5:04am 5:02am Tallit & Tefillin 5:28am 5:27am 5:25am 5:24am 5:22am 5:21am 5:20am 5:18am Sunrise 6:23am 6:22am 6:20am 6:19am 6:18am 6:17am 6:16am 6:14am Sh'ma (גר״א) 9:43am 9:42am 9:42am 9:41am 9:40am 9:40am 9:39am 9:39am Earliest Mincha 1:39pm 1:39pm 1:39pm 1:39pm 1:39pm 1:39pm 1:39pm 1:39pm Plag HaMincha (גר״א) 6:22pm 6:23pm 6:24pm 6:25pm 6:26pm 6:27pm 6:27pm 6:28pm Mincha Early Shabbat Candles

6:10pm 6:30-6:35pm

6:15pm

6:35-6:40pm Mincha / Maa'riv 7:15pm1 7:15pm1 6:15pm1 6:15pm1 6:15pm1 6:15pm1 6:15pm1 7:15pm1 Sunset 7:46pm 7:47pm 7:48pm 7:49pm 7:50pm 7:51pm 7:53pm 7:54pm Night/Shabbat Ends 8:28pm 8:30pm 8:31pm 8:32pm 8:33pm 8:34pm 8:35pm 8:37pm Second Ma'ariv 9:30pm 9:30pm 9:30pm 9:30pm 9:30pm

DAF YOMI Niddah 2 Niddah 3 Niddah 4 Niddah 5 Niddah 6 Niddah 7 Niddah 8 Niddah 9 8:15am 8:45am 8:15am 8:15am 8:15am 8:15am 8:15am

SHIURIM

R’ Leor Broh 9:00am

R’ James Kennard 9:30am7 Drashot

R’ Danny Mirvis1 R’ Chezy Deren2

R’ Leor Broh3 Parashat

HaShavua Shiur R’ James Kennard

6:05pm1

“(Trying to) Truly Understand

Rashi” shiur for students & young

adults with R’ James Kennard

8:30pm

Kli Yakar on the Parsha for women

R’ Danny Mirvis 9:30am6 Tzurba

Communal Shiur with

R’ Yehoshua Asulin

for men & women 8:30pm

Sefer Devarim for women

Michal Kaufman 9:00pm

Lunch and Learn R’ Danny Mirvis

1:00pm6

Gemara B’Iyun Shiur with

R’ Yehoshua Asulin 8:30pm

“Following in the Footsteps of our

Fathers” 11:00am

11 Morrice Street R’ Shimon Cowen

Gary’s Gemara Shiur @ 8:30pm

R’ Yehoshua Asulin – “Exploring

Emunah - A Journey in Understanding Hashem to Deal

with our Personal Challenges”

8:30pm Beginners

Gemara Shiur for Women with

Rabbanit Ahuva Tsykin at 8:30pm6

Lunch and Learn R’ Danny Mirvis

Lvl 28, 101 Collins St 1:00pm

Tzurba Shiur R’ Mark Steiner

8:30pm Parasha Shiur

(Ivrit Kala) R’ Yehoshua Asulin

8:45pm Advanced

Gemara Shiur for Women with

Rabbanit Ahuva Tsykin at 8:30pm6

MISHNAH YOMIT

Zevachim 3:1-2

Zevachim 3:3-4

Zevachim 3:5-6

Zevachim 4:1-2

Zevachim 4:3-4

Zevachim 4:5-6

Zevachim 5:1-2

Zevachim 5:3-4

6:00pm 7:05pm Between Mincha and Ma'ariv

Between Mincha and Ma'ariv

Between Mincha and Ma'ariv

Between Mincha and Ma'ariv

Between Mincha and Ma'ariv 6:05pm

EVENTS

MizKidz 10:45am

Bnei Akiva 5:30pm

Seudah Shlishit Motty Goodman

Bnei Akiva Shaliach

Holy Bagel 9:00am3

Matzevah in memory of the late

Gary Esterman ע"ה

11am Springvale Kehillat Ohr David

AGM 8:00pm7

Molad for Cheshvan

6:34 (6 chalakim) PM

Chil n Cholent 9:45pm

YAHRZEITS Shloi Pushett

(Brother)

Deb Zimmerman & Ed Gurgiel

(Father) Jerrold Lichtig

(Father)

David Slonim (Sister)

Ada Gurgiel (Mother)

Michael Bruce (Mother)

Les Weinberg (Mother)

Tom Berkovits (Father)

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We wish a hearty Mazal Tov to:

Rickel & Mendel Cohen on the birth of their daughter.

Mazal Tov to the grandparents: Tirzah & Reb Leor Broh and Tzippy & R’ Shlomo Cohen (NY)

Mazal Tov to the great grandmothers: Chava Cohen & Beila Borenstein

Yaelle Rosenblum and Yoel Goldberg on the occasion of their engagement

Mazal tov to their parents: Ruth & Zalman Rosenblum and Judy and PJ Goldberg (USA)

Mazal tov to their grandmothers: Rywa Rosenblum, Paula Gassel (USA) and Ruth Goldberg (USA)

To the incoming Bnei Akiva leadership team for 2020:

Merakezet: Tali Borowick Sgan Merakez: Ziggy Josefsberg

Gizbar: Reuel Pizmony Rosh Chinuch: Bati Maron

BAR / BAT MITZVAH ANNIVERSARIES:

David Brykman, David Weinberg, Eitan Cher, Benji Reisner, Daniel Kave, Joshua Slonim, Nadav Greenberger, Samuel Bruce, Yonnie Lipshatz, Gabriel Max, Ariel Zelwer

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Saturday: Elisheva Mainzer, Julian Fishman

Sunday: Joe Steg Monday: Daniel Goodhardt, Aviya Wiener (HBD)

Tuesday: Noah Epstein Thursday: Adrienne Kraus, Alana Hersh, Gilad Cohen, Sam Paneth (HBD)

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY:

Friday: Dinah & Andrew Strum

From the Gush Rav Moshe Taragin Parshat Breishit - Repairing Humpty Dumpty

Around twenty five years ago, on Shabbat Breishit, I attended a Friday night talk of

Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l prior to Ma’ariv prayers. These extensive wide-ranging talks

usually lasted more than an hour and certainty challenged weary Friday-night audiences.

During his speech Rav Lichtenstein spoke eloquently about original sin and the fall of

Man. At one point, his Hebrew language speech was interrupted by an English quote "And

all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back

together again". I was startled by this quote from a popular children’s rhyme. It was not

uncommon for my Rebbe to quote non-Jewish scholars who had written passionately

about religion. However, a quote from the Mother Goose collection seemed incongruous.

Evidently, this line about a rotund figure who fell from a high wall was more than a

children’s rhyme. Apparently, it was a metaphor about the stunning and irrecoverable fall

of Man. By disobeying the Divine command, humanity fell so precipitously that we were

shattered beyond repair- even with great effort on behalf of all the king’s horses and all

the king’s men.

Throughout history a debate has raged surrounding the innate essence of Man. Was he

created primarily good and virtuous or fundamentally evil and immoral? Many modern

thinkers such as Dostoyevsky and Orwell have suggested that Man was created evil and

morally damaged. This approach is deeply rooted in Christianity in the concept of original

sin- every person is born into this world through an act of sin. Additionally, some of the

horrors committed by Man in the past century corroborated the sense that Man was

profoundly and innately sinful. Judaism flatly denies this view and asserts that G-d

fashioned Man in the Divine Image and vested him with unlimited potential as the pinnacle

of creation. Man was created noble and pure and to underscore this primal nobility, the

creation of Man concludes on the sixth day with effusive Divine praise at the spectacle of

Man: “Va’Yar Elokim et kol asher asa v’hinei tov me’od – G-d beheld his masterpiece and

it was surpassingly good”. Moreover, in the very book in which Shlomo Hamelech

addresses the vanity and futility of our world, he none the less remarks that “G-d

fashioned Man as good but man sought complications and distortions”. At his core Man

was created kind, good and noble!

Even amongst those who affirm the essential goodness of Man, many assert that this

innate virtue was squandered through Man’s first disobedience of partaking of the Tree of

Knowledge. After all, this rebellion triggered Divine punishments which have

fundamentally altered the human condition. Unlike his ideal conditions in Eden, Man

must labor and toil to feed himself and support life. Our very birth into this world is

occasioned by pain and physical discomfort. Though it may be true that original Man was

created pure and perfect, by sinning, he forfeited that original status. “Original” Man may

have been empowered as the pinnacle of G-d’s creation however “Fallen” Man no longer

possessed that great potential. We have fallen from our original stature in Eden and we

now live flawed lives; we inhabit a different and more bleak world. This view of fallen and

compromised humanity dominated much of Jewish outlook in general, and, in particular,

of the world of Jewish mussar. Man has abdicated his original lofty position and was now

mired in a state of ineptitude. Under these futile conditions Man’s only salvation is careful

adherence to Divine command amidst minimal engagement in the affairs of a fallen world.

Stuck in a confusing maze of a pointless world, redemption could only be achieved through

withdrawal from that dark and confusing world.

About 140 years ago one of the great leaders of pre-war Eastern European Jewry asserted

a radically different view of human experience. Rabbi Noson Tzvi Finkel- affectionately

known as the “Alter of Slobodka”- served as the mashgiach in the great Slobodka Yeshiva.

He articulated a revolutionary manner of understanding the great fall of Man. Though

“Fallen” Man was punished and was banished from Eden, he still retained his original

grand and elevated potential. The expulsion didn’t fundamentally alter Man’s identity and

we continue to live in that original state of empowerment as pinnacles of Divine creation.

Indeed, sin has significantly muddled moral clarity and complicated human experience.

Indeed, our vast potential isn’t as easily applied or implemented as it was in Eden.

However, at our core, we still possess majestic potential to affect our world and author

history. We are still princes – though fallen and marred! Striving for a morally and

religiously sensitive life isn’t driven by the acknowledgement of the futility or the

hopelessness of human experience. Quite the contrary, Man continues to live an

empowered life, and his enormous potential entails great responsibility and uncommon

duty. Proper human behavior can redeem and advance the human condition just as our

errant behavior can wreck the entire world. Precisely because of Man’s lofty status he

must live an “epic” lifestyle so that creation itself can advance. This mussar of

“empowerment and expectation” constituted a major shift from the conventional view that

we inhabit a dark and empty space amidst a world of defeat. G-d places great expectations

even upon “Fallen” Man and this recognition should produce religious drive and ambition.

Many find this approach more suitable to the modern context. For several millennia Man

inhabited a confused and regressive world in which the human condition was plagued by

violence, socio-political inequality and widespread inertia. This backward world did indeed

seem bleak and dreary, inviting the more classic view of “Fallen” Man. Modern Man has

flipped the script and fashioned a world of science, progress and potential. In this context

the notion of helpless and powerless Man is detached from reality. The Slobodka doctrine

which asserts that Man still retains his original unlimited potential is far more resonant

and reflective of the world we occupy. We live in a world of meaning and progress and we

are mandated to express the prodigious potential which characterizes Man while

advancing our world to greater levels of moral and religious achievement.

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