Energize your week with Ohev Sholom March 19, 2020
Shabbat Times and Announcements
Erev Shabbat, March 20 (Adar 24) 10:00a Zoom class on anxiety By Emily Kahan 5:30p the Shabbat Torah Reading (from a tikkun) led by Yoni Friedman 6:00p Mincha 6:15p Kabbalat Shabbat with a D'var Torah by Maharat Friedman 7:02p Candle Lighting
All service sessionswill use the zoom links we have been using until now. Click here to see the links
Zoom Session on Managing Emotions and Stress in a Strange Time. Join Emily Kahan, LICSW, for a session on common reactions to stressful situations, and an opportunity to share your feelings and coping skills. Appropriate for ages 12+. Please email emilybkahan@gmail.com with questions and enjoy her zoom class
Sale of Chametz: This year's sale of chametz forms can be found here Online Form | Download/Print Form Please note all chametz products can be sold and do not need to be disposed of. You should not hesitate to purchase anything you need for the next few weeks out of fear that you will have to throw it out for Pesach.
Pesach wine sale: Order your wine for Pesach through Ohev and have it delivered to your door! Click here to order. Deadline to order is Friday, March 27.
Comments on the Portion, Haftorah & Morning Prayers Contributed by Rabbi Ben Mintz
This Shabbos we read two parshiyot , Veyakhel and Pekudei, and with the reading of these parshiyot. we complete the Book of Shmos. Chazak, Chazak Ve'Nischazek. Let us all be strong together. Next Shabbos we begin the Book of Vayikra, the third book of the Torah.
The parshiyot contain instructions for the setting up of the Mishkan, the tabernacle, and the placement of the holy objects within the Mishkan. The Torah assigns the major responsibility for this sacred activity to Bezalel, the son of Uri of the tribe of Yehudah, and his assistant Aholiav. The Torah states regarding Bezalel that "le'horot nasan be'libo" ("The ability to teach was given to him in his heart.") This emphasizes that the talent to lead and inspire, a holy activity, comes "from the heart." The Hebrew word "lehorot" means not only "to teach" but also "to lead" and to "give direction". The document attesting to the ordination of a rabbi states, "yoreh, yoreh" that the rabbi is authorized not only to teach others, but also to decide cases, and, perhaps most important, to act as a religious leader and inspiration. The word "yoreh" is from the same root as lehorot.". (I have an ordination document with those words hanging on the wall in my home. But as you know, I do not practice.)
In setting up the mishkan, the Torah states the the washstand and its implements were made from the mirrors, "marot" contributed by the women in the Jewish community. In the midrash, the rabbis elaborate on this statement. They say that Moshe did not want to accept the contribution of mirrors from the women, because he thought that they were inappropriate for a holy place since they served to satisfy the egos of the people who looked into them. But God was impatient with Moshe and instructed him to accept the mirrors, saying that they were more holy than other objects. Why? When the Jews were slaves in Egypt, the enslaved men were demoralized by the oppression and did not want to have relations with their wives or to bring a new generation into the world. But the women used their mirrors to make themselves beautiful and thus entice the men into sexual relationships. This made it possible for the Jewish people to continue, and ultimately to be freed from slavery and reach the Promised Land.
For Shabbos Hachodesh, the Shabbos that precedes Rosh Chodesh Nissan -- the month when we celebrate Pesach -- we add to the Torah reading an additional paragraph from the book of Shmot. It describes the holiday of Passover, and God's instruction to Moshe that the month of Nissan be considered ''rosh chodashim" the "head" month" of the year, because in that month the Jews were redeemed from Egypt.
The haftorah this Shabbat is the special haftorah for Shabbos Hachodesh, which is from the Book of Ezekiel, 45:16 - 46:18.
TFILOT From the daily Amida prayer-- Heal us, God, and we will be healed, save us, and we will be saved, for You are the object of our praise. O, grant us healing to all of our ailments, for You are a faithful and merciful God, King and Healer... Blessed are You O God, Healer of the sick of the People of Israel.
Haftorah Video, by Hal Brodsky z"l
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Tuesday Ramona Cohen for grandmother Gertrude Gildenhorn Sandra Burt for mother Ruth Marx Cass
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