Energize your week with Ohev Sholom November 12, 2020
Shabbat Times and Announcements
Erev Shabbat, November 13 (Cheshvan 26): 3:00p D'var Torah with Rabbi Herzfeld via Facebook Live 4:00p Laining of the Torah by Elisheva Appelbaum join here 4:30p Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/D'var Torah (in person, advance registration required Mincha via Zoom join here) 4:37p Candlelighting
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Mazal tov toLeor Hochstein on his bar mitzvah!
Treasurer's Meeting November 24 at 8 PM: As indicated at the end of the last Board meeting, Jeff Burt, Treasurer, will host a meeting via Zoom to review recent financial statements and answer questions re: financial issues at the shul. The charts will be available for review prior to the meeting. A further notice will appear in next week's Shaboom.
Next Shabbat (November 20-21) Guest Chazzan Gedalia Penner! Gedalia will be leading services as well as a special havdalah (services registration required).
Reminder to register for weekday minyanim! Please remain vigilant in adhering to our Covid protocols; if you are attending minyanim in person, please sign up here.
If you are interested in sponsoring a day of virtual learning for $54, please email Alejandra at alejandra@ostns.org.
Maharat Friedman's weekly parsha podcast "Life Imitates Torah" is back! Click here to listen, or subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.
Covid & Mental Health Survey
Last year we participated in a faith & mental health survey for researchers at Catholic University. They have built a follow-up survey focusing specifically on mental health during the pandemic, and we invite all members to participate (it should take 15 minutes.) In addition to helping support their research, Ohev's participation will also give the shul leadership useful information on the challenges and experiences of our members during the pandemic, which will allow us to serve you better. For the results to be accurate and useful, we need as high a response rate as possible. So we ask all adults to please fill out the survey. The survey is completely anonymous; we do not collect names or email addresses. You can find the surveyhere. Thank you for your participation!
Order from Sunflower Bakery for Thanksgiving!
Comments on the Weekly Portion and Haftorah Contributed by Rabbi Ben Mintz
This week's parsha, Chayei Sarah, begins with the death of Avraham's wife. The rabbis note that word of Sarah's death comes at the very beginning of this parsha, shortly after the story of the Akeda in the preceding parsha, Vayera. They explain that Sarah received news that her son Yitzchak was being prepared for sacrifice and then,word that he'd been saved at the last minute. The shock of going from great grief to great joy was too much for Sarah's heart, and that caused her death.
The Torah states (Bereshis 23:1) that Sarah lived "a hundred years and twenty years and seven years." Why are the years stated separately?" The rabbi explain that Sarah's years were all alike in their good quality. Thus, at a hundred years old, she was like a twenty year-old woman who had not sinned, and when she was twenty years old, she was like a seven year old in beauty, (We can understand that young girls in rabbinical times were the epitome of beauty.) . The parsha continues with Avraham sending his servant Eliezer to Charan to choose a wife for Yitzchak. (You will recall that Terach and his family had stopped in Charan and lived there on their way to the Promised Land. Eliezer chooses Rivka as Yitzchak's wife. She is the daughter of Besual, the son of Avraham's brother, Nachor. We will get to know the family in Charan a lot better, when Yaakov flees there to escape Eisav's anger. We are told that when Yitzchak brought Rivka home, he brought her into the tent that had been his mother's. (24:67). Rashi explains that as long as a man's mother lives, he is bound to her. When his mother dies, he is then bound to his wife. So it was with Yitzchak.
The parsha ends with the death of Avraham (25:8) and with a recitation of the generations of Ishmael, the son of Avraham by Hagar. (25:12ff)
The Haftorah tells us of the old age of King David and the competition to succeed him. It recounts the efforts of his wife Batsheva to assure that Solomon would be awarded the crown after the death of David. (1 Kings:1-31) The haftorah ends with Batsheva saying. "May my lord King David live forever." (Verse 31)
Haftorah Video, by Hal Brodsky z"l
A video about this week's haftorah can be viewed here:1 Kgs. 1:1-31
Upcoming Events and Weekly Schedule
To view and register for upcoming events and view the weekly schedule, visit our website's online calendar.
Sunday, November 15 (Cheshvan 28) 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 9:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 11:00a Exploring Judaism: The Richness of our Tradition with Rabbi Mintz via Zoom 4:40p Mincha/Maariv (in person or via Zoom) 7:30p Book Club via Zoom
Monday, November 16 (Cheshvan 29) 7:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 12:30p Class with Rabbi Herzfeld on the Parsha via Zoom 4:00p Book of Shmuel with Maharat Friedman via Zoom 4:40p Mincha/Maariv (in person or via Zoom)
Tuesday, November 17: Rosh Chodesh Kislev (Kislev 1) 7:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 12:00p Winter Speaker Series: Yiscah Smith 4:00p Parshah Storytime with Rabbi Herzfeld in person (recommended ages 4-6) 4:40p Mincha/Maariv (in person or via Zoom) 7:15p Class with Baruch Roth via Zoom
Wednesday, November 18 (Kislev 2) 7:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 12:30p Class with Rabbi Herzfeld on the Parsha via Zoom 4:00p Book of Shmuel with Maharat Friedman via Zoom 4:40p Mincha/Maariv (in person or via Zoom)
Thursday, November 19 (Kislev 3) 7:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 4:40p Mincha/Maariv (in person or via Zoom)
Erev Shabbat, November 20 (Kislev 4) 7:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 4:25p Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat (Registration required; Mincha available via Zoom) Guest Chazzan: Gedalia Penner 4:32p Candle Lighting
Sunday, November 22 (Kislev 6) 8:00a Shacharit (in person or via Zoom) 9:00a Daf Yomi with Rabbi Herzfeld 11:00a Exploring Judaism: The Richness of our Tradition with Rabbi Mintz via Zoom 4:40p Mincha/Maariv (in person or via Zoom)
Lifecycles
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Ezekiel Jaffe Iz Rubinstein Noa Rieger Dov Kahan Nava Weiss Emily Reisler Michael Shurkin Corin Stone Noa Silverstein Rimonne Zakheim Carrie Ross Oliver Kirstein Rachel Lieberman Tamar Glasner
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Members Observing Yahrzeits
Shabbat Rachel Wildavsky for mother Nancy Haas Flick
Tuesday Victor Stone for grandmother Bessie Stone
Wednesday Micah Salb for grandfather Harry Salb
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October Donations
Annual Giving Plans Ronald & Anne Abramson Anthony & Leone Abroms Yoni & Emily Appelbaum David & Naomi Balto Naomi Brodsky Eric Brown & Aliza Levine Jeffrey & Sandra Burt Belle Davis Kira Epstein Begal & William Begal Ellen & David Epstein Douglas Feith & Pamela Auerbach Sarah & David Feith Sarah Fertig Trauben & Steven Trauben Yoni & Ruth Friedman Harold & Diana Furchtgott-Roth Carl & Laurie Gershman Shmuel & Rhanni Herzfeld Amos Hochstein & Rae Ringel James & Deborah Karesh David & Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen Wendy & Desmond Lachman Steven & Chani Laufer Nathan Lesser & Chani Bloom Steven & Sharon Lieberman James & Rachel Loeffler Joseph & Carol Low Jeffrey & Lea Mendelsohn Shaanan Meyerstein & Rachel Engelhart Michael Morse & Miriam Achtenberg Robert Parker & Mona Charen Matthew & Rebecca Price Baruch & Rachel Roth Yaakov & Arielle Roth Justin & Jessica Rubin Franklin Rubinstein & Nicole Goldstein Thomas & Jill Sacks Joseph & Claudia Saka Joshua Schenker & Julie Rapoport Schenker Susan Schutz Joshua Segal & Jennifer Geetter Starr & William Stixrud Samuel & Thera Swersky Daniel & Cheryl Troy Michael & Avril Weisman Ben & Rachel Wildavsky Ariel & Andrea Wolf Reuven & Tamar Zakheim
Cemetery Donation Thomas & Jill Sacks
Day of Virtual Learning (Zoom) Lowell Brazin Elaine & Howard Jacobson Neil & Fran Kritz Wendy & Desmond Lachman
General Gifts and Donations Rachel Elwell Ellen & David Epstein Efraim Goodman Leonard & Adele Green Aviad & Claire Haramati Steven & Nancy Jacobson Daniel & Rachel Levy Steven & Sharon Lieberman Shira Mendelsohn Claire Mosenthal Cynthia Rosen Grayce Warren Boulton Michael & Avril Weisman Allon Yomtov
High Holidays-Appeal Lowell Brazin Leonard & Adele Green Elaine & Howard Jacobson
"In Honor of" Donations by: Elliott & Rosa Greher in honor of Joshua Greher Robert Parker & Mona Charen Ben & Rachel Wildavsky Monica Wolfe in honor of my son, David's, bar mitzvah
"In Memory of" Donations made by: Roy Ackerman, HaRav Ya'akov Avraham ben HaRav Chayim Shmuel HaLevi (Jack Ackerman) Michael & Harriet Baum in memory of my mother, Sarah G. Mushinsky Jack & Diana Binder in memory of my father, Jerry Binder Donald Brady & Janet Epstein Brady in memory of my mother, Rose Ray Epstein and maternal grandfather, Goodman Kay. Richard & Barbara Daumit in memory of Rose Kay Epstein Alan Gordon in memory of great grandmother, Pessie Gordon James & Deborah Karesh Mother's Yahrzeit James & Deborah Karesh Miriam Rein Shulman Yahrzeit Leon Kass, for Yom Kippur Yizkor Ronnie Kleinfeldt & Barbara Zakheim David Portnoi Yahrzeit David & Giliah Litwack Stanley and Nancy Pillemer Yahrzeit Louis and Sheila Walter & Tova Reich in memory of my father, Simon Reich and my mother, Anna Reich Pesha Rubinstein Howard & Sandra Tenenbaum in memory of Jack & Freda Lifshutz, George & Jeanette Tenenbaum and grandparents Leah Weber in memory of James Weber
