Parshas Achrei Mos - Kedoshim Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 5:15pm Latest time for Shema 9:39am Shkiya 5:32pm Shabbos Ends 6:15pm Avos Ubonim at Home Avos Ubonim 7:15-8:00pm Join us on Zoom at 7:55pm for this week's RAFFLE Every boy who learns will get a voucher towards a Pizza (8 vouchers entitle a family to a FREE Pizza) (This is besides the communal weekly Avos Ubonim - see attached) Short Vort on the Parsha In the Yom Kippur avodah, the kohen godol brings his own korban and confesses his sins, and only afterwards does he bring the Bnei Yisroel's korban and gain atonement for their sins. Why worry about himself before the entire nation? The Gemorah in Yoma explains that since he is gaining atonement on behalf of everyone, he should be pure himself before he ensures everyone else will be pure. This is an important point in terms of chinuch; before helping others ideally one should reach the requisite level of purity - then one will have success. For example the Chasam Sofer said, if a teacher has bad middos then what ends up happening is; the students do not learn what the teacher is teaching but only learn the bad middos. This is similar to a thought said over in the name of the Kotzker Rebbe - 'first I wanted to change the world, when I realised I couldn't I would try to change my city. When I saw that was also impossible I tried to change my family. Eventually I realised the way to influence others is by changing myself'. This is clearly hinted to in the order of the possuk - the kohen godol provided atonement for himself, for his household and for the entire congregation (Vayikra 16:17).