Parshas Re'eh Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 5:26pm Latest time for Shema 9:45am Shkiya 5:43pm Shabbos Ends 6:27pm Avos Ubonim at Home Avos Ubonim 7:30-8:15pm Join us on Zoom at 8:15pm for this week's RAFFLE Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored by Family Karp Treat - Hot Chips!! TO BE PICKED UP SUNDAY LUNCHTIME Mazal Tov Shaarei Tefillah wishes Alexander Cohen and Gavi Widmonte a special Mazal Tov on the occasion of their Bar-Mitzva Mazal Tov to both families Short Vort on the Parsha The opening three pesukim of the parsha tell us that if we listen to Hashem we will get brocha, but if we ignore Hashem's word then we will get klala (curse). However the Torah does not then go on to tell us what these blessings and curses are. Why not? Rav Moshe Feinstein answers beautifully that the answer is embedded within the simple reading of the pesukim themselves. The posuk says 'the brocha that you listen to Hashem's mitzvos.and the curse if you do not listen to Hashem's mitzvos.' The brocha is the mitzvos themselves, and the curse is failing to keep the mitzvos. As the Ohr Hachaim (and Messilas Yesharim) spells out, if one keeps the mitzvos and their spirit properly then there is no greater feeling of happiness, achievement, and fulfilment. And the converse is true too, there's nothing more conducive to a life of drabness, emptiness, and lack of fulfilment than a life bereft of mitzvos. Similarly, as Rashi writes (Bamidbar 18:7), the greatest gift is the ability and privilege to serve Hashem - that is the only thing which uplifts us as people.