Parshas Terumah - Parshas Zochor Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Mincha 6:35pm Shacharis 9:00am Plag Hamincha 6:50pm Latest time for Shema 10:14am Latest Candle lighting 7:55pm Shabbos Mincha 4:30 / 7:45pm Shkiya 8:13pm Shabbos Ends 8:55pm Parshas Zochor There will be a second leining of parshas Zochor at approx. 11:40pm Ladies welcome Kiddush This week's ladies kiddush is a welcome for the new ladies who have recently joined our kehillah: Mrs Lindy Stein, Mrs Sari Franck & Mrs Cathy Roberts There will be a ladies Shiur given by Mrs Alisa Bensky Kiddush This week's Kiddush has been kindly sponsored by families Teller and Kofsky in honour of the birth of their baby girl Matanos L'evyonim As in previous years The Rabbi will be collecting money for Matanos L'evyonim. In order for this money to be distributed on Purim please hand it in by mincha on Purim Shaarei Shabbos Riddles - Parshas Terumah 1. What Brocha does a Koton (child) never make? 2. Two people eat the same food - one makes a ho'adoma and the other makes a shehakol - what is the case? 3. What in this week's parsha had hands (yados) but no fingers? 4. In this parsha, in what context is the number 50 mentioned? (2) 5. Which 6 parts of the body appear in the context of the mishkan? Short Vort on the Parsha Parashas Terumah begins with Hashem instructing Moshe to collect money for the purpose of building a Mishkan: "Speak to Bnei Yisroel and let them take for me a portion, from every man whose heart motivates him (asher yidvenu leebo) you shall take My portion" (Shemos 25:2). Rashi explains that the word "yidvenu" connotes a "nedava" (a donation) and refers to the good will of the person offering the donation. Rav Wolbe brings the Alter of Kelm who writes that all the donations to the Mishkan were given with completely pure intentions. Donations were certainly not accepted if they were given as means of attaining honour. Moreover, even donations given with the holy intentions of obtaining Olam Haba or so that the Shechina should reside among Bnei Yisroel, were not accepted. The money had to be given for the sole reason that Hashem asked for Bnei Yisroel to donate. Doing something simply because "that is what Hashem asked one to do" is the ultimate level of lishma. While most of the time our actions are performed with some sort of ulterior motive, with a bit of concentration it is quite possible to perform an action simply for the sake of Hashem.