Parshas Emor

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

5:16pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:34pm

Latest time for Shema

9:39am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 5:05pm

Shabbos Ends

6:15pm

Ladies Shiur

This Shabbos morning there will be a Ladies shiur given by

Mrs Alisa Bensky

all ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This week 7:15-8:00pm

Special treat this week - Hot Chips

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort on the Parsha

The parsha discusses the different Yomim Tovim throughout the year. Rav
Wolbe comments that kedusha of the Yomim Tovim differs from the kedusha of
Shabbos, and additionally, each Yom Tov has its own distinctive kedusha. He
adds that every Yom Tov has days preceding it to be used in preparation for
the upcoming Yom Tov. Thirty days before Pesach one should begin learning
the halachos of Pesach. The days of the Omer are a preparation for Shavuos,
and the Three Weeks prepare us for Tisha B'Av. Elul prepares us for Rosh
Hashana, and the Aseres Yimei Teshuva prepare us for Yom Yippur. The days
following Yom Kippur are to be used in preparation for Sukkos and Chol
HaMoed is meant to prepare us for Shemini Atzeres. Without the preparation,
we would, so to speak, "fall into the Yom Tov" and not have the ability to
connect to the kedusha of that specific Yom Tov. The same idea applies to
the tefillah of Shacharis. The Pesukei D'zimra, which paints a picture of
the greatness of Hashem, prepares us for Shema and Shemoneh Esrei. While we
certainly get credit for every mitzvah we perform, one cannot compare a
mitzvah performed without preparation to one performed with proper
preparation.

Parshas Shemini

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

5:37pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:55pm

Latest time for Shema

9:33am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 5:15pm

Shabbos Ends

6:35pm

Kiddush

This weeks Kiddush has been sponsored anonymously

In honour of the overseas bochurim who have visited us over Yom Tov

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

Starting this Motzei Shabbos 7:30-8:15pm

Special treat this week - Pizza!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Parshas Tazria-Metzora

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

5:28pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:44pm

Latest time for Shema

9:35am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 5:15pm

Shabbos Ends

6:26pm

Shaving this Friday

Since this Friday is both Rosh Chodesh and Erev Shabbos the Mishna Berurah
(493:5)

rules that one can cut one's hair even if one keeps the first half of the
Sefirah.

According to most opinions this is even for those who keep Reb Yehudah
HaChosid

and do not normally have a haircut on Rosh Chodesh.

For those who keep the second half of the sefirah (according to many
opinions)

it would be better to cut one's hair today (Thursday).

Kiddush

This weeks Kiddush has been sponsored by

Ezra and Ruchi Abrahams on the occasion of

Yaacov's Aurfuf

Mazal Tov to Family Abrahams on their Simcha

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

Starting this Motzei Shabbos 7:25-8:10pm

Special treat this week - Hot chips!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

Both Tazria and Metzora deal with the halachos of tzora'as which comes as a
punishment for one who speaks lashon hara. Rav Wolbe quotes Rav Yisrael
Salanter who said that it is worthwhile for someone to learn mussar for an
entire lifetime if it will prevent him from speaking lashon hara even one
single time! In addition to emphasizing the severity of lashon hara, this
assertion enlightens us to the patience one must have with himself while
trying to advance in avodas Hashem. The problem is that many people simply
do not have patience. They want to see the improvement in their avodah, and
thus they have an urge to perform grand actions whereby it is possible to
gauge their advancement immediately. However, the way to advance in avodas
Hashem along the road toward perfection is specifically by means of small,
seemingly insignificant, actions. One who tries to climb the ladder two
rungs at a time will fall through the rungs and end up back in the very
place that he started. While small actions seem trivial, the Chovos
Halevovos (Shaar Cheshbon HaNefesh chap. 5) explains by way of analogy just
how tremendous every positive action is. When it appears on earth that the
sun moved a foot, in reality it traversed thousands of miles in the sky. In
a similar vein, saying a single good word seems like a negligible
advancement here on earth, but in reality to Hashem in the heavens the
achiever has traversed thousands of spiritual miles. A smile, a nod, a pat
on the back or a good word are all veritable spiritual goldmines. Start
small and you will end up big!

Parshas Achei Mos - Kedoshim

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

5:19pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:36pm

Latest time for Shema

9:38am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 5:05pm

Shabbos Ends

6:18pm

Ladies Shiur

Mrs Jody Godlberg will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This weeks Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored by Family B Cohen

Motzei Shabbos 7:20-8:05pm

Special treat this week - Hot Potato Knish!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

After planting a fruit tree, one is forbidden to eat the fruit for the first
three years. The fruit grown during the fourth year have sanctity and they
may only be eaten in Yerushalayim. "And in the fifth year you may eat its
fruit - so that it will increase its crop for you" (ibid. 19:25). Rashi,
citing Chazal, explains that heeding this commandment will bring blessing.
Rebbi Akiva said that the Torah added this assurance specifically as
ammunition to be used against the yetzer hara who might try to convince a
person not to give up so many years of produce. The Torah's assurance that
heeding this mitzvah will bring monetary blessing would seem to detract from
the "lishma" of he who performs the mitzvah. Instead of performing it solely
for the sake of Heaven, he now has in the back of his mind the notion that
performing the mitzvah is a worthwhile investment. Rav Wolbe explains that
this is not the case. The Torah was speaking specifically to the yetzer hara
of a person. One must speak to the yetzer hara in a language that he can
understand so that he will also agree to allow the mitzvah to be performed.
However, certainly the yetzer hatov of the person should strive to perform
the mitzvah with completely pure intentions. We are supposed to serve Hashem
"b'shnei yitzrecha" - with both the yetzer hatov and the yetzer hara. How
are we to serve Hashem with the yetzer hara? We are to convince him one way
or another that it is in his best interest to allow us to perform the
mitzvah. Tell him "It's worthwhile; I'm going to become rich." This is the
way to cause even the yetzer hara to desire your service of Hashem. Although
this exercise can be adjusted to each specific mitzvah, the general rule is
that all mitzvos of Hashem bring much blessing in their wake. This knowledge
makes their performance much easier because even the yetzer hara is
interested in you winning the lottery!

Parshas Emor

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

5:11pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:29pm

Latest time for Shema

9:41am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 5:00pm

Shabbos Ends

6:11pm

Ladies Shiur

Mrs Ettie Spigelman will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This weeks Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored anonymously

Motzei Shabbos 7:15-8:00pm

Special treat this week - Meat Pies!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

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Short Vort for the Shabbos table

The parsha discusses the different Yomim Tovim throughout the year. Rav
Wolbe comments that kedusha of the Yomim Tovim differs from the kedusha of
Shabbos, and additionally, each Yom Tov has its own distinctive kedusha. He
adds that every Yom Tov has days preceding it to be used in preparation for
the upcoming Yom Tov. Thirty days before Pesach one should begin learning
the halachos of Pesach. The days of the Omer are a preparation for Shavuos,
and the Three Weeks prepare us for Tisha B'Av. Elul prepares us for Rosh
Hashana, and the Aseres Yimei Teshuva prepare us for Yom Yippur. The days
following Yom Kippur are to be used in preparation for Sukkos and Chol
HaMoed is meant to prepare us for Shemini Atzeres. Without the preparation,
we would, so to speak, "fall into the Yom Tov" and not have the ability to
connect to the kedusha of that specific Yom Tov. The same idea applies to
the tefillah of Shacharis. The Pesukei D'zimra, which paints a picture of
the greatness of Hashem, prepares us for Shema and Shemoneh Esrei. While we
certainly get credit for every mitzvah we perform, one cannot compare a
mitzvah performed without preparation to one performed with proper
preparation.

Parshas Behar-Bechukosai

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

5:04pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:22pm

Latest time for Shema

9:44am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 4:44pm

Shabbos Ends

6:05pm

Ladies Shiur

Mrs Mindy Wiesner will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This weeks Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored by Family Y New

in honour Donny's birthday

Motzei Shabbos 7:05-7:50pm

Special treat this week - Pizza!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

The second half of parshas Behar deals with numerous laws that pertain to a
fellow Jew who becomes impoverished. If you lend him money, "Do not take
from him interest." If he sells himself to you as a slave, "You shall not
work him with slave labour." If the situation is such that he sells himself
as a slave to a Non-Jew, we must make an effort to extract him from his
undesirable environment. As the Torah instructs us, "He shall have
redemption; one of his brothers shall redeem him" (Vayikra 25:36, 39, 48).
The final two pesukim in the parsha seem to be totally out of place. There
the Torah commands us not to make idols or put up statues and it exhorts us
to observe Shabbos. What do these mitzvos have anything to do with what was
mentioned beforehand? Rashi explains (26:1) that these commandments are
specifically directed to the Jew who sells himself to the gentile. When this
slave observes his master's behaviour, he should not look to imitate him. He
should not say, "Since my master engages in forbidden relationships, so will
I. Since my master worships idols, so will I. Since my master desecrates the
Shabbos, so will I." The Torah wrote a condensed book of the most basic
prohibitions tailored specially for the Jew that finds himself in
spiritually challenged circumstances. Rav Wolbe comments that the Torah does
not give up on anybody. A Jew can never reach a situation of total spiritual
despair. His situation could be so bleak that he even sold himself to chop
wood and draw water for a house of idol worship (see Rashi 25:47).
Nevertheless, the Torah reaches out to him with a "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch"
exhorting him to keep at least the basic tenets of Judaism.

Parshas Bamidbar

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

4:58pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:16pm

Latest time for Shema

9:47am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 4:45pm

Shabbos Ends

5:59pm

Ladies Shiur

Mrs Ella Wilhelm will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

Motzei Shabbos 7:00-7:45pm

Special treat this week - Chocolate Muffins!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

In this week's parsha the Torah tells us "Count the sons of Levi according
to their fathers' household, according to their families, every male from
one month age and up shall you count them (Bamidbar 3;14)"

The counting of the tribe of Levi was different to the counting of every
other tribe. The children of Israel were to be counted "from twenty years
upwards" (Bamidbar 1;3). Yet, the members of the tribe of Levi, were counted
from one month upwards. Levi is different - Why?

Counting a person means that he is reckoned as part of the community. We do
not normally reckon infants and children into the count of those who have
accepted Jewish responsibilities upon themselves. Since although they might
have been educated by parents and teachers to make Judaism the main part of
their life, it is not certain that they will continue to do so as adults.
Therefore, for the other tribes of Israel only those who were twenty and
upwards can be counted truly as part of the community.

The tribe of Levi, however, were different. The whole essence of the Leviim
was to be the bearers of Jewish service and Jewish learning. They therefore
could be relied upon to imbue their young with absolute loyalty to
Yiddishkeit. From the age of one month old the members of Levi were reckoned
in the counting of their tribe, since it was known that by the age of 20,
they would definitely still be on board with Jewish commitment.

The tribe of Levi shows us the way.

Parshas Naso

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

4:51pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:08pm

Latest time for Shema

9:53am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 4:40pm

Shabbos Ends

5:53pm

Kiddush

The Kiddush this week has been sponsored by

Family Berlin in memory of the Rebbitzen's father whose Yahrzeit was this
week

and by Family Kass in memory of Zalmy's mother whose Yahrzeit is next week

Ladies Shiur

Rabbi Sacher will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This weeks Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored by Family Kass

in memory of Zalmy's mother whose Yahrzeit is next week

6:55-7:40pm

Special treat this week - Meat Pies!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

The Torah mentions in this week's parsha (6:11) that a Nazir must bring a
chatas. What is the reason for this korban? Rashi (6:11) brings the Tanna
Rebbi Eliezer HaKappar, who explains that the Nazir has sinned by wrongly
withholding wine from himself. Yet the Torah (6:5) indicates that such a
person is holy for this act of becoming a Nazir - so is he holy or a sinner?

The Kli Yakar resolves this contradiction by noting that the Torah only says
that the Nazir has sinned in a case where he desecrated his Nezirus by
coming into contact with a corpse. Since this has the effect of cancelling
his previous days of Nezirus and requiring the Nazir to start his days of
Nezirus all over again, the previous days of refraining from wine have been
shown to be in vain. This is why he is branded a sinner, for it turns out
that he refrained from wine for no reason. But a regular Nazir who manages
to see out his term of Nezirus successfully is not sinner. The Ramban takes
a different approach to understanding the reason why a Nazir brings a
chatas. He explains that the Nazir needs to bring a chatas because he is now
leaving an elevated state of kedusha and going back to his regular
lifestyle.

Parshas Beha'alosecha

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

4:49pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:07pm

Latest time for Shema

9:55am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 4:35pm

Shabbos Ends

5:52pm

Ladies Shiur

Rabbi Andrew Brenner will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This weeks Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored by Chaim Kochanowitz and
Family

in memory of Chaim's grandfather Rav Moshe Nosson ben Rav Asher Zelig Halevi
z'l

6:55-7:40pm

Special treat this week - Hot Chips!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

The Darkei Mussar quotes Rav Yitzchok Meir ben-Menachem (son-in law of Rav
Isser Zalman Meltzer) as deriving from when the Bnei Yisroel received quail
in the Midbar a beautiful lesson in how Hashem runs the world. Rashi
explains that the quail floated in mid-air at a level of two amos (3-4 feet)
off the ground, so that the Bnei Yisroel who went to gather them wouldn't
have to exert themselves to bend over and pick up the quail from off the
ground. However, we know that a mere two pesukim later (11:33), the Torah
relates that those who gluttonously consumed the quail died with the
unchewed meat still between their teeth. If Hashem felt that their
complaints and request for meat were inappropriate and planned to use the
quail as an instrument of Divine punishment, why did He miraculously suspend
the quail in mid-air in order to prevent unnecessary efforts on the part of
such sinners? We may derive from here that Hashem's Divine system of reward
and punishment is precisely meted out, even a person upon whom suffering is
decreed will only experience exactly the amount of pain which is coming to
him and not the slightest bit more. We similarly find that although Yosef
was sold into slavery and forced to endure untold suffering in Egypt, the
Arab caravan which took him to Egypt was uncharacteristically carrying
sweet-smelling spices (Bereishis 37:25) in order to save him from
unnecessary suffering. Rashi also writes (Vayikra 14:34) that even when
Hashem brings tzara'as upon the house of a person who speaks evil of others,
it still brings with it the blessing of allowing the owner to discover
valuable treasures which were hidden in the walls of house by the previous
Canaanite inhabitants. Although nobody enjoys the suffering he is forced to
endure throughout life, the knowledge that it is precisely meted out by a
loving and compassionate G-d who won't put him through the smallest amount
of unnecessary pain can make it significantly more bearable.

Parshas Shelach

Shabbos Times

Erev Shabbos

Shabbos Day

Mincha / Candle Lighting

4:49pm

Shacharis

9:00am

Shkiya

5:07pm

Latest time for Shema

9:58am

Shabbos Mincha

3:30 / 4:35pm

Shabbos Ends

5:52pm

Ladies Shiur

Mrs Michal Kaufman will be giving a ladies shiur this Shabbos Morning

All ladies and girls welcome

Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim

This weeks Avos Ubonim has been kindly sponsored Family Stein

6:55-7:40pm

Special treat this week - Hot Chips!!

Shabbos afternoon program for boys

Shabbos Afternoon Groups with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late
mincha

Short Vort for the Shabbos table

While the spies were on their way to Eretz Yisroel, the posuk tells us that
one of them, Kalev, makes a detour to Chevron. Rashi tells us he did this to
daven at the forefather's graves that he should not be badly influenced by
the rest of the spies. The posuk then continues by informing us that in
Chevron there resided the three oversized sons of a giant; Achimon, Shayshai
and Talmai. What is the connection between Kalev going to Chevron and these
giants? We can answer this question by exploring another problem. If there
were giants living in Chevron, how could Kalev risk his life by going there

• one is not allowed to risk one's life, even with intentions to pray at a
  holy place?

Rav Ezriel Rosenbaum explains, when a person is alarmed by a certain fear,
he will sometimes run straight from one danger into another. For example, a
person in a burning house may very well jump out the window, even if his
chances of surviving the fall are low - he is overcome with fear from the
fire and cannot act rationally. In our story, once Kalev had seen the
negative intentions of the other spies, he became so terrified about the
possibility of being influenced by them and sinning that he acted
irrationally; he ran straight into a giant's lair to pray. The Torah tells
us that the giants lived in Chevron to show us the enormous yiras chait,
fear of sin, that Kalev possessed.