KOL KINLOSS

KOL KINLOSS
NEWSLETTER OF FINCHLEY SYNAGOGUE
‫בהעלתך‬
Beha’alotcha
5/6 June 2015
Volume 19/Number 30
‫י׳׳ט סיון תשע׳׳ה‬
Shabbat commences at 8:58pm and terminates at 10:18pm.
Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 7:30pm.
‫בס”ד‬
WWW.KINLOSS.ORG.UK
Today is Jordana Schlagman’s Batmitzvah. We extend a warm welcome to her family and guests.
This week’s Kiddush is sponsored by
Debbie Meszarich and Aron Schlagman
on the occasion of
Jordana’s Batmitzvah.
SHABBAT LEARNING AT KINLOSS
Shabbat Morning
8:30am: (Sephardi Synagogue)
Mishnah Masechet Shabbat by Rabbi Heller.
8:45am (Deal Hall)
Rambam: The Laws of Shabbat
By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum.
Shabbat Afternoon
8:00pm: Daf Yomi shiur by Jeffrey Sagal.
8:15pm Pre-Mincha shiur
RAV ARI FAUST
will speak.
Mincha at 9:00pm,
followed by Seudah Shlishit.
RAV ARI FAUST
Rav Shliach of Bnei Aviva
“The ABC’s of Jewish Education?
Assessment, Brainwashing and Coercion.”
All welcome.
This week’s Seudah is sponsored by
A group of anonymous sponsors.
Followed by Ma’ariv at 10:18pm.
SHABBAT AT KINLOSS
HASHKAMA 7:45am
in the Liora Graham Beit
Hamidrash, followed by Kiddush
and a short shiur.
MAIN SYNAGOGUE 9:15am
led by Eli Sufrin. Kriat Hatorah by
Michael Fluss. At the end of the
service, the Batmitzvah, Jordana
Schlagman, will give a Devar
Torah and Rabbi Lawrence will
address her.
THE MINYAN 9:15am
in the Nissan and Rifca Deal Hall.
Kriat Hatorah by Robert Gross.
Devar Torah by Rabbi Dr Raphael
Zarum.
SEPHARDI SERVICE 9:00am
in the Sephardi Synagogue led by
Rabbi Heller and Reuben Gorji.
YOUTH SERVICE 9:45am
in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash,
led by our Youth Directors, Barry
and Chaya Colman.
This week's Kol Kinloss is sponsored by Suzanne and Geoff Ralton
on the occasion of the forthcoming marriage of their son, Josh to Nicole Rose.
0 - 4 year olds with Sara Keen in the foyer of the Kinloss Suite.
Reception up to School Year 2 with Miriam Kaye in the Avram Nemetnejad Room
(2nd Floor).
School Years 3 - 4 with Yehonatan Malachi in the 1st Floor Classrooms.
School Years 5 - 6 with Jason Marantz in the 1st Floor Classrooms.
Children’s Services from 0-School Year 4 will start at 10:45am. School Years 5 - 6 will start
at 10:30am.
All Services to be followed by a kiddush.
SPONSORS NEEDED
ANIM ZEMIROT CLUB
Come and learn to sing
If you would like to sponsor a
Anim Zemirot. Our Club meets every
Kiddush or Kol Kinloss to mark a
Shabbat at 10.15am in the Robing Room. special occasion, or a yahrzeit, please
Boys of 6 and over welcome. Led by Alan
call the Shul Office on 8346 8551,
Rubenstein. Please just come along.
and we will be happy to assist you.
BNEI AKIVA
Bnei Akiva, takes
place today, from
4:00 -5:30pm.
KINLOSS COMMUNITY CENTRE AND FINCHLEY SYNAGOGUE USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS
Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence (through the Shul Office): 020 8346 8551
Shimon Gillis, Community Manager: 020 8349 5264
Shul Office: 020 8346 8551
Kinloss Welfare: 020 8349 5263
Kinloss Community Educator and Yoetzet Halacha, Lauren Levin: 07540 461 557
Mazaltov to the children in our
community celebrating
their birthdays this week:
Libby Abeles (4)
Maya Alcobi (4)
Ben Goldschmidt (9)
Amelie Malka (9)
Abe Marks (2)
Daniel Nemni (12)
Dafydd Rubinoff (9)
Ella Slipman (5)
Tzofia Summers (4)
If you require help or support,
please call Jennifer 020 8349 5263
on Mondays or Wednesdays,
from 9:00am – 5:00pm, or email
jennifer.morris@kinloss.org.uk.
All messages treated in the strictest confidence.
IVRIT DISCUSSION GROUP
Come along to meet and greet at the
Meet & Greet table
at the Kiddush this Shabbat.
The next meeting of our Ivrit
Discussion Group will take place on
Monday 8th June at 8:00pm in the
Avraham Nemetnejad Room.
Further dates are
22nd June and 13th July.
For more information, speak to
Tony Korn on 07958 334 665
KINLOSS SHABBAT LUNCHEON CLUB
Our next Shabbat Luncheon Club date has been changed to Shabbat 25th July.
Organised monthly by a team of Finchley Synagogue host families and attended by our Rabbis.
Offering a warm, friendly atmosphere and a delicious meal for individuals and couples wanting
some extra companionship on Shabbat.
To be included on the list, please call the shul office on 020 8346 8551,
or speak to Jennifer Morris on 020 8349 5263.
KINLOSS YOUTH
Dear All,
Youth Minyan at 9:45am - Shacharit and Musaph, followed by Kiddush
in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash.
We are delighted to welcome Bnei Akiva of The Netherlands, who will be joining us
this Shabbat and who will be sharing the leining with Kobi Weiner.
Friday Night Dinners
Year 9 - Next Friday 12th June
Year 10 - Friday 19th June
Year 13 - Friday 26th June
Year 11 - Friday 3rd July
Year 12 - Friday 10th July
Save the Date - Thursday 25th June
End of Year Party, with Stevie Starr of Britain’s Got Talent.
Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
Chaz & Baz
07792 460091
youth@kinloss.org.uk
‫בס”ד‬
RAV ASHER WEISS AT KINLOSS
THIS SUNDAY, 7TH JUNE,
FROM 11:00AM - 1:00PM, IN THE DEAL HALLS
Rav Weiss is a world
leading Posek, heavily
involved in answering
some of the most
complex halachic
sheilot. His opinion
is sought after by
Doctors and Rabbanim
throughout the world.
Dilemmas in Modern Medicine: Past and Present
followed by a Q and A Session by HaRav HaGaon Asher Weiss
Entrance free, all welcome.
If you would like to submit a question in advance,
please email medicalhalacha@gmail.com
BY RABBI MICHAEL LAITNER
BEHA’ALOTCHA
Forks in the Road
And the people were like mitonenim, in Eretz Yisrael.
,‫ כמתאננים‬bad in the ears of G-d…’ Not long out of Egyptian slavery, they may
(Bemidbar 11, 1)
still have felt vulnerable and worried despite
the plethora of miracles surrounding
There are moments in the Torah when a them which may point towards the
seemingly subtle change of tone, rather negative trajectory ahead. Ramban, in his
than a momentous event, signals a fork in explanation, posits that the people may have
the road with tremendous ramifications.
found the task ahead of them overpowering
and the desert life too overwhelming. They
One of these occurs in Parashat Beha’alotecha spoke about this, creating negative feeling
this week. Chapter 10 ends on a high with more widely, hence the reference to ‘the
familiar, uplifting verses about when the ears of G-d’. They did not ‘plot’ but lacked
Aron (the Ark) led the people as they moved positivity.
through the desert (it’s no accident that
those verses appear in the siddur too, around Negative speech is, of course, at the root
the taking out from and putting away of the of tragic events to come in the book of
Sefer Torah into the Aron Hakodesh).
Bemidbar, particularly the sin of the spies
and the rebellion of Korach.
The Torah then begins a new paragraph,
coincidentally a new chapter as well, with
our verse quoted above. Suddenly, the whole What Rashi and Ramban teach us is how
tone has changed and Bnei Yisrael are on bad, negative speech is behind the subtle
the negative trajectory towards the sin of change of tone that moves Bemidbar from
the spies and the rebellion of Korach that a high-flying journey as a people through
we will read about in the coming weeks. the wilderness, to one of frustration and a
changed history for Bnei Yisrael, a different
What happened?
fork in the road from the one we could have
To answer this, we must understand the taken. These lessons are telling for societies
word mitonenim, deliberately untranslated and communities as they go on their Jewish
above. Rashi, in his second explanation, journeys. As we read this parasha every year,
notes that it means ‘plotting’, as if the let us be inspired to aim for the positive fork
people were plotting to distance themselves to the best of our ability, even when it may
from G-d. Perhaps what underlies Rashi’s be challenging to do so, ever mindful of the
explanation is a feeling that the people power of speech and atmosphere.
might now be reconsidering their journey
through the desert and their new life ahead Shabbat Shalom
Beha’alotcha Statistics
Mitzvot:
Verses: Words:
Letters:
Haftarah:
Page No.
5 of the 613 Mitzvot, 3 positive & 2 prohibitions
136 (11th longest of the 54 Sidrot)
1840 (12th longest)
7055 (12th longest)
21 verses (joint 31st shortest of the 80 Haftarot)
SONCINO
HERTZ
ARTSCROLL
Sidra
838
605
774
Haftarah
857
620
1182
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THANK YOU TO:
Security Team 2. If you have any queries, please email securekinloss@yahoo.co.uk
or speak to Martin Shiers on 07831 836 031.
*
Jenny Sosnow’s Kiddush Team.
*
Aviva Steinberg, Mia Lyons and Darren Lewis of our Welcoming Committee.
Thank you to Irene Aharoni for raising £486 for Kadimah Kinloss through her
Bring and Buy Sale.
SECURITY VOLUNTEERS
We are desperately short of security volunteers to meet our
immediate needs. Please do be in touch if you can help us.
We wouldn’t keep repeating this request unless it was
absolutely necessary.
Male and Female, aged 18 - 60, welcome.
Please email securekinloss@yahoo.co.uk
or speak to Martin Shiers on 07831 836 031.
SHARED READING GROUP
Lunch & Learn on Wednesday 10th June
12:15 - 1:00pm Rabbi Roselaar Discovering the Commentators.
1:00 - 2:00pm - Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence on
“What’s a good job for a Jewish boy?”
Rabbi Roselaar’s weekly shiurim on Monday
and Thursday mornings.
On Monday - Mishna - Massechet Sanhedrin.
On Thursday - Rishon with Rashi.
For more information, or to book Kollel events,
please call Emma on 020 8349 5267, or email ket@kinloss.org.uk
The next Shared Reading Group will take place
on Monday 22nd June,
at 1:30pm, in Benchers Cafe.
All Welcome! Any questions, call Kate on
07801 911 481.
THE KEHILLA WISHES ‫“ חיים ארוכים‬LONG LIFE”
TO THE FOLLOWING WHO HAVE YAHRZEIT
Saturday 6 June
Tuesday 9 June
Malcolm AmbroseWife
Ada BreslawMother
Stephanie FersterFather
Bernard GoldbergMother
Henry AaronsonSon
Martin BrahamFather
Marion ConwayFather
Genadi Kamenezki
Father
Norman RoseMother
Sunday 7 June
Wednesday 10 June
Loretta AdelsonHusband
Clarice BargetBrother
Pari EbrahimoffMother
Sonia HirschHusband
Muriel KriegerHusband
Leila BehrmanBrother
Helen HantmanHusband
Ian HantmanFather
Gerry LucasFather
Lily SchreierHusband
Leonard SternFather
Monday 8 June
Minnie BayardFather
Shirley KarpSister
Dennis MarksMother
Leslie MocktonSister
Ian ShelleySister
Sidney StandigFather
Fiszel SztokmanSon
Lily SztokmanSon
Shirley WatsonMother
Thursday 11 June
Neville GamsuMother
Frances GlassbergFather
Gwendoline Greenwood
Mother-in-Law
Joshua LeffMother
Leonard SilverFather
Friday 12 June
Sylvia GoldHusband
Celia TrupHusband
WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE SPACE
ON YOUR DOORSTEP –
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
CALL DEBORAH ON 020 8349 5268
There will be a service at Rubens House on 13th June. Please reply by email to
lawrence@susser.co.uk if you can attend.
SACKS MORASHA ANNUAL DINNER
Sacks Morasha School Annual Dinner - A night of music and art on Tuesday 16th June in the Kinloss Suite. Cost: £100 per person.
Featuring ‘Jerusalem Hassadna Conservatory Jazz Quartet’:
http://www.jerusalemconservatory.org/
Further details from Sacks Morasha School: 020 3115 1900,
or email dinner@morashajps.org.uk
KINLOSS NOTICE BOARD
MAZALTOV TO:
* Debbie and Carlos Meszarich and Aron and Sarah Schlagman on the occasion
of Jordana’s Batmitzvah. Mazaltov to grandparents, Bernard and Susan Wolff
and Jack and Sharon Schlagman. Mazaltov also to Jordana’s siblings.
* Josh Ralton and Nicole Rose on the occasion of their forthcoming marriage.
Mazaltov to parents, Suzanne and Geoff Ralton and Melanie and Anthony
Rose. Mazaltov also to grandmothers, Marian Phillips and Rose Ralton.
* Julia, Jonathan, Noah and Ari Joseph on the birth of a son and brother.
Mazaltov also to grandparents, Pat and Neil Joseph and Vicki and Alex Harris.
* Elliott Goldstein and Gila Sacks on the birth of their daughter, Talya Shoshana.
Mazaltov to big brother, Natan and to the Goldstein and Sacks families.
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
on Sunday 28th June, at 7:30pm
in the Deal Halls. (Free admission)
Israeli-French drama film directed by Ronit Elkabetz and
Shlomi Elkabetz. It was screened as part of the Directors'
Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It was
also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section
at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Followed by discussion with internationally acclaimed
human rights lawyer, Dr Sharon Shenhav.
TOMBSTONE CONSECRATIONS
SUN 7 JUNE
TUES 9 JUNE
SUN 14 JUNE
SUN 14 JUNE
SUN 21 JUNE
SUN 28 JUNE
SUN 28 JUNE
SUN 28 JUNE
5:00pm at Bushey in memory of Elaine Stone ‫ע׳׳ה‬
11:00am at Bushey in memory of Sally Ann Doffman ‫ע׳׳ה‬
9:30am at Bushey in memory of Stella Weinstein ‫ע׳׳ה‬
12 noon at Bushey in memory of Gladys Keidan ‫ע׳׳ה‬
1:30pm at Bushey in memory of Frida Faith ‫ע׳׳ה‬
10:00am at Bushey in memory of Elizabeth Dryer ‫ע׳׳ה‬
10:30am at Bushey in memory of Betty Ansell ‫ע׳׳ה‬
12 noon at Bushey in memory of Joanna Soleiman ‫ע׳׳ה‬
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Shacharit 1
7:30am
Shacharit 2
8:15am
Sephardi Shacharit 8:00am
7:00am
8:00am
6:45am
7:00am
8:00am
6:45am
7:00am
8:00am
6:45am
7:00am
8:00am
6:45am
Mincha,
7:30pm
7:30pm
7:30pm
7:30pm
7:00am
8:00am
6:45am
Next Shabbat
Mincha/
Kabbalat
Shabbat 7:30pm
SERVICES
(‫ שבת‬see front
page)
followed by Ma’ariv
Sun
7:30pm