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This week’s issue of The Park Page is dedicated in commemoration of these Yahrzeits:
Louella Glick – Leah bat Avraham, by children Joyce and Niki Ashkenazy, Ellen and Larry Barth, and Debra and Dr. Joseph Gul
Solomon Lerner – Shlomo ben Shraga Feivel, by son Dr. Howard Lerner
Morton Percival – Mordechai ben Tzvi Hirsh, by wife Fran Percival and son Howard Percival
Rose Mandelkorn – Raizel bat David ha-Levi, and Sidney Mandelkorn – Shalom Reuven ben Mendel, by children Steven and Wendy Mandelkorn
Howard Siegel – Yosef ben Shimon, by his mother Mary Siegel
Samuel Waxman - Yeshaya Dov Ber ben Emanuel, and Milton Rosenblatt - Mordechai Binyamin ben David, by children Chuck and Debbie Waxman
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The Weekly Bulletin of Young Israel of New Hyde Park
March 13-20, 2015
Vayakhel-Pekudei ▪ Chazak ▪ Para ▪ Mevarkhim
22-29 Adar 5775
Issue #434
Parasha Page Numbers
Parasha
Maftir
Haftara
Artscroll 516, Soncino 373
Artscroll 838, Soncino 652
Artscroll 1216, Soncino 999
Schedule of Services and Classes
Ketubot 39
Friday, March 13 / 22 Adar
Shacharit
6:15 am
Candle-lighting before
6:41 pm
Mincha / Dvar Torah / Maariv
6:45 pm
Ketubot 40
Saturday, March 14 / 23 Adar
Parasha Shiur
8:15 am
Shacharit
8:45 am
Latest time for Shema
MA 9:30, GRA 10:06 am
Sermon: “What we learned from Sarah Schenirer”
10:30 am
Shiur: “When the Seder is Not B’Seder with Your Health”
5:55 pm
Mincha, followed by Seuda Shelishit and Maariv
6:35 pm
Shabbat ends
7:46 pm
Ketubot 41
Sunday, March 15 / 24 Adar
Shacharit
8:10 am
Gemara Shiur (Sota 19b)
8:50 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
6:45 pm
Ketubot 42
Monday, March 16 / 25 Adar
Shacharit
6:10 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
6:45 pm
Ketubot 43
Tuesday, March 17 / 26 Adar
Shacharit
6:15 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
6:45 pm
Ketubot 44
Wednesday, March 18 / 27 Adar
Shacharit
6:15 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
6:45 pm
Ketubot 45
Thursday, March 19 / 28 Adar
Shacharit
6:10 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
6:45 pm
Ketubot 46
Friday, March 20 / 29 Adar
Shacharit
6:15 am
Candle-lighting, before
6:49 pm
Mincha / Dvar Torah / Maariv
6:50 pm
▪ Daf Yomi, currently studying Ketubot, meets Monday through Friday at
5:30 a.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 a.m.
▪ Women wishing to use the Mikvah should contact Nehama Teitelman at
518-222-3874 to schedule an appointment.
Drash v'DaSh: A Shabbat Message and Greeting
“Moments of Momism”
Once again, Dictionary.com has come through with a picking
pertinent to the Parasha: earlier this week, the Word-of-the-Day
was Momism, meaning “excessive adulation of the mother and
undue dependence on maternal care or protection, resulting in
absence or loss of maturity and independence.” Readers of this
publication may recall that last week’s Drash v’DaSh column
was “A Golden Shadow”, tracing the subtle correlation between
the Golden Calf of the prior portion Ki Tisa with the Red Heifer of
the present one. According to the Midrash previously cited, “the
mother [Red Cow] cleans up the mess of the child [Golden
Calf]”. Arguably, we the descendants of those that fashioned the
calf – the Israelite nation of antiquity – are still “unduly
dependent on [the] maternal care or protection” of the mother
cow, thus “resulting in absence or loss of [spiritual] maturity and
independence”.
Yet the present parasha may place us this time not as the child,
but as the mother. The Torah records that among the
contributions to the construction of the Tabernacle (Mishkan),
“And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
the goats' hair.” Rashi cites a fantastic but fanciful Midrash that
these talented women in fact spun the goats’ hair while it was
still attached to the goat. (Try that sometime – the local Little
Neck Farm has goats - and ask yourself: “And how did that work
for you?”) The point is that to make an impact we not only have
to roll up the proverbial sleeves and work with our hands, but to
get comfortably close to the source.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Lawrence Teitelman
Nach Yomi
Study for March 14-20, per Rabbi Abramowitz’s Nach Yomi
Companion. For more info, visit www.ou.org/torah/nachyomi.
Psalms 85: Truth, Meet Kindness. Kindness, This is Truth
Psalms 86: David’s “Wish List”
Psalms 87: In Praise of Jerusalem
Psalms 88: Hey, Man
Psalms 89: Eisan, Rosh Hashana, and Kiddush Levana
Psalms 90: Moses Supposes
Psalms 91: In Good Hands
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NEW HYDE PARK
National Council of
Young Israel
264-15 77th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040 ∙ Tel: 718-343-0496 ∙ Fax: 718-343-6509 ∙ www.yinhp.org ∙ office@yinhp.org
Announcements
Upcoming Dates and Events
Yasher koach to Dr. Howie Lerner for his leining this Shabbat.
Mazal tov to Terry and Yochi Sabri on the birth of a baby girl Shoshana
Esther (born on Shushan Purim), and to grandparents Adrienne and
Craig Wolf, and big brothers Refael and Asher.
Mazal tov to Tali and Rabbi Tzvi Selengut on the birth of a baby boy
and to grandparents Sharon and Moshe Zucker, and big brother
Avraham David.
We mourn the passing of long-time YINHP member Marge Teller a”h,
wife of Joseph Teller and mother of Mark Teller. The funeral took place
on Monday. Joe and Mark can respectively be reached at 516-65961607 and 561-271-5018. May the family be comforted among the
mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Food Certificates for A&A Gourmet, Fairway, Pathmark, Stop & Shop,
and Waldbaum’s, and Chesed Dollars for many Jewish businesses,
can be purchased from Art Feldman 516-227-0707, Paige Finkelstein
718-343-4821, Rena Gombo 718-343-3855, and Ilene Horowitz 718470-9474. Proceeds finance capital improvement projects at the shul.
Parashat Para Meets Pi Day
Saturday, 3.14
Simcha Kiddush
Saturday, March 21 – Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Nissan
Send $18 and sponsorship details to office
The Clothing Gemach is looking for volunteers to work Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday from 11:00 am until 2:00 pm or Monday through
Thursday in the evenings. For more information, please contact Mark
Krieger at 917-703-4694 or visit www.BeautifulMemoriesGemach.org
Office Hours this week are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 10-2.
The Park Page Puzzle
Pesach Wine Sale
now thru Friday, April 3
Little Neck Wines & Liquor, 254-27 Horace Harding Expressway
(shopping center that formerly contained Mazur’s)
Hours: Sun. 12:00-6:00, Mon.- Wed. 9:30 – 8:30, Thu. 9:30 -9:00
Make checks payable to YINHP or use CC, say you are from YINHP,
and the shul gets a commission
“Holy Cows”
This week’s Puzzle: Where in the Torah do we find para/parot female cows? [three answers]
Solution to last week’s Puzzle: Etzba Elokim (the finger of G-d) can
be found in Exodus 8:15 and 31:18 and Deuteronomy 9:10; the first is
in the plague of lice, and the latter two with regard to the Ten
Commandments. Yasher koach to Joe Bettelheim, Susan Isler, Karen
Klein, and Rita Lenefsky for their solutions.
Sale of Chametz
Complete the authorization form by Friday, April 3 at 8:00 a.m.
forms at shul and http://yinhp.org/docs/SellChametz2015.pdf
Sefer Torah in Memory of Rabbi Meir Bilitzky zt”l
Erev Pesach –Siyum Bechorim
With your donation of $36+ for Maot Chitim (Pesach food for the poor),
you can sponsor the learning of one of the seven Mishnaic tractates
in Seder Nashim that will be completed on Erev Pesach:
Yevamot, Ketubot, Nedarim, Nazir, Sota, Gittin, Kiddushin
Participation forms available at the shul and on our website at
http://yinhp.org/docs/TorahInMemoryOfRabbiBilitzky.pdf
Contributions can be made at http://tinyurl.com/RabbiBilitzkyTorah
Pesach Holiday
Friday evening April 3 thru Saturday, April 11
Schedule at http://yinhp.org/docs/yinhp-schedule-2015-pesach.pdf
OU Pesach Guide now available at shul
The Mega-Myriads $100,000 Raffle
YINHP Yom Hashoah Program
Sunday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Sponsorships are $18
Tickets for $100,000 raffle and other prizes
$100 - 1, $180 - 2, $250 - 3, $375 – 5. $500 - 7, $1000 - 15;
Proceeds to support our community development efforts
To purchase tickets, submit forms to office or Marc Horowitz
Due-date for $100K and other prizes: Wednesday, March 18
$44 for #444
The Park Page #444 – Special Commemorative Edition
Saturday, May 23 (Bamidbar / Erev Shavuot)
Sponsorships $44 to benefit YINHP Torah Fund