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This week’s issue of The Park Page is dedicated by
Cindy and Joe Bettelheim, commemorating the Yahrzeit (6 Tevet) of Joe’s uncle Laszlo Bettelheim - Litman ben Yosef z"l,
Rita and Selig Lenefsky, commemorating the Yahrzeit (1 Tevet) of Selig's mother Hannah Lenefsky - Chana Liba bat Tzvi Hirsch a"h,
and Eta and Moshe Mordkovich, commemorating the Yahrzeit (10 Tevet) of Eta's mother Tzilia Shvartsman - Tzilia bat Shmuel a"h.
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The Weekly Bulletin of Young Israel of New Hyde Park
4-11 Tevet 5775
Vayigash
Dec. 26, 2014 - Jan. 2, 2015
Issue #423
Parasha Page Numbers
Parasha
Haftara
Artscroll 250, Soncino 169
Artscroll 1144, Soncino 178
Schedule of Services and Classes
Yevamot 83
Friday, December 26 / 4 Tevet
Shacharit
6:15 am
Candle-lighting before
4:15 pm
Mincha / Dvar Torah / Maariv
4:15 pm
Yevamot 84
Saturday, December 27 / 5 Tevet
Parasha Shiur – Commentary of Rabbi S.R. Hirsch
8:15 am
Shacharit
8:45 am
Latest time for Shema
MA 9:01, GRA 9:37 am
Sermon: “The Fast Track to Faith?”
10:30 am
Shiur: “Asara B’Tevet: Short but Singular”
3:30 pm
Mincha, followed by Seuda Shelishit and Maariv
4:05 pm
Shabbat ends
5:15 pm
Yevamot 85
Sunday, December 28 / 6 Tevet
Shacharit
8:10 am
Gemara Shiur (Sota 13b)
8:50 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
4:20 pm
Yevamot 86
Monday, December 29 / 7 Tevet
Shacharit
6:10 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
4:20 pm
Yevamot 87
Tuesday, December 30 / 8 Tevet
Shacharit
6:15 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
4:20 pm
Yevamot 88
Wednesday, December 31 / 9 Tevet
Shacharit
6:15 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
4:20 pm
Yevamot 89
Thursday, January 1 / 10 Tevet - Fast Day
Fast begins
6:07 am
Shacharit
note time 
8:10 am
Mincha / Mishna / Maariv
note time 
4:10 pm
Fast ends
5:22 pm
Yevamot 90
Friday, January 2 / 11 Tevet
Shacharit
6:15 am
Candle-lighting, before
4:21 pm
Mincha / Dvar Torah / Maariv
4:25 pm
▪ Daf Yomi 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.
▪ The last time for Kiddush Levana for the month of Tevet will be Monday,
January 5 at 4:53 p.m. Jerusalem time.
Drash v'DaSh: A Shabbat Message and Greeting
“Chutzpa and R-E-S-P-E-C-T”
On a typical day, I receive about three hundred e-mails. Roughly a third go
directly into Spam. Another third go to my Inbox and warrant reading if not
a response. And the remaining third should have gone into Spam but,
apparently because of errant directions on the GPS, found their way to the
Inbox. Given the volume, I am hard-pressed enough to individually read
whatever requires reading, let alone observe any potential correlations
between them. Yet, on December 17, two e-mails arrived landing back-toback in my Inbox that cooperatively co-opted my attention. The former was
Dictionary.com's "word of the day": Chutzpa, which they defined as "Slang
(and here I thought it was Yiddish!) - unmitigated effrontery; impudence;
gall; audacity; nerve." The latter e-mail came from the Rabbi Jack
Abramowitz of the Orthodox Union: a Nach Yomi summary for Malachi
Chapter 1 titled: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Find Out What It Means to Me)". Talking
about opposites attracting. Einstein is often quoted as saying that
“Coincidence is G-d’s way of staying anonymous”.
In recent months, we have watched these two terms – and the underlying
values that they represent – play themselves out in both in the Jewish
community and in society at large. Rabbinic personalities – even from
within the same Weltanschauung (world view) – at least in the relative
scheme of things – fighting it out in public. On the broader front, we have
the ongoing unrest between police forces and protestors – both in New
York and in other cities around the country. That two police officers simply
sitting in a patrol car were shot to death, even if by a person with known
mental health issues and a prior criminal record, is the tragic but
foreseeable outcome when the “peaceful” demonstrations protected by a
First Amendment right to free speech are anything but peaceful.
In the spirit of “Maaseh Avot Siman Labanim” – the actions of the Biblical
patriarchs and matriarchs are representative of what is likely to be
experienced by their descendants – we are well familiar with the
unfortunate turns that mutual disrespect may take. The “broad stripes” and
“bright stars” – not of the American flag but of Joseph’s coat and dream did ignite the “perilous fight” between Joseph and his brothers, ultimately
leading to kidnapping, slavery, and bi-lateral incarceration, thus tearing
apart the fabric of the family, and not just of the cloak.
According to Kabbalistic sources, the Asara Harugei Malkhut, the Ten
Martyrs who are eulogized in the Kinot of Tisha be-Av and again in the
Mussaf of Yom Kippur, are reincarnations of the ten brothers who
perpetrated the aforementioned acts of cruelty, and were now coming to
pay – and thereby atone – for the sins of an earlier lifetime. Mysticism
aside, the original blood stain on the cloak, and all that ensued, became a
permanent stain on our national record, an indication of early internal strife
and an invitation for perpetual persecution from the outside.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Lawrence Teitelman
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 ∙ [email protected]
Announcements
Yasher koach to Mark Lerner for his laining this week.
The next Simcha Kiddush will be Saturday, January 17th – Shabbat
Mevarkhim Shevat. Please send simcha details and sponsorships ($18)
to office.
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.
The Clothing Gemach (www.BeautifulMemoriesGemach.org) is
looking for volunteers to work Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from
11:00 am until 2:00 pm and Monday through Thursday in the evenings.
For more information, please contact Mark Krieger at 917-703-4694.
Office Hours this week are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 10-2.
The Park Page Puzzle
“Here I Am!”
This week’s Puzzle: Find nine places in the Torah where a person
responds “Hineni – Here I Am!”
Solution to last week’s Puzzle: “Kohen” appears with regard to
Malkitzedek (Gen. 14:18), Poti-Fera (Gen. 41:45, 41:50, 46:20), and
Yitro (Ex. 2:16, 3:1, 18:1), as well as the Jewish people (19:6), before
referring to the “traditional” Kohanim - Aharon and his family – in Ex.
29 and following.
Yasher koach to Joe Bettelheim, Susan Isler, Karen Klein, Rita
Lenefsky, David Rouhanim and Kal Talansky, for their solutions.
Nach Yomi
Study for December 27 - January 2, per Rabbi Abramowitz’s Nach
Yomi Companion. For more info, visit www.ou.org/torah/nachyomi.
Young Israel of New Hyde Park
in partnership with the
National Jewish Outreach Program
is pleased to present a
Crash Course in Jewish History
Unit 1: Biblical Times
Unit 2: From a United Kingdom, to Exile and Diaspora
Unit 3: The Jewish Epicenter Moves West
Unit 4: The Modern Era, Enlightenment to World War I
Unit 5: Holocaust and Renewal
“From soup to nuts… with a course in between”
Free “Crash Course Companion Guide”
for the first ten people to register and attend
Next lecture:
Tuesday, December 30 at 7:30 p.m.
For more information or to register, please contact
Rabbi Teitelman at 718-347-5819 or [email protected]
Mazal Tov - Ilusha Langer
Psalms 8: Out of the Mouths of Babes
Psalms 9: Who is “Laben”?
Psalms 10: I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff
Psalms 11: Metaphorically Speaking
Psalms 12: From Kings to Chronicles by Way of Psalms
Psalms 13: How Long?
Psalms 14: The First Temple
Return of the Mega-Myriads $100,000 Raffle
Tickets for $100,000 raffle and other prizes
$100 for 1, $180 for 2, $250 for 3, $375 for 5
$500 for 7, $1000 for 15; $36 for entry into smaller raffle
Proceeds to support our community development efforts
Early Bird Special by January 7th
A Memorial Service for Rabbi Meir Bilitzky zt”l
coinciding with the end of the “Shloshim”
will take place at YINHP
th
Sunday, January 11 at 5:00 p.m.
(following Mincha/Maariv at 4:30 p.m.)
Ilusha Langer celebrates his Bar Mitzvah at YINHP, on Sunday,
December 21st – the 5th day of Chanuka. Above: Ilusha after his Aliya
la-Torah, with Baal Koreh Dovid Gottesman, Gabbaim Larry Barth and
Jerry Gombo, Ilusha’s neighbor Rabbi Daniel Dym, and (in
background) Michael Franklin throwing candy at the Bar Mitzvah boy.
Below: Ilusha receiving a Siddur, with his father, grandfather, and
Rabbi Teitelman. Services were followed by a collation in the Beit
Midrash.