Parashat Tzav
8 Nisan 5778 / 23-24 March 2018
Torah: Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36
Torah: Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36
Haftarah (Shabbat Hagadol): Malachi 3:4-24
Calendar and dedications follow below. For a full
calendar of events and other info about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth
Meier, check out:
www.bnaihayim.com
My “Pesach Resources Guide – 5778 Edition” is available at my blog:
My “Pesach Resources Guide – 5778 Edition” is available at my blog:
Please feel free to pass this on this to a friend, and
please cite the source.
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HOLY AFIKOMAN!
"That which is left of
(the meal offering) shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons; it shall be eaten as unleavened
bread (matzot) in the holy place…. It shall not be baked with leaven (chametz);
I have given it as their portion from My offering by fire; it is most holy,
like the sin offering and the guilt offering.... Anything that touches these
shall become holy." Leviticus 6:9 – 11
Only some of the minchah
(meal) offering is burned on the altar. The remainder is eaten by the
priests in the form of an enriched matzah (not quite the same as Pesach
matzah). Like some of the other sacrifices, it is "most holy".
Anything that touches it becomes holy as well.
Our Seder Shel Pesach is a
re-enactment of an ancient ritual of sacrifice. We are a kingdom of
priests and a holy people (Exodus 19). Our table is the altar. The candles
represent the flames of the sacrifices. The wine represents the libation the
priests poured over the sacrifices. The shank bone and roasted egg represent
the Pesach sacrifice and the Festival sacrifice respectively. As commanded
in the Torah, we consume matzah and maror (bitter herb), but we do not eat or
offer a sacrifice. The three matzot? The top two are used for the commandment
to eat matzah and the commandment to eat maror (along with charoset). The third
matzah? Half of it is used to eat the “Hillel sandwich” in the style Hillel
consumed the Pesach sacrifice. And the other half of the third matzah? That is
a substitute for the Pesach sacrifice – the afikoman.
The Seder Shel Pesach is
more, much more than a big family feast - it is a deep connection to our roots
and to those who have gone before us, as well as a significant link to our
future. It is an act of kedushah - of holiness. The afikoman is not dessert,
though it is the final thing we eat at the seder. As it is representative of
the last morsel of the Pesach sacrifice, it is, like any sacrifice,
holy. And its consumption makes us holy as well.
Shabbat Shalom and Have a
Happy, Kosher and Holy Pesach!
Rabbi Richard A. Flom
Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier
Blogging at: rav-rich.blogspot.com
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"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"
"Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”
BT Yevamot 88a
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Candle lighting: 6:50pm
Friday – Shabbat
Evening Service – 7:30 pm – followed by Oneg Shabbat.
Saturday – Breakfast
and Torah study – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush luncheon
follows.
Sunday – Religious
School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew – 10:00 am. “A Walk Through the Haggadah” –
Adult education with Rabbi Flom – 10:00 am.
Tuesday – NO
Lunch and Learn – resume April 10.
Friday, March 30 – Study session for fast of the first-born – 8:00 am. First Seder
after sundown.
Saturday, March 31 – NO Breakfast and Torah study – resume April 14. Shabbat/Pesach
Morning Service – 9:45 am. TBH/CBM Community Second Seder – 6:30 pm.
Reservations close Friday, 3/23 at 12 noon. NO EXCCEPTIONS! You
snooze, you lose!
Check your snail mail for information about
the Installation of Rabbi Flom and Rabbi Van Leeuwen – April 15 - Be There! Or
go to our website:
Next time you come to TBH/CBM,
please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal
items (no glass) for SOVA.
This d'var torah is offered for a refuah
shleimah for Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Hiroe
Andriola, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat
Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Jerry Forman, Bernard
Garvin, Myra Goodman, Leah Granat, Simon Hartmann, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein,
Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Emanu), Lyndia Lowy (Leah
bat Sarah), David Marks, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen
Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Alan Stolzenberg, Jonathan Woolf, Howard
Yudell, and Meagan Yudell.
Please let me know if there is anyone you would
like to add to this list or if there is anyone who may be removed from this
list.
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