Rav Rich's Lil' Ol' Blog: August 2019

Friday, August 30, 2019

THE END OF POVERTY IS IN YOUR HANDS

30 Av 5779 / 30-31 August 2019

Parashat Re'eh – Rosh Chodesh Elul
Torah: Deuteronomy 11:26 - 16:17

Maftir: Numbers 28:9-15
Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 (Shabbat Rosh Chodesh)

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Dedications and Calendar or Events follow. For more information about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, see: http://www.bnaihayim.com

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THE END OF POVERTY IS IN YOUR HANDS

"However, there shall be no needy among you ..... If there should be a needy person among you … you shall not harden your heart or close your hand against your needy brother ... For the needy shall never cease to exist in the land; therefore, I command you saying, 'You shall open your hand to your brother, to your poor and to your needy in your land.'" Deut. 15: 4, 7, 11

What is Moses trying to teach us here? In two brief paragraphs, he tells us there will be no needy people, then tells us what to do should there be needy people, then says there always will be needy people. The answer is found, in part, in the verses I did not quote. If only you hearken to the voice of the Lord, observe this commandment, etc. - then there will be no needy. So why does he conclude by saying that the needy will always exist?

Moses is a cynic. He suspects that not everyone will obey the commandments to give tzedakah (charity, from the Hebrew root meaning "justice" or "righteousness") or to lend under a social regime in which all debts are forgiven every seven years. He's correct, of course, which is unfortunate. It means that those who do give, who do obey these commandments (and the related commandments concerning corners of the field, tithing, etc.), bear an unfair share of society's burden.

In Psalms 41:2 we are told: “Fortunate is one who is thoughtful to the poor." According to Rabbi Yehudah Nachshoni, one who observes these laws "cannot live by exploitation or by using money for evil purposes." To him, it is self-evident. This is not feel-good pop psychology. Money is morally neutral. It's what we do with it that counts. I learned the first time I took a nickel to the candy store that spending money is a zero sum game. If we use our money for evil, it does no one any good; if we use it for good, we cannot possibly use it for evil.

This is easy enough to prove to yourself. If you have a problem with tobacco, gambling, drugs or alcohol, or any other bad habit, every time you are about to spend money on it, drop the money in a tzedakah box instead. It’s a double exercise in self-control – first, willingness to part with your money for a good cause; second, ridding oneself of a bad habit. You'll be surprised to see how much good can come from avoiding evil. No bad habits? Create a good habit. Anybody reading this can afford to put something in a tzedakah box on a regular basis. Prove Moses wrong! We can end poverty not with fists, but only with open hands.

Shabbat Shalom! Chodesh Elul Tov!

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com

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הַלּוֹמֵד מִכָּל אָדָם ?אֵיזֶהוּ חָכָם

Who is wise? One who learns from every person.

Ben Zoma - Pirkei Avot 4:1

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Candle lighting: 7:03 pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Women’s Rosh Chodesh Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Services led by the women of our community. A special Kiddush lunch follows. Contact Carol Herskowitz or Lynn Kronzek for details.

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, September 6: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, September 7: Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.

Sunday, September 8: Religious School – 9:30 am.

This d’var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Leah bat Sarah Imanu, Sarah bat Devorah, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Mark Brownstein, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Annabelle Flom (Channah Bella bat Kreina), Bernard Garvin, Leah Granat, Carol Herskowitz, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Philip Kronzek, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Imanu), Marilyn Lee, David Marks, Sandra Raab, Marguerite Rassiner, Josef Sands, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Bernie Seeman, and William Sragow.

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.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

And be sure to tell your neighbors, friends, and relatives about our warm and welcoming community and our programs!

We are looking for volunteers for services: chant Torah or Haftarah, daven, lead English readings, deliver d’rashot, and have aliyot and other Torah/bimah honors. Training available! Contact Rabbi Flom by e-mail for details and to sign up!

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

ONE HUMBLE MITZVAH

Parashat Ekev
23 Av 5779 / 23-24 August 2019
Torah: Deuteronomy 7:12 - 11:25
Haftarah: Isaiah 49:14 - 51:3 (Second Haftarah of Comfort)

Dedications and Calendar or Events follow. For more information about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, see: www.bnaihayim.com

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ONE HUMBLE MITZVAH

"And your heart will be haughty, and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery." Deuteronomy 8:14

There is an old joke that goes something like this: A noted scholar and philanthropist was being honored at a gala dinner. Speaker after speaker extolled his virtues - knowledge, wisdom, generosity, kindness, righteousness, etc. He reached up and tugged on the sleeve of one of the speakers, and said, "Don't forget my humility."

Commenting on the first part of our verse, the Ba'al Shem Tov says that there is nowhere in the Torah a commandment to be humble. If there were, there would be those who would attempt to fulfill it by reciting a statement of intent ("Behold, I am prepared to perform the mitzvah of humility ..."), then a blessing (".... and commanded us to be humble."), and then … commence to be humble? It would become a conceit – the belief that, in addition to fulfilling the other commandments, they were observing the commandment to be humble. Unlike any other mitzvah, one would fail to observe it merely by believing that one was attempting to fulfill it or had observed it. "I can say with all humility that I have been humble." It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?

Of course we know that a lack of humility can often be damaging to relationships. We tend to forget that neither we nor our accomplishments exist in a vacuum. Even praise for one’s humility can be a bit dangerous. Perhaps the only way to be truly humble is to run from any suggestion that one is humble.

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com

Visit me on Facebook

"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting: 7:12 pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, August 30: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, August 31: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Women’s Rosh Chodesh Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Services led by the women of our community. A special Kiddush lunch follows.

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.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

And be sure to tell your neighbors, friends, and relatives about our warm and welcoming community and our programs!

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

THEY ARE FINE JUST AS THEY ARE

Parashat Va’etchanan – Shabbat Nachamu

16 Av 5779 / 16-17 August 2019

Torah: Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11

Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1-26 (First Haftarah of Comfort)

This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort, for the words of God and the prophet following Tisha B'Av (9 Av).

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

Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source.

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THEY ARE FINE JUST AS THEY ARE

“You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you subtract from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord which I command you.” Deuteronomy 4:2

Rabbi Alexander Moshe Lapidot taught: “A Jew must find the golden, middle path (citing Rambam) in the fear/awe of God and in the observance of the mitzvot. Just as a wicked person is liable to violate the prohibition of “you shall not subtract”, a righteous person is liable to violate the prohibition of “you shall not add”, and can thereby bring tragedy upon the world.”

Jewish tradition understands that there are two general types of mitzvot: bein adam lamakom (between a human being and God) and bein adam l’chaveiro (between a human being and his/her fellow human). Rabbi Lapidot seems to be talking only about the first type. The Vilna Gaon taught that there was a third category: bein adam l’atzmo (between a human and him/herself). These divisions matter.

Whether a person violates or makes stricter upon him/herself a mitzvah bein adam lamakom is strictly between them – God can reward or punish as God sees fit. Regarding a mitzvah bein adam l’atzmo – the only one affected is the person – no one else.

But, someone who alters or ignores or makes easier (for themselves) or makes stricter (for others) the mitzvot bein adam l’chaveiro regarding interpersonal relationships, damages others and society. For these mitzvot, the person doing the adding/subtracting must answer one simple question: Who benefits from my change to this mitzvah? If the answer is, “I do,” then one might well be causing a tragedy.

Shabbat Shalom.

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com

Visit me on Facebook

"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting: 7:21 pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.

Tuesday: NO Lunch and Learn – resume August 27.

Friday, August 23: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, August 24: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.

Sunday, August 25: Religious School and Congregation Open House – 10:00 am. Come on down, and get your kids, grandkids, your neighbor’s kids registered for a great new year of learning! We’re also offering a Confirmation Class for post-b’nai mitzvah students this year. Make your 5780 dues payments, order additional High Holy Day tickets – and be sure to bring along some prospective new members as well!

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.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

And be sure to tell your neighbors, friends, and relatives about our warm and welcoming community and our programs!

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Thursday, August 8, 2019

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE – IT’S A TRADITION

Parashat Devarim

Torah: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22

Haftarah: Isaiah 1:1-27 (Shabbat Chazon – Shabbat of Vision)

9 Av 5779 / 9-10 August 2019

Tisha B’Av observance is delayed until Saturday night – Sunday

Tisha B’Av reading: Megillat Eichah – The Book of Lamentations

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

This d'var torah is offered in memory of Sarah Labovitz Flom (my grandmother) and Martha Gottschalk Stern (Lynn's grandmother), whose yahrzeits fall Sunday 10 Av, and Tuesday 12 Av, respectively. Both were US immigrants and asylum seekers, escaping anti-semitic persecution from Romania (1902) and from Nazi Germany (1937 via France 1934).

Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source.

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RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE – IT’S A TRADITION

In this week’s haftarah, Isaiah warns the people what will happen to them if they continue to disobey God’s instructions – particularly with regard to matters of justice.

“… Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves clean; Put your evil out of My sight. Cease your evil ways. Learn to do good; devote yourselves to justice; aid those who have been wronged. Uphold the rights of the orphan; defend the cause of the widow.” Isaiah 1:15-17

“If you refuse and disobey, you will be consumed by violence – for it was the Lord who spoke.” Isaiah 1:20

"Your rulers are rogues and cronies of thieves, every one of them avid for bribery and greedy for illicit gifts; They do not give the orphan justice, and the widow's case never reaches them." Isaiah 1:23

This Sunday, Jews remember and mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, twice, on the 9^th of Av – first in 587 BCE by the Babylonians, and in 70 CE by the Romans. Other calamities suffered by the Jewish people are attributed to or very close to the 9^th of Av.

The Book of Lamentations (attributed, probably incorrectly, to Jeremiah) describes the destruction by the Babylonians. The Talmud, in a number of places, attributes both destructions, particularly by the Romans, to baseless hatred among the people.

Thus, we may read the Talmud as teaching that failure to take to heart the teachings of Isaiah leads to the moral and physical destruction of society.

We’ve seen resistance to injustice before. Abraham argued with God for the sake of Sodom and Gomorrah – he lost the argument, but he was not afraid to make the challenge - for people he didn’t know, for people who were not so nice, but who were nevertheless fellow human beings. Our Rabbis taught that one of the reasons God ultimately destroyed the cities was because of “the cry of the maiden” – a woman who was executed in Sodom for the crime of giving food and water to the poor and to immigrants.

More famously, Moses demanded justice from the Pharaoh of Egypt – and set an enslaved people free. It took a while, and God’s intervention, but our Rabbis teach that had Moses refused to do this, had he remained silent, the Israelites might still be slaves. This story of the Exodus led to constant reminders to love the Other because “you were strangers in Egypt” and “you know the heart of the stranger”. On this point, we learn specifically, “You will love the stranger, because you were strangers in Egypt.” Deuteronomy 10:19

Isaiah, Jeremiah, and virtually all of the Biblical prophets, have a few things in common. They challenged the status quo of the immoral and unjust power structure, and they demanded that the people act more justly. “For it is lovingkindness I desire, not sacrifice.” Hosea 6:6

Here’s a way to make your fast of Tisha B’Av both modern and meaningful. Become part of the Jewish tradition that speaks out against injustice. Join me and other like-minded Jews this Sunday, at 9:00 am, at the Federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles to protest the US government’s incarceration of asylum seekers and its related family separation policies. As is appropriate for such a gathering, this protest will include a morning prayer service for Tisha B’Av. I’m going for my grandmother, and for Lynn’s grandmother, and for every person escaping violence and oppression who seeks asylum in the United States.

For more information, visit this site:

https://www.truah.org/solidarity-with-immigrants-on-tisha-bav-2/

Protesting and resisting injustice is not futile. Even if it were, it’s still a Jewish tradition, and the traditions of our ancestors are Torah for us.

Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom – A Shabbat of Peace and a Tzom Mashma’uti – A Meaningful Fast

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com

Visit me on Facebook

"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting: 7:28 pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows. (NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR AUGUST!)

Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows. Tisha B’Av is coming. We will have a light dinner (before the start of the fast), a study session, and evening service with chanting of Eichah (Book of Lamentations) on Saturday, August 10, commencing at 7:15 pm. Fast commences at 7:45 pm, concludes Sunday at 8:11 pm.

Sunday: Tisha B’Av Observed.

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, August 16: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows. (NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR AUGUST!)

Saturday, August 17: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.

This d’var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Bella bat Shoshanah, Leah bat Sarah Imanu, Sarah bat Devorah, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Mark Brownstein, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Annabelle Flom (Channah Bella bat Kreina), Bernard Garvin, Leah Granat, Carol Herskowitz, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Philip Kronzek, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Imanu), Marilyn Lee, David Marks, Sandra Raab, Marguerite Rassiner, Josef Sands, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Bernie Seeman, and William Sragow.

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.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

And be sure to tell your neighbors, friends, and relatives about our warm and welcoming community and our programs!

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Thursday, August 1, 2019

A CITY OF REFUGE, SHINING ON A HILL?

Parashat Mattot-Mas’ei

Torah: Numbers 30:2 – 36:13 (Chazak!)

Haftarah: Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4 (Second Shabbat of Admonition)

2 Av 5779 / 2-3 August 2019

IMPORTANT NOTE:

We are changing our Shabbat Evening Service time for the month of August! On August 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, Shabbat Evening services will begin at 6:30 pm. This will give those who do not wish to drive at night, or who would like to have Shabbat dinner after services, or simply a more relaxed evening, the chance to do so. We’ll see you here!

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

Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source.

Note: I published this d’var torah last year. Nothing has changed for the better. So I’m publishing it again.

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A CITY OF REFUGE, SHINING ON A HILL?

“You shall provide yourselves with places to serve as cities of refuge to which a manslayer that has killed a person unintentionally may flee.” Numbers 35:11

According to the Torah, the purpose of a city of refuge (ir miklat) was to protect someone who was not guilty of intentional murder from the blood avengers of the victim’s family. For example, when an axe-head separated from the handle and struck another person, the one chopping wood was a manslayer, not a murderer, and was granted refuge. But, as is our way with Torah, we can find far deeper and relevant meanings.

In his farewell address to our nation, January 11, 1989, President Reagan said the following: “I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.”

I’ve always admired this inspiring vision, however unfulfilled it might be. Sadly, it seems that our country is further from that vision than we have been in many decades – we are letting it slip away. Today, we are refusing refuge to people who are actually fleeing real murder and mayhem and oppression – because of their language, their skin color, their national origin, their religion. Rather than an ir miklat, a city of refuge, the United States has become an ir siruv, a city of refusal, a city of denial.

Next Shabbat is Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat of the Vision of Isaiah – the last Shabbat before Tisha B’Av, the date commemorating the destruction of Jerusalem, the original Shining City on a Hill – lost, according to tradition, because of the hypocrisy and hatred in the city. Isaiah 1:1-27 is worth reading now – don’t wait until next Shabbat. The prophet gives this instruction: “Learn to do good; devote yourselves to justice; aid those who have been wronged. Uphold the rights of the orphan; defend the cause of the widow.” (1:17)

This is how we create a city of refuge – this is how we create an American shining city on a hill.

Shabbat Shalom.

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com/

Visit me on Facebook

"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting: 7:35 pm

Friday: A Capella Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows. (NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR AUGUST!)

Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.

Sunday: Education Committee Meeting – 10:00 am. All members are invited to participate in developing our vision and programming for

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, August 9: Shabbat Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows. (NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR AUGUST!)

Saturday, August 10: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows. Tisha B’Av is coming. We will have a light dinner (before the start of the fast), a study session, and evening service with chanting of Eichah (Book of Lamentations) on Saturday, August 10, commencing at 7:15 pm.

This d’var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Bella bat Shoshanah, Leah bat Sarah Imanu, Sarah bat Devorah, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Mark Brownstein, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Annabelle Flom (Channah Bella bat Kreina), Bernard Garvin, Leah Granat, Carol Herskowitz, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Imanu), Marilyn Lee, David Marks, Sandra Raab, Marguerite Rassiner, Josef Sands, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Bernie Seeman, and William Sragow.

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.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

And be sure to tell your neighbors, friends, and relatives about our warm and welcoming community and our programs!

Cyber Torah list management (no salesman will call!):

To subscribe to Cyber Torah, send an e-mail with the subject heading “Subscribe Cyber Torah” to: ravflom@sbcglobal.net

Send requests for dedications of Cyber Torah in honor of a simchah, in memory of a loved one or for a refuah shleimah to: ravflom@sbcglobal.net

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Rav Rich's Lil' Ol' Blog

Friday, August 30, 2019

THE END OF POVERTY IS IN YOUR HANDS

Thursday, August 29, 2019

ONE HUMBLE MITZVAH

Thursday, August 15, 2019

THEY ARE FINE JUST AS THEY ARE

Thursday, August 8, 2019

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE – IT’S A TRADITION

Thursday, August 1, 2019

A CITY OF REFUGE, SHINING ON A HILL?

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