Elul 9, 5783 / August 25-26, 2023
Parashat Ki Teitzei
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-10 (Fifth Shabbat of Consolation)
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This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Chanah Bella bat Kreina and Devorah bat Feigel.
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This d'var torah is offered in honor of Oliver Moskin, becoming a bar mitzvah this Shabbat. Mazal Tov!
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Lunch and Learn meets Mondays at 12:30 PM on Zoom and Facebook Live. Please Note: NO Lunch and Learn until September 11.
We're continuing to read and discuss the Midrashic collection Ein Ya'akov. On Monday, September 11, we'll be at BT Shabbat 115b, page 184 of Ein Ya'akov (Glick edition) Volume 1 – "תנו רבנן ויהי בנסוע הארון" - 'Our Rabbis taught:" And it came to pass, when the ark set forward...”'
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-10 (Fifth Shabbat of Consolation)
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This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Chanah Bella bat Kreina and Devorah bat Feigel.
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This d'var torah is offered in honor of Oliver Moskin, becoming a bar mitzvah this Shabbat. Mazal Tov!
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Lunch and Learn meets Mondays at 12:30 PM on Zoom and Facebook Live. Please Note: NO Lunch and Learn until September 11.
We're continuing to read and discuss the Midrashic collection Ein Ya'akov. On Monday, September 11, we'll be at BT Shabbat 115b, page 184 of Ein Ya'akov (Glick edition) Volume 1 – "תנו רבנן ויהי בנסוע הארון" - 'Our Rabbis taught:" And it came to pass, when the ark set forward...”'
Ein Ya'akov (Glick
edition) is available for on-line reading or as a downloadable PDF at: https://hebrewbooks.org/9630
A pointed Hebrew text version with different pagination is available at Sefaria:
https://www.sefaria.org/Ein_Yaakov?tab=contents
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Rabbi Van Leeuwen has a blog which you should read at:
https://rebjasonblog.wordpress.com/blog/
A pointed Hebrew text version with different pagination is available at Sefaria:
https://www.sefaria.org/Ein_Yaakov?tab=contents
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Check out our wonderful community, and get lots of info about our various programs and becoming a Member at: https://bnaihayim.org/
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Rabbi Van Leeuwen has a blog which you should read at:
https://rebjasonblog.wordpress.com/blog/
Dr. Steve Pearlman writes up the "Midrashim of the Week", which you should read at:
https://midrashsrp.wordpress.com
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Rosh Hashanah is three weeks from this Shabbat! Please submit your Membership/High Holy Day forms ASAP! And your Book of Remembrance forms! And check your mail for our High Holy Day bulletin!
My Cheshbon
Hanefesh Worksheet 5784 Edition is now available at my blog:
https://rav-rich.blogspot.com/2023/08/cheshbon-hanefesh-worksheet-personal.html
Please feel free to pass
this on to a friend, and please cite the source.
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GOOD VERSUS EVIL
https://midrashsrp.wordpress.com
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Rosh Hashanah is three weeks from this Shabbat! Please submit your Membership/High Holy Day forms ASAP! And your Book of Remembrance forms! And check your mail for our High Holy Day bulletin!
https://rav-rich.blogspot.com/2023/08/cheshbon-hanefesh-worksheet-personal.html
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GOOD VERSUS EVIL
“When you go out to battle against your enemy, and the Lord your God delivers him into your hands, and you take him captive.” Deuteronomy 21:10
Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 5a comments: R. Levi ben Chama teaches in the name of R. Shimon ben Lakish - A person should always stir up the good inclination (yetzer hatov) against the evil inclination (yetzer hara).
R. Isaiah ben Abraham Halevi Horowitz, in his "Shnei Luchot Habrit", says that God helps those who seek to purify themselves. When one challenges his yetzer hara (which is his enemy), God delivers him, by returning his sins to him (which he “captures”).
A Temani (Yemeni Jewish) style shofar made from a horn
of the greater kudu (photo by Olve Utne)
We are well into the month of Elul. Now more than ever is the time for us to confront and resist the evil inclinations within us, to seek to purify our souls, to gird ourselves for the great day of the shofar. Capture your enemy now! Rosh Hashanah is just three weeks away!
Rabbi Emeritus, Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier
.אֵיזֶהוּ חָכָם? הַלוֹמֵד מִכָּל אָדָם
Who is wise? The one who learns from every person.
Ben Zoma - Pirkei Avot 4:1
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