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בס ד נא לא לדבר בשעת התפילה PLEASE NO CONVERSATION DURING SERVICES WEEKDAY DAVENING INFORMATION Please get your Sisterhood Mishloach Manot

FRIDAY NIGHT CANDLE LIGHTING - 5:15 PM MINCHA - 5:20 PM TZAIT - 6:19 PM SATURDAY HASHKAMA/YOUTH - 8:20 AM SHACHARIT MAIN - 9:00 AM LAST KRIAT

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ORG Sunday (2/19) Monday (2/20) Tuesday (2/21) Wednesday (2/22) Thursday (2/23) Friday (2/24) Earliest Talit 5:49 AM 5:48 AM 5:46 AM 5:45 AM

(Sun/Fri) - Maariv 5:20 PM 5:20 PM 8:00 PM 8:00 PM 8:00 PM 5:30 PM Shkia 5:36 PM 5:37 PM 5:39 PM 5:40 PM 5:41 PM Tzait 6:21 PM 6:22 PM 6:24 PM

May they be zoche to build a bayit neeman b'yisroel!

1 בס ד נא לא לדבר בשעת התפילה PLEASE NO CONVERSATION DURING SERVICES WEEKDAY DAVENING INFORMATION Please get your Sisterhood Mishloach Manot orders to Renee Freund ASAP. שבת פרשת יתרו SHABBAT PARSHAT YITRO 22 SHEVAT/FEBRUARY 18 Haftorah is Isaiah 6:1-7:6 and 9:5-6. FRIDAY NIGHT CANDLE LIGHTING - 5:15 PM MINCHA - 5:20 PM TZAIT - 6:19 PM SATURDAY HASHKAMA/YOUTH - 8:20 AM SHACHARIT MAIN - 9:00 AM LAST KRIAT SHEMA - 9:28 AM MINCHA - 5:05 PM SHKIA - 5:35 PM MAARIV/HAVDALAH - 6:20 PM BULLETIN INFORMATION TO REQUEST A BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT (BY 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY) OR DEDICATE A BULLETIN FOR $36 ($54 W/PHOTO), SEPLOTNICK@GMAIL.COM. CONGREGATION AHAVAT ACHIM SADDLE RIVER ROAD FAIR LAWN, NJ Sunday (2/19) Monday (2/20) Tuesday (2/21) Wednesday (2/22) Thursday (2/23) Friday (2/24) Earliest Talit 5:49 AM 5:48 AM 5:46 AM 5:45 AM 5:43 AM 5:42 AM Shacharit 8:15 AM 8:00 AM 6:25 AM 6:25 AM 6:15 AM 6:25 AM Gedolah 12:38 PM 12:38 PM 12:38 PM 12:38 PM 12:38 PM 12:38 PM Mincha (Sun/Fri) - Maariv 5:20 PM 5:20 PM 8:00 PM 8:00 PM 8:00 PM 5:30 PM Shkia 5:36 PM 5:37 PM 5:39 PM 5:40 PM 5:41 PM Tzait 6:21 PM 6:22 PM 6:24 PM 6:25 PM 6:26 PM Kiddush is sponsored by Elfie & Jamie Eisman in honor of Daniel s Auf Ruf and upcoming wedding to Shira Redlich. May they be zoche to build a bayit neeman b'yisroel! Mazel Tov to Shirley & Avi Vann on the birth of great granddaughter, Kayla Roisa, to Michoel and Estee Goodman. לתורה ולחופה ולמעשים טובים.יגדלה May they raise her to Torah, marriage and good deeds. Book club meets this Shabbat, at 4:00 PM, discussing The Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs, at Natasha Borsuk's home (82 Garwood Rd.). Rabbi Ely Shestack "1 President Aryeh Brenenson

Fair Lawn Shul Events Feb. 25 Wine Tasting, Saturday night, 8:30 11:00 PM, SHOMREI TORAH. For details: Wine Tasting. Mar. 4 Fair Lawn Yoetzet Halacha Benefit Program, Sat.

2 Fair Lawn Shul Events Feb. 25 Wine Tasting, Saturday night, 8:30 11:00 PM, SHOMREI TORAH. For details: Wine Tasting. Mar. 4 Fair Lawn Yoetzet Halacha Benefit Program, Sat. night, 8:00 9:30 PM, DARCHEI NOAM. For details: Yoetzet Halacha Program. Mar. 4 Paint Party, with Abbey Walin of Not2shabby, creating your own glass serving pieces, Saturday night, 8:00 10:00 PM, YIFL. For details or to sign up: Paint Party. Mar. 5 Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz Pre- Purim Shiur, Sunday, 8:15 9:00 PM, YIFL. For more info, click here: Pre- Purim Shiur. Mar. 18 Wine Tasting, Saturday night, DARCHEI NOAM. Kiddush Information Kiddush cleanup for the month of February is Gorelik, Greenbaum/ Goldman, Greene, Greenstein, Heller, Infield, Kempin, Kestler, Kirschenbaum, Komet, Kor, Kwestel Kiddush setup for this Shabbat is Brenenson, Riskin, Wolfson Kiddush setup for next Shabbat is Chessin-Carp, Schwitzer, Zezon To sponsor a Kiddush ($1000/$613/$318 plus scotch) send an to gplotnick@aol.com. Sisterhood Book Club Feb The Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs, at Natasha Borsuk's home. ע ה Gita Cooperwasser Youth Program Groups for children ages 3-12 begin at 10:15 AM, meeting in the Beit Midrash. Youth leaders for this Shabbat are Mikey Finkelstein & Uri Garfunkel Children under 13 are welcome at Youth Groups/Junior Congregation. Parents, please ensure that your children are in groups or with you. Adult Education CHUMASH CLASS - Shabbat morning before Shacharit. RETIREES SHIUR - Mondays, at 1:00 PM. GEMARA SHIUR - With Avi Sonnenblick, Tuesdays after Maariv. FUNDAMENTALS OF JEWISH THOUGHT - After Kiddush, Pikuach Nefesh - Common questions on protecting a life on shabbat. Tzedakah Feb Soup Kitchen tzedakah project. Details to come. Todah Rabah Thanks to Chana and Rabbi Shestack for hosting their first snowball fight! Ahavat Achim Future Events Feb Board Meeting (tentative) Feb Junior Scholar in Residence Donny Steinberg Feb Kiddush sponsored by Agress family on the yahrzeit of Stephen s father. ז ל HaRav Hyman Agress Feb Suedah Shlishit is sponsored by David Garfunkel in memory of his father יהושע פאליק ב ר משה הכהן Mar. 3 - Oneg Shabbat Series Mar. 4 - Kiddush sponsored by Borsuk family celebrating Dov s first birthday! Mar. 5 - Jewish Migration to 10th Cent. Mar Michael Riskin Bar Mitzvah Mar Purim Open House at the Shestack home Mar Scholars-in-residence, Rabbi Adam & Sara Frieberg, Rutgers JLIC Mar Trivia Night Mar Board Meeting (tentative) Mar Suedah Shlishit is sponsored by David Garfunkel in memory of his פייגה רבקה בת ר חיים הלוי mother Mar Rabbi Installation Apr. 8 - Bez Bernstein Bar Mitzvah Apr Board Meeting (tentative) May 20 - Kiddush sponsored by Joyce Heller May 23 - Board Meeting (tentative) May 27 - Suedah Shlishit is sponsored by שלמה בן אליהו Eli Zezon in memory of זזון נלב"ע ז סיון תשס"ד Jun 17 - Suedah Shlishit is sponsored by ברוך מפציר בן Eli Zezon in memory of שמואל נלב"ע כ"ד סיון תשנ"ט June 20 - General Membership Meeting (tentative) Sisterhood Feb Banji Latkin Ganchrow presentation, 3:00pm in the sanctuary. Please get Mishloach Manot orders to Renee Freund ASAP. Any questions sisterhood@ahavatachim.org. Shirley Vann has dedicated this week s Covenant & Conversation (used with permission. ע ה of the Office of Rabbi Sacks) in memory of her beloved mother Necha bat Yitzchok "2

literature, featuring poskim like Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Ovadia

3 AHAVAT ACHIM PRESENTS: RETIREE'S SHIUR SERIES EVERY MONDAY AT 1 PM A H A V A T Shiurim will focus on questions and answers in modern responsa literature, featuring poskim like Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef A C H I M, S A D D L E F A I R L A W N, N J R I V E R R O A D

4 PURIM 5777 MISHLOACH MANOT Orders Due, Friday, February 24th Please select one of the following: I would like to send to all the names listed, $150 (Sisterhood Members Only** and Single Men) I would like to send to all the names listed, $180 (Non Sisterhood Members) I would like to send to the following people at $5 per recipient (Sisterhood Members Only) I would like to send to the following people at $6 per recipient (Non Sisterhood Members) Symbols guide: * Sisterhood Member; ** see note at bottom to become a Sisterhood Member; (A) Associate Member of Ahavat Achim _ Ayalah & Gideon Adler (A) _ Amy & Stephen Agress * _ Alice & Burt Banner _ Zehava & Norman Baron _ Renee & Lior Ben-Biniamin _ Susie Berber _ Tami & Mark Berman _ Sara & Larry Bernstein * _ Audrey & Jack Bickel * _ Natasha & Daniel Borsuk * _ Lisa & Aryeh Brenenson _ Michele & Lee Brooks * _ Ruth Brooks * _ Ellen & Murray Chass _ Saragail Chessin Carpe * _ Michelle & Zvi Dubin * _ Evi & Michael Dworkis (A) _ Rose & Ron Dworkis * _ Lisa & Jacob Eis * _ Elfie & Jamie Eisman * _ Barbara & Ziv Farajun _ Bonnie & William Farbstein _ Esther & Chaim Felberbaum _ Robin & Evan Fineman _ Stacey & Yitz Finkelstein _ Marina & Fred Fontaine * _ Renee & Larry Freund * _ Dorit & Leslie Gabor _ Lori & David Garfunkel * _ Joan & Barry Goldberg (A) _ Yehuda & Marina Goldgur _ Ronnie & Mitchell Goldstein _ Farnaz & David Gorelik _ Naomi & David Graber _ Risa Goldman & Eli Greenbaum _ Donna Greenberg (A) _ Dina & Elliot Greene * _ Margo & Norman Greenstein _ Ruchama & Jerry Halpern _ Joyce Heller _ Gail Hershkowitz * _ Sophie Infield * _ Olga Jaeger _ Mary Lisa Katter * _ Deborah & Mitchell Kempin _ Georgette & Ken Kestler * _ Janie & Hymie Kirschenbaum _ Irene Komet * _ Sheree & Hazkiel Kor * _ Al Kustanowitz _ Melanie Kwestel * _ Mendy Kwestel _ Debbie & Ben Lang _ Eita & Richard Latkin * _ Jay Laufer _ Sara Levine _ Naomi Levine * _ Hannah Lewinson _ Toby & Aaron Lewis * _ Gloria & Robert Lewissohn * _ Rena & Marc Liebman (A) _ Joyce & Charles Matkowsky _ Charlotte Moskovitz _ Regina & Steven Neiger _ Joanne & Stuart Oppenheim * _ Heidi & Avi Oster _ Lauri & Thomas Shestack Phipps (A) _ Gail & Steven Plotnick * _ Shelly & Samuel Racenstein * _ Carrie & Marty Reichardt (A) _ Howard Rein _ Andrea & Greg Riskin _ Rosa Rojas * _ Robyn & Jeffrey Safier * _ Arielle & Jonathan Schachter (A) _ Esther Schwed * _ Ilana & Nathen Schwitzer _ Margo Heda & Brian Shanblatt _ Chana & Rabbi Ely Shestack _ Elyce & Steve Smedresman * _ Ronald Sokoloff _ Deborah & Andy Solomon _ Betsy & Marty Sonnenblick * _ Joyce & Arnold Sperling _ Randi & Arnie Spier * _ Linda & Michael Stock (A) _ Fern & Oded Strich _ Jonathan & Basya Teitelbaum (A) _ Shirley & Avi Vann * _ Beth & Steve Wechsler * _ Mimi & Barry Weinraub _ Seymour Wigod _ Shelly & Steven Winchester * _ Ray & Steven Wolfson _ Sara Yehaskel * _ Susan Zarabi * _ Orit & Eli Zezon Your name as shown on the Mishloach Manot Scroll **If you would like to receive the Sisterhood discounted price and are not shown as a Sisterhood member you may include your $40 membership fee with your order. Please notify Michele Brooks at or slambrooks@verizon.net if you will be away for Purim and will not be available to receive your Mishloach Manot. You will receive the Mishloach Manot scroll instead.

Sisterhood of Ahavat Achim of Fair Lawn, NJ PURIM MISHLOACH MANOT March 12th, 2017 14 th Adar 5777 We invite you to participate in sending Mishloach Manot to our members Cost for Sisterhood Members:

5 Sisterhood of Ahavat Achim of Fair Lawn, NJ PURIM MISHLOACH MANOT March 12th, th Adar 5777 We invite you to participate in sending Mishloach Manot to our members Cost for Sisterhood Members: $5 per recipient, or $150 sends to the entire shul Cost for Non-Sisterhood members: $6 per recipient, or $180 sends to the entire shul If you would like the sisterhood rates, you may include a $40 membership fee with your order. Single men receive the discounted membership rate. Please return the attached form and a check payable to Sisterhood of Ahavat Achim by February 24th. Mail to: Renee Freund Any questions? Call: Renee Freund Fair Lawn Ave. (201) Fair Lawn, NJ sisterhood@ahavatachim.org Please enclose your check with your order, or your order will not be processed.

CONGREGATION AHAVAT ACHIM S ONEG SHABBAT LECTURE SERIES Will Continue on Friday, March 3 rd At the home of Mary Lisa & Ken Katter 40-10 Terhune Place At 8:15 PM בס ד Please

6 CONGREGATION AHAVAT ACHIM S ONEG SHABBAT LECTURE SERIES Will Continue on Friday, March 3 rd At the home of Mary Lisa & Ken Katter Terhune Place At 8:15 PM בס ד Please join us for an enjoyable evening of learning with Rabbi Ely Shestack, friends, and refreshments. Due to the changing of the clocks, this will be the last Oneg of this season.

The Men s Club of Ahavat Achim proudly presents: Jewish migration patterns: from antiquity through the decline of Babylonian Jewry by Avraham Groll, Director of JewishGen This presentation will

7 The Men s Club of Ahavat Achim proudly presents: Jewish migration patterns: from antiquity through the decline of Babylonian Jewry by Avraham Groll, Director of JewishGen This presentation will explore the main Jewish migration patterns from Antiquity through the 10th century. You will learn how Jews reached the land of Israel, where they resettled after multiple expulsions, and under what conditions they lived. By understanding the Jewish migration patterns, and the circumstances under which they lived, you will be granted a deeper appreciation of our collective Jewish heritage and family history. Both men and women are welcome to attend. Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017 Time: 9:15 am Place: Congregation Ahavat Achim Saddle River Road Fair Lawn, NJ Food: A light breakfast will be served. Cost: FREE if reservation made by March 2 nd $5.00 for all others RSVP: By MensClub@AhavatAchim.org By Phone: We encourage you to pay your Men s Club dues if you haven t done so already ($36 or $25 if you purchase $200 worth of scrip).

Justice or Peace? Yitro 2017 / 5777 The sedra of Yitro, which contains the account of the greatest Divine revelation in history, at Mount Sinai, begins on a note that is human, all too human.

It goes on to describe what Yitro saw, and this gave him cause for concern. He saw Moses leading the people alone. The result was bad for Moses and bad for the people.

Listen now to me and I will give you advice, and may God be with you.

8 Justice or Peace? Yitro 2017 / 5777 The sedra of Yitro, which contains the account of the greatest Divine revelation in history, at Mount Sinai, begins on a note that is human, all too human. Yitro, priest of Midian, has come to see how his son-in-law Moses and the people he leads are faring. It begins by telling us what Yitro heard (the details of the exodus and its attendant miracles). It goes on to describe what Yitro saw, and this gave him cause for concern. He saw Moses leading the people alone. The result was bad for Moses and bad for the people. This is what Yitro said: What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. Listen now to me and I will give you advice, and may God be with you...select capable men from all the people-men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain-and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and so too all these people will reach their place in peace. (Exodus 18:17-23) Justice or Peace? 1! Yitro 5777

9 Moses must learn to delegate and share the burden of leadership. Interestingly, the sentence What you are doing is not good (lo tov) is one of only two places in the Torah where the phrase not good occurs. The other (Genesis 2:18) is It is not good for man to be alone. We cannot lead alone; we cannot live alone. That is one of the axioms of biblical anthropology. We cannot lead alone; we cannot live alone. That is one of the axioms of biblical anthropology. The Hebrew word for life, chayim, is in the plural, as if to signify that life is essentially shared. Dean Inge once defined religion as what an individual does with his own solitude. That is not a Jewish thought. However, it was the great nineteenth century scholar the Netziv (R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin) who made an unexpected, even counter-intuitive observation on this passage. He begins by raising the following question. It is easy to understand how Yitro s advice helped Moses. The work was too much. He was becoming exhausted. He needed help. What is less easy to understand is his final comment: if, with God s permission, you delegate, so too all these people will reach their place in peace. The people were not exhausted; Moses was. How then would they gain by a system of delegation? Their case would still be heard but not by Moses. How was this to their advantage? (Harchev Davar to Exodus 18:23). The Netziv begins by quoting the Talmud, Sanhedrin 6b. The passage is about what the sages called bitzua, or what later become known as pesharah, compromise. This is a decision on the part of a judge in a civil case to seek a solution based on equity rather than strict application of the law. It is not wholly unlike mediation, in which the parties agree to a resolution that they both consider fair, regardless of whether or not it is based on statute or precedent. From a different perspective, it is a mode of conflict resolution in which both sides gain, rather than the pure administration of justice, in which one side wins, the other loses. The Talmud wants to know: is this good or bad? To be adopted or avoided? This is part of the debate: Rabbi Eliezer, son of R. Jose the Galilean, said: it is forbidden to mediate... Instead, let the law pierce the mountain [a saying similar to: Let the chips fall where they may ]. And so Moses motto was: Let the law pierce the mountain. Aaron, however, loved peace and pursued peace and made peace between people... R. Judah ben Korcha said: it is good to mediate, for it is written (Zechariah 8:16), Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates. Surely where there is strict justice, there is no peace, and where there is peace, there is no strict justice! What then is the justice that coexists with peace? We must say: mediation. The law follows R. Judah ben Korcha. It is permissible, even preferable, to mediate with one proviso, that the judge does not yet know who is right and who is wrong. It is precisely this uncertainty Justice or Peace? 2! Yitro 5777

10 at the early stages of a hearing that allows an equitable resolution to be favoured over a strictly legal one. If the judge has already reached a clear verdict, it would be a suppression of justice on his part to favour a compromise solution. Ingeniously applying this principle to the Israelites in Moses day, the Netziv points out that as the Talmud says Moses preferred strict justice to peace. He was not a man to compromise or mediate. In addition, as the greatest of the prophets, he knew almost instantly which of the parties before him was innocent and which guilty; who had right on his side and who did not. It was therefore impossible for him to mediate, since this is only permitted before the judge has reached a verdict, which in Moses case was almost immediately. Hence the Netziv s astonishing conclusion. By delegating the judicial function downward, Moses would bring ordinary people with no special prophetic or legal gifts into the seats of judgment. Precisely because they lacked Moses intuitive knowledge of law and justice, they were able to propose equitable solutions, and an equitable solution is one in which both sides feel they have been heard; both gain; both believe the result is fair. That, as the Talmud says above, is the only kind of justice that at the same time creates peace. That is why the delegation of judgment would not only help Moses avoid total exhaustion; it would also help all these people to reach their place in peace. What a profound idea this is. Moses was the Ish ha-elokim (Psalm 90:1), the supreme man of God. Yet there was, the Netziv implies, one thing he could not do, which others less great in every other respect could achieve. They could bring peace between contending parties. They could create non-violent, non-coercive forms of conflict resolution. Not knowing the law with the depth that Moses did, not having his intuitive sense of truth, they had instead to exercise patience. They had to listen to both sides. They had to arrive at an equitable verdict that both parties could see as fair. A mediator has different gifts from a prophet, a liberator, a law-giver more modest perhaps, but sometimes no less necessary. It is not that one character type is to be preferred to another. No one certainly not the Netziv regarded Moses as anything less than the greatest leader and prophet Israel A mediator has different gifts from a prophet, a liberator, a law-giver more modest perhaps, but sometimes no less has ever had. It is, rather, that no one individual can embody all the virtues necessary to sustain a people. A priest is not a prophet (though a few, like Samuel and Ezekiel were both). A king needs different virtues than a saint. A military leader is not (though in later life he can become) a man of peace. Justice or Peace? 3! Yitro 5777

11 What emerges at the end of the train of thought the Netziv sets in motion is the deep significance of the idea that we can neither live nor lead alone. Judaism is not so much a faith transacted in the privacy of the believer s soul. It is a social faith. It is about networks of relationship. It is about families, communities, and ultimately a nation, in which each of us, great or small, has a role to play. Despise no one and disdain nothing, said Ben Azzai (Avot 4:3), for there is no one who does not have his hour, and nothing that does not have its place. There was something ordinary individuals (heads of thousands, hundreds, tens) could achieve that even Moses in all his glory could not achieve. That is why a nation is greater than any individual, and why each of us has something to give. There was something ordinary individuals could achieve that even Moses could not. That is why a nation is greater than any individual, and why each of us has something to give. Justice or Peace? 4! Yitro 5777

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YU Seforim Sale Field Trip - Details Page 2 בס ד THIS WEEK S BULLETIN IS DEDICATED IN HONOR OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF ETHAN STEINBERG S BAR MITZVAH! נא לא לדבר בשעת התפילה PLEASE NO CONVERSATION DURING SERVICES WEEKDAY DAVENING INFORMATION Sunday (2/5)