g DELRAY ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE 7319 W. ATLANTIC AVE. DELRAY BEACH, FL 33446 (561) 499-0970 MENACHEM JAROSLAWICZ, RABBI BERNARD LEIBMAN, PRESIDENT ROCHELLE RUSH, SISTERHOOD PRESIDENT Z MANIM: PARSHAS NITZAVIM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 The EARLIEST time to start Shabbat this week is 5:48PM. Candle Lighting..... 6:49PM Mincha followed by Kabbalas Shabbos and Ma ariv.... 6:45PM The Rabbi s classes will resume after the Yom Tovim. Kiddush this week is being sponsored by the Shul. We would welcome groups of members pooling their resources to co-sponsor a Kiddush. To sponsor a Kiddush, contact Stanley Greenberg at 561-498-0468. The cost is: May-October:$150 for a single sponsor and $125 per sponsor for multiple sponsors; October-May: $275/$250; plus a bottle of liquor per sponsor. SHABBOS: Shacharis... 9:00AM Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudos... 6:30PM Ma ariv... 7:37PM Havdalah not before... 7:41PM SUNDAY: Selichos & Shacharis.. 6:45AM Mincha. 6:50PM Maariv.. 7:10PM MONDAY & TUESDAY is ROSH HASHANAH. Refer to separate schedule for complete High Holiday schedule. WEDNESDAY is TZOM GEDALIA Fast begins 6:03AM Selichos & Shacharis.. 7:15AM Mincha. 1:45PM Maariv.. 7:15PM Fast Ends 7:37PM THURSDAY THRU FRIDAY Selichos followed by Shacharis... 7:15AM Mincha / Ma ariv.... 6:30PM NEXT SHABBOS: Candle Lighting... 6:42PM For ERUV STATUS, call 561-499-0970. PAGE 1 The Officers and Board wish all of our members a Healthy, Sweet, Successful Year! It s time to order your Lulav & Esrog for Sukkos. The cost is $50.00 per set. Please contact Sandy Geiger with your order at sanford.geiger@live.com. Your check is your order. SAVE the DATE!!! MONDAY FEBRUARY 06, 2017. The DOS BAR MITZVAH CELEBRATION BEGINS!!! Check out our website at www.delrayorthodox.org. The website has many photos from past events. Simply click on Past Events. To make a donation or pay your dues, go to: www.delrayorthodox.org/payment.php. Any problems? Contact Sandy Geiger at sanford.geiger@live.com. For announcements, contact Sandy Geiger at delrayorthodox@live.com by 6PM on Wednesday. ALL Requests to add any information to the newsletter must be given to Sandy Geiger at delrayorthodox@live.com or 561-637- 2526 BEFORE Wednesday at 6PM, subject to approval. Any item received after this deadline may not be included. What is the SCRIP program? For 5 years DOS has been involved with SCRIP. It is like a debit card or gift card of value $100 which you use for purchases at Glick's or Kosher Market in Boca. We also sell certificates to Century Grill with a value of $50. We make a 10% profit from each card and you have the satisfaction of helping our Shul at no extra cost to you. So it is a win win situation for all. Please consider patronizing this program by calling Rose Feldman at 381-4282, Milt Sabin at 865-4848, or Estelle Krim Schwartz at 496-5759. Thank you for your cooperation. Cards for all occasions, call Roz Ferman at (561) 638-5438. For Additions to the TREE OF LIFE, Memorial Plaques, & Seforim donations, Call MORTY LEVIN AT (561) 637-4662
SISTERHOOD: Tuesday November 1: 7:30 PM lecture by a well known medical expert.. November 9: Trip to sugar plantation. Bus will leave from the synagogue, a kosher meal will be provided. All at no charge. Contact Renée Hayden at 561-501-6169. This trip is limited to 50 people. Time and place for the bus will be announced. Men are invited. Sisterhood thanks all those who help to set up before Shabbat Kiddush. Your help is very much appreciated. For all Sisterhood information, call Rochelle Rush, Sisterhood President, at (201) 310-2096. Mazel Tov to Jonathan & Jami Nelson on the engagement of their daughter, Shifra, to Yoni Speiser from North Woodmere, New York. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING! We need you to help secure our synagogue. As you come to DOS, please be aware of your surroundings. If you see something out of the ordinary, please let the Security Committee know about it. This will help keep everyone safe. When you come to DOS, someone from our DOS Security Group is there to safely let you enter through the rear door. We need MORE VOLUNTEERS to stay in the Kornfeld/Schwartz Social Hall to perform this function during Services. We are looking for men AND women members to volunteer for 1/2 hour shifts to help protect DOS. Please contact Bob Rush, Security Chairperson, or any of our Shul Officers to volunteer. Thank you in advance. We wish a belated Tzaytchem L'Shalom to David and Rose Feldman, and to Alan Graubard who left for Israel this past week. AMAZON SMILE Please help DOS by using smile.amazon.com. If you choose DOS as your preferred charity, DOS will get a percentage of all your purchases! WE WISH A HEARTFELT REFUAH SHELAIMAH TO: Judy Mindick (Yehudis bas Devorah) Dr. Jay Rothschild (Yehudah HaCohain ben Zissel Bryndel) Harold Dizengoff (Yitzchok Gershon HaLevi ben Shoshana) Lou Goldreich (Aryeh Leiv HaCohain ben Hinda) Rita Bernstein (Rickel Ethel bas Rivka Fraiya) Mona Shoenfeld (Malka bas Raisel Leah) Sanford Geiger (Zalman HaLevi ben Minna Shifra) Chana Schindler (Chana Freida bas BatSheva) Joe Kaufer (Yosef ben Yehudis) YAHRTZEITS FOR OCTOBER 1, 2016 OCTOBER 7, 2016 Sunday, October 02, 29 of ELUL Mother of HARRIET SAMUELS, Esther Rose, Esther Rochel bas Heshel, A"H Wednesday, October 05, 03 of TISHREI Father of OLGA ROSENSON, Dovid ben Moshe Yehudah, Z"L Mother of SARA BIEBER, Tovah bas Mordechai, A"H Friday, October 07, 05 of TISHREI Sister of RITA BERNSTEIN & ROSALIND FERMAN, Lillian M. D. Shankman, Leah Miriam Devorah bas Moshe, A"H MAY THEY ALL MERIT AN ALIYAS NESHAMAH Arthur Schoenfeld is interested in forming a support group to phone DOS members who are single or those who are confined at home to see if they are OK, need help, or just to converse with them. Please call Arthur at 561-498-2593 or Bernie Leibman at 561-496-5291, if you are interested in being part of this group. PAGE 2
RABBI S MESSAGE With Rosh Hashanah just around the corner, the time and venue from which to share thoughts and insights about Yom Tov are really limited. Therefore, I thought that this week I would use my Rabbi s Message to review one particular Rosh Hashanah custom, and to discuss a possible reason behind it. One of the things with which we occupy ourselves at the first and second nighttime Yom Tov meals is what we refer to as the Simonim. We eat a select assortment of different foods and vegetables. We go out of our way to select foods whose names are similar in sound, in any language or slang, to words that we say in our prayers, when we request the destruction of our enemies or the strengthening of our own people. For example: We eat carrots while reciting this prayer; Yehee ratzon... Sh yirbu zechuyosainu [May it be your will oh Lord, our G-d, and the G-d of our forefathers, that our merits should increase. ] The word for carrots in Yiddish is Mayerin, which ALSO means to increase. So in essence, we eat the carrots just IN ORDER to be able to invoke this prayer. Similarly, we eat leeks and say the Yehee ratzon, and end it with, Sh Yeekorsu sonnainu [that our enemies should be decimated]. Once again, since the Hebrew word for leek is Kareis which sounds similar to the word meaning to decimate, even though it is spelled differently, we intentionally eat leeks to be able to say this prayer. At the Rosh Hashanah meal, any food that allows itself to be associated, by even the farthest stretch of the imagination, to a word in a prayer that we can offer to Hashem on our own behalf, we eat it and we say the Yehee ratzon. Many versions of the Yehee ratzon even include the outright use of G-d s name in the prayer itself, as I have quoted above. What exactly is going on here? There are many who would think that it all sounds so ridiculous. And maybe even a b racha l vatalah (an unnecessary blessing), or outright improper use of the name of G-d! It s always easy for us to make fun of things we don t understand because, by doing so, we never have to take responsibility to expand our education or tolerance of others. I once heard a fascinating explanation for eating these foods from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z l. Our rabbis ask a question regarding the status of a Jewish couple who are undergoing a divorce. At what point, they ask, are the couple truly considered separate? To understand their question, let us use the example of a couple who have been together for 25 years. Now, after 25 years of living together under one roof, he simply hands her a piece of paper called a GET. Is that it? Do you mean to tell me that, after 25 long and eventful years together, this simple piece of paper just severed the relationship between the two? There is so much history between the two of them! What Chazal are really asking is, at what point in time, and how long does it take -- what has to happen -- so that we can truly consider that this couple are no longer tied to one another? The answer they give is, When the couple no longer understands each other s signs! Anybody who has someone with whom they are close knows that there are special communications that connect people who care about each other, and go beyond simple spoken words. A nod of the head! Raising an eyebrow! Stomping a foot! SIGNS! Signals that nobody other than your loved one can read and understand. After 25 years together, divorce papers or not, we may assume that they can still understand each other s signs. When that ceases to occur, then they are considered truly apart. On Rosh Hashanah, we are showing Hashem our signs. We are saying to Him, G-d, we love you so much. We want you to understand our SIGNS, as farfetched as they may appear. And, in exchange, please show us YOUR signs as well. The Gemara (Yevamos 79a) says that the Jewish people can be identified by three signs. 1.They are compassionate ; 2.They are shy and not arrogant; and 3.They are kind to others. These, too, are signs that we need to project with additional fervor this time of year. We need to show Hashem that these are, indeed, the signs that identify us as a people, as HIS people. We ask of Him that, in exchange for our commitment to these signs, He, in return, should shower us with the same signs and be compassionate, sensitive and kind to us as well. Be creative. Make it into a game if need be. Find foods and words and puns that allow you to say more and more prayers. The more signs the merrier. May Hashem laugh at the ridiculousness of some of our signs! The more He laughs with us, the closer we are. May you and your extended family all be inscribed in the Book of Life, with a forecast for ONLY good health and peace of mind. Have a beautiful and meaningful Shabbos and Yom Tov. Rabbi Jaroslawicz PAGE 3