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מנחה
Minchah/Afternoon Service
Wednesday 6.02.2021
@ 510PM Central Time
Please sign on @ 5PM so that we may begin the service with each & everyone of you @ 510PM.
Please join in our Minyan!
For now, we'll daven via Zoom (only) for Wednesdays' Minchah, even though we've gone back to the Shul for Shabbat and Holidays!
I will keep you posted, and it is likely that we'll move to doing a hybrid where those that can make it on Wednesdays to the Shul, can do that, and we'll connect via Zoom as well so everyone can join!
Daniel Ettedgui is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SC Minchah Service 510PM
Time: Jun 2, 2021 510 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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During this Afternoon service, the individual names of those with Yahrzeit, and in the midst of Shloshim & Shivah will be called, and Mourners will have the opportunity to recite the Mourner's Kaddish. The Siddur (Prayer Book) will be shared on the screen for you.
Thank You & Yishar Ko'ach for helping to form our Minyan!
B'Shalom,
Danny
Light Shabbat Candles on Friday, June 4th
@8:37PM
(Minneapolis-Time)
Shabbat Shalom Everyone!
Mazel Tov to Iser Lipnik, and his Family, on the Occasion of his becoming a Bar-Mitzvah!
To join from home, the Service will begin at 10AM via our
Live-Stream at SHR CHD, our YouTube Channel!
Here is the Link to our SHR CHD Channel where you can access all of our services.
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Main Ideas in Shelach Lekha: "Send for Yourself" (Numbers 13:1-15:41) 12 spies are dispatched to survey the land of Canaan. 2 of the spies return with a positive report – one is Caleb, and the other is Joshua. Law of wearing fringes (Tzitzit).
Parashat Shelach Lekha or Shlach, to abbreviate the name, is a compelling narrative. The Israelites are into year number 2 from the Exodus from Egypt. They should be able to enter the Land with weeks if not days; yet, by the end of this narrative, they are destined to wander almost another 39 years. What happened? Just a little something called "Societal/National Hysteria", that's all.
They decide that it may be prudent to send a representative, a chieftain, from each tribe to scout out the Promised Land. Makes sense, when you want to buy something new, or move somewhere else, you investigate before you take action.
This is somewhat a different paradigm; after all, HaShem has promised this land to them, if they do as told, no worries. Why the need to take a sneak-peek? Moses consults with God, Who said, "I have told them that the Land is good, but, I'll let them test my veracity, at the risk of being misled and losing their chance to enter the Land." God is saying, Shelach Lekha, "Send for yourselves", as if to say,"to satisfy your own curiosity, go ahead, let's see what you are made of".
So they go, and in 4 short verses (13:21-24), 40 days go by, and we don't learn much in these 4 verses except that they see large people and an abundance of beautiful fruit which they harvest, and utilizing 8 men/4 poles in the formation of a hashtag # to carry the bounty back to Moses and the People. What(?) no one saw them during 40 days of scouting and harvesting and carrying such a load? No interaction, or confrontation with any of the Canaanite peoples? Sounds like a nice camping trip or these are the first recruits of the Mossad. You'd expect something positive to be the outcome of such an uneventful 40 day excursion.
Instead of something positive the following were set into motion:
•10 witnesses put a negative spin in their report.
•Their viewpoint caught fire & caused a panic in the masses (False/fake news).
•Being afraid to do something, once you’ve arrived at the moment for doing it, despite all of the preparation.
•Caleb & Joshua are the 2 that came back with encouragement; yet were shut down. Imagine having a view that is rational and true and opposed to the majority, and being strong enough, bursting past any wall of fear to say it, "I maybe lose my livelihood, blacklisted, unable to support my family."
•The evening of this day, was Tish’a B’Av, it was a night of collapsed hopes, full of sorrowful tears and disappointment.
•Moses and Aaron “fell on there faces” (14:5) in despair.
•Joshua and Caleb tore their garments in mourning.
•HaShem is angry and Moses pleads for HaShem’s (17-18) mercy instead of destruction, and HaShem acquiesces and decrees 40 years of wandering so that this generation (20 years old and above will die out in the wilderness, only Joshua and Caleb will remain, to enter the Promised Land with the next generation.)
This week Oren Gross, a University of Minnesota Law professor, who also taught in the Center for Jewish Studies (CJS), like Moses and Aaron "fell on his face" in despair. Like Joshua and Caleb, he was shut down and isolated.
Professor Gross had had-enough of all of the anti-Zionist propaganda amongst the leaders of the department, and their silence on antisemitism. Professor Gross had had-enough of the blatant altering of historical truths to match their anti-Israel agenda. He made a brave & bold move to resign from the department, where truth, it seems, has been inverted, sounding the drum beat of antisemitism which you can hear it loudly between the notes of their silence on anti-Zionism/Israel. Good for him, and good for us, we need such a tribal chieftain, an individual brave in the face of societal hysteria and adversity. Like Joshua and Caleb, I believe Professor Gross' example is worthy of entering into the Promised Land. I pray that we will not see the University of Minnesota's CJS wander for another 40 years?
Shabbat Shalom,
Danny
Light Shabbat Candles on Friday, June 11th
@8:42PM
(Minneapolis-Time)
Our Shul is Open for Shabbat Morning Services!!!
Saturday, June 11th @10AM
Please join us for Shacharit & Torah Service
& Lite-Kiddush (i.e. a L'Chaim & Pre-packaged Snack until our Kitchen is fully operational; hopefully very soon!)
Main Ideas in Korach: (Numbers 16:1-18:32) Korach refuses to accept the leadership of Moses & Aaron. Korach and his assembly are killed by an earthquake.
In Judaism, we acknowledge the duality of the human condition, we have both an inclination to do "good", Yetzer HaTov, and we have the inclination to do "bad", the Yetzer HaRa.
As to how/why Korach separated himself from Moses. Korach attempted to reduce Torah Laws that were supposed to elevate humanity to a Divinely enlightened state of behaviors. Many of these Laws, are illogical, even irrational; yet, they make us stop...and THINK before acting. As Jews, we are a colorful spectrum of a communal "belief muscle", where some believe implicitly and some belief muscles are in atrophy; nonetheless, we all amazingly say, "we are part of the Jewish People".
The competing forces of Yetzer HaTov and Yetzer HaRa exemplify the true character of Moses (whose other name is TuvYa, from the word Tov meaning Good) and the true character of Korach, whose name is like Kerach, meaning "ice", which can both freeze and burn us.
Rebbe Nachman of Brezlov wrote that these 2 forces were always battling for supremacy within the Jew. The Yetzer HaTov was always trying to elevate to a Divine level and the Yetzer HaRa was trying to conceal the truth of decency.
When we observe the Laws, for which there is no rational/logical explanation (e.g. wearing a thread of blue on our Tzitzit or Kashrut (Dietary Laws), we tap into a humility in the human spirit that says, "I don't know, nor do I understand everything".
Korach and his minions represent a disconnection from the Jewish People. They are swallowed up in a crevice of an earthquake.
Whether you believe this result for Korach literally or metaphorically, there is a lesson for all, in this Shabbat's study of Pirkei Avot 4 (Ethics of the Fathers 4) with regard to Moses acting humbly, and Korach acting the boastfully:
Pirkei Avot 4 Ben Zoma said: Who is wise? He who learns from every person, as it is said: “From all who taught me have I gained understanding” (Psalms 119:99). Who is mighty? He who subdues his [evil] inclination, as it is said: “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city” (Proverbs 16:32). Who is rich? He who rejoices in his lot, as it is said: “You shall enjoy the fruit of your labors, you shall be happy and you shall prosper” (Psalms 128:2) “You shall be happy” in this world, “and you shall prosper” in the world to come. Who is he that is honored? He who honors his fellow human beings as it is said: “For I honor those that honor Me, but those who spurn Me shall be dishonored” (I Samuel 2:30).
Shabbat Shalom,
Danny
No Mask is required if fully vaccinated!
If you cannot make it to Shul, then please join in via our
Live-Stream at SHR CHD, our YouTube Channel!
Here is the Link to our SHR CHD Channel where you can access all of our services.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXbBEYP2eF4hN_qURxc2dw
rabbidaniel.shareichesed@gmail.com
מנחה
Minchah/Afternoon Service
Wednesday 6.16.2021
@ 510PM Central Time
Please sign on @ 5PM so that we may begin the service with each & everyone of you @ 510PM.
Please join in our Minyan!
Topic: SC Minchah/Afternoon Service
Time: Jun 16, 2021 5:10 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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During this Afternoon service, the individual names of those with Yahrzeit, and in the midst of Shloshim & Shivah will be called, and Mourners will have the opportunity to recite the Mourner's Kaddish. The Siddur (Prayer Book) will be shared on the screen for you.
Thank You & Yishar Ko'ach for helping to form our Minyan!
B'Shalom,
Danny
Light Shabbat Candles on Friday, June 18th
@8:45PM
(Minneapolis-Time)
Our Shul is Open for Shabbat Morning Services!!!
Indoors on Saturday, June 19th @10AM
Please join us for Shacharit & Torah Service
& Lite-Kiddush (i.e. a L'Chaim & Pre-packaged Snack until our Kitchen is fully operational; hopefully very soon!)
No Mask is required if fully vaccinated!
If you cannot make it to Shul, then please join in via our
Live-Stream at SHR CHD, our YouTube Channel!
Here is the Link to our SHR CHD Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXbBEYP2eF4hN_qURxc2dw
and a Link to our Siddur Lev Shalem (Prayerbook)
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/Shabbat%20and%20Festival%20morning%20SIDDUR%20LEV%20SHALEM.pdf
rabbidaniel.shareichesed@gmail.com
5:10pm» Minchah via Zoom Wednesday 6.02.2021 @510PM