Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin

Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin Shmini Shabbat HaChodesh April 6, 2024 27 Adar II 5784 send your submission to bulletin@cas-stamford.org ‌ ‌ Friday Mincha 7:00 PM Candle Lighting 7:05 PM Shabbat Shacharit 7:00/8:00/9:00 AM Sephardic Minyan 8:45 AM Coffee and Commentary 8:45 AM Latest Shema 9:00 AM Shmuel Class 9:00 AM Bob's Basics 10:00 AM Latest Shacharit 10:19 AM Shiur 10:30 AM Code Of Jewish Law 6:10 PM Mincha 7:00 PM Havdalah 8:07 PM Shabbat Shalom In a Second One word we recite every month encapsulates the essence of being a Jew. During the prayer for the new month which we will recite this Shabbat, whenever we mention the first appearance of the new moon in Jerusalem, we identify the time based on the hour, minute and chelek of the day. The Hebrew word chelek means a portion. An hour is divided into 1080 chalakim and one chelek is 3.5 seconds. Why does Judaism give a name to 3.5 seconds? Why are they significant? Rabbi Aharon Soloveitchik, of blessed memory, explains that it reflects the sacredness of time. Not only can a minute make a difference, but even a few seconds. It is no surprise that the very first mitzvah God commands the Jewish people as a nation is to sanctify time. This Shabbat, Parshat Hachodesh, God tells Moshe, "This month is for you the first of all months." God is not only establishing the cycle of the Jewish calendar based on the moon, but making a profound statement about our relationship to time. Slaves cannot choose how to use time. As free people, the Jewish people are now charged with the gift of elevating every moment. Time can be harnessed or wasted - it is in our hands. Every minute, second or even millisecond counts. Life, as we know, can change in an instant. Ask yourself on a daily basis, "What will I do today that is worthy of future memory? Pause when you are speaking to someone and ask yourself "How can I make the person feel better about themselves than when we began our conversation?" It is no wonder the Sages teach that every person possesses a chelek, a portion, in the world to come. Every minute and every second can be elevated and eternalized. It is the secret of life. Wishing you and your families a Shabbat Shalom and God willing good news from Israel in the days ahead, Rabbi Daniel Cohen Shabbat Information  Learn about the Shabbat Torah Reading for Parshat Shmini with the insights of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l - click here.  Read Dovi Siderson's weekly parsha resource click here.  We remove two Sifrei Torah; the Maftir is Parshat HaChodesh (Exodus 12:1-20) The Haftarah for Parshat HaChodesh is read from I Ezekiel 45:16-46:18 Haftarah summary by Chabad.org - click here. Haftarah summary by Haftarah Helper -click here Learn about Parshat HaChodesh - click here.  We bless the month of Nissan. The Molad will be Monday April 8th, 10:57 pm and 7 chalokim. Rosh Chodesh is observed Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon. Halachic Note: We do not recite Tachanun and associated prayers (e.g. Yehi Ratzon, Av haRachamim, Kel Malei, Tzidkasecha) during the entire month of Nissan. Would you like to read the Torah or Haftarah for your bar mitzvah parsha? Let us know by clicking here Shabbat Icebreakers How do you express religious creativity? What is the appropriate way to do so (Aharon's sons die for bringing a fire they were not commanded to bring)? Recall a time when you had something to say but stayed quiet instead (vayidom Aharon)? What is your favorite animal? Is it kosher (all of the kosher and non-kosher animals in the Parsha)? Yesh Tikvah Shabbat  I wanted to take a moment to share that Yesh Tikva's 9th annual Infertility Awareness Shabbat is this coming Shabbat. This is a special weekend dedicated to creating a supportive space for those struggling with infertility or facing family-building challenges. The Stamford community has participated in the past, and the feedback following this special Shabbat was that it helped people feel seen and valued, and that their pain matters. I encourage everyone to join the One Candle initiative this Friday night and always. It is a beautiful and meaningful initiative to deepen our prayers for people experiencing infertility in the hopes that God willing, God will answer the prayers of those struggling to conceive. Sign up at yeshtikva.org/onecandle/. We will also be adding the prayer for infertility on Shabbat morning. Shabbat Topics & Participants Shmuel Class Mark Wagshul Bob's Basics Bob Abrams Shiur Sam Sroka: Drafting the Haredim During War - Halakhic Dialectics and Social Realities Code of Jewish Law R' Jeff Cahn Seudat Shlishit Rabbi Daniel Cohen - Torah to Go for Your Seder: Why is there no bracha recited at the Seder for the Mitzvah of Magid? Pesach At C A S SEDER HOSPITALITY  Planning your Seder? In need of a Seder? If you would like to join a family seder or would consider hosting members of our community who may need a place for Pesach night contact Rabbi Cohen or Rabbi Kurtz. ANNUAL PRE PESACH PSA  All non-processed meat and chicken is kosher for Pesach. Buy now and freeze for Pesach before prices go up.(Please note: This doesn't apply to ground meat) Pesach Q and A Rabbi Cohen and Rabbi Kurtz manage the CAS Pesach WhatsApp Q and A. It is a great way to learn about Kashrut and Kashering for the upcoming holiday. click here to join. Here is a sample question: May I use my year round hot water urn for Pesach? Urn only used for heating water: Run hot water through the water tap for 10 seconds, while pouring boiling water from a kettle over the water tap. Urn also used to warm food (e.g. to warm challah): Must be put away and not used for the Pesach. Four Questions Facing the Jewish People this Year In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as if we are leaving Egypt. What are your questions this year? Enrich the Seder experience by making it real. Please send your suggestions to Rabbi Cohen at rabbicohen@cas-stamford.org and he will post on our CAS Pesach Website. Shmurah Matzah Update from the Gaza Envelope We are blessed to help Yedidya Harush and his Matzah Factory in the Gaza Envelope. The Matzah will be arriving this week in Stamford. You can still order on our website through the week and/or support his factory by making a donation here Maot Chitim - Supporting Local Families in Stamford  Agudath Sholom will be directing funds to local families to provide for additional Pesach expenses. To support this mitzvah, please contact Rabbi Cohen or make a donation to the Passover Fund Mazal Tov to Claudine & Stuart Feurstein, Tamara Feurstein and the Berk Family on the forthcoming marriage of Saul Feit to Sabrina Schochet! to Adrienne & Michael Alexander and Liz & Eli Reichner on the engagement of their son and brother Danny to Julia Taubes, daughter of Susan & Daniel Taubes! to Nancy & Gadi Mimoun on the arrival of a grandson! to Susan & Len Mark on their granddaughter Sabrina FioRito's Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat! to Bruce Newman on the recent Bar Mitzvah of his grandson Noam Shrage! to the following BCHA students and CAS members who excelled in the Stamford Ferguson Library Literary Competition: 3rd Grade Fiction: Noah Levi (1st Place), Jackson Svartz (2nd Place) 3rd Grade Poetry: Lev Kurbanov (2nd Place), Chaise Faizakoff (3rd Place), Avi Redlich (Honorable Mention) 4th Grade Non-Fiction: Max Kaimowitz (1st Place), Suri Nayini (3rd Place), Rebecca Ostroff (Honorable Mention) 4th Grade Poetry: Eliza Ostroff (1st Place), Eitan Ostrovsky (2nd Place), Max Kaimowitz (3rd Place), Grace Angel (Honorable Mention) 5th Grade Non-Fiction: Yoni Notik (1st Place) 5th Grade Poetry: Eli Weisser (Honorable Mention) 6th Grade Fiction: Noa Zizmor (3rd Place), Sophie Brand (Honorable Mention) 6th Grade Poetry:Yisroel Dovid Speter (1st Place), Sophie Brand (Honorable Mention) Celebrate with the family! Make a donation in their honor and we will send an acknowledgement to the family. Just click here Condolences As Hadassah and family rise from shiva, we wish the entire family much strength, comfort and love. Senator Lieberman is and will be a beacon of light for all generations and may his memory be for a blessing.You may send memories to the family at jilmemories2024@gmail.com Learn more about the Senator From the Forward News 12 Rabbi Cohen's Eulogy for Senator Lieberman Thanks To Our Sponsors Senior Challah Deliveries: Nancy & Gadi Mimoun Chapel Kiddush: Marguerite & Ken Neuhaus in commemoration of the Yahrzeits of their parents Sanctuary Kiddush: Claudine & Stuart Feurstein in celebration of the aufruf and forthcoming marriage of their son Saul Feit to Sabrina Schochet Seudat Shlishit: Anonymous in memory of Ruth Chaya Bas Abraham Sign Up for these Events sign up Stamford Jewish Experience Passover 101 Desserts and Discussion Shabbat, April 6 - 5:30 PM sign up Mens Seder at 613 Monday, April 8 - 7:00 PM sign up Guys Night Out at 613 Monday, April 8 - 8:30 PM sign up Nachos & Knowledge Wednesday, April 10 - 8:00 PM sign up Private Pre-Release Screening and Q&A Thursday, April 11 - 7:00 PM sign up Matzah from Southern Israel [Limited Opportunity] Thursday, April 11 Learn more CAS Family Davening Shabbat, April 13 - 10:00 AM sign up HaRav Yosef Mendelevich - Against All Odds Monday, April 15 - 8:00 PM Learn more CAS Passover Site Tuesday, April 23 Donate Now Maot Chittim - Passover Charity Tuesday, April 23 Learn more Sale of Chametz Form Tuesday, April 23 sign up CAS Movie Club Sunday, May 19 - 8:00 PM Learn more Donate Seforim to the Beit Midrash Learn more Senior Challah Delivery Sponsorships Upcoming Events Sunday Family-Friendly Minyan Sunday, April 7 - 8:30 AM Open to All Ages - Experience the joy and sanctity of davening as a family! Join us on the first Sunday of every month for our Family-Friendly Minyan. Invite your children to sit next to you! We will have kid friendly siddurim and we will sing Shema, Ashrei and Alenu together as part of the Tefillah. Enjoy fresh doughnuts and juice at the end of davening! Join us for a morning that will leave you uplifted and inspired. To find out more and/or sponsor, please contact Eli Reichner (eli.reichner@gmail.com) or Rabbi Kurtz (rabbikurtz@cas-stamford.org). 2nd Annual NCSY Passover Carwash April 17 & 18 - Interior vacuum, Chametz-hunting deep interior scrub, External hand wash and Window cleaning! Contact Dovi Siderson (siddles97@gmail.com) for more information and to sign up. Limited Offer - Book Fast! CAS Youth News Friendly Reminder  The youth classrooms are open prior to groups for parental supervised play. However, you must clean up after your child prior to groups. CAS Announcements 55+ Empty-Nesters Update - Movie / Dinner 40 people went to a movie, "One Life" at the Avon Theater on Thursday, March 28th followed by a dinner at Congregation Agudath Sholom. Many people said they enjoyed the event. The organizers were Bruce Newman and Dina Berger. We would love to hear your input for future events. The 55+ Empty-Nesters Committee is looking for four more volunteers. Two Members were secured but we still have openings for two more Members. Please contact Bruce Newman, if you are interested in being on the Committee. Holy Habit - Food Pantry Donations  Rather than wait for a Food Drive, make it a habit each week when shopping for Shabbos to purchase kosher, non-perishable food for the Freedberg Kosher Food Pantry.Drop off at JFS or CAS Michael Feldstein News click here Weekday Schedule Shacharit  Sunday: 7:15/8:30 AM; Monday-Friday: 6:30/7:30 AM; Tuesday: 6:20/7:30 AM Mincha  Sunday-Thursday: 7:15 PM; Friday: 7:00 PM Candle Lighting  Friday: 7:13 PM Tuesday  Rosh Chodesh Nisan CAS Classes Join one of our classes. Click here for up to date schedule We Wish A Speedy Recovery To Tzvi Zev Yosef ben Chana Shulamit Chaya Sara bat Chava Hershel Wolf ben Brucha Freidel bat Esther Chaya Shoshana bat Yehudit Nira bat Rachel Sara bat Nira Yitzchak Osher ben Chana Shauna Chaya Nadav Ephraim ben Shlomit Leah Mark Emanuel ben Leah Shlomo ben Velvel Rivkah Devorah bat Channa Gittel Moisha Gedalia ben DK Nechemiah ben DK Dorit bat Ora Asher Anshel Eliezer ben Baila Leah bat Tzirel Miriam Rut bat Chana Daniel David Yitzchak ben Shulamit Chaya bat Liba Harav Eliezer ben Chaya Uria ben Talia אסתר רחל bat רייזל ביילה פרידה הדסה bat פערל לאה Dov ben Pnina Nehama Miriam bat Dvora Moshe Gavriel ben Rachel Esther Cheryl Sheva bat Gittel Leah Sossie Raizel bat Sarah Fraida Click here to add a name to this list We Honor Our Military Ariel Y Shani Y Tali Y Harry B Zevi M Nathan H Noam H Yehudit Sally K Oren L Nathan L Jeremy S Meni N Yaniv H Rachel W Click here to add a name to this list Community Announcements BCHA PLAY Don't miss seeing some of the younger members of our congregation in their upcoming performance of The Little Mermaid JR at Bicultural Hebrew Academy. Come and cheer on Yael, Yoav, and Yakira Hochman, ,Ben Daniel , Nili Steinberg, Abby Rubinfeld, Mackenzie Makovsky , Yael and Elisheva Rosenfeld, and Noa Zizmor as they join other BCHA students, from 3rd through 12th grade, to come together onstage and behind the scenes to bring you "under the sea" with Ariel and her aquatic friends. Adapted from Disney's Broadway production and the motion picture, Disney's The Little Mermaid JR will delight audiences with this enchanting look at the sacrifices we all make for love and acceptance. $10/Ticket Perfomances :Thursday, 4/ 4 at 7:00pm, Friday, 4/ 5 at 2:00pm, Sunday, 4/7 at 11:00am & 3:00pm UJF's NextGen Hosts Krav Maga for Women and Men! It's never too early or too late to learn Krav Maga. That's why UJF's NextGen is hosting introductory self-defense sessions for Women on Monday, April 8 (7:45 pm) and Men on Monday, April 15 (7:45 pm) at Breakthru Family Fit 4 Life in Stamford. Space is limited so make sure to sign-up for Krav Maga sessions before it's too late. Women registration: www.ujf.org/kravmagawomens Men registration: www.ujf.org/kravmagamens To Our Knitting and Crocheting Neighbors  Back to School Shop, an all-volunteer non-profit organization, provides low income elementary school children in Stamford with the opportunity to shop for free for brand new school clothes and supplies each year before the start of school. We're expecting up to 400 children at our event this summer, and plan to provide each one of them with a handmade winter hat. We are so grateful to the community knitters who have made wonderful hats for us in past years and hope you'll join the team! You can find all the information you need here: https://www.backtoschoolshop.org/knit-guidelines-2024 Nishmat Torah Mission - A Summer of Torah and Women's Solidarity  Have you been thinking of coming on a solidarity mission to Israel to feel more connected to the Jewish people in these challenging times? Simultaneously, have you been dreaming of immersing yourself in text-based Torah study in Jerusalem? At Nishmat, you can do both! For more information: https://nishmat.net/programs/summer2024/ Schoke Jewish Family Service invites you to its annual gala, An Evening with Schoke JFS  Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM, at Temple Beth El, 350 Roxbury Road. Honorees include: The 44th Annual Mitzvah Award, Nan and Paul Gordon and Betsy and Michael Stone; Volunteer of the Year Award, Sally Kleinman; and Community Service Award, Ronnie Sichel. The evening will begin with appetizers, cocktails, followed by dinner, presentation of awards to the honorees, a paddle raise and dessert. There will also be an online auction. The event is chaired by Connie Freeman, Meryl Japha, Jillian Klaff, and Esther Rein with Jeri Appel as auction chair. General tickets include dinner and dessert for $250, purchase your ticket at www.ctjfs.org. Contact Janet Wainright at 203-921-4161 or jwainright@ctjfs.org to place a journal ad. Temple Sinai will host Judy Batalion, writer of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos  for the fourth Joan Danoff Community Lecture. This acclaimed author will be available to discuss not only the extraordinary stories of the young women resistance fighters she has chronicled but also the implications of their story for events today. Join on May 19th at 4:00 pm for an in-person conversation or to attend via a webinar. The event is free and open to the community. To register to attend in person or to view as a webinar, contact Temple Sinai at 203-322-1649 or https://www.templesinaistamford.org/form/joan-bruder-danoff-lecture2024.html. Interfaith Seder to Unite Our Diverse Community   April 11th at 6:30pm, UConn Stamford, 1 University Place, Stamford, CT. Hosted by United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan and Darien, The Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut, the Mayor's Multicultural Council and UConn Hillel. Using a specially designed Haggadah, the themes of the seder will include unity among varied cultures, backgrounds and faiths. Rabbi Joshua Hammerman has worked on creating the event this year. It will be his last community event before his retirement. We hope that you can join us. For more information and to register: www.ujf.org/seder or contact Sharon Lewis, slewis@ujf.org

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