Thank you for sponsoring the Kiddush:

 

 

On Saturday, January 30, 2010 - Dubra Shenker & Victor Scott-Hearn— a gift to Ahavas Sholom.

 

On Saturday, February 20, 2010 - Linda Bloom in memory of the Yahrtzeit of

her mother Eunice Bloom.

 

Thank you for your wonderful mitzvah!

ABOUT OUR KIDDUSH:

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                           

 Weekly Newsletter

Yom Shishi, 14 Shevat, 5770  / Friday, January 29, 2010

 

 

 

Candle Lighting:

4:51 pm

Shabbat Ends:

5:53pm

Dear Members and Friends,

We are looking forward to seeing you on Shabbat! TU B’Shevat Sameach!

 

 

 

SHABBAT:  15 Shevat 5770 / January 30, 2010—BESHALLACH

TU B’SHEVAT— Jewish Arbor Day— Services start at 9:30 am

Volume 4, Issue 20

SIMON SAYS: About  BESHALLACH (from our  spiritual leader Simon Rosenbach )

 SHABBAT SHALOM! TU B’SHEVAT SAMEACH!

Next Meeting: to be announced

Delicious Brunch will be offered!

 

THE book : WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON...

For more information: susan763@optonline.net; info@ahavassholom.org

                                                                                                                                         

 

 

 

 

 

Ahavas Sholom Jewish Education Fund appeal: 

“THE NATHANIEL AND SOPHIE G. ROTH STUDY CENTER NEWS”: 

FOR THE LATEST NEW JERSEY JEWISH NEWS: www.njjewishnews.com

SCHEDULE OF HOLIDAYS AND EVENTS: January / February 2010

              To contribute to The JEWISH EDUCATION FUND please send checks payable to Ahavas Sholom with “Education Fund” on the memo line.

Yasher Koach to all who are still sending us their contributions to the Fund. Thank You for your wonderful Mitzvah!                                                                   

                              Linda K. Grabiner - Chairwoman /Jewish Education Fund Scholarship Committee

 

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On Shabbat, January 30 we read the

 Parashat Beshallach. Come join us we are looking forward to seeing you!

             Ahavas Sholom Presents "Songs of Love and Peace"

A Jewish education fund scholarship Fundraiser

a CD of music performed by congregants 

Please place your orders by phone (973-485-2609), email (info@ahavassholom.org) 

or mail (145 Broadway, Newark, NJ 07104). Only $18 each.

The CD is currently in production and will be completed and shipped shortly. Thank you!

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BOOK CLUB NEWS: Susan zwiebel announces:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOOK CLUB NEWS: 

FOR THE LATEST : THE JERUSALEM POST - www.jpost.com

"I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying" [Vayeitze 28:13]

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BOOK CLUB NEWS: 

YAHRTZEIT LIST: Saturday, January 23 To Friday, February 5, 2010.

                 What is the dominant theme of at least the early stages of the Book of Shmot? I'll give you a hint:  it's the most abundant stuff on earth.  That's right. Water.

 

             Moses is placed in a basket in the river.  The river (and all other water) is turned to blood.  Almost all of Moses' confrontations with Pharaoh happen at the river.  The Israelites quarrel about a lack of water (at one point causing Moses such aggravation that he commits the act that keeps him from the Promised Land).

 

             And this week, the Egyptian pursuers die in the water that is the salvation of the Israelites.  What is the reason for this, do you think.  If the Israelites had completed their journey through the sea and the Egyptians had not pursued, surely the escape would have been as complete.  So why did God cause the Egyptians to chase and die?

 

             Unless we have something different to discuss on Shabbat, let's consider water.  Water purifies, water is the womb (and thus creation), water is life, and water can be death.  More on Shabbat. Simon Rosenbach

 

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Would you like to sponsor/or co-sponsor, or make a donation towards Kiddush? 

Please contact: Jeff Haveson (Outreach Chair): 973-481-5689 / Dubra Shenker – 973- 412-7280 or           

Email to: Congregation Ahavas Sholom

On Saturday, January 30, 2010—Shabbat Morning Services start  at 9:30 am

                

Tu b’shevat seder— Jewish arbor day—Following Services           

"Helping People. Helping Pets" -  www.sheltershowcase.com

 

Contact:  Beth Mersten: email bethm@sheltershowcase.com /

or call 973 812 PAWS (7297)

On Sunday, February 28, 2010—Megillah Reading and purim party - TBA

 

On Friday, March 5, 2010—SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA  

                 FRIDAY NIGHT Sephardic SERVICES AND SHABBAT DINNER  - TBA

Contribution of $ 20.00 per person    

             RSVP to Jeff Haveson (973-481-5689)            

THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY—145 Broadway, Newark, NJ 07104

 Hard Times, Good Times - The Paintings of Michael Lenson

Open Sundays (noon to 5 pm) or by appointment

Free off-street parking

Contact: Phil Yourish 973– 674 –7003 / Max Herman 973-698-8489

For directions and more information: www.jewishmuseumnj.org

 

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Difference of Opinion

 

             A congregant asks his rabbi, "Rabbi, you're a man of God. So why is it that you are always talking about business, when I, a businessman, am always talking about spiritual matters?"

           "You have discovered one of the principles of human nature," the rabbi replies.

           "And what's that Rabbi?"

           "People like to discuss things they know nothing about."

            

From: jewlarious.com 

The Maharal - Rabbi Judah Loew, The Maharal of Prague (1525-1609) - explains the use of the term “Yashir” - “he will sing”. Although Moshe actually sang long ago, the Torah often uses future tense when describing an action that takes place over an expanse of time. That is, since the incident is not a split-second occurrence, but rather, one that extends from past to future, the reference to the future is an appropriate one.

             In Lashon HaKodesh, the word for time - “Zman (time)”- relates to “Hazmanah” - as in preparation and preparedness. Each moment invites the next, time being an extended process with each millisecond only a small part of a larger unit.

            

             Time flows from past to future with the precise present impossible to grasp. Even were we to say that the present moment is '10:39 p.m. and 45 seconds' we would not be accurate. If measured more carefully, we would count by the hundredth of a second. Even that would not be exact, for a finer instrument could measure to the thousandth of a second, and so on, ad infinitum. To be honest then, we must say that time is merely society's measure of a period that stretches from past to future, with the present hidden somewhere between those two points (that’s why we do not use the present tense of the verb to be in Hebrew).

            

             The Maharal makes this point thusly: The one Aleph of 'Az' stands above the seven directions of the 'Zayin', the varied forms and paths of our physical and three-dimensional existence. Much as Hashem stands alone, above the seven days of creation, the Song of the Sea unifies all of time under the aegis of One G-d, acknowledgment that the world rests upon the timeless framework of a supernatural realm. It is for this reason that the Mitzva of

 

             Bris Milah is performed on the eighth day, connecting the immortal Jew to a world beyond time.

While the miracles in Egypt reflect G-d's control and direction of the physical world, the splitting of the sea takes this lesson one step further. More than stopping the water's flow, the miracle reveals this: the sea is a mere facade, as are all of nature's rules. The sea disappears before a higher force, succumbing to the staff of G-d in the hand of Moshe Rabbeinu, revealing a different dimension, a world without time.

 

             This is “Az Yashir”. With no past and no future, only the eternal presence of a present moment that never ends, Moshe Rabbeinu leads the Jewish people in song, expressing perfectly the purpose of their being. HAPPY ARBOR DAY!

 

From: shemayisrael.co.il/ 

     JEWISH HUMOR: 

To read and listen to the Parashah please go to: www.bible.ort.org