Seudah Shlishit is being sponsored by Duke McCarthy.
Women's Halacha Shiur: Thursday, February 23rd at 8:00pm in the SOI Chapel, Studying the Laws of Kashrut, for more information contact rabbi@soicherryhill.org
"When You Want To Be There But Don't Know How": Sunday, February 26th at 7:45pm in the Politz Beit Midrash with Aimee Baron, M.D. A discussion on how to support someone with infertility or pregnancy issues. RSVP here.
SOI Get Together in Florida: Monday, February 27th from 3-4:30pm in Century Village, Boca Raton. Rabbi Davies will be in Florida and hopes to see/meet our Sons of Israel friends past and present. Click Here for More Details or contact Helen Baker at 856-979-7656.
Semichas Chaver Program with Rabbi Davies: Next session will be a review session on Wednesday, March 1 at 8:00pm. For more information or to sign up for the next semester please contact rabbi@soicherryhill.org
Middle School Minute To Win It: Saturday, March 4th 8:00-9:30pm 6th-8th graders. Fast paced competition Come & play & Enjoy!
Mishloach Manot Packing: Sunday morning, March 5th at SOI. Contact Oze Henig at oze.henig@gmail.com for details and to volunteer.
Bnei Akiva Purim Carnival: Sunday, March 5 from 10:00am - 12:00pm. For grades 1-8. Come in costume, play games & have fun! $5 entry fee.
Purim Seudah in the Wild West: Tuesday, March 7 4:30pm. Axe-throwing, Kids themed games, face painting & western style dinner. Register by February 28 at www.soicherryhill.org/event/purim
Shabbat, February 25: Terumah (Adar 4) 8:00am 8AM Minyan 8:30am Sephardic Minyan 9:00am Main Sanctuary Minyan 9:27am Latest Shema 10:00am Youth Groups 10:30am Tot Shabbat 11:00am Kiddush is sponsored anonymously 5:05pm Mincha 5:35pm Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Duke McCarthy 6:25pm Maariv 6:28pm Havdalah
Sunday, February 26 (Adar 5) 7:00am Shacharit 8:00am Shacharit 5:35pm Mincha/Maariv 8:00pm In Depth Gemara Shiur
I am very excited for the opportunity to share words of Torah with you. Each week, in this spot, I look to share an idea I've found that speaks to me and that I think will resonate with you as well. This week, I share an excerpt from an article by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis entitled ‘A Solution to Every Problem’ sharing a great parable about how to deal with difficult situations.
Our Sages teach us that at Mount Sinai we attained such majestic heights that, if not for the sin of the Golden Calf, we would never have needed to build a Sanctuary. That being the case, it is rather puzzling that in this parashah we are commanded regarding the Sanctuary, although the sin of the Golden Calf had yet to occur. So why are we instructed to build the Sanctuary at this point?
[...] Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis often explains this [...] through a popular parable. At one time or another, through our own foolishness, or for some inexplicable reason, we find ourselves in “hot water” and feel we cannot continue. Under such circumstances, what’s to be done? We have three choices, which can be compared to a carrot, an egg, or coffee.
If a carrot is placed into boiling water, after a while it disintegrates and becomes mush. If an egg is placed into boiling water, it becomes hard and tough, but when coffee is placed into boiling water, the boiling water becomes a delicious drink. These are the choices that we all have when we suddenly find ourselves in boiling water. We can disintegrate like carrots, fall apart, and become depressed; we can become as hard as a boiled egg, tough, cynical, angry, and bitter; or we can become like coffee, converting that water into a delicious drink.
Similarly, we can transform our difficulties, our tragedies into something positive and find our way back to our Creator. God showed us the way: The Tabernacle that would bring atonement for the sin of the Golden Calf was commanded to be built before the sin of the Golden Calf occurred. [...] These then, are our choices: In the face of onerous difficulty do we become “carrots,” depressed? Do we become “hard-boiled eggs,” tough and angry? Or do we convert that boiling water into something positive and create something desirable from our adversity? Learn from that experience! Move on, become wiser and more sensitive, and fulfill the purpose for which you were created by continuing to serve our Creator. Have a Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Davies Rabbi@SOICherryHill.org
We are excited to be partnering with Mizrachi World Movement to provide their publication of HaMizrachi Parasha Weekly.
The Mishloach Manot deadline has been extended to February 26th Purim is only a couple of weeks away. Join Congregation Sons of Israel in their Mishloach Manot Project 2023. This is a major fundraising project and we hope that you will participate generously. We are hoping for 100% participation!
Mazal to to Rabbi Michael & Ora Davies & family on the the wedding of Rabbi Davies' sister Racheli to Yigal Lublinsky.
Thank you to Sarah Zanger, Judy Herzberg, Chana Morgenstern, Gail Belfer, Helene Raush, and Debbie Friedner for helping with kiddush last week. Thank you to Malka Moskowitz, Matti Rosenberg, Jonathan Delman & Yair Klein for helping with Seudah Shlishit last week.
Thank you to Madi Botwinick and Gail Belfer for leading the Mishloach Manot and Card Making Chesed Project.
Thank you to Jeff Lubin for organizing the Red Cross Blood Drive.
" A Note from Lynn & Bill Jungreis" Lynn and I want to express our gratitude, appreciation and thanks for the special Kiddush that was made on our behalf. Your thoughtfulness and kindness is what we believe our shule and community exemplifies and why our moving is terribly bittersweet. We have been so fortunate to share with so many of you life’s experiences and have seen and known that our friends will be there for us through thick and thin. We have laughed and cried together. Hashem has blessed us to be with all of you and we are so thankful. Hashem should continue to bless all of you, our shule and our community. We are not saying goodbye we are saying thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Thank you to Bill Jungreis, Debbie Fineberg, Debbie Pester, Ken Panitch, Harvey Chaitoff, Jeff Liss, Chani Wiesman Berliant, Shlomo Aronoff, Chemmie Sokolic, Hector from OPS and Sam Tilonsky for providing security on Shabbos. A big thank you to Robbie Friedner, Jack Fuchs and Shlomo Aronoff for being available to fill in for security when needed.
It’s Your Shul, Please Help Protect It! We are always looking for more people to volunteer on a regular basis. If you can’t commit to a specific time, why not be available to fill in when needed? Just let me know you are willing to help. Thanks, Sam Tilonsky
Gavriel Yehuda ben Chaya Sarah David Partnow - David Avram ben Tilla Razel Robert Shapiro - Doniel-Avraham ben Hannah Aaron Moshe ben Ruth Gaela bas Pinina Jackie Nussbaum - Eta Ruchmam bas Chaya Golda Chayim Gedalya haLevi ben Henya Joan Solomon Weinberg - Yehudit Sarah bat Esther Chaim Leib HaLevi ben Batya Gittel Tobie Cohen - Tova Lieba bas Esther Chaya Alan Friedman - Avraham Pinchas ben Hudda Kayla Chaya bat Bayla Simcha Avraham Ben Datya Leba Karen Cohen - Esther Chaya bas Sara Chana Inga bat Bella Janet Miller - Devora bat Basha
Please help us keep this list up to date. If you have names to add or would like to have a name removed from this list, please email memberhotline@soicherryhill.org.
Click below for a link to the prayers for good health and healing that you can recite for our ailing members
https://www.kosherwine.com/?rfsn=5940204.12e2a2 SOI members and affiliates can click the link to go to the JCommerce websites and purchase their products. You can support SOI through the commission we earn.
Shoprite Scrip Now Available SOI Office Monday-Friday 10-2 Yaeli Sokolic at ycsgraphix@gmail.com Flo Shulman at florence.shulman@gmail.com
All submissions for the Newslink are due by noon on Wednesday
Reminder: If your mailing information has been changed, please update it on our website by logging on at soicherryhill.org If you know someone who is not receving our weekly email, please let the office know Office hours next week are Monday - Friday 10am-2pm Rabbi Davies' general office hours are Monday, Wednesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Congregation Sons of Israel 720 Cooper Landing Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
