Newslink for Shabbat Parshat Ekev (August 4 - August 10)
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Announcements & Upcoming Events
Kiddush is sponsored in honor of Sam Tilonsky and the entire security team. Thank you for all your efforts each and every week. We hope more people can join this great group of volunteers to help insure the safety of our shul.
Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Duke McCarthy
Shabbat Morning Groups: Beginning Shabbat July 29th - August 19th there will be no Shabbat morning groups for kids in 3rd - 5th Grade. Parsha sheets will be available for children in those grades to follow during services. Tot Shabbat and groups for kids in Kindergarten - 2nd grade will continue as usual. Full groups for all ages will return on August 26th with children attending groups for their incoming grade.
Semichas Chaver Program with Rabbi Davies: Wednesday evenings after Maariv. Class is on break. Next class will be on August 16th. For more information or to sign up please contact rabbi@soicherryhill.org.
Summer Women's Shiur Series: This Saturday, August 5th at 4:30pm. The topic is Lessons from Pirkei Avot given by Sarah Bienenfeld and hosted by Sarah Bienenfeld, 12 Aaron Court. Email Chani Wiesman chaniwiesman@gmail.com or Yehudeet Gore yehudeet@gmail.com for more information.
Bonfires with Sons of Israel: Monday, August 7th, Thursday, August 17th and Sunday, August 27th. The first bonfire is for Women only at 8:30pm at the home of Baila Rynderman, 61 Knollwood Drive, for a casual meet & connect with members of our community. For more information contact aliza.sadiky@gmail.com
Mezuzos and Tefillin Checking with Rabbi Long: Monday, August 21st - Friday, August 25th at SOI. Space is limited and appointments are scheduled on a first come, first serve basis. For more information, or to reserve your appointment with the Sofer, text/call 856-870-3333 or email CHSoferSignup@gmail.com
Prep and Rally Is Coming to Cherry Hill: Thursday, September 7th at 7:30pm at SOI. There will be a cooking demonstration, tastings and tips on how to plan, prep and rally for the holidays! Click Here to Register.
Boscov's Department Store is sponsoring Friends Helping Friends: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 from 8:00am - 11:00pm. Amazingly you will get a 25% discount on most items in the store. All you have to do is donate $5.00 to SOI's Bikur Cholim Organization! Get your discount shopping pass now. Call the shul office or Janet Miller at 856-667-0860 to receive your pass. Why buy a pass? For early Hanukkah presents, birthday presents, fall and winter clothes and any household needs. Happy Shopping!
Vintage Presents the Philadelphia Orchestra: Thursday, February 29th, 7:00pm at the Kimmel Center. The program will feature all Beethoven. Seats are limited so register soon. The deadline is August 15th to reserve your ticket. Register here .
Shabbat, August 5: Eikev (Av 18) 8:00am 8AM Minyan 8:30am Sephardic Minyan 9:00am Main Sanctuary Minyan 9:34am Latest Shema 10:00am Youth Groups (K-2nd Grade) 10:30am Tot Shabbat 11:00am Kiddush is sponsored in honor of Sam and the Security Team. 6:10pm Gemara Shiur 7:30pm Mincha 8:00pm Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Duke McCarthy. 8:50pm Maariv 8:55pm Havdalah
Rabbi Davies will be on vacation from Thursday, August 3 - Wednesday, August 16. During this time, for all SOI related matters and/or items of an urgent nature, please contact Ilana Weiss at president@soicherryhill.org. If you are in need of immediate Halachic assistance, please contact Rabbi Jonathan Bienenfeld at rabbijbien@gmail.com.
Jean Klein, the office manager will be on vacation from August 7th - August 11th. The office will be open Monday - Friday from 12:00-2:00pm.
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 with you an excerpt from an article by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Z"L entitled "Why Civilisations Fail", about what we should and shouldn't focus on to determine our success and reach our goals.
[...] In parshat Eikev, Moses springs [a] great surprise. [...] What Moses [said] to the new generation was this: You thought that the forty years of wandering in the wilderness were the real challenge, and that once you conquer and settle the land, your problems will be over. The truth is that it is then that the real challenge will begin. It will be precisely when all your physical needs are met - when you have land and sovereignty and rich harvests and safe homes - that your spiritual trial will commence.
The real challenge is not poverty but affluence, not insecurity but security, not slavery but freedom. Moses, for the first time in history, was hinting at a law of history. Many centuries later it was articulated by the great 14th century Islamic thinker, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), by the Italian political philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), and most recently by the Harvard historian Niall Ferguson. Moses was giving an account of the decline and fall of civilisations. [...]
All of this was said for the first time by Moses, and it forms a central argument of the book of Devarim. If you assume - he tells the next generation - that you yourselves won the land and the freedom you enjoy, you will grow complacent and self-satisfied. That is the beginning of the end of any civilization. [...] There will be social divisions, resentments and injustices. Society will no longer cohere. People will not feel bound to one another by a bond of collective responsibility. Individualism will prevail. Trust will decline. Social capital will wane. [...]
Only against this background can we understand the momentous project the book of Devarim is proposing: the creation of a society capable of defeating the normal laws of the growth-and-decline of civilisations. This is an astonishing idea. How is it to be done? By each person bearing and sharing responsibility for the society as a whole. By each knowing the history of his or her people. By each individual studying and understanding the laws that govern all. By teaching their children so that they too become literate and articulate in their identity.
[...] Above all it is achieved by recognising a power greater than ourselves. This is Moses' most insistent point. Societies start growing old when they lose faith in the transcendent. They then lose faith in an objective moral order and end by losing faith in themselves. [...] Only faith in God can lead us to honour the needs of others as well as ourselves. Only faith in God can motivate us to act for the benefit of a future we will not live to see. Only faith in God can stop us from wrongdoing when we believe that no other human will ever find out. Only faith in God can give us the humility that alone has the power to defeat the arrogance of success and the self-belief [...]. Only faith can save a society from decline and fall. That was one of Moses' greatest insights, and it has never ceased to be true.
Kol HaNearim Tallit Honor your children, grandchildren, nieces, or nephews by embroidering their names on the Congregation Sons of Israel Kol HaNe’arim Tallit. This beautiful Tallit is embroidered with children’s names in gold. It is used on Simchat Torah when the children are called up to the Torah for a special Aliyah. Deadline to be included is August 16, 2023 and each line is $25. See examples and submit your entry at https://www.soicherryhill.org/form/Tallit.
Welcome to Yehuda Stuchins and Sloane Gray and family who have become members of SOI! Welcome to Emily Gevins who has become a member of SOI!
Thank you to Dan Malamud, Alisa Fox and Meira Weiss for helping with kiddush last week. Thank you to Matti Rosenberg, Eric Klein & Yochai Yares who helped with last week's seudah shlishit. Thank you to Yaakov Linder, Yaakov Zeffren, Jonathan Delman and Yair Klein for helping with seudah shlishit on Sabbos July 22nd.
Thanks to The Bagel Bandits (Team 4) for providing security this week. They are Yaakov Linder, Matti Rosenberg, Michael Morgenstern, Elon Elisha and Dan Eisenstein. Thank you also goes to Debbie Fineberg, Ken Panitch, Paul from JFeds and Sam Tilonsky.
Welcome Welcome to our newest security volunteer, Yaakov Levinson. He is joining The Bagel Bandits (Team 3) and filling the 9:00am position.
Volunteers Urgently Needed We are urgently looking for several men and women volunteers to help with security in the main sanctuary during services. In the event of an emergency these individuals will be responsible for directing the congregation to safety. These important positions are vital to the success of keeping everyone safe and secure. Training will be provided. Contact Sam Tilonsky (drsamod@gmail.com) for more information and to help.
Gavriel Yehuda ben Chaya Sarah David Partnow - David Avram ben Tilla Razel Aaron Moshe ben Ruth Gaela bas Pinina Chayim Gedalya haLevi ben Henya Tobie Cohen - Tova Lieba bas Esther Chaya Alan Friedman - Avraham Pinchas ben Hudda Kayla Chaya bat Bayla Simcha Avraham ben Datya Leba Inga bat Bella Shaindel bas Gruna Leah Moshe Krumbein - Moshe ben Yehudit Sarah Shmuel ben Ita Ettle Esther bat Yehudit Nechamah Yitzhak Dovid ben Gruna Leah Reizel bas Yentel Peretz Yirmiyahu ben Elka Moshe Simcha ben Sarah Ester Chavah Nachamah bat Rifka Miriam Gershon Daniel ben Malka Chaya
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