Weekly Newslinks

The Newslink is sponsored this week by Sharon & Harvey Chaitoff in honor of Moshe Dov's (Maish) last Shabbos in Cherry Hill before he heads off for his Gap Year in Israel. Tzaitzchem L'Shalom!

Announcement & Upcoming Events

Schedule for the Weekend

Erev Shabbat, August 18: Rosh Chodesh Elul (Elul 1)
6:30am Shacharit
8:15am Shacharit
6:28pm Plag HaMincha (Earliest Candle Lighting)
7:00pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv
7:34pm Candle Lighting

Shabbat, August 19: Shoftim (Elul 2)
8:00am 8AM Minyan
8:30am Sephardic Minyan
9:00am Main Sanctuary Minyan
9:39am Latest Shema
10:00am Youth Groups
10:30am Tot Shabbat
11:00am Kiddush is sponsored anonomously
5:50pm Gemara Shiur
7:10pm Mincha
7:40pm Seudah Shlishit sponsored by Daniel & Sheryl Malamud
8:30pm Maariv
8:35pm Havdalah

Sunday, August 20 (Elul 3)
7:00am Shacharit
7:00am Sephardi Selichot @ YI
8:00am Shacharit
7:25pm Mincha/Maariv

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 Stephen Baars entitled "How to Have an Argument" speaking of the negative effects of bribery.

[...] Our Sun is 400 times bigger than the Moon, so in order to effect an eclipse, the moon has to be placed 400 times closer to you and me. "G-d placed them (the planets) in the heavens." (Genesis 1:14) No other planet in our solar system has a moon that appears as the same size as the sun. I remember as a child thinking that the sun and the moon were the same size, it certainly appears that way. It's shocking to realize that how we see things is not how they really are. We think the color red we see, is what everyone else sees too. Try to convince a grandparent their grandchild is not that smart (actually, don't try). A person has to stretch themselves to see how others imagine the world. Or that reality is really different to how we perceive it.

[...] In this week's parsha, the Torah tells us: "Do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous." (Deuteronomy 16:19) Rashi (11th century French Rabbi) comments on this verse by saying: When a judge accepts a bribe from one of the claimants, it is impossible that he will not be inclined to turn the judgment in his favor. Note, Rashi says "impossible." Not likely or more often, no, impossible! No matter who you are, no matter how wise you may be, a bribe affects your decisions.

[...] When you take a bribe, you stop thinking objectively. It's not that you now think, how you see reality is how it really is - because we all do that. It's that you stop caring if you are right. Bribes make you think the world revolves around you. And in truth, it does revolve around you. Every human being is really sitting at the top of the world, their world. But it also revolves around everyone else too.

We will have the opportunity to delve deeper into this idea of perception and reality through our Elul Book Club discussion on the book Mind Your Mindset - pick up the book and start reading today! Click here for more details.

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.

         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 extended to August 28, 2023 and each line is $25. The Tallit can be viewed in the shul's vestibule over the next two weeks. See examples and submit your entry at https://www.soicherryhill.org/form/Tallit.

Thank you to Yaffa & Jack Fuchs, Marilyn Mindel, Estelle Lerner, Diane Irwin, Tamar Wiener, Gila Davis, Helene Raush, Sylvia Levine & Gail Belfer for helping with kiddush last week.

Thank you to Jeffrey Weiss, Malka Moskowitz, Yaakov Zeffren, Yaakov Linder, Sandy Crass, Matti Rosenberg, Jonathan Delman & Adam Galil for helping with seudah shlishit last week.

Thank you to Debbie Fineberg, Debbie Pester, Diane Irwin, Chani Wiesman Berliant, Paul from JFeds and Red Squadron (Yaakov Zeffren, David Medelovitz, Nate Wiener, Shlomo Aronoff, Elon Elisha and Andy Rauer) for providing security on Shabbos.

Volunteers
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
Terry ben Helen

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.

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