Newslink for Shabbat Parshat Vaera (January 12 - January 14)
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Announcements & Upcoming Events
Seudah Shlishit & Teen Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Duke McCarthy.
Parent Child Learning: Saturday, January 13th 6:30-7:30pm at SOI. The program is open to boys and girls, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or any adult bringing a child is welcome. E-mail Eric Klein to RSVP or for more information. Gemara Shiur with Jeff Schwartz: Sunday evening, January 14th at 7:30pm in the SOI Chapel. Come join for an in depth study of Talmud.
A Deep Look at Sefer Bereishit: Re-Creation and Noach, Monday evenings at 8pm in the SOI Kiddush Room or on Zoom ID 88211049415. Click Here to Join the ZoomClass is on break and will resume January 22nd.
Semichas Chaver Program with Rabbi Davies: Wednesday evenings at 8pm. For more information or to sign up please contact rabbi@soicherryhill.org. Next Class is on January 17th.
Women's Parsha Discussion: Wednesday evening, January 17th from 8:30-8:45pm. Join us on Zoom for a brief peer led discussion on the weekly parsha. Click Here to Join the Zoom.
Women's Halacha Shiur: Thursday, January 18th at 8:00pm in the SOI Chapel. Studying the Laws of Shabbat. Come join and learn.
Adult Arcade Night: Saturday, January 27th at 8:00pm at Game On Medford! Free play all night. BYOB. Snacks provided. Register here. Contact Suzie Mindel for more information at suziepm@yahoo.com.
Rabbi Davies' Trip to Israel: Rabbi Davies will be travelling in Israel until January 14th. He will be participating in a rabbinic mission, connecting with community members there, and spending time with family. Join this Whatsapp Group to hear/read his reflections in realtime.
Over the course of the trip, Rabbi Davies will, at times, have limited access to communication. Therefore, during the trip, 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.
SAVE THE DATE: Congregation Sons of Israel welcomes Rabbi David Bashevkin as Scholar in Residence, Shabbat Parshat Mishpatim, February 9-10. More details coming soon.
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 of an article by Rabbi Katriel (Kenneth) Brander entitled "Cleared for Publication" - The Power of a Name. In my updates and reflections during my trip to Israel I’ve been trying to include as many names as possible because it gives deeper and more personal meaning to what is going on and greater ability for each of us to relate to it.
“Hutar L’Pirsum.” ‘Cleared for publication.’ The words that break our hearts day after day, as the news updates make their rounds among the living. Once the media gag order - imposed to ensure that the families of the fallen are the first to be informed of what has happened to their loved ones - is lifted, the names of soldiers whose lives were taken are cleared for publication. We rush to our devices, scroll through the names, and scan for familiar faces. If there’s no one we know on the list, we release an uncomfortable sigh of relief. But the relief is quickly overtaken by grief. Sure, maybe not anyone we knew directly. But many knew them. Many loved them. And their hearts and lives have just been shattered.
The experience of reading through the names has been especially poignant for me since last week, when we began reading Sefer Shemot, a book that opens with a striking absence of named characters. As the subjugation and enslavement of the Jewish people gets underway, we are told of an unnamed man from the house of Levi, who marries an unnamed woman, who leaves her unnamed baby in the Nile under the watchful gaze of his unnamed sister, until the unnamed daughter of Pharaoh finds the child, takes him home, and calls him Moshe. And even once the redeemer-to-be grows up and ventures out into the world, he continues interacting with nameless Egyptians and nameless Hebrews. For Shemot begins with us living stateless, enslaved, in an existence where numbers, not names, matter.
All this takes a turn in this week’s Torah portion, Va’era. The focal point of God’s appearance to Moshe is the revelation of the four-lettered divine name YKVK. Like all names of God, this name represents a singular aspect of His essence. In the case of YKVK, a name the Torah states that was not even revealed to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, it is the ability for us as a people to be intimately connected with Him. Our redemption begins when this Divine name is revealed to us, a name singularly representing the capacity for a Divine intimate relationship with the Jewish people. Hoping and praying for a Shabbat Shalom in every sense of the term, Rabbi Davies Rabbi@SOICherryHill.org
We are excited to be partnering with Mizrachi World Movement to provide their publication of HaMizrachi Parasha Weekly.
Thank you to Daniel Malamud, and Baila Silverman, Avi Rynderman for helping to prepare last week's kiddush and to Tamar Wiener for making the cholent.
Thank you to Eric Klein, Jonathan Delman, and Yaakov Zeffren for preparing Seudah Shlishit last week.
Thank you to Aliza Sadiky and Ora Davies for coordinating last week's youth musical Havdallah and card making for Chayalim event.
Thank you to Diane Irwin and Shari Solomon for coordinating the Vintage Escape the Room event. The group had a great turnout, escaped the room and had a great time.
Thank you to Red Squadron (Team 5 - Yaakov Zeffren, David Mendelovitz, Aaron Rubenstein, Nate Wiener) along with Debbie Fineberg, Chani Wiesman Berliant, Security Officer Bill DiCola, Debbie Pester, Melissa Klein and the youth group leaders and Sam Tilonsky for providing security on Shabbos.
CHOLIM:
Gavriel Yehuda ben Chaya Sarah David Partnow - David Avram ben Tilla Razel Aaron Moshe ben Ruth Chayim Gedalya haLevi ben Henya 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 Moshe Simcha ben Sarah Ester Chavah Nachamah bat
Rifka Miriam Gershon Daniel ben Malka Chaya Terry ben Helen Cohat Sivel ben Leah Yehudit Sarah bat Esther Debbie Friedner - Devorah Tzlotka bas Sarah Leah Robbie Friedner - Eliezer Ruvan ben Tzvika Herschel Akiva Noam ben Yael Chana Mordechai Avrohom ben
Malka Yocheved
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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Below is a listing of the names of Israeli Soldiers connected to our community that we have collected thus far:
Avigdor Yosef ben Aviva Rachel-Leah Tzvi Yehuda ben
Aviva Rachel-Leah Chaim yehoshu Ben shifra cherna Avraham Yehuda Ben shifra cherna Alter Ben-Zion Ben Shifra Cherna Mordichai Yisroel ben Yocheved Mina Esther דוד יעקב בן עטיא חיים ברוך בן עטיא Tamir Chaim Shmuel ben Haizel Rut עזרא גבריאל בן לאה אביה בן עינת Gal ben Orit Alon ben Orit Adi bat Orit Matan ben Irit Aryeh Yisroel ben Sarah Miriam עודד בן חוה אבישי בן בת שבע Gil ben Alice Nitzan bat Tovale Hallel bat Tovale Yedidyah Yisroel ben Nissa Yehudit Simcha Mayer ben Perel טל בן דרורה נועה בת דרורה אורי בן דרורה
Asher Raphael Ben Devorah Bracha Yisrael Yitzchak ben Shafrira Ninah Yair Eitan ben Orit Piri Ariel Zev ben
Rina Chaya Tal Bat Nomi Nitsan Bat Nomi Uri Ben Bilha Pinchas ben Rivkah Itta Daniel Yair ben
Mina Mirrel Tzvi Matityahu ben Mina Mirrel Shmuel ben
Sara Raisel Ephraim ben
Sara Raisel אורן בן יהודית אלידן בן חוה אורן חנן בן מלכה מנדל Daniel ben Chava Elad ben Anat Pe'er bat Carmit Finn ben Rachel Porat ben Gelilah Daniel ben Ahuva Clil Or bat Shlomit רבקה פניה בת ציפורה Yitzchak ben Esther
Yaakov Yonatan
ben Chana Gideon ben Tamar Avichai ben Hila Elana Noa bat
Rachel Chana
Dovid ben Malka Yonatan Asher Dov Ben Chana Bracha Eran ben shoshana Ohad ben Orna Yiftach ben Malka Boruch ben Miri שחר הושמנד בן דבורית אשר שרגא בן לאה אסתר Yosef Ben Elisheva Meir Yisrael ben Devorah Kayla Michael ben
Leorah Yaffa Gilad ben Sarit Ariel ben Sarit Yair ben Iris Sroya ben Chana Oriel ben Chana אליאסף בן אורנה Tov ben Maya Ram Yosef ben Rivka Maayan ben Gaya Yonadav ben Chana Uriah Shmuel
ben Denise Yakir ben
Ghislaine Chaya Chava Adiv Channan ben Ghislaine Chaya Chava Nadav Gavriel ben Ghislaine Chaya Chava Shai ben
Ghislaine Chaya Chava Yaniv ben Izavel Yochai Avraham
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