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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 Ozer Alport entitled "Using Up Merits" which suggests why we don't just say Amen after Birkat HaGomel.

[...] Parshas Tzav contains the laws governing the Korban Todah (Thanksgiving Offering). The Talmud (Berachos 54b) rules that a Korban Todah is brought by four groups of people to express their gratitude to God for being saved from potential danger. In the absence of the Temple, they instead publicly recite a blessing known as Birkas HaGomel.

It is curious to note that after hearing somebody make a blessing we answer simply, "Amen," with one exception. After hearing a person say Birkas HaGomel, we respond, "Omein, mi shagamalcha kol tov Hu yigamelcha ko tov selah" - "He who has bestowed upon you all good should continue to bestow upon you all good." As this lengthy response is found nowhere else, it clearly needs an explanation.

In his introduction, the Shalmei Nedorim offers a beautiful insight based on a fascinating episode related by the Talmud (Shabbos 53b). [...H]e explains that Birkas HaGomel is recited after a person has been saved from potential danger. While we are happy that he survived, we are also afraid that it may have come at the expense of his accumulated merits. As a result, a simple "Amen" won't suffice, and we add a special supplication requesting that his good fortune should continue and not be depleted through this miracle. [...]

Hoping and praying for a Shabbat Shalom and a Purim Sameach,
Rabbi Davies
Rabbi@SOICherryHill.org

We are excited to be partnering with Mizrachi World Movement to provide their publication of HaMizrachi Parasha Weekly.

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Thank you to Aliza Sadiky, Sarah Zanger, and Shira and Malka Baratz for helping prepare last week's kiddush, to Flo Shulman for shopping, and to Tamar Weiner for making the cholent.

Thank you to everyone who helped make the Community Mishloach Manot Campaign a success! A big thank you to Oze & Metal Henig and Rachel Rosenberg for leading the organization of the project and to additional volunteers who helped organize scrolls, pack bags, run the back-end, and deliver the packages:  Adam Kaye, Aliza and Avi Sadiky, Andy Rauer, Ari and Jillian Daniels, Ari Daniels, Avital Zeffren, Avrumi Sharabi, Chaim Blumberg, Chani Wiesman and Yoni Berliant, Chaya Eisenberg, Danielle Kimchi, Debbie Fineberg, Debbie Pester, Flo Shulman, Gavriella Weinreb, Heshy Chaitoff, Ilana Mindel, Jeffrey and Ilana Weiss, Jeremy Heyman and Yael Taler, Josh Boniuk, Joyce Joseph, Ken and Alise Panitch, Liz Liss, Melissa and Gersh Klein, Moshe and Shira Anaki, Moshe Moskowitz, Nathan Stobetzki, Neta, Aviv and Gal Henig, Penny Zeffren, Sabrina and Aaron Spector, Sam Tilonsky, Sandy Crass, Sarah Zanger, Seth Cohen, Shari Solomon-Weg, Shmuel and Batya Gluck, Sylvia Levine, Vicky and Mayer Miltz, Yael and Yoseph Davidowitz, Yaeli, Chemmie, and Keren Sokolic, and Zalmy Sussman.

Thank you to all of our Megillah Readers: Jeff Schwartz, Eric Klein, David Raush, Yoni Berliant, and Moshe Moskowitz.

Thank you to Madi Botwinick for chairing the Purim Seudah event and to volunteers: Alisa Fox, Aliza Sadiky, Anna & Dovid Schwartz, Baila & Avi Rynderman, Dan Malamud, Dore Provda, Guilliame Schpektor, Isabella Zummo, Ora Davies, Shayna Weinberg, Yaeli Sokolic.

Thank you to Purim Seudah Sponsors: Jerusalem+: Neely & Elon Elisha, Vicki & Mayer Miltz; Tzfat: Devora & Jonathan Delman, Sabra Hess & TL Weinberg;  Melissa Klein & Gersh Klein, Alise & Ken Panitch; Wine: Brittany & Aharon Yeres. Thank you to Meir Tesser of Grandipity.com for the donation of tablecloths.

Thank you to Aliza & Avi Sadiky for sponsoring Hamantashen for Parshat Zachor and Purim.

Thank you to Duke McCarthy for sponsoring a Day of Learning in the merit of a
​​​​​​​Refuah Sheleimah for Dovid Shatz
Chaim Dovid Yechezkel Reuven ben Dubrish Devorah. 

Thank you to Team 5, Red Squadron (Yaakov Zeffren, Meir Miskin, David Mendelovitz, Aaron Rubenstein, Nate Wiener, Blake Daugherty), Debbie Fineberg, JFed Security officer Bill DiCola and Sam Tilonsky for providing security on Shabbos.

Thank you to JFed Security Officer Bill DiCola for providing security on Purim and at the Purim Seudah.

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CHOLIM:

Esther Shayna bat

Nechama Mintza
 Chaya Daniela bas Meira Chana
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
Shmuel ben Ita Ettle
Esther bat Yehudit Nechamah

Mordechai Avrohom ben

Malka Yocheved

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
Debbie Friedner - Devorah Tzlotka bas Sarah Leah
Robbie Friedner - Eliezer Ruvan ben Tzvika Herschel
Akiva Noam ben Yael Chana
Sara Elisha bat Chaya
Chaya Batsheva bat Esther Zlota
David Shatz - Chaim Dovid Yechezkel Reuven ben Dovrish Devorah
Lee Winderman, Yisrael ben Chaim Meir  

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:

Tzvi Yehuda ben

Aviva Rachel-Leah
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
Simcha Mayer ben Perel
טל בן דרורה
נועה בת דרורה
אורי בן דרורה
אורי בן רפאל הלוי
Yair Eitan ben Orit Piri
Uri Ben Bilha
Asher Raphael Ben Devorah Bracha
Yisrael Yitzchak ben Shafrira Ninah

Pinchas ben Rivkah Itta
Ariel Zev ben

Rina Chaya

Tal Bat Nomi
Nitsan Bat Nomi
Daniel Yair ben

Mina Mirrel
Tzvi Matityahu ben Mina Mirrel
Shmuel ben

Sara Raisel
Ephraim benSara 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
Yaakov Yonatan

ben Chana
Elana Noa bat

Rachel Chana

Gideon ben Tamar
Yonatan Asher Dov Ben Chana Bracha​​​​​​​Dovid ben Malka
Ohad ben Orna
Yiftach ben Malka
Boruch ben Miri
Yosef Ben Elisheva
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
Shai ben

Ghislaine Chaya Chava
Yochai Avraham

ben Izavel
Avichai ben Hila

Yitzchak ben Esther

If you have names to add to this list, please click the link to fill out the form - https://forms.gle/VxGUncLvHqSHptpd8

If you have previously contributed names of Chayalim who have now completed their service, please let us know. 

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