YOUNG ISRAEL OF WEST HARTFORD

2240 ALBANY AVENUE

WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117

860-233-3084

Web Site: www.youngisraelwh.org

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Affiliate of the National Council of Young Israel Synagogues, Member of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Sponsor of West Hartford NCSY, National Conference of Synagogue Youth, Kashrut Commission of Greater Hartford,

Mikveh Bess Israel of Greater Hartford, Eruv of West Hartford

Rabbi Tuvia Brander 561-271-4148 Rabbi@youngisraelwh.org Debra Luger 860-233-0300 or deluge613@sbcglobal.net

Shabbat Shira

Parashat B’Shalach

January 23rd, 2016 13 Shevat 5776

Kiddush this Shabbat

Is sponsored by

Fran & Gene Wittenberg

A Kiddush Hoda’ah

three years since the fire

and the birth of Binyamin

to Eric & Orit in Israel

Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by

Ann & Rabbi Eliot Feldman

Commemorating the Yahrzeit of

Rabbi Feldman’s father

David Feldman -

Dovid ben Mordechai

Editor: Judie Patel bulletin@youngisraelwh.org

MAZAL TOV

to Miriam Goldman on her מזל טוב engagement to Guy Epstien of Ashdod, Israel!

Mazal tov to parents Cindi & Lee Goldman, and Orly & Shlomo Epstein! מזל טוב to the entire

Goldman and Epstein families!!!

to Naomi and David Rosen on the recent מזל טוב marriage of Naomi's son Ari Friedman to Michali

Wiener daughter of Chana Leah and Jordan Wiener from Baltimore MD! מזל טוב to the entire Rosen, Friedman & Wiener families!

FREE DINNER TICKETS!!!!

Bring in just 5 ads for our business card journal

to earn a free ticket to the dinner! Let us know if you need help.

Ilana Bernstein 860-922-0448 Helen Loew 860-233-4583

UPCOMING YIWH EVENTS

HAVDALAH DRUM NIGHT

This Saturday night, January 23rd At 6:30 PM

YIWH & Chabad

YIWH THEATER NIGHT

Saturday Night, February 6th The Chosen

Playhouse on Park Theater

YIWH DINNER

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

YIWH GOES TO AIPAC

Join our growing delegation as we head to Washington DC

March 20th -22nd to partake in the AIPAC Policy Conference. For details,

please contact Rabbi Brander

REMINDER

Weekday Mincha & Maariv (Monday-Thursday) will meet at HHNE

300 Bloomfield Avenue We look forward to seeing you there!

WEEKLY YIWH LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

SUNDAY MORNING GEMARA SHIUR

Join us for a light breakfast as we explore the tractate of Horayot Sunday mornings

immediately following davening.

LADIES' LUNCH & LEARN

Explore the weekly parasha with us On Wednesdays at the JCC from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM.

For more information, please contact Ann Feldman at ann.feldman@ltbsolutions.net

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Save the Date

WOMEN’S SHABBAT AFTERNOON

MISHNAH CLASS

This Shabbat, January 23rd NO CLASS

BESS & PAUL SIGEL HEBREW ACADEMY

PLAYFUL PLAY PALS

Playful Pals Playgroup returns for the winter every Tuesday at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

from January 26th through March 15th At the Hebrew Academy

NCSY PIZZA & PIRKEI

Thursday, January 28th at 7:30 PM At the Balks 191 Mohawk Drive

DOR L’DOR

Saturday Night, January 30th 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

At HHNE

NER NCSY WINTER REGIONAL

Join 150 teens and advisors at Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley Airport,

February 26-28 for a fun filled weekend including Ultimate Late Night

Snow Tubing, Inspiring Guest Speakers, the Best Advisors Ever. For more information please contact

Devorah Aroesty-Cohen in the NCSY office 617-332-6279 or devorahac@ncsy.org)

MIKVEH BESS ISRAEL

Women's Wellness Event "EX-STRESS YOURSELF" on Sunday, February 28th

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM At Chabad of West Hartford

To register: www.bessisrael.org

BESS & PAUL SIGEL HEBREW ACADEMY

GALA DINNER & CONCERT

Wednesday, March 30

BOOK CLUB

A Remarkable Kindness Diana Bletter Washing the Dead Michelle Brafman

For more information please contact Debbie Luger at deluge613@sbcglobal.net

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BOOKKEEPERS CORNER

SCRIP UPDATE: Together we've made over $2,700 so far from a va-

riety of supermarket and other gift cards. If you are not yet participating in the program

and need more info or help getting started, please call Daniella Robinson

danzie9468@gmail.com cell: 516-286-0185 Home: 860-578-9515

SHUL STATEMENTS

Please contact Maria via email with any ques-tions. (bookkeeper@youngisraelwh.org) You may include a number where she can reach you. Letters reflecting your tax deductible contributions for 2015, will be prepared in Jan-uary.

With so many assorted pledges and categories for payments to the YIWH, please enclose a note or write in the memo of your check (in English not Hebrew) exactly what the check is payment for. Separate checks or a specific ac-counting of what's included in any payment is essential to keeping things in order. Thank you for your cooperation.

YIWH YOUTH DEPARTMENT SHABBAT MORNING GROUPS

Groups meet weekly on Shabbat from 10:15 AM-11:15 AM. Children ages 5 & under meet on the carpeted corner downstairs.

Children in Grades 1 -5 are invited to partake in our

Junior Congregation downstairs

TOT SHABBAT CIRCLE

Held on the first Shabbat of the month, starting at 10:30-11:15

Tot Shabbat Circle provides a warm, fun-filled Shabbat experience for young children with their parents. It includes davening, singing, parsha, &

story time, and is followed by a special Shabbat treat.

MUSSAF & MUNCH

Meet Monthly Beginning right after the Haftorah in the main min-

yan, our teens break away to have their own teen-led mussaf service and share a dvar torah by one of their peers. Of course, Mussaf is always followed by a MUNCH: a delicious Kiddush with chulent, kugel,

chips, and soda….we think you get the idea.

SECURITY COMMITTEE

Thank you to all those involved in the coverage and rotations. If you are interested in

being involved please email : sjr5@sbcglobal.net Thank you Stan Rutstein – YIWH Security Committee

Rav David Silverberg Towards the beginning of “Az Yashir,” the song of praise sung by Benei Yisrael after the mira-cle of the splitting of the sea, they proclaim, “Zeh Keli ve-anveihu, Elokei avi va-aromemenhu” – “This is my God and I shall glorify Him; the God of my father, and I shall extol Him” (15:2). The Gemara, in Masekhet Shabbat (133b) and elsewhere, cites the first clause of this verse – “This is my God, and I shall glorify Him” – as the source for the well-known requirement of hiddur mitzva – to aesthetically enhance our observance of mitzvot. The word “ve-anveihu,” the Gemara asserts, can be read as a derivative of the word “na’eh” – “beautiful” – and thus refers to the “beautification” of mitzvot through high aesthetic standards, such as by wearing beauti-ful tefillin and a beautiful tallit, constructing a beautiful sukka, and so on. Clearly, on the level of peshuto shel mikra – the straightforward meaning of the text – the word “ve-anveihu” refers to praise, as it parallels the word “va-aromemenhu” (“I shall extol Him”) in the second clause of the verse. How might we explain the connection between the straightforward meaning of the verse and its halakhic denotation? It is not often that we are moved and inspired to erupt in song and praise to the Al-mighty. Rarely do we experience the kind of exuberance and excitement that led our ancestors to sing “Az Yashir.” And if we try to arouse such emotion within ourselves, it is likely to be an artifi-cial feeling that we attribute to religious zeal but really has little to do with our connection to God. Chazal here perhaps teach us that when we do not genuinely feel moved to “ve-anveihu,” to express real emotion, then we should instead devote our attention to “hiddur mitzva,” to raising the standards of our mitzva observance. The experience of “ve-anveihu” – the outpouring of spir-itual joy and exuberance – certainly has its place, when we are truly and genuinely moved and over-come by emotion and by a sincere feeling of love for, and awe of, our Creator. At other times, how-ever, rather than trying to produce artificial feelings of spirituality, we should express our dedica-tion to the Almighty through “hiddur mitzva,” through patient, thorough and rigorous engagement in each and every mitzva that comes before us. Chazal’s interpretation of “ve-anveihu,” then, reflects the balance that we need to maintain between emotion and deed, between the outpouring of spiritual feelings and the careful, disci-plined and detailed attention to mitzvot.

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Please include in your tefilot IDF soldiers as well as those have been injured in the recent wave of terror activity.

Natan ben Odel, Odel bat Miriam, Moshe ben Orli, Meir Yitzchak ben Sarah, Dvir ben Shoshana, Aharon Moshe Chaim ben Chaya Chana, Ron Shai bat Sigalit, Adi ben Rut, Niv ben Yardena, Moshe ben Daisy, Meor Efraim ben Fortuna Daniella,Yuval ben Miriam,

Yarin ben Rivka, Moshe ben Edgach, Liat bat Yael, Or-El bat Limor, Yosef Chaim ben Zahava, Naor Shalev ben Rut Elisheva, Yom Tov Lipa ben Roiza,Yair ben Roizina, Samuel Ono ben Antoni, Shoshana bat Lulu, Moshe ben Bracha, Maya bat Ilana, Ron ben Chana, Adiv

ben Fortuna Mazel, Daniel Chaim ben Revital, David ben Shoshana, Elon Chaim HaCohen ben Rita, Yehonatan Amiram ben Miriam, Pesach ben Rachel Miriam Hadassah, Yarden ben Orli, Meital Dikla bat Ninette, Gilad ben Meirav, Tahel bat Sigal, Sigal bat Jacquline,

Gal ben Na’ami, Yaniv ben Chana, Yotam ben Penina, David Shlomo ben Rachel, Nirit Chana bat Nitza, Daniel be Nano, Daniel HaCohen ben Yedidya, Yigal Chaim ben Chofit, Yehonatan ben Rut Ruchama, Ro'ee ben Rachel, Yitzchak David ben Iris Ruchama, Gai ben Yocheved, Liad ben Amira, Lidor ben Revital, Raz ben Lidiya, Mazal bat Shoshana Shma’a, Harel Avraham ben Amalia, Edena ben Sarah, Shaul Chai ben Aviva, Yotam Shmuel ben Yael. Rachel bat Sara, Suzanne Sultana bat Nadjma, Moshe ben Romia, Oshrat bat

Yonah, Mordechai Aharon ben Leah Miriam. May they all have a refuah shleima -- a full and speedy recovery among all the sick and wounded of Israel.

YIWH Schedule of Services

January 22nd - 29th, 2016 It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush

Shabbat Shira Parashat B’Shalach Or Seudah Shlishit!

Shul handles set up & Clean up!

Friday, January 22nd - Erev Shabbat Contact Judie Patel at 860-761-3818,

Shacharit 6:45 a.m. or bulletin@youngisraelwh.org

Candle Lighting 4:35 p.m. to check the availability of the date

Mincha/Maariv 4:40 p.m. you need & call Ilana Bernstein

at 860- 922-0448 or

Shabbat, January 23rd ilana.bernstein79@gmail.com

Rabbi Jaffee’s Shabbat morning Class 8:15 a.m. to make the arrangements for the

Shacharit 9:00 a.m. type of Kiddush you want.

Sof Zman Kriat Shma 9:37 a.m. Checks need to be received the

Youth Programming 10:15 a.m. Sunday prior to your Kiddush date.

Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit & Maariv 4:25 p.m. There are three types

Shabbat Ends 5:39 p.m. of Kiddushim:

Standard for $150,

Sunday, January 24th - Thursday, January 28th Semi-Deluxe for $250

Earliest Tallit & Tefillin 6:16 a.m. & Deluxe for $350

Shacharit...Sunday Followed by Rabbi Brander's 8:15 a.m. With supplements available.

Gemara Class & Breakfast

Shacharit…Monday Tu B’Shvat & Thursday 6:40 a.m. KIDDUSH SCHEDULE

Shacharit…Tuesday & Wednesday 6:45 a.m. 1/30 Robinson

Mincha/Maariv...Sunday at YIWH 4:40 p.m.

Mincha/Maariv...Monday - Thursday at HHNE 4:40 p.m.

SEUDAH SHLISHIT

Friday, January 29th- Erev Shabbat 1/23 Feldman

Shacharit 6:45 a.m. The cost to sponsor is $90.00

Candle Lighting 4:43 p.m. To set up Seudah Shlishit contact

Mincha/Maariv 4:48 p.m. Steve Luger swluger2@yahoo.com

Ner La’Maor - Lights Edna & David Shamash

Pat La’Orchim

Yayin l’ Kiddush Ve'Havdalah

Kiddush Supplement Ann & Jeremy Pava

Seudah Shlishit Supplement Susan & Gil Fried

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5776 Candy Man You-Dah-Man

Audrey & Leon Laufer In honor of the original

Candy Man Gene Wittenberg

Ann & Jeremy Pava

Daniella & Avi Robinson In memory of Daniella’s Grandmother

Mrs. Vivian Furst חיה גיטל בת מאיר צמח

Judy & Sam Leichtberg in memory of their parents

Israel & Frida Weiss Abraham & Miriam Leichtberg

אברהם בן שמואל ומרים בת יעקב אריה ישראל בן דוד וטויבה פרידה בת עזרא

Handy Man Good Humor Man

Edie & Sid Perew Debbie & Steve Luger