Shabbat Schedule Friday 6:51 pm: Earliest Candle Lighting 6:45 pm: Early Mincha followed by Kabbalat Shabbat in the Nathaniel

Richman Cohen Main Sanctuary 8:07 pm: Candle Lighting 8:10 pm: Mincha followed by Kabbalat Shabbat in the Nathaniel Richman

Cohen Main Sanctuary Shabbat 7:40 am: (Note time change for Rosh Chodesh) Hashkama Minyan in the

Belfer Beit Midrash followed by Kiddush and shiur with Rabbi Moshe Sokolow 9:00 am: Services in the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Main Sanctuary Post-Musaf: Drasha by Rabbinic Intern, Dov Lerner At Kiddush: Pirke Avot Chapter 5 with Ben Keil 9:09 am: Latest Shema 9:15 am: Beginners Service in room LL201 (Lower Level) 9:30 am: Youth Breakfast 9:45 am: Rabbi Herschel Cohen Memorial Minyan in the Belfer Beit Midrash. Tween Corner will not be meeting over the summer 4:00 pm: Bikur Cholim volunteers meet in front of LSS

NEW VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOME AND NEEDED 6:25 pm: Beginners Mishnah Chavura with Lloyd Epstein in the Belfer

Beit Midrash 6:55 pm: Louis Lazar Memorial Talmud Class with Rabbinic Intern, Dov Lerner 6:55 pm: Samson Raphael Hirsch Bible Class with

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald in room 211 7:55 pm: Mincha in the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Main Sanctuary

followed by Seudah Shlishit. Special Seudah Shlishit: Joel Rubinfeld, Co-Chairman of European Jewish

Parliament: Anti-Semitism in Europe. 9:07 pm: Ma’ariv/Shabbat ends

Shaul Robinson Rabbi

Sherwood Goffin Cantor

Elana Stein Hain Community Scholar

Dr. Alan Singer Executive Director

PARSHAT KORACH

30 SIVAN 5773 • ROSH CHODESH • JUNE 7-8 2013

Candle Lighting: 8:07 pm

Thank you to our volunteer Security Guards, Greeters, and

Ushers this Shabbat

Mazal Tov to our Members: If you’ve had a Mazal Tov, let us know!

Mazal Tov to Shira & Avi Spira on the birth of a baby girl, Liv Alexandra. Mazal Tov to siblings Mia, Sara, and Jack.

Mazal Tov to grandparents Gale & Steven Spira.

Mazal tov to Rivka Abbe, daughter of Judy & Cyrus Abbe, for being

selected and featured in the Jewish Week section “36 Under 36”

Mazal Tov to Chavie Kahn and Heshy Kofman on the bar mitzvah

of their son Julian. Mazal tov to siblings Simon and Sarina.

Thank You to Our Kiddush Sponsors

Hashkama Kiddush

Sponsored by the Fund.

Main Kiddush

Co-Sponsored by: the LSS Community in honor of Miriam and Rabbi Dov Lerner for all of their contributions to LSS. We wish them huge success in their future endeavors ;

Herbert and Alvin Weiss in memory of their mother

Jennie Weiss a”h

Beginners Kiddush

Sponsored anonymously in loving memory of Shmuel Shoshani z”l, and in honor of Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald .

Seudah Shlishit

Co-Sponsored by: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Muntz in memory of his parents;

Harriet Frank in memory of her father Aharon Leib Frank z”l

Weekday Prayer Schedule

Mincha/Ma’ariv: Sun - Thurs at 8:15 pm Sun (Rosh Chodesh)

Shacharit: 7:00am Daf Yomi: 7:45am Shacharit: 8:30am

Mon & Thur

Daf Yomi: 6:15am Shacharit: 7:00am Shacharit: 7:50am

Tues, Wed & Fri

Daf Yomi: 6:20am Shacharit: 7:10am Shacharit: 7:50am

Register at lss.org

Rabbinic Intern Dov Lerner’s Farewell Shabbat Join with us as we wish farewell and Hatzlacha to our beloved

Rabbinic Intern, Dov Lerner. Mazal Tov on a job well done.

Dov Lerner will be addressing the congregation three times this

Shabbat:

Friday, 6:45 pm early Mincha Service.

Topic: Incensed Rebellion: The Jewish Nose

Shabbat Morning Post-Musaf in the Main Minayn.

Topic: Cliff Faces and River Beds: Scenes of the Jewish Survival

Shabbat- 6:55 pm: Louis Lazar Memorial Talmud Class.

Topic: The Right Staff: Leadership in Sticky Situations

Meeting of the Lincoln Square Synagogue Board of Governors and

Trustees will be held Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 7:30 pm.

For full event descriptions, please see our website at lss.org

Sunday (Rosh Chodesh) 6/9

Chosen Mishpat class will not meet this week

Monday 6/10 10:30 am: Tefillah Shiur with Community Scholar Elana Stein Hain. This is the FINAL CLASS of the season Tuesday 6/11 10:30-11:30 am: The Marilyn & Sam Isler Studies in the Weekly Torah Portion with

Rabbi Shaul Robinson 7:00 Shiur in Hebrew with Rabbi Mordechai Green-berg, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh. See below for topic

7:15 Chabura on Shmuel Wednesday 6/12 6:30 pm: (Please note special time) The Kaddish Class, A learning and support group for people who have suffered loss, with Rabbi Shaul Robinson

Wednesday 6/12 (cont.) 7:00 pm: Crash Course in Basic Judaism with Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald. Topic: Sexuality 7:30 pm: Talmudic Methodology Class with Rabbi Daniel Weiss Thursday 6/13 7:15 pm: The Jacob Adler Parsha Class: Explorations on the weekly Parsha with Rabbi Shaul Robinson Shabbat 6/15 6:30 pm: (90 minutes before Mincha)- Beginners Mishna Chavura with Lloyd Epstein 7:00 pm: (60 minutes before Mincha)- Samson Raphael Hirsch Bible Class with Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald 7:00 pm: (60 minutes before Mincha)- Louis Lazar Memorial “Eighth Daf” Talmud Class with LSS Clergy

ONGOING CLASSES

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES with THE JOSEPH SHAPIRO INSTITUTE

THIS WEEK

Events at LSS

Tuesday, June 11

7:00pm: Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg, Rosh HaYeshivah of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh will be delivering a shiur in

Hebrew. Topic: “Ata Bechartanu: Why Us?”

Wednesday, June 12th

7:00 pm: Final Crash Course in Basic Judaism with Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald

Thursday, June 13, 7:00 pm Singles comedy night, for singles age 35 and up. $25 at the door.

Shabbat, June 15

Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

4:45 pm: Youth Department Year End Shabbat Party, Children up to 5th grade are welcome with their parents

Sunday, June 16

Lincoln Square Synagogue Annual Dinner. Visit lss.org to register

Shabbat, June 29

July 4th themed Lunch n’ Learn. Delicious food! Fun for the whole Family! Includes American Jewish trivia and a

brief presentation about American Jewish History by Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Kids Program: American Heroes and Contemporary Gedolim Go-Fish

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin is the founding Rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue, where he oversaw its growth into the important Jewish institution it remains today. Rabbi Riskin is also the founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel, where he still serves.

Rabbi Riskin is the founder and Chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone Colleges and Graduate Programs, a network of Jewish learning institutions in Israel.

Building Update, June 15

What you can see…

The bulbs in the terrace lights have been replaced and the fixture aimed, thereby more than doubling the light.

Shabbat Shalom, Ed Stark

Job Posting: Shabbat Greeter

Job Description:

--wish everyone who walks in a hearty Shabbat Shalom

--chat up people you don't recognize: they may be guests

--direct people to minyanim, youth groups, coat room, rest room, tallit,

and head coverings

--promote our activities with our handy flyers and Echod

Benefits:

--lots of smiles and thanks

--closer connection with our congregation, our activities, and our new

home

Qualifications:

--ability to stand on your feet for one hour

--love of Judaism, the Jewish people, and our West Side community

Apply via welcome@lss.org or speak to any greeter

Beginners Announcements

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald will conclude his free Crash Course in Basic Judaism at Lincoln Square Synagogue this Wednesday evening at 7:00PM. To register, please visit www.beginners.lss.org or call 212-874-6100. This week's topic: Sexuality

Introducing……

Our New Chazan

Chazan Yanky Lemmer Will be leading us in Davening ,

Shabbat, June 15.

Congratulations Graduates! If you know of someone who recently graduated, or is about to graduate, please email

their information to Madeline@lss.org in order for them to be featured in next week’s Echod.

Youth Department Youth Department Youth Department

Year End Year End Year End

Shabbat PartyShabbat PartyShabbat Party

On the TerraceOn the TerraceOn the Terrace

Shabbat, June 15, 4:45 PM

Children up to 5th grade are welcome with their parents

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Youth Announcements

In Shul by Alan Zwiebel

Youth Announcements

Shabbat Schedule

Toddlers: On Summer Hiatus Pre-K: 10:00 am Supervised Playtime, 10:30 am Circle Time Tefillah, 10:45 am Parsha,

11:05 am Snack — room 208 Kindergarten and 1st grade: 10:15 am Tefillah, 10:30 am Parsha, 10:55 am Snack —

room 207

2nd and 3rd Grade: 10:15 am Tefillah, 10:45 am Parsha, 11:00 am Snack — room 217

4th and 5th Grade boys: On Summer Hiatus 2nd through 5th Grade girls: 10:15 am Tefillah, 10:45 am Parsha, 11:00 am Snack — room

206

Tween: On Summer Hiatus

Join us on Shabbat, June 15, 4:45 pm for the Youth Department Year End Shabbat Party

Children up to 5th grade are welcome with their parents

LSS Math Circle

The LSS Math Circle is dedicated to

expanding, deepening, and

disseminating mathematical

knowledge. It is a place for kids to

learn interesting mathematics and

meet others with like interests. Open

to children 4th grade and up, it

meets from 6pm-8pm on

Tuesdays. Contact Harvey Stein

(hjstein@gmail.com) for details.

LSS Security Message – June, 8, 2013

Locating Emergency Exits:

Please make a note of and remember the location of the three LSS Emergency Exits

Main Exit @ the Main Entrance. Exiting on to Amsterdam Ave. Accessed through the main lobby of the shul

North Exit [next door to our neighbor, the West End Synagogue]. Exiting on to Amsterdam Ave. Accessed through the front Bimah and the front of the women’s section in the main sanctuary and through the back service elevator and back stairway area coming down from the 2nd and 3rd floors and coming up from Lower Levels 1 and 2.

Back Door Emergency Exit. Exiting behind the West End Synagogue on to the W 69th St. driveway of Lincoln Towers. Accessed from the main floor carpeted hallway past the women’s section through the double doors and also up from Lower Levels 1 and 2.

Warning: For normal exiting of the shul weekdays and on Shabbat please use only the main exit doors. For your security please do not use the two extra emergency exits as shortcuts. Using them creates a security breach.

Act as if your life depends on it…because it does. If you see something, say something.

We invite all adult members, male and female, of all ages, to take the

Local Synagogue Volunteer (LSV) course - and all able bodied adults to

take the CSS advanced course. Contact Harvey Stein, the head of LSS

security at security@lss.org or speak to one of our team leaders Ari,

Ian, Martha or Lenny. Do it now! We need you!

MEMBERS HELP TD BANK TO DONATE SIGNIFICANT MONEY TO LSS, AT NO COST TO MEMBERS!!!!

Over the past 3 years the shul has received over $28,000 from TD Bank as a result of our participating in their Affinity Program.

This amount received was based on balances held in checking, savings, CDs and IRA accounts of our members who have signed up

for this wonderful program. So if you don't have an account at TD Bank, please consider opening one and ask for the account to be

linked to the LSS Affinity Program. If you already do have an account at TD Bank, and it is not linked, get it linked. There is total

confidentiality. At no time will LSS know who has accounts there. They have a location at 68th & Broadway as well as many other

locations in the city and are open on Sunday as well.

Please join us in this effort to get significant funds to LSS from TD Bank, with no cost to you at all!

The last session of the Math Circle is this coming week. The LSS Math Circle will restart in September

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d’var echod b’lev echod

Insights into the weekly Parsha and other matters at the heart of the LSS community

In Parshat Korach there is a description of the rebellious actions of Korach and others against Moshe. Rashi narrates a story about Korach which links up with the description of tzitzit that immediately precedes the parsha. Korach asks, "Does a man clothed in techelet (sky-blue) garments require tzitzit?" Moshe replies that the law does indeed require that the tzitzit (which include only one sky-blue thread) be present, whereupon Korach scoffs and argues against the logic of such a ruling. The thrust of the Rashi is that Korach was questioning the halachic principles suggested in the Torah, as clarified by the oral law. According to this interpretation, Korach was attacking the basic structure of the legal system that was being erected by the Torah. Does this principle mean that no questioning of interpretations of the Torah can be tolerated? A later section of the parsha may help clarify the answer to this question.

Near the end of the sedrah we read the complex details that will be involved in the giving of tithes when the Jews arrive in Canaan. The section deals with the method that will be used by the Levites to give tithes, in spite of the fact that Levites will be receiving tithes from the rest of the resident Jews.

Hashem spoke to Moses, telling him to speak to the Levites and say to them:

When you take from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance from them, you must separate from it an elevated gift to Hashem, a tithe of the tithe. This tithe given to you by the Israelites is your own elevated gift, and it is exactly like grain from the threshing floor or wine from the vat. You must therefore separate an elevated gift from all the tithes that you take from the Israelites, and you must give it as Hashem's elevated gift to Aaron the priest.

Note that the text does not specify kohanim (priests) but specifically mentions Aaron the priest.

In the beginning of Parshat Vaerah there is another verse.

Hashem spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am Hashem. I revealed Myself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as 'The Almighty', and did not allow them to know Me by My name Hashem. I also fulfilled My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage where they lived as foreigners."

The phrase "I also fulfilled My covenant with them" seems inappropriate. Why doesn't it say, "I will fulfill My covenant with their descendants in the future"?

In the gemara Sanhedrin (90b) these two psukim are used as proof texts for the concept of "Techiyas Hamesim" - the revival of the dead. As it says –

From where do we know that belief in the resurrection of the dead is a concept in the Torah? As it says "And you shall give the terumah to Aaron the priest" Is Aaron alive forever? Is it possible to give terumah to someone who did not enter the Land of Israel? Rather, this teaches that Aaron will live again, and Israel will give him their terumah. From here we learn that the resurrection of the dead is a concept in the Torah.

SHABBAT PARSHAT KORACH 30 sivan 5773 • JUNE 7– 8, 2013

By: Solomon Max

LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE OFFICERS

Lloyd Epstein, Richard Kestenbaum, Co-Presidents (president@lss.org); Michael Doppelt, Alan Samuels, Shirley Stark, Vice Presidents;

Ian Silver, Treasurer; Heshy Kofman, Controller; Ari Klapholz, Financial Secretary;

Josh Neuman, Executive Secretary; Jay Ziffer, Corresponding Secretary; Morey Wildes, Recording Secretary

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A similar discussion continues in the gemara concerning Abraham's inheritance of the land.

Rav Simai said: From where do we know that [belief in] the resurrection of the dead is [a concept] in the Torah? As it is said: "And I have also established my covenant with them [the patriarchs], to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings" (Ex. 6:4). It does not say, "To you" [i.e., the descendants] but "to them" [i.e., the patriarchs] - From here [we learn] that the resurrection of the dead is [a concept] in the Torah.

Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik, in a posthumously edited and published book "The Emergence of Ethical Man", argues concerning this gemara -

"Our Rabbis singled out the unique Biblical usage of the name of the founder (Aaron or Abraham) for the identification of the group, and concluded that the founder is immortal. The argument is comprehensible only when we consider it from the viewpoint of historical perpetuation. The land was promised to Abraham, terumah to Aaron. The realization of this promise did not occur in their lifetimes but many years later and yet the word of Hashem came true. Why? Because the founder continues his existence throughout the history of his group. Whatever is realized in the course of the historical occurrence is to be understood as a personal attainment of the founder."

The statement of the Rav concerning the Jewish concept of resurrection of the dead was identified as significant by Yoram Hazony in an article in the April 2012 Commentary magazine. Lincoln Square's Fred Ehrman further contributed to this concept in the September 2012 issue of Commentary.

The concept of the resurrection of the dead has been traditionally interpreted in other ways. The most common one hypothesizes the actual physical reconstruction of the body and the soul of the deceased at some time in the future. As it says in the "Treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead" (a text that is usually attributed to the Rambam) -

"And I will state that the resurrection of the dead - which is widely known and recognized among our people, which is accepted by all groups among us, which is mentioned on numerous occasions in the tefillot, Aggadot, and supplications that were composed by the Prophets and the great Sages, who fill the pages of the Talmud and the Midrashim - refers to the return of the soul to the body after it had departed.

Concerning this, there has never been heard any disagreement in our nation, nor does it have any [allegorical] interpretation [other than its literal meaning]. Nor is it permissible to rely upon any individual who believes otherwise."

The Rav apparently felt that his interpretations were compatible with the medieval texts. The concept of resurrection of the dead has little halachic significance; it is essentially an inspirational theme. The Rav's interpretation is one of the ways that an observant Jew can view this basic principle of our religion. The acceptability of very different interpretations of Torah phrases should be familiar to those who study Torah and its commentaries.

This issue should help us understand that many interpretations of Jewish principles can be tolerated. It is perhaps a message to those who have found fault with those from Chabad who have claimed views on the Messiah that seem to conflict with other perspectives.

Parshat Korach has many messages. Rebellion against established halachah as exemplified by Korach and his followers is unacceptable, but different interpretations of non-halachic principles can be allowed. Perhaps we can use these ideas to solidify the unity of the Jewish people, and bring closer the ultimate redemption.