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Welcome to the DAT Minyan! Shabbat Hagadol (Tzav) March 24, 2018 - 8 Nisan, 5778 Joseph Friedman, Rabbi | David Fishman, President Candle Lighng Havdalah 6:56 pm 7:56 pm DAT Minyan is a dynamic and friendly Modern Orthodox synagogue for all ages and dedicated to meaningful personal spiritual development, community growth, youth involvement, Torah education, and Religious Zionism. DAT Minyan - 6825 E. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO 80224 - 720-941-0479 - www.datminyan.org Dvar Torah with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The first words we are taught to say each morning, immediately on waking, are Modeh/modah ani, I give thanks.We thank before we think. Note that the normal word order is inverted: Modeh ani, not ani modeh, so that in Hebrew the thankscomes before the I.Judaism is gratude with atude.And this, according to recent scienfic research, really is a life- enhancing idea. The source of the command to give thanks is to be found in this weeks parsha. Among the sacrifices it itemises is the korban todah, the thanksgiving offering: If he offers it [the sacrifice] as a thanksgiving offering, then along with this thanksgiving offering he is to offer unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and loaves of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil(Lev. 7:12). Though we have been without sacrifices for almost two thousand years, a trace of the thanksgiving offering survives to this day, in the form of the blessing Hagomel: Who bestows good things on the unworthy”, said in the synagogue, at the me of reading of the Torah, by one who has survived a hazardous situaon. This is defined by the sages (on the basis of Psalm 107), as one who has survived a sea-crossing, or travelled across a desert, or recovered from serious illness, or been released from capvity. For me, the almost universal insnct to give thanks is one of the signals of transcendence in the human condion. It is not just the pilot we want to thank when we land safely aſter a hazardous flight; not just the surgeon when we survive an operaon; not just the judge or polician when we are released from prison or capvity. It is as if some larger force was operave, as if the hand that moves the pieces on the human chessboard were thinking of us; as if Heaven itself had reached down and come to our aid. Insurance companies somemes describe natural catastrophes as acts of God”. Human emoon tends to do the opposite. God is in the good news, the miraculous deliverance, the escape from catastrophe. That insnct – to offer thanks to a force, a presence, over and above natural circumstances and human intervenon – is itself a signal of transcendence. Though not a proof of the existence of God, it is nonetheless an inmaon of something deeply spiritual in the human heart. It tells us that we are not random concatenaons of selfish genes, blindly reproducing themselves. Our bodies may be products of nature (“dust you are, and to dust you will return”), but there is something within us that reaches out to Someone beyond us: the soul of the universe, the Divine Youto whom we offer our thanks. That is what was once expressed in the thanksgiving offering, and sll is, in the Hagomel prayer. Not unl the early 1990s did a major piece of medical research reveal the dramac physical effects of thanksgiving. It became known as the Nun Study. Some 700 American nuns, all members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the United States, agreed Learning Opportunies @ the DAT Minyan Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: Daily, aſter Shacharit Daf Yomi Shiur (30 min): Sun—Fri aſter Shacharit and 8:25 am on Shabbat Mishnayot: Daily, between Mincha and Maariv Halacha Chaburah: Sun, 10:00 am—11:00 am Wed. Evening Class: returns aſter Pesach Thu. Evening Mishmar: returns aſter Pesach (Connued on Page 3) Shabbat Schedule Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service. FRIDAY 6:55 pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv, (Shema should be recited aſter 7:55 pm) SHABBAT Parasha: Page 568 / Maſtir: Page 584 / Haſtarah: Page 1220 7:30 am: Hashkama Minyan 8:25 am: Daf Yomi 8:30 am: Tefillah Warm-up with Ellyn Hu 9:00 am: Shacharit Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by the Saltz- Siegel family in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Jonah Siegel 5:30 pm: HS BoysGemara w/ Nathan Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home 5:45 pm: SHAWL, our Shabbat womens learning group, with guest presenter Ellyn Hu, discussing Shabbat HaGadol: Whats So Great About the Great Shabbos?6:45 pm: Mincha, followed by Seudah Shlisheet Seudah Shlisheet is sponsored by the shul 7:05 pm: Shabbat Mishna w/ Howie Shapiro 7:56 pm: Maariv / Havdalah —————————————————— Weekday Schedule SHACHARIT Sunday: 8:00 am Monday — Friday: 6:35 am MINCHA/MAARIV Sunday — Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday — Friday: 7:05 pm Please see Pesach Schedule on Page 7 for davening mes beginning Thursday evening

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Welcome to the DAT Minyan! Shabbat Hagadol (Tzav)

March 24, 2018 - 8 Nisan, 5778 Joseph Friedman, Rabbi | David Fishman, President

Candle Lighting

Havdalah

6:56pm 7:56pm

Shabbat Schedule

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the

service.

FRIDAY

5:25 pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv,

(Shema should be recited after 6:25 pm)

SHABBAT

Parasha: Page 464 / Haftarah: Page 1159

7:30 am: Hashkama Minyan

8:25 am: Daf Yomi

8:30 am: Tefillah Warm-up with Ellyn Hutt

9:00 am: Shacharit

Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored

anonymously

4:00 pm: HS Boys’ Gemara w/ Nathan

Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home

5:15 pm: Mincha, followed by Seudah Shlisheet

Seudah Shlisheet is sponsored by the shul

5:35 pm: Shabbat Mishna w/ Howie Shapiro

6:26 pm: Maariv / Havdalah

7:15 pm: Mish Mosh (the final Mish Mosh of

the season)

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Weekday Schedule

Sunday: 8:00 am

Monday-Tuesday: 6:35 am

SEE COMPLETE PURIM SCHEDULE ON PAGE

MINCHA/MAARIV

DAT Minyan is a dynamic and friendly Modern Orthodox synagogue for all ages and dedicated to meaningful personal spiritual development, community growth, youth involvement, Torah education, and Religious Zionism.

DAT Minyan - 6825 E. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO 80224 - 720-941-0479 - www.datminyan.org

D’var Torah with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The first words we are taught to say each morning, immediately on waking, are Modeh/modah ani, “I give thanks.” We thank before we think. Note that the normal word order is inverted: Modeh ani, not ani modeh, so that in Hebrew the “thanks” comes before the “I.” Judaism is “gratitude with attitude.” And this, according to recent scientific research, really is a life-enhancing idea.

The source of the command to give thanks is to be found in this week’s parsha. Among the sacrifices it itemises is the korban todah, the thanksgiving offering: “If he offers it [the sacrifice] as a thanksgiving offering, then along with this thanksgiving offering he is to offer unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and loaves of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil” (Lev. 7:12).

Though we have been without sacrifices for almost two thousand years, a trace of the thanksgiving offering survives to this day, in the form of the blessing Hagomel: “Who bestows good things on the unworthy”, said in the synagogue, at the time of reading of the Torah, by one who has survived a hazardous situation. This is defined by the sages (on the basis of Psalm 107), as one who has survived a sea-crossing, or travelled across a desert, or recovered from serious illness, or been released from captivity.

For me, the almost universal instinct to give thanks is one of the signals of transcendence in the human condition. It is not just the pilot we want to thank when we land safely after a hazardous flight; not just the surgeon when we survive an operation; not just the judge or politician when we are released from prison or captivity. It is as if some larger force was operative, as if the hand that moves the pieces on the human chessboard were thinking of us; as if Heaven itself had reached down and come to our aid.

Insurance companies sometimes describe natural catastrophes as “acts of God”. Human emotion tends to do the opposite. God is in the good news, the miraculous deliverance, the escape from catastrophe. That instinct – to offer thanks to a force, a presence, over and above natural circumstances and human intervention – is itself a signal of transcendence. Though not a proof of the existence of God, it is nonetheless an intimation of something deeply spiritual in the human heart. It tells us that we are not random concatenations of selfish genes, blindly reproducing themselves. Our bodies may be products of nature (“dust you are, and to dust you will return”), but there is something within us that reaches out to Someone beyond us: the soul of the universe, the Divine “You” to whom we offer our thanks. That is what was once expressed in the thanksgiving offering, and still is, in the Hagomel prayer.

Not until the early 1990s did a major piece of medical research reveal the dramatic physical effects of thanksgiving. It became known as the Nun Study. Some 700 American nuns, all members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the United States, agreed

(Continued on page 3)

Learning Opportunities @ the DAT Minyan

• Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: Daily, after Shacharit

• Daf Yomi Shiur (30 min): Sun—Fri after Shacharit and 8:25 am on Shabbat

• Mishnayot: Daily, between Mincha and Maariv

• Halacha Chaburah: Sun, 10:00 am—11:00 am

• Wed. Evening Class: returns after Pesach

• Thu. Evening Mishmar: returns after Pesach

(Continued on Page 3)

Shabbat Schedule

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the

service.

FRIDAY 6:55 pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv,

(Shema should be recited after 7:55 pm) SHABBAT

Parasha: Page 568 / Maftir: Page 584 / Haftarah: Page 1220

7:30 am: Hashkama Minyan

8:25 am: Daf Yomi

8:30 am: Tefillah Warm-up with Ellyn Hutt

9:00 am: Shacharit

Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by the Saltz-Siegel family in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of

Jonah Siegel

5:30 pm: HS Boys’ Gemara w/ Nathan Rabinovitch at the Rabinovitch home

5:45 pm: SHAWL, our Shabbat women’s learning group, with guest presenter Ellyn Hutt, discussing “Shabbat HaGadol: What’s So Great About the Great Shabbos?”

6:45 pm: Mincha, followed by Seudah Shlisheet

Seudah Shlisheet is sponsored by the shul

7:05 pm: Shabbat Mishna w/ Howie Shapiro

7:56 pm: Maariv / Havdalah

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Weekday Schedule

SHACHARIT

Sunday: 8:00 am

Monday — Friday: 6:35 am

MINCHA/MAARIV

Sunday — Wednesday: 7:00 pm

Thursday — Friday: 7:05 pm

Please see Pesach Schedule on Page 7 for davening times beginning Thursday evening

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DAT MINYAN NEWS, EVENTS AND LEARNING

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Mazal Tov to Jonah Siegel and the entire Saltz-Siegel family on Jonah’s Bar Mitzvah this Shabbat! Kiddush is sponsored by the family in Jonah’s honor.

Mazal Tov to Jill and Daniel Goldstein on the birth of a grandson this week in Jerusalem! Parents are daughter and son-in-law, Nechama and Moshe Raz.

The Erev Pesach Siyum for Bechorim (firstborns) will once again take place at Brooklyn Pizza on Friday, March 30, 9:30 am, free of charge to all members of the community. This year's Siyum will be made by Howie Shapiro. Come enjoy some last morsels of Chametz with this delicious annual tradition! All donations go to Tzedakah. Speak to Howie, David Lustig, or Rabbi Zalesch for more information. Thank you to David for once again opening up his restaurant for this beautiful event.

Do you have room at your seder for guests? We sometimes get calls from people who have no seder to attend. If you might have space at your seder for a guest or two who might not otherwise have a place to go, please contact the office, 720-941-0479 or [email protected] .

Our thanks to everyone who participated with us in our fabulous Annual Event this week! Special thanks to our honorees, Rachel and Nathan Rabinovitch, and to our Event Committee, Rachel Lubchansky (Chair), Marc Avner, Melanie Avner, Graeme Bean, Irit Bean, Kim Fishman, Bara Loewenthal, Stuart Senkfor, Leslie Stewart, and photographer Neil Rosenfeld.

All able Torah leiners are encouraged to sign-up to lein one or more aliyot for any upcoming Shabbos. The sign-up website, www.datminyan.org/laining, lists all the open slots through July in need of your ability to help us carry out this central segment of the Shabbos morning service. Sign-up takes about 15 seconds, and can be done weeks in advance, giving you plenty of time to prepare. We have also made advance sign-up easy (via the same website) for those interested in participating by chanting a Haftorah, again allowing plenty of time for those who'd like time to brush-up on a Haftorah previously chanted, or to learn one they've not done yet. Please contact Steve Hutt with questions or for more information.

Please check the lost and found every month to see if any of your lost belongings are there. It is located right near the main entrance doors. The school donates all remaining items at the end of each month.

To view Board Meeting notes online: https://images.shulcloud.com/395/uploads/Documents/BoardMinutes/Board-Meeting-3-22-18.pdf .

Join us at BMH-BJ, Tuesday, April 10th at 7:00 pm for a presentation by guest speaker Professor Mordechai Kedar, from Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv on the topic “The Conflict Over Jerusalem—What is the Solution?” The DAT Minyan, in conjunction with Action Israel and several other Denver area congregations is pleased to sponsor this event for the community. Professor Kedar holds a Ph.D from Bar Ilan in Islamic Studies and is an expert on the Israeli-Arab population. He served for 25 years in the IDF Military Intelligence, specializing in Islamic groups, political discourse in Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.

We are pleased to be adding a new class to our Thursday night Mishmar program. Join us starting April 12th for an 8-week series with Rabbi Seth Herstic, “Samson’s Secrets: Interpreting Judges 13-16 With the Help of Modern and Medieval Commentary. $20 charge for the series. For questions, please contact Rabbi Herstic at [email protected] .

The DAT Minyan, in partnership with Religious Zionists of America, presents a Scholar-in-Residence Shabbaton celebrating Israel’s 70th birthday, April 13th and 14th, featuring guest speaker, Rabbi Stewart Weiss. Rabbi Weiss is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and Director of the Jewish Outreach Center of Ra’anana. A noted speaker on the topic of coping with loss and maintaining faith in the shadow of tragedy, Rabbi Weiss draws upon his own experiences, having lost his 20-year-old son in battle against Hamas terrorists in 2002. Rabbi Weiss will be speaking Shabbat afternoon, April 14th.

Our next DAT Women’s Book Club will take place on Shabbat afternoon of May 5th. We will be discussing the latest novel by Dara Horn, “Eternal Life”, described online as: “ Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.”

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Denver Academy of Torah High School Senior class is running a Toveling Fundraiser. Do you have new Pesach

dishes? Save time and let us tovel your dishes for you! Contact the senior class at [email protected] for more

information or to coordinate pickup and drop-off times and locations. Price: $10 + generally $1 per item. All proceeds

go to the senior class trip.

Save-the-Date, Monday, April 2nd, The Great Big Pesach Adventure, a Jewish community adventure at Heritage

Amusement Park, by Bais Menachem. Advance purchase ticket prices: $12 per child (age 3 +), $15 per adult, or 20

ticket bundle for $250. For more information and to buy tickets: www.chabadcolorado.com/Pesach, 303-329-0213.

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to allow their records to be accessed by a research team investigating the process of ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease. At the start of the study the participants were aged between 75 and 102.

What gave this study its unusual longitudinal scope is that in 1930 the nuns, then in their twenties, had been asked by the Mother Superior to write a brief autobiographical account of their life and their reasons for entering the convent. These documents were analysed by the researchers using a specially devised coding system to register, among other things, positive and negative emotions. By annually assessing the nuns’ current state of health, the researchers were able to test whether their emotional state in 1930 had an effect on their health some sixty years later. Because they had all lived a very similar lifestyle during these six decades, they formed an ideal group for testing hypotheses about the relationship between emotional attitudes and health.

The results, published in 2001, were startling. The more positive emotions – contentment, gratitude, happiness, love and hope – the nuns expressed in their autobiographical notes, the more likely they were to be alive and well sixty years later. The difference was as much as seven years in life expectancy. So remarkable was this finding that it has led, since then, to a new field of gratitude research, as well as a deepening understanding of the impact of emotions on physical health.

Since the publication of the Nun Study and the flurry of further research it inspired, we now know of the multiple effects of developing an attitude of gratitude. It improves physical health and immunity against disease. Grateful people are more likely to take regular exercise and go for regular medical check-ups. Thankfulness reduces toxic emotions such as resentment, frustration and regret and makes depression less likely. It helps people avoid over-reacting to negative experiences by seeking revenge. It even tends to make people sleep better. It enhances self-respect, making it less likely that you will envy others for their achievements or success. Grateful people tend to have better relationships. Saying “thank you” enhances friendships and elicits better performance from employees. It is also a major factor in strengthening resilience. One study of Vietnam War Veterans found that those with higher levels of gratitude suffered lower incidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Remembering the many things we have to be thankful for helps us survive painful experiences, from losing a job to bereavement.

Jewish prayer is an ongoing seminar in gratitude. Birkot ha-Shachar, ‘the Dawn Blessings’ said at the start of morning prayers each day, are a litany of thanksgiving for life itself: the human body, the physical world, land to stand on and eyes to see with.

Gratitude also lies behind a fascinating feature of the Amidah. When the leader of prayer repeats the Amidah aloud, we are silent other than for the responses of Kedushah, and saying Amen after each blessing, with one exception. When the leader says the words Modim anachnu lakh, “We give thanks to You,” the congregation says the a parallel passage known as Modim de-Rabbanan. For every other blessing of the Amidah, it is sufficient to assent to the words of the leader by saying Amen. The one exception is Modim, “We give thanks.” Rabbi Elijah Spira (1660–1712) in his work Eliyahu Rabbah, explains that when it comes to saying thank you, we cannot delegate this away to someone else to do it on our behalf. Thanks has to come directly from us.

Hence the transformative idea: giving thanks is beneficial to the body and the soul. It contributes to both happiness and health. It is also a self-fulfilling attitude: the more we celebrate the good, the more good we discover that is worthy of celebration.

This is neither easy nor natural. We are genetically predisposed to pay more attention to the bad than the good. For sound biological reasons, we are hyper-alert to potential threats and dangers. It takes focussed attention to become aware of how much we have to be grateful for. That, in different ways, is the logic of prayer, of making blessings, of Shabbat, and many other elements of Jewish life.

It is also embedded in our collective name. The word Modeh, “I give thanks,” comes from the same root as Yehudi, meaning “Jew.” We acquired this name from Jacob’s fourth son, named by his mother Leah who, at his birth said, “This time I will thank God” (Gen. 29:35). Jewishness is thankfulness: not the most obvious definition of Jewish identity, but by far the most life-enhancing.

Rabbi Sacks (Continued from page 1)

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Join us for Shabbat Mishna Class Geared for parent and child learning- 5th grade and up.

Open to all who'd like to attend.

Where: DAT Kindergarten room.

When: Shabbat afternoon between Mincha and Maariv

Details: We will explore how to dissect a Mishna and explore the text analytically. Ideal for pre-Gemarah prep. No previous background

required. English and Hebrew text will be provided.

MORE DAT MINYAN EVENTS AND LEARNING

We are once again partnering with Volunteers of Ameri-ca to serve lunch, this time on Sunday, March 27th, at the Mission, 2877 Lawrence St., Denver, CO 80205, from 11:15 am until 2:00 pm. We have made this a re-curring opportunity for us to give back to our communi-ty in a very meaningful way and this our next date. We are looking for 10 volunteers. Please sign up at :

https://www.datminyan.org/form/voavolunteer2

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MORE DAT MINYAN EVENTS AND LEARNING

Calendar of Events

March

24th: Shabbat w/ DeNCSY

25th: Leetsdale Latte N’ Learning

28th: Belleview Latte N’ Learning

April:

11th: Belleview Latte N’ Learning

12th: Denver NCSY Yom Hashoa Program

15th: Leetsdale Latte N’ Learning

17th: Beit Midrash Night

21st: Shabbat w/ DeNCSY

21st: Party with DeNCSY

22nd

: Leetsdale Latte N’ Learning

25th: Belleview Latte N’ Learning

Thursday Night Mishmar (returns after Pesach)

Join us from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm for an hour of learning - and choose your options:

Tanya Class, led by Rabbi Mendel Popack

Mussar Chaburah (Madreigat HaAdam, by the Alter of Navardok), led by Rabbi YD Schwartz

Samson’s Secrets: Interpreting Judges 13-16 With the Help of Modern and Medieval Commentary, led by Rabbi Seth Herstic (8 sessions at $20, starting 4/12)

Or bring a Chavrusa and learn on your own!

There will be a Maariv service at 9:00 pm,

followed by refreshments!

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DAT MINYAN MEMBER MILESTONES

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The DAT Minyan wishes to acknowledge the following milestones* of our members in the coming week:

*These details were obtained from the DAT Minyan database, which contains information provided by the members when they joined. We apologize for any omissions or mistakes. For corrections or additions, please log on to your account and update the information, or contact

the synagogue office at 720-941-0479.

Refuah Shelayma Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shelayma. Names are kept on the list until the next Rosh Chodesh. Help us keep the list accurate by verifying the necessary details each month on the Cholim Document

at https://goo.gl/aeyJG2.

Avraham ben Yonita Baruch Getzel ha Cohen ben Esther Bella bat Malka Bluma bat Marsha Borukh ben Eydya Carmel ben Tirtza Chaim Shmuel ben Miriam Chaim Tuvia ben Dina Chana Yetta bat Bryna Channa Bat Henny Rus Chaya bat Malka Chaya Chanah Elisheva Rivka bat Sarah Chaya Miriam bat Shoshana Chaya Orah bat Sarah Chaya Sarah bat Tzirel Chaya Talia bat Shayna Leah Devorah Leah bat Chanah Dinah bat Chayala Doniel ben Chana Dovid ben Laya Dovid ben Leah Eliyahu ben Miriam

Eliyahu Chaim ha Cohen ben Sara Rifka Eliyahu Dovid ben Ita Sheiva Ephraim ben Henna Esther Liba Henya Bat Yehudis Malka Eunice bat Sarah Faige bat Sarah Guy Chaim ben Rita Hadassah bat Fruma Rahel Hillel Yerachmiel ben Ariella Ita Sheiva bas Udyah Kalia bat Miriam Leah Devora Kivitiya bat Chaya Leetal bat Tzofit Leya bat Sara Lyudmila bat Roza Malka bat Sarah Margola Hadassah bat Gitel Sarah Michael ben Leah Michel ben Leah Michoel Zisel ben Barbara Miriam Tova Chaya bat Chanah Moshe Feivel ben Rose

Nataniel ben Elisheva Noa Shani bat Chaya Bracha Raphael Yotam ben Efrat Reuven Yehoshua ben Nechama Rifka bat Leah Rina bat Lea Roshka bat Bryna Sara Chana bat Shaina Sarah Shoshanna bat Sarah Shoshanna bat Smadar Shoshanna Miriam bat Chanah Tirtza bat Sarah Tomas ben Galit Tova bat Nechama Tziporah Rut bat Cissie Yehuda Mordechai Shrage ben Roiza Feige Yehudit bat Leah Yisroel ben Chana Pesel Yosef ben Bruria Katrina Yona Malka bat Pola Yonatan Zeev ben Netaa Yosef ben Malka

This Day In Jewish History - 24 Mar / 8 Nisan 8 Nisan, 366 B.C.E. — King Achashverosh ends his 180-day party for all the officials of his 127 province world empire. When,

by the King’s miscalculations, 70 years of Babylonian exile by the Jews did not result in Jeremiah’s prophecy of the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. he orchestrated the party to celebrate what he thought was the demise of the Jewish nation. Once the grand party ended, Achashverosh threw another party for the inhabitants of Shushan, which became part of the Purim story.

8 Nisan, 1814 — Denmark grants civic equality to Jews. There were close to 2,000 Jews living in Denmark at this time, nearly all of whom lived in Copenhagen. Danish Jews were granted full citizenship in 1849, by which time the Jewish population of Denmark had more than doubled to approximately 4,200.

March 24, 1887 — President Grover Cleveland appoints Oscar Straus as the first Jewish US Foreign Minister to Turkey, a position he held for two years. In 1906, President Teddy Roosevelt named Straus the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, making him the first Jew to hold a position in the Cabinet. He remained in this position for the duration of the Roosevelt administration.

March 24, 1993 — The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as the seventh President of Israel. An Israeli Air Force commander, Weizman’s political career was marked with a number of sharp personal transitions, including changes of political parties and advocacy for peacemaking with the Arab nations. Weizman, who died in 2005 at the age of 80, was the the nephew of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizman.

Myndie Brown, Adam Lubchansky, Miriam Mezer, Rachel Rubin, Stuart Senkfor, Akiva Sunshine, Avraham Zohari

Marc and Claudia Braunstein Yotam and Ruth Khalehpari Michael and Ariella Sunshine — 15 years David Brown — Mon., 3/26/18 (10 Nisan) Rosalie Marks — Wed., 3/28/18 (12 Nisan)

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PESACH AT THE DAT MINYAN Thursday, March 29 7:05 pm Mincha/Maariv After 8:01 pm Bedikat Chametz Friday, March 30—Erev Yom Tov 6:35 am Shacharit, followed by a Siyum 9:30 am Late Siyum at Brooklyn Pizza 10:31 am Latest time to eat Chametz 11:48 am Latest time to burn Chametz 7:04 pm Candle Lighting 7:05 pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv 8:03 pm Earliest time for Kiddush 1:04 am Chatzot (Midnight) Shabbat, March 31—Pesach Day 1 9:00 am Shacharit 10:00 am Groups Begin—NO EARLY CARE

One should eat Seudah Shlishit before Mincha 5:50 pm SHIUR: Rabbi Friedman - “That Fateful Night in Bnei Brak” 6:50 pm Mincha, followed by

HAGGADAH TIDBITS ROUNDTABLE—Volunteer to Share Your Seder Insights With Us

8:04 pm Maariv/Earliest time for Kiddush 8:04 pm Candle Lighting Sunday, April 1—Pesach Day 2 9:00 am Shacharit 10:00 am Groups Begin—NO EARLY CARE 6:15 pm SHIUR: Yoni Rabinovitch - Shiur of ‘Kezayit’: How Big WERE Those Olives?? 7:05 pm Mincha, followed by

SHIUR: Zev Narrowe (title TBD) 8:04 pm Maariv/Havdalah Monday, April 2—Wednesday, April 4 – Chol Hamoed 6:20 am Shacharit 8:00 am Late Shacharit 7:10 pm Mincha/Maariv Thursday, April 5—Erev Yom Tov 6:20 am Shacharit 8:00 am Late Shacharit 7:10 pm Candle Lighting (don’t forget to make an Eruv Tavshilin!) 7:10 pm Mincha/Maariv

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Delegation of Power of Attorney For Sale of Chametz (Leavened Products)

I, _________________________, the undersigned, fully empower and permit Rabbi Joseph Friedman of the DAT

Minyan, 6825 E. Alameda Avenue, Denver, CO 80224, to act on my behalf to sell all chametz (including without

limitation chametz, doubtful chametz, and all kinds of chametz mixtures) possessed by me, whether knowingly

or unknowingly, whether it actually belongs to me or for which I am responsible, as defined by the Torah and

Rabbinic Law. The following is an itemized list of chametz, its location, and approximate value:

If you are going to be away for Pesach:

I specifically authorize Rabbi Friedman to sell all Chametz located anywhere in my home, at the above address,

and to lease my entire home (with the exception of the following rooms) _________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________.

The keys to my home can be found with: _________________________________________________________ .

And to this I hereby affix my signature on this ______ day of _________, 2018.

Signature __________________________________________________________________________________

The following times have been set aside by the Rabbi for the Sale of Chometz: Sun, Mar 25 after Shacharit /

Sun, Mar 25 – Thu, Mar 29 after Maariv. If you need a different time, call to meet the rabbi at an alternate time.

Home Address: _________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Where in the home will this Chametz be found? Kitchen _____

Garage _____

Bar _____

Bathroom _____

Other _____________________

What is the approximate value of the Chametz? __________________

Business Address (if applicable): ____________________________________________________________

_______________________________________approx. value__________

Rabbi Friedman has the full right to sell and lease by transactions, as he deems fit for such time that he believes

necessary as explained in the general authorization contract to sell the Chametz. This general authorization is

made part of this agreement. Also, I hereby give the said Rabbi Friedman full power and authority to appoint a

substitute with full power to sell and lease as provided herein. The above given power is in conformity with all

Torah and Rabbinic regulations and laws and also in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado and the

United States. And to this I hereby affix my signature on this ______ day of _________, 2018.

Signature_____________________________________________ Phone:_______________________________