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Shabbat Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech

September 4th, 2010

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COMMUNAL SELICHOT PROGRAMMotzaei Shabbat, September 4, 2010At Agudas Achim10:00pm—Program11:30pm—1st Selichot12:50am—2nd Selichot at YI TroutbrookSHABBAT SHUVA DRASHA“The Strength of Reish Lakish &The Limits of Forgiveness”Shabbat, September 11th at 5:15 PM

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Aviva & Adam Adler, Barzeli & Yehudis Goldfarb,Laura & Stu Miller, Charlie & Michal Wizenfeld,Barbara & Michael Snyder, Anita & Tsion Cohen,Ted & Vivian Zablotsky, Judie & Lal Patel,Harriet & Mark Rosenblit, Sandy & Mark Trencher

בוט לזמבוט לזמ

to Audrey and Arlen Lichter on themarriage of their daughter Shari to Sam Raymondof Stamford ,CT.

בוט לזמ

to Jenny & Eliad Shmuel,& Simon; Grandmothers Goldie Lichter and SylviaRoss of West Hartford.

בוט לזמ

Judy and BobRaymond , Sarah Raymond and GrandmothersIna Rabinowicz and Emma Raymond.

Shabbat Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech

8:15 AM Rabbi Sheinkopf’s

Mishnah Brurah

Class9:00 AM

Shacharit

9:34 AM

Sof Zman Kriat Shma5:45 PM

Rabbi Dr. Alex Mondrow

Shabbat

Afternoon Shiur6:50 PM Mincha,

Seudah Shlishit & Maariv

8:03 PM

Shabbat

Ends

HIGH HOLIDAYSPlease check your email as well as your “snail mail”for important information regarding seating,babysitting, and

aliyot

and other detailsregarding the High Holidays.

Rabbi Dr. Alex MondrowScholar-In-ResidenceRabbi Mondrow hasserved in many rabbinic andteaching capacities. For the lastfour years, he served as therabbi of the Albert Einstein College of MedicineSynagogue. He was also one of the founding mem-bers of the Los Angeles Intercommunity Kollel(LINK), an outreach and community educationlearning center. While in Los Angeles, RabbiMondrow taught in the Yeshiva of Los Angelesboy's highs school. He has also taught at the Mar-sha Stern Talmudic Academy (MTA).(Photo: Rabbi Alex & Jordana Mondrow

)

Rabbi Mondrow recently completed hisdoctorate in School-Clinical Child Psychology atthe Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Hisresearch was focused on substance abuse treat-ment for adolescents and much of his training andstudies focused on parenting techniques and psy-cho-educational assessment. He trained andworked as a clinical therapist at the Center for Ap-plied Psychology of the Bikur Cholim of RocklandCounty, a mental health clinic that largely servesthe Chasidic and Ultra-Orthodox population. Hiswork focused largely on children and families andis in the process of entering into private practice inNorthern New Jersey.ScheduleFriday Evening, September 3, 20109:15pm — Oneg at the home ofEsther & David Glahn, 53 Miamis RoadShabbat Morning, September 4, 201010:30am-ish — Shabbat Morning Drasha5:45pm — Shabbat Afternoon Shiur6:50pm — Mincha, followed by Seudah Shlishit

SAVE THE DATESUPCOMING

SHUL

& COMMUNITY EVENTS

ELISHA ROSENSWEIG’S CLASS

This week on Tuesday, September 7th, at 8:00 PMAt the home of Judie Patel, 100 Lawler RoadHHNE HAT SHOWWednesday, September 15thAt the home of Fran Wittenberg,36 Whetton RoadProceeds to benefit HHNE

BOOK CLUB

All Other Nights, A novelBy Dara Horn

SUCCAH

HOPThis years

Succah

Hop will take place on

Shabbat

Succot

. Any one that is willing to open up their

Succah

for this great and anticipated event for our children can email me or call.We will be splitting up the groups by grades:Nursery- 1/2-4/5-8We should meet at the shul at 4:30 andthe children should return around 6.Thanking you in advance!Edie Perew: edieperew@aol.com or 860-523-0852

BUY SCRIP! BUY SCRIP!Rosh Hashanah is here ! The Chagim are all here!Please remember to continue to use scrip. It costsnothing additional to you - yet it helps the

Shul.

Remember, if you can not come and get the cardswe can bring it to you! Let's support our

Shul

bybuying scrip ! Every dollar counts!Contact: Judith Hessing (860-233-6042),at 18 Grenhart Street

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A Personal Gift – Chai MitzvahI know you have a lot going on… family, work and com-munity. Taking time for your own personal growth is notalways a priority, but it should be. You can become amember of the Chai Mitzvah program (at no charge!).Each participant chooses his/her own topic of study andtime commitment. This is an opportunity for personallearning, ritual enhancement, and social action. This pro-gram is designed for adults in increments of 18 years(Chai) past Bar/Bat Mitzvah age. If you are within twoyears of 31, 49, 67, or 80 … please consider becoming amember of Chai Mitzvah. Last year, the 6 Young Israelparticipants were very pleased with their personal learn-ing and being a part of this program. Please contact mewith any questions. This is a feel good program with nostrings attached…it is a personal gift,Chai Mitzvah Mentor – Vivian Zablotsky vzab@comcast.net

KOL HANEARIM TALLIS PROJECT

The

Yom Tovim

are almost here! Now is your chance toincludeyour family in a part of YIWH history. Add yourchild/children's names on our

Kol Hanearim Tallis

in timefor this

Simchat Torah

. You can start with one child at atime or add them all at once, the choice is yours! In addi-tion, the names on the

Tallis

will all be added tothe treeof life downstairs, check out the newest additions!Contact Aviva Braunshweiger forfurther information 860-231-1808

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTFran & Gene WittenbergIn memory of Rabbi Weinberg's Grandmother-Riva WeinbergIn memory of Al WeiselIn memory of Sarah Elbaum's motherDavid & Sharon GoldfarbIn memory of Dr. Al WeiselIn memory of Sarah Elbaum's motherSusanne & David Gelb:In memory of Rabbi Weinberg's grandmotherIn memory of Al WeiselJason Wolfe & Vera SchwarczIn honor of the birth of a daughter to Asaf & Ronit GoldbergerIn honor of the marriage of Adina Laufer to Zachary SaltzmanIn honor of the marriage of Shari Lichter to Sam Raymond

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Please send reservations with payment by October 8th,2010, to The Emanuel Synagogue ~ 160 Mohegan Ave. ~West Hartford, CT 06117/Please make cheques payableto “The Emanuel Synagogue”

HAPPY BIRTHDAYJudie Laufer, Tom Freund, Tamir Hessing,Avigayil Halpern, Lal Patel, Rabbi Brahm Weinberg,David Cohen, Sid Perew, Vivian Zablotsky

Dvar Torah of the WeekBy Rabbi Yaakov Beasley (www.vbm-torah.net)The final commandment in the Torah is to write for oneself a Sefer Torah. While the modern practi-calities of this commandment are a subject of discussion among the commentators, it is interesting to notethat last week, in Parshat Ki Tavo, the Jewish people were also commanded to write a Sefer Torah as well.However, a vast difference exists between the two Sifrei Torah. Bnei Yisrael, upon entry into Eretz Yisrael,were required to engrave the entire Torah upon a large stone, where it would serve as a permanent re-minder of the covenant between Hashem and his people. The individual Sefer Torah, however, is very differ-ent. Upon the rock, which required little preparation before the Torah was engraved on it, the process ofproducing a kosher parchment out of goat skin is a long and arduous one. Until the skin has been properlytreated, and all foreign objects have been removed, the act of writing the Torah upon it cannot begin, and ifit does, the Torah is invalid.Based upon an idea of the Avnei Nezer, we can suggest the following distinction between the twosituations for our own lives. We each have two connections to the Torah – our connection to the Jewishpeople, and a connection on our own personal level. The part of us that relates to the Torah through oursense of belonging to the community requires no preparation or effort. We all have a “pintele Yid”, a pureconnection through our Jewish soul that requires no effort on our part. However, there is another aspect toour service of Hashem, what the Avnei Nezer calls “the externality of the heart, that is like raw material thatcan be shaped and formed, and therefore needs labor and effort to be purified and cleansed spiritually, be-fore it may receive the Divine Presence. This aspect requires Torah study and mitzvah performance, just asthe goat skin required treatment before it is kosher to write a Torah upon it.”

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Rabbi’s CornerIt is a pleasure to have started off this year’s series of classes and programs with such a bang! It wasnice to see so many people attend my Pre-Rosh Hashanna

shiur

this past Shabbat and then again during theweek. I hope that the materials were helpful in getting a sense of the

Mussaf

prayers on Rosh Hashanna,their structure and deeper meaning. I know that I myself often used to get “lost” in the many words andphrases of the long

Mussaf Amidah

that I was unfamiliar with. However, when I discovered and learned moreabout the very definite structure things became so much easier to understand and navigate.This weekend we have two more programs happening and I hope you will be able to attend them:As you know we will be hosting our Scholar in Residence Rabbi Dr. Alex Mondrow. Although I don’tknow him so well, I think very highly of Rabbi Mondrow and what he has been able to accomplish in hisyears in the rabbinate. To be able to be a Rabbi of a thriving community at Albert Einstein College of Medi-cine full of knowledgeable and interested young people, be a father, and finish your PhD is no simple feat!From my interactions with him he is clearly a very warm and special person whom were are lucky to be host-ing this Shabbat. See the flyer to get more details of his lectures and topics etc…It should be a wonderfulintroduction to the

Yamim Noraim

and an inspiration to all of us.The learning continues….on Saturday night! We will be joining the other Orthodox shuls in the areafor a little music, for a joint learning program, and for

Selichot

at Agudas Achim. The program starts at10:00pm and you can pick from a very wide variety of classes on different topics and given by different rab-bis of the community.

Yasher Koach

to Rabbi Ari Weiss for putting it together. The program will be followedby

Selichot

at 11:30pm. There will be an additional

Selichot

at 12:50am (halachic midnight) at YIH on Trout-brook. I attended that late

Selichot

last year and it was incredibly moving to be there in the middle of thenight with very tight nit group and beautiful melodies etc…What a way to start of the season of

Yamim No-raim

and of

Teshuva

! I would really encourage you to try it.As Rosh Hashanna approaches I would like to make a plug for people (men and women) to make anextra effort to come to daily

minyan

. It is a special time of year and coming to

shul

in the morning or eve-ning shows a real push towards Hashem. Even if you don’t come the rest of the year – just try it. You will bewelcomed in and it would certainly help to set the tone for al of us about these “days of awe”. Thanks.Shabbat Shalom! Rabbi Weinberg