Friday Erev Shabbos Parshas Noach Oct. 24
‘‫ א‬Rosh Chodesh Mar Cheshvan
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Mincha 5:55 PM
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Sunday Oct 26
Earliest Donning of Tallis & Tefillin S-F 6:31-6:38 AM
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Mincha 5:50 PM
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Volume 10: Issue 01
Parshas Noach
1 Cheshvan, 5775
October 25, 2014
Parshas Noach
Good Shabbos!
Amud Yomi : Mesechta Shabbos- Sunday-Thursday– 30a-32a
Schedule of Shiurim at Bais Yisroel
Likras Shabbos, BOYS 5-8
Fri 30 min before Mincha
Torah Academy Store Thursday 8:30—10:30 PM
 Minchas Chinuch –Sun 8 AM with Rabbi Chaim Gibber Gemachim Info—call Bella Smith 952-927-9670
 Rabbi M. Kalatsky Thurs Shiur after 8:20 PM Parsha. Women’s Tehillim: Mons @ 8:15 AM at Perri
Kutoff's Home or 9:15 PM at Engelson’s home,
Perspectives @ Kollel
Jewish Library: Please circulate/donate children &
 Partners in Torah Tues 8:15 PM @ Kollel
teens! Jewish books. Th 4-5 PM & Sun 10-11 AM @ the
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Wed 8-8:30 AM upstairs at the Kollel, by Rabbi Stern. Baby Gemach -soralasbabygemach.com
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Shabbos Oct 25
‘‫ ב‬Rosh Chodesh Mar Cheshvan
Succos Highlights 5775
Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Yitzchok & Aviva Kaufmann on the birth of a daughter,
Chaya Mushka in Eretz Israel. Mazel Tov to the grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Avrum &
Miriam Leah Kaufmann and the entire Kaufmann family. May she grow to Torah,
Chupah, and Ma'asim Toivim!
Mazel Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Daniel & Perri Kutoff on the engagement of their son,
Chaim to Esther Pomerantz of Passaic NJ. Mazel tov to Mrs. Bertha Kutoff and the
entire kutoff family. May the wedding take place b’shaah tovah u’mutzlachas.
Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Baruch & Russy Goldstein on the birth and bris of their
son, Eliezer. Mazel tov to the grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Gene & Tzippy Weinberg,
great-grandmother Mrs. Debbie Weinberg and the entire mishpacha. May he grow
to Torah, Chupah, and Ma'asim Toivim!
Mazel Tov to Tzvi Avigdor Ginsberg on his aufruf and upcoming marriage to Tehilla
Grunberger. Mazel tov to the parents Rabbi & Mrs. Binyomin & Raffi Ginsberg and
the entire mishpacha. May the wedding take place b’shaah tovah u’mutzlachas.
Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Nosson & Yael Etziony on the birth of a daughter, Chaya
Tzipora. Mazel tov to the grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Shmuel Etziony and greatgrandmother Mrs. Tessy Oxman and the entire mishpacha. May she grow to Torah,
Chuppa and Ma'asim Tovim!
Avos Ubanim begins this Motzei Shabbos and is sponsored, by Rabbi & Mrs. Yehoshua & Racheli Borentstein l’ilui nishmas Yosef Zev ben Moshe Yehuda Hakohen
Berkowitz a”h , Racheli’s father.
Mussaf Program begins this Shabbos for grades 5-8. The Mincha Program is for
grades 4-8.
A new session of The Fundamentals of Talmud will IY"H begin this week, Sunday
mornings 9:30 to 11 AM. Group 1 will be moving on to workbook 2. Group 2 is in
formation to start workbook 1. Please contact Rabbi Avigdor Goldberger for details.
[email protected]
SAVE THE DATE!: Minneapolis Community Kollel Shabbos Chizuk with Rabbi
Gershon Ribner, Nov. 7-8
If your child will be having a Bar or Bas Mitzvah this year (Nov, 2014- Sept
2015) please contact the shul office so arrangements can be made for the complementary JCC membership and the Louis Herman Israel Experience Fund certificates.
When writing checks to the shul, please make a notation as to how your payment should be applied or credited. Thank you.
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Daf Yomi
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Gemara Shiur-Mesechta Shabbos w/ Rabbi Weinberg M-F following 6:30 Shacharis
Amud Yomi with Rabbi Greenberg (see above)
Sun-Thurs 9:15-10 PM
Mishna Brurah with Rabbi Weinberg
½ hour before Shacharis Sun thru Fri
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CURE FOR THE POST-YOM TOV “BLAHS”: KEEP GROWING
The Yamim Tovim are behind us, and now we face the challenge of figuring out how
to make our uplifting Yom Tov experience last us through the year. At the same time,
we must realize that while Yom Tov has the ability to give us a quick spiritual boost,
generally one must grow consistently through the year, one small step at a time.
The Torah tells us that “the windows of the heavens opened” in order to unleash the
Mabul (great flood). The Medrash understands this on a spiritual level also, that the
generation of Noach could have been the ones to receive the Torah. The Migdal
(Tower of) Bavel also alludes to the opportunity of that generation to receive the gift
of the Talmud Bavli. So what went wrong? Rashi in Koheles tells us that they were
flooded with Bracha (blessing), and too much of a good thing led them astray.
We find in the Pesukim that once the flood waters began to recede, it took 57 days for
the land to dry. R’ Shimon Schwab notes that given the enormous amount of water,
the fact that it dried so quickly was certainly miraculous. If so, he asks, why did Hashem have to take 57 days for the miracle; why couldn’t it just dry up right away? He
answers that we are being taught an important lesson: we must have patience in serv-
ing Hashem. Noach, too, needed numerous attempts in sending out the birds until
he found that the land was dry.
The contemporary lesson for us is that the way to retain the burst of inspiration that
we gained over Yom Tov is to build on it day by day, slowly but consistently.
This Shabbos is also Rosh Chodesh. Ohr Gedalyahu explains the message that we
must take from Rosh Chodesh. We know that the waxing and waning moon receives
its light from the sun. The message of the waning moon is that inspiration will be
naturally lost if one doesn’t make an effort to retain it.
What can we do to ensure that we hold on to that inspiration and don’t lose it?
There is a well know story about Rav Mordechai Gifter, the Rosh HaYeshiva of
Telshe Cleveland. The Yeshiva has a sprawling campus and provids all amenities that
a young man could need, so that the bochurim don’t have to leave the grounds of
the Yeshiva at all for an entire Zman (semester). A reporter once challenged Rav
Gifter and asked him derisively, “Why do you make your Yeshiva like a jail, and keep
your boys cooped up for months on end?” Rav Gifter’s response was timeless:
“There are two types of buildings that have reinforced walls with barred windows: a
jail and a fortress. What is the difference? A jail is meant to keep the bad in, while a
fortress is meant to keep the bad out. My Yeshiva is a fortress, not a jail!”
R’ Yitzchok Hutner learned this idea from Noach. He writes that there are two
places we find that the Torah gave a detailed description of a building; once when
Noach built the Teiva (ark) and once when the Mishkan (Tabernacle) was built. (See
the Gemara in Sukka 52 that equates Noach with Shlomo, who built the Bais Hamikdash.) The purpose of the Teiva was to protect those inside from the raging waters
outside, while the purpose of the Mishkan was to benefit from the spiritual elevation
that took place within. Rav Hutner was discussing a Yeshiva, and went on to write
that a Yeshiva serves both these functions: protecting form adverse influences outside, and affording one the opportunity for growth from within.
I think the same can be said of a Kehilla (congregation). One who associates with a
Kehilla for Torah and Tefillah is afforded the ability both to protect himself from the
raging “Mabul” outside, and also to grow from the spirituality that is contained within. Therein lies the answer to our question and the key to retaining the growth that
we experienced over Yom Tov. The Sfas Emes notes that the word “Teiva” also
means “word.” Every word of Torah and Tefillah works for us like a “Teivas
Noach” and envelops us with the protection that we need so that we don’t lose the
inspiration of the last few weeks.
Let us all take advantage of the wonderful Kehilla that we are a part of and use the
opportunity to keep growing from the spiritual levels that we’ve attained over the
Yamim Nora’im and Sukkos.
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WELCOME TO WINTER!
From BYSO Archives
After the Mabul (Great Flood), Hashem promised Noach that He would no longer
curse the ground because of man, and for the rest of the days of the earth all the
seasons, including planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day
and night would run continuously and never cease. The Seforno understands from
this that up until the Mabul, there were no seasons, and the sun was always on the
equator, causing a perpetual season of spring. Only after the Mabul did Hashem put
the sun’s current yearly cycle into motion, which will somehow rectify the destructiveness of the generation that lived prior to the Mabul. When the world fixes itself
through the cycle of the seasons, Hashem will put things back the way it was originally, with a continuous season of spring.
One way this directly affects us on a yearly basis is that as the sun heads south for
the winter, the zemanim (Halachic times) in the morning get later and later, which
creates a challenge for us with regard to davening Shacharis. I would like to clarify the
procedure for Shacharis in the morning when the Zmanim of Hanetz Hachama
(sunrise), Alos Hashachar (dawn, 72 minutes before Hanetz) and Misheyakir (40
minutes before Hanetz) are getting later.
The first thing we must stress is that the Halacha says that Lechatchila one
should not daven Shmone Esrei until Hanetz Hachama, or sunrise. We are permitted to daven earlier in extenuating circumstances, such as one who must
leave on a trip, or, as is the case with many of us, when one’s work day begins
too early to be able to daven after sunrise. Attending a shiur or the like which
one would otherwise miss would also be a valid reason to daven early.
Even if one must make use of this leniency during the week, if, for example, he
doesn’t work on Sunday and has no reason to daven early, he should not daven
at the 7 AM minyan Sunday morning anytime Hanetz is later than 7:23 AM.
One would be permitted to do so even on Sundays if there is a valid reason for
it, such as those mentioned earlier.
The Halacha is that one may not say a Bracha on the Tallis before Misheyakir. According to R’ Moshe Feinstein, the Bracha on Tefillin may be said earlier than this time,
provided it is after Alos Hashachar. R’ Moshe also says that one may put on the Tallis
earlier without saying the Bracha, and then say the Bracha later on after Shemone Esrei.
Accordingly the time for Shacharis will currently remain at 6:30 AM. Before Shacharis,
one
should
put on his
Tallis & Tefillin in the
regular fashion (including
saying
the
B o r c h i
Nafshi, performing the
Atifa,
and
saying
the
Pesukim of
Mah Yakar)
b
u
t
SHOULD
NOT say a
Bracha on the
Tallis.
The
Bracha
on
Tef il lin
should
be
said. (If one
mistakenly
said the Bracha on his
Tallis at this
point,
it
should NOT
be repeated
later.)
The Bracha
on the Tallis should be said later on, after the time of Misheyakir has passed. Once
Boruch She’amar has been said one should not interrupt to say this Bracha, rather wait
until after Shmone Esrei. We will give a reminder for this after the Kaddish that follows
Tachanun. If one leaves earlier for some reason he should be careful to remember on
his own to say the Bracha. (We should note that the Halacha says one is not allowed to
leave davening before the Kaddish after Uva Letzion, so unless one has a very pressing
need, he will still be in shul to hear the reminder.)
When it is time to say the Bracha, one should hold a part of the Tallis in his hand, say
the Bracha (having in mind the Tallis Katan also) and then do an Atifa by covering his
face with the Tallis.
We may not start davening or put on Tallis & Tefillin before Alos Hashachar. Therefore, when even Alos Hashachar is later than 6:25, we will always start Brachos 5
minutes after Alos, to leave time for everyone to wash their hands and put on their
Tallis & Tefillin.
One more point to make is, that Lechatchila one should not say the Bracha of Hanosen
Lasechvi (the first of the 15 Birchos Hashachar) until after Alos Hashachar, so if one is
accustomed to saying those Brachos at home before he comes to shul, he should leave
the first one out and say it later.
If anyone has a particular circumstance where even the Zman of Alos is too late for him
to daven, please come and consult me.
We will close with something that the Chofetz Chaim would often say. Just as one has
no doubt in his mind that after the long night the day will surely arrive (as Hashem
promised Noach that day and night will never cease), so too are we certain that we will
see the fulfillment of Hashem’s promise that the day will come when His Glory will fill
the entire earth. Amen!