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JULY 24-25, 2015 • PARSHAT DEVARIM, SHABBAT CHAZON• 9 AV 5775

EREV SHABBAT 7:00PM and 8:00PM Minchah 8:02PM Candle Lighting

SHABBAT, EREV TISHA B’AV 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max & Marion Grill Beit Midrash) 9:00AM Shacharit (3rd floor) 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Strulowitz, Why the Story of the Meraglim Plays Such a Prominent Role in Parshat Devarim (5th

floor) 9:24AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (5th floor) 10:00AM Youth Groups, 2-year-olds, 3-4-year-olds and 5-6-year-olds: Geller Youth Center; 2nd-3rd graders, 4th-6th graders: 7th floor Community Kiddush (5th floor) 12:45PM YL Shabbat Chazon Lunch & Learn (1st floor)

WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: Hashkama Kiddush, Jen & Ami Eden in memory of Ami's mother, Judith Eden Shifra R. Epstein in memory of her father's yahrzeit, Rabbi Chuna Herschfus Sivan & Neil Greenspan in honor of their, as well as their chil-dren’s birthdays and as a farewell to The JC and the Upper West Side Shira Orenstein & Danny Kahn in commemoration of the 15th

yahrzeit of Shira’s mother, Roslyn Orenstein

1:45PM Shiur with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Tisha B'Av On The Great Lawn (Main Sanctuary) 2:20PM Early Minchah 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) Summer Lay Leaders Chaburah series will resume next week Israel Friedman Daf Yomi will resume on Monday 6:15PM Minchah 8:20PM Tisha B’Av fast begins Seudah Shlishit speaker series will resume next week 9:02PM Shabbat concludes Tisha B’Av schedule is listed on the right

Sunday, July 26 Tisha B’Av See the schedule on the right

Mon., July 27 - Thurs., July 30 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 8:05PM

Friday, July 31 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 7:00/8:00PM Candle Lighting: 7:56PM

DAILY SERVICES

10:00 - 10:30AM Free Play 10:30 - 11:00AM Daven, Parsha Summary, Questions, and Snack 11:00 - 11:20AM Active Games 11:20 - 11:45AM Quiet Games

YOUTH GROUP'S SCHEDULE SHABBAT DEVARIM

WOMEN'S TEHILLIM GROUP Monday, July 27 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more information at 212-877-1176.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Thank you to our ushers Avi Jacobowitz and Mindy Horowitz this Shabbat.

THANK YOU TO CSS We would like to once again thank CSS and our dedicated CSS members for providing the security for our synagogue this week.

ONEG SHABBAT DONATIONS Please help provide Shabbat meals for the less fortunate families in our community by sending your donation to Oneg Shabbat at 650 West End Ave., New York, NY 10025 or visit ww.onegshabbatny.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND PROGRAMS

SPECIAL SHABBAT MORNING BRIEFING WITH MAURIZIO MOLINARI, The Caliphate of Terror: The Emerging Middle East and the Coming Wars Shabbat, August 1

SUMMER LAY LEADERS CHABURAH SERIES Please join us one hour before Minchah for our summer Chaburah series. August 1: Sam Englander August 8: Mark Segall August 15: Malka Strasberg

EREV TISHA B’AV • SATURDAY NIGHT, JULY 25TH 6:15PM Minchah 8:20PM Fast begins 9:02PM Shabbat concludes 9:20PM Maariv followed by Eichah 10:15PM Young Leadership Rooftop Kumsitz (1st floor)

TISHA B’AV • SUNDAY, JULY 26TH 9:00AM Shacharit 9:45AM Special shiur by Rabbi Yosie Levine, The Posture of Mourning: Halachic and Historical Perspectives on Sitting Shivah Followed by explanatory Kinnot 1:02PM Chatzot 1:40PM Early Minchah 2:30PM Tisha B’Av films - Secret Lives: Hidden Children and their Rescuers During WWII followed by Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

6:45PM Shiur with Rabbi Mark Wildes (4th floor)

7:55PM Minchah 8:49PM Fast ends

Sponsored by Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer in memory of Amanda's father Charles Nussbaum.

TISHA B’AV SCHEDULE AND PROGRAMS

Yosie Levine

Rabbi

Dovid Zirkind Assistant Rabbi

Chaim David Berson Cantor

Daniel Fridman Resident Scholar

Erica Brown Community Scholar

Ari Lamm Resident Scholar

Noach Goldstein William Fischman

Rabbinic Intern

Aaron Strum Executive Director

Eliane Dreyfuss Glassman Director of

Programming and Communications

Jenn & Gaby Minsky, Yitzchak Sprung Youth Directors

OFFICERS Avi Schwartz

President

Andrew Borodach First Vice President

Andrew Kaplan Vice President

Mark Segall Vice President

Rose Lynn Sherr Vice President

Michael Jacobs Assistant

Vice President

Yaron Kinar Treasurer

Len Berman Assistant Treasurer

Miri Lipsky Secretary

Lisa Septimus Yoetzet Halacha 917-382-9008

Chevra Kadisha 212-724-2700x555

UWS Mikvah 212-579-2011

Hatzalah 212-230-1000

Eruv Status 212-724-2700 x4

Clergy & Staff

Phone Numbers

Of Hope and Heroism Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Assistant Rabbi

RACHAEL NEEDS A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

Rachael Eisenson, age 27, has been diag-nosed with end-stage renal failure. She has been accepted into Cornell Medical Center's Renal Trans-plant Program and is in immediate need of a kid-ney. If you are willing to consider donating a kidney - please contact the Donor Team for Regis-tration: 212-746-3922 (8AM to 4PM EST) ) or by email at anr9118@nyp.org. All potential donors should let the donor team know they are calling for Rachael Eisenson. If you require any additional in-formation, please contact c.eisenson@gmail.com or Debby at drdebby727@gmail.com, home phone: 631-584-8037, fax: 631-584-8065, Debby's cell: 631-944-1664. You can also contact Maria Abreu-Goris, transplant coordinator at Cornell at maa2038@nyp.org. If donation is not an option, please spread the word to help Rachael find a kidney. Although far less critical than finding a kidney, the family has established a foundation for anyone who wants to donate - to defray expenses for any potential do-nor: hotels, lost wages, transportation, etc. If de-sired, donate to "Rachael Eisenson Kidney Trans-plant Fund" a non-profit foundation at any CHASE Bank.

Thank you and G-d bless, Debby, Charles, Andrew, Jonathan, Joshua & Rachael

In the final days of his life it was certainly difficult for Moshe Rabbeinu to transition Yehoshua into a leadership position that would demand military confrontation with the inhabitants of Eretz Canaan. Yet, despite the unknown terrain and obstacles that lay ahead, Moshe, in no uncertain terms, in-stills a sense of confidence in his successor that these wars will be won, that the land will soon be theirs. “...Your eyes have seen all that Hashem your God has done to these two kingdoms, so shall God do to all the kingdoms of the land to which you are headed.” (Devarim 3:21) The Haftorah we read this Shabbat Chazon, the vision of Yeshayahu HaNavi, also speaks of a time when the Jewish people would re-enter the land of Israel. But after years of exile and despair the message is not one of brute confidence and mili-tary strategy, but of redemption through the per-formance of mitzvot and divine merit. In fact, Ye-shayahu’s message might very well be the oppo-site of Moshe’s. “Zion will be redeemed with jus-tice, returned with acts of kindness.” (Yeshayahu 1:27) Contrasting these two approaches, or perhaps

synthesizing them, can help us process the experi-ence of Tisha B’av. As has always been the case, our faith and our humanity react differently to tragedy; our minds wonder what we could have done; our souls ask, why did this happen? In bal-ancing a complex theological and humanistic exist-ence, and thinking not only of the past but also of our future, we are destined to live with both of these questions. We are asked to both fight and be faithful, to have hope and to be heroes. Recounting the tragedies of generations past is meant to instill within each of us a sense of context but also serves as a subtly confident challenge. This year, maybe more so than many others, we are strong and self-sustaining, but much work is still to be done to ensure a similar future. To expe-rience Tisha B’av is to vacillate between a series of intense emotions; despair, loss, hope and hero-ism. Yeshayahu tells us we must have faith in our merits, that divine redemption can be earned. Moshe Rabbeinu tells us that we must have confi-dence that we can battle as well. Together we are hopeful and heroic, primed for a better and brighter future that only we can cultivate for our-selves.

PREPARING FOR THE TISHA B’AV 5775 Rabbi Dovid Zirkind

The laws of mourning guide the bereaved individual from a period of intense mourning, when the loss of a loved

one is usually most deeply felt, through stages of decreasing intensity as the pain abates: the profound grieving of shivah is succeeded by the more subtle sadness of sheloshim, which is muted still further in the year-long practices of mourning ob-served for the loss of a parent.

Each summer, as we mourn the destruction of both Temples, we experience as a community a process exactly the opposite of the usual pattern of mourning. Instead of lessening our mourning as time goes on, we gradually increase the intensity of our sadness, beginning with the fast of Shivah Asar B’Tammuz (Sunday, July 5th) and culminating three weeks later with the deep mourning of Tishah B’Av (Motzei Shabbat, July 25th – Sunday, July 26th). Just as the personal process of mourning is marked by significant points (seven days, thirty days and a full year), so is the communal process of mourn-ing for the Temple marked by stages. Our expressions of mourning become more apparent at each stage.

♦ The Month of Av: The Talmud (Ta’anit 26b) instructs that as the month of Av begins (Friday, July 17th), we are to cur-

tail our sense of joy as this month brings with it the day on which both Temples were destroyed. We abstain from meat and wine (except on Shabbat or for the infirm) because of their association with celebration. Washing or dry-cleaning clothing, other than children’s clothing and other circumstances of great necessity, is delayed until after Tisha B’Av. Freshly laundered clothing (other than undergarments and clothing for Shabbat) should not be worn until the 10th of Av. (It is recommended that clothing to be worn between 1-10 of Av be worn very briefly before the 1st of Av.) Activi-ties for the purpose of celebration or pleasure, such as beautifying or expanding one’s home, are best suspended until after the 9th. Swimming for pleasure is avoided as well.

♦ Tisha B’Av: Our mourning reaches its depth on Tisha B’Av itself, the day of ultimate tragedy. History has singled out

this day for catastrophe: beyond the destruction of both Temples, the 9th of Av has brought many other tragic events, including the evil report of the meraglim, the scouts sent to reconnoiter the Land of Israel.

• This year the 9th of Av falls on Shabbat and the commemoration of Tisha B’Av is postponed until Motzei Shabbat/Sunday. As a result, a number of changes should be noted. First, Shabbat remains in full force as it would on any other week. Therefore, one may consume meat and wine, wear leather shoes and sit in regular chairs throughout the day. Furthermore, no Seudah HaMafseket is eaten.

• The fast begins with sunset but Shabbat continues through nightfall. As a result, Minchah will be held early at 6:15PM to allow everyone to return home for Seudah Shlishit, which must be completed before 8:20PM. Please note that prep-aration for Tisha B’av (changing shoes, etc.) should begin no earlier than 9:02PM. To accommodate for this restriction, Maariv will be at 9:20PM, allowing those who wish to change at home to do so. You are welcome to leave the appro-priate shoes at shul before Shabbat as well. Before preparations for Tisha B’av begin, one should recite “Baruch hamavdil bein kodesh l’cho”l.” Havdalah, consisting of only the brachah on grape juice and Hamavdil, is postponed to Sunday night. On Saturday night, prior to the reading of Megillat Eichah, we will recite the brachah of borei m’orei ha-esh over a candle in shul.

• Once Shabbat is over and Tisha B’av has fully begun, the following are prohibited: Eating, drinking, learning Torah (other than those portions which address the destruction or the laws of mourning); applying oils, creams, or fragrances for pleasure; engaging in marital relations; bathing; and wearing leather shoes.

• Particularly this year, as Tisha B’av is postponed from its proper date, pregnant, nursing, and postpartum women, as well as the infirm, should seek additional guidance about fasting.

• Because we are all mourners on Tishah B’Av, we behave accordingly: we refrain from offering greetings the entire day, sit on low chairs until midday (1:02PM) and limit business dealings. In addition to the everyday prayers in the morning, we recite Kinnot, poems of lament and mourning, and delay wearing tallit and tefillin until Minchah.

• Because Tisha B’Av is observed this year on the 10th of Av, swimming, bathing, haircuts and laundering clothing are permitted immediately following the conclusion of the fast (8:49PM). Consuming meat and wine are not permitted until morning.

• “Whoever mourns over Jerusalem shall merit witnessing its rejoicing” (Ta’anit 30a). May our observance of this sad time enable us to merit greeting Tishah B’Av in the future with rejoicing at the rebuilding of the Temple and the return of God’s presence to our midst.

For more information please contact Rabbi Zirkind at dzirkind@jewishcenter.org

EREV TISHA B’AV SATURDAY NIGHT, JULY 25TH

6:15PM Minchah 8:20PM Fast begins 9:02PM Shabbat concludes 9:20PM Maariv followed by Eichah 10:15PM Young Leadership Rooftop Kumsitz (1st floor)

TISHA B’AV SUNDAY, JULY 26TH

9:00AM Shacharit 9:45AM Special shiur by Rabbi Yosie Levine, The Posture of Mourning: Halachic and Historical Perspectives on Sitting Shivah Followed by explanatory Kinnot 1:02PM Chatzot 1:40PM Early Minchah 2:30PM Tisha B’Av Film Screenings

6:45PM Shiur with Rabbi Mark Wildes (4th floor)

7:55PM Minchah 8:49PM Fast ends

Sponsored by Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer in memory of Amanda's father Charles Nussbaum.

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Tisha B’Av at The JC

CAN’T JOIN US IN PERSON? If you cannot make it to The Jewish Center on Tisha B'Av, join YU for a live Tisha B'Av webcast. For more information and to see the complete schedule, please visit www.yutorah.org/tishabav

8:30AM Shacharit 9:15AM Opening shiur: The Significance of Tisha B’Av in 2015: Seeking Meaning in Tragedy 11:00AM Kinot recital and discussion 5:00PM Minchah

NEW KOREN KINNOT AND TISHA B’AV MACHZORIM

Thank you to all those who sponsored a machzor. If you would like to dedicate a volume in memory of a loved one or in cele-bration of a simcha, sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact Aaron Strum at astrum@jewishcenter.org.

TISHA B’AV FILMS

2:30PM SECRET LIVES: HIDDEN CHILDREN AND THEIR RESCUERS DURING WWII (2002) During the Second World War, some tens of thousands of Jewish children were saved from almost certain death by a small number of non-Jewish neighbors, friends, or even - in many cases - total strangers. These rescuers, men and women of uncommon decency, did everything from bringing Jewish children into their families under false identities to securing hiding places in closets, attics, or hastily-dug bunkers. What happened among these children, their parents, and rescuers is the focus of Secret Lives.

4:30PM FOLLOW ME: THE YONI NETANYAHU STORY (2012) The story of Yonatan Netanyahu, command-er of an elite Israeli army commando unit who was killed during Operation Entebbe, a hostage-rescue mission carried out at Enteb-be Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976, after members of the Popular Front for the Liber-ation of Palestine and the German Revolu-tionary Cells hijacked an Air France plane with 248 passengers aboard.