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To determine if the Eruv is operational either click on the phone number link below, or call
1-773-74-ERUV-2 (743-7882) after 2pm every Friday afternoon or every Erev Yom Tov.
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Davening Times
6:05 pm
Mincha 6:15 pm
Shabbat starts 6:25
pm
Shacharit 8:15 am
Mincha 5:40 pm
Shabbat ends
Regular Weekdays
Shacharit
Sunday
6:15 am
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday
6:30 am
Mincha/Arvit
Sunday-
Thursday
6:04 pm
Late Arvit following Kollel
Sunday-Thursday
10:00 pm
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Regular Shiurim
Kollel
Open Seder
Sunday-Thursday
8-10pm
Rabbi Olstein
Parasha Shiur
Wed 8:30pm (Hebrew)
Thurs 8:00pm (English)
Rabbi Moshe Miller
Tomer Devorah
Sundays after Mincha/Arvit
Father and Son
Torah and Chamin
Thursday 8 pm
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Rabbi Yosef Asayag
Monetary Issues in Halacha
Shabbat Afternoon
45 min. Before Mincha (Hebrew)
Ateret Chaya
Simcha Hall
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Men and Women
Ner Foundation
Rabbi Raccah
Topic:
Parashat HaShavu'a
Personalities in the Bible
Motza'ai Shabbat during the winter
Completed B"H for this winter season
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| MEAL SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Seuda Shlishit
$100
Kiddush
$250
Breakfast Fund Day- $15 Week- $75 Month- $250 Year - $2400 Fish Fund $20 month Hamin Fund Monthly contribution |
| SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Chair Sponsors (127 sold - 133 left) $20 each New Set of Artscroll Talmud Yerushalmi $35.00 for Talmud Yerushalmi ONLY ONE LEFT FOR NOW Siddurim Shaarim Ba'Tifilla ($15.00 each) Chumash w/simanim ($20 each)
20 New Talitot
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This Week at Ohel Shalom
Simchat Torah Meal Sponsorship
The Kehillah would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Titievsky for sponsoring our Simchat Torah meal.
Kollel Resuming TONIGHT
The Kollel will
BE"H resume TONIGHT, Thursday, October 4th. The 10 pm Arvit will also resume.
Rosh Chodesh MarCheshvan
The holidays are now behind us and next begins the month of Cheshvan with no holidays, hence called Mar Cheshvan - the bitter month. Rosh Chodesh will take place for two days, beginning Monday evening, October 8th through Wednesday evening, October 10th. Chodesh Tov.
Important Info
Please see info below regarding an important safety meeting
tonight at the JCC at 7:30 pm.
Also see volunteer sign up info for kitchen rotation and Cholim list updates in sections below.
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2019 Kitchen Rotation
Come join in!! Be part of the many efforts done on behalf of our Beit Knesset!
We are updating our list for the year.
Volunteers are needed for the following:
-Buying garlic and onions
-Buying Potatoes
-Picking up meat
-Inventory of Hamin Ingredients
-Peeling/cutting potatoes
-Hamin Prep (as well soaking beans and taking out meat)
-Kiddush set up
All (women AND men) are welcome to volunteer. We also welcome substitutes for those weeks that the regular person can't do their job.
Thank you!
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Cholim List Update
We are updating our Cholim list. If you have submitted a name for a Mi Sheberach or Tehillim please contact Ayelet, the office manager, by email at [email protected] to confirm the person needs to remain on the list.
Names that have not been confirmed will be removed on October 31st.
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Amazon Smile
Do you purchase items from Amazon? If so, you are in a perfect position to provide the Kehilla with much needed financial support with zero cost or additional effort from you, beyond following a few easy steps just one time.
Amazon has a philanthropic branch called Amazon Smile. All you need to do is sign up (no cost) and select our Kehilla as your charity of choice and Amazon will give the Kehilla 0.5% of all your eligible purchases! There are millions of eligible items.
Please take advantage of this opportunity
and sign up immediately.
Click here to select Sephardic Community Shaare Mizrah as your charity.
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The Geshem Fund
It has been very busy for the Geshem Fund. Significant sums of money have been distributed to dozens of people to help with rent, utilities, food and many other purposes. This has depleted the fund. Please help us help those in need.
Please open your hearts and your wallets and make checks out to the order of GESHEM FUND and give to Rabbi Raccah or put in the mailbox of the office or the shul and Ayelet will give it to Rabbi Raccah. As you thank Hashem for all that He has blessed you with, remember the less fortunate who are struggling and in desperate need of assistance. Thank you.
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Eruv Check-In
Is the Chicago Eruv up and operational for Shabbat? If you utilize the Eruv, it is your responsibility to check each week before Shabbat if it is up. There are now some new and easy ways to do this.
The Chicago Eruv has set up a website with this information, as well as other pertinent halachot and information about the eruv. The web address is
http://chicagoeruv.tripod.com/
You can call the hotline on Erev Shabbat after 2pm and listen to the recorded message or sign up to receive a weekly e-mail update on the status of the eruv.
Click here to sign up to have the eruv weekly email update sent directly to you!
To Determine if the Eruv is Operational either click on the phone number link here, or call 1-773-74-ERUV-2 (743-7882) after 2pm every Friday afternoon or every Erev Yom Tov.
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Kollel Korner of the Sephardic Community Kollel
Come learn with the Sephardic Community Kollel from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, Sunday through Thursday. Please contact the Kollel Coordinator,
Rabbi Yosef Olstein to arrange a learning partner or to receive information about the Kollel and its programs. Rabbi Olstein can be reached at 773-338-8046 or by email at
Sephardic Community Kollel.
Donations to the Kollel
Donations to the Kollel can also be made via credit card. Please call the shul at 773-465-5274 or email the Kollel for details.
Sponsor Learning in the Kollel
Our Rabbis tell us the great power and merit associated with supporting Torah learning. To that end, consider sponsoring a week or a month of learning in the Kollel.
Examples of sponsorship purposes include: in memory of a deceased loved one for their Azkarah, to merit a Rifuah Shilamah, or to honor a loved one or friend. In addition to the great merit of supporting Torah in our community, your sponsorship will be marked with printed pages noting the intent of your support that are placed in stands on the tables in the Beit HaMidrash for the duration of your sponsorship period.
Here are the costs for the various sponsorships:
A night of learning - $52
A week of learning - $100
A month of learning - $400
The Kollel appreciates the following sponsors of learning:
A month of learning has been sponsored by Mrs. Elana Moalem for October 4-November 4 for the Zechut of a Refuah Shelemah for Chana bat Elka. May she merit a full recovery.
A week of learning has been sponsored by
Mr. Shabtay Cohen for October 4-11 in memory of his father,
Matityahu ben Rachel. May his Neshama merit an Aliyah.
A month of learning has been sponsored anonymously for the month of October. The Kollel thanks the patrons for their generosity.
Some Details Regarding the Laws of "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum"
In the
previous Halacha, we have explained the general law that one must read the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum," meaning that one must complete the weekly Torah portion by reading its verses twice and Unkelos's Aramaic commentary once.
The Mitzvah of reading the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" is included in the Mitzvah of Torah study. Since women are exempt from the Mitzvah of Torah study (besides for studying the basic laws of the Torah which pertain to them), they are likewise exempt from the Mitzvah of reading the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum." Nevertheless, a woman who wishes to read the weekly Torah portion in this way shall surely be blessed and she shall be rewarded for doing so. Similarly, if a woman has some time and spends it studying the weekly Torah portion with Rashi's commentary, she indeed fulfills the Mitzvah of Torah study as one who is not commanded to perform a given Mitzvah and does so anyway. However, as we have established, there is no real obligation for a woman to do so.
It is absolutely forbidden to speak at all while the Torah is being read in the synagogue. Nevertheless, it is permissible according to the letter of the law to read the Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" while the Torah is being read in the synagogue. Although one may not necessarily be holding at the exact place where the Chazzan is reading because one may be reading the beginning or end of the Torah portion while the Chazzan is reading other verses, nevertheless, since one is involved in the same idea that the Chazzan is (i.e. reading the weekly Torah portion), this is permissible. This was indeed the custom of Rabbeinu Yehuda Ha'Chassid who would read the Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" while the Chazzan read the weekly Torah portion in the synagogue on Shabbat morning. Maran Ha'Shulchan Aruch rules likewise (Chapter 285).
Nevertheless, Maran Ha'Bet Yosef (Chapter 146) writes that it is preferable for those who are meticulous with their performance of Mitzvot to read the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" either before or after the Torah is read in the synagogue so that one will be able to listen intently as the Torah is being read by the Chazzan.
The Hagahot Maimoniyot writes that the Maharam would read the Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" when the Chazzan was silent, i.e. between the Aliyot; however, while the Torah was being read, he would be silent. Furthermore, the Poskim write that in any case, one may read the Torah portion once at the time the Torah is being read by reading along every single word of the Torah portion along with the Chazzan. One should then read all of the verses of the Torah portion once again followed by Unkelos's commentary on the Torah portion once.
We have already explained though that the most preferable way to fulfill this Mitzvah is by reading the Torah portion at a time other than when the Torah is being read in the synagogue and by reading each verse twice followed by Unkelos's commentary on that verse once until one completes the Torah portion.
Summary: Women are exempt from reading the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum." Nevertheless, a woman who is careful to read the Torah portion in this way fulfills a Mitzvah with her learning and this will greatly benefit her.
According to the letter of the law, one may read the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" while the Torah is being read by the Chazzan in the synagogue. It is preferable to avoid reading "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" while the Torah is being read and one should limit this to reading the Torah portion once word by word along with the Chazzan who is reading aloud. It is most preferable to be completely silent while the Torah is being read in the synagogue and to read the weekly Torah portion "Shenayim Mikrah Ve'Echad Targum" at a different time.
Based on the above, it is absolutely forbidden
to speak idle chat while the Torah is being read in the synagogue and this is a grave sin. One who speaks while the Torah is being read should be instructed to be silent, for his sin is too great to bear since he is desecrating the sanctity of the synagogue and causing others to learn from him and talk as well. The merit of being quiet in the synagogue has the power to protect from all suffering. Even King David would take care to enter the synagogue quietly and calmly and without all of the noise and tumult that usually surrounds the king, as the verse states, "We took sweet counsel together; in the house of G-d we shall walk with emotion."
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Community Section
Below is a link to the CPD website page about the situation and who to contact if you have any information relevant to the murders under investigation.
The shooter is about 5'10", black, slim build, in both incidents he was dressed in all black with a face mask. He walks and runs with a distinctive gait - his feet turn out a bit.
Hurricane Florence Relief
Please consider helping out the victims of Hurricane Florence. To make a donation through Amazon
click here.
Gift of Life
Please consider registering to be tested to see if you could be Roni's bone marrow donor. She is from a Yeminite, Moroccan and North African family and only people with Yeminite or combined Yeminite-North African Heritage will likely be the match she needs. A bone marrow transplant is her only cure! Joining the registry is as easy as a simple swab of your cheek. Eligible donors must be between the ages of 18 - 45 and in good general health. Please join the registry today!
giftoflife.org/roni Please share this message with others.
(Even if you aren't Yeminite and don't match Roni, you may be able to save someone else! Everyone should be on the registry!)
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