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SHALOSH SEUDOS GUEST

Debra Brunner of The Together Plan: Remembering the
Brest-Litvosk Jewish Cemetery  - ‘A Memorial Using the Reclaimed Headstones’

The Together Plan, along with its sister non-profit in the USA, Jewish Tapestry Project, are developing a whole new approach to community building in the former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe; through a range of pioneering projects, education, cultural heritage, and ancestral connections. 

UK born, Debra Brunner has been working in the field of Jewish community development and Jewish cultural heritage in Belarus for over 13 years; building a better, stronger, and more cohesive Jewish landscape. She is the co-founder of The Together Plan, President of the Jewish Tapestry Project, and the founder of the Polotsk Jewish Cultural Educational Foundation in Belarus.

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BULLETIN BOARD

Len's Links

• ArtScroll Shabbos Table - click HERE   
• RZA HaMizrachi Parsha - click HERE
• Anshe Printable Divrei Torah - click HERE

• Chazan Ari Mandelbaum will be joining us for the High Holidays!
• WWW.OZNY.ORG/HIGH
• WWW.OZNY.ORG/YIZKORBOOK

• Eli & Malka Spiro, on the birth of a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 9:00p - 11:00pm at OZ
  Paul & Pia Rubin, on the bris of their grandson Shimshon Dovid, born to Yossi & Tova
  

• Joel & Devora Goldman, in gratitude to Hashem for Joel’s complete recovery from his accident, and for the blessings Hashem as given to us

• Stuart & Sarah Milstein and Family, in memory of Stuart’s grandparents Ruth (19 Elul) & Sam (16 Elul) Milstein z’l and Rabbi William Zev (5 Elul) & Eda Bess Novick (26 Sivan)
• Gad & Michelle Demry, for the Yarzheit of Gad’s mother Terila Rachel bat Chawita z’l

• Yehuda & Annette Fishman, in memory of Yehuda’s father Yosef Fishman z’l

• Jill Katz, Jennifer Kraut, Candice Ackerman, Tsivia Hochman, and Anonymous!

• 10:30pm — Early Selichos
• 11:00pm — Melaveh Malkeh & Kumsitz with Rabbi Jack Varon & Ari Mandelbaum
• 12:00am — Sicha w/Rabbi Schwartz & Selichos w/Guest Chazan Ari Mandelbaum

• Sunday, Sept. 18 @ 11:00am in Bet Medrash - www.OZNY.org/Event/Chesed2022

• Monday Night Sept. 19 & Oct. 3 | www.OZNY.org/Event/Teshuva2022
• 8:00pm - Teshuva & Tehillin | 9:00pm - The Mitzvah of Teshuva

• Insights into the Songs & Supplications of the High Holidays - www.OZNY.org/Event/Music2022

SCHEDULE

YEARN TO LEARN

• Monday & Wednesday @ 9;00p
• WhatsApp & Zoom Link at www.OZNY.org/Emunah

• Meets on Zoom
• Schedule & Class links at www.OZNY.org/TNLP

• Wednesday Night
• Meets back in person!
• Contact adam@ozny.org for info about Conversion Program
• 6:30p Concepts - Adam Resnick
• 7:45p Thought - Joel Goldman

• WhatsApp & Conference Call: www.OZNY.org/Event/Daf

• Meets select Shabbos’ at 6pm
• www.OZNY.org/Event/Live2022

• Wednesdays @ 12:00pm
• www.OZNY.org/Event/Tzurba2022

HASHKAMA - RABBI BLANCHARD'S BLURB

What can we do if we have an overwhelming urge to do something we believe is wrong? Most of the time, we are not facing this question. But sometimes, we want to say hurtful things to others, especially those we love. Or, we want to cheat on an exam, our taxes, or our spouse. Usually, self-control is sufficient. We stay silent; we focus on our exams; we report our income and keep faith with those we love. But sometimes, the urge seems beyond our control. What then? 


Here is a paradoxical possibility. Imagine that you can find a way to do what you want but  first you must  think of or even act out a way that will make doing it far less attractive. You can cheat, but you must first write on a separate paper, "I am cheating on this exam and will not sign a statement that I have neither given nor received aid on this test" You can cheat on your taxes, but you must tell your accountant that you are under-reporting your income, etc. The goal is to slow things down and spoil the imagined pleasure. 


Will it work? Maybe. But it's way ahead of just giving in to urges that will make you feel ashamed.  


Reflections on Deuteronomy 21: 10-14