Jonathan Gross, a Bronze Star Recipient, served in the United States Military from 2004-2012 including a 2 year long deployment to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. He served as a JAG Legal Officer, and taught Constitutional Law at West Point. He has received Badges for Combat Action, Parachuting, and Helicopter Rappelling. Jonathan has worked as an Attorney with the NYPD since 2003, and clerked for Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Jonathan has also served as a Paramedic since 1999, was a 9/11 First Responder, Covid Front-Liner, and has worked at NY Presbyterian Hospital since 2003.
5:30pm - Friday Night Dinner (RSVP) with visit from Ramaz Choir RSVP at www.OZNY.org/Fall2022
7:30pm - Dessert & Discuss: "Iraq as Babylon & Saddam Hussein as Nechubadnezar: 17 Tamuz in our Time"
11:15am - Main Sanctuary: "Final Judgement in the Military - Veterans Day between Sukkos & Chanukah"
4:20pm - Shalosh Seudos: "An Orthodox Jew spends 8.5 Years in the Army"
Florence & Alan Siegelberg, for arranging the Kristalnacht Commemoration & Interview with Jenny Michael
Mazel Tov
Jill & Aaron Katz, on the wedding of their son Josh to Isabelle Davis
Susan Rosen & Sol Zalcgendler, on the engagement of their daughter Sara & LJ Rader
Jen & Jon Taub, on the birth and bris of their son Shmuel Aryeh Levi
Jenny Michael, on the birth of a great grandson— a grandson born to her children Jacob & Rachel Leah Michael— a son to her grandchildren Sari & Ben Zion Telio Yasher Koach!
Community NYC Marathon Runners:
Michael Doppelt, Isaac Galena, Seth Galena, Jennifer Gersch, Jonathan Gersch, Ariel Kohane, Jason Lowe, David Roher, Nechama Rosenberg, David Rumschitzki, Judith Sambol, Mark Semer
Hashkama Kiddush
Dedicated by the Hashkama Minyan Chasan Torah Sheldon Newman, Chasan Bereishis Mendy & Rikki Gross, Chasan Maftir Steve Erenberg & Tammy Balaban
Monday Night Mishmar — In Person + On Zoom — Info at www.OZNY.org/Mishmar
In the Hebrew Bible, an angel is a messenger of G-d. For some, Maimonides, for example, natural forces that accomplish the Divine will are angels. For others, however, angels are always supernatural agents of G-d. We tend to understand, even see, our reality as given by our five senses, assimilating new perceptions to our everyday experiences. Paradoxically, people who often see their daily world as the intersection of the natural and the supernatural might hardly notice the presence of an angel. They would assimilate the supernatural into their natural patterns of perception. People who live in a world permeated by the supernatural might not " see" angels. After all, they see so many of them that they start to see them as people.
How do you see people? Do any of them ever seem like angels to you?
Reflections on Genesis18:27ff as Rashi thought
Congregation Ohab Zedek 118 West 95th Street New York, NY 10025
