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WHO DOESN'T LOVE KIDDUSH!

Join our Special Winter Kiddush Series!

Sponsor at www.OZNY.org/Kiddush and commemorate your Mazel Tov's & Milestones!

• Jan. 14 Did you know that it’s National Pastrami Day?
• Feb. 18 Celebrate Parshas Shekalim with the tastes & scents of the Israel Shuk
• Mar. 4 Get Ready for Purim old school — with a Persian Kiddush just like in Shushan

BULLETIN BOARD

LEN'S LINKS

• ArtScroll Shabbos Table - click HERE   
• RZA HaMizrachi Parsha - click HERE
• Rabbi Dr. Lamm z'l - click HERE
• Anshe Divrei Torah - click HERE
• Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z'l - click HERE
• YUTorah in Print - click HERE

• Elizabeth & Alex Kratz on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughters, Tziporah and Channah
• Zahava Wapner on her engagement to Eiran Gordon of Johannesburg

• Lenore & Glenn Richter, on the passing of Lenore’s sister Rita Surber z’l
• David & Sabrina Ascher and Pia & Paul Rubin, on the passing of David’s and Pia’s father Richard Ascher z’l

• David Wildman & Shira Silton, for the Yarzheit of David's father Zvi Yisroel ben David z’l
• ​​​​​​​David & Sabrina Ascher, in memory of Sabrina's father George Arch, Dovid ben Avraham z'l

• Rabbi Stephen Friedman, on the Yarzheit of his mother Chaya Yehudis bas Eizik Tzvi z"l

• In memory of Victor Kleinkopf — Avigdor ben Tsvi Yitzchak z’l

• Shevat Feb. 10, 2023 @ 5:15pm
• Adar Feb. 24, 2023 @ 5:35pm
• Nisan Mar. 24, 2023 @ 7:05pm
• Purim Monday Night, March 6, 2023 for Sephardic Minyan & Megillah!
• Contact Rabbi Jack Varon at rjv@ozny.org for more information

• Monday Night Mishmar NOT Meeting this Week | Tzurba Class on Winter Break

• Jan. 6 Friday 6:00p Young Professionals Shabbat Dinner SOLD-OUT
• January 06-07 Shabbos Chazan Ari Mandelbaum joins for Shabbos
• Jan. 14 Sat. Night 6:30p Youth Dept. Monthly Parent Child Learning (new date)
• Jan. 14 Sat. Night 8:00p Saturday Night Stand-Up w/Eli Leibowicz (30s + 40s)
• Jan. 20-21 Shabbos Rabbi Meir Goldwicht + Lunch & Learn  (RSVP)
• Jan. 23 Monday 6:30p WiN: Women in Network — Rosh Chodesh Shevat
• Jan. 25 Wednes. 7:00a Men’s Daf Yomi starts Masseches Nazir
• Feb. 5 Sunday 6:00p Annual Tu B’Shevat Seder
• February 17-18 Shabbos Scholar in Residence Weekend w/Rabbi Chaim Jachter 

SCHEDULE

YEARN TO LEARN

• 7:15pm - Mitzvah Chaburah: Minchas Chinuch (New Time)
• 8:00pm - Late Maariv
• ​​​​​​​8:15pm - Tanach: Tehillim of King David
• www.OZNY.org/Mishmar

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

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

• ON WINTER BREAK
• www.OZNY.org/Tzurba

• 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

• Bible Behind The Scenes
• Select Thursdays at 7:00pm
• ​​​​​​​www.OZNY.org/Live

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

RABBI BLANCHARD'S BLURB

Most traditional monotheists believe that G'd has a will; that is, wants human beings to do or avoid specific actions. They also believe that this will is made known to us, in part or in whole,  either by direct commandments given in prophecy or by human reason, or a combination of both.  The source of any confusion we have about the Divine will, then, comes from our own inability to clearly and directly perceive or understand these Divine commandments, laws, etc, either as they are given to us or as they have been recorded by others whom we trust. Since we are not prophets,  we have to rely on traditions and the use of our reason.  A problem arises: there are multiple traditions and understandings of even a single tradition, and also human reason has hardly been infallible.  This makes being sure that we know the Divine will be problematic. 

Ask yourself: Are there, or were there, people you believe did understand the Divine will? Do you believe that your own action is,  in any way,  governed by rules or laws that transcend your individual will or the will of a group that is important to you--family, society, humanity? What do you think is their source? Do you think or believe that thought or reality somehow discloses these to you?  How?

Reflections on traditional answers to the question " Did the early founding figures of the Jewish people keep the Torah?"

Genesis 18:19 For I have singled him out, that he may instruct his children and his posterity to keep the way of יהוה by doing what is just and right, in order that יהוה may bring about for Abraham what has been promised him.”

Genesis 26: 5 inasmuch as Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge: My commandments, My laws, and My teachings.”