What's Happening

WEST SIDE ERUV CAMPAIGN

It's Down to The Wire!

The Manhattan Eruv began in 1999 as a local community project for the Upper West Side, but it eventually expanded to include most of the borough of Manhattan.

Obviously an essential need for residents and their families, the Eruv is also used by the many patients of the local hospitals, and their loved ones.

The entire Eruv is checked and maintained weekly, and a website (eruv.nyc) posts real-time status updates.

We completely rely on the community's support.

Please, help this vital project continue.

And now, CARRY ON.

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

• Sara Slatky & Shai Canaan and Family, on the birth & bris of their son Ori Yehoshua 
• ​​​​​​​Max & Jolie Herskowitz, on the birth of a baby boy — Mazel Tov to grandparents Neil and Daphne Herskowitz

• Janet Sachs, on the passing of her mother, Carol Sachs z’l

• 8:00pm Oneg @ Gottesman Residence (650 WEA #3A):  The Search for Happiness
• 11:00am Drasha in Main Shul: The Person Who Moshe Most Admired
• 3:40pm Text & Context Class: Hashem’s Name “HaMakom”
• 4:40pm Shalosh Seudos: Tu B’Shevat - One of the Year’s Most Special Days

• Bradley Hames, commemorating the 14th Yarzheit of his mother Sima bas Tzvi Hersh z’l

• Join Weeknight Maariv & WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IRwSOphLuviJj8O0sVpqRX

• Join now as they start Mas. Nazir on Jan. 25 - www.OZNY.orrg/Event/Daf2023

• Jan. 23 Monday 6:30p WiN: Women in Network — Rosh Chodesh Shevat
• Feb. 4 Shabbat 11:15a OU Nach Shabbat, featuring lecture by Elana Flaumenhaft
• Feb. 5 Sunday 6:00p Annual Tu B’Shevat Seder & Sushi: www.OZNY.org/Tu2023
• Feb. 10 Friday 5:15p Sephardic Monthly Friday Night Minyan & Mezzeh
• February 17-18 Shabbos Scholar in Residence Weekend w/Rabbi Chaim Jachter
• ‘March Madness’ returns with a new series of ‘Views from the Pews’ to prepare for Pesach, including Gerry Adler, Esq., Dr. Charles Savenor, and Rabbi Stephen Friedman

• The Manhattan Eruv is hosting its annual fundraiser from Jan. 23-24! Please support this community wide initiative at www.Rayze.It/ManhattanEruv/
• Oneg Shabbat of the Upper West Side hosts its 19th Annual Family Fun Day on Feb. 5  at 11:00am - rsvp & support community Tomchei Shabbos at www.OnegShabbat.org
• Join your OZ & UWS Friends for a Fabulous Pesach in Italy! Includies Singles Program and Family Friendly! Contact Sarah Stambler for info: discover@ozny.org
• Gam Zuli, a new dating platform for Observant Singles has launched and registration is free for a limited time at www.GamZuli.com
• Early Bird Registration is now open for Camp Topeinu at www.CampTopeinu.com

SCHEDULE

YEARN TO LEARN

• 7:15pm - Mitzvah Chaburah: Minchas Chinuch
• 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

• Wednesdays @ 2:00p
• 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

Do you ever think there is some greater power paying attention to what is happening here in our "earthly" world? When we wrestle with negative, evil forces that seem too great for us to control or destroy, we can choose to believe that there is a greater force in our lives on which we can depend. This is true for resistance to social, political, or personal moral evils. Think of Gandhi, the American civil rights movement, or Alcoholics Anonymous. Such a commitment gives us the strength to move forward. Can it be demonstrated? Perhaps not, but from a pragmatic point of view,  trusting in providence helps us take the other steps necessary to resist the great and small evils that we encounter in our lives.


Ask yourself: How would your life be [or is] different if [or when] you rely on "Divine power" or "providence"? 

Reflections on Exodus 8:18 
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Ramban:
I AM THE ETERNAL IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH. ... it intends to state that He rules and supervises in the midst of the earth, and not, as some think, that thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He seeth not; and He walketh in the circuit of heaven.190Job 22:14. 
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Rashi: 
למען תדע כי אני ה׳ בקרב הארץ IN ORDER THAT THOU MAYEST KNOW THAT I AM THE ETERNAL IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH — although My Shechina is in the heavens. My command is fulfilled amongst humanity (as we might say, "My writ runs on earth also")