THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL DAVENING INSTRUCTIONS FRIDAY NIGHT: Kabbalat Shabbat as regular. Remember that following the Maariv Amida we say va’Yichulu but then skip to Aleinu (i.e. no Magen Avot). SHABBAT DAY: We do not recite Yikum Purkan without a minyan. This week we recite Birkat haChodesh (“Bentsh Rosh Chodesh”) for the month of Sivan which begins on Sunday. Nevertheless, Av haRachamim is recited. The sixth chapter of Pirkei Avot is studied. At Maariv we recite Yaale v’Yavo. TORAH READING: Parshat Bamidbar and the Haftarah is “Machar Chodesh” (Samuel I 20:18- 42). SUNDAY: ROSH CHODESH SIVAN. Yaalei v’Yavo in Shemonah Esrei; Half-Hallel; Musaf for Rosh Chodesh. We do not recite Tachanun from Rosh Chodesh Sivan until after the 12th of Sivan. THURSDAY: EREV SHAVUOT. Make an Erev Tavshillin before candle lighting. Recite Maariv for Yom Tov with the Amida of Yom Tov. Do not make kiddush until 9:07pm FRIDAY: SHAVUOT DAY 1. Recite Shacharit and Musaf for Yom. Since it is a weekday say “ha’Mayir la’Aretz” at the beginning of Shacharit. Full Hallel is recited following the Amida of Shacharit. TORAH READING: Shemot 19:1- 20:23, the Maftir is Bamidbar 28:26-31 and the Haftorah is Yechezkel 1:1-28. FRIDAY NIGHT: Begin with “Mizmor Shir l’Yom haShabbat” and then recite a Maariv for Yom Tov. In the Amida insert the special phrases for Shabbat. SHABBAT DAY: SHAVUOT DAY 2. Recite Shacharit and Musaf for Yom Tov with the addition in the Amida of the special phrases for Shabbat. Full Hallel is recited following the Amida of Shacharit. If Yizkor was not recited before Yom Tov, it is recited before Musaf. TORAH READING: Devarim 14:22- 16:17, the Maftir is Bamidbar 28:26-31 and the Haftorah is Chavakuk 2:20-3:19. (Megillat Ruth is read before the Torah reading.)
HALACHA OF THE WEEK: DAIRY FOODS ON SHAVUOT One of the most popular customs of Shavuot is to eat dairy foods. According to the Rema, the reason for this custom reason has to do with the unique offering brought on Shavuot, the "Shtei HaLechem" - the two loaves that were used on Shavuot [Orech Chaim 494:3]. The Rama says that just as on Pesach when we have food items to represent the Temple offerings brought on that day (e.g., the shank bone to represent the Paschal offering, and the egg to represent the Korban Chagiga), so, too on Shavuot we eat something to remember the bringing of the Shtei HaLechem.
How do eating dairy foods BEFORE a large meat-based holiday meal accomplish this?
Simply stated, it is based on the halacha, that a person should not use the same loaf of bread for both a meat meal and a dairy meal. Therefore, on Shavuot, before we begin our meat meal, we should have dairy foods. This way, when we continue our meal and have meat, we will need another loaf of bread to eat with it - a remembrance of the two loaves that were offered in the Temple on Shavuot. (The Mishna Brura adds that one should make the first loaf dairy by adding butter to it so that it will be necessary to have a second loaf when eating the meat portion of the meal.)
Other reasons for this custom are: 1. Until the giving of the Torah, meat was permitted to be eaten without ritual slaughter. Once the Torah was given, all methods of killing the animal to eat other than "shechitah," ritual slaughter, were prohibited. Since shechitah could not be done on Shabbat, and everyone agrees that the Torah was given on Shabbat, the Jews had to eat dairy.
2. The "gematria," the sum of the numerical equivalents of the Hebrew letters making up the word, of "chalav," milk, is forty (letter "chet" (8) plus letter "lamed" (30) plus letter "bet" (2) equals forty) which corresponds to the number of days that Moshe studied the Torah with G-d on the top of Mt. Sinai.
3. Mount Sinai has eight names, one of which is "gavnunim," because its appearance resembles that of cheese, "gevina," in Hebrew.
DVAR TORAH At the beginning of this week's parasha, we read of the order that the Jews lived and travelled through the desert. Surrounding the Mishkan on four sides, each direction was the home to three tribes. The order that the Jewish people.
According to the Midrash (Bamidbar Rabba 2:8), this division worried Moshe - perhaps one tribe would not like their location and want to move. But G-d assured him that the people already knew where they would live and how they would travel. Because Yaakov had already divided them up, when he planned for his own funeral, and told his sons where they should stand and how they should carry him back to Israel.
But what was Moshe so worried about? And why does the Midrash connect their travels in the desert to the funeral of Yaakov?
Rabbi Mordechai Rogow, z"l, a former Rosh Yeshiva at HTC explained, that Moshe was concerned about the effects that the life in the desert would have on the Jews. He was afraid that their 40 year journey and all of its extraordinary pressures would lead to confusion, turmoil, and even a loss of their own sense of humanity.
Answered G-d, "there was nothing to worry about." Once before, when their patriarch Yaakov died the people had survived a very difficult time, with severe pressures and turmoil -- and yet they survived and even maintained their own sense of dignity. They knew how to travel and they knew how to remain a united people - they had learned it from Yaakov!
MAZAL TOV * to Mrs. Sonia Goldberg on the birth of a great-granddaughter, born to her grandchildren Talia and Dan Zohar (Israel). * to Rabbi Yona and Mindy Reiss on their son Yishai becoming a bar mitzvah. * to Howard and Rosanne Benn on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Tzvi Hirsch Lipman, son of Rabbi Dovid & Miriam (Michelle Benn) Lipman, of Beitar Illit, Israel.
REFUAH SHLAIMA * to Dr. Jerrold Katz who is recuperating at Evanston Hospital * to Ephraim Rimel and Etai Rimel * to Zahava Kahan who is recuperating at home * to Bonnie Myers who is recuperating at the Abbington of Glenview. * to Shifra Yehudis Orlian who is recuperating at home. * to Timna Lieberman who is recovering from surgery.
CONDOLENCES * to Yafa and Rabbi Yosef Liberman on the passing of Yafa's brother, Kalman Shurin. Please express your condolences by calling Yafa at 773.972.8045 between the hours of 10:00am-12:30pm or 2:30pm-6:00pm. (Shiva will conclude before Shabbat)
* to Jeffrey & Lieba Zeller, on the passing of Jeff's brother, Rabbi Bernard Zeller. The funeral was held on Friday and shiva has already concluded.
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