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THIS WEEK'S DAVENING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE WITHOUT A MINYAN 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. TORAH READING: Parshat Chukkat Balak and the The Haftarah is Micah 5:6-6:8. Chapter 5of Pirkei Avot is read. The final time for the sanctification of the New Moon is the entire night of Motzaei Shabbat.
THURSDAY: FAST OF SEVENTEENTH OF TAMMUZ: SHACHARIT for Fast Days. Following Shemonah Esrey, recite selichot. However, the 13 middot (“Hashem, Heshem, Kel Erech Apaim,” etc.) is not recited without a minyan, but can be said with the trop as if reading from the Torah. Avinu Malkeinu, Tachanun and continue with Shacharit. MINCHA during Shemonah Esray insert the Aneinu in the Shema Koleinu prayer. Say Sim Shalom. Avinu Malkeinu followed by Tachanun and Aleinu.
HALACHA OF THE WEEK: 17th of Tammuz For a review of the laws of the Three Weeks, click here - https://www.congkins.org/three-weeks-landing-page.html
On the 17th of Tammuz five major tragedies befell the Jewish people: 1) Moshe broke the tablets of the Ten Commandments; 2) the Daily Sacrifices (Korban Tamid) were suspended; 3) the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem - leading up to the destruction of the second Temple; 4) Apostomus (a Roman general) burned the Torah; and 5) an idol was erected in the Temple.
As a result, the 17th day of Tammuz was designated as a fast day, and for Ashkenazim, it is also the beginning of the three-week period of national mourning for the destruction of the Temples. (Interestingly, there is a dispute whether or not the “three weeks” begins the night of the 17th of Tammuz [Tzitz Eliezer 10:27] or in the morning [Iggrot Moshe Orech Chaim vol. 1:168]. However, unless there is a pressing need to be lenient, the general consensus is to consider the night of the 17th as the beginning of the three weeks.)
Some Laws of this Fast Day: The fast begins 72 minutes before sunrise (4:12 am) and continues until the end of the day (8:58 pm). Food and drink may be consumed any time during the night, as long as one has not gone to sleep "for the night". Although it is permitted to bathe on a fast day, it has become customary not to take a hot shower or bath [Aruch haShulchan 550:3].
The rabbis differ as to whether it is permitted to rinse one's mouth with water on the fast days such as this [Shulchan Aruch, Orech Chayim 567:3]. Some permit rinsing the front part of the mouth and even brushing one's teeth, taking care that no water enters the throat [Aruch haShulchan 567:3], while others allow this only when in distress [Mishna Berurah 567:11].
Medications PRESCRIBED BY A DOCTOR may be taken on this fast day. If one has difficulty swallowing pills without water s/he may drink a small amount of water required to swallow the medicine [Nishmat Avraham, vol. 5, pg. 46 in the name of Rabbi S.Z. Auerbach].
There is a debate among authorities whether pregnant or nursing woman should fast on the 17th of Tammuz (and the other minor fast days). Some maintain that they should, unless they are in significant discomfort [Chayyei Adam 133:6] or feeling weak [Mishna Berurah 550 note 5]. While the Aruch HaShulchan (among others) exempted them from fasting on these days [Aruch HaShulchan 554:8, Halichot Beitah 25 note 3].
If by accident, a healthy person ate some food, the fast should be resumed and completed as normal [Mishna Berurah 549:3].
DVAR TORAH At the end of this morning’s parsha, we read of the terrible sin of Zimri, the prince of the tribe of Shimon and his act of insolence with a Moabite woman - all in the presence of Moshe and the Children of Israel.
While this shameless sin is very difficult to understand (especially after all the Jews had experienced in their years in the desert), perhaps even more challenging to understand is Moshe’s response as he and the other leaders “were weeping before the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
Why did Moshe not take action? Why were they so overwhelmed? Or, as the midrash asks, “Is it possible that Moshe, who stood up to six hundred thousand [Israelites] and ‘taken the Calf that they had made,’ should be unable to act!?”
The answer, according to the midrash (and quoted by Rashi), was that all of this happened “so that Pinchas might arise and take that which was fit for him.” Because, until then, Pinchas had not been appointed a kohen, nor did he serve in the role of formal leadership. But now all of that changed, as we will read next week - as Pinchas is granted the “covenant of eternal priesthood” and the “covenant of peace.”
But the midrash doesn’t stop there. Instead, it continues and criticizes Moshe for his inaction, explaining that this was the cause of his punishment that no one would know the place he was buried.
This led Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein to suggest that as much as this incident was a test of Pinchas’ leadership, it further proves Moshe’s inability to lead a new generation. As he wrote, “...here we see the full force of transition from one generation to the next. Moshe’s sense of alienation and distance from the younger generation makes him feel helpless and unable to respond to the events going around him. Ba’al Pe’or symbolizes the generation gap that has opened up between the veteran leader and the younger generation.” [Moses: Envoy of G-d, Envoy of His People, p.174]
MAZAL TOV * to Hillel and Leah Shapiro on the upcoming marriage of their daughter Ilana to Nisan Aryeh Moses. Mazal Tov to grandparents Mrs. Eva Gertzfeld and Rabbi and Mrs. Meir Shapiro. * to Joel and Jenny Jacobson on the engagement of their son Rafi to Ariella Green. Mazal Tov to grandmother, Mrs. Naomi Jacobson. * to Mrs. Esther Cardash on the engagement of her grandson Dovid Romanoff to Noey Malkin.
REFUAH SHLAIMA * to Ephraim Rimel and Etai Rimel * to Shifra Yehudis Orlian who is recuperating at home * to Jerry Silverman who is rrecovering from surgery.
Donations to our Virtual Learning Fund were made by: By Rabbi Yehuda and Chani Isenberg in commemoration of the yahrtzeit of Yehuda’s mother Miriam Isenberg z”l. By Jack and Annette Saltzman in memory of Jack’s father Milton Saltzman z”l. B y Vivienne Sklar in honor of the marriage of her granddaughter Estee Levitansky to Benny Rudansky.
Shiur Sponsorships: *Rabbi Matanky’s Sunday Morning Navi Shiur July 5th by Alan and Leah Cohen in commemoration of the yahrtzeit and l’Iluyi the neshama of Leah’s father Menashe Simcha Ben Naftali Hertzka v’Leah. *Shiur Sponsorship July 6th by Eva Gertzfeld in honor of the wedding of her granddaughter Ilana Shapiro to Nisan Aryeh Moses and in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of her grandson Menachem Mendel Gertzfeld.
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