THE ECHOD
SHABBAT PARSHAT EMOR
5 IYAR 5768 • MAY 9-10 2008
Shaul Robinson, Rabbi Shalom Morris, Assistant Rabbi
Ruvan Cohen, President Sherwood Goffin, Cantor

CELEBRATE 4 VISIONS
The LSS Annual Journal Dinner - June 2, 2008
Ad Blanks available in the lobby, or at LSS.ORG
Send your Ads and dinner reservations in today, and celebrate our visions at LSS!

THE ERUV IS UP FOR SHABBAT

FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES
Earliest Candlelighting: 6:30 p.m.
Early Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat services: 6:45 p.m.
Candles: 7:42 p.m.
Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat services: 7:45 p.m.

SHABBAT SERVICES
• Daf Yomi: 7:00 a.m.
• Bible Class: 8:30 p.m.
• Hashkama Minyan: 7:45 a.m.
• Main Sanctuary: 9:00 a.m.
• Womens Tefillah Group: 9:00 a.m.
• Beginners Service: 9:15 a.m.
• Latest Shema: 9:18 a.m.
• Rabbi Herschel Cohen Memorial Minyan: 9:45 a.m.
• The Samson Raphael Hirsch Bible Class with Rabbi David Freedman: 6:30 p.m.
• The Louis Lazar Memorial Talmud Class: 6:30 p.m.
• Mincha: 7:30p.m.
• The Kollel Hebrew Shiur meets between Mincha/Ma’ariv, led by Eliram Elgraby.
• Shabbat ends/Ma’ariv: 8:42 p.m.
• Bikur Cholim volunteers meet in front of the synagogue on Shabbat at 4:00 p.m. New volunteers are needed & urged to join.

SHABBAT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Yasher Kochachem to the following sponsors of today’s Kiddushim:
• Hashkama: Mr. & Mrs. David Cohen, to commemorate the Yahrzeits of their grandparents
• Main: Miriam Morgenstern & Michael Laufer, to celebrate the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter Becky
• Teen Minyan: Estie & Barry Hollander
• Beginners: In loving memory of Shmuel Shoshani, and in honor of Rabbi Buchwald
• Seudah Shelishit: Joe Verschleisser, to commemorate the Yahrzeit of his wife, Sandy

Please join us at Seudah Shelishit in welcoming our special guest, Laura Bialis, Director/Producer of the new film, Refusenik, a retrospective documentary that chronicles the thirty-year grassroots movement to free Soviet Jews.

Shabbat/Friday Night, May 16th
Lincoln Square Synagogue will be hosting a Friday night dinner for those living around the LSS area, both members and non-members.
We are inviting the college age/young professional demographic, both married and single.

A GREAT WAY TO NETWORK AND MAKE FRIENDS
The event will follow our early minyan (starts 6:45 PM), Cost: $25
Please contact the LSS office at 212 874 6100 or sign up online at lss.org

WEEKDAY SERVICES/ DAF YOMI
• Morning services Sunday: 7:10 & 8:30 a.m. Daf Yomi: 7:45 a.m.
• Morning services Monday & Thursday: 7:00 & 7:50 a.m.
Daf Yomi: 6:15 a.m.
• Morning services Tuesday,Wednesday, & Friday : 7:10 & 7:50 a.m.
Daf Yomi: 6:20 a.m.
• Mincha/Ma’ariv Sun -Thurs: 7:50 p.m.

MAZAL TOV TO
• Grandmother Noreen Wachs and Uncle Hillel Wachs on the birth of a son to Rabbi Josh & Tamar Kahn
• Miriam Morgenstern & Michael Laufer, on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter Becky

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The LSS Rosh Chodesh Group for Iyar will take place this Sunday, May 11th at 8:00 PM, at the home of Aviva Sussman, 101 Central Park West. The theme will be the Book of Ruth, with five women presenting their impressions of the main characters of the megilla.
We look forward to seeing you.
• Thanks to Paul Freilich & Scott Liebman for being our "Official Shabbat Greeters” of the week If you would like to volunteer please email Rachel Neumark Herlands at rnherlands@gmail.com. It is the most fun you will ever have in shul!!
• A sterling silver ring was lost in shul last week. If anyone found it, please return it to the LSS office.
• Over 50 & Solo- Next meeting: Sunday May 25, 2008, 10:30 a.m. thru 12:30 p.m.
• The Women’s Division of Shaare Zedek Hospital will be honoring our member Gail Propp at their forthcoming luncheon on May 12 at the Pierre Hotel, New York. Please contact the Shaare Zedek office at 212-764-8117 for more information.
• Please be respectful of your fellow congregants, and do not leave coats on seats in the Main Sanctuary. All coats should be checked in the coatroom or placed under your seat. Thank you for your courtesy and cooperation.

THE JOSEPH SHAPIRO INSTITUTE
CLASSES
SUNDAY
• 9:15 AM - Sunday morning Breakfast and Learn (Hilchot Shabbat) Rabbi Shaul Robinson

MONDAY
• 8:15 PM - Rav Harel Gordin’s weekly Hebrew Gemarah Shiur - Masechet Berachot (open to both men and women.)
• 6:30 PM - Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level I - Sharona Spivack
• 6:30 PM - Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level II - Reva Rapps

TUESDAY
• 10:30 AM - The Marilyn & Sam Isler Studies in the Weekly Portion- Rabbi Shaul Robinson
• 7:30 PM - TUESDAY TALKS - THE VANISHING OF AMERICAN JEWRY
Dr. Steven Bayme
Dr. Bayme deals with Jewish family issues, Jewish education, Israel-Diaspora relations, Jewish identity and continuity, and intra-Jewish relations for the American Jewish Committee.
Complimentary Admission

WEDNESDAY
• 6:00 - 7:30 PM - Tanach Bashanah I - Daniel - Rabbi Shalom Morris
• 8:00 - 9:30 PM - Tanach Bashanah II - Daniel - Rabbi Shalom Morris
• 8:45 PM LSS Rav Moshe Feinstein Chavura - at the home of Miryam & Amos Alter

THURSDAY
• 10:00 AM - Torah@10: The 5 Megillot - “The Book of Ruth” Refreshments served; Toddler care available Rebbetzin Sarah Robinson
• 7:30 PM - Jacob Adler Parsha Class - Rabbi Shaul Robinson

FRIDAY
• 8:45 AM - Women's Study Group on Tefillah - Shuki Weissbart, LSS/TMTZ Kollel fellow

UPCOMING
LSS BOOK CLUB
Monday, May 19th, 8:15 PM
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn At the Home of Gale and Steven Spira

YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Come and celebrate Israel’s Independence with all of your friends at a special Yom Haatzmaut LSS Program on Shabbat May 10th in the Annex, starting at 6:30 pm 2nd-5th Grade. Free.
• Great Adventure Trip - Sunday, May 18
4th-12th grade • $35/person
Buses Leave: 9 am in front of The Jewish Center
Buses Return: 4:30 pm in front of The Jewish Center
This event is sponsored by LSS, The Jewish Center
• Check out the “Echod Mi Yodea?” the new LSS Youth weekly newsletter for youth updates, games, contests, and prizes! Available in the lobby.
• LSS’s "Gan Shabbat" program includes Shabbat stories & songs for toddlers 3 and under. Meets from 10:45-11:45 a.m. in the Toddlers' room.
• For more information on our upcoming events, contact Binyamin Lehrfield at (847)703-0242 or youth@lss.org
• If you would like to have the pleasure of hosting our Youth Director Binyamin Lehrfield for Yom Tov or Shabbat meals, please contact Nyla Kamlet: at (212) 799-5234 or by e-mail at nylakamlet@yahoo.com.
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
LSS is a “Nut-Free” environment. As a courtesy to those children with allergies, all snacks served in Shabbat groups and MRYC events are nut-free. Outside food may not be brought into groups. In addition, please be courteous to those joining us and refrain from sending your children with candy or food containing nuts or made in a facility that processes nuts.

BEGINNERS ANNOUNCEMENTS
• The Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level I will continue on Monday, May 12th. The Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level II will begin Monday, May 12th. All classes are free and meet at 6:30 pm.
• The final Beginners Luncheon of the season will be on Shabbat, June 7th. Cost $20. Please register by Tuesday June 3rd by calling the LSS office or register online at www.lss.org

KOLLEL ANNOUNCEMENTS
LEARN WITH THE LSS/TMTZ KOLLEL!
• Friday morning- 8:45 am- Shuki - Women's Study Group on Tefillah
• Shabbat afternoon, following Mincha - Eliram - Hebrew shiur on “Hashkafah Isralit"
• Monday evening 8:15 PM- Rav Harel Gordin - Hebrew Gemara shiur "Sugyot in Masechet Brachot"
• Wednesday evening, 8:45 PM - Rav Harel Gordin - Hebrew shiur on "Iggrot Moshe"
• Shabbat Afternoons with B'nai Akiva (meets at LSS every other week))
• Shabbat im Shuki - between Mincha & Ma’ariv, on weeks without Bnei Akiva
• Shabbat Mornings in the Teen Minyan (9:45 am)
• Please contact Rabbi Robinson to request a Kollel Chavruta and contact Rabbi Morris to find out about all the Kollel "Chavura" learning opportunities this year.
• If you would like to have the pleasure of hosting a Kollel fellow for Shabbat meals, please contact Rachel Neumark Herlands at 212-799-2176, or email rnherlands@gmail.com

The Adopt an IDF Unit Committee has chosen to support the organization Beit Halochem, and specifically its fundraising for scholarships for members of the Israel Defense Force that have been injured. These scholarships will pay for retraining or reschooling the soldiers. Please commerate the 60th anniversary of Israel by supporting this worthy endeavor. Checks should be made out to LSS RDF.

LSS CARES-CHESED OPPORTUNITIES
• The Lea Segre Tomchei Shabbos Fund is actively seeking donations in order to continue the very worthy service of providing Shabbat meals for those in need. Please be as generous as you can. To donate, send your checks to the office, made out to "LSS-Lea Segre Tomchei Shabbos Fund."

NORPAC'S ANNUAL LOBBYING TRIP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Join members of LSS as well as hundreds of other participants on Wednesday May 21st for NORPAC'S annual Washington lobbying trip. Bus leaves from LSS. Three Glatt Kosher meals will be served. Sick of rockets raining down on Sderot? Concerned about the E.U. breaking the HAMAS boycott? Fearful of a Nuclear Iran? Voice your concern directly to Members of Congress. They do make a difference. Register at www.NORPAC.net.

Musical Note By Cantor Sherwood Goffin
MODZITZER MASTERPIECE

One of the great masterpieces of chassidic melody is the Prok Yas Anoch, written by the Modzitzer Rebbe of Pre-war Europe, Rabbi Saul Taub, z”l.
In recent times, it was popularized by Mordechai Ben David Werdyger, who recorded it on his classic album, Just One Shabbos. The words plead with G-d to bring us out from exile, “from the mouth of lions.”
This melody is in the “minor mode,” and therefore is valid for use in Mimkomo of our Musaf Kedusha. More importantly, the words parallel that of Mimkomo, which pleads to G-d: “Turn with compassion and be gracious to your people.”
It is a powerful plea set to a most poignant melody.

Daven well and sing along!

Writing a d’var Torah for the Shabbat Echod is a wonderful way to mark the Yahrzeit of a loved one
(But please don’t wait until the last minute.)
Contact Ron Platzer: rplatzer@citytech.cuny.edu 718-260-5680

D’var Torah by Amos Alter

This week’s Sedrah contains Shor o Kesev, the Yom Tov reading for the First Day of Succot (outside Israel, the first two days -- it is also read on the Second Day of Pesach, in Israel where it is Hol HaMoed, in three Aliyot, and outside of Israel, where it is the Second Day of Yom Tov, in five Aliyot. The first few verses, however, seemingly have nothing to do with Yom Tov. If we were to start reading where it begins to discuss the Moadim , there would still be enough text to make the necessary number of Aliyot, even on Shabbat. Why do we start where we do?

I believe the answer lies in one of those introductory verses, containing the Mitzvah of oto v’et b’no, the prohibition of slaughtering a cow, ewe or nanny-goat, and her calf/lamb/kid, on the same day (Yes, despite the masculine language of the verse, it means the female parent, and the child of either sex). The prohibition applies both to animals which have been sanctifed to be offered on the altar, and to those which have not. It applies to the one slaughtered second, be it the mother or the child, and regardless of whether the same person slaughtered the first. In a sense, it’s the mammalian equivalent of the ornothological Mitzvah of shiluah haken, sending away the mother bird, although there are significant differences -- the latter does not apply to domesticated birds, while the former applies, as a practical matter, only to domesticated animals; in the former, you have a choice of which to slaughter, the mother or the offspring, while in the latter case, you may choose only the offspring, and must spare the mother.

So what does this have to do with Yom Tov? It doesn’t. What it has to do, as we shall see, is with Erev Yom Tov. Other of our Yom Tov Torah readings, telling the stories of the events which the respective holidays commemorate, begin their stories with events before Yom Tov. The Torah portion for the first day of Pesach begins with Moshe Rabbeinu giving instructions about the Korban Pesach, including the acquisition thereof, which was to take place on the Tenth of Nisan; the Exodus on the Fifteenth is recounted only later. The Torah portion for the Seventh Day of Pesach, culminating in the splitting of the Sea and the Song thereof -- the events of the day being celebrated -- begins with events which occurred several days earlier. The Torah portion for Shavuot begins with matters happening on Rosh Hodesh Sivan.

So, too, with the Yom Tov reading of Shor o Kesev. The commandment of oto v’et b’no has special significance on Erev Yom Tov. According to Rebbe (Hulin 83), there is a requirement on Erev Yom Tov, which does not exist otherwise, to advise the potential buyer of an animal that “I sold the mother today”, if that is the fact. That’s because on Erev Yom Tov, the presumption is that the buyers of both animals intend to slaughter them that day, to have meat for Yom Tov. On other days, that presumption of same-day slaughter does not exist, and therefore there is no requirement to warn the second buyer about the first sale.

The reading of Shor o Kesev is not recounting the story of any particular Yom Tov, but is talking about the Chagim in general. The introductory verses therefore talk about Erev Yom Tov in general.

Shabbat Shalom!

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