8 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday »January 17 ,1985
Friday, Jasiua?f SS, 4:30 p,Bi. Sedra Vaera (Exodus) HavdsSa, Stsstsbat ends January 19,5:30 p.m.
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tion. 3231 Heather. Rabbv' Rabbi Avraha«B Feigelstock.: v.urday^J^
Aw;hahf Tauby. Services: Services: Frfaay-; sunlet. Sa^; ,, PoMuck vegetari^^^
Friday. 5:30 p.in. Saturday. 9 urday, »0 a.m.. Sundays. ^ . 732-3102. (Tradmoiml-Egal-
a.iii., with Mincha *00 B.in.. a.iD.alnd at sunset. Weekdays.' '«anan)- . .
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vjc^s: Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday, '-^!^S§m&^UMmi&:-
9.30 a.m.^ 382-0615. (Conser-
An overflow gathering paid tribute Jan. t to one of Vancouver's best known and most colorful perscnalities, Bennie Pastinsky, who succumbed Jan. 7/He was 76 and had been ill for a long time.
Mr. Pastinsky, 'w^o had resided here since^ 1919, had over7the years taken leadership roles on behalf of various ethnic and service groups and the City., ' w., . . His business from , 1950 until' hiswreftirenieni> in-1980.
followed by Seuda Shlishit and Maariv. Sunday .9 a.m.« followed by breakfast. <874-48O0(Sephardic Orthodox).
Beth Israel Congregation. 4350 Oak. Rabbi Ronald Price. Cantor Murray Niiton. Torah reader, D. Rubin. yatlV^)...^.-Choir, ^.'Pelman, director. Services: Friday, 6 :p»m. and 8:15 p.m. Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Sunday, 9 a.m. Weekdays, 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. 731-4161 (Conservative).
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. ,Sch©ra'tz€!deJfe.C<ingfega-^ ^"18081. 3476^ Oak: RaBbi Mor-. decai -Feuerstein. Cantdr Moshe Freis. Torah reader, .Rabbi Samuel Biber. Services: Friday, 4:25 p.m. Satur- ^ day 9-a.m. Mincha 4:30 p.m.' followed by Seuda Shlishit ^ and Maariv. HavdalaJaC 5:34 p.m. Sunday services. 8:30 a.m. and'4:50 p.m. Services 'during the .week, 7:30 a.m. and 4:50 p.m. 736-7607
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Teipple Sfoolom. 4426 W. 10th Ave: Rabbi Philip Breg-m^n. Murray Kenig, Cantor-ial Soloist/Choir Director.
Beth Tikvab Congregation. 971 i vGeal Road, Richmond, B.C. Rabbi Howard Siegel. Torah .reader, David Engel-berg. Services: Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, '40 a.m. Minyan. Monday and Wednesday, 7 a.m. 271-6262. (Conservative).
ClBabad-LubavitelB. 5750 Oak. Rabbi Yitzchak Wine-
n Har-£1. North Shore Jewish Centre, 1735 Inil^^odd Ave:, Vancouver; Rabbi Balla (visiting). Services: Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 9:30^.m. 926^ . 3697. (Conservative). ' v ,
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£it2 Ciaim Congregation. 9?J:i; JBJuridell Road, .Richmond, ^^6^. Rabbi jMaurice' ^^yerowltz; Services: Friday, 8 i^.m. and Saturday 9.a.m.
274-d090. (Orthodox).
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Havufst Sim Shalom. 1053 Douglas Cres.,,(Oak and .-19th). Affiliated with Vanvou-ver HiM Foundation. Rabbi
Pastinsky*s Antique Jewelry, was familiar to thousands of Vancouverites. / . Bom in Russia,*^ - Bennie Pastinsky arrived in Winnipeg, Canada in 1*914, where he lived, until moving Ho> Vancouver. He later attended Yeshiva Theological College
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Mitchell Light, a resident of Vancouver for over 40 years, passed away at Vancpuver General Hospital^Jan. 7. He was 94 years' of age.
Born and educated in Warsaw, Poland, Mr. .Light escaped to Japan at the outbreak of World War Two, coming to Canada in the early 1940s. ^ ^ > . ^
Predeceased by several , brothers and sisters, he is survived^ by^- a' coiisfh,.' Leon Kpmar of Vancouver.
Funeral services were held Jan: 9 at Schara Tzedeck chapel with Rabbi M. Feuer-stein and Cantor Preis officiating. Internment followed at Schara' Tzedeck
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Herald, 6i which he was a Beth Hamidrash Kiddush founding shareholder, luncheon following morning . Mr. Pastinsky's service -services Saturday, Jan. 19, work in the Jewish com-will be sponsored by Mr. and munity included being presi-Mrs. D.M. David in memory dent of Vancouver lodge B'nai of John KeVtesz and his son BVith; helping in the building Jack, who perished in a plane of Schara Tzedeck syna-crasha year ago. Spokesmen gogue; and being on the S.T. noted they hope friends of the Cemetery board for several' •'• M. years.
■•■^tknpwn^'^as:-^*M Ghihatpwn J he was presiidient of^ Vancbuyer; C Lion*s club, when the chapter Temple Sholom Shabbat raised over $35,000 for cystic evening services Friday, Jan. fibrosis research. During the 18, 8:15 p.m.; will hear 1954 British Empire Games, Michael Solman speak on • jjg served as treasurer of its
special events committee.
iHewaspsi^ by his well^nb%i ^ fe^ RabS>i Naiiiu^^ •'spintwaivie^^
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^ Surviving are his wife Tilly; daughters, : Carol (Mrs. Harvie) McCracken and
,^Sliaj^nT(pi^ aiid two grandchildren. ■"'■■-^;Attendedr^^^ nianj^^iahtis^fufl^ w^ie held^t S chapel with Rabbi M. '■Fwetsteiii'^"' ^artd-^;-Cantd^^ Preik officiating: i
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How can one w6rd ex|)Iain why some Jews will have Jewish ^ ^ndchildren while others won*t?.
' In this week's Toralv reading Va-ayta G-d promises Moses, "And I shall bring you to the land which j have.jSWotn to-Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, and I will giveit to you as a morasha.^ Morasha, hot^yeriisha,, the term more'^iaf us are, familiar with. ^ . . , . / .
Here are two differences: . '
A yerusha is something 1 don^-work for at:all—let's say my ^ father was smart enough \o buylBM stocks 40 years ago and 1, his heir, whistle on the way to my condo in Caracas W^.both. have the same last name and that's enough for mejo.clarm it as my inheritance. ' ' '
^ ^ Morasha is something ypu^to havelo work for. with all your strength and courage. ForexampleVeverypne knov/,^ that injhe twentieth' century^the repossession.of the land 'of Israel and the-'Carving-of this chapter in Jewish'history is written in ashes and underiined in blood. The point of^ morasffa is that.Moses:never' promised us a rosegarden without'thprns.-
Ayerusha is also somethingt^at concerns you wantto, you fcanjb anything you want ^ inherited — sell it and buy a fleet of RpUs-Roypes or a stable <^f race horses if you like. Or you can divjule the nioi^ey and giveit away to your favorite charity^. V , ?> ^ ,'
A morasha, on the other hand, is a house youf.parents left you with instructions never to sell it, never to divide It, but to leave it intact for their great-great grandchildren. Liive your son a pair of T0m or your daughter a pair of Sabbath candles and you Ve bequeathed tliem heirlooms to be used by^them and passed onio their children in turn. :v . ,
NoW'back to our first question.
What happens when this morasha G-d gave us is treated as a yerusha instead? After all. "nobody^n tell me wh^t tod6 with my inheritance, hpt my brother or sister, my attorney-or tny executor." It's ours! If we want to meltdown thecandlestickstp ^ make gold earrings or sell the Tallin to the highest bidder at Sotheby^s auction house^ who can stop iis? Andif we change the inheritance beyo?id recognition by wearing, say, a jnink tallis, blowing a silver^pped shofar 6r conducting our **Jewish*' weddings in an Episcopalian church in the name or brotherhood, what's wrong with that? And jBven if we choose to ignore tfte inheritance by working on the^abbath, for exaraple.OPfefus-ing to study Hebrew, it's our r%ht — our privilege, in fact! ^
But if that's the[ case, who can we blame, then, when our grandchildren have little to chew on when the bone is passed on to them with no meat on it, no fat, no steak or no sizzle.
The Torah in choosing the-word morasha over yerusha is warning us tb.be careful. A morasha is mbre than a right or a privilege. A morasha is commitity.
The Torah uses morasha to describe only two things; the land of Israel and the Biblical commandments.
The land of Israel and the Torah way of life are treasures you better pass on intact, like the crownof a king with a vastarray of ~ rare jewels. If the heir-apparent deqides.to adorn the scabbard pf his sword with all the diamonds and the next day his sister uses the rubies to style a gown, and the nexf week another princess melts down the gold for a pair of golden slippers, well, • one day, long after4ashions have changed and the swords and scabbards and golden slippers are shoved into the attic, a grandson discovers the quaint heiriooms andllongs for the real crown*
Who will he tunt to whea his grandfather is gone?
Soviet,Jewry, based on his personal communication with Refusenik; Mikhail Salman.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is Chief Rabbi ofEfrau Israel andMean of the Ohr Torah Institutions.
Suddenly taken one year ago. on 28ih of Tevet, 5744, a fage 31, In a tragic
lisbaiii^ long-time Fi'lend. To have, to love, and then to lose. Is the
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Established 1S09 Fs-oso? and SStSi 327-1312
VICE at Beth Israel Friday,. Jan. 18,8:15 p.m., conducted, by B.I. principal Jock CIgst-ner, will be attended by members of V-JAS (Vancouver Jewish Adult Singles) and JASGOV (Jewish Adult Singles Club of Vancouver). Information, 731-4161.
Former' Vancouver resident Leo Nemetz passed away in Los Angeles on Jan. I following a brief illness. He was 78 years of age.
Born in Russia, Mr. Nemetz came to. Canada i'n 1923, settling in Watrous, Saskatchewan. He married the former Bessie Perlman in
1927 and they remained in Vancouver until 1938, when they moved to the U.S. . The couple livpd in Los/ ' Angeles until her passing in . 1977, when 'Mr. Nemetz /retired in Camarillo, Califor-~ nia. He remained active there in BWi B'rith, Shriners and 'American Cancer Society.
Predeceased by his wife, sis-. , ter Sonia Victor and brothers Charlie, Sam and David Nemetz. he is surviveci by sons Dr. Harold Nemetz and Dr. Jerry Nemetz, daughter Ada Cogan, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of Los Angeles, and ^sters Ghava Wosk arid Esther (Mrs. Ben) "Dayson, and brodiers Harry- and Bill Nemetz, all of Vancouver.
Funeral services and burial were held in Los Angeles. .
The family stated that the Jewish National Fund's Canada Park project has been designated for donations in Mr. Nemet^'S memory.