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Thursday. August 20. 1981 — THE BULLETIN — 9
Hemember the Sabbath, so keep it holy ...
Fourth CommandRKfil. Esodus. IM Candklightins
Friday. August 21, 7:57 p.m. ^^^^ August 28, 7:43 p.m.
Sedra Re'eh (Deuteronomy) Havdafai, Sabbatli ends
Sedra Ekev (Deuteronomy) Havdala, Sabbath ends
August 22» 8:57 p.m.
August 29. 8:43 p.m.
Beth Hamidrash Congregation.
3231 Heather. Gamliel Aharon. Services: Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 8:30 a.m. Mincha 8 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. 872-5702. (Sephardic Orthodox).
Beth Israel Congregation. 43S0 Oak. Rabbi Wilfred Solomon. Rabbi Jeffrey Hoffman. Cantor Murray Nixon. Torah reader, D. Rubin. Choir, S.Pclman, director. Services: Friday, 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, 9:15 a.m. 731-4161 (Conservative).
Beth Tikvah Congregation. 9711 Geal Road, Richmond, B.C. Rabbi Harvey Markowitz. Services: Friday, 8:15 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. 271 -6262. (Conservative).
Chabad-Lubavitch. 5750 Oak. Rabbi Yitzchak Wineberg. Rabbi Yakpv Fellig. Services: Friday, sun^ set. Saturday, study group 9:30 a.m., service at 10 a.m. Afternoon service half-aii-hour bbfore sunset. (Orthodox).
Eitz Chaim Congregation. 9211 Blundel! Road, Richmond, B.C. Services: Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. 274-3107. (Orthodox).
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Louis Brier Home. 1055 W. 41st Avenue. Services: Daily, 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Shabbat. 9:15 a.m. with Sam Zingerman. Ralph Rosenberg. Ron Kornfeld. (Orthodox).
Schara TzMeck Congreg^tio^. 3476 Oak. Rabbi Baruch Zaichyk. Rabbi Menahem Fogel. Clantor MoshePrtfis. Services: Friday 7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. Claiss in £in-Yakov at 7' p.m. with Rabbi Zaichyk. Mincha 8 p.m. followed by Sholosh Seudos and Maariv. Havdala at 9:15 p.m. Sunday services, 8:30 a.m., followed by breakfast and class on Jewish Laws and Ceremonies. Services during week, 7:30 a.m. and S^lp.m. 736-7607 (Orthodox).
Temple Sholom. 4426 W. 10th Ave. Rabbi P. Bfegman. Choir, E. Wolak, director. Services: Friday, 8:15 p.m. Saturday, 10:30 a.m. (Reform).
Wins Israel Bible
Israel Sun
AHARON BEN-SHOSHAN (left) receives congratulations from Israel Prime Minister Menacbem Begin upon winning Israel Bible Quiz. Because of ill heaHh — be is blind and has undergone two open-heart operations — Ben Shoshan is forced to manage on national securtty benefits. He was aided in preparation for the quiz by Ids eight-year-old daughter who reads passages of the Tanacb to hhn to memorize.
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'At tijr
A New Song
BY S. SHALOM
We tJwnIc tlice, O L-rd
^causc T\u>u \m kept us alive, and maintained us,
And brought us to this day,
To which every prd^t lifted up his soul,
For uMich every vi^nary yearned in his heart;
Because the dream is no longer a dream
Or a fantasy of the imagjlnatum;
Because the vision is now truth.
IthankThu, G L'rd
Because I have seen with my own ryes
How the seed was dropped in the Valley offezreel
By the anonymous few.
Shadowless and wasU with hunger;
And hehoW.
The Oieaf they planted lifted itself and grown Into the Stau of Israel.
The Khokhem (wise man) who parades his knowledge is worth less than the stupid man who, ashamed, hides his ignorance.
Jewish proverb
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Yiddidi proverb * * «
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
— Rabbi Abraham Hcschd
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievemem,
— Felix Fnmkfinrter
BY RABBI MEIR GOTTESMAN
And thou shalt keep the
PARSHATEKEV
V*shomarto et ssffsvot Hashem Elokeciui .
commandments of the L-rd thy G-d ...
Blimps and show-offs are filled with hot air^ G-d loves those who hold themselves small.
A poor rabbi visited a wealthy **Rabbiner** for a donation. **l\n sorry,^the secretary said, **the rabbi only grants interviews on Thursdays between two and three in the afternoon.^
What coidd he do? The rabbi waited until Tliursday afternoon when he was ushered into the Great Man> presence.'TW Rabbiner gave him a donation, but insisted on hearing a d*vaF Torah from his guest.
The rabbi stroked his beard. ''In the grace after meals, we thank G-d for supporting us continually every day and every time and every hour... Since it says already'continually* why do we have to repeat Everyday, time and hour? But we thank G-d that not oidy does He help uSj but that He doesn\ have special affic^.hburs, and we^on^ h^ to make an appointment to s^ Him; Every moment He's available (Fun Unzer Alter Oitzer)
J£WBI» CALENIUR 5741 .1981
Rosh Chodesh Ehti Aug. 31 5742-198!
Rddi Hadioiia Fastof Gcdalya Yom Kj^por Succot
Sheminl Afzefet Simchat tonh Chanuka
Sept. 29-30 Oct.1 Oct. 8 Oct. 13-14 Oct. 20 OC4.21 Dec. 21-28
, AO holidays begin prcceeding day ' at sundown
What good is it to be a.^sofmiei' donTl love every other Jew like
yourself?
Consider... Moses warned tiie Jews, *^hiaveello*aivahelba&eeha... You should not bring an aboniinatipn into your house . , .** The Jews were insulted. '*Mose$^ what do you mean? We're good Jews! Do you think any Jew is going to bring in an idol or a Penthouse magazine into his home, ehiu v'shahml**
Moses shook his head. ''You dont understand. This is the abomination I mean — 'Every haughty heart is an abomination of the L-rd.. .*! dont want you to become so self-righteous that you bring conceit and snobbishness into your home and heart. Love every Jew like your own child .. .**
We need a new Baal Shem Tov today like the Jews did 300 years ago. A religious leader who serves G-d with all his heart, who doeshH sell out his Judaism, but preaches trv^ ahavasYlsre^. Someone v/ho teaches that real Torah is not to put walls between Jews, but bridges . ..
With all our faults, are there amy people like the Jews? We were stubborn, we are stubborn, we will always be stubborn. . But we will always be, forever and beyond. Shabbat Shalom.
Are not people who chum to be Orthodox and who yet eat otnt (for example, fish and chips) In a non-kosher restaurant making a mockery of Judaism?
In your lengthy letter, which I condensed, you refer to people who keep the Sabbath, have a kosher home and wc^r< tefillin and you imply that if they eat in a non-kosher restaurant, this makes nonsense of their claim to be Orthodox. First, it is necessary to point out that the term "Orthodox",is not a Jewish term at all: the term you should have used is "observant."
According to the strict din, you are right that fish and chips should not b^ eaten in a non-kosher restaurant, but I cannot agree — which is evidentiy what you invite me to do — that people who do this and are otherwise observant are, as you put it, "making a mockery of Judaism."
Without going into technicalities, if the fish is kosher and the oil in which it is fried is acceptable, the objection is to the vessels in which these are cooked, i.e.. they may have been used (or trefa food. But. again according to the din, trefa food that has been in the walls of a vessel for a period of 24 hours or more is known as noten taam lifegam, "that which imparts an unwholesome taste," and the food cooked in such, utensils is not forbidden.
There is the further din that one can assume either that the utensils of Gentiles have not been used during the 24 hours prior to the cooking, of the food eaten by the Jew they serve, or, if they have, it might have been a substance that imparts an unwholesome flavor to the kosher food.
As I said, the din would still view with disfavor the eating of fish and chips in a non-kosher restaurant beoEiuse, in a restaurant, there may still be doubt that a forbidden "taste" has been imparted to the food, since
ab initio one should not resort to the principle of "unwholesome taste" and, to be perfectly strict^ since the food has been cooked by Gentiles, •which is in itself a prohibition.
All this is periectiy correct, but it can be seen that to eat fish and chips in a non-ko$her restaurant cannot be compared with actually eating trefa food and so to do this is not utterly incompatible with keeping ^ kosher home and the like.
People have differing standards of observance and, whfle the ideal is surely that, eyeryonc be> totally observant, it is wrong to suggest to those who keep the Sabbath, wear tefillin and so forth, that they might as well give these up unless they immediately resolve never to do any^ing that isagainst the strict din. It is Just such an "either/or" attitude thaitv has driven maiiy away: from Jeirish observafwe.
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There is no question that the prayer is to be recited not only for a monarch but also for the President of a^ublic. This is the practice, of coiirse^ jQ^ the^
JUbbi Hayy^ Eteazar Spint^ of Mwikacs^ (Resp^^ zai^ Vs^. 5, 7) gocs^^i^^ aiui nikstlut the spedad b^ on seeing^ a; mbnardi has to be recited^ when one sees the President of a republic^'
for answer is 4>b c<rianm sf* welcbnicd bnt no private concspodence can be entered into; Qoestions dionld be
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