Shabbat Shuva - Ha'azInu & Yom Kippur e-Bulletin
Congregation Or Menorah
Kehilat
Or Menorah
www.ormenorah.com
Rabbi Doug
Zelden – Rav
Dov Steinberg - Shul President
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7006
N. California Ave. Chicago, IL 60645
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Shabbat Shuva
Parshat Ha’azinu 5786
Erev Shabbat Candle lighting 6:34pm
Friday – Mincha/Kabalat Shabbat: 6:44pm
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Sof Zman Kriat Shma: (Say Shma by) 9:39am
Shabbat Morning: 9:15am
We do not have a Kiddush host yet
this week. If you are able to contribute for any occasion or to take a turn
hosting, please contact the Rabbi.
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Shabbat
Afternoon:
Pirke
Avot Shiur 15 Minutes before Shabbat Mincha & Divre Torah will follow
Mincha until Maariv
Shabbat Afternoon Mincha: 6:24pm
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-Motz’ei Shabbat Maariv: 7:27pm followed by Havdallah after 7:44pm
(Maariv begins no earlier than 33
minutes after sunset)
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YOM KIPPUR (Sun 9/20/26)
(Erev
YK) Mincha/Kol Nidre/Maariv 6:25pm
Monday (9/21/26) Shacharit/YIZKOR/Musaf 8:30am
Mincha 4:35pm /N’eila 5:30pm
Shofar/Maariv 7:32pm
(followed by Kiddush Levana &
Break the Fast)
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SIMCHA NEWS
Mazel Tov this week
to:
Adina Sara
Frohlich & Yamin Reiss and families on their engagement.
Shari & Geoffrey Mullen on their anniversary.
Sara & Avrumi Adler and families on the birth of a daughter.
Adina & David Aberman on the birth of a grandson.
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Happy Birthday to:
David Steinberg
Joshua Fox
Mimi Zimmerman
Myrna Buckman
Bina Smith
Cheryl Karp
Adina Natanson
Nachum Matten
Eli Berkovich
Edward Mullen
Michael Forster
Mia Forster
Rochelle Mann
Steve Cohen
Benjamin Gershon
Leah Kieffer
Yom Huledet
Samayach!
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CONDOLENCE NEWS:
BARUCH DAYAN
EMET!
Condolences to
the families of:
Michael Siegall
z”l
Irwin Ben Feder z”l
Joseph Yossi Rine z”l
Ruby Kaufman a”h
Hamakom Yenachem Etchem B'Toch Sh'ar Avele
Tzion Virushalayim!
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Torah Thoughts from Rabbi Doug…
Parshat Ha’azinu
Parshat Ha’azinu,
Deuteronomy 32, is the shortest parasha in the Torah. It
consists of only one chapter of just fifty-two lines. The first 47 lines are a
poem (or a song; it’s not clear which medium it was intended to be) that Moses
sings at the threshold of the Promised Land, within hearing distance of all the
people of Israel. Ha’azinu hashamayim, he begins. “Give ear, O
heavens, let me speak; let the earth hear the words I utter!” Moses calls upon
“heaven and earth,” i.e., everything, to witness that God is true and just;
it’s Israel who is deceitful. In beautiful poetic language, the poem describes
how God brought Israel out of the wilderness and fed Israel from the bounties
of the land. God created and sustained the people in the desert. Israel (called
here Jeshurun) became complacent and arrogant and worshipped other gods,
spurning God’s covenant. The poem describes God’s anger and the punishments
which Israel will face because of its perfidy. The poem ends with denouncing
the useless gods of the Canaanites. After the end of the poem, Moses tells the
people that they must remain devoted to the Torah, since “this is not a
trifling thing for you; it is your very life.” The parasha closes
dramatically with God’s directing Moses to ascend Mount Nebo and look at the
Promised Land. God tells Moses that he will die on the mountain.
Deuteronomy 32:7 states, “Ask your father, he will inform you,
Your elders, they will tell you,” is the basis for the commandment to kindle
the Chanukah lights According to the Talmud (Shabbat 23a), this
verse says that your father and elders will tell you of God’s miracles,
obligating you to light the Chanukah candles. This parasha has another connection with Chanukah: Six times,
it refers to God as a “Rock”; and the expression “tzur yeshuati” – the “Rock of my salvation” –
was
incorporated into the Chanukah song “Maoz
Tzur.”
Shabbat Shalom!
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Or Menorah - Weekday Schedule of
Services
Weekday Minyanim with Rabbi Doug
*Or Menorah is only holding Minyaim in our building on Erev Shabbat,
Shabbat, and Motz’ei Shabbat (also Yom Tov) and special days, since Covid, and
all other weekday davening will temporarily be together as scheduled below:
~ Sunday-Friday Shacharit: 8:30am together
at Poalei Zedek
~ S-TH Mincha/Maariv: 15 minutes before sunset together
at Poalei Zedek
~Friday Mincha: 10 min. after Candle Lighting
at Or Menorah
~ Motz'ei Shabbat Maariv: 33 minutes after
Sunset
at Or Menorah
*(Poalei Zedek in 4 blocks South of Or Menorah at 2801 W. Albion
Ave.)
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that the appropriate honors can be handed out and the appropriate announcements
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Summary of Ha’azinu / Shabbat Shuva By, Rabbi Doug Zelden
Deuteronomy 32:1
Page 896 in the Hertz Chumash
2nd Aliya: The Jew must always remember that he was chosen from among all other nations to be nurtured by the direct ministrations of the Creator. We were born in a "desolate, howling, wasteland"
5th Aliya: However, the other nations will fail in the very same manner that we did. They will assume that their ability to enslave the Chosen People and ravage Israel is proof of G-d's impotence and their own prowess and strength. Therefore, they will be punished and destroyed and the Chosen People will again recognize Hashem's primacy and control. Pg. 900 Ch.32:29
6th Aliya: Moshe's song ends with the Jewish people singing forth their acceptance and understanding of divine purpose and justice. Pg. 901 Ch.32:40
7th Aliya: Moshe presents the entire "song" to the nation and reemphasizes that the condition for keeping the Land is adherence to Torah and serving Hashem. Pg. 902 Ch.32:44
Maftir Aliya: We repeat the last five verses. Pg. 903 Ch.32:48
Haftorah Shuva Pg. 904 in the Hertz Chumash
Hoshea 14:2-10; Yoel 2:11-27; Micha 7:18-20
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