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Beth Israel Congregation
Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro z”l Sanctuary
Weekly Announcements
770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140
ph: 305.538.1251
email: info@bethisraelmiami.org
Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi
Parshat Beshalah/Tu B’Shevat
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www.bethisraelmiami.org
Abraham Galbut – President
February 11th 2017 15th Shevat 5777
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Erev Shabbat Schedule
Candle Lighting
5:53 PM
Mincha
6:00 PM
Shabbat Schedule
Tu B’Shevat
Hashkama Minyan
Main Minyan
Teens Minyan
Rabbi Bixon Class
Mincha
Maariv
7:30 AM
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
5:00 PM
5:45 PM
6:40 PM
Shabbat Ends
Family Torah Time
6:47 PM
7:20 PM
Sunday February 12th –Friday February 17th
Shacharit: 7:00am & 8:00 am
Monday February 13th – Friday February 17th
Additional Shacharit: 8:45 am
Sunday February 12th –Thursday February 16th
Mincha/Maariv: 6:00 pm
Rabbi Bixon Weekday Class Schedule
Monday at 9:15 am
Women’s Tefilah Class
Wednesday at 8:00 pm
Advanced Talmud Class
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
Malkah Tokayer, Irving Kahn,
Meryl Rotenberg, Hadassah Bixon,
Irwin Friedman, Warren Newfield,
Shragi Weiss, Abigail Nagler, Judi Saka
HAPPY ANIVERSARY TO:
Chanie and Steven Gottlieb
Rivka and Arthur Shapiro
Gale and Lawrence Grobman
Sorelle and Yankie Silverstone
Rabbi Bixon will be speaking
on Thursday February 16th
at 12:00 pm
3200 Southeast Financial Center
200 South Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL
33131
Mazal Tov to:
Natalie and Matthew Turestky
on their daughter
Ava’s Bat Mitzvah
Rona and Rabbi David Holzer
on the birth of a baby girl
born to their children
Tehila & Danny Mocton
Debbie and Israel Wiznitzer
on the birth of a baby boy
born to their children
Lil & Tzvi Heber
Jackie and Robert Weiss
on the birth of a baby boy
born to their children
Amy & Aaron Zuckerman
Rhonda and Thomas Weiss
on the birth of a baby girl
born to their children
Meredith and Joseph Pick
Seudat Shilishit is
Sponsored
in beloved memory of
Bessie D. Galbut a”h
upon her second yahrzeit
by her children grandchildren and
great grandchildren
Rita & Robert Galbut and family
David & Gita Galbut and family
Nancy & Abraham Galbut and family
Ronalee & Russell Galbut and family
Purim is coming!!!
Don’t forget to order Beth
Israel Mishloach Manot & help
support your Shul! Download
the list from B I Website,
call or email the office to
order
Youth Groups Announcements
9:15 Pre- Groups with Morah Atara
9:45 Regular groups begin with
Youth Leader
Weekly edible Torah and parsha themed
treats with Morah Esti and Morah Atara
A TU BSHVAT SPECIAL!
Check it out-this shabbos @ groups
Afternoons groups will take place 45
minutes before mincha with Rabbi G.
Adults can enjoy Rabbi Bixon shiur
knowing that their kids will have a
meaningful time of their own. Parsha
questions, Divrei Torah and amazing
story’s in addition to treats and prizes!
-TEEN SHABBAT PROGRAMSParents: to ensure our Teen Minyan begins
on time please remind your teen to be
there at 9:30 am. We have a wonderful
program with Rabbi Ney and Rabbi Weil.
Weekly Teen Shalosh Seudot takes place
after Mincha with Rabbi G, Rabbi Ney
and Rabbi Weil. This is an amazing
opportunity for Teens to schmooze and
hear some words of inspiration from our
wonderful Rabbi Ney. We are
encouraging all Teen minyan members to
attend.
PARSHA BATTLE UPDATE-BOYS
vs. GIRLS!
Could this be happening again? Could the
boys be doing the unthinkable? A repeat!
Whit a commanding 3-1 lead history is
looking more to be made with the first
repeat in Junior Cong history! But if we
can learn one lesson from Sunday ;-) never
be comfortable with a lead.
FAMILY TORAH TIME
7:20 pm Motzai Shabbat
Learning, Pizza, Fries, Raffles and
loads of fun. Don’t forget all you canslurp-slurpees:-)
Haven’t tried out yet-please join us!
As our Family Torah Time season come
to a close we invite all to join us for our
last few weeks!
Beth Israel Congregation
Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro z”l Sanctuary
Weekly Announcements
770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140
ph: 305.538.1251
email: info@bethisraelmiami.org
Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi
Parshat Beshalah/Tu B’Shevat
What do you get when you mix Tu
Bshvat and Rosh Chodesh Adar?
The first ever Torah Filled Mad Science
show in Miami Beach! Dr. Schnitzel show
mixes Torah messages as he attempts wild,
crazy and wacky science experiments.
Beth Israel congregation is proud to invite
the community to an evening of fun,
learning, laughter and excitement. The
evening begins with dinner, Purim crafts,
packing mishloach manot for hospital
patients and then at 6:00 pm sharp a show
of epic proportions!
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARSFebruary 28th
DVAR TORAH BY:DR. ARI CIMENT
WHO IS THE FIRST DOCTOR
MENTIONED IN THE TORAH?
‫ קוֹנֶה‬,‫ הָ עוֹשֶׂ ה ִמצְ וָ ה ַאחַ ת‬,‫אוֹמר‬
ֵ ‫ַרבִּ י אֱ לִ יעֶ זֶר בֶּ ן ַי ֲעקֹב‬
‫ קוֹנֶה לוֹ ַק ֵטּגוֹר‬,‫ וְ הָ עוֹבֵ ר עֲבֵ ָרה ַאחַ ת‬.‫לוֹ פְ ַר ְקלִ יט ֶאחָ ד‬
‫ ְתּשׁוּבָ ה וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים טוֹבִ ים כִּ ְת ִריס בִּ פְ נֵי הַ פּ ְֻרעָ נוּת‬.‫ֶאחָ ד‬
“He who does one mitzvah, aquires an
advocate and if one traansgress, you aquire an
adversary. Repentance and good deeds act as
shields from the punishment”
Question #1: Presumably, ‫ ְתּשׁוּבָ ה‬is refering to
the person that does bad things and then truly
repents and ‫ וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים טוֹבִ ים‬is refering to the
person who does good deeds from the start.
Then why does ‫ ְתּשׁוּבָ ה‬precede ‫?מַ ע ֲִשׂים טוֹבִ ים‬
Question #2: '‫וַ יּ ֹאמֶ ר ִאם שָׁ מוֹעַ ִתּ ְשׁמַ ע לְ קוֹל ה‬
‫וֹתיו וְ שָׁ מַ ְר ָתּ‬
ָ ְ‫אֱ �הֶ י� וְ הַ יָּשָׁ ר בְּ עֵ ינָיו ַתּעֲשֶׂ ה וְ הַ אֲ זַ נְ ָתּ לְ ִמצ‬
‫כָּ ל חֻ ָקּיו כָּ ל הַ מַּ חֲ לָ ה אֲ ֶשׁר שַׂ ְמ ִתּי בְ ִמ ְצ ַריִ ם ל ֹא ָא ִשׂים‬
�‫עָ לֶ י� כִּ י אֲ נִ י ה רֹפְ ֶא‬
“And He said, If you hearken to the voice of
the Lord, your God, and you do what is proper
in His eyes, and you listen closely to His
commandments and observe all His statutes,
all the sicknesses that I have visited upon
Egypt I will not visit upon you, for I, the
Lord, heal you”
Who needs G-d to heal us if we are doing good
deeds. Isn’t healing only necessary if we
develop the sicknesses that He Himself told us
that we are prtotected from if we simply
adhere to the mitzvos. The pasuk then sounds
odd: If you listen to G-d, He won’t give you
sickness and he’s the doctor that heals you?!?!
A related question that will be answered: Why
do we say “have a refuah shleimah” even to
those people with terminal diseases and why is
the verse “you should have a refuah shleimah”
said at someones deathbed (clearly he is on the
deathbed and so why does the deathbed
prayers contain such a wierd statement!?!?
ANSWER: There are essentially two
approaches to understanding the above ethic
and according to each approach, you can best
understand the pasuk in our parsha.
Approach #1: When the Tanna says ‫ְתּשׁוּבָ ה‬
‫טוֹבים כִּ ְת ִריס בִּ פְ נֵי הַ פּ ְֻרעָ נוּת‬
ִ ‫וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים‬, he is
specifically referring to someone who does
bad and then repents. The Rambam explains
that since ‫יקים‬
ִ ‫עוֹמ ִדין ֵאין צַ ִדּ‬
ְ ‫בְּ מָ קוֹם שֶׁ בַּ עֲלֵ י ְתּשׁוּבָ ה‬
‫מוּרים יְ כוֹלִ ין לַ ֲעמֹד‬
ִ ְ‫( גּ‬doing teshuvah is actually
even a stronger ‫ מַ עַ לֶ ה‬than doing good from
start in some way), this is why precedes ‫ְתּשׁוּבָ ה‬
precede ‫!!מַ ע ֲִשׂים טוֹבִ ים‬
Applying this to our pasuk: When the Torah
says , if you listen, I wont give you diseases,
the impication is that if you DONT LISTEN,
you will get diseases. To this second
possibility, G-d speaks out that He is the
ultimate healer-> even if you DONT LISTEN
initially, the power of teshuvah is there to
protect you from the diseases that I place upon
you! Even the seemingly insurmountable
Egyptian diseases are cured by the ultimate
Healer if you do teshuvah
Approach #2: The Rashbam actually says that
the mishna has a different text: Instead of
‫תּשׁוּבָ ה וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים טוֹבִ ים כִּ ְת ִריס בִּ פְ נֵי הַ פּ ְֻרעָ נוּת‬,
ְ it
actually reads ‫תּוֹרה וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים טוֹבִ ים כִּ ְת ִריס בִּ פְ נֵי‬
ַ
‫ !!! הַ פּ ְֻרעָ נוּת‬And so the mishna has nothing to
do with teshuvah at all. Observing the Torah
and doing good deeds prophylactically shields
you from punishments/ailments!
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Abraham Galbut – President
February 11th 2017 15th Shevat 5777
Likewise, our pasuk here may not have
anything to do with teshuvah, but is rather
denoting the optimal prophylaxis.. When G-d
says “He is the Healer”, he may be the Healer
in the sense of prophylactically protecting us
from the ailments by making sure we follow
the commandments. In this sense, the word
Ropheh doesnt necessarily mean healer but
rather one who softens, ameliorates, protects
those from the burdens of sickness.
This is why we say “refuah Shleimah” to
someone on his deathbed and why we say that
even a goses should have refuah shleimah
because the word Ropheh (which has
Rafah/soften as its root) doesnt only mean “to
heal” but also to “soften/protect/ammeliorate”!
TAKEAWAY MESSAGE/S: If a ‫ רוֹפֵ א‬is
defined only as someone who heals, then the
pasuk �‫ אֲ נִי ה רֹפְ ֶא‬is refering to a situation
where one initailly doesnt adhere to the
mitzvos and then repents. G-d will heal
him/her post repenentace--> ‫ְתּשׁוּבָ ה וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים‬
‫טוֹבִ ים כִּ ְת ִריס בִּ פְ נֵי הַ פּ ְֻרעָ נוּת‬. If a Ropheh is also
defined by someone who not only heals but
ammeliorates/softens/protects/mollifies, then
�‫ אֲ נִי ה רֹפְ ֶא‬refers to G-d putting in place a
proper derech to avoid illness, a regimen of
prophylaxis--> ‫טוֹבים כִּ ְת ִריס בִּ פְ נֵי‬
ִ ‫תּוֹרה וּמַ ע ֲִשׂים‬
ַ
‫הַ פּ ְֻרעָ נוּת‬
SAYING REFUAH SHLEIMAH TO
SOMEONE ON THEIR DEATHBED IS NOT
A BERACHA LEVATALA, �‫אֲ נִי ה רֹפְ ֶא‬- AS
THE DOCTOR, IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT
HEALING, BUT
AMMELIORATING/PROTECTING/SOFTE
NING! THE FIRST DOCTOR MENTIONED
IN THE TORAH? G-D...
Community News:
Fun Family Art project presented by
AMIT.
This Sunday February 12th at 12:00 pm
(noon) at
Beth Israel Congregation.
Lunch and Program
is $30.00/ person $54 /family
Renowned Judaica artist
Gary Rosenthal will guide you in your
craft project. Also trunk show of all his
works on sale. RSVP 954-922-5100
American Committee for
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
in Jerusalem
Sunset Dinner Cruise
Monday, February 20th
For more information contact
Debbie Gold at 305-7995619