Saturday, April 13
Morning Service 9:30am
Torah Reading / Sermon: 10:30am Kiddush Brunch 12:00pm
Evening Service 7:15pm Shabbos ends: 8:16pm
Kiddush Sponsored by
Leonid and AllaKhaytman
In Honor of their Sheva Brachos
Mazel Tov!!
and Max and Avital Borin
In honor of Avital's birthday
Mazel Tov!!
Schedule of Synagogue Services April 14- 18
Morning Service Shacharis
Sun-Fri 8:15am
Followed by breakfast
Evening Service Mincha & Maariv
Sun-Thu 7:25pm
Fair Lawn Jewish Day Camp Enroll today for the full summer and save big! Enroll your child now!
You want a paid and impacting internship this summer for your high school and college age kids? Because of the dedicated staff that join our team each summer, our camp has been one of the fastest growing Jewish camps in North Jersey since 2008. Together, we serve over 400 campers each summer, and growing!
Next Session: Monday, April 29th at 7pm Jteens invite children ages 6-11 to participate in an exciting bi-weekly workshop. Free Admission!
TEEN TALKS & LOUNGE
Jteen Talks will resume after Passover. Hang out, and get connected with other Jewish
teens in the area for casual, social meet and discussions.
Chats, Snacks, and Drinks
Moms and Tots Shabbat
Saturdays 11am-12pm Give your child an opportunity to explore, learn and discover with songs, story time with Russian language, and kiddie play area! Bond with your little one while connecting with other moms in our area.
Passover Seder for Adults
Friday, April 19 at 7:30pm
Join Rabbi Mendel and Elke Zaltzman and family for a timeless Passover experience, discovering and celebrating Passover with anecdotes, stories, great traditional food, handmade Shmurah Matzah, and choices of wines and grape juice.
Join Rabbi Mendel & Elke Zaltzman & family for a Seder geared to families with children. A complete, but express Passover Seder complete with games, songs, prizes for kids and an interactive, hands on Passover experience for kids.
Complete traditional Passover dinner, select wines and grape juice, handmade Shmurah Matzah.
Little Joshua returned home from Hebrew school and his father asked, "what did you learn today?" He answered, "The Rabbi told us how Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt."
"How?", his father asked.
Joshua said "Moses was a big strong man and he beat Pharoah up. Then while he was down, he got all the people together and ran towards the sea. When he got there, he has the Corps of Engineers build a huge pontoon bridge. Once they got on the other side, they blew up the bridge while the Egyptians were trying to cross."
The father was shocked. "Is that what the Rabbi taught you?"
The boy replied, "No. But you'd never believe the story he DID tell us!"
Weekly E- Torah
Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Is there a blessing in disguise inside every curse? Well, admittedly, it isn’t always so easy to discern, but we most certainly do believe in the concept.
This week’s Torah reading deals with the purification of those afflicted by the strange leprosy-like malady known as tzara’as (a word uncannily similar to tzores!). The Parshah recounts different types of tzara’as manifestations—on a person’s body, in his clothes or even in the walls of his house. In the latter case, if after the necessary quarantine period the stain had still not receded, the stones of the affected wall would have to be removed and replaced with new ones.
Now imagine the walls of your house being demolished. Is that a blessing or a curse? No doubt, the homeowner in question would not feel himself particularly blessed. But, according to our sages, the case was often different for the Israelites living in the Holy Land. The previous Canaanite inhanitants of the land would bury their treasures inside the very walls of their homes. The only way an Israelite would ever discover those hidden valuables was if the stones of the house would be removed. When this happened, it didn’t take long for the poor unfortunate tzara’as-afflicted homeowner to be transformed into the wealthy heir of a newfound fortune. Suddenly his dark cloud was filled with linings of silver, gold and all kinds of precious objects. For him, in a moment, the curse became blessing.
Some time ago, a friend’s business went into liquidation. Naturally, he was absolutely devastated. After a while he opened a new business which, thank G‑d, prospered. He later confessed to me that in retrospect he was able to see how the earlier bankruptcy was truly a blessing. I still remember his words: “Before we were working for the banks; now we are working for our families.”
All of us will at one time or another experience disappointments in life. The challenge is to learn from those disappointments and grow from them. Who knows if the wiser, more sensitive person we become is not the silver lining itself?
In general, there are two qualities which form a powerful combination to help us appreciate that there is a hidden goodness inside every misfortune: faith and patience. With faith that there is a higher, better purpose to life, and with patience to bide our time for its revelation, we will be able to persevere and weather the crises of life.
Please G‑d, may we all find our silver linings soon.
