The Fair Lawn Jewish Day Camp, serving over 400 children this summer, begins on June 26. Staff training is in full swing, and we are super excited for an awesome summer adventure!
Our commitment to keep everyone safe continues!
We are continuing our commitment to security. Armed guard continues to be present at all major services. We are working on more security plans which we will share with you in the coming weeks. You can help by making a donation today.
Shabbos Times
Friday, June 21
Candle Lighting: 8:14pm
Evening Service Mincha: 7:30pm
Saturday, June 22
Morning Service 9:30am
Torah Reading and Sermon: 10:30am Kiddush Brunch: 12:00pm
Evening Service: 8:10pm Shabbos ends: 9:23pm
Kiddush sponsored by
Alex and Lucy Kark
in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their dear son, Joshua.
Mazel Tov!!
Schedule of Synagogue Services
June 23- June 27
Morning Service Shacharis
Sun-Fri 8:15am
Followed by breakfast
Evening Service Mincha & Maariv
Sun-Thu
8:20pm
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.
A Biselleh Humor....
Rachel gets into work late one Monday morning and goes to see her boss to apologize.
"I’m sorry I’m late, but I had to move some furniture this morning before I came into work. In fact my back is killing me after my efforts."
"So why didn’t you wait until your husband gets home tonight?" asks her boss.
"I could have," says Rachel, "but the couch is easier to move if he's not on it.
Weekly E- Torah
This week's Parshah tells the story of a group of men who were unable to bring the Passover offering on its appointed time, and approached Moses with a sincere request: "Why should we lose out?" It so happened that these individuals had been occupied with a good deed—according to some it was nothing less than carrying the remains of Joseph from Egypt en route to his final resting place in Shechem in the Holy Land—and because of their contact with the dead were "ritually impure" and thus unfit to bring the offering.
Moses consulted G‑d and was told that, in fact, the men were quite right. Henceforth, those who were ritually impure or far away at the time the Passover offering was brought on the 14th of Nissan would be given a second chance exactly one month later on the 14th of Iyar to make good their lost opportunity.
There are many important lessons from this law, known as Pesach Sheini ("the Second Passover"), such as "It's never too late." There are second chances in life for all of us. Or, that G‑d sometimes waits to see if we really want something badly enough to demand it and only then does He give it to us.
What those men in Moses' day did was actually quite inspiring. You see, they didn't really have to come and plead with Moses for a second chance. After all, they had the perfect alibi. They could have simply said, "Sorry, we were busy with another mitzvah." They were spiritually unable to participate. They had no reason to feel guilty. They couldn't be faulted. And yet, it did bother them. They felt left out and genuinely desired to be together with their brethren in the observance of another mitzvah, the Passover offering. People who had every opportunity to be free of obligation and willfully choose to actively seek obligation are indeed deserving of honorable mention. It is right that they should be singled out in the Torah for their sincerity and devotion.
We're all very good at making excuses: It's too cold, too hot, too expensive, too difficult etc, etc... Too many of us take the path of least resistance.
"The difference between a success and a failure is that a failure makes excuses and a success makes a plan."
Let's not look for excuses. Don't opt for the easy way out. Let us learn from the men in the wilderness who could have had every excuse in the book and yet happily chose to look for a new mitzvah and to share in the good deed of their community.
