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Shabbos Schedule - Parshas Shoftim

4-Sep-08

In this week's issue:

• News
  • Thank you to Rav Baruch and Rebbetzin Debra Rubanowitz and family
  • Scholar In Residence - Parshas Ki Seitzei
  • General Meeting
  • KSY Family
  • KSY Appeal
  • Yomim HaNoraim Seats
  • Choleh List & KSY Database Online
  • Protecting the Gan
  • Shiur for Women
• Weekday Minyonim
• This Shabbos - Special Guest Speaker on Shabbos Day
• Nedavos & Other Donations to KSY
• Rav Rubanowitz's Discretionary Fund

News

Thank you Rav Baruch and Rebbetzin Debra Rubanowitz and family!

Thank you Rav Baruch and Rebbetzin Debra Rubanowtiz and family!

After months of difficult deliberations, it is with mixed feelings that the Vaad of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun is announcing that we are searching for a new Rav to lead the kehilla, as was decided in our last general meeting.

We want to express our immense appreciation to Rav Baruch and Rebbetzin Debra Rubanowitz and family. About five years ago, KSY was born and grew under the nurturing care of the Rubanowitzes. They have invested countless hours, significant resources and tremendous amounts of love and energy and attention to help the kehilla grow and develop, including weekly trips from Yerushalayim to RBS for Shabbosim and various shiurim for years on end, celebrating in our simchas, hosting many kiddushim in their home, being incredibly available to answer questions and give advice, and even moving to RBS for a year and a half to be closer to the kehilla. We wish them lots of success b'kol maaseh yedaihem.

As a token of our appreciation, we are assembling a memento book to present to the Rav and Rebbetzin. We request that all members and friends who have enjoyed their relationship with the Rubanowitz's during their time at KSY prepare a letter expressing what they have meant to their lives, ideally including a family picture. Your contribution (ideally in electronic form, but also hard copy is acceptable) should be submitted to R. Amatsia Spigler at (m3@barak-online.net or 054-535-6093) by September 22nd. We hope to present the book to the Rubanowitzes during the upcoming Yomim Tovim.

The Rubanowitzes can be reached at 02-500-2971, 050-419-4172 or rband@bezeqint.net

Scholar In Residence

Join Rav Yaacov Haber and KSY for an extraordinary Shabbaton on Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei (12/13 Sep)!

Rav Yaacov Haber, renowned author, lecturer and scholar, will be joining Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun as the Scholar in Residence for Parshas Ki Seitzei. Rav Haber will give deroshos Friday night and Shabbos morning, a shiur on Shabbos afternoon, and host a communal Seudah Shlishis. In order to help us better estimate attendance to the meal, please contact Avraham Nadell at anadell@nadell.org or 02-992-4468 if you are interested in attending.

Rav Yaacov Haber is a close talmid and musmach of Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, shlit"a, and learned for several years with Rav Yaakov Hillel shlit"a and in the Brisker yeshiva.

Rav Haber served as Rav in kehillos around the world for over three decades, most lately succeeding Rav Berel Wein as the Rav of Kehilas Bais Torah in Monsey, NY until he made aliyah with his family to Bayit Vegan five years ago.

Rav Haber served as the National Director of Education for the OU and in that capacity revitalized community learning throughout North America with his Pardes Project and other innovative programs.

Prior to this post, Rav Haber made an indelible mark on the Australian, and in particular Melbourne, Jewish communities. As one of the heads of the Lakewood Kollel in Melbourne, Rav Haber was instrumental in leading hundreds of talmidim to take their yiddishkeit to new levels.

Rav Haber is currently a Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Orchos Chaim and is founder and president of Torahlabs, which creates educational materials for mechanchim and kiruv workers around the world in both Hebrew and English. Rav Haber is an accomplished author in both Hebrew and English, a gifted speaker, posek, teacher, and a unique source of Eitza and inspiration.

Rav Haber is a leading candidate to take over the position of Rav of the Kehilla and join us for the Yomim Noraim. The vaad urges all members and friends of the kehilla to attend this special Shabbos!

A general meeting is set to follow soon after the Shabbaton with Rav Haber on Sep 16th to vote on the position of Rav of KSY.

More details of the GM will be forthcoming as the date approaches.

General Meeting

Please mark your calendar for an important General Meeting on Tuesday 16-Sep-08 at 20:30. During this meeting we hope to vote on the future direction of the kehilla.

KSY Family

Family Simcha? Good news to share? Please share it with your kehilla! Send in your announcements to secretary@ksy.org.il or call 999-8923 for inclusion in this newsletter.

KSY Appeal

As we get deeper into the summer, not only is the weather dryer, but so are donations. KSY needs your assistance now. Please come come forward with outstanding pledges, membership due and just plain old donations, so that we can keep the summer months more liquid.

You can also use AFOKSY to send any money to KSY. Use the payment form located here: www.afoksy.com/donate

The KSY Treasurer and the Kehilla thank you in advance for your assistance and generosity.

Yomim HaNoraim Seats

Pricing for seats and membership for 5769 are as follows:

• Members*
  • Seats for both Rosh Hashonah & Yom Kippur:
  • 1st Seat: 120NIS
  • Each additional seat (for spouse and children): 80NIS
  • Rosh Hashonah or Yom Kippur only: 80NIS
• Non-members and guests
  • Rosh Hashonah or Yom Kippur only: 120NIS
  • Both Rosh Hashonah & Yom Kippur: 180NIS

Pricing Notes:

• * Member's rates require prepayment of membership dues for the coming year, in advance or with postdated cheques (12x140nis or 6x280nis etc)
• Guests of members pay the guest rate

Special reduced prices of 50% of non-member rates for Olim Chadashim and newcomers to RBS-A! (who made aliya on or after Pesach 2008) - Come try out our warm and friendly shul and inspiring Rabbi (Rav Yaakov Haber)

To book your and any additional seats please speak to one of the gabboim as soon as possible.

Choleh List & KSY Database Online

In order to make the mi shebeirach for cholim a little more efficient, KSY now maintains a list of cholim via the internet. Current Names on the list can be seen at http://www.ksy.org.il/cholim.asp. Please note that names that have not been updated for more than 2 months will not be announced. You can update a name by notifying the KSY Secretary or by logging into your account and editing the older Cholim records.

Protecting the Gan

A friendly reminder to the Kehilla: The toys and fixtures in the gan are not the property of the Kehilla.

• Please don't allow you children to play with the toys within the gan.
• Please be careful with all the children's projects on the walls.
• Please do not play in or on the guardhouse in the front of the gan.
• The children are permitted to play on the toy structures in the sand area. But the Rav would like to remind the kehilla that the children may not dig in the sand. A parent should prevent his child of any age from digging in the sand on Shabbos. Every adult should attempt to stop any child from digging as long as the child is old enough to understand that there are some things that are forbidden to do on Shabbos

Shiur for Women

Rabbi Daniel Gefen will continue his series of shiurim for women on the topic Hilchos Brachos Lemaaseh. The shiur will be held 20:30 each Wed. night at 82/17 Nachal Dolev (Mrs. Burnley's Home).

This Shabbos

Shabbos Parshas Shoftim - שופטים
5/6 Sep '08
Shabbos minyon is at Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun, 10א Nachal Dolev

Special Guest Speaker: On Shabbos Day, Rabbi Yaakov Montrose will join us for Shacharis and give the derosho.

Rabbi Yaakov Montrose is currently a Magid Shiur in the Beis Knesses Hagra morning program for Balei Batim. In the afternoon, he works for Kollel Iyun Hadaf dafyomi.co.il  He is one of the authors of the Kollel's "Insights on the Daf" (mainly from Sanhedrin until the end of Shas), and has written the prefaces for many of the Mesechtos which have been published in book form. He also acts as a Meishiv for the kollel, answering questions sent in by readers on all areas of Shas. He has filled both of these positions for (approximately) the last four years. At night, he is Rosh Kollel of Ateres Avraham, which is R' Yitzchak Berkowitz Shlit"a's night kollel in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

Rabbi Montrose is the author of several books, including Halachic World, and has just come out with the 2nd volume this past week. Visit his website at www.halachicworld.com for more details.

KSY would like to thank the following people for their donations during the past week

• 150nis - anonymous
• 100nis - anonymous
• 100nis - anonymous

Please consider allowing us to announce your name when thanking you for your donation. Public donations tend to encourage others to follow your lead when they see the efforts of others.

Reminder: Dues at KSY are 140 shekels per month. Please help the Kehilla by keeping your membership payments current. Please contact Avraham Nadell, the KSY Treasurer, with questions about the status of your account.

Did you know? Everyone who is called to the Torah on Shabbos or Yom Tov gets one free mi sheberach. The Gabbai will then offer the Oleh l'Torah an optional 2nd mi sheberach. If one accepts the Gabbai’s offer, the custom in our Kehilla is to obligate oneself to make a modest donation.  Please turn to any of the gabboim if you should have a question about this.

Reminder: KSY can accept US Dollar payments with a credit card via American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun.  See the donation page online: www.afoksy.com/donate

Rav Baruch Rubanowitz's Discretionary Fund

Please consider donating to Rav Baruch Rubanowitz's Discretionary Fund. See www.AFOKSY.com/donate for details about how you can help your friends in Ramat Beit Shemesh A without knowing who they are and without their knowing who you are.

Weekday Minyonim

Daily minyon at Ateres Shaul at 1 Shvil Hagichon, corner of Nachal Dolev.