(Letter from community leaders)

Dear Friends and Community members,

As you may have heard, Rabbi AD Motzen is being honored with the Spetner Memorial Avodas  Hakodesh Award at this year’s Agudath Israel of Illinois dinner on Sunday, June 29 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Agudath Israel of Illinois, with its extensive camping network throughout the Midwest and other community services, is an institution deserving of your support and was an important catalyst in supporting and encouraging Rabbi Motzen’s activities.

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Community members are trying to establish a daily mincha gedolah minyan in the summer  at the Alexander Shteibel. Minyan would start promptly at the exact zman for mincha gedolah which for today is 2:06pm. People who are interested should email rabbiarieh@ncsy.org.

• Vocal Music
• Instrumental music
• Dance
• Gymnastics
• Short film / music video
• Theater / comedy
• Poetry

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Since one of the sources for the prohibition of bishul akum is in parsha Chukas, this presents an ideal time to review these laws.

The Right Type of Help

By Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

Household help

Shirley* asks me: “We hired a very nice Polish lady to help around the house, keep an eye on the kids and do light housekeeping. Can we have her cook a bit for the kids while I am away at work?”

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In loving memory of Shoshana Haas, wife  of Meyer Haas, mother of  Sharon Rothberg, Yehudit Spero, Debby Henderson,  Joanne Barth, and Daniel Haas, A”H, loving  grandmother and great grandmother, a monument will be  dedicated at 1:00 p.m., June 26, 2014, Section C  (Young Israel) at Zion Memorial Park Cemetery.

Don’t forget ~ We deliver gifts, balloon arrangements, candy trays and more!

• 10% Completion Gift – Even Amazon will give you a gift! Get 10% off on Amazon for a savings up to $100 on stuff that the couple/ parents buy themselves.
• Your Amazon Wedding / Baby Registry applies to everything on Amazon and (optional) when you select the universal registry option you can add more products to your registry from any website by using a special plugin to your browser that tracks your visits to other web sites.

You’ll need to create your registry at least 30 days before your wedding and it must have at least one registry purchase in order to qualify for the 10% discount.

Parking is available at Young Israel and Yavne. Helmets will be available for purchase at the fair for $8 a piece.

The Cleveland Heights Police Department will hold a public auction (cash only) on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 6:00 pm at the Cleveland Heights Police Department on the north lawn, lower level of City Hall, 40 Severance Circle. The auction will include bicycles and other unclaimed items.  The auction is being held in accordance with Section 737.32 and 737.33 of the Revised Code of the State of Ohio. Open to residents of other cities. Free bicycle licenses given to Cleveland Heights residents.

(RabbiKaganoff.com)

The Torah tells us, in parshas Korach, that Moshe spoke to the people, begging them to separate themselves from Korach’s people and not even to touch any of their property. The people listened and were thereby saved from the calamity that met Korach, Dasan, and Aviram. Did they now have a responsibility to recite birchas hagomeil?

Question #1: Survival

“Was birchas hagomeil instituted only for the four specific dangers mentioned in Tehillim? If someone survived a different type of danger, such as an accident or armed robbery, does he recite birchas hagomeil?”

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