Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Shalom Friends:

This week, our Parshat HaShevua; Parshat Vayishlach is being sponsored by Jonathan and Debbie Sassen and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for their childrens’ continuing success in learning. To the Sassen family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued kindnesses throughout the years.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua; Parshat Vayeitzei is being sponsored by David & Julie Morris and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for Bracha, Hatzlacha and Simcha for our children and all Am Yisrael. To the Morris family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued your kindnesses throughout the years.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua; Parshat Toldos is being sponsored by Drs. David and Malka Blass and family for a refuah shlaima for Yishaya Shalom ben Malka Gittel. To the Blass family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued your kindnesses throughout the years.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua; Parshat Chayei Sarah is being co-sponsored by Noach and Miriam Magedman and family in honor of the upcoming wedding of Yael Shira Gherman to David Lipson, and Meir and Gila Arnold and family Lilui Nishmas for Me’ir’s Grandfather R’ Mordechai ben Yosef Avraham z”l. Both families are from Ramat Beit Shemesh. To the Magedman and Arnold families, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued your kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua; Parshat Vayeira is being sponsored by Yossie and Ester Sussman and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh in honor of the birth of their daughter Meira Devorah. To the Sussman family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued your kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua — Parshat Lech Lecha is being sponsored by Zev and Sarit Schonberg and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh who dedicate this vort for a speedy, full, complete recovery for Chaim Yechiel ben Malka (Rothman). To the Schonberg family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued your kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

Our Parshat HaShevua No’ach is being sponsored jointly by Moshe & Esther Lindner and family who wish for their children Hotslocha, success and simcha, and by an anonymous co-sponsor and family in honor of those who give over Torah and to Kol Klal Yisrael. Both families are from Ramat Beit Shemesh. To the Lindner family and to our anonymous co-sponsor, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

Our Parshat HaShevua for Breish’t is being sponsored by Binyamin and Barbara Lemkin and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated to Jews everywhere who are unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs, and specificably Jonathan Pollard. May he be liberated speedily both from prison and from the United States. To the Lemkin family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring (or as the case may be, co-sponsoring) a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Shalom Friends;

Our Simchat Torah vort is being sponsored by Simon and Aliza Baum and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh who dedicate this vort Lilui Nishmas in honor of Simon’s Mother: Chaya Miriam Bas Boruch. To the Baum family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

It seems that Rabbis Asher Baruch Wegbreit, Emanuel Feldman and Shimon Pincus are not the only ones who have expressed thoughts on Aleinu in articles and S’forim.

Recently, while in Shul, this author picked up the Sefer “The How and Why of Jewish Prayer,” by Rabbi Yisrael Rubin.

R’ Rubin devoted three entire pages (pages 330-332) to some power-packed thoughts about Aleinu throughout the year which have been excerpted here. R’ Rubin writes: read more