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26 MAY 2016  -  18 IYAR 5776
PARSHAT BEHAR
Friday 27 May 2016

Candle Lighting: 5.05 pm
Mincha w/ Kol Sasson 5.15pm
Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv: 6.00 pm 

Saturday 28 May 2016 
Rabbi's Shiur: 8.30 am
Shacharit: 9.00 am
Mincha: 5.00 pm 
Ma'ariv and Termination of Shabbat:  6.02 pm

FROM THE RABBI

Real Naches!
As a rabbi I gleaned great naches this past week from our congregation.  No!  It was not because the shule was packed out on Shabbos, because it wasn’t!  No!  It wasn’t because the morning minyan was bursting at the seams……… Because it wasn’t!  No! It wasn’t because the whole congregation have become ritual mitzvot observers…….. Because they haven’t! (Of course when this happens the Moshiach would have arrived!)

I had real naches because we had a visitor who happened to be a ritually observant gentleman and a mensch who came to our minyan a number of times and was staying in the city.  When he asked how he could contact a taxi, a number of our minyanaires including Alan Koennen, Michael Kooperman and Avraham Langford and others, jumped at the opportunity to go out of their way both in time and geographic direction to take this gentleman back to his hotel.  This gentleman said to me before he left back to Montreal that he has never experienced the warmth and friendship in all his travels than what was shown to him by the members of our weekday minyan and thus, our shule. This is what it is all about.  I get far more naches from this then I would if the shule was packed on Shabbos, or if the whole congregation became ritually frum.  Although I must say it would be double nachas if all this occurred! 
Weekly Torah Reflection
Words can hurt – but lack of words can hurt even more!
 I had a student who I knew needed encouragement, and would heap praise on him and compliments to build up his confidence.  It worked wonderfully. He excelled in his Torah studies and was a source of great pride to his parents and his teachers. When I thought he didn’t need the praise anymore I desisted from it and as time went on I found that this student was slipping back from his steady progress in learning.  There have been cases of husbands and wives who at the beginning of their marriage use endearing loving terms to each other but as time went these got less and each one thought that the other was losing affection for him or her and the marriage took a downward turn. 
 
In this week’s Torah reading one of the mitzvot is velo tonu ish et amito – you will not hurt the feelings of one another with words.  (Lev 25:17). Yes, we know that words can be like an arrow and kill people, sometimes literally, particularly today when words can be spread around the world with a push of the button.  Verbal abuse can cause great suffering and we must be careful not to say things to people that will hurt their feelings.  There are some people who are even more sensitive and thus we should be extra careful, even with the tone of our voice.  However, I believe that sometimes lack of words can even be more wounding.  When a relationship has been based on warmth, loving and affectionate expressions, and suddenly that ceases, then depending on the sensitivity of any of the parties concerned this can be devastating.   It can indicate a lessening of esteem, love and affection.  The sidra this week does indeed tell us not to cause pain with words but sometimes a lack of words can even be more soul destructive and heart breaking.  In the words of the Bee Gees “It’s only words, but words are all I ask to take your heart away.”
Shabbat Shalom
Dovid Freilich

The kiddush is kindly sponsored by Sadie Katel in honour of the 50th Yahrzeit of her daughter
Linda Jacqueline - Leah bat Avraham

The seudah shlishit this week is kindly sponsored by Carol Sharbanee in honour of her late husband Kenneth Sharbanee
It is also kindly sponsored by Valery Niazov in honour the yahrzeit of his late father Nissim Chai

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