The Four Parshiyot by Rabbi Eliezer Lerner
According to the Mishna (Megilla 3:4) beginning with, or just prior to, Rosh Chodesh Adar, four special Torah readings take place on Shabbat. They are known as Shekalim, Zachor, Para and Hachodesh.
Shekalim - If Rosh Chodesh Adar falls out on Shabbat, the Maftir reads the beginning of Parshat Ki Tisa, describing Bnei Yisrael's contribution of a half shekel towards the building of the Mishkan. During the time of the Beit Hamikdash, an announcement was made on Rosh Chodesh Adar reminding everyone to bring their yearly half shekel contribution. With the arrival of Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the newly donated monies would be used to purchase the korbanot of the tsibur. The Torah reading commemorates that yearly event.
When Rosh Chodesh Adar falls out on a weekday, Shekalim is read on the previous Shabbat, since Shabbat shul attendance is generally greater than Rosh Chodesh attendance.... Read More |
Rahel Bayar - MMY 5760
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Rahel Bayar studied in MMY in its fourth year. During that year, she founded what is now the Kedma/Yeshiva University Inter-Seminary Choir Competition, in which MMY won second place this year! (As an aside, MMY has won first place four times and second place twice - the best record of any seminary).
Today Rahel works as a criminal prosecuter for the NYC District Attorney's office. She lives in Manhattan with her husband (Tuvia Lwowski) and two daughters, and on the side they are the "Shabbat Campus Family" at Stern College. This summer, they plan to relocate to Seattle.
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It is hard to believe how many years it has been since my Shana Baaretz in MMY. When I left the comfort of my home in New Jersey for a year in Israel, MMY was a relatively new school. Being someone who embraces change, new experiences and the "unknown", I knew that spending a year at MMY would be the start of a new journey.
In high school and in summer camp I had always found that song and music had allowed me to meet people and make close friends. When I arrived at MMY I knew that I wanted music to be a part of my year in Israel. Though we started small, a few of us formed an MMY choir and performed on the roof of the (at the time very new and now very old) MMY building as part of a very spiritual Aseret Y'may Teshuvah program. Though we had no way of knowing this back then, that experience catapulted song into the forefront of the seminary experience over the next decade... Read More
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Negev/Eilat Tiyul
| Photo Credit: Aviyah Rosenwasser |
We just came back from an awesome tiyul to the Negev!
On Wednesday morning, January 30, we got up incredibly early in the morning, boarded busses while still completely dark outside, and by the time we woke up in the morning we were already at Kibbutz Yotvata, just outside of Eilat! After breakfast and Shacharit we climbed Har Tzfachot. The view of the Gulf of Eilat from the top was absolutely breathtaking! In the afternoon, we took a boat ride and got to participate in some incredible water sports. After a delicious BBQ dinner cooked by our own building manager Nati Stark, we had a free night to enjoy Eilat's tourist area.... Read More
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Shana Bet Tanach Tiyul and Siyum by Aviyah Rosenwasser
A few weeks ago, instead of having an ordinary final in Rabbi Haber's David HaMelech class for Shana Bet, we had the zechut of Rabbi Haber taking us on an extraordinary tiyul to many places that we learned about in Sefer Shmuel Aleph!
First, we traveled to "Tel El Ful," otherwise known as the ancient city of Giv'ah which at the time was the center of Shaul HaMelech's kingdom! We saw a breathtaking view of all of Yerushalayim from the partially built palace of Jordan's late King Hussein (he was in the middle of building it when we captured it in the Six Day War)! Devorah shared some beautiful words of Torah as we soaked in the stunning view surrounding us.
We then drove to Har Gilo, to a lookout point overlooking Bet Lechem. There, Shaina shared some Torah about the beginning of David HaMelech's life (right there in Bet Lechem) and I got to present about Rut (who also lived in Bet Lechem) and how she plays into David HaMelech's story!
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