September 25, 2021 Parsha: Chol Ha Moed Sukkot 19 Tishrei, 5782

Young Israel Aish Las Vegas Advisory Board 5781 (2020-21)

DAVENING TIMES

Light Candles, Friday, 9/24//21 6:16 pm

10/1/21 Candle Lighting will be 6:06 pm

Mincha: Friday, 9/24/21 6:20 pm

Shacharit: Shabbat Morning 8:50 am

Mincha: Shabbat, 9/25/21 6:05 pm

Shabbat ends, 9/25/21 7:11 pm

Shacharit: Weekdays 6:30 am

Mincha: Sunday 9/26 6:15 pm

Shacharit: Sundays & Federal Holidays 8:00 am

Shabbat Kiddush Generously Sponsored :

With tremendous gratitude by

Perla and Sammy Acoca, Martine Goldberg and

Adam Chuckrow in celebration of

Hope and Jolie’s 17th birthdays

And by Hadassa Lefkowitz with great simcha

and gratitude of Jay and Rabbi Wyne’s birthdays

and Shmuel and Sorah being home for Sukkot.

For me, the holiday season that we are now in, is a time of mixed emotions. They engender within all of us the understanding that circumstances change in the pro-gress of life and its events. Therefore, I am taking the liberty of sharing some of my holiday memories with you. Nostalgia can be very alluring, but there is also always a modicum of hard-headed realism that memo-ries of the past always evoke. In short, memories are always bittersweet, because the past can never be brought to life again. In fact, an overabundance of ef-fort on memory can be counterproductive to accom-plishment and emotional balance in circumstances of personal and national events. Our memories oftentimes play tricks on the mind. With the recollection of events, false memories can fos-ter illusions, unwarranted criticism, and depressing thoughts about our present situation. Yet, it is impossi-ble to face the present coherently and in a productive fashion regarding our present challenges, without rely-ing on our memories and past experiences. This is espe-cially true during this season of the high holy days when so much emotion is present within our families and our communities. We all feel that it is not only those who are present that are commemorating the holiday, but also those who are no longer with us, who are also present in a very tangi-ble manner in all our holiday activities and prayers. The events of past holidays weigh heavily upon the con-victions of the commemoration and the celebration of the high holy days of this year as well. When I was a child growing up in Chicago, I remem-ber vividly that on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, my mother and I sat on the front porch of my grandfather's house. In front of me passed a sea of people walking to the Douglas Park lagoon in the neighboring park for the Tashlich service. Newspa-pers in Chicago estimated the crowds to number at least 40,000. Every Jew in the Lawndale area where I lived walked to the lagoon. There was no vehicular traf-fic on the street. People walked on the sidewalk, in the middle of the street, in the middle of the grassy Boule-vard and all over the byway that led to the park. It was the religious and social event of the year that united the entire Jewish community living in the area’s densely packed apartments and row houses. This was an opportunity to show their solidarity and connection the Jewish tradition and values. That memory, which was fixed into my young mind, has never departed or been diminished since. I don't know if there is any oth-er such mass demonstration anywhere in the Jewish world outside of Israel today. It certainly is no longer present in Chicago. I often think about the descendants of those 40,000 Jews that at one time walked to that lagoon to observe the custom of Tashlich. Tragically, I am certain that

many of their descendants may no longer be Jewish, and, certainly, are not aware of this tradition. The rav-ages of assimilation over my lifetime destroyed much of the Jewish community, not only of Chicago, but also of America in general. But my memory of that Tashlich event still nurtures me until this very day. The synagogues in Chicago engaged the services of the most famous legendary cantors of the time. Many of the synagogues had very large buildings that could accom-modate thousands of worshipers at one time. The syna-gogue where my father was the rabbi, was perhaps the smallest of the large synagogues in the area. It con-tained about 1500 seats in the main sanctuary and in the women's gallery. Onthe high holy days, every seat was occupied and at certain points during the services, people stood in the aisles. It was a generation mainly of Eastern European Jews, who brought that fervor and flavor to the high holy day services. When everyone stood to recite the prayer, there was a roar of sound and a sea of tears that I have never again seen equaled at any prayer service. These were plain simple Jews, struggling to make a living in an alien environment, and attempting, at the same time, to hold onto their faith. Most failed to accomplish this, but there was a minority who succeeded, and we are grateful to that minority for the restoration of tra-ditional Jewish life throughout the world. Shabbat shalom! Berel Wein

Shabbat Morning Classes 9/25//21 Shabbat 8:30 am Simchat Torah w/ Rabbi Anderson

During Prayer Service:

Intro To Torah Reading w/ Rabbi Shuey Intro to Haftorah w/ Rabbi Anderson Drasha before Mussaf w/ Rabbi Wyne Mussaf class w/ Rabbi Wyne Shabbat Afternoon: 5:35 pm Cholera Pandemic of the 1840s

And the Parallels to Covid 19 – Coed w/Major Rabbi Asher Finsley 5:05 pm Parsha Class in Hebrew w/ Yosef Beit-Halahmi

Seudah Shelishith is Graciously Sponsored by:

Simon S and Mazal Abraham,

Welcoming everyone to King Solomon’s Table

Also, in memory of Michael Schuster,

Insights from Rav Noach Weinberg Z”L

Some people may have more "natural" joy. But joy can be studied and mastered like any other tool. When you have joy, you can do anything better, stronger, faster. Your memory is better. Your drive on the golf course is better. Your sales pitch is better. Everything is better.

Monday, September 27

Candle Lighting 6:11 PM

Mincha 6:15 PM

Tuesday, Shemini Atzeret

Mincha 5:55 PM

Candle Lighting* & Maariv 7:07 PM

Wednesday, Simcha Torah Mincha / Maariv & Chag End 6:10 PM / 7:05 PM

Simchat Torah info is on the flyer inside the newsletter

Thursday, Sept 30 Mincha/Maariv 6:10 PM

Kiddush Sponsored By:

Shemini Atzeret:

By Chava Schlanger as a Zechut for health for the whole

community.

Simchat Torah:

By Ilana and Ben Smith In loving memory of Zerach

Hillel ben Mordechai Halevi Father of Ilana Smith.

Goodbye to the Sukkah

Sponsored by Adam Chuckrow

A BIG THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS OF

OUR

SIMCHAT TORAH LUNCH:

JERI AND RABBI MICHAEL LAXMETER

CAROL NEWMAN

DR. AMALIA AND MARC GELLER

Birthdays 9/24– 9/30

Rabbi Yitz Wyne 9/26 Barry Grennberg 9/27 Rahel Tennenbaum 9/28

Anniversaries 9/23–9/24

Miriam and Moshe Borvick 9/25

Yahrtzeits 19 Tishrei - 25 Tishrei

Moishe Bera ben Naftali HaLevi 24 Tishrei father of Alan Stock

Our Condolences to

the Geller Family

On the passing of Marc Geller’s mother

Marilyn Geller, Masha bas Yitzchak

(at the age of 94 years old).

The burial will take place in New York,

details for Shiva after Yom Tov will follow.