The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700

JULY 8-9, 2016 • PARSHAT KORACH • 3 TAMUZ 5776

The Jewish Center S H A B B A T B U L L E T I N

EREV SHABBAT 7:00PM/8:00PM Minchah 8:12PM Candle lighting SHABBAT 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine 9:00AM Shacharit (3rd floor), A Tribute to Elie Wiesel - A Prophet in His Own Time: Personal Reminiscences and Perspectives by Ted Comet, Hon. Associate Director of the Joint Distribution Committee (following services) 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur (5th floor) 9:17AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (The Max Stern Auditorium) 10:00AM Youth Groups: Under age 3 (drop off optional, babies must be able to independently sit upright), 3-6-year-olds: Geller Youth Center; 2nd-6th graders: 7th floor. We request that parents with children under 6-years-old pick up their children up from groups. Community Hot Kiddush (5th floor)

WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: Hashkama Kiddush, Joyce & Aaron Weitz in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Aaron's mother, Sarah Weitz and his sister, Sylvia Siegel Susan Shapiro in honor of Ron Shapiro’s aufruf Marly Herscovici & Jeff Bogursky in honor of the marriage of their daughter and son-in-law, Sasha & Jordan Savitsky Ruby & Joseph Gottlieb in commemoration of the yarhzeit of Ruby's mother, Ruth Kestenbaum Ian Wishingrad in honor his aufruf and forthcoming marriage to Margaret Belfer 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) 7:00PM Chaburah Speakers Series: Menachem Butler, Pidyon Shvuyim According to the Rambam: A Modern View on Maimonides from the Cairo Genizah 7:15PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 8:00PM Minchah Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Menachem Butler, That Time I Found An Unknown Story of Elie Wiesel's Childhood in a Yiddish Newspaper 9:11PM Shabbat concludes

Young Leadership: Shabbat Afternoon Oneg Shabbat, July 23 (please note new date) There will be snacks and games. It's a great way to meet some of the people you sit in shul with every week. Sponsorships are available, beginning at $18. Email yl@jewishcenter.org for more info.

Special Briefing by Maurizio Molinari, Editor-in-Chief of La Stampa, The Middle East After Obama Shabbat, July 30

Shabbat Afternoon Speaker: Margie Szerer Shabbat, July 30

Clergy Reflections on Tisha B’Av Monday, August 8 at 8:15PM

UPCOMING EVENTS

MAZAL TOV Ron Shapiro on his aufruf and forthcoming marriage to Maya Tsarfati

Ian Wishingrad on his aufruf and forthcoming marriage to Margaret Belfer

Marlene & Michael Sperling on the birth of a grandson born to their children, Ilana & Boaz Vega

BEREAVEMENT We regret to inform you of the passing of long time Jewish Center member and Life Trustee, Elza Weinman. The funeral took place on Wednesday. Shivah will be observed through Friday afternoon at 200 West 86 Street, apt. 14M. Shivah will continue Saturday night through Tuesday morning at 373 Jones Road, Englewood, NJ. Minchah: Thursday - 8:20PM. Shacharit: Friday - 7:00AM.

THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Thank you to our ushers, Steve Graber and Barbara Paris.

THANK YOU TO CSS We would like to once again thank CSS and our dedicated CSS members for providing the security for our synagogue this week.

SUMMER KIDDUSH INFORMATION Please note that our ability to provide a hot kiddush every Shabbat depends on your sponsorship. We are pleased to provide a hot kiddush this Shabbat, July 9. To become a sponsor of a kiddush this summer, please contact Aaron Strum at astrum@jewishcenter.org.

MENACHEM BUTLER Menachem Butler is a contributing editor at Tablet Magazine, the Special Advisor for Jewish Law Projects at The Julis-Rabinowitz Program in Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School, and a co-editor at the Seforim blog.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Women's Tehillim Group Monday, July 11 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more info at 212-877-1176.

DAILY SERVICES

Sun., July 10 Shacharit 8:30AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 8:15PM

Mon., July 11- Thurs., July 14 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 8:15PM

Fri., July 15 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 7/8PM Candle lighting 8:08PM

Yosie Levine Rabbi

Dovid Zirkind Associate Rabbi

Chaim David Berson Cantor

Daniel Fridman Resident Scholar

Ari Lamm Resident Scholar

Noach Goldstein William Fischman Rabbinic Intern

Erica Brown Community Scholar

Aaron Strum Executive Director

Eliane Dreyfuss Glassman Director of

Programming and Communications

Jenn & Gaby Minsky Youth Directors

OFFICERS Avi Schwartz

President

Andrew Borodach First Vice President

Andrew Kaplan Vice President

Mark Segall Vice President

Rose Lynn Sherr Vice President

Michael Jacobs Assistant

Vice President

Yaron Kinar Treasurer

Len Berman Assistant Treasurer

Miri Lipsky Secretary

Yoetzet Halacha Ilana Gadish

nycyoetzet@gmail.com 646-598-1080

Jewish Center Chevra Kadisha

212-724-2700 x555

UWS Mikvah 212-579-2011

Hatzalah 212-230-1000

Eruv Status 212-724-2700 x4

Clergy & Staff

Phone Numbers

Humility First Dr. Erica Brown, Community Scholar

In this week’s parsha, Moshe falls on his face, not once but twice. He does this intentionally, as if to signal through this gesture something critical in responding to leadership challenges. It’s an odd physical move because it suggests surrender and subservience at a time when showing vulnerabil-ity would be perceived as a weakness.

The first time Moses prostrates himself is a direct response to Korah and his band of 250 protestors. They confronted this band of brothers to demand more leadership opportunities: “When Moshe heard this, he fell on his face. Then he spoke to Korah and al l his company…” (Bamidbar 16:4-5). Later, Moshe and Aaron fall on their faces again but this time in response to God. They successfully combatted Korah and his coterie, but success brought its own troubles. God was angry with the people for their subversive behavior and set a deathly plague against them.

Falling on their faces here was an act of both atonement and challenge. “When Moses and Aaron reached the Tent of Meeting, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ‘Remove yourselves from this community, that I may annihilate them in an instant.’ They fell on their faces” (Bamidbar 17:8-10). Moshe quickly advised Aaron to use the same firepans that saved them to expiate the sins of our people. This spiritual recycling demonstrates that the same tool used to fight the opposition can be used to save them as well.

This gesture is understood very differently among classic exegetes. Ibn Ezra believes that they chose this prostration intentionally. Seforno understands this as an act of prayer, a pious request that God provide Moshe the words. Sa’adia Gaon contends that it was a way to obtain God’s vision in a trying situation. Bamidbar Rabba (18:6) suggests that it was an act of despair. Since Moshe had petitioned God

on numerous occasions for the sake of Bnei Yisrael, he was unsure he could ask yet again for God’s intervention.

Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch goes to a less obvious interpretation. Reasoning with Korah would never have carried the day. It may have only escalated the already growing hostility. This explains why Pirkei Avot uses this as an example of an argument that is not for the sake of heaven. No one wins these kinds of arguments because the contending parties have differing and uncompromising views of reality.

Perhaps Moshe bows low because there are situations in which words will always be inadequate. A swift defense would only have led only to further acrimony. The startling nature of prostration forces the confronter to confront himself instead of his obvious adversary. In Immortality, Milan Kundera suggest that, “A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individ-ual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else)…” Gestures work only when there is a shared non-verbal understanding of their meaning. Moshe could not mount his own case for leadership support. He left it to God and to the penetrating silence of the moment.

NEW KOREN KINNOT AND TISHA B’AV MACHZORIM

In advance of Tisha B’Av, The Jewish Center will be purchasing a number of new Koren Kinnot featuring the commentary of Rav Soloveitchik. If you would like to dedicate a volume in memory of a loved one or in celebration of a simcha, sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact Aaron Strum at astrum@jewishcenter.org.

Seudah Shlishit

SPEAKERS series

July 23 Miriam Gedweiser

July 30 Margie Szerer

August 6 Rabbi Noach Goldstein

Tisha B’Av

Tisha B'Av Night SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

Maariv followed by Eichah

Young Professionals Kumsitz

Tisha B'Av Day SUNDAY, AUGUST 14TH

Shiur with Rabbi Yosie Levine

followed by explanatory Kinnot

2:30PM - 4:30PM

Movie Screenings

6:00PM

Shiur with Rabbi Mark Wildes

Clergy reflections

on tisha b’av

MONDAY, AUGUST 8 AT 8:15PM

Rabbi Dovid Zirkind

Rabbi Ari Lamm

Rabbi Noach Goldstein

Cantor Chaim David Berson

Special Briefing by

Maurizio Molinari Editor-in-Chief

of La Stampa

THE MIDDLE EAST

AFTER OBAMA SHABBAT, JULY 30

THE THREE WEEKS AND TISHA B’AV

AT THE JC

SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 23 - SUNDAY, AUGUST 14

For a complete listing of upcoming events and programs, visit www.jewishcenter.org.

כל המתאבל על ירושלים זוכה ורואה בשמחתהOne who mourns for Jerusalem

merits to see its rejoicing.

-Ta’anis 30b

JC SUMMER CHABURA SERIES Shabbat Afternoons, One hour before Minchah,

light refreshments available in the The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash

THE JEWISH CENTER 131 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org

sponsorship opportunities available • contact dzirkind@jewishcenter.org

07.09 Menachem Butler Pidyon Shvuyim According to the Rambam: A Modern View on Maimonides from the Cairo Genizah

07.23 Elan Ariel

07.30 Sam Englander

08.06 Jeff Bogursky

08.20 Ira Tokayer

08.27 Malka Strasberg

09.10 Joshua Newman

Peace of Mind (POM), developed by the Israel Center for Psychotrauma/Herzog Hospital, provides a bridge back to civilian life through a 3-month psychotrauma therapy program which includes one week in our community. POM helps Israeli veterans who served in high-risk combat units, under extremely difficult circumstances, make a smooth transition back to civilian life. This workshop will enable the veterans to process their service experiences and let go of the burden they have been carrying around.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

If you would like to support these soldiers and this

project please contact pom@jewishcenter.org or send a

check made out to American Friends of Herzog

Hospital/POM (please earmark it for Jewish Center/

POM in the memo) to The JC office, Attention: Saba

Lawrence.

POM COMMITTEE (in formation)

Susan & Arthur Degen, Naomi Goldman, Mindy & Ami

Horowitz, Eve & Marc Karstaedt, Bosi & Yaron Kinar,

Rebecca Pine Lubetski & Saul Lubetski, Barbara & David

Messer, Pamela & David Neikrug, Sabrina & Guy

Salomon, Miri Lipsky & Josh Schainker, Beth & Josh

Schwartz, Rona & Andrew Steinerman, Adina & Phil

Wagman

The Jewish Center • 131 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024

www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

• Families to host the participants

• Prepare lunch boxes and cook for the

group

• Chaperones for activities

• Help drive participants to events

• Join the fundraiser event committee

Whether you have a little time or a lot to give

to this project (during the day or in the even-

ing), we look forward to hearing from you.

For more information, and to get involved

please contact pom@jewishcenter.org.

PEACE OF MIND AT THE JC • DECEMBER 4 –11, 2016 The JC is honored to welcome our second group of former IDF soldiers from an elite high-risk combat unit during their therapeutic workshop. The entire JC family, from the Youth Department through Advanced Leadership, is invited to be involved in this amazing week. Please join us in showing our hakarat hatov and creating a life-changing experience for

these soldiers who have given so much.