Baruch Dayan Ha’emet to Linda Bram on the loss of her father, David Bram, last Shab-bat. Hamakom Y inachem Etchem B’toch She’ar Aveilei Tzion Birushalayim. May the entire family be comforted among the mourn-ers of Zion and Jerusalem.

Saddle up for the DAT Minyan Purim Seudah at the BMH-BJ Social Hall on Purim afternoon, Thursday, March 24. Come in your best western getup or your regular costume. Kids activities, music and dancing, and of course a western-style buffet! Kids’ carnival begins at 5:30; buffet opens at 6:00 pm. Bouncy castle, crafts table, costume contest, and other kids’ activities. Entertainment for adults during the meal. Registration is now taking place at DATMinyan.org/Purim!

Dr. Nathan’s Gemara Class for high school boys and men will take place this week at the home of Howard and Nurit Wedgle, 517 S. Magnolia Lane, in the Bahamas. The class is sponsored in memory of Nurit’s father, Yaakov ben Chaim. May the neshama have an aliyah.

Rabbi Friedman’s Halacha Series continues this week with “Machazit Hashekel and Wom-en’s Mussaf: No, Not a Non-Sequitur,” Thurs-day night at 8:00 pm. Catch up on previous audio at DATMinyan.org/audio.

Women’s Megillah Reading—Women who are interested in reading during the women’s Megillah reading are urged to speak to Julie Lieber as soon as possible.

Morning Minyan Signup—We are using Signup Genius to help ensure that we have a Minyan every weekday morning. Please see the homepage of our website for the link, and sign up soon and often.

Happy Birthday to Orly Horowitz and Ella Mogyoros.

Youth Fruit Snacks sponsored by Yael and Reb Noam Horowitz in honor of Orly’s birthday. Sponsor youth snacks at DATMinyan.org/youth.

Find out what’s on the Rabbi’s mind on his new page—DATMinyan.org/Rabbi!

DAT MINYAN NEWS AND EVENTS

DAT Minyan Rabbi Joseph Friedman 6825 E. Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80224 www.datminyan.org

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

DAY TIME TOPIC TEACHER PLACE

Fri. Before Maariv D’var Torah Rabbi Friedman MPR

שבת

8:30 am Tefillah Warm-up Morah Gross Lounge

During Hashkama D’var Torah Rabbi Friedman 112

Haftarah/Mussaf Parsha Class Rabbi Gitler 111

After Mussaf Derasha Rabbi Friedman MPR

4:05 pm HS Boys Talmud Dr. N. Rabinovitch Wedgle 517 S Magnolia

4:20 pm SHAWL (women only) Ariella Sunshine 111

“Ki Tisa: The Chutzpah of Moshe Rabbeinu”

After Mincha Seudah Shelishit Rabbi Friedman MPR

Sun. 8:00 pm Advanced Halacha Rabbi Eli Mozes MPR

Tue. 7:30 pm Netivot Shalom on

Shabbat (women only)

Dr. Shelly Ciner Ciner

Wed. 7:00 pm Essential Judaism Rabbi Friedman MPR

“100 Questions”—Jewish Philosophy, Part 2

8:00 pm Halacha In-Depth Rabbi Friedman MPR Thu.

“Machatzit Hashekel and Women’s Mussaf: No, Not a Non-Sequitur”

Please help make our Tefillot meaningful by refraining from talking during Davening.

KIDDUSH and SEUDAH SHELISHIT sponsored by the Shul.

Welcome to the Parshat Noach

October 25, 2014 1 Marcheshvan 5775

Candles (10/15): 6:03 Candles (10/16): 7:01 Candles (10/17): 6:00 Havdala (10/18): 6:58 Candles (10/24): 5:50

Welcome to the DAT Minyan Shabbat Parshat Ki Tisa

Feb. 27, 2016 18 Adar I 5776

Fri. Feb. 26

שבתFeb. 27

Sun. Feb. 28

Mon. Feb. 29

Tue. March 1

Wed. March 2

Thu. March 3

Fri. March 4

Shacharit Latest Shema 9:19

6:35 7:30, 9:00 8:00 6:35 6:35 6:35 6:35 6:35

Mincha/Maariv Earliest Shema 6:35

5:30 5:20/6:29 5:35 5:35 5:35 5:35 5:35 5:40

Candles (10/15): 6:03 Candles (10/16): 7:01 Candles (10/17): 6:00 Havdala (10/18): 6:58 Candles (10/24): 5:50

Candles (10/15): 6:03 Candles (10/16): 7:01 Candles (10/17): 6:00 Havdala (10/18): 6:58 Candles (10/24): 5:50

Candles (10/15): 6:03 Candles (10/16): 7:01 Candles (10/17): 6:00 Havdala (10/18): 6:58 Candles (10/24): 5:50

Candles: 4:38-5:30 Havdalah: 6:30

Parsha: p. 484 Haftarah: p. 1160

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Refuah Shleima

Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shleima. Names are kept on the list until the next Rosh Chodesh. Help us keep the list accurate by verifying the necessary details each month on the Cholim GoogleDoc.

(Rabbi) Tzvi Gershon ben Shaindel Shaina Raizel Elya Feivel ben Miriam Avraham Shalom ben Henna Chaya Chanah Elisheva Rivka bat Sarah Chaya Rut bat Shayna Sara David ben Leah Devorah Leah bat Chanah Dina bat Hyla and Shayla Dovid ben Ita Sheva Ida bat Esa Ita Sheiva bas Udyah Leah bat Sarah Leah Devora Kivitiya bat Chaya Menachem Yitzchak ben Yisraela Miriam Tova Chaya bat Chanah Chana Pesha bat Chaya Sara (Rabbi) Chaim Shmuel ben Miriam Rabbi Ephraim Ben Henna Shimon ben Miriam Hendel Rochel Leah Nechamah bat Esther Sandra Miriam Shoshana bat Chanah Sarah Shoshanna bat Sarah Shashi bat Batya Baila Shmuel Gedalya ben Batya Miriam Taliah bat Shayna Leah Yosef ben Malka Yosef ben Sarah Imanu Benimah bat Miriam Yael Meira bas Yisraela Shirley Hasia bat Devorah Sarah Esther bat Faiyge Raphael Yotam ben Efrat Noa Shani bat Chaya Bracha

DAT Minyan Rabbi Joseph Friedman 6825 E. Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80224 facebook.com/datminyan

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. שבת

2/28 Mincha 5:35p Mozes Class 8p

2/29 3/1 Ciner Class 7:30p

3/2 Essential Judaism 7p

3/3 Halacha In-Depth 8p

3/4 3/5 Shekalim-Mevorchim

3/6 Mincha 5:40p Mozes Class 8p

3/7 3/8 Ciner Class 7:30p

3/9 Essential Judaism 7p

3/10 Rosh Chodesh Shacharit 6:25a Halacha 8p

3/11 Rosh Chodesh Shacharit 6:25a

3/12 Rabbi Twerski Shabbaton

3/13 Mincha 6:45p Mozes Class 8p

3/14 3/15 Ciner Class 7:30p

3/16 Essential Judaism

3/17 Halacha In-Depth 8p

3/18 3/19 Zachor

3/20 Mincha 6:55p Mozes Class 8p

3/21 3/22 Ciner Class 7:30p

3/23 Taanit Esther

Shacharit 6:25a

3/24

3/25 Shushan Purim

3/26

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Torah From Rabbi Wein RabbiWein.org

This week’s parsha illustrates the problem that the Jewish people have with unlimited prosperity. With their pockets bursting with the wealth of Egypt and eating free food day in and day out, and with their wealth burning a hole in their pock-ets, they looked for expression to their newfound prosperity. And so the story of the Golden Calf follows.

There are many explanations offered by the commentators to the Torah as to why the Jewish people reverted to idol worship so soon after the grandeur of the revelation at Mount Sinai. However, the inability to deal with great and sudden wealth is certainly one of the factors involved. The rabbis ruefully commented: “You have flooded them with so much wealth and goodness that they cannot accept and deal with it.”

This is especially true when prosperity is a sudden phenomenon, when wealth follows immediately after almost abject poverty and slavery. The transition is too sudden and too extreme. And, more often than not, it occasions illogical and often self-destructive behavior, which is a good description of the Golden Calf syndrome.

It is obvious that if the Jews would not have had large amounts of gold handy and available there could not have been a Golden Calf at all. One of the economic byproducts of great wealth is the search for an outlet to spend it. The enormous current market for luxury items, most of them truly unnecessary for good living, is testimony to this human urge. And so the Golden Calf becomes the god that absorbs wealth, talent and industry.

The rabbis of the Talmud commented that Jews do much better spiritually speaking in much more modest financial circumstances than with great wealth. For most of the past two millennia during the long dark times of the Exile, dealing with wealth was not a Jewish problem. There always were individual Jews who somehow achieved great wealth and power but the overwhelming majority of Jews were poor if not even destitute.

Over the past half century, both in the United States and Israel, the Jewish community has become quite prosperous. There are a great many really wealthy Jews. The challenge becomes how to channel this wealth into the Mishkan and not into the Golden Calf. This is a national issue. On a personal level there has to be a concerted effort to prevent family dysfunction, which is often the result of sudden and unexpected wealth.

Wealth and humility do not often combine in one personality. The ability to handle one’s wealth and material posses-sions wisely, with balance, is a major challenge, and it should be recognized as such. The Torah and the Talnud do not preach poverty as an ideal way of life or as a value on its own. The Torah always preaches balance in almost all ways of living. This balance is the key to avoid the Golden Calf syndrome. We pray to be blessed with financial prosperity but we should also pray to be blessed with the wisdom and balance to handle it properly.

Purim has been canceled this year due to lack of funds

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Halachic Organ Donation Society (HODS) Meeting—Robby Berman, Founder and Director of the Halachic Organ Donor So-ciety (HODS), will be speaking at the home of David and Lea Polaner, 51 S. Dahlia St., on Monday evening, Feb. 29, at 8:00. He will be discussing the issues of organ donation, brain death, and Halacha, and how HODS helps to encourage organ donation among the Jewish community. The event is free of charge. HODS is the largest and most prominent organization encouraging and promoting the importance of organ donation among Orthodox Jews, and counts many prominent modern Ortho-dox Rabbanim and physicians among its membership in the US and Israel.

Tomchei Shabbat of Denver Purim Card Campaign—Our annual Purim Card Campaign is officially underway! We are once again providing Purim letters to honor your friends and family. Beautiful full color 2016 Tomchei Shabbat Mishloach Manot Pu-rim letters are available. 25 cards with envelopes are only $36.00. Contact Contact Eytan Abrahams, 303-596-9009 or ey-tan@eytans.net to arrange your order. An electronic version of the Purim Card is once again available. Tomchei Shabbat will provide you with a beautiful PDF Purim Card, personalized with your own custom greeting and name that you will be able to email to your friends and family! Tomchei Shabbat also accepts credit card donations via PayPal.

* The Jewish Experience's 13th Annual Gala "Wine and Cheese Classic" will take place on Saturday evening, February 27, 8:00 pm at the RedLine Art Center in LoDo. Featuring "Mitzvah Impossible 2," live Jewish jazz, and YTC Melave Malka's famous silent auction. Couvert $75/person. RSVP at www.theje.com/WC2016 or call 303-316-6412.

“A Leap of Faith: The Significance of the Jewish Leap Year”—Why is there an extra month in the calendar this year, and is there a message in that month? Join Rabbi Mordechai Fleisher for a discussion of the background and significance of the Jewish leap year next Sunday, February 28, at two locations: 10 am at the Kollel building, 1516 Xavier St., 2nd floor, for women only, and 7:30 pm at Aish Denver, 9550 E. Belleview, for men and women.

* Merkaz Torah V’Chesed Shabbos Shel Chizuk—Please join us in welcoming Rabbi Motty and Rebbetzin Twerski to Denver for a community-wide Shabbos-shel-Chizuk, hosted by local shuls and organizations. Shabbos Parshas Pikudei, March 11-12. The Shabbos will include communal davening, meals, and Divrei Torah from Rabbi and Rebbetzin Twerski. Please stay tuned for a flyer with complete schedule. For more information email info@merkaztorah.org or 720-881-2768.

* Denver Community Kollel’s 18th Anniversary Celebration—The Kollel will hold its 18th (Chai) Anniversary Celebration on March 15, 6:30 pm at Aish Denver. Kollel founders Rabbi Myer J. and Mrs. Bruria Schwab will be guests of honor, and the Kollel will recognize the 18 families of current scholars and alumni who currently reside in Denver. Ad deadline is March 1. To reserve or place an ad, visit denverkollel.org, email journal@denverkollel.org, or call 303-820-2855.

* DAT Minyan only certifies Kashrut of events it hosts or co-sponsors.

Tefillah Corner

Rabbi Friedman The last few weeks, the Tefilla Corner has been focused on very details elements of Hebrew; issues of Nusach, of emphasis,

and of pronunciation. This week, I want to focus on something much more basic: bowing during Tefillah. First, let me say that, for the most part, the instructions in the ArtScroll siddur regarding what one should do at different

points in the service are accurate. My advice: READ THE INSTRUCTIONS! You will not be led astray! Let me point out some obvious examples of which I speak: Bowing and Bending – Our Sages have given very specific instructions when we are allowed to bow and bend during

Tefillah. It is NOT up to the user’s discretion! (One of the reasons cited is if one bows when they want to is appears arrogant, as if one says, “Look how holy I am that I need to bow even more often than mandated by the Sages!”

There are two main types of bowing during Tefilla: Bowing just from the waist, and bowing with the knees. (There are ad-ditional types of bowing done on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, but we will not discuss those now)

Waist-Bowing is done by keeping your legs straight, and bending forward from your waist. This is done for Modim; Modim in reader’s repetition of amida; Barchu; Lecha Dodi (“Bo’ee Kalah”); and AlenuAdditionally, there are two times, when saying “Oseh Shalom,” when the waist-bow is incorporated while walking backwards. This is done at the end of the Amida and Kaddish. The procedure is 1) bow down from waist with your legs straight; 2) Take three steps backward (left foot, right foot, left foot); 3) Then, while remaining bowed at the waist: Face to the left and say, “Oseh Shalom Bi’mromav,” face to the right and say, “Hu Ya’aseh Shalom Alenu,” then face to the front and say, “Ve’al Kol Yisrael V’imru Amen.”

Knee-Bowing (three times ONLY dur ing the Amida). This is ONLY done dur ing the beginning of the fir st Beracha of the Amida, the end of the first Beracha of the Amida, and at the next-to-last Beracha of the Amida (“Ha’tov Shimcha U’Lecha Na’eh L’Hodot”). This is done as follows: 1) Bend knees when saying the word “Baruch,” 2) Bow forward when saying “Ata,” and 3) Straighten up before (or according to some, while) saying G-d’s name.

Some have the custom to do this also by “Barchu,” is it also incorporates the word “Baruch” (which is similar to “Berech,” or knee). There is also a custom to this when called to the Torah, but a) not everyone has that custom, and b) the Aruch HaShulchan says not to do so. Interestingly, the ArtScroll siddur directs one to do so, so this one is a toss-up!

All of the above can be found in the instructions of each relevant part of the prayer. For example, you will note that, on p. 480 in the Aleinu, it says, “Bow while reciting…” and no reference to bending the knee. Conversely, for example, during the Musaf on p. 462, it says at the beginning, “Bend the knees at “Baruch,” etc.

Please also note there are no instructions for the congregation to bow when the Chazan bows to Ark with the Torah when he says, “Gadlu L’Hashem Iti.”

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