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Zmanim this week are as follows:

We would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Michoel Stein, as well as Rabbi and Mrs. Moshe Englander, for sponsoring shtenders. Thank you! Sponsorships are still available- please speak to Shai Meyerowitz.

Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Betzalel Muller on the birth of a baby girl! We wish them much nachas! 

Sunday Morning Learning Program
This Sunday morning, November 8th, we will be holding a learning program following an 8:45 Shachris. There will be breakfast for those who stay to learn. There will be chavrusa learning until 10:35, followed by a shiur from Rabbi Meister. We ask that attendees not park on Bancroft Road, nor in the Yeshiva parking lot. 

Avos U'Bonim
We are very excited to be launching a new Motzei Shabbos learning program for children. It will begin at 7 PM.  Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Mordy Berman for sponsoring this inaugural program! We ask that attendees not park on Bancroft Road, however, they can park in the Yeshiva parking lot.

Survey
As the shul grows we would like to ensure that we are meeting the needs of our membership. To that end, we would like to start having more shul events and programs. We want your feedback to help us plan events that interest our members. Please take a look at the survey (please click HERE), and give us your opinion on what kind of events you are interested in.  

Have a wonderful Shabbos!
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Dvar Torah

In the beginning of this week’s Parsha, we find Avraham Avinu sitting outside in the unnatural heat, desperate for guests. As Rashi expounds, Hashem sees Avraham’s pain due to lack of guests and subsequently sends three Malachim his way. 
Reb Moshe Feinstein points out that Avraham’s tza'ar in this situation seems strange. After all, it’s not as though he had guests in front of him but was unable to serve them due to his physical state (i.e. an אונס). There were no guests, so he wasn’t even “in the parsha”! It’s seemingly comparable to a person bemoaning the fact that he is not able to keep Shabbos during the week.
Reb Moshe explains this as follows; the pain felt by Avraham at this moment stemmed from a visceral desire to just do the mitzvah of hachnasas orchim . He had a תאוה to do hachnasas orchim in the same way that we have a תאוה for food or other physical pleasures. Even if those pleasures may be unattainable for us in the moment, we still desire them because we know how good they are. That is why Avraham was still distressed, despite the fact that there were no guests who needed his chesed at the moment. He simply had a תאוה for chesed that needed to be fulfilled. 
Hashem should help us to direct out desires towards doing mitzvos.
Good Shabbos,
Yitzy Labowitz