Mazel Tov
Mazel Tov to the Rav, Rebbetzin, and the entire Meister family on the Bar Mitzva of Efraim! May they see much nachas from him and all of the rest of the family!
There will be two minyanim for Shabbos morning. The regular minyan will be held in the Shul and the family minyan will be held in the Yeshiva Bais Medrash. Upon the conclusion of the tefillos there will be a take-home from the Yeshiva Bais Medrash .
The shul will be organizing a gift to be given to the Bar Mitzvah bochur and the Rav's family in honor of the simcha (details of the gift to be decided based on the response to this email). If would you like to contribute please respond to this email and/or pay on our website, https://www.kbyeshiva.com/payment.php , and state in the comments section that you are making a donation in honor of the simcha. Feel free to donate any amount that you are comfortable with. If you plan to give the Bar Mitzvah bochur a gift on your own feel free to do so. All families who donate will be included in a letter to the Meister's in honor of the occasion.
We would like to inform everyone that we were able to procure air purifiers to circulate and purify the air (physician approved). Therefore we will no longer need to keep the windows open. Thank you to those who were involved in this sorely needed endeavor!
Motzei Shabbos Learning Programs
Avos U'Bonim will be held Motzei Shabbos at 7:10 PM with pizza and prizes. Please join the fun! (Sponsorships available)
The Men's Motzei Shabbos Learning Program will be held from 8 - 9 PM. They will be learning hilchos shabbos topics related to kiddush. The program will be headed by R' Jordie Jacobs and will be replete with chavrusa learning, source sheets, and a short chabura.
Ramban Shiur
There will be a Ramban shiur this coming Thursday evening at 9:45 PM. It will be held in shul and there will be cholent and refreshments. Please join us! (Sponsorships available)
Have a wonderful Shabbos!
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Dvar Torah
In this week’s parsha, we learn about the incredible נסים Hashem performed by קריעת ים סוף - in addition to the wonders He performed in the land of Mitzrayim. The question that must be dealt with is why a second round of נסים was needed at all. Why wasn’t the mission already accomplished? Hashem had already showed His hashgacha over the Jewish People and His desire to take them as a nation by way of יציאת מצרים itself!
There are several approaches offered by the mefarshim to answer this question. Some say that the מכות in Mitzrayim only represented punishment for the מצריים, and קריעת ים סוף was necessary to represent the saving of the Jewish People. Others maintain that the מכות, while awesome and miraculous, were not enough to frighten the גויים living in ארץ ישראל and surrounding lands, and to give בני ישראל the confidence to defeat those strong nations; only something with the magnitude of קריעת ים סוף was able to do so.
Perhaps we can propose another answer:
Throughout their sojourn in the desert, the Jewish People were frequently complaining about their situation and comparing it with their experience in Mitzrayim. Interestingly, it was immediately before קריעת ים סוף and shortly after קריעת י"ס, that בנ"י complained and said they would rather be back in Mitzrayim!
The reason they complained so much is because, as we know, aside from being slaves physically to Mitzrayim, בנ"י were also enslaved to Egyptian culture and to their deities. So much so, that 80% of the Jewish People did not merit to leave. Even those who remained still identified very much as Egyptians. They therefore constantly complained they wanted to go back, because מצרים was the land they felt so comfortable in.
We understand then that בני ישראל had to experience a יציאהfrom מצרים both physically and spiritually. To have a physical יציאת מצרים, the Jewish people needed to be able to leave Egypt even while the Egyptians retained a stronghold on their land; if the Egyptians would have died before the Jews left, no physical יציאת מצרים would have occurred. However, since the Egyptians were still alive, a spiritual יציאה had never fully transpired, because the Jewish People still felt connected to the nation of מצרים. To completely nullify this connection, קריעת ים סוף had to ensue, to totally undo the spiritual bondage of בני ישראל to מצרים. [Perhaps it is for this reason, that the מלאכים only protested 'הללו עובדי ע"ז והללו עובדי ע"ז' now and did not do so back in Egypt when בנ"י left.]
Good Shabbos!
