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Yom
Kippur Sources
Laws and customs of Yom Kippur are available on the OU website.
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to download a free 19-page Yom Kippur reader from aish.com. (It may take a
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Shana
Tova
Best
Wishes for the New Year
To
the Tiferet Israel Family andTo All Klall Yisrael
Debbie
and Joel Tendler
Lucy and Rabbi Eliezer Langer
Yom
Kippur & Rosh Hashanah Schedule
Davening will be at the Beit HaMikdash
starting tonight
See Full schedule here
Rabbi's
Column
 וְתִפְתַּח אֶת סֵפֶר הַזִּכְרונות. וּמֵאֵלָיו יִקָּרֵא. וְחותָם יַד כָּל אָדָם בּו.
וּנְתַנֶּה תּקֶף
You
will open the Book of Chronicles-it will read itself,
and everyone's signature is in it. (Unetaneh Tokef)
Unetaneh Tokef, said at the apex of Musaf
immediately preceding Kedusha, describes the
events taking place in the Heavenly court on the Yamim
Noraim - these days of awe. "Angels will
hasten, a trembling and terror will seize them-and they will say, 'Behold,
it is the Day of Judgment, to muster the heavenly host for judgment!'-for
even they cannot be vindicated in Your eyes in judgment."
"All mankind will pass
before You like a flock of sheep. Like a shepherd pasturing his flock,
making sheep pass under his staff, so shall You cause to pass, count,
calculate, and consider the soul of all the living; and You shall apportion
the destinies of all Your creatures and inscribe their verdict.
בְּראשׁ הַשָּׁנָה יִכָּתֵבוּן וּבְיום צום כִּפּוּר יֵחָתֵמוּן
On Rosh
Hashanah it will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur it will be sealed...
In recent weeks and months, we
have seen the vagaries of earthly, human courts. A man is released from
prison after 25 years when DNA evidence shows that he was not the murder;
in Europe a woman incarcerated for four years is suddenly released with the
court reversing a lower court's decision, in another state the higher court
turns down an appeal refusing to hear the plea that a judge with prior
knowledge could not be impartial, and in Iran, after more than two years in
custody, two Americans jailed as spies are released
on $1 million "bail". These are the types of verdicts in the
earthly realm, effected as they are by politics,
public opinion, prejudices and human frailties.
The Heavenly Court before Whom
we stand is different. For it is before "Avinu
Malkeinu" our Father, our King that we stand
- our loving Creator who acts as a father to his children and judges us
fairly, with love and compassion. All He asks is that we acknowledge that
we have in fact not lived up to our potential and strayed from His Torah.
He desires our return for our own good and therefor He gave us the day of
Yom Kippur with love, the day on which we are given the opportunity, nay
the obligation to atone for our shortcomings, to admit them, to feel
contrite and to pledge to mend our ways in the future. And with this we are
promised that our prayers will be heard.
וּמֵאֵלָיו יִקָּרֵא. וְחותָם יַד כָּל אָדָם בּו
The Heavenly
Book of Chronicles is open ;
-it reads
itself, it is our own signature in it
and it is in our hands to correct.
Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatima tova to you, to
us,
to our
families and to the entire Jewish people.
Rabbi Eliezer Langer
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Customs
of Erev Yom Kippur
Please
follow this link to read and print out a
copy of the explanation found on the OU website.
One of the beautiful
customs of Erev Yom Kippur is Birchat
haBanim, parents blessing their child with the
wishes for the new year. The blessing may be found here.
Brief
Explanation of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
The
high point of the Yom Kippur services is when the Congregation with one
voice cries out to Hashem with the Thirteen
Attributes as found in Exodus 34:6-7. Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of
the explanation found on the OU website.
Explanation
of the Vidui - Ashamnu
and Al Cheit- Confession
Please
follow this link to read and print out a
copy of the explanation found on the OU website.
Mazal
Tov
Suzanne
and Jeff Luftig on the birth of their daughter. Y'hi ratzon shetizku l'gadla l'Torah l'chupa u'lemaasim tovim. May you
merit to raise her to Torah, marriage and good
deeds. Mazal Tov also to big sister Lilly
Kinder Kongregation
 The new and improved Kinder Kongregation meets Shabbat morning 10:00-11:30 AM
with supervision and a parent volunteer. Each Shabbat morning
includes a Dvar Torah and a snack and drinks. Try
it, you'll like it.
Refuah Shelayma To:
- Janet Goldberg, Shayna Masha bat Chasha
Mina
- Rosemary Robbins, Rachel bat Fayga
- Benny Rowe, Binyamin ben
Sarah
- Sara Slomovic,
Sara bat Matil
- Hannah Tankell,
Chana bat Rochel
- Bea Tendler, Bryndel bat Rivka
- Ruth Tendler, Rochel bat Gital
- Michael Aryeh
ben Fruma Rachel
- Kalmen Chaim
ben Chaya Rochel
Mazal Tov to:
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Shown here at the naming of Sara Jaramilla, (L-R) Gabbai
Matthew Schmerer, father Yaakov, Rabbi Moshe Lans
of Fort Hood and Rabbi Eliezer Langer
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Mazal
Tov to the Rika and Yaakov Jaramilla family of
Fort Hood who named their daughter Sara at Tiferet Israel on Thursday morning. A yasher koach to Chaplain Rabbi Moshe Lans
who recently returned from a tour of duty in Afganhistan and serves as Fort Hood Rabbi. Much Hatzlacha andderech
tzelaycha to Yaakov Jaramilla
who leaves to Iraq on Sunday.
Mazal
Tov to Adi Miller on her birthday. Mazal Tov à la réception du Prix
Anderson
High School première
récompense pour la langue française.
Upcoming
events:
Here
Come the Judges and...
Deborah, Samson and the
Delilah, Concubine in Giva'
What do these all have
in common?
They are all in the
Book of Shoftim-Judges which
We will be studying the
book starting
Monday July 11 at
7:00PM.
- Come
Join Us in for
An
excursion in History, Hebrew and Ethics.
- The first Yahrtzeit
of our good friend Alex Sole follows the High Holidays. A committee is
being formed to create an appropriate commemoration. Please email to join the Tribute Committee.
Recent events:
Mazal Tov Graduates
Mazal Tov to our wonderful
Tiferet Israel Sunday School students who are shown proudly displaying
their certificates. From left to right. Middle row: Emily Freeman,
Garrett Robinson, Abby Jones, Joshua Mina, and Lilly Luftig; and on the
front row: Mason Robinson, Ana Clara Garfield, Marina Garfield, Netanel Ramos, and Abby Jones.
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