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Shabbat Prayer Times äçðî Minha 6:10 p.m.
íéøéùä øéù Shir Hashirim 6:30 p.m.
úáù úìá÷ Kabalat Shabbat 7:05 p.m.
úåøð ú÷ìãä Candle Lighting 7:31 p.m.
(ïé÷éúå) à"ãéçä ïéðî úéøçù Shaharit Ha’Hida Vatikin 5:50 a.m.
úéøçù Shaharit (Main Synagogue/Barechu:9:35) 8:30 a.m.
íéìäú Tehilim 6:35 p.m.
äçðî Minha 7:05 p.m.
áåè òåáù Shabbat Ends 8:35 p.m.
Erev Shabbat, Friday April 12th, 2019 Minha 6:15 p.m. (Candle Lighting 7:39p.m.)
Weekday Services at Medrash Torah Vehayim
úéøçù Shaharit Sunday ïé÷éúå Vatikin 6:05 a.m.
íéîéã÷î Makdimim 8:00 a.m. íéòåá÷ Kebuim 9:00 a.m.
úéøçù Shaharit Weekdays ïé÷éúå Vatikin 6:05 a.m.
íéîéã÷î Makdimim 6:45 a.m. íéòåá÷ Kebuim 8:15 a.m.
äçðî Minha 7:35 p.m.
úéáøò Arbit 8:05 p.m.
Shabat Zemanim– Netz– õð– 6:51 am, Keriat Shema- òîù úàéø÷- 9:30 am, Shekia- äòé÷ù– 7:50 pm
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Welcome to our Synagogue ברוכים הבאים
Shabbat Shalom שבת שלום
President Meyer Keslassy
Vice President Jean-Claude Abtan
Rabbi Emeritus Haham Amram Assayag
Rabbi Rabbi David Kadoch
Shaliach Tzibur Marc Kadoch
Parnas Avi Azuelos
Parashat Tazria פרשת תזריעShabbat April 6th 2019, 1 / אי ניסן תשע"ט Nissan 5779
Parasha Page 608, Maftir page 348 Haftara Hachodesh 1218 in Artscroll
Kiddush Please join us for Kiddush after Shaharit services.
Everyone is welcome.
Seuda ShelishitThis Shabbat Seuda Shelishit is sponsored by:
Mr. and Mrs. Avi and Francine Azuelos in loving memory of his father Rabbi Yaakob Azuelos ì"æ Mr. and Mrs. Adam and Esther Ohayon in loving memory of her brother Joseph Edery ì"æ Mr. and Mrs. Leon and Denise Elmaleh in loving memory of his mother Marie Elmaleh ì"æ Everyone is welcome.
Nahalot Rabbi Yaakob Azuelos ì"æ 1 Nissan / Saturday April 6
Menahem Benadiba ì"æ 3 Nissan / Monday April 8
Molly Citron ì"æ 4 Nissan / Tuesday April 9
Mercedes Bensimhon ì"æ, Esther Cohen ì"æ 5 Nissan / Wednesday April 10
Rahel Esseis ì"æ, Marie Elmaleh ì"æ, Hananiah Cohen ì"æ 6 Nissan / Thursday April 11
Nahalot for the following week
Miriam Toby ì"æ 8 Nissan / Saturday April 13
Hanna Cohen ì"æ 9 Nissan / Sunday April 14
Shalom Abraham ì"æ, Marsye Benisti ì"æ 10 Nissan / April Monday 15
Haim Amiel ì"æ, David Hochman ì"æ 11 Nissan / Tuesday April 16
Solange Azoulay Himelfarb ì"æ, Samuel Elfassy ì"æ, Robida Assayag ì"æ, 12 Nissan / Wednesday April 17
Lucy Bensimon ì"æ, 13 Nissan / Thursday April 18
Maguy Pinto ì"æ, 14 Nissan / Friday April 19
To increase participation during Tefila, this bulletin should not be read during the conduction of prayer services. This bulletin must be discarded in a proper Geniza. 7026 Bathurst Street Thornhill, Ont. L4J 8K3
Tel: (905) 669 7654 Fax: (905) 669 5138
Torah Learning Opportunities at the SKC Sundays - Gemara Masechet Megila with Rabbi Kadoch - 7:15am-8am, Iraqi synagogue, coffee.
Mondays - Limud Torah with Rabbi Natan Dabush, 8PM, Medrash, men only
Tuesdays - Tuesday Night Live on the Parasha with Tomer Malca, 8PM, Medrash, beer and wings, men only
Wednesdays - Limud Torah with the Toronto Sephardic Kollel, 815PM, Medrash, refreshments, men only
Wednesdays - Mishmar with Yossi Azulay, 7PM, Iraqi synagogue/gymnasium, pizza and drinks, middle school boys
Thursdays - Advanced Gemara with Shimon Benmergui, 7:15pm, Iraqi synagogue, refreshments, High School/University boys
Thursdays - Halacha with Rabbi David Kadoch. Young adults. 8:30pm Upstairs Medrash following Arbit
Shabbat - Noam Elimelech on the Parasha with Rabbi David Kadoch, 8:15am-8:45am, Downstairs classroom, coffee and hot
chocolate, men only
Rosh Hodesh - Various Topics with Rabbi David Kadoch, 8PM, Lower Level Restaurant, refreshments, ladies only.
Shiurim Online: If you wish to access any of the Torah classes given during the week by Rabbi Kadoch, Tomer Malca or Rabbi Dabush, you can
listen to them at anytime by accessing them on our website: bit.ly/skctorah
Synagogue News Early Shabbat Summer Schedule
As a reminder, our summer schedule is now in effect. Minha will start promptly at 6:10 pm followed by Shir HaShirim.
Pearls of Judaism Ladies Shiur—Wednesday April 10th, 2019
The monthly shiur continues this Wednesday as Rabbi Kadoch explores the connection between Haroset and the Jewish woman.
All ladies are welcome. Lower Level Synagogue at 8:00pm.
HAROSET will be made next Sunday April 14th, 2019 B’’H
We are looking for Volunteers to help Rabbi David Kadoch and Mr. Yaakov Medina to prepare HAROSET for Pesah. Please contact
the office if you can volunteer
Come Together
Pre-Pesah Shabbaton - Friday April 12th & Saturday April 13th Shabbaton for Family, Friends, Food and Relief (Give your spouse a
break, Cost $40/Adult, $20/Child Friday Dinner
$75/Adult, $35/Child Both Meals (Family Max $250)
A Project by the JDOHSS Mom’s Association
Beautifully designed Sephardic Family Haggada available for only $5 each, Hebrew and English available in the office.
Bnei Akiva’s
SHA-SHA-SHABBAT SHALOM SKC!!! Bnei Akiva’s Kehila Snif is back and is excited to announce an amazing planned Snif for this
week! This weeks theme is a surprise! Come to Snif to find out what’s going on and for a chance to collect tickets for a raffle hap-
pening at the last snif! This weeks Snif is at 5:50PM!
Please try to grab out Akivaton for an amazing Dvar Torah and Question for the Chanichim to answer.
Kehila Centre Summer Employment for Students
The Kehila Centre has an exciting opportunity for students looking for summer employment to assist us. If you are interested ,
please submit your resume to [email protected].
Cemetery Plots
The SKC is pleased to announce the availability of Pardes Shalom cemetery plots to our members. In order to accommodate
the limited availability of these plots, we ask all interested members to contact either Sol Benchetrit at [email protected] OR
Dr. Adam Ohayon at [email protected].
If you have a Mazal Tov that you would like to share with the congregation or if you have a change of address or email please contact the office at
(905) 669-7654.
Please be advised that the cutoff time for insertion in the bulletin is Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.
This bulletin is printed courtesy of Print Three Concord (905) 738-5682.
Tazria 5779 – Doctors and Interns להורות בין הטמא ובין הטהר זאת תורת הצרעת )יד:נז(
"To rule on which day it is contaminated and on which day it is purified;
this is the law of tzara'at" (Vayikra 14:57)
An interesting halachic question was brought before HaGaon
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg shlita, the author of 'Tzitz
Eliezer’', which he answered based on the explanation of the
Netziv of Volozhin on this verse. A doctor in one of the Jerusa-
lem hospitals, wished to know if it is permissible to teach in-
terns by the bedside of patients, if the purpose is to teach the
students and not for the sake of helping the patient? Maybe this
contradicts the 'Doctors Oath', where a doctor swears not to
reveal the patient's condition to strangers?
The 'Tzitz Eliezer' answered that the oath is not a deterrent to
guiding the interns, for when taking the oath every doctor
knows that part of his career includes coaching interns by the
patients' bedside, just as he was taken around patients when he
studied medicine. This being the case, he certainly did not in-
tend to include this in his oath.
In fact, there’s an additional novelty and calculation he discov-
ered: There’s a rule in the Talmud that a teacher learns “from
his students more than from anyone.” This rule applies to every
form of expertise. By explaining the case to the interns, and
from the questions that will come up, it can often happen that
the doctor considers a new angle on how to treat the patient
and for the benefit of the patient. So, this practice of guiding
the interns can also bring benefit to the patient.
However, there is a different perspective that one must consider
when the doctor and the interns gather around the patient's
bedside. If it involves exposing places on the body where the
illness had an effect, especially if these are normally concealed
places, this could involve embarrassment for the patient. The
'Tzitz Eliezer' found an original proof for this idea from the
words of the Netziv in his sefer 'He’emek She’elah'. The Netziv
explained, according to the words of the Raavad in Torat Koha-
nim, that the words of the verse להורות ' to rule' in the above
mentioned pasuk, mean that at the very time when the account
comes before him, this is when the Kohen should teach.
He would call his students to show them the kind of affliction
and its particulars, on the day that it became contaminated and
also on the day that it was purified. This is how the verse ends:
"This is the law of tzara'at" – to teach us that this law is not valid
in every place, only here concerning tzara'at. For in truth, great
shame is caused to the person when the students gather and
look at the afflictions on his flesh, therefore definitely in other
similar situations it is forbidden to do this, for this causes em-
barrassment to the person who has come to ask the Kohen
about his status. The words "This is the law of tzara'at" will
serve as an atonement for him because he himself embarrassed
someone else. This is how the Netziv explains the above verse.
If so, the Tzitz Eliezer concluded his answer to the doctor, from
here we can derive a proof that it is forbidden to show the pa-
tients' wounds to students, due to the prohibition of shaming
other people. It is therefore in place that the doctor should ask
the patient for his permission and if he does not consent one
should avoid gathering the students around his bedside.
Parashat Tazria: Childbirth and Eliyahu Hanabi
The opening section of Parashat Tazria deals with the topic of
Tum’at Yoledet, the special status of Tum’a (impurity) that ap-
plies to a woman after childbirth. The Torah instructs that after
delivering a baby boy, a woman has a status of Tum’a for seven
days, whereas after the birth of a girl she is considered impure
for fourteen days.
Why does childbirth result in Tum’a? Delivering a child is pre-
cisely what women are supposed to do; it is the most joyous
and wondrous of events. In fact, our Sages teach that Mashiah
will come once all the souls in the heavens have been dis-
patched to the earth. Each birth thus brings us a bit closer to
our final redemption. Why, then, should it cause impurity?
Another question that arises from this section is the inclusion of
the Misva of Berit Mila. After mentioning that a woman is im-
pure for seven days after a boy’s birth, the Torah immediately
adds that the boy must be circumcised on the eighth day. Why
must this be mentioned in this context, amidst the discussion of
impurity?
The answer touches upon the fundamental nature of Tum’a gen-
erally. Tum’a surfaces when something that had been endowed
with holiness loses that Kedusha. Thus, for example, a human
corpse has the most intense level of Tum’a, because it had con-
tained within it a soul, which is part of God Himself. When
something possessed such a high level of Kedusha and was
then emptied of that Kedusha, the forces of impurity attach
themselves to it, resulting in the status of Tum’a.
Our Sages teach that during pregnancy, the infant studies Torah
with an angel. The body of a pregnant woman is endowed with
extreme sanctity, as it is occupied by an angel who sits and
teaches Torah to the child. This Kedusha is lost at the time of
childbirth, and this loss is what results in Tum’a. A place that
had been filled with high levels of holiness for nine months now
loses that special quality, and for this reason the woman be-
comes impure.
Why, then, is the Tum’a period briefer after the birth of a boy?
Why is a woman considered impure for fourteen days after the
birth of a girl, but only seven days after the birth of a boy?
The Torah itself answers this question by mentioning the Berit
Mila in this context. A week after the birth of a boy, a Berit Mila
is performed, and it is attended by Eliyahu Hanabi. As we know,
it is customary to designate a special chair for Eliyahu at a Berit
because he personally attends every Berit Mila ceremony. Eli-
yahu’s presence has a profound purifying effect. Just as Eliyahu
will come before the arrival of Mashiah to purify the Jewish peo-
ple and prepare them for redemption, similarly, whenever he
comes he brings purity to those around him. This is why, for
example, many people try to position themselves near Eliyahu’s
chair at a Berit, so they could be as close to him as possible and
come under the influence of his purification. More generally,
this is why attending a Berit Mila is such a valuable and signifi-
cant Misva, as it has a purifying effect by virtue of Eliyahu’s
presence.
This explains the distinction drawn by the Torah between the
birth of a boy and the birth of a girl, and why the Misva of Mila
appears in this context. The Berit Mila held a week after a
child’s birth has a purifying effect, and the mother’s period of
Tum’a thus ends at that point. Whereas the Tum’a following the
birth of a girl lasts for two weeks, it lasts only one week after a
boy’s birth because of the Berit Mila. Eliyahu Hanabi’s attend-
ance at the ritual brings purity to everybody in the room, and
especially to the child’s mother, enabling her to conclude her
period of Tum’a. The great prophet comes to the Berit and puri-
fies the mother who had lost the great levels of Kedusha she
had possessed during pregnancy, and at that point her purity is
restored through the powerful influence of Eliyahu.