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Kollel Korner of the Sephardic Community Kollel
Come learn with the Sephardic Community Kollel from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, Sunday through Thursday. Please contact the Kollel Coordinator, Rabbi Yosef Olstein to arrange a learning partner or to receive information about the Kollel and its programs. Rabbi Olstein can be reached at 773-338-8046 or by email at Sephardic Community Kollel
Donations to the Kollel
Donations to the Kollel can also be made via credit card. Please call the shul at 773-465-5274 or email the Kollel for details.
Sponsor Learning in the Kollel
Our Rabbis tell us of the great power and merit associated with supporting Torah learning. To that end, consider sponsoring a night, a week or a month of learning in the Kollel. Examples of sponsorship purposes include: in memory of a deceased loved one for their Azkarah, to merit a Rifuah Shilamah, or to honor a loved one or friend. In addition to the great merit of supporting Torah in our community, your sponsorship will be marked with printed pages noting the intent of your support that are placed in stands on the tables in the Beit HaMidrash for the duration of your sponsorship period.
Here are the costs for the various sponsorships:
A night of learning - $52
A week of learning - $100
A month of learning - $400
The Kollel appreciates this week's sponsors
An anonymous donor has sponsored a week of learning in the merit of a Refuah Sheleimah for Noam Moshe Ben Dina. Learning from Wednesday August 21-Wednesday August 28 was generously sponsored.
Halacha of the Week
Submitted by Rabbi Yaakov Azose
Halacha Yomit
The Eruv Tavshilin One Should Make this Year
This year (5773), the second day of Rosh Hashanah will fall out on Friday, Erev Shabbat. Our Sages prohibited cooking on Yom Tov for Shabbat without placing an "Eruv Tavshilin," which is placing (designating) bread and a cooked food on Erev Yom Tov (Wednesday) for Shabbat (i.e. to be eaten on Shabbat) in order that it be recognizable that he is not starting to cook or bake on Yom Tov for Shabbat; rather, he is just concluding his work (Explanation: In honor of Yom Tov, our Sages prohibited cooking on Yom Tov for Shabbat. However, if one begins cooking for Shabbat on Erev Yom Tov and only finishes up on Yom Tov, this does not constitute a lack of respect for Yom Tov. We therefore leave bread and a cooked food on Erev Yom Tov to be eaten on Shabbat in order to show that one has already begun preparing foods for Shabbat before the onset of Yom Tov, and that on Yom Tov itself, one is only finishing off what he has already started.) If one did not place an Eruv Tavshilin, one may not cook on Yom Tov for Shabbat.
There are several laws regarding the bread and cooked food one must leave for the Eruv Tavshilin. It is customary to leave bread (amounting to a weight of approximately thirty grams) and a hard-boiled egg. When one takes the bread and hard-boiled egg on Erev Yom Tov, one recites: "Baruch Ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech Ha'Olam Asher Kideshanu Bemitzvotav Vetzivanu Al Mitzvat Eruv." One must recite this blessing with Hashem's name (After reciting the blessing, one should say: "With this Eruv, we shall be permitted to bake, cook, light candles, and do anything we need on Yom Tov for Shabbat.") One then saves the bread and cooked food and (preferably) eats them on Shabbat night.
In most places, the rabbis of the city customarily make an Eruv Tavshilin in a special way that will benefit those who have forgotten to make one. Thus, if one forgets to make an Eruv Tavshilin but the local rabbi has made an Eruv in this way, he may rely on the Eruv of the rabbi and he may cook on Yom Tov for Shabbat. Nevertheless, it is preferable for each person to make an Eruv Tavshilin in his own home.
Although one has made an Eruv Tavshilin, it is preferable to finish all works one is performing on Yom Tov for Shabbat as early on in the day as possible and not to carry on until close to the onset of Shabbat. Nevertheless, if one was delayed for whatever reason, one may continue to prepare until a few minutes before sunset.
Candles should be lit on the second day of Rosh Hashanah approximately twenty minutes before sunset, for after this time the day already takes on the sanctity of Shabbat, and lighting candles is forbidden. One may prepare the Shabbat candles on Yom Tov itself.
Machshava (Thought) of the Week
On Rosh Hashana, we entreat Hashem to accept our resolutions to improve and grant us another year of life. The situation is similar to a borrower asking a lender for a loan by promising to pay back the specified amount at a later date. We would never expect a lender to give the loan without receiving some type of security, so how could we expect Hashem to give us another year of life without providing Him with some form of security?
R' Yehuda Zev Segal, the dean of the Manchester Yeshiva, says we can provide Hashem with that security. By committing ourselves to learning Mussar (ethical works based on the Torah) regularly, we show Hashem that we have a reliable system in place for growth and development, and that He can count on us to deliver on the promises we make on Rosh Hashana.
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