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Parshat Chukat 10 Tammuz 5776 16 July 2016

Shabbat Kabbalat Shabbat

19:30

(Candle Lighting)

19:50

Shacharit

09:15

Leining

10:15

Seudah & Mincha at the Portnoys

20:30

Shabbat terminates

22:39

Weekday

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07:00

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07:00

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speaking to it, his punishment was never

19:40

to enter the land of Israel. When we con-

* Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

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Take A Step Back When Moshe lost his temper with Bnai

selves. Anger is not an excuse, and it is

Yisrael and struck the rock instead of

not excusable.

sider how devastating this penalty was,

Chayim Arukim

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Thought For The Week

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it is hard to understand the severity of his crime. After all, Moshe was provoked, constantly and repeatedly, by the complaints and the faithlessness of the Jewish

The Gemara (Shabbat 105b) compares a person who becomes so angry that he loses control of himself to someone who worships idols. This is because he has forgotten that Hashem runs the world, not he, and that anything that happens, however infuriating, happens for a rea-

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Amanda Kaye

Mother

Mon

Susannah Benjamin Ruth Shammah

Mother Mother

hardships of the desert with the luxuries

Ashley Myers

Father

miracles. Surely Moshe could be forgiven

Victor Wolff Ian Halpern Paul Wertheim Aubrey Greene

Mother Father Father Sister

for losing control of his temper once in a

Rose Menacham Malcolm Gruber

Father Father

In most secular legal systems, provoca-

and broke his connection with Hashem

tion would be accepted as an excuse for

irreparably, so that he could not continue

Muriel Mond

Mother

a violent response, and loss of control

to lead Bnai Yisrael into the Promised

would mitigate most crimes. But Hashem

Land.

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people, who constantly compared the of Egypt, and ignored Hashem’s daily

while?

son. Our ‘godliness’ – our resemblance to Hashem – depends on our remembering that we are not G-d. Moshe, as Hashem’s mouthpiece, was supposed to enact His miracle and produce water by speaking to the rock. Instead, his anger got in the way

held Moshe to a higher standard of behav-

Rabbi Joel Portnoy

iour, and he also expects more from us. We are expected to always control our-

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