BH. Tevet
11, 5776 / Dec 23, 2015
Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 4:09 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbos Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel Rubin & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 5:15 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
SHORT WEEK “MC” ON WED
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REGISTER FOR TEAM-UP CAMP
There’s no school on Thursday www.tinyurl.com/TeamUpCampSignUp & Friday of this week (and Parents are asked to signThursday is our biggest TNT up their children online day of the week, with 3+ by this weekend to classes reporting) but here’s a attend “TeamUp Camp” 4-page “MC” regardless! next Wednesday 12/30 at Maimonides (replacing the school day). It is for ages 3-10, cost is $15 per child. It is a one-day camp for children of all ability levels, joining Friendship Circle and Camp Gan Israel for one very special day. For info contact DL Rubin at 698-1836 or Chaya at Friendship Circle 488-8992 with questions.
THE #LEARNFOREZRA SIYUM High Schools around the country studied Mishna in memory of Ezra Schwartz, the teen from Sharon MA killed by terrorists during his year abroad in Israel. Rabbi Rubin and our HS Boys joined a virtual online Siyum of all the Mishna studied for Ezra’s Shloshim. Rabbi Gotch Yudin spoke from Ezra’s Israeli Yeshiva “Ashreinu” about lessons learned from the meeting up of Yosef and Binyamin. (Many years ago, Rabbi Rubin had a camp counselor named Benjy Yudin, and Rabbi Rubin thinks Benjy may possibly be related to this Rabbi Gotch Yudin. Rabbi Benjamin Yudin has been a beloved Rabbi in Fairlawn NJ since 1969). Other speakers included Rebbetzin Henkin who lost her son and daughter-in-law to terror earlier this year, and representatives of several of the 30 high schools who joined in this Mishna study effort in Ezra’s memory. The siyum was organized by Rabbi Meir Wexler of Scheck Hillel Community School, Rabbi Dani Cooper of DRS/HALB, Rabbi Dov Huff of Maimonides School (Boston), and Rabbi Maccabee Avishur of YU School Partnership.
ALUMNI AT BARUCH’S LCHAIM Word has it that quite a few Maimonides alumni (including the Simon siblings themselves!) celebrated at Baruch Simon’s lively Lchaim engagement in Brooklyn this past Sunday. Mazal Tov again to Baruch and the Simon family, Nachas and Simchas always!
SHAS HISTORY, THE SOTHEBY TALMUD SALE & LOCAL ROMM Have you heard of the recent sale of an old Bomberg Talmud at Sotheby’s for $9 million? Rabbi Rubin learned with the HS Boys the introduction to the Gurary edition Shass on the history of Talmud printings, and how the Talmud page got its very familiar layout, the “tzuras hadaf”. They learned about Daniel Bomberg, a Christian printer in Venice who printed the first printed Talmud in the early 1520’s. In history they learned that Henry VIII bought one of these sets. It was a rare edition of this Bomberg Talmud that Sotheby’s sold in this week. He also printed the first “Mikraot Gedolot” Chumash with the classic commentaries, and ultimately close to 230 Jewish books! The Widow and Brothers Romm of Vilna were an important part of this history (and the Talmud page as we know it) and Rabbi Rubin noted that the local Krakower family traces their lineage to them.
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This newsletter is sponsored in honor of the birth of a son to Dr. Cheryl Silva & family SELMA ZVINAKOVSKY OBM Condolences to Monye and family on the loss of his wife, to whom her was very devoted to her care. May her memory be a blessing. The funeral is tomorrow at 10am at Tebbuts and Freidricks on Central Ave, with internment at CBAJ cemetery on Western Ave.
WORD IS GETTING OUT! Thanks to word of mouth and social media more and more people all around the world (!) are finding out about the newly published “Sefer Breishis” of Rabbi Rubin’s “The Torah Times”, which can now be ordered online via Amazon. Visit: www.TheTorahTimes.com to order. Our 8th grade girls are excited to have had a part in edits and review before it went to print!
TEVET MITZVAH NOTE WALL The Kindergarten Mitzvah note this month is shaped like the walls of Jerusalem, help fill them up with the positive strength of children’s Mitzvot!