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Parshat Acharei Mot/Shabbat Hagadol

The Torah section inAchrei Mos dealing withthe laws of the YomKippur Service in theBais Hamikdashconcludes with thewords "This shall be toyou an eternal decree tobring atonement uponChildren of Israel for alltheir sins once a year.And Aharon did as

Hashem commandedMoshe." [Vayikra16:34] As an aside, it isinteresting to note thateven though each of theJewish holidays comesout only once during theyear, Yom Kippur is theonly holiday which theTorah explicitlycategorizes as being"Achas B'Shanah", oncea year. Chazal explainthat the death of a

righteous person servesas atonement as doesYom Kippur. Therefore,when the Torah saysthat Yom Kippur willserve as atonement forus once during the year,it may be interpreted asa blessing. The Torah isin effect saying thatthere should only be

one "day of atonement" thisyear, not a second equivalentday of atonement that year,i.e. -- a day marking thedeath of a Tzadik in thecommunity. On that note, Isaw a story whereby oneyear, Rav Eliyahu Lopian gotup before Neilah, repeatedthe above thought, andbegan crying bitterly. He saidloudly before the

congregation "Halevai (let itonly be so) that we just haveone Yom Kippur this year,that we not need toexperience any additional"Yom Kippur -like" days ofatonement. Unbeknownst tohim, when he made thismoving declaration, theBrisker Rav, Rav YitzchakZeev Soloveitchik had justpassed away.

However, I would like to

focus on the last part of theabove quoted pasuk: "AndAharon did all that Hashemhad spoken to Moshe". Rashi,quoting the Toras Kohanim,states: This indicates thepraise of Aharon. WhenAharon wore the specialgarments of the High Prieston Yom Kippur, he did itstrictly for the sake of

Rabbi Frand on Parshat Acharei MotHeaven. There was not aniota of personal pride orhaughtiness. Consider thatonce a year, one man outof the entire nation wasprivileged to wear thesespecial garments. Thatcould potentially go to aperson's head and have aneffect upon him. But thepasuk testifies that thiswas not the case with

Aharon. He was notthinking of personal pridebut did it strictly to fulfillthe decree of the King.

Rav Simcha Zissel Brodyasks the followingquestion: The Talmud inBrochos speaks of RabbiChannina ben Dosa,whose intent in prayerwas so focused that he didnot even notice when anArod (a serpent like

animal with a very painfulbite) bit him while he wasdavening -- so intense washis kavana. Rav SimchaZissel asks: Why would itenter our mind to thinkthat Aharon the HighPriest would have lesskavana than RabbiChanina ben Dosa? Whythen is the Toras Kohanim

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afraid his mind might wander and have thoughts ofpersonal pride that he is wearing the "White Garments"designated only for the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur? Ofcourse, his laser like concentration would not allow himto deviate for one moment from his kavanah!

Rav Simcha Zissel Brody answers that it is easier not tobe affected by physical pain than it is to be not affectedby such things as pride and haughtiness! One can

overcome the physical. It is difficult but it is doable.However, for people not to be affected by matters suchas honor, jealousy, pride, and all of these very humancharacter traits is not as easy a matter. Therefore,Chazal need to tell us -- it goes without saying thatAaron would not have been affected by a bee bite or asnake bite or the bite of any other animal -- but evenwhen it came to honor -- which could have affected him-- he also was not affected in the slightest and did theentire service strictly for the sake of Heaven.

Rav Simcha Zissel relates this comment to another

amazing Medrash which he cites. The Medrash in

Bereshis Rabbah states that during the Akeida the Satancame to Yitzchak and told him that all of his most prized

gifts and possessions that his mother Sarah had lovingly

given him throughout the years would now fall to his

half-brother and nemesis, Yishmael. "Does that not

bother you?" Satan teasingly asked. "How can you go

through with this, Yitzchak? You are going to lose all

those presents your mother gave you!" The Medrash

goes on to record Yitzchak's response to this taunt. Why,

the Medrash asks, does Yitzchak say "My father, my

father" two times? It is in order that at least on some

minuscule level, so that his father would have mercy on

him and not go through with the Akeida. In other words,

the Medrash implies that Satan's teasing of Yitzchak DID

have at least a partial impact on him! Should Yitzchak

not be above such matters? The answer is that as great

at Yitzchak was, he was human and human beings are

affected by these things. They are affected by honor, by

lust, by pride, by jealousy, by all types of human

emotions that are impossible to totally suppress. We can

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overcome physical things, but when we start talking

about a person's psyche then even the greatest of

people have to deal with human frailties.

Great Neck Synagogue

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26 Old Mill Road, Great Neck , NY 11023

Dale Polakoff, RabbiIan Lichter, Assistant Rabbi

Dr. Ephraim Wolf ,zl, Rabbi Emeritus

Zeev Kron, Cantor

Eleazer Schulman, zl, Cantor Emeritus

Rabbi Sholom Jensen, Youth Director

Zehava & Dr. Michael Atlas, Youth Directors

Mark Twersky, Executive Director

Rabbi Avraham Bronstein, Program Director

Dr. Scott Danoff, President

Harold Domnitch, Chairman of the Board

Dena Block, Yoetzet Halacha 516-320-9818

PESACH SCHEDULE

Sunday April 13thBedikat Chometz this evening

EREV PESACH

Monday, April 14thShacharit with Siyum for first born 6:30 am

7:45 am

Chometz may not be eaten after:Magen Avraham 10:14 amVilna Gaon 10:42 amChometz must be destroyed byMagen Avraham 11:34 amVilna Gaon 11:46 amCandle Lighting 7:16 pmMincha 7:20 pm

PESACH IMonday night, April 14thKiddush after (first seder) 8:15 pmTuesday, April 15th

Hashkama 8:00 amMain Shul 9:00 amBeit Midrash 9:15 amMincha 7:20 pm

PESACH IITuesday night, April 15th

Candle Lighting after 8:16 pmPreparations for the second sederShould not begin before 8:16 pmWednesday, April 16th

Hashkama 8:00 amMain Shul 9:00 amBeit Midrash 9:15 amMincha 7:20 pm

Yom Tov ends after 8:26 pm

CHOL HAMOEDThursday, Friday 6:30 am

7:45 amMincha 7:20 pm

SHABBAT CHOL HAMOEDCandle Lighting 7:20 pmMincha 7:20 pm

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TWO WAYS TO GET A MITZVAH THIS PASSOVER

GNS -Passover Food Chesed Collection 2014 :

Got Matzah??Please drop off Passover canned & boxed food it ems

to donate to Needy Families!!

Please donate Passover Packaged Foodby dropping it off at the

Lunzer Home, 91 Bayview AveDrop off Sun.- Fri.: till April 10

and at the Atlas home, 9 Brook LaneSun-Fri: til l April 10

You can also drop matzah off at the shul .

Please ring bell so it can be brought int o the house.Please leave all food in shopping or garbage bags

at the garage door .Please Do Not bring it ems in Glass containers.

Thank you for being a part of this special Mitzvah!

Chometz Chesed Collection 2014 :

Dont throw out your Chometz!Please donate your Chometz now!!!

Please drop off your Chometz in the boxin the garage at Rabbi/Rebbetzin Lichters home

at 76 Berkshire Road.Their garage is l ocated on Margo Street.

You can drop of f every day all day- in their garagethrough April 10

FREDA WINEMANFredasstory begins in France, where she was born on the 6thof Septem-ber 1923 in Metz, north-eastern France. Her family was religiously or-thodox and enjoyed a comfortable life. However, after the Germansinvaded in 1940, anti-Jewish laws were passed and in 1944 Freda andher family were arrested. They were deported first to Drancy, and thenonto Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Freda worked in a number of harshKommandos, including Kommando Kanada, a work group that sortedthe possessions of Jews murdered in the gas chambers. Freda survived in

Auschwitz for 5 months before she was sent to Bergen-Belsen, then toan airplane parts factory in Raghun, where she worked as a welder. Asthe Allies approached, Freda was again herded onto a cattle truck andtaken to Thereisenstadt, where she suffered terribly with typhus beforeshe was finally liberated by the Soviets in May 1945.

Eventually Freda was repatriated back to France and taken to the hospi-tal in Lyon to be treated for the typhus. In 1946, with her body slowlyrecovering, Freda journeyed to England to search for the remainingmembers of her family. There in England, Freda met and marriedDavid in 1950. They had two daughters, Sandra and Irene, butFreda was struck again by tragedy when David fell ill and died suddenlyin 1952.

Freda explains that in an attempt to carve out a normal life for her andher daughters, she, like so many other survivors, did not speak about herexperiences during the Holocaust. It wasnt until some fifty years later,that Freda was approached by the British Library to finally share herstory. The recording made of Fredas story was the beginning of a con-certed effort by organizations to encourage survivors to tell the world

what they had endured.

As more survivors came forward to record their testimonies, film direc-tor Steven Spielberg began to make his own collection of survivors sto-ries, including Fredas. An enormous collection was compiled andFredas testimony became part of the Shoah Foundations Visual His-tory Archive in Los Angeles, and her unique story has been told to thou-sands of visitors. Freda explains how in 2000, the Smiths, a non-Jewishfamily, set up the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England

where thousands of school children have been educated about the Holo-caust. Through this centre, which is now a museum, and through HET

(Holocaust Education Trust), Freda was invited to share her story withstudents and educators, and this began her impetus to speak regularly atschools, synagogues and memorial events.

As Freda became a regular speaker, she was invited through HET to visit

10 Downing Street and meet with Prime Minister David Cam-

eron. Freda asked Mr. Cameron to sign the Holocaust Book of Com-

mitment; a pledge by the British Government to continue to support

and teach Holocaust education. As someone who saw it with her own

eyes, Freda hopes that by recounting the horrors of the Holocaust to the

next generations, she can try to insure that a tragedy of this magnitude

will never happen again.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Saturday, 12 NissanMiriam Glaubach for Rachel Herringer

Mitchell J. Siegel for Edith TurnerSunday, 13 Nissan

Nadine Eckstein for Tillie EngelMonday, 14 Nissan

Robert Herman for Frank HermanTuesday, 15 Nissan

Joan Braun for Phyllis Shapiro

Mark Gold for Regina GoldLeonard Kahn for Rachel KahnMina Kotler for Pearl Rodzynek

Ruth Kraft for Salli Berl BogatyrowWednesday, 16 Nissan

Marc Gottlieb for Sarah SchwartzmanThursday, 17 Nissan

Paul Brody for Minnie BrodyJudith Traub for Usher Hechtkopf

Friday, 18 NissanMarvin Greenwald for Matilda Greenwald

WITHIN OUR FAMILY

Mazal Tov to Rivka & Jordan Wolf on the birth of adaughter, Carolyn Sara (Kayla Sara) and Mazal Tovto grandparents Michele & Howard Wolf.Mazal Tov to Netti & Ari Herman on the birth of a son.Mazal Tov to Rachel Bayme on the engagement of her

daughter Juliet Gerber to Samuel Jemkelowitz, sonof Esther Jemkelowitz of Brooklyn, NY. Mazal Tov alsoto grandparents Helene & Lloyd Bayme.Mazal Tov to Louise & Leonard Kahn on the BarMitzvah of their grandson Jeremy, son of Simone &Charles Griff, in Israel.Mazal Tov to Anne Gold on the engagement of hergranddaughter Nini Goldberg daughter ofDeborah & Charles Goldberg, toJoey Slochowskyson ofSherri & Howard Slochowsky.

SAVE THE NEW DATE:The NSHA Annual Journal Dinner celebrating its 59th year will take placeon Monday evening, May 19th at Citi Field honoring Stephanie &Ruvane Vilinsky, Hannah K. Flamenbaum & Charles W. Segal andSassoun Sassouni. Those wishing to place an ad, make a reservationor serve on the dinner committee, please contact Arnie Flatow ataflatow@nsha.org or call the Business Office at 487-868 ext 2.

PASS IT FORWARDHas experienced an unexpected increase in demand for Pesach meals.We will be purchasing all of the food to be distributed, which includes 2Seder meals, a Seder plate and Pesach essentials for each family. Mone-

tary contributions would be appreciated. Please make checks payable toGNS with a notation that it is for Pass it Forward. Any questions, contactCindy Hodkinat koshercookinggn@gmail.com

FROM THE GN EIRUV ASSOCIATIONWe thank those of who have participated in our yearly fundraising efforton behalf of our community Eiruv. If you have not joined with thosewho have contributed we ask for your help now. Please send yourcontributions (Suggested amount $180) ASAP. Your fully tax deductiblecontributions can be made on line at www.greatneckeiruv.org/donateorby sending your check to: GN Eiruv Association, 15 Cuttermill Road,Box 182, Great Neck, NY 11021.

DRIVERS NEEDED FOR TOMCHEI SHABBOSFor many years members of GNS have been responsible for Route 24 ofTomchei Shabbos Queens-one of the most popular Tomchei Shabbosroutes. Participation entails delivering prepared boxes of food to fourapartments in Forest Hills. The packages are picked up from the Tomcheiwarehouse in Kew Gardens at any time after 5 PM Wednesday evenings.

The entire process takes LESS than two hours to complete and be back inGN. Wed like another 3-4 individuals to join us in supporting this veryimportant Chesed Project. Groups or families are welcome to participate.For more info, please contact Mitchell Siegel -drsiegel32@aol.com

SAVE THE DATEThe annual North Shore Mikvah Association fundraising shiur for womenwill take place at the home of Marla and Micah Lemonik - 9 MyrtleDrive - On Tuesday May 13th at 7:30. The shiur will be given by

Rebbetzin Abby Lernerand is entitled, They Said What? TheSurprising Rabbinic Attitudes Towards Intimacy. Lightrefreshments will be served and orchids from "Blooming Flowers" will

be for sale with proceeds to benefit the mikvah. Suggested Donation -$36.00, Sponsorships - $100, Gold Sponsor - $180.00 For moreinformation - please email NSMikvah@gmail.com

BURNING CHOMETZThe Great Neck community is invited to participate in the chometzburning event to be held Monday April 14th from 8am-11-am. Site isthe Kings Point park located at 187 Steamboat Rd. Please do not parkin the driveway,only in the lot at rear or on street.Please do not bringchometz trash only the bread collected during your search. If you canassist in this event your help would be greatly appreciated. Call or text516-835-8832

MENS CLUB SPRING BLOOD DRIVE.The Mens Club Spring Blood Drive is dedicated to a Refuah Shleimahfor Rabbi Dale Polakoff. All donors and volunteers will be inscribedin a special message to Rabbi Polakoff. The drive will be held onSunday, April 27, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the GNSGym. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointment holders will getexpedited treatment. Please book appointments via the website(address circulated in shul emails), by email to reind@sullcrom.com orby phone 212-558-3035. All donors and volunteers will also receive aspecial GNS-themed gift! See flyer for more details.

TUE., JUNE 10, & WED., JUNE 11, at 7:00pm: The Mens Clubannual Defensive Driving Course will be presented by AARP. Thecost is $20 for AARP members and $25 for non-members. Take thecourse every 3 years to save $ on your car insurance premiums andreduce any points on your license. Please contact Jerry Siegelman516-712-7538jerrysiegelman@hotmail.com.

PASSOVER CLEANINGPlease begin to clean out your lockers of chometz before Passover.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH to Billy and Nechama Liss-Levinson fororganizing the March Chesed Collection for used medical supplies forthe AFYA Foundation. We thank also the community for their gener-ous donations.

SAVE THE DATEApril 14: Siyum BechorimApril 27: Blood DriveApril 27: Yom HashoaMay 3: Ohel ShabbatonMay 5: Yom Hazikaron/Yom HaatzmautMay 28: Annual Meeting