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YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE

Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Senior Rabbi

Rabbi Adam Frieberg, Assistant Rabbi

Rabbi Edward Davis, Rabbi Emeritus

Dr. P.J. Goldberg, President

3291 Stirling Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312

954-966-7877 email: info@yih.org www.yih.org

VAYEIRA

18 CHESHVAN 5779 OCTOBER 27, 2018

TORAH READING Genesis 18:1 HAFTORAH Kings II 4:1

Nach Yomi : Ezekiel 39 Daf Yomi : Menachos 78

Daf Hashavua: Megillah 4

SHABBAT TIMES

Candle Lighting 6:25 p.m. Shabbat Ends 7:22 p.m.

Shabbat Shalom

Welcome to all newcomers, visitors and guests

BIKUR CHOLIM AWARENESS SHABBAT To find out more about Bikur Cholim call 954-894-8514 or visit the website

www.bikurcholimhollywood.org

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OUR YIH FAMILY…. Mazel Tov:

Lauren & Simeon Stamm on the birth of their daughter, Chloe Scarlett - Chaya

Tziporah, and to siblings Jordan and Juliette, grandparents Sandy & Norman

Goldglantz and Lenore & Dennis Stamm, and a special Mazel Tov to great-

grandmother Miriam Mitzner.

Martin & Marsha Schenker on the birth of their granddaughter born to Chaim &

Dena Weiss, and to uncle & aunt Rabbi Yosef & Rebecca Weinstock

Rachael & Tzvi Schachter on the birth of their granddaughter, Esther Chana, to Eli &

Nechama Cohen, and to great-grandmother Malca Schachter.

Moshe Averbuch and Julie Averbuch on the birth of twin grandsons in Israel to Ari &

Rivki Averbuch.

Welcome New Members: Aryeh & Elissa Love and Kelly Stomber.

Condolences:

Ezra Stern on the loss of his mother Kathy Stern. The funeral was in NY on

Tuesday. Ezra is sitting shiva at his home in Hollywood Sunday a.m. through

Monday a.m.

Irene Friederwitzer on the loss of her husband Stanley Friederwitzer, and Avie

Friederwitzer on the loss of his father. The funeral was in NY on Wednesday. Shiva

is at the Friederwitzer home in Grandview Monday a.m. through Tuesday a.m.

THANK YOU TO OUR SHABBAT SPONSORS

8:00 a.m. Minyan Kiddush

Robert & Debbie Hirsch to commemorate the yahrzeit of his mother Shoshana bat Yaakov Leonard & Dale Pianko to commemorate the yahrzeit of his father Rabbi Jack Pianko

Beit Midrash Kiddush

Coplowitz, Kanoff, Pearl and Wasserstrom families in honor of Rabbi Moshe Parnes’ Sefer Hamitzvos shiur completing the 100th mitzvah of the Torah

Teen Kiddush Barry & Jillian Galitzer in honor of Steven’s 2nd Bar Mitzvah anniversary Kevin & Rebecca Ohayon in honor of Aryeh’s 1 year Bar Mitzvah anniversary

Youth Kiddush Ilya & Diana Chern in honor of their son Noam’s birthday

YP Kiddush Chaim & Esti Bar-Eli in honor of their daughter Yardena Zara

Torah Dialogue Barry & Lois Levontin on the yahrzeit of her beloved mother, Edith Greenberg Scher, Itka bat Yaakov Mendel

Shabbat Safety, Security & First Aid

“Safety & Security is everyone’s responsibility. If You See Something Say Something!”

Talk to the President, Rabbis, or Executive Director.

AED (Automated External Defibrillator) & other equipment in closet next to Social Hall.

Shabbat Crossing schedule: Stirling Road at SW 33rd Avenue

Hollywood Police will control the light this Friday 6:00-10:30pm. Shabbat 7:45am-12:30pm

& 5:00-8:00pm. The light will be manually changed between 6:50 & 7:10am.

Important Notice for your safety: When crossing Stirling Road, make sure to always

wait until cars stop by the light before crossing

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Friday Night

6:25pm Candle Lighting

6:35pm Minchah/Maariv Main Sanctuary

6:35pm Sephardic Minchah/Maariv Library

6:35pm Beit Midrash Minyan House across street

6:43pm Sunset / Shkiah

Shabbat Morning

7:00am Shacharit Minyan Main Sanctuary

8:00am Shacharit Minyan Room 1 & 2

8:15am Parsha Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Beit Midrash

8:45am Beit Midrash Minyan House

9:00am Shacharit Minyan Main Sanctuary

9:00am Games Rooms & Shabbat Groups Rooms 1,2,3,4 & 6

9:00am Sephardic Minyan Library

9:15am Parsha class with Rabbi Yitzchak Salid Back room of house

9:30am YP Minyan Modular

9:30am Youth Minyan Chapel

9:30am Teen Minyan Room 5

10:15am Latest Shema Time

10:10am The Rest of the Story: Understanding the

Haftarah Rabbi Yitzi Marmorstein

Social Hall

10:15am Parsha class with Rabbi Yitzchak Salid Back room of house

10:45am Sefer HaMitzvot Shiur, Rabbi Moshe Parnes Beit Midrash

Main Sanctuary will be locked while the Torah is being read, during Mussaf

Kedusha, and while Rabbi is speaking.

Contact Gerald Mayerhoff glmcpa@bellsouth.net or David Lasko

davidlasko@yahoo.com for an aliyah or kibbud at any of the minyanim

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Shabbat Afternoon

5:10pm Gemara Shiur on Gittin (in Hebrew) Beit Midrash

5:25pm Daf Yomi Library

5:40pm Rabbi Weinstock’s class: Jewish Views on

Yishmael

Main Sanctuary

5:55pm Special Shiur with Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch:

What Accounts for the Differences Between

Sephardic and Ashkenazic Halacha

Chapel

6:25pm Teen Minchah Room 5

6:25pm Minchah Main Sanctuary

After Minchah Halacha Chaburah with Rabbi Frieberg Library

After Minchah Gemara Shiur with Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch Chapel

After Minchah Parsha Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Beit Midrash

Teen Seudah

Shlishit

For upperclassmen with Rabbi Moshe

Nachbar

Room 5

Teen Seudah

Shlishit

For 8th grade and underclassmen with Rabbi

Natan Brownstein

Ben-Aharon

residence

7:22pm Maariv Main Sanctuary

7:22pm Teen Maariv Room 5

Immediately

after Maariv

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5 min. class Library

Dvar Tefila

A weekly insight from the siddur to help enhance our prayer experience

Baruch She’amar (Artscroll Siddur pg 370)

“Blessed is He who spoke and the world came into being”: God created the word

through “speech”, without any need for action or effort. This is what the Midrash

(Bereishit Rabba 12:10) means when it says that the universe was created with the

Hebrew letter Hey (based on Genesis 2:4). Enunciating the letter Hey requires the

least amount of effort. According to one speech therapy expert, this is because to

make the “h” sound there is no movement of, or contact with articulators; and there is

no closing of the vocal folds. So too Hashem did not expend any “effort in the classic

sense in order to create the universe. The Ramban explains that the notion of speaking

in this context means that Hashem had a thought or desire for the universe and it

immediately came into being.

“Blessed is He who maintains creation”: Even though it appears that nature takes its

course and grows automatically, we realize that the fact that such growth occurs can

only happen due to it being God’s will.

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D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock

At the beginning of Parshat Vayerah, we read that Hashem appeared

to Avraham. Rashi explains that G-d was performing the mitzvah of Bikur

Cholim (visiting the sick), as Avraham was recuperating from his recent

circumcision. When we visit the sick, we are not only doing kindness for our

fellow human being. We are emulating Hashem.

One of the main purposes of Bikur Cholim is to pray for the sick

person; it is like giving him life. Accordingly, one could visit a total stranger,

or someone who is unaware of the visit. The same is true for visiting a young

baby. In addition, one should see to it that the sick person has all his/her needs

taken care of and make sure he has all the necessary medical supplies. This

might include shopping for the person. Making the sick person happy is also

included in the mitzvah. Hashem visited Avraham after his circumcision, but

we do not find that He said anything to him. Harav Moshe Feinstein zt”l shows

from here that one does not have to say anything to the sick person. Just one’s

presence can be sufficient.

According to our Sages, illness is a time of increased Divine

Providence. This status has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one

hand, such Providence may include an extra degree of scrutiny of the ill

person’s merits. As the Talmud (Shabbat 32b) states, “A person should always

pray that he should not get sick; for if he does, he is told: Bring a merit and free

yourself.” On the other hand, Hashem’s enhanced scrutiny of an ill person can

be viewed as a privilege. Earlier in Masechet Shabbat (12b) it states that the

Divine Presence supports ill people and resides over their beds. This fact is

reflected in the Halacha, mentioned by the Shulchan Aruch, that when visiting

a sick person one should not sit higher than the patient, because that is the

height-level of the Divine Presence as well.

The Talmud states that one who performs the mitzvah of Bikur

Cholim merits four blessing: s/he is saved from the Yetzer Harah, and from

suffering; s/he will be honored, and blessed with faithful friends. The Maharal

explains that these blessings are chosen because they correspond to the

experience of a sick person. Ill people are generally not bothered by the Evil

Inclination. And as a direct result of a visit, a person’s suffering is alleviated.

Patients will feel honored by a visitor, and be comforted by the thought that

there are people who are thinking of them.

This explanation of the Maharal emphasizes one of the unique

characteristics of Chesed activities in general, and Bikur Cholim in particular.

The more we give of ourselves, the more we are enriched and gain from the

experience.

Bikur Cholim is one of the mitzvot which merits a reward in this

world and retains the main reward for Olam Habah (Artscroll Siddur pg. 16). I

urge all of us to find ways to be involved in this incredibly important and

fulfilling mitzvah.

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Bahor ben Merhai (Boris Yusupov-Roman Yusupov’s father), Baruch Zvi ben Rivka Batya (Rabbi Dr. Brian Galbut-Daniel Galbut’s cousin), Binyamin ben Chemla (Binyamin Israel), David HaKohen ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s father), Eliezer HaLevi ben Chana (Leon Brauser-Joel Brauser’s father), Gershon Matisyahu ben Sara Leah (Gary Lyman, brother of Meryl Palgon and Neil Lyman), Solomon ben Solika (Solomon Perez-Ilana Melnitsky’s father), Yaakov ben Mira (Jacques Vogel-Michel Vogel’s father), Yehuda Arieh ben Mindla (Philippe Leiberman’s father), Yisroel Yechiel ben Chaya (Michael Reinhard-Kenny Reinhard’s father), Yitzchak Chanoch ben Chana (nephew of Vanessa Shamah and Lauren Davis).

Chana Ety bat Zirel Libah, Chaya Sara bat Dubra (Irene Berlin-Reva Homnick’s mother), Devora bat Sheina Baila, Elka bat Tova (Leona Brauser-Joel Brauser’s mother), Feiga Necha bat Pessel (Fay Lerner), Masha bat Ruth (Marcia Chonchol-Craig Barany’s mother), Sara Leah bat Rochel (Cynthia Lynn Haber-Cheryl Hamburg’s sister), Sara Leah bat Bracha (Stacey Deutsch), Shira Raizel Esther bat Mina Zosha (Ruth Messer’s granddaughter), Tzirel Libah bat Frimed Mindel (Sylvia Lieberman-Philippe Lieberman’s mother), Yocheved bat Tzril (Joan Niad).

REFUAH SHLEIMAH

UPCOMING EVENTSSisterhood Spa Night - Special Spa night in honor of breast

cancer awareness. See flyer on back page

Tonight Oct 27

8:30-10:30pm

Bikur Cholim Blood Drive in Blood Mobile at YIH.

Appointments at: https://www.oneblood.org/donate-now/donation-

centers-list-select-time.stml?driveID=770329

Card making for hospital patients, children grades K and up 10:00-

10:45am in the Library.

This Sun. Oct. 28

7:30am-1:00pm

Scholar in Residence, Rabbi Alex Israel see flyer Shabbat Nov. 2-3

Shabbat Lunch for High School Freshmen at the Weinstock

home. Please RSVP to Rabbi Weinstock by Tuesday 10/30

Shabbat Nov. 3 at

12:30pm

Shabbat Mevorchim Kehillah Kiddush - sign up this week! Shabbat Nov. 3

Guest Speaker Rabbi Menachem Leibtag at YIH. See flyer Tues. Nov. 6

Sisterhood Book Club “ A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates

of Vodka” by Lev Golinkin, reviewer Rabbi Davis

Wed. Nov. 7 at the

Dach home

Teichman-Rosenblatt Shabbat Mevorchim lecture with Chaim

Hirsch at the home of Jay & Chani Dennis

Shabbat Nov. 10

3:30pm

The Sofer is coming. Contact Rabbi Shmuel Rosenfeld at

ravstam@yahoo.com to arrange to have your items checked

November 13-16

Eishet Chayil Initiative, Master Your Financial Health - see flyer Wed. Nov. 14 8pm

AIPAC Partnership Weekend. See flyer. Sign up for Friday

night dinner at the shul: www.AIPAC.org/YIH

Shabbat Nov 16-17

Scholar in Residence Rabbi Haim Jachter Shabbat Nov 23-24

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WEEKDAY LEARNING

Daf Yomi in the Library. Weekdays: 5:30am & 8:00pm. Shabbat: 1 hour

before Minchah. Sundays: 6:30am.

Morning Learning Program with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits daily in Beit

Midrash. Sun. (7:30-8:30am), Mon., Thurs. (6:00-6:45am), Tues., Wed., Fri. (6:00

-7:00am).

Sundays:

8:00am Gemara study with David Epstein, Library

Mondays:

8:30pm The Book of Devarim, Tobi Wolf for women, Room 5

Tuesdays:

After 8:00am minyan, Library: Talmud class with Rabbi Weinstock. Learn Tractate

Megilah and participate in the Daf Hashavuah Program www.dafaweek.org/ This

week’s Daf Hashavua is Megillah 4. (If you would like to be added to the shiur e-

mail list, please contact the shul office)

11:00am class with Lisa Baratz, Library

8:00pm Chaburah Night. See flyer.

9:00pm Women’s Tehillim Group, Chapel.

Wednesdays:

9:30am Moms, Tots & Torah with Sara Frieberg. Contact Sara for details

Thursdays:

9:00am “Women of Bereishit” with Sara Frieberg, Library. November 1,8,15.

WEEKDAY DAILY MINYANIM October 28-November 2

Shacharit: Sunday 7:15, 8:00, 9:00am Sanctuary / 8:30am Beit Midrash

Monday & Thursday 6:15, 7:15, 8:00am Sanctuary / 6:45am Beit Midrash Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 6:15, 7:30, 8:00am Sanctuary / 7:00am Beit Midrash

Minchah/Maariv: 6:30pm

Eishet Chayil Initiative Update

Thanks to over 70 women who attended our first event: MASTER YOUR TIME

with Rivka Caroline

For those who missed it, a recording of Rivka's lecture From Frazzled to

Focused is available at yih.org

Rivka is offering a 20% discount for any home or business time/space

management consulting service to the members of our shul. Offer ends Nov

10. Contact her through her site at www.sobeorganized.com

Join us November 14th for MASTER YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH with our

very own Carol Lasek and Brooke Bienenfeld!

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COMMUNITY NEWS

YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD ENCOURAGES OUR MEMBERS’ HOSPITALITY AND PARTICIPATION AT COMMUNITY EVENTS. THE SYNAGOGUE DOES NOT SUPERVISE THE KASHRUT OF COMMUNITY

FUNCTIONS THAT ARE NOT ON OUR CAMPUS, NOR PRIVATE EVENTS AT MEMBERS' HOMES. CONSULT THE RABBIS WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

Book Fair at Stirling Road Library Sunday 10/28, noon-4pm. Lots of Hebrew

books and CDs. Support your neighborhood library! For more information contact

Hannah at hhostyk@bellsouth.net.

Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes Dr. Abe Chames High School open house,

Sun. 11/4 10:30am at Klurman campus, NMB.

Young Israel of Greater Miami guest speaker series presents Prof. Charles L.

Sprung MD, “End of Life Practices Around the World, Halachic Implications and What This Means to You” Sunday 11/4 8:00pm, 990 NE 171 St. NMB.

Sephardic cooking night at Brauser Maimonides Academy. Adults only. Sun.

11/4 7:30pm. $18 suggested donation. RSVP to marilyntache@yahoo.com

The Friends of the Stirling Road Library free seminar “ Tips & Tricks on

Affording College” 8-12 gr. students and parents, Sun. 11/18 4-5:30 pm. Contact the library or Hannah Hostyk stirlinglibraryfriends@gmail.com

Sunday Baseball League at Rotary Park register before Dec. 14. Sunday

afternoon league games starting Feb 3. Kids ages 4-14. $125 per player for Hollywood residents. Register on-line at https://secure.e-registernow.com/cgi-bin/mkpayment.cgi?state=3196 See flyers outside the shul office or contact Hersh Taubenfeld, Jonathan Dobkowski or Steve Danis.

Ulpan Conversational Hebrew with Sima Dobkin, YIH, Rm. 5. Tuesdays 5:30-

7:00pm Advanced, 7:15-8:45pm Intermediate. Contact Kim Lerner 954-249-8290.

Sing, Sign, Simcha at YIH, Tuesdays 10:30am, music program for infants to

3years, accompanied by an adult. Sign up at singsignsimcha@gmail.com.

PATCH Free Tutoring Program for YIH Middle & High School students.

Contact Larry Reiss (954) 662-3128.

Hollywood Community Kollel, 4016 N. 46 Ave. (Winn Dixie shopping center). Late Ma’ariv 9:30pm Sun.-Thurs. Early Minchah 2:00pm Mon.-Thurs.

OUR IDF LONE SOLDIERS Emma Frank, Michale Goldberger, Sara Shulamit Klein, Rina Reich,

Moshe Schiff, Sarina Solomon

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOUR CHILDREN?

If you have a child who is a student living away from home, whether in Israel or the

U.S., please complete the form on the shul website, www.yih.org or by clicking on

the link www.yih.org/college-students-info-form.html

We like to remain in contact with our students, and we send Chanukah packages

and Mishloach Manot to all the single students on our list.

THIS PUBLICATION GOES TO THE PRINTER ON WEDNESDAYS. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE IN THE

SHUL OFFICE BY WEDNESDAYS AT NOON.

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Sponsorship Opportunity

There is an opportunity to donate a Memorial Board in the YIH Small

Chapel in memory of your loved one, $25,000

Contact Reva Homnick at: reva@yih.org

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New U.S. Sanctions Target Iran’s Use of Child Soldiers

On Oct. 16, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned a wide network of businesses that support Iran’s Basij Resistance Force, a paramilitary force that works for Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to AIPAC News Hub. The IRGC’s Basij is known for recruiting, training and deploying child soldiers to fight in Iran’s conflicts throughout the Middle East. The group’s activity includes indoctrinating and providing military training to schoolchildren as young as 12 years old, as well as sending children as young as 14 to Syria to fight on behalf of Iran. The sanctioned network of businesses—known as the Bonyad Taavon Basij (or “Basij Cooperative Foundation”)—is made up of at least 20 corporations and financial institutions that provide financial support for the Basij’s activities. […] According to the Treasury Department, the network uses “shell companies and other measures to mask Basij ownership and control over a variety of multibillion-dollar business interests in Iran’s automotive, mining, metals, and banking industries, many of which have significant international dealings across the Middle East and with Europe.”

Our synagogue partners with AIPAC, America’s pro-Israel lobby, in educating our community on issues affecting the U.S.-Israel relationship. We encourage you to learn more by contacting AIPAC at (202) 639-5200 or by visiting www.aipac.org

AIPAC Policy Conference 2019, March 24-26, Washington, D.C. For more information or to register please contact Joshua Donner at 954-382-6110 or jdonner@aipac.org. Early bird discount by November 18: $100, or $200 for AIPAC Club Members.

With the future of $20 million in Florida Jewish school funding at stake,

cast your vote. The key races are neck and neck, so your vote will make a

difference. Send in your mail in ballot or early vote from 7 AM – 7 PM

through November 4th. You can vote at the Hollywood Library on

Hollywood Boulevard or email teachflorida@ou.org for other locations.

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Youth Shabbat Schedule

Time Program Age/Grade Location

8:30am Babysitting 18months-Nursery 3 Back of House

9:00am Game Room Pre K - 4th Gr. Room 3-4

9:30am Youth Minyan followed by

Kiddush on the patio of the

house

5th-7th Grade Chapel

10:00am Shabbat Groups Pre-K & Kindergarten Room 6

10:00am Shabbat Groups Nursery 3 Social Hall

10:00am Shabbat Groups 1st-2nd Gr. Girls Room 3

10:00am Shabbat Groups 1st-2nd Gr. Boys Room 4

10:00am Minyanairres 3rd & 4th Gr. Girls Room 1

10:00am Minyanairres 3rd & 4th Gr. Boys Room 2

Children who attend Youth Groups must be picked up by their parent or legal

guardian. Only children who are accompanied by a parent may go downstairs

4:30pm Snif 2nd-8th Gr. Upstairs

9:30am Teen Minyan followed by

Kiddush in Room 5

8th-12th Gr. Room 5

Teen Shiur with Rabbi

Brownstein following Kiddush:

“Final Four: The Top Four

Rashis in the Parsha”

8th-12th Gr. Room 5

6:25pm Teen Minchah Room 5

Teen Seudah Shlishit with

Rabbi Moshe Nachbar

Upperclassmen Room 5

Teen Seudah Shlishit with

Rabbi Natan Brownstein

8th grade and

underclassmen

At Ben-Aharon

house

7:22pm Teen Maariv Room 5

Teen Shabbat Schedule

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UPCOMING YOUTH EVENTS

Friday night

November 2

Bnei Akiva Chevraya Bet Oneg Shabbat,

grades 9-12

8:30pm at the

Lindenbaum home

Shabbat

November 3

Bnei Akiva Family Seudah Shlishit. Sign

up in advance for catering purposes

www.bneiakiva.org/family/

4:30-6:15pm at the

Sered home

Motzei

Shabbat

November 3

Bnei Akiva Camp Moshava Wild Rose

Meet and Greet

8:30pm at the Sered

home

Sunday

November 4

Bnei Akiva Camp Moshava I.O. Summer

2019 Open House. $50 discount per

family for attending

8:00pm at the

Loberfeld home

Dec. 6-9 Bnei Akiva Chevraya Bet Shabbaton $325

sign up www.bneiakiva.org/fltoga

In Atlanta, GA

Youth Department Toy Drive : New or gently used toys and games for our

Youth Group program may be dropped off in the box in the office lobby

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SIGN UP FOR OUR FIRST KEHILLAH KIDDUSH NEXT SHABBAT

NOVEMBER 3rd

yih.org/shabbatmevorchimkiddush

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THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!