B'YACHAD! - 19
Issue #19; Nissan 5759
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Begin With Shame And End With Pride
by Mendel Weinbach
When we sit about fulfilling the mitzvah of "Vehigadta levincha" at the Pesach Seder with the recitation of the Haggadah, we follow the formula established by Chazal in Mesechta Pesachim: "Begin with shame and end with pride."
In the Haggadah itself this is achieved by contrasting the shame of ancestral idol worship with the pride of being given the opportunity to worship Hashem, the shame of slavery with the pride of freedom.
Each of us, in our own lives, can reflect on the contrast between past and present - where we came from and where we are today. As we reach the conclusion of our 27th year at Ohr Somayach, we proudly reflect on the privilege that we have enjoyed in being the catalysts of the transformation we celebrate at the Seder on the Festival of Freedom.
The Pesach Seder is also a time for questions and answers. So many of the questions that you and your fellow talmidim have asked at Ohr Somayach throughout the years are being asked by many Jews of all ages in the broader Jewish community. To provide this public with some of the answers our rabbanim have been giving to these questions for the last 27 years, Ohr Somayach is conducting a Yom Iyun on Sunday, May 2nd at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan.
This exciting four-hour program will give you, other alumni and the Jews of Greater New York an opportunity to hear such world famous educators as Rav Nachman Bulman, Rav Berel Wein, Professor Dovid Gottlieb and Dr. Akiva Tatz who have touched the lives of thousands of Jews throughout the world.
We look forward to meeting you at this historic event and seeing you renew the thrill you enjoyed at Ohr Somayach of going from question to answer, from slavery to freedom, from shame to pride.
On Line
You can submit your personal information on-line.
Recently you asked for people to host returning alumni.
My husband, (Aharon Meltzer [email protected] OS '73-'76)
and I would be very happy to have alumni to our home in Kew Gardens
Hills NY. We particularly would like to invite them for Pesach
since we too know the difficulties of keeping Pesach alone.
Please let us know if we will be able to do this
chessed here in the states.
Keep up the great work!
Jennifer Meltzer
Any bachurim interested in joining the Meltzers
can contact them at: 718-459-6885 or [email protected]
Yasher Kochachem on the forum (Ohrnet). I am an
alumnus of Ohr Somayach, and presently the rabbi of the Young
Israel of Beverly Hills. Your relevant she'alos and teshuvos
have already become hot topics for my kehillah.
The recent anecdote concerning the origins of the
minhag to leave a stone after visiting a kever was very inspiring.
Keep up this valuable service to klal yisrael, the kiruv opportunities
are already palpable.
Kol Tuv,
Rabbi Aaron Parry
Dear B'Yachad,
Dear Chevra,
Tomas Mordechai Lowy ([email protected] OS May 1983-Sep
1995) sends regards to old friends and Rabbanim. He and his wife
Shoshana are living in Malmo, Sweden with their 3 young daughters.
Leah, their eldest, attends the English-speaking International
School in Malmo.
AND BAR MITZVAH OF THEIR SON
Let's Share Our Simchas TOGETHER with B'Yachad
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Mail to B'Yachad POB 18103 Jerusalem 91180
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Your Newsletter
Yom Iyun Banquet
to be held May 2nd.
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Please respond to [email protected]
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General Editor: Rabbi Moshe Newman
Associate Editor: Victor Hyman
Production Design: Eli Ballon
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