Classes 7:30am: Daf Yomiwith Eli Oberstein or dial-in audio at +1 646 558 8656; Meeting ID: 613 613 3702 8:00pm: An English Language Megillah: A Story of Halachic Accommodation with YCT. Pre-registration required. Register at tiny.cc/yctorah.
Upcoming Events Inyanei D'Yoma: Torah of Today - Part 3 Today • Sunday • February 21 • 8:00pm Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, in partnership with the Bayit and many other organizations, present a 4-part winter learning series in February. Join us this Sunday, February 21, at 8:00pm for Part-3 titled: An English Language: A Story of Halachic Accommodation A family conversation between Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower and Netanel Linzer, with Rabbi Jordan Soffer.Click hereto learn more. Click on the link above (in the Classes section) to pre-register.
Seeking Mishloach Manot Packing Volunteers On Thursday we will be assembling the Mishloach Manot packages. If you are available to assist for an hour or two please email office@thebayit.org. We will work outside on the Terrace if the weather permits.
Today's Way to Help If you would like to suggest a way to help please email yael@thebayit.org.
Special Election for City Council on March 23 Request an Absentee Ballot by March 16 New York primaries are closed - meaning without a party affiliation you will not be able to vote in the primaries. Not registered yet? Visit vote.nyc/page/register-vote to register online or request a paper application. Not sure if you are registered or which party affiliation you selected? Visit nycvotersearch.com to check your registration. We encourage all eligible voters to participate in the Special Election for City Council on March 23rd. Request an absentee ballot at nycabsentee.ccom/absentee by March 16th.
Candidates Forum: Addressing Issues Critical to Older Adults Join Riverdale Senior Services and the Riverdale Y Senior Center for individual virtual forums with the candidates running for interim City Council Member in District 11.
Eric Dinowitz, Monday, March 1 Jessica Haller, Thursday, March 4 Dan Padernacht, Wednesday, March 10 Mino Lora, Thursday, March 11 All forums at 5:00pm. To register click here.
Closing Message - Rav Steven View video version here.
In the middle of a long conversation with (monologue to!) Moshe, God suddenly addresses him in the second person three times in five verses in the beginning of this week's parashah, Tetzaveh:
You! Charge the children of Israel... (Ex. 27:20) You! Bring near to you... (Ex. 28:1) You! Speak to the wisehearted... (Ex. 28:3)
Why does God speak to Moshe in this way?
The entire previous parashah has involved God asking Moshe to do "more than usual" - not just to hear and transmit commandments and lead the people, but to oversee a major construction project. And there's more ahead, including assigning key roles to others, moving Moshe out of the spotlight.
I wonder if God pauses now in the conversation to affirm the special relationship God has with Moshe - to remind Moshe how much he matters, how uniquely suited he is to do this work, and how much his "Moshe-ness" enables the fulfillment of God's commands and vision.
For the last year we have leaned on others in new and different ways. Perhaps we've become accustomed to asking others to shop for us, check in, or support us in other ways.
What a difference it makes to pause occasionally as God does and tell them not just thank you, but here's why *you* are so specially equipped to help me in these ways: why I trust you uniquely, how you make me feel comfortable to ask for help, how you support me so thoughtfully.
May we seize those opportunities this week. Thank *you*. No one does it like *you*.
Reminder to all to take good care of ourselves and each other. Try to do something specific today that strengthens you, and something else that strengthens someone else.
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