Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Important Messages
- Submit Your Chamatz Sales Forms no later than Thursday, April 13.
- Please Donate to Ma'ot Hittim this week to help those in need to cover their Pesach expenses.
- See our extensive Pesach Information on our website.
- Help us remove all Chametz and other food from the synagogue building, and get clean for Pesah. Please check any bags, seat pockets, cubbies, lockers, and items in the coat room. All food must be removed by Sunday night, and we urge people to remove their personal items to facilitate cleaning. Any remaining items left in the building after Sunday night are subject to search and disposal.
- Reminder that adults and children who are fully vaccinated, or who have fully recovered from COVID-19, are not required to wear masks inside the building. All other are required to wear masks unless eating at Kiddush or Se’udah Sh’lishit.
- All children attending Youth Groups are required to wear masks while attending the groups, regardless of vaccination status. You may attend services inside without a mask.
Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:11pm
Saturday -- Parashat Metzora/Shabbat HaGadol
- Youth Groups for Ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30 - 11:00am
- Recite Shema before 9:03am
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Kiddush After Services (Sponsored by David and Yehudit Tawil in honor of their parents, Ralph & Ellen Tawil and George & Linda Weiss, and in memory of their grandparents)
- Special Shabbat HaGadol Drash: 6:00pm
- Mincha: 7:00pm — Followed by:
- Se'udah Sh'lshit (Sponsored by Rabbi Dr. Behzad Hakakian and Daniel Rushefsky)
- Arvit and End of Shabbat: 8:02pm
Sunday
- Shacharit: 8:00am
- Children's Torah Reading Class: 6:40pm
- Halachot Class: 6:40pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
Monday
Tuesday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Ben Ish Chai: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Chavruta Learning: 7:30pm
Wednesday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Ben Ish Chai: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
Thursday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Insights on the Parasha: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Talmud Class in Hebrew: 7:40pm
- Chamin and Chumash: 8:00pm
Next Friday – Eruv Pesach (See our Pesach Schedule on our Website
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:18pm
Bikur Cholim of Congregation Etz Ahaim
- The Regency Nursing Home is currently closed to visitors.
- Drivers and coordinators needed. Call (732) 572-7181 for more information.
The congregation extends refua shelema wishes to:
- Liba Shaindel bat Chava Sachs
- Gershon ben Sara
- Dvorah Shahala bat Sarah Parvin
- Chava bat Esther
- Lita Greenberg (Tzvia Sarah bat Golda)
- Linda Balavram (Emmunah bat Sarah)
- Isaac Selton (Yitzak ben Esther)
- Sara Shifra bat Yehudit
- Isaac Selton (Yitzak ben Esther)
- Sharona Bella bat Malka
If you like to add someone to this list, or merely want the Rabbi to say a Mi Shaberach on someone after Torah reading on Shabbat, please go to our webpage and fill out the form.
News and Events
- All Pesach News under Pesach on our webpage.
- OU Synagogue Intitiative for Ukrainian Jews
- Congregation Etz Ahaim's Pesach Schedule
- Counting the Omer Cheat Sheets
- The ROC of New Jersey Needs Your Help
- Be´siyata dishmaya - Con la ayuda del Cielo
- שיעור במסכת ברכות
Community News
Etz Ahaim is Participating in the OU's fundraising efforts to help Ukrainian Jews during the war. We are participating with other Highland Park synagogues and synagogues from around the country to raise these badly needed funds. Please donate at https://upreaching.com/ou/congregation-etz-ahaim.
Employment Network of Raritan Valley
Looking for work? We can help. Email Bob Lansey if you would like to receive our job postings and/or would like help with your resume and search strategies.
Please help: If you know of any professional, part-time, or temporary job openings, email us the information.
Mission to Israel: Yom Yerushalayim and Shavuot in Jerusalem May 25, 2022 through June 7, 2022.
$5,070 per person based on double occupancy: (Price includes current airport taxes & airline fuel surcharge).
The Mission will include: round trip flight on El Al Israel Airlines, hotel in Jerusalem including Shabbat and Chag meals, two nights in Tel Aviv including two days of touring, a day of leisure on the coast in Tel Aviv, and one dinner in Tel Aviv restaurants. Optional day in Chevron at no additional cost.
If you have any questions, or to confirm the number of people in your party, please email: aamission@arieltours.com.
ACTT (Achieving Change Thru Torah) has a new module:
- Title: SHALOM – PEACE 1
- Source Book: Artscroll’s Live the Blessing – Daily wisdom on how to live in peace with family, friends, and yourself by Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation.
Learning Schedule, etc. at their Website. Email for more information.
Rebbitzen Eichenstein’s classes for women: Contact Aviva for more information.
Mrs. Miri Coehn's Shuir: Please Concact Leah at 917-763-1848 for more information.
Tiferes
Weekly teleconferences with topics such as shalom bayis and parenting are available to Tiferes members.
- Current Weekly Teleconference for Tiferes Members:
- Topic: Free to Be Me: An exploration of true freedom
- Speaker: Mrs. Rochel Goldbaum
For more info or to become a member, please contact Aviva.
The Highland Park/Edison group of Tiferes is zecher l'nishmas Malka bas Shalom.
The Lefkovits Family Park Mikvah is by appointment only. All appointments should be made via MikvahCloud or via the iPhone or Android app.
Regular services, baths and showers, are being offered.
A face mask should be worn at the mikvah. For all comments and questions, please email the Mikvah.
Women's Learning Initiative Offers customized Torah learning partners and chavrusas. For a personalized study program of your choice, email your contact information to The Women's Learning Initiative.
- Parsha class by Mrs. Miri Cohen: Please contact Leah for time, location &/zoom link for shiur on Tuesday.
Rabbi Yisroel Weiss' Tehillim Shiur for men and women on Zoom:
- Wednesday night at 8:00pm
- Meeting ID: 858 5198 8386
- Password: RWTehillim
- To join by phone: Dial 408-638-0968, enter meeting ID, use password 705203. Any questions, please contact Marsha Eiserman.