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KESSER MAARIV ANSHE LUKNIK NEWSLETTER
ELUL 5781 / TISHREI / CHESHVAN 5782
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UPCOMING EVENTS & DATES TO REMEMBER
COVID-19 Update Lazovsky will deliver his annual special Shabbat Shuva
We are still requiring masks in Shul, according to the shiur at 7:10 pm, immediately following Mincha.
Talmudic dictum “danger is stricter than a prohibition” - Hakafot on Simchat Torah
even when something is a small risk, we act in a way to Hakafot will be held on Tuesday evening and Wednesday
minimize that risk as much as possible. morning, September 28th and 29th.
Annual Meeting - August 26th Rabbi Juzint’s Nechamas Meyer & Chain of Miracles
Our Annual Meeting for members to discuss the past year, Get authentic Slabodka Mussar explanations on the weekly
the coming year, and for a nominating Parsha (Breishis & Shemos) by Rabbi Meyer Juzint z”l,
committee report, will meet Thursday August Purchase from the office and on our website for $25. The
26 at 6:30 pm (before Mincha) at the Shul Chain of Miracles, which describes how Rabbi Juzint was
and on Zoom (link to follow). saved by Divine Providence many times during the
Selichot - August 28 Holocaust, is available for $20. Rabbi Juzint’s yahrzeit is
Please join us on Saturday evening August 28 for Selichot, the second day of Sukkot.
penitential supplications, at 11:00 am. Parsha Podcasts / Social Media - For High Holidays!
High Holidays 5782 & Memberships Rabbi Louis Lazovsky's morning Vorts on the Parsha are
Rosh Hashana will begin Monday night September 6, and available as podcasts at KesserMaariv.podomatic.com (a link
continue on Tuesday and Wednesday September 7-8. Yom is on our homepage, www.KesserMaariv.org). Three years
Kippur will be Wednesday evening and Thursday ago we posted Rabbi Lazovsky’s podcasts on the entire
September 15th and 16th. Membership information is Rambam Hilchos Teshuva in 33 sub-5-minute chunks.
enclosed! Facebook: Fb.me/Kesser Maariv Twitter: @KesserMaariv
We are committed to having a safe, indoor, services for the Pushke - Please contact the office if you need a Kesser
High Holidays. This will include having assigned seats. In Maariv Pushke (Tzedaka Box), or if you need your full
order to accommodate you, please fill out the following Pushke to be collected.
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We will recite Yizkor on Yom Kippur, Thursday mail per family
September 16th at about 11:30 am, and on Shmini Atzeret, Send-A-Kid-To-Israel Partnership (S.K.I.P.)
Tuesday September 28th at about 10:45 am. Kesser Maariv is proud to be a participating Congregation in
To order Yahrzeit plaques, please call the office at (847) S.K.I.P. The program allows parents to contribute money
679-9800. annually in partnership with the synagogue and the Jewish
Lulav and Etrog Sets - Deadline September 10 Federation for an Israel trip for their children. Students in
The shul will once again sell top quality Lulav sets from grades 3-6, enrolled in a day or afternoon school, who have
Israel. Please order your set from the office by September finished paying their annual membership to the shul are
10th. Cost per set is $50 for members or $55 for non- eligible to participate. For additional details, a registration
members. Upgraded sets available. Please call Rabbi kit or to enroll your child(ren) for the first time, please
Benzie at (847) 679-9800 or email [email protected] . contact Ben Zion Lazovsky at (847) 679-9800.
Sets will be available for pick-up after Yom Kippur. Order Misheberach List
Form is later in this newsletter with Membership. If you have names for a misheberach, please send them to
New Year Greeting Card - You can the shul office or e-mail to [email protected].
join the Shul’s New Year Greeting Card All-Occasion Cards
for $26. Please contact Sheryl Greenstein Beautiful All-Occasion Cards (designed by Wendy Hartz
at [email protected], or use the enclosed z“l) are available for purchase from the office.
Membership flyer, by August 29th. The PAST EVENTS
festive card is pictured at left. We celebrated the accomplishments of our graduates at the
Shabbat Shuva Shiur Graduation Kiddush the first week in July...Thanks to Tamar
On Shabbat September 11th Rabbi Louis Newberger for presenting “Ambassadorable,” about her time
living in Prague as the wife of the US Ambassador. Refua Shleima to: Bella Perlman, Alvin J. Goodman
ADELE GOLDBLUM WOMEN’S COUNCIL Condolences to: Floyd Ruben on the passing of his
Upcoming Event father, Harold Ruben...Gene Cherny on the passing of
Drumming in the Torah - Presented by David Fenster of his mother Zinaida
Beit Shemesh. Sunday, August 15 at 4:00 pm, for men
Chernokhovskaya...Samuel Gabay on
and women. Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5043098696?pwd=WFJoZW the passing of his mother Miryam
VUQkMzOXJHVm56ZzEzSUJxUT09 Motram Gabay... Aharon Silverman
Past Events on the passing of his father, Vaugh
Many thanks to Anne Elovic, Susan Goldrich and Julie Silverman.
Rosenheim for answering the KM call to deliver food Thanks to sponsors of Weekly Programming: ...Lazovsky &
packages for the ARK/Maot Chitim in late July. Ben-Ari families... Teri and Steve Steinberg; Bob & Sheryl
GOOD & WELFARE Greenstein; Gabay family
Mazal Tov to: Rabbi Louis & Saretta Thanks to Kiddush Sponsors: Yisrael Ebert; Gilda Allswang;
Lazovsky on the Bat Mitzvah of their Arkady & Ellen Kats; Marty & Sandy Miretzky; Avi
granddaughter Tzipora Malka Ben-Ari. MT Lowenstein, and anonymous sponsors.
to parents Tehilla & Noam Ben-Ari and
great-grandmother Gilda Allswang...Yossi & Brief Laws of the Month of Tishrei - 2021 / 5782
Carmella Bega on the birth of a great- On Rosh Hashana night after we come home from
grandson...Judd & Tiffany Goldrich on the shul we make Kiddush with Shehechiyanu. After hamotzi,
birth of their son Hemi, MT to grandparents many have the custom to eat an apple dipped in honey, as well
Steve & Susan Goldrich and great-grandmother Cookie as other symbolic foods. Please note that despite what the
Goldrich...Howard & Barbara Pomper on the birth of a Machzor says, it is proper to make the bracha Ha'eitz on dates
great-granddaughter...Cookie Goldrich on the marriage of (or pomegranates if you don't eat dates) and eat them before
her grandson, and engagement of her granddaughter Sara eating the apple dipped in honey.
Goldrich. As Rosh Hashana is the beginning of our Judgement,
Mark a special occasion, milestone or memory with we start davening early as we add special prayers describing
a leaf, acorn or foundation stone on our Etty Rubinow G-d as King. In the morning we read in the Torah about G-d
Tree of Life! Forms are online or in the Shul. remembering Sarah and in the haftorah how He remembered
Chana (mother of the prophet Samuel) hoping that G-d will
remember us for good. We blow the Shofar. (See the
Congregation B.H.H. Kesser Maariv A.L. handout at the Shul for the 10 lessons from the Shofar offered
4341 W. Golf by Rav Saadia Gaon (10th Century, Babylonia), and 10 motifs
Skokie, IL 60076 Fb.me/KesserMaariv of Rosh Hashana by Rav Ahron Soloveichik.) In the special
(847) 679-9800 twitter.com/KesserMaariv Mussaf we mention Biblical verses accepting G-d as King,
fax (847) 679-5041 KesserMaariv.podomatic.com about G-d remembering people for good, and about Shofar
e-mail: [email protected] blasts. After Shul we have Yom Tov meals at home. For
www.KesserMaariv.org those who have the custom to say Tashlich at a body of water,
they may do so on Tuesday.
Rabbi Louis A. Lazovsky Steven D. Goldrich, President Tuesday afternoon we daven Mincha and Maariv.
Rabbi Ben Zion Lazovsky, Candle lighting is not before 7:58 pm, which is the earliest
Associate Rabbi & Executive Director time to prepare and warm food for that night's meal.
Sandy Miretzky, Nasrin Kheradyar & Saretta Lazovsky, Remember to transfer the fire from an existing flame; and let
Co-Presidents, Adele Goldblum Women’s Council that candle burn out by itself, as we may not extinguish flames
Committee Contact Information: on Yom Tov. We do recite Shehechiyanu at candle lighting
Chesed Fund Anne Elovic (847) 673-2904 and in Kiddush. Some have a custom to have a new fruit for
the second night because of the “Shehechiyanu.” The second
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Yitzchak (Akeidah).
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During the 10 Days of Repentance culminating with
Endowment Rabbi Louis Lazovsky Yom Kippur we repent for our actions from the previous year,
Kiddush & Seudat Shlisheet Judy Whisler commit to not repeating them, and do as many good deeds and
give as much Tzedaka as possible. We also make several
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changes to Shmone Esray.
Social Hall Rental Office
TZOM GEDALIA is Thursday September 9. The Fast begins
Tree of Life [email protected] at 4:59 am and ends at 7:38 pm. This day commemorates the
Yahrzeit Plaques (847) 679-9800 assasination of Governor Gedalia and this was an event that
contributed to the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. During Sukkot G-d decides how much rain we will
On Erev Yom Kippur (9/15) we have a mitzvah to have for the year (which will water the crops, ensuring our
eat, in order to strengthen ourselves for the fast. We daven food needs are met). In the Beit Hamikdash, there was a
Mincha early with the Viduy confession, special water-drawing ceremony called the Simchat Beit
as Rambam says one may choke while Hasho'eivah, which was the most joyous ceremony all year
eating out of the fear and dread of Yom in the Beit Hamikdash. In our community we find some
Kippur. We gather at Shul before sunset Simchat Beit Hasho’eivas with music and dancing to
for Kol Nidrei. On Yom Kippur we commemorate that.
abstain from eating, drinking, wearing (Many books with the Laws of Yom Tov [like
leather shoes, using lotions, creams, cooking] and Chol Hamoed, and the Lulav may be found in
ointments or perfumes, washing past the the Malamud Reference Library.)
knuckle, and marital relations. After The last day of Sukkot is Hoshana Rabbah, which is
Yom Kippur we make Havdala over wine, candle and the an important day according to the Kabbalah, as in the Beit
last bracha of Havdala. Hamikdash they performed a special, lengthy ceremony, and
After breaking our fast there is a custom to our prayers that day, as well as beating the Hoshana bundle,
immediately do more mitzvot, so some begin building their are to commemorate that special service.
Sukkah, or at least gathering its pieces. Monday night September 27th begins Shmini
Sukkot has two special mitzvot associated with it - Atzeret, a distinct holiday from Sukkot, and therefore we do
the Four species (Lulav, Etrog, Hadas, Arava) and eating in make Shehechiyanu at candle lighting and in Kiddush.
the Sukkah. The Lulav is the tallest of the species; we hold However, outside Israel we are required to eat in the Sukkah
it in our right hand with its spine (the darker green vertical on Shmini Atzeret but we do not make the bracha Leishev
line) towards us, with the three hadasim on the right (as we Basukkah. On Wednesday morning we recite Yizkor. Later
look at the lulav) and the two aravot on the left. in the afternoon, before Mincha, we make a special prayer
On the first night of Sukkot, we make Kiddush, the when we leave the Sukkah after eating in it for the final time.
bracha “Leisheiv Basukkah,” then Shehichaynu. While we The final day is called Simchat Torah. It is the day
are exempt from eating in a Sukkah in the rain, on the first we complete the annual cycle of reading the Torah, and begin
night there is a special mitzvah to eat in the Sukkah and if it it again. Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik's grandfather taught that
rains we wait out the storm, even until midnight. our joy comes from starting the Torah again with new depth
(Remember Yaaleh Veyavo in Birkat Hamazon.) and insight, not from finishing the Torah. On Saturday night
The first day we make kiddush, leisheiv basukah, we have seven (socially-distanced) Hakafot (circling the
wash, hamotzi and eat a Yom Tov meal. During Sukkot Bimah) where we dance joyfully with the Torahs which we
whenever we eat any mezonos or hamotzi food in the Sukkah repeat the next morning, along with all males above Bar
we make the Bracha “Leishev Basukkah.” Mitzva receiving an aliya, (and we will see how we can have
The second night we may not light candles or the traditional special aliya for all children). We finish the
prepare for that night's meal before 7:33 pm. After Kiddush Torah, begin it again, and finish davening.
we say shehechiyanu, then Leisheiv Basukah (different than
the first night) and have a Yom Tov meal.
 SHABBAT & HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Date Candle Lighting Erev Mincha Shacharit Mincha
Re’eh 8/6-8/7 7:45 pm 7:00 pm 8:45 am 7:35 pm
Shoftim 8/13-14 7:35 pm 7:00 pm 8:45 am 7:25 pm
Ki Tetzei 8/20-8/21 7:25 pm 7:00 pm 8:45 am 7:15 pm
Ki Tavo 8/27-8/28 7:14 pm 7:00 pm 8:45 am 7:05 pm
Nitzavim 9/3-9/4 7:02 pm 7:00 pm 8:45 am 6:50 pm
1st Day Rosh Hashana 9/6-9/7 6:57 pm 7:00 pm 8:30 am 7:00 pm
2nd Day Rosh Hashana 9/7-9/8 7:58 pm 6:55 pm 8:30 am 7:00 pm
Vayelech (Shuva) 9/10-9/11 6:50 pm 6:55 pm 8:45 am 6:40 pm
Yom Kippur 9/15-9/16 6:41 pm Mincha 2:30 8:00 am 5:00 pm
Kol Nidrei 6:40 Yizkor 1130 Neila 640
Haazinu 9/17-9/18 6:38 pm 6:40 pm 8:45 am 6:30 pm
1st Day Sukkot 9/20-9/21 6:33 pm 6:35 pm 8:45 am 6:35 pm
2nd Day Sukkot 9/21-9/22 7:33 pm 6:35 pm 8:45 am 6:35 pm
Shabbat Chol Hamoed 9/24-9/25 6:26 pm 6:30 pm 8:45 am 6:20 pm
Shmini Atzeret 9/27-9/28 6:20 pm 6:25 pm 8:45 am 6:25 pm
Yizkor
Simchat Torah 9/28-9/29 7:21 pm 6:25 pm 8:45 am 6:25 pm
Breishit 10/1-10/2 6:13 pm 6:15 pm 8:45 am 6:00 pm
Noach 10/8-10/9 6:01 pm 6:05 pm 8:45 am 5:50 pm
Lech Lecha 10/15-10/16 5:50 pm 5:55 pm 8:45 am 5:40 pm
If you have a chiyuv - obligation to daven or require an Aliya, please inform Rabbi Lazovsky before Shabbat.
WEEKDAY SCHEDULE
Minyan Times Classes

Shacharit Sunday Morning at 11:00 am: Parsha Class in

Sunday: 8:00 am the Weekly Sedra. Given by Rabbi Moshe
Monday-Friday: 6:00 am Solveichik on Zoom. Meeting ID: 879 4850 7611 Password:
178417 & on our Facebook Page Fb.me/KesserMaariv
Mincha-Maariv
Wednesdays after Maariv: Talmud Shiur studying Arvei Pesachim
Sunday Thursday: 10 minutes before given by Rabbi Ben Zion on Zoom Meeting ID: 810 8264 8249
sundown Password: 028366
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Selichot are August 28 at 11:00 pm Shabbat afternoon: We will learn in between Mincha and Maariv.

Malamud Reference Library - Come and Learn from any of the hundreds of titles in our library.
Lending Library Members may borrow books from our Lending Library, located on the south side of the Social Hall.
Tape Lending Library We have tapes and digital audio files on many topics including Chumash, Talmud and Mussar.
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KM NEW YEAR GREETING ORDER FORM
LULAV SET ORDER FORM

On behalf of the Board of Directors, President Steven Goldrich and Rabbi Louis Lazovsky, we are proud to invite
you to join us for our High Holiday 5782 Services this year, beginning with Selichot on Saturday evening, August
28th. Rosh Hashana begins Monday night, September 6th. We are committed to having safe, indoor services for the
High Holidays. This will include having assigned seats.
Membership & Ticket Rates Family (2 tickets) Single (1 ticket) Additional Seat Dependent Child
Membership $1,100 $550 $200 $75
First Time Good Neighbor Tickets $500 $275 $200 $75
Tickets Only, no membership $550 $200
Friend of Kesser Maariv (no tickets or membership) $200
To serve you better, we accept payments of $500 and above by Visa, Master Card, Discover, and American Express.

Rabbi Ben Zion Lazovsky at (847) 679-9800 [email protected] or Judy Whisler at (847) 677-2281
[email protected] will be happy to help accommodate you and give more information about membership.

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