Young Israel of Great Neck
President's Message
The YIGN is a Modern Orthodox synagogue that was founded by six visionary families. They dreamed of a participatory minyan that would be welcoming to all. After multiple small temporary locations, we moved to our present, beautiful facility at 236 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck, New York. We are privileged to inhabit a newly constructed Beit Midrash and classroom building, as well as a full sized gym. Read more
Registration for Annual Dinner on March 9
Registration for the YIGN Annual Dinner is now closed. For any questions regarding the dinner please contact Shoshana in the shul office.
Rabbi Lerner's Weekly Parsha Shiur
Parshat Tetzaveh
The Golden Mizbeach
30:1-3: You shall make an Altar on which to bring incense up in smoke, of acacia wood shall you make it. Its length an Amah, and its width an Amah - it shall be square - and it height two Amohs; from it shall its horns be. You shall cover it with pure gold, its roof and its walls all around, and its horns, and you shall make for it a gold crown, all around.
30:7-8: Upon it shall Aharon bring the spice incense up in smoke, every morning when, he cleans the lamps he shall bring it up in smoke. And when Aharon kindles the lamps in the afternoon he shall bring it up in smoke, continual incense before Hashem, for your generations. The Ketores is split up into two equal amounts each day.
30:9-10: You shall not bring upon it alien incense, or an elevation-offering (Olah) or meal-offering (Minchah); nor may you pour a libation upon it. Aharon shall bring atonement upon its horns once a year, from the blood of the sin-offering (Chatas) of the atonements, once a year, shall he bring atonement upon it for your generations; it is holy of holies to Hashem.
When entering the Har Bayis from the East, the outermost courtyard of the Bais Hamikdash was the Ezras Nashim; the next innermost section was the Azarah, in which was found the main Mizbeach - all of the animal and meal korbanos were brought there - that is where most of the action occurred daily. The next section was the Haichal, which contained the Menorah to the South, Mizbeach to the West, and Shulchan to the North. While the Torah says Aharon brought the Ketores, it did not have to be the Kohen Gadol - Aharon did it to inaugurate this Mizbeach at the beginning, but any Kohen could bring the Ketores, and any one of them could light the Menorah.
Why is this section about the golden Mizbeach first discussed here in Tetzaveh instead of Terumah which contains all of the specifications of all other Keilim? And why do we need a separate Mizbeach at all for incense - why not burn it on the copper Mizbeach? ... to read more follow this link
Current Announcements
- Mazel tov to our Young Israel Dinner Honorees – Rabbi Shmuel and Malka Ismach, Stanley and Esther Morris and Stanley and Gene Lasdon.
- Mazel tov to Mindy and Charles Hercman and Rachel and Bradley Hercman on the birth of their grandson and son. Mazel tov to Bradley Hercman on being recognized as a S. Daniel Abraham Semicha Fellow of 2013 at the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Dinner.
- Mazel tov to Phyllis and Arthur Kirsch and Alison and David Kirsch on the birth of their granddaughter and daughter, Zehava Beila.
- Mazal tov to Jerry Goodman and to Ory and Michelle Levy on the birth of a great-grandson and son and on the engagement of Jerry’s granddaughter Lielle.
-Mazel tov to Anita and Hal Beretz, Debbie and Alan Kestenbaum, Susan and Bruce Decter and Suzanne and Stuart Beretz on the forthcoming bar mitzvah of their grandson, nephew and son, Jonathan.
- Mazel tov to Evelyn and Oscar Kranz and Leba and Noam Kranz on the bat mitzvah of their granddaughter and daughter, Estee.
-Mazel tov to Flora and Morris Steinberg and Tina Machnikoff on the marriage of their granddaughter and niece Ita.
THANK YOU
Sara Major and family would like to thank the Young Israel family for their outpouring of support and kindness following the loss of Sara’s mother, Matilda Klein z.l.
OUR SHUL
SHAIMOS
We will be having a shaimos pickup on Thursday, March 21st. You may drop off your shaimos from Sunday, March 17th through Wednesday, March 20th. Please do not drop off your shaimos prior to that Sunday or after the shaimos has been picked up.
REMINDER
If you have not picked up your pottery items made during our Pottery Event, please do so as soon as possible. They can be picked up in the shul office.
YOUTH
Many thanks to Ashira and Ryan Ostrow for sponsoring snacks in honor of the birthdays of their children, Mason, Danielle and Sarah.
NEW PROGRAM: 16 Handles - 1 great Flavor! For girls in 6th-8th grade. Come to 16 Handles for some free ice cream (OK, yogurt) and 1 great flavor of shmooze with Rabbi Slomnicki. Come find out what it’s all about. Tuesday March 12th from 7:45-8:30PM.
OUR COMMUNITY
YOM HASHOAH
On Yom Hashoah, Sunday, April 7, at 12:00 noon, we will have an opportunity to combine our shul's Yom Hashoah memorial program with action! Buses will be leaving from Great Neck to the Iranian Mission to the U.N. at 3rd Ave. and E. 40th Street in Manhattan at 11:00 a.m. sharp. Call Lynne at 521-9333 or Shoshana at 829-6040 to reserve seats. Don't hesitate to ask your children or grandchildren, friends, and relatives to join us. The presence of every person makes a difference.
NYC HALF MARATHON - TEAM SHAARE ZEDEK- MARCH 17, 2013
Please join the Shaare Zedek Team for the NYC Half- Marathon on Sunday, March 17th -please contact Sharon Goldwyn (sgoldwyn@acsz.org) to reserve a spot as soon as possible!! We thank the 2012 ING NYC Marathon Runners from Great Neck: Lizzy Luxenberg, Amnon Moneta, Aviva Tobin-Hess and Greg Kramer, for their hard work and dedication to support Shaare Zedek’s new Generation Children’s Facility!
DONATIONS
The following donations have been made to the Young Israel of Great Neck:
-Evelyn and Oscar Kranz in honor of Sara Genachowski’s bat mitzvah
- In honor of the marriage of Flora and Morris Steinberg’s granddaughter Ita
- Shaindy and Mayer Rydzinski in honor of Mazie Foss’ 100th birthday
- Rabbi Meir Mitelman in honor of Jason Sender’s bar mitzvah
- Addy and Avram Markowitz in honor of Ethan Ghodsi’s bar mitzvah
; In honor of the birth of Aharon Zelig Ismach
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