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KJ Happenings
13 Iyar 5782 | 14 May 2022
In this Issue

  • Rabbi Halevy's Shabbat Message
  • Kahal Joseph Schedule
  • Guest Dvar Torah, Rabbi Sacks, z''l
  • Shabbat Melodies w/Hazzan Jalali
  • Member Luncheon Tomorrow, 5/14
  • Lag BaOmer Picnic, this Thu 5/19!
  • Bat Mitzvah Course continues Sun 5/15
  • Women's Book Club, Tue 5/17
  • 'When Excitement Turns to Heartbreak' Tue 5/24
  • KJ & Spice Girls Shavuot Bake, Tue 5/31
  • Teen School's Out Party, Sat 6/11
  • KJ Graduates issue deadline 6/8
  • Refua Shlema & Azkarot
A Shabbat Message from Rabbi Halevy
Parashat Emor
KJ SCHEDULE
Parashat Emor

EREV SHABBAT
Friday, May 13th
Shaharit 6:30 am
Candle Lighting 7:28 pm

SHABBAT
Saturday, May 14th
Shaharit 9:00 am
KJ Kids Corner 9:30 am
Minha, Seuda, Arvit 7:00 pm
Havdallah 8:32 pm

Pesah Sheni
Sunday, May 15th
Shaharit 7:00 am
Talmud Torah 9:45 am
Bat Mitzvah Class 10:00 am
Email Bracha, $20/m, $30/nm

Lag BaOmer
Thursday, May 19th
Shaharit 6:30 am
PICNIC in the PARK 4:00 pm
Meet at Holmby Park

Weekdays
Mon - Wed, Fri, May 16-18, 20
Shaharit 6:30 am
Membership & Sponsorship
To sponsor an event or become a member contact our office.
Call 310.474.0559, click here to email Sarah, or sign up online below.
Guest Message
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, z''l

In recent years we have often felt plagued by reports of Israeli and Jewish leaders whose immoral actions had been exposed. A President guilty of sexual abuse. A Prime Minister indicted on charges of corruption and bribery. Rabbis in several countries accused of financial impropriety, sexual harassment and child abuse. That such things happen testifies to a profound malaise in contemporary Jewish life.
 
More is at stake than simply morality. Morality is universal. Bribery, corruption, and the misuse of power are wrong, and wrong equally, whoever is guilty of them. When, though, the guilty are leaders, something more is involved - the principles introduced in our parsha of Kiddush Hashem and Chillul Hashem: “Do not profane My holy Name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord, who makes you holy...”(Lev. 22:32)
 
The concepts of Kiddush and Chillul Hashem have a history. Though they are timeless and eternal, their unfolding occurred through the course of time. In our parsha, according to Ibn Ezra, the verse has a narrow and localised sense. The chapter in which it occurs has been speaking about the special duties of the priesthood and the extreme care they must take in serving God within the Sanctuary. All of Israel is holy, but the Priests are a holy elite within the nation. It was their task to preserve the purity and glory of the Sanctuary as God’s symbolic home in the midst of the nation. So the commands are a special charge to the Priests to take exemplary care as guardians of the holy.
 
Another dimension was disclosed by the Prophets, who used the phrase Chillul Hashem to describe immoral conduct that brings dishonour to God’s law as a code of justice and compassion. Amos speaks of people who “trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground, and deny justice to the oppressed… and so profane My Holy Name.” (See Amos 2:7)

Shabbat Melodies with Hazzan Saeed Jalali
Parashat Emor | 1 | פרשת אמר
Haftara - Emor : הפטרת אמור
Click to listen to the First Aliyah of Parashat Emor and the the Haftara for Emor sung by KJ's Hazan Saeed Jalali!
Kahal Joseph Events
Refuah Shelema
We wish complete healing of body, mind, and soul to all those who are suffering with illness in our community, including:

Modi ben Yvonne
Zvi Moalim
Ariella Rivka bat Tziporah
Rylla Elias / Rahel bat Mazal
Ben Elias / Benyamin ben Yohevet
Latif ben Chanina
Alexander ben Yehezkiel and Chana Hai Reiza
Shimon ben Yosef v'Leah / Simon Saul
Shmuel ben Yaacov v'Tova / William McAbian
Tal ben Alona Basha
Meir Iny / Meir ben Sabiha
Ezra ben Farha
Sassoon Ezra
Sylvia Cohen
Mehry bat Miriam Hakimipour
Tilda Levy
Yvonne Moalim
Florice Newberry
Aliza bat Rahel
Aliza bat Victoria
Chaya Chana bat Batya
Miriam bat Yetta
Miryam bat Malka
Chaya Rachel bat Simcha Ruhama
Dina bat Rahel
Karen bat Chana Meir
Eti Esther bat  Fortuna
Ezra ben Rahel
Albert Nissan ben Victoria
Reuven Halevi ben Batsheva
David ben Tova
Rachel Bakhash / Rahel bat Dina
Fouad Salem / Hayeem ben Naima
Noach Yaakov ben Tzipporah
Ori ben Nuphar Chaia
 
In Memoriam

We remember these yahrzeit anniversaries from May 14 to 21, 2022 (13 to 20 Iyar). We light memorial candles, donate tsedaka, & attend Shabbat services to honor the memory of our loved ones.

13 Iyar / Shabbat, May 14th
Devorah Lubovsky Devorah bat Aharon
Joseph Robert Saul Yosef Rahamim ben Shaul
Violet Aziza Sheeri

14 Iyar / Sunday, May 15th
Sally Ekaireb Salha Matana bat Matooka
Tala Eradat Tala bat Javaher
Amir Ghoulian
Salman Khadoori Shaby Salman ben Kadoori
Eliyahu Hai Abraham Shamash Eliyahu Hai ben Avraham

15 Iyar / Monday, May 16th
Daniel Hakimipour Daniel ben Meir
Rivka Matana bat Miriam
Rachel Yitzhaki Rahel bat Chana

16 Iyar / Tuesday, May 17th
Eliza Moses Aziza bat Chana
Albert Abraham Gamal Sassoon Avraham Gamal ben Sasson
Joseph Yehuda Yoseph ben Yehudah
Seemah Sofaer Shemash Seemah Sofaer bat Hanna

17 Iyar / Wednesday, May 18th
Munir Meyer Kalili Meyer ben Farah v'Abraham Eliyahu

18 Iyar / Thursday, May 19th
Rachel Judah Rachel bat Tifacha

19 Iyar / Friday, May 20th
Helen Ezra Shemtob Habiba bat Lulu

KAHAL JOSEPH CONGREGATION
Rabbi Natan Halevy
Saeed Jalali, Hazzan
Sasson Ezra, Sr. Hazzan
Yvette Dabby, President
Orly Kattan, Sr. Vice President
Sarah Bouchoucha, Administrator
Penina Meghnagi Solomon, Administrative Assistant
Dafna Young, Editor