Dear Talmidot, Parents and Friends –
 
1)       This week at Midreshet Moriah
2)       Faculty Devar Torah –Rabbi Lerner
3)       Mazel Tovs
4)       Mi She-Berach List
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This Week at Midreshet
Midreshet started this week on a high after the Kedma competition Motzei Shabbat. Even though we didn't win, Midreshet sounded amazing and you could tell that the months of practice and hard work had paid off... GO MIDMO!!
 
Our Spring Semester is in full swing now, with the girls settling into their new classes and routines.  Tuesday night our wonderful madrichot organized a movie night in the dorm.  The girls had the opportunity to relax and unwind together enjoying "The Bee Movie" and a variety of snacks.
 
Thursday we were honored to host President Richard Joel of Yeshiva University, who spoke to the girls about his experiences as the International President of Hillel, how students can lead successful Jewish lives in other universities, and what YU can offer students in addition.
 
Bracha Krohn has recorded some thoughts on the Parshah for our alumnae, please follow the link below to hear her message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XELk9HWeU
 
 
Pictures from our year can be seen at http://midreshetmoriah.com/pictures/
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Parshat Mishpatim
It’s All In Our Attitude
Rabbi Yitzchok Lerner 
This week’s Parshah contains the famous pasuk (verse) of “Na’aseh ve-nishma” – “We will do and we will hear [Hashem’s commands].” On the surface, it seems like a beautiful idea: “G-d, whatever You want from us, we will do it, no questions asked!! Then we will start to learn. But our main point is that whatever You want – we are one hundred percent loyal servants!”
 
The obvious question: How can this really work? If I don’t have the nishma, i.e., the learning, how can I do the naaseh? G-d commands us about Tefillin, for example; great, but how can I now carry out the mitzvah of Tefillin properly without learning Hilchot Tefillin? In practice, won’t we really need to have the nishma before the naaseh?
 
I once heard a nice peshat from a chassidishe guy to whom I gave a ride. He told me that the reason na’aseh comes first is to tell us that your “nishma,” i.e., learning, depends on your “na’aseh.” If you are a person whose sole goal is to do retzon Hashem (G-d’s will), if your only desire is to become closer to G-d, then when you sit down to do nishma, learning, it will be the sweetest thing in the world for you. On the other hand, if you are a person who is not so interested in mitzvot, or if you look at mitzvot as a heavy yoke around your neck, then for you, the nishma, the learning, will be very hard, if not sour.
 
The message is that our love for learning Torah is all in our attitude. Every night in Ma’ariv, we say the following line: “Ki hem chayyeinu," that the mitzvot are “our life.” If we truly believe this, then our nishma will always be sweetest thing in the world for us.
 
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Mazel Tov
 
Birth:
Shanna (Nussbaum) (00-01) & David Goldstein on the birth of twins, a boy and a girl.
Yhi ratzon shetizku lgadlam lTorah lChupa ulMa'asim tovim. Kshem shenichnas lBrit kein yikanes lTorah lChupah ulMa'asim tovim.
 
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Mi SheBerach List
**** Due to the length of the list we started a NEW list.  Please email midmoriah@gmail.com if there is a name you would like to add or remove! 
 
 
Tziporah Feiga Bat Sima Shaindel (1/29/2011)
Rivah bat Jane (1/29/2011)
Amitai Yaakov ben Bracha - a 16 yr. old just diagnosed with leukemia (1/29/2011)
Dina Eta bat Chaya Tzippora Sheva (1/22/2011)
Aharon Yitzchak ben Deena Yehudis (1/6/2011)
Adi bat Zahavit (twin baby who is sick)
Reut bat Zahavit (twin baby who is sick)
Chaim Yissachar ben Chaya Mushkit (26 year old with 2 children, leukemia)
Shraga Feivel ben Sasha
Ari ben Rivka (young husband with brain tumor)
Inbal bat Nelya
Zacharia Kalman HaCohen ben Yael Margalit
Shai Ben Meital - 4 yr old with brain damage and seizures
Aviva Miriam bat Esther - 9 month old baby with cancer going through chemo
Tzipora Fayga Bat Sima Shaindel- 33 year old mother of 3 with Leukemia(9/19/2010)
Ester bat Rivka- baby undergoing treatment for rare heart condition (9/19/2010)
Tzvi Ilan ben Gita (8/12/2010)
Chaya Tziporah Sheva bat Faiga (8/12/2010)
Chisha Bayla bat Miriam
Chaya Meira Mindel bat Chava Golda - Midreshet alumna with cancer
Refael ben Nomi- 10 month old baby who has meningitis
Avraham ben Elka (5/21/10)
Rivka Bracha bat Yehudit - mother of 6 with cancer, doing better BH
Rivka Margalit bat Ita - 12 year old girl with a brain tumor (5/27/2010)
Rachel bat Re-ayah - mother of 7 with cancer that has spread
Batya Leah bat Sara - cancer
Noa Chaya bat Nava Yehudit - baby
Yehuda Moshe Yosef ben Miriam
Rayzel bat Rifka
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Midreshet Moriah
The Educational Wing
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
P.O. Box 3235, Jerusalem, Israel
tel: 972-2-652-7449 fax: 972-2-651-1524
www.midreshetmoriah.com