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Dear Talmidot, Parents and Friends –

1)       This week at Midreshet Moriah

2)       Faculty Devar Torah – Mrs. Rina Zinkin

3)       Mazel Tovs

4)       Mi She-Berach List

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This Week at Midreshet

This week was filled with the Adar spirit!!!!

During the late night Beit Midrash this week, Mindy Erreich and Sarah Bayer announced the theme for this years Purim chagiga in a very fun way. They dressed up as the game 'Apples to Apples' and burst into the Beit Midrash dancing and singing, while declaring that this years theme is going to be 'Game Night'!!! All the students joined in the singing and dancing and we had a mini chagiga in the Beit Midrash. What a great way to bring in the Adar spirit!!!!

We also continued our lunchtime learning with our 'Snack and Shiur' program. This week, Bracha Krohn and Rena Coren each gave a mini shiur to the girls who wanted to learn more on Purim. Both mini shiurim were packed with girls!

In the spirit of chessed, Midreshet students helped the One Family Fund package Mishloach Manot for victims of Arab Terror to be distributed on Purim.

We're really looking forward to our in house Shabbaton this Shabbat! Midreshet students will be joined by the Krohn, Starr, Reves, Porath Zibman, Proops, and Novetsky families for a weekend filled with great food (catered by Fagie!), great Torah, great shmoozing, and you guessed it - great games!  

Pictures from our year can be seen at http://midreshetmoriah.com/pictures/

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Parashat Pekudei

Mrs. Rina Zinkin, Rakezet

It would seem that the parshiyot of Vayakhel and Pekudei merely repeat the parshiyot of Terumah and Tetzaveh – and that, at great length! The 122 pesukim of Vayakhel seem to repeat the details of the klei hamikdash from Parshat Terumah, while the 92 pesukim of Pekudei seem to repeat the details of the bigdei kehunah from Parshat Tetzaveh. What is to be learned from this apparent repetition? (See Ramban 35:8, Rabeinu Bachya 35:1, and Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh 36:11, who all offer a similar answer to this question.)  

Rav Avrohom Pam explains that there is a basic and fundamental difference between the parshiyot of Terumah-Tetzaveh and Vayakhel-Pekudei. In Terumah-Tetzaveh, the word "ve-asita" (“you shall make”) is used repeatedly to introduce Hashem's instructions on how to make the klei hamikdash and bigdei kehuna. In Vayakhel-Pekudei, the operative term is "va-ya'as" (“he made”). "Va-ya'as" is continually used to describe the fact that Moshe completed the Mishkan, its keilim and the bigdei kehuna. 

Every single detail, nuance, and fine measurement which was instructed to Moshe Rabeinu with a "ve-asita" was accomplished – "va'ya'as." And it was all done exactly the way that was prescribed by Hakadosh Baruch Hu. The chidush here, says Rav Pam, is that the planning became a reality; the "ve'asita" became a "va-ya'as". 

Often, we set out to accomplish bold, impressive goals – think back to the Yamim Nora’im early this year – and yet, we fall short in seeing those goals realized. On Yom Kippur, we were all inspired to improve ourselves and make real changes in our Avodas Hashem (service to God). We resolved in our hearts to spend more time learning Torah, to improve our bein adam la-chaveiro, and to daven with more kavanah. And we meant it! And yet, at this point in the year, many of us find that the inspiration has waned, and the kabalos are long forgotten. 

We must all stop and ask ourselves the very difficult and probing question – how much of our "ve-asita" this year has translated into a "va-ya'as"?  And if we're not satisfied with our answers, let us take the opportunity now to re-commit ourselves to this awesome task – transforming the "ve-asita" into a "va-ya'as."  

This is the profound and eternal lesson, says Rav Pam, that justifies the repetition of our two parshiyot, Vayakhel and Pekudei. When we read about the "va-ya'as" of the mishkan this upcoming Shabbat, let us aspire to build our own personal mishkan me'at. Let us remember the inspiration and motivation with which we started and work to fulfill our dreams and goals intact and unblemished!

Have a Great Shabbos!

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Mazel Tov 

Engagements:

Ayelet Brecher (08-09) and Chaim Frankel

Ariella Freedman (06-07) and Jonny Cooper 

Yhi ratzon shetivnu bayit ne'eman bYisrael

Weddings:

Tamara Leben (06-07, 07-08) and Donny Goldin 

Lilly Aviner (05-06) and Akiva Kates 

Yhi ratzon shetivnu bayit ne'eman bYisrael

Birth:

Ailie (Cooper) (03-05 and Faculty member) and Seth Shmulowitz on the birth of a boy

Yhi ratzon shetizku lgadlo 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!  

Chaim ben Chashka (3/3/2011) – diabetes complications 

Matityahu Yaakov ben Gittel Rivka 

Tziporah Feiga Bat Sima Sheindel (2/26/2011)

Shira bat Deena Miriam – premature baby on a ventilator (2/19/2011)

Noa Batya bat Daniella Rut – 7 month old with leukemia (2/5/2011)

Leah Alona Bat Tziporah (2/5/2011)

Leora bat Sarah (2/5/2011)

Frimit bat Devorah (2/5/2011)

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)

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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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

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