Dear Talmidot, Parents and Friends –

1)         This week at Midreshet Moriah

2)         Faculty Dvar Torah – Mrs. Rina Zinkin

3)         Mazal Tov

4)         Mi SheBerach          

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This Week at Midreshet

MiSheNichnas Adar Marbim B'Simcha here at Midreshet!

Midreshet's office was transformed by our students last Thursday into Mea Shearim in honor if Rosh Chodesh Adar.  They worked all night and spared no detail as you'll see when you check out all the latest photos!

Then Adar officially began with our annual (surprise?) color war! Teams Mishloach Manot and Matanot L'Evyonim competed in games, sports, a Pre-holiday Torah Bowl, a Hamantashen Baking Contest and an Apache Race. It was so fun for everyone to get involved in the different events and in preparing the final presentations - a stomp, dvar torah, song and decorating the stage. Thanks to Marissa Chadow, Arielle Greenberg, Tamar Singer and Sophy Sokolin for preparing the schedule of events and working hard all of Thursday to run each activity!

Shabbat Parshat Terumah was our annual Shabbat-At-Faculty. The students were all divided among our teachers for shabbat. Everyone enjoyed getting to know their teacher's family and seeing their teacher's community. Thank you to all of our teachers who hosted this shabbat and all other shabbatot throughout the year!

Monday morning the Adar spirit of V'nahafoch Hu was in our chadar ochel as the teachers cooked made-to-order eggs for the students. Purim music was on, eggs were flipped in the air (Go Rav Lerner!) and everyone had a yummy start to the day.

This week we also began our Pre-Purim Mini Lunch shiurim. Every day a different teacher gives a 20-minute shiur about Purim or the Megillah during lunch. These mini shiurim are being taped and posted online for alumnae to enjoy!

See the latest photos on our website: http://midreshetmoriah.com/galleries/

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What's Left?

Rina Zinkin 

(Ideas were taken from a shiur given by Rav Mayer Twersky)

In the Ramban’s introduction to Parshat Shemot, he explains that the Mishkan was a continuation of Ma’amad Har Sinai. The Kavod Hashem which resided at Har Sinai was continued in the Mishkan; the function of the Mishkan was to perpetuate that Kavod Hashem.

The Ramban in last week’s parsha, Parshat Teruma, seems to develop a similar theme of the Mishkan perpetuating Har Sinai. However, if one takes a careful look at this Ramban, perhaps a slightly different approach emerges. The Ramban seems to explain that the Mishkan is not only perpetuating the kedusha of Har Sinai, but rather since Klal Yisrael became Kadosh through their acceptance of the Torah, the Mishkan became a physical reflection of this kedusha. The Mishkan   complemented Kedushat Yisrael through their bond with the Torah.

These two understandings of Kedushat Hamishkan; that Kedushat Har Sinai was perpetuated in the Mishkan and that Kedushat Hamishkan was a physical reflection of Kedushat Yisrael through Har Sinai, have repercussions for how we respond to the lack of the Mishkan. If it’s only to perpetuate the Hashra’at Ha’Shechina of Har Sinai, then when Har Sinai lost its kedusha after the blowing of the shofar and now that we no longer have Mikdash either, we have nothing. All we can do is mourn over our loss.

But according to the second understanding, that the link between Mikdash and Har Sinai is not to perpetuate what is lost, but to complement our kedusha through Torah, the reaction to the churban should be to intensify our learning of Torah. This is the literal translation of the Gemara that says that after the churban “Ein Lo elah daled amot shel halacha.” (Brachot 8a). During the times of Beit Hamikdash, the kedusha existed both in the Mishan and through Torah. After the churban, all that is left is the kedusha of Torah.

As we approach Purim, the time when Klal Yisrael re-accepted the Torah, let us try to intensify our learning of Torah. Let us try to internalize our learning and apply what we learn to our everyday lives, to sincerely live a life of Torah and Mitzvot.

Have a good Shabbos!   

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Mazel Tov!               

Engagements:

Hillary Barak ('09-'10) and Aaron Khordokovsky on their engagement

Yhi ratzon shetivnu bayit ne'eman bYisrael

Births:

Rina (Stavsky) ('04-'05) and Rabbi David Weinberg on the birth of a daughter, Noa Ayelet

Yhi ratzon shetizku lgadla lTorah lChupa ulMa'asim tovim. 

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Mi SheBerach List

We have started a new list. Please email midmoriah@gmail.com if there is a name you would like to add.  

Yechezkel ben Chanah Sarah (29/2)

Lea bat Masha (22/2)

Tzvi ben Sara (12/2)

Zev Yitzchak ben Chaya Sarah(12/2)

Dov ben Yachad Frida(12/2)

Chaim Mordechai Ben Shaindel (9/2)

Menachem Mendel ben Maida (9/2)

Miriam Henya bat Rivka (19/1)

Reuven ben Tova Chaya (12/1)

Chana bat Sorah (5/1)

Rachel Yehudit bat Minsha Zissel (5/1)

Chaya Shaindel bat Kraindel (5/1)

Leah Golda bat Esther Frimmet (5/1)

Feiga bat Sophie (5/1)

Chane Chaim HaCohen ben Perel (29/12)

Zelda bat Rachel (20/12)

Hayeled Eitan Ze'ev HaCohen ben Leah Binah (29/12)

Batya Emunah bat Bracha Chaya (22/12)

Yosef Dov ben Frieda (22/12)

Chana Fraida bas Faiga Zelda (22/12)

Dorit Chaya Bat Geulah (15/12)

Briget Joan bat Marion Patricia (15/12)

Dorit Chaya bat Geula (15/12)

Dovid Chaim ben Brina (15/12)

Avraham ben Esther (15/12)

Adina bat Rivka (15/12)

Moriel Raizie bat Feige Kaylee (13/12)

Rachel Yehudit bat Mancha Zaisel (8/12)

Aron ben Reizel (1/12)

Yehudah ben Shoshanna (1/12)

Haddasah Leah bat Shoshana (24/11)

Baruch Yehudah ben Leah (17/11)

Charna Leah bat Shaindel (17/11)

Mazal bat Pircha (3/11/11)

Malka bat Tova (10/10/11)

Shimon Dovid Yehoshua bat Rena (6/10/11)

Rifaela Chana Rivka bat Shayna Dena (6/10/11)- diagnosed with Non-Hodgken's Lymphoma

Rachel bat Mindel (6/10/11) - Lymphoma

Tzuriya Kochevet bat Sara - mother of 4 with inoperable stomach cancer (25/9/11)

Chaya bat Zecil (22/9/11)

Perel bat Malka (21/9/11)

Rachaylle bat Turan (21/9/11)

Miriam Leah bat Reizel Dena (21/9/11)

Zechariya Kalman Hakohen ben Yael Margolit (18/9/11)
Tzipora Sara bat Esther Leah (18/9/11)

David ben Miriam (18/9/11)

David ben Rachel (18/9/11)

Rachel bat Kochava (18/9/11)
Hilda bat Yaffa (18/9/11)

Moshe Eliezer ben Esther Miriam (18/9/11)
Hilda bat Yaffa (18/9/11)
Moshe Yitzchak ben Shoshana (18/9/11)

Aviva Miriam bat Esther (11/9/11)

Osnat bat Clara (11/9/11)

Avraham Yehuda ben Davida Yehudit (11/9/11)

Tziporah Faiga Bat Sima Shaindel (11/9/11)

Chava Deena Etya Bat Chaya Tziporah Sheva (11/9/11)