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SIHA Newsletter for 6/24/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 6/24/2022

Dvar Torah Shelach By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich In this coming week’s Torah reading of Schelach, we read of the unfortunate story of the miraglim/ the spies who were sent on a mission to scout out...

SIHA Newsletter for 5/17/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 5/17/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat Bihaalotcha By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich The parsha ends with the story of Miriam and Aharon who “complain” against Moshe, their brother, “Why did Moshe separate from his wife?...

SIHA Newsletter for 6/10/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 6/10/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat Naso By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich In Parshat Naso, it discusses the sacrifices that the Nesiim (Princes) brought on behalf of their respective tribes. The Torah comments and tells...

SIHA Newsletter for 6/3/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 6/3/2022

Dvar Torah A Shavout Theme By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich The last two weeks we read the Sedrot of Behar and Bechukoty and this week we begin a new Sefer, Bamidbar, at which time we also usher in the...

SIHA Newsletter for 5/27/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 5/27/2022

Dvar Torah Bechakoty By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich This week’s parsha contains the first of the two Tochachat [Chastisements] that are present in the Torah. G-d warns us about what will be if we do...

SIHA Newsletter for 5/20/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 5/20/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat Behar By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich The Torah portion of Behar introduces us to the laws of Shemittah, which this year is presently. For six years we are to work the land but on...

SIHA Newsletter for 5/13/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 5/13/2022

Dvar Torah How to achieve holiness In last week’s Sedrah, Kidoshim, the Torah enjoins us to be holy because G-d is holy. Again, in this week’s Sedra of Emor, the Torah discusses the need for...

SIHA Newsletter for 5/6/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 5/6/2022

Dvar Torah The beginning of Parshas Kidoshim contains a pasuk which presents a very interesting juxtaposition of mitzvot: “Every man shall revere his mother and his father and you shall observe My...

SIHA Newsletter for 4/29/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 4/29/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat Acharay Mot In a normal, twelve month year, the Parshiot of Acharay Mot and Kidoshim are read together. This year, because of the added month of Adar Shainy, these Parshiot are...

Holocaust Remembrance Day at SIHA

Today was a special day. Yom HaShoah is a day marked by observance and remembrance around the world. At SIHA, our upper elementary and middle school students participated in a special lesson about...

SIHA Newsletter – Pesach 2022 Edition

SIHA Newsletter – Pesach 2022 Edition

A Pesach Message By Rabbi Dr. Richard Ehrlich With Pesach just around the corner our thoughts naturally turn to the Seder and the Haggadah. We begin the Seder by breaking the matzah, and then we...

SIHA Newsletter 4/8/2022

SIHA Newsletter 4/8/2022

Dvar Torah Parsha Metzorah Candle lighting: 7:10 Havdalah: 8:11 A good erev Shabbat SIHA Families! Please allow me to share with you a Dvar Torah that inspired me this week and coincidentally ties...

SIHA Newsletter for 4/1/2023

SIHA Newsletter for 4/1/2023

Dvar Torah Parshas Tazria/Parshas HaChodesh Candlelighting: 7:03 This week is the last of 4 weeks during this time of year when an extra Torah is removed from the ark and an additional portion is...

SIHA Newsletter for 3/25/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 3/25/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat Shmini Candle Lightning: 6:55 Havdalah: 7:55 “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” (George Bernard Shaw) Communication is the...

SIHA Newsletter for 3/11/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 3/11/2022

Dvar Torah Parshas Vayikra/Parshas Zachor Candlelighting: 5:41 This week, once again, a second Sefer Torah is removed from the Ark and an additional portion is read. This portion speaks about the...

SIHA Newsletter for 3/4/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 3/4/2022

Dvar Torah Shabbat candle lighting time- 5:32 PM Havdalah - 6:33 PM Parshat Pekudei This dvar Torah is dedicated to all the innocent people suffering in Ukraine and around the world and inspired by...

SIHA Newsletter for 2/25/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 2/25/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat VaYakhel/Shekalim Candle Lighting 5:25 This week after the Torah is read in Shul, a second Torah is removed and an additional portion is read. We read about how each Jew...

SIHA Newsletter for 2/18/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 2/18/2022

Dvar Torah Parsha Ki Tisa Candle lighting- 5:16 Havdala-6:17 In the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf, Moshe’s mortality is transformed to immortality as he gets G-d to change his mind....

Newsletter for 2/11/2022

Newsletter for 2/11/2022

Dvar Torah Parshas Tetzaveh Candle Lighting: 5:08 In this week's Parsha, the Torah devotes an extensive amount of space to talking about the clothing the Kohen Gadol and the Kohanim wore while...

SIHA Newsletter for 2/4/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 2/4/2022

Dvar Torah Parshat Terumah Candle lighting: 4:59pm Havdalah: 6:02pm The Mishkan was the first home Jews made for G-d. But the very idea is fraught with paradox, even contradiction. How can you build...

SIHA Newsletter for 1/21/2022

SIHA Newsletter for 1/21/2022

Dvar Torah Parshas Yisro Candlelighting: 4:43 This week's Parsha teaches us about the greatest moment in all of world history, the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. This event was the...

SIHA Newsletter for 1/14/2021

SIHA Newsletter for 1/14/2021

Dvar Torah Beshalach Candle Lighting 4:34pm Havdala 5:38 In this weeks Parsha, the megalomaniac Pharoah regrets his decision of freeing the Jews and so he sends his army out to get them back. The...

SIHA Newsletter for 1/7/2021

SIHA Newsletter for 1/7/2021

Dvar Torah Parshas Bo Candle Lighting: 4:27 This week's Parsha tells us of the first Mitzvah given to the Jewish people, the Mitzvah of sanctifying the beginning of the new month. The Hebrew word...

Dvar Torah for 12/31/2021

Parshat Vaera Candle lighting- 4:23 Havdalah- 5:43 The story is told about a political prisoner in a dark dungeon who always kept his eyes closed. Whenever he needed something, he would grope for it...

SIHA Newsletter for 12/24/2021

SIHA Newsletter for 12/24/2021

Dvar Torah Parshas Shemos Candle lighting: 4:16 This week's Parsha begins by telling us the names of each individual who descended to Egypt with Yaakov. Each name is emphasized. The Torah does not...

SIHA Newsletter 12/17/2021

SIHA Newsletter 12/17/2021

Dvar Torah Candle Lighting: 4:12pm 12/17 Havdalah: 5:16pm 12/18 Parshat Vayichi In Parshas Vayechi, Yaakov Avinu elevates his two grandsons, Ephraim and Menashe, to the status of Shevatim (tribes)....

SIHA Newsletter for 12/10/2021

SIHA Newsletter for 12/10/2021

Dvar Torah As Yaakov and his family prepared to descend to Egypt, Yaakov sent Yehuda ahead with an important mission. What was this essential mission that needed to be completed before Yaakov and...

SIHA Newsletter for December 3rd, 2021

SIHA Newsletter for December 3rd, 2021

Dvar Torah Mikeitz 5th grade was the beginning to a new life for me and I didn’t even know it. It was my first year attending a Jewish day school. On day 1 my Judaic studies teacher asked me what my...

Newsletter for November 19, 2021

Newsletter for November 19, 2021

Dvar Torah In this week’s Parsha, Yaakov fought with AIsav’s angel. While he won the fight, he was injured in his thigh. Because of this, the Torah commands us to refrain from eating the “Gid...

Newsletter for 11/12/2021

Newsletter for 11/12/2021

Dvar Torah “To try, to fall, to fear, and yet to keep going: that is what it takes to be a leader.” Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks What is it that made Yaakov – not Avraham or Yitzchak, or Moshe– the...