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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

It has been a really busy week, starting on Sunday night with our pre-Pesach Seder where the girls shared divrei Torah and songs.  On Tuesday morning Midreshet Moriah set out to assist the JNF in tree pruning! We learnt that thousands of people every year plant trees in Israel, yet there is a lot of work that is required in maintaining the trees themselves. One of the steps that must be done to care for the trees is pruning them. After spending a morning in one of the JNF forests right outside Yerushalayim, we are proud to have pruned almost a hundred trees that day!

Wednesday night a Matzah baking crew came to Midreshet to teach the girls how to bake Matzot for Pesach. The girls mixed the flour and water according to the accurate ratio that makes it halachically acceptable to be eaten over Pesach and after kneading the dough, they baked the Matzot. Afterwards the girls had an opportunity to ask Halachic questions on Matzah baking. Rabbi Lerner, Malka and Fagie gave great shiurim while the Matzot were baking. 

Wishing everybody a great Shabbat!

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

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Parshat Tazria

Renewing our Spirit

Mrs. Rina Zinkin

This Shabbos we read Parashat HaChodesh. In Shemos Perek 12, psukim 1-2, the Torah tells us, “Hashem said to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Mitzrayim saying: ‘This month (of Nissan) shall be for you the beginning of the months, it shall be for you the first of the months of the year.” Although the New Year begins with Tishrei, celebrating the creation of the individual, the months of the year are numbered from Nissan, celebrating the creation of the Jewish nation.

The mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh was the first mitzvah we received as a nation. Rashi (Shemos 12;2) points out that the word “chodesh” (month) shares the same root as the word “chadash” (new). Hashem told Moshe and Aharon: “When you see the moon in its new phase, it shall be the beginning of the month for you.”  We can imply from this that with the arrival of the new month comes the opportunity for a new start. When the new month comes, one should be imbued with a spirit of renewal.

Why was this mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh given to us specifically in Mitzrayim? The word Mitzrayim can be connected to the words “metzar,” a narrow constricted place and “meitzarim,” boundaries, limits. Rav Dessler, zt”l, in Michtav MeEliyahu (chelek 2, pp. 17-18) explains that Mitzrayim was called by that name because it was a place of spiritual constriction. It was devoid of spirituality and was a place where evil was rampant. The impurity and evil of the country was personified by the king’s name, “Paroah”, from the root word “parua,” to reveal. Evil was revealed in Mitzrayim. It was known that workers who entered Mitzrayim never left; it was a place where one got stuck physically and spiritually. The Egyptian mentality was “you will be whatever you are now.” So, Hashem gave us the Mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh- of renewal- specifically in Mitzrayim, to show us that Judaism, which encourages renewal, is the antithesis of Egyptian ideology.

If we look at the root of the word “Nissan,” we find “nes.” “Nes” can also be defined as a banner which is raised up high. In chodesh Nissan, we were raised from slavery to freedom. Another name for the month of Nissan is “Chodesh Ha’aviv.” Hashem arranged that we would travel during Chodesh Ha-aviv, springtime, not only because it is easier to travel during this season, but because during the spring, one can see nature budding and blossoming. The world is alive. Just as atmosphere is conducive to physical growth, it is conducive to growth spiritually.

As we read Parshat Hachodesh this week and welcome the month of  Nissan, may we be infused with a true sense of “hitchadshut” (renewal)  and raise ourselves to greater spiritual heights. May we be zocheh to free ourselves from our bondage- from any spiritual “meitzarim” (constraints), and achieve true cheirut (freedom) to serve Hashem in a more sincere and passionate way!

Chodesh Tov!

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Mazel Tov 

Birth:

Jazmon (Adatto) (Shana Bet 05) and Rami Dubrow 

on the birth of a baby girl, Chaya Malka Esther

Adina (Links) (04-05) and Yissachar Braham

on the birth of a baby girl, Yehudis

Yhi ratzon shetizku lgadla lTorah lChupa 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 (3/5/2011)

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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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

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