
Last class, last model for the year. Done with charcoal on paper that someone lent me. I may focus on charcoal for the summer.
Kabbalat Shabbat in Jerusalem amazes me
Watch this pre Shabbat program that took place down the road a bit at Beit Avi Chai
It’s still before Shabbat and I’m watching now. We did Shabbat prep at the Roza restaurant to rest up before all the Rosh Hashana cooking.
Maurin Nehadar and Maya Belsitzman are among my favorite performers.
https://www.facebook.com/BeitAviChai/videos/720458171631677/
Posted a new Fall schedule to be checked
Please review the fall schedule that runs from Chagim to Chagim, RH to Pesach. Let me know of any conflicting events and times that might change when we schedule things.
http://is.gd/Shabbat_Fall_2011_a
Thanks
First draft of the Shabbat calendar is ready to be checked over
Tisha B'Av - Congregation Ohaiv Yisroel News
I’ve update the Shul’s website with the Tisha B'Av schedule and links to other information about Tisha B'Av from the OU, Chabad and from My Jewish Learning.
Apps
I’m looking for ways to use my iPad with my sites, like this one, more easily. Guess I’ll do a search.
Congregation Ohaiv Yisroel News - Home
Schedules uploaded and site updated for Shavuot as well as this week. See our website at OhaivYisroel.com for all the details.
Kiryas Joel, N.Y., Lands Distinction as Nation’s Poorest Place
What’s not said is how simply the people live. The traditions are kept and not much else is taken from the environment, so the community is supported in a simple lifestyle.
Matzah - Congregation Ohaiv Yisroel News
Rabbi Cohen has been talking about the way Matza is made. Here’s a couple of videos on the factory machines that are being used. See what he means by the sheets of Matza that are broken up to become the individual loaves in the box.
Happy Purim! - Purim Sameach!
Enjoy some Purim music vids. Some of Ori’s work and some more.
Purim!
Check our Purim page for schedule and other links - Purim Schedule
Weather in Monsey
Using a French Press for Coffee on Shabbat | The Neshamah Center
WARNING: If you are not BOTH interested in the fine points of halacha (Jewish law) and a coffee drinker, you will no doubt find this post incomprehensible, irrelevant, or both. But for the observant coffee drinkers out there — you might find this useful as a way to enjoy a better cup of coffee on Shabbat than instant!
If you want to make coffee using a French press on Shabbat, there are two issues to be concerned with: borer (sorting), and bishul (cooking). We’ll treat them separately, the easier one first.
Borer, sorting, allows you to take the desired (coffee) out from the undesired (grounds). With the French press, you are pouring out the good coffee, and it leaves the grounds behind. Filter coffee is potentially problematic on Shabbat because it appears you are selecting out the bad instead.
Bishul is potentially an issue to be concerned with. First, of course, you can’t boil water on Shabbat, for that is cooking; so you have to use water that comes out of your urn that was turned on before Shabbat.
The issue of concern is whether you are “cooking” when you put the coffee and water together. My first thought was “ein bishul acher bishul” there is no cooking after cooking (you can’t violate “cooking” for something already cooked) and since coffee is roasted it’s cooked. But there is a principle that “yesh bishul achar afiyah” there is cooking after baking, and coffee is roasted, hence baked not “cooked” which means with liquid. Not everyone agrees that there is bishul after afiyah. The Shulhan Arukh quotes both opinions without expressing an opinion (318:5); however, even if you go with the more stringent opinion that there is, this is still not an insurmountable problem. As long as you pour the water into the press first, and then add the coffee, it is a kli sheni, and generally speaking we hold you don’t have to worry about cooking in a kli sheni.
There are those who might be machmir and argue that since the coffee is “afiyah” (baked) it should count as “kalei bishul” easy to cook, and hence susceptible to cooking even in a kli sheni. If you take that position, you would need to first pour the water into a different cup and then into the press so that it’s a kli shlishi. I don’t hold with that opinion, however, since there are reasons to doubt whether there is bishul achar afiyah, and we have reasons to doubt whether roasting coffee makes it kalei bishul, there is no need to adopt both stringencies.
No need to suffer with instant coffee on Shabbat!
Reb Barry
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I find this very interesting. What do you say?
KJ IEP Guidance

I’m setting up several shortened alternatives to get to my resources page for IEP Development. They include tiny.cc/kjiep and bit.ly/kj-iep and others. If these work, we’re set.
kjiep.findhere.org
Isn’t always working.
New ad blank
Ad Blank started. Where are my editors?
The first draft is here. Tell me about any changes we should do.
Got to work on Ad Blank for Shul Dinner
Looking at Ruvain Rubin's work
Finger Painting on the Apple iPad from the live model David Kassan http://davidkassan.com
Got to relearn to fingerpaint!
Hold the Presses!
Found another missing page. Adjust the Journal printout, and the printer will fix our Journal with the extra pages.