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For those of you that are travelling, (hopefully in warmer climates) click here to determine what time to light the Shabbat candles. And enjoy the rest of the Shabbat
Wizard to create a warm Shabbat atmosphere where ever you may be.
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There are only two days left in the year to make your donation and get a 2012 tax receipt! Be a part of the generosity that has been directed our way and make the most generous donation you can now! It's a perfect opportunity to pay off an outstanding pledge or give a little bit more Tzedakah and get an immediately useful tax receipt. Support your Shul and the life-changing programs offered. Donate online, call us, or
drop off a check (or cash!) at our office by Monday, December 31, and help end the fiscal year in the black! Thank you in advance for your generosity!! Click here to donate on line.
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Saturday night January 5 / 6:30-8:00 PM
Please join us for an exciting Chanukat Habayit Housewarming Party!
Meet and greet The Shul's new Youth Director Rabbi Yishai, Rochel Leah and Mushka'le Eliefja! (pronounced "uh-leef-ee-yuh")
Program includes:
Family Havdalah Service!
A delicious kid-friendly dinner!
Create your own personalized Havdalah kits!
Survey for upcoming youth programs!
Door prize raffle!
At the home of the Eliefja's:
6634 Crescent Green * West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(in the Aldingbrooke complex which is located off of Drake Ave. between Maple and Walnut Lake)
Please email us at [email protected] to let us know you will be there.
The Eliefja Family is looking forward to meeting you!
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 Sunday, January 6, 2013 / 3pm - 5pm
 "Food
in Focus"
Discussions regarding Food & Dieting, a walking tour of the store, Kosher refreshments.
Location: Whole Foods, 7350 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield, MI 48322
$10 / Free for Shul Women’s Circle Members
This lesson explores the kabbalistic reason why food is so tempting, and introduces Jewish practices that can help make our eating more mindful, healthful, and spiritually satisfying.
Click here to learn more and to join The Shul's Women's Circle.
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Save the Date...
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MJI Dual Enrollment Classes @ The Shul
MJI is a 4-year college committed to sharing the history, language and culture of the Jewish people with students of all ages. MJI offers a very unique program to high school juniors and seniors providing an opportunity to take select classes, including Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Hebrew classes, at MJI that may count as both high school and college credit. These MJI classes are held at The Shul.
Click here for a link to MJI for more information about the classes, application & registration, tuition assistance, and more. |
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Kiddush Calendar
Shabbos, December 29, Tevet 16
Kiddush sponsored by Daniil & Maria Rapoport in honor of their daughter, Golda's birthday.
Kiddush sponsored by Howard & Robin Schwartz in honor of Sammy and Loius' birthday.
Shabbos, Januray 5, Tevet 23
Kiddush sponsored by Benji & Sarah Rosenzweig in honor of their daughter, Ellah's 2nd birthday.
Shabbos, January 12, Shevat 1
Kiddush sponsored by Howard & Robin Schwartz in honor of their son, Louis' Bar Mitzvah. Mazal Tov!
Shabbos, January 19, Shevat 8
Kiddush sponsored by Elaine Beresh.
Shabbos, January 26, Shevat 15
Kiddush sponsored by Robin Lipski in honor of her son, Elliott's Bar Mitzvah. Mazal Tov!
Additional Sponsorship opportunities available. More information... |
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Friday, Dec 28 | 4:50 pm |
Shabbat, Dec 29 | 5:56 pm |
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Friday
Evening Services | 5:00 PM
Shabbos
Morning Services | 9:30 AM
This Shabbos is known as Shabbos Chazzak - we complete the first of the 5 books of the Torah and begin the second. Be strong! Be Strong! and let us strengthen each other!
SUNDAY and Legal Holidays
Morning Services | 8:30 AM
Monday, Wednesday - Friday
Morning Services | 7 AM
Breakfast is back each morning - ah! the coffee... |
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Parsha and Bagels with Rabbi Yishai
Mon-Fri 10 minutes after services
Living Torah Video Magazine
Sun 9:30 AM
TORAH STUDIES
Wed, 7:30 PM | Rabbi Dov
This class is now available LIVE on-line. click here to get right into the classroom and use this password: JQGGR3
WOMEN'S ROUND TABLE
Thurs, 11 AM | Itty Shemtov
JEWISH MYSTICISM
Sat, 8:45 AM | Rabbi Dov
THE LIFE OF OUR PRAYERS
Sat, after the Kiddush approx. 12:45pm I Itty Shemtov
Bring your prayer to a new level learned in this inspiring class.
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Birthdays
Golda Rapoport, 15 Teves, 12/28
Anna Kamber, 15 Teves, 12/28
Neil Cantor, 16 Teves, 12/29
Lizzie Goldman, 16 Teves, 12/29
Jeffrey Schaefer, 17 Teves, 12/30
Dr. Andrea Golombek, 18 Teves, 12/31
Lotan Helfman, 18 Teves, 12/31
Louis Schwartz, 18 Teves, 12/31
Samantha Schwartz, 18 Teves, 12/31
Robin Lipski, 19 Teves, 1/1
Ella Dotan, 19 Teves, 1/1
Laya Chana Gerlants, 19 Teves, 1/1
Batsheva Honig, 19 Teves, 1/1
Daniel Mordukhovich, 20 Teves, 1/2
Max Naulo, 20 Teves, 1/2
Teri Stiebel, 20 Teves, 1/2
Mendel Shemtov, 21 Teves, 1/3
SUPPORTERS for the month of November
Carl Allen
Anonymous
Slava & Rina Avshalumov
Pinchas & Miriam Barak
Leonid & Nita Bekker
Elaine Beresh
Matt & Libby Berke
Josh & Maureen Burgess
Lyman & Brenda Burgess
Jerome & Clare Bushman
Grigory Cherkasov
Zinoviy & Marina Chernyak
Dick & Harriet Cooper
Alex Deych
Harry & Esther Dines
Iris Dines
Allen & Roslyn Feld
Doug & Chana Fitler
Maynard & Marilynn Flusty
Yakov & Anna Fradkin
Michael & Diane Gerber
Henry & Karen Goldberg
Joseph & Nancy Gorman
Coby & Susan Goutkovitch
Jane Hier-Rose
Herb Katz
Ralph & Susan Katz
Ed & Susan Kresch
Leonid & Riva Latinsky
Chaim & Brooke Leiberman
Eileen Letvin
Marty & Lynn Levin
Barry & Jamie Ludwig
Roman & Zoya Minevich
Gregory & Dina Mordukhovich
Cheryl Morris
Jerome & Jeanette Olson
Yves Pszenica
Reuben & Lori Rashty
Angelina Rose
Jeffrey Schaefer
Stephen & Carrie Schafer
Martin & Carol Schock
Barbara Segelbaum
Danny Sharabani
Wendy Shaughnessy
Tina Shemtoob
Davoud & Esther Soleimani
Shawn & Lisa Stearn
Milton & Barbara Stern
David & May Sternberg
Hershel & Lisa Taylor
Harriet Trager
Gary Trock
Daniel & Lori Weberman
Julian & Tali Wendrow
Neal & Ardele Wolfson
Alexander & Rita Yevzelman
The Shul offers a variety of programs and services to our community. Thanks to our generous sponsors we can continue to bring the joys of Judaism to so many.
Suggestion?
Have a suggestion? New idea? Drop us a line at www.TheShul.net/suggest |
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Parshat Vayechi
Jacob lives the final 17 years of his life in Egypt. Before his passing, he asks Joseph to take an oath that he will bury him in the Holy Land. He blesses Joseph’s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, elevating them to the status of his
own sons as progenitors of tribes within the nation of Israel.
The patriarch desires to reveal the end of days to his children, but is prevented
from doing so.
Jacob blesses his sons, assigning to each his role as a tribe: Judah will produce leaders, legislators
and kings; priests will come from Levi, scholars from Issachar,
seafarers from Zebulun, schoolteachers from Simeon,
soldiers from Gad, judges from Dan,
olive growers from Asher, and so on. Reuben
is rebuked for “confusing his father’s marriage bed”; Simeon and Levi, for the massacre of Shechem and the plot against Joseph. Naphtali is granted the swiftness of a deer, Benjamin the ferociousness of a wolf, and Joseph is blessed with beauty and fertility.
A large funeral procession consisting of Jacob’s descendants, Pharaoh’s ministers, the leading citizens of Egypt and the Egyptian cavalry accompanies Jacob on his final journey to the Holy Land, where he is buried in the Machpelah Cave
in Hebron.
Joseph, too, dies in Egypt, at the age of 110. He, too, instructs that his bones
be taken out of Egypt and buried in the Holy Land, but this would come to pass only with the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt many years later. Before his passing, Joseph conveys to the Children of Israel the testament from which they will draw their hope and faith in the difficult years to come: “G‑d will surely remember
you, and bring you up out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, Isaac
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