The Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Vayigash (December 25-26, 2009/8-9 Tevet, 5770)

[David Kunkel]

                                    

Shalom Aleichem!

This is this week's Shabbos schedule at the Saranac Shul. Hope to see you there!

YAY!! Shabbos times are moving later again!!

      

Friday, December 25

     Shabbos Candle lighting: 4:30 PM

     Shabbos begins: 4:48 PM

     Services end approximately 5:45 PM

Saranac congregants and guests are invited to stay for a meal with the Alts in Shul after services.

 

Saturday, December 19

     Say Shema before 10 AM

     Services begin at 9:30 AM.

     Zeman Tefillah: 10:45 AM. Please help us make a minyan by this time, so we can say the Amidah as a kehillah! Thank you.

     Torah Reading: Parshas Vayigash
Kiddush luncheon in Shul, 12:00 Noon 

     Chatzos is 12:15 PM, earliest Mincha Gedolah at 12:45 PM

 

Refuah Sheleimah (please let me know if a person should be taken off this list)

• Mordechai Zvi haLevi ben Feige Malka (Yehoshua Kunkel's rebbe)

• Isroel ben Shulamit (Kalman Sull’s son)

• Chaim ben Necha (Hal Schlesinger)

• Moshe ben Mazeltov

• Usher Reabum ben Malka

• Avraham Yoseph ben Bracha

• Ephraim ben Esther

• Azriel Joel ben Batsheva

• Kalman Avraham ben Pesha Chaya

 

• Shoshana Tova bas Gila

• Malka bas Batya

• Yona bas Devorah

• Shayna Rachel bas Rasha Feige

• Leah Fruma bas Ruth

• Devorah Chana bas Shaindel

• Sara Leah bas Maya Elanit

 

 

(Announcements on next page)

Announcements:

Shalos Seudos/Parsha Review: at the the Shul, 4:30 PM

 

 

Sunday, the Tenth of Tevet, is a fast day, from 6:32 AM to 5:39 PM.

There will be a Shacharis minyan at 9 AM and a Mincha minyan at 4:45 PM

 

(Some end the fast at 5:31; some end the fast at 5:19)

On this day the siege of Yerushalayim began. This was the beginning of the whole chain of calamities which finally ended with the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. Those exempt from fasting include pregnant or nursing women, all children, anyone for whom fasting may present a danger to health and those who are ill. In those cases, eat as little and as plainly as possible.

 

Shabbos ends: 5:48 PM {Saranac Shul tradition, 60 minutes past sunset}

     *For those who hold 42 minutes: 5:30 PM {42 minutes},

     *For those who hold 72 minutes, 6 PM {72 minutes}

 

 

 

The Parshah in a Nutshell

Vayigash Genesis 44:18-47:27

Judah approaches Joseph to plead for the release of Benjamin, offering himself as a slave to the Egyptian ruler in Benjamin's stead. Upon witnessing his brothers' loyalty to one another, Joseph reveals his identity to them. "I am Joseph," he declares. "Is my father still alive?" The brothers are overcome by shame and remorse, but Joseph comforts them. "It was not you who sent me here," he says to them, "but G-d. It has all been ordained from Above to save us, and the entire region, from famine." The brothers rush back to Canaan with the news. Jacob comes to Egypt with his sons and their families -- seventy souls in all -- and is reunited with his beloved son after 22 years. On his way to Egypt he receives the Divine promise: "Fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again." Joseph gathers the wealth of Egypt by selling food and seed during the famine. Pharaoh gives Jacob's family the fertile county of Goshen to settle, and the children of Israel prosper in their Egyptian exile.

 

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