NO MINYAN THIS WEEK: Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Vayigash, and Fast of 10 Teves (Dec. 26-27 and 30, 2025 / 6-7 and 10 Teves, 5786
David K
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Unfortunately, we did not get enough people to ensure a minyan. Please attend services at the synagogue of your choice.
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FRIDAY:
Shabbos
Candle lighting: 4:29 PM Sunset: 4:47 PM.
Mincha at Starin today: 4:35 PM.
SATURDAY:
Shabbos davening at Starin: 10 AM.
Zeman Shema: 10:01 AM - Say Shema on time before services.
Zeman Tefilah: 10:46 AM.
Chatzos: 12:16 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, have coffee or a snack before davening.)
Mincha at Starin: 4:35 PM.
Sunset: 4:47 PM. Shabbos ends: Shul tradition: 5:48 PM. 42 min.: 5:30 PM. 72 min.: 6 PM.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
· Thank you to everyone who responded, either way. We will try for minyan again next week.
· The Fast of the Tenth of Tevet is observed Tuesday, Dec. 30, from 6:10 AM until 5:23 PM.
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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The Fast of the Tenth of Tevet (Asarah B'Tevet) commemorates the beginning of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, which led to the First Temple's destruction. May we merit to see it rebuilt!
Additionally, in recent times, 10 Tevet has become the day to say kaddish for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.
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