The Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Miketz/Shabbos Chanukah II (December 18-19, 2009/1-2 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 night is the eighth night of Chanukah. Light candles at home before coming to Shul for Shabbos. Erev Shabbos, candles should burn at least 90 minutes. PRACTICE FIRE SAFETY! Put menorah on a metal tray.

      

Friday, December 18

     Shabbos Candle lighting: 4:26 PM

     Shabbos begins: 4:44 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 9:56 AM

     Services begin at 9:30 AM.

     Zeman Tefillah: 10:41 AM. Please help us make a minyan by this time, so we can say the Amidah as a kehillah! Thank you.

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

     Chatzos is 12:11 PM, earliest Mincha Gedolah at 12:41 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

 

Shabbos ends: 5:45 PM {Saranac Shul tradition, 60 minutes past sunset}

     *For those who hold 42 minutes: 5:27 PM {42 minutes},

     *For those who hold 72 minutes, 5:57 PM {72 minutes}

Light the second night’s Chanukah candles after Havdalah.

 

 

 

The Parshah in a Nutshell

Mikeitz Genesis 41:1-44:17

Joseph's imprisonment finally ends when Pharaoh dreams of seven fat cows that are swallowed up by seven lean cows, and of seven fat ears of grain swallowed by seven lean ears. Joseph interprets the dreams to mean that seven years of plenty will be followed by seven years of hunger, and advises Pharaoh to store grain during the plentiful years. Pharaoh appoints Joseph governor of Egypt. Joseph marries Asenat, daughter of Potiphar, and they have two sons, Menasseh and Ephraim. Famine spreads throughout the region, and food can be obtained only in Egypt. Ten of Joseph's brothers come to Egypt to purchase grain; the youngest, Benjamin, stays home, for Jacob fears for his safety. Joseph recognizes his brothers, but they do not recognize him; he accuses them of being spies, insists that they bring Benjamin to prove that they are who they say they are, and imprisons Shimon as a hostage. Later, they discover that the money they paid for their provisions has been mysteriously returned to them. Jacob agrees to send Benjamin only after Judah assumes personal and eternal responsibility for him. This time Joseph receives them kindly, releases Shimon, and invites them to an eventful dinner at his home. But then he plants his silver goblet, purportedly imbued with magic powers, in Benjamin's sack. When the brothers set out for home the next morning they are pursued, searched, and arrested when the goblet is discovered. Joseph offers to set them free and retain only Benjamin as his slave.

 

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