פרשת וישב שבת מברכים PARSHAT VAYEISHEV - SHABBAT MEVARACHIM -

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1 בית כנסת מורשת ישראל, ירושלים Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael, Jerusalem Visitors: Please inform the Gabbai if you are a Cohen or bat Cohen, Levi or bat Levi. PARSHAT VAYEISHEV - SHABBAT MEVARACHIM - פרשת וישב שבת מברכים SHALOM AND WELCOME to Jerusalem's premier egalitarian Masorti (Conservative) synagogue. Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael is made up of English speaking olim and native Israelis. Locals and tourists attend our shul on weekdays, shabbatot, and chagim. Our worldwide Friends Of Moreshet network gives the opportunity for Jews in all countries to have membership in a captivating Israeli Beit Knesset. Conservative Judaism is intended to be the nexus between Jewish tradition and the modern world Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael is that meeting place. פרשת וישב - VAYEISHEV PARSHAT This week s parashah, Vayeishev, contains the first mention of the commandment concerning Levirate marriage. The word levir is Latin meaning husband s brother the commandment obligates a woman whose husband dies without offspring to marry her husband s brother in order that her husband s name survives. The difficulty of this commandment is exemplified in this very first Biblical mention of it the wife, in this case Tamar, is at the mercy of her late husband s family. Consequently, her own desires are ignored. In an act of great courage, Tamar risks her life and takes her destiny into her own hands as she seeks to mother a child and to teach a lesson to Judah, her father-in-law who has abandoned her dire condition. In the end, the injustice done to Tamar is revealed and she wins her freedom by refusing to accept the status-quo. The lesson of Tamar s actions extends beyond this one incident and one commandment indeed, the power of just action in the face of iniquity is a message we should all remember and employ. Rabbi Adam Frank OUR SERVICE TIMES Daily Shacharit Services Sunday Friday 7:30 a.m. Friday, December 23rd Kabbalat Shabbat & Maariv 4:30 p.m. Services led by: Conservative Yeshiva THIS WEEK S PARSHAH can be found in the Eitz Hayim Chumash on page 226 HAFTARAH can be found on page 247 Saturday, December 24 th Shacharit 8:30 a.m.

2 SHACHARIT LED BY: Saralee Shrell-Fox BA AL KOREH: Aviad Silberschein MUSAF LED BY: Chazzan Joanna Dulkin HAFTARAH READER: Rabbi Moshe Silberschein SERVICES LED BY: Rabbi Moshe Silberschein SHABBAT KIDDUSH Sponsored By: Rene Feinstein SHABBAT Candlelighting 4:05 pm HAVDALAH Motzei Shabbat 5:20m Guest Darshan - Rabbi Moshe Silberschein Born in the US Midwest, Rabbi Moshe Silberschein was educated at Columbia University, JTS and the Hebrew University. Ordained by JTS in 1981, he made Aliyah to Israel in Rabbi Moshe Silberschein teaches piyut, liturgy and classical rabbinic literature to undergraduate and graduate students of various religious backgrounds and countries of origin in Jerusalem and abroad. From he served as the dean of the Schechter Rabbinical School of the Masorti Movement in Israel and is at present on the teaching faculties of the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College and the Jerusalem University College on Mount Zion. Throughout his teaching career Rabbi Silberschein has also served congregations as both rabbi and cantor in such diverse locales as Tokyo, Japan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and most recently Savannah, Georgia as the interim rabbi at Congregation Agudath Achim from He is married to Susan, a nurse at Hadassah Hospital and they have two sons - Aviad and Alon. THANK YOU TO: Rene Feinstein for sponsoring the Kiddush in honor of the Jewish Center of Princeton WELCOME TO: Chazzan Joanna Dulkin and The Jewish Center of Princeton from Princeton, NJ YARTZEITS OBSERVED DURING THE WEEK ENDING 23 rd DECEMBER Dec Kislev Hedy Levy Mother of Jenny levy 24-Dec Kislev Ziva Kahana Mother of Elana Turik 25-Dec Kislev 5765 Ruth Allen Bonder Mother of Shoshana Ben-Dor 25-Dec Kislev Eva Cohen Glaser Mother of Margery Feinstein 26-Dec Kislev Helen Bick Mother of Ruth Richman 26-Dec Kislev Sidney Bick Brother of Ruth Richman 26-Dec Kislev 5737 Ezra Kohn Ammi Kohn 26-Dec Kislev 5749 Lee Walpow Wife of Sam Walpow 29-Dec Kislev 5771 Dr. Irwin Reichman Husband of Sandy Reichman 29-Dec Kislev Alexander Schindler Father of Pesach Schindler

3 REMINDER 1 ST NIGHT CHANUKAH MOTZEI SHABBAT 24 TH DECEMBER

4 BEIT KNESSET MORESHET YISRAEL 4 Rehov Agron Jerusalem, Israel Phone Number: From USA / Canada: Fax Number: From USA / Canada: Rabbi Adam Frank rabbi@moreshetyisrael.org Rabbi Adam s Blog: President: Michael Eisenberg roshvaad@moreshetyisrael.org Office Administrator: Eve Jacobs office@moreshetyisrael.org CHANUKAH FOR THE LONE SOLDIERS Our Chanukah Lone Soldiers Get-Together will take place on: FRIDAY DECEMBER 23RD & THE FOLLOWING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 TH ALL WELCOME Joan Kedem.

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