Haftorah List. Shabbat Times. Weekday Services. Shabbat Academy

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1 Vayishlach November 16, 2013 (Kislev 13, 5774) Shabbat Times Vayishlach Kislev 13 Friday November 15 5:02pm Candle Lighting 5:00 pm Mincha Saturday November 16 9:00 am Shacharit 10:30 am Tot Shabbat 3:50 pm Weekly Shiur 4:35 pm Mincha 6:04 pm - Havdalah Kiddush Sponsor: Available Upcoming Kiddush Sponsors November 30 Jody and Jeffrey Cohen in honor of Linda and David Cohen s 50 th wedding anniversary by their children and grandchildren, Jody, Jeffrey, Shira and Ethan Cohen, Randy, Robyn, Micah, Judah and Ezra Cohen, and Michael Cohen. Please consider marking a special event in your life by sponsoring a Kiddush. To schedule a Kiddush, contact Lenny Zucker. The cost of sponsoring a Kiddush is $ Visit the to pay online or download a form, print it out and mail it in. (Be sure to select Kiddush for the donation type.) Haftorah List Nov. 16: Vayishlach Nathan Kirshstein Nov. 23: Vayeshev Michael Stricker Nov. 30: Miketz-Shabbos Chanukah haftorah Barry Warren (Bar Mitzvah haftorah) *This list is subject to change at any time. Weekday Services Maariv services Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:30 pm. Shabbat Academy What is Shabbat Academy? Choose from a number of concurrent classes after a Kiddush meal, covering a diverse array of subjects and catering to different levels of Jewish study background. Usually classes include an introductory level session, a more advanced learning option, and youth programming. Shabbat Academy classes are followed by an early Shabbat Mincha service (with Maariv scheduled for 15 minutes after Shabbat ends). Dates and Time: Shabbat (Saturday) once a month - Dec. 7, Jan. 4, and Feb 8, after a Kiddush meal - 12:20 pm. Other upcoming Dates: Location- Charleston JCC, 1645 Wallenberg Blvd. Special Note If you would like to support Lenny Gregg during his recovery, please make a donation to the Rabbi s Discretionary Fund earmarked for Lenny and we will make sure that he gets it.

2 Congregation Dor Tikvah is grateful for your generous support We acknowledge contributions given: In Honor of: The Zucker Family for all they do for the community, by Marty Perlmutter The Zucker Family, by Fran and Colby Grossman Congregation Dor Tikvah appreciates all contributions - those of $10 or more will be acknowledged here unless otherwise indicated when giving. Birthdays: Yahrzeits: To support Congregation Dor Tikvah, please make contributions on our website, or send checks payable to Congregation Dor Tikvah PO Box Charleston, SC Life Cycles Gerald Katz November 21 Mara Warren November 24 Rafael Goldkin November 26 Laura Zucker November 30 Catherine Fox, Mother of Ken Fox (November 14) **If you would like a life cycle event to be added, please update your information at Kosher Food Pantry Please help the Jewish community fight hunger and provide fresh produce for those in need. To learn about the pantry, gleaning, and ways to fight hunger in the Charleston community, for more information, please Sara Sharnoff at saras@jewishcharleston.org Community Events Join our on-line community by "liking" our Facebook page at and "follow" us on AHA Open House on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 7:00 pm -Think you know everything there is to know about Addlestone Hebrew Academy? As Charleston s Jewish community day school, Addlestone is renowned for its excellent secular studies program, low teacher-student class ratio, extraordinary faculty, warm family-like environment AND is one of Charleston s only preschools with NAEYC accreditation...and there's so much more. Learn what you don t know that you don t know about Addlestone. Babysitting is available. Contact Lori Gleaton at to reserve a space. Ora Davies next class for women on Prayer will be on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 7:30 pm, at the home of Barbara Zucker, 10 Hobonny Lane. Quarterly Congregational Meeting Sunday, November 24, 5:00 pm, in the Sherman House Recreation Room, with Maariv Minyan following the meeting. In addition to conducting regular business and presentation of the President s Report, the primary goal of the meeting will be to pass an important Constitutional Amendment allowing us to conduct business at our Congregational Meetings with a smaller quorum. TURKEY BOWL - Thanksgiving morning football game, Thursday, November 28 at 11:00 am. Where: Charleston JCC The Charleston JCC Jewish Bookfest is back!! A series of fabulous author Presentations -- something for everyone! All events take place at the JCC and include book signings and refreshments: o Jan. 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm Joel Derfner, Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family Enjoy wine, beer, and a look at Derfner s new book. Charleston native Derfner shares his story of getting his own way, gay marriage, the American family, and what is means to be human. Sponsored by the AFFA. $8 JCC Members or AFFA Members/$12 non-members

3 A Little Eisavkeit By Rabbi Yaacov Haber Lately, I ve been intrigued by the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, Yaakov and Esav. The actual struggle between these two brothers became the prototype of the Jewish struggle with myriads of outside forces and enemies that wanted to destroy us. But, before Yaakov re-met Esav he had an earlier struggle. He struggled the entire night with the Angel of Esav. This struggle, I believe, was not a prototype of the Jewish struggle with the outside world but rather a struggle that Yaakov had within himself. In order for Yaakov to live and to accomplish he needed a little Esavkeit in him. Esav represented ambition, aggressiveness, understanding and using the field. Yaakov was the scholar who sat in the tent. But Yaakov needed to get out there; he needed to reach out and create a nation; he needed to mold a people that would survive long and arduous challenges and persecutions. That s why Yaakov wanted Esav s birthright; that s why Yaakov wanted Esav s blessing and that s why Yitzchok wanted to bless Esav even before he blessed Yaakov. (This interpretation is not mine. It is common in the Zohar, Or HaChaim, Vilna Gaon, the introduction the Shav Shmaitsa and many more). How much Esavkeit? Where should Yaakov integrate Esav and where should he shun him? This was the struggle Yaakov had with the Angel of Esav; this is the struggle we all face every day. And you should love the L-rd your G-d with all your hearts (from the Shma) Hearts! asks the Talmud, why the plural? How many hearts do we have? The answer, says the Talmud, is that sometimes we are of two hearts a yetzer tov and a yetzer hara. Something is pulling us and driving us to the unknown. Use the power! We have to love G-d with both hearts. My Rebbe, Rav CP Scheinberg, when asked for help in making a major decision, would often ask us if we are driven to one particular side of the equation. If you are driven, he would say, it may be coming from the yetzer hara, because the yetzer hatov really doesn t have much drive. But that s not bad he would continue, just capture the drive and use it for good. Who is a strong man? asks the Mishna, one who captures their yetzer. The struggle of Yaakov with the Angel of Esav should be the struggle of every Jew. As we confront the world with its modernity, financial challenges, ethical challenges, academic challenges and social challenges we have to be careful not to accept Esav with two hands and not to push him away with two hands either. Accept with the right and push away with the left, says the Talmud, to create perfect balance in our lives. Which is the straight path for a man to walk? That which is a Tiferet for himself and a Tiferet for others. (Pirkei Avos)

4 Refuah Shlemah Lenny Gregg Margie Ruben, Tova bat Label Moshe Abba ben Motelle Yehudit Elisheva bat David Micha Simcha Ha Levi ben Sarah Fradel bat Rachel Leah Evelyn Sarasohn Menachem Maier ben Fayga Shmuel ben Galiah Yechil Yeshiahu ben Fradel Cecelia Richman Chava Gilad ben Avivah Yitzhak Benyamin ben Leah Miriam Mayta bat Nesha Sira bat Hannah Emery Schaffer Warren Weinstein Ze ev ben Addi (Dr. Gerald Caplan) Naomi Rus Bas Shoshana Devorah Chaya Ruchel bas Sura Rivkah (Ida Fisher) Talia bat Pesha Chaya Tuvia ben Chana Adina Rifka bat Chaya Sprintza Ester Devorah bat Faygala Yechevet Koplowitz Judit Ruth bas Edit (Janet Kolender) Jennifer Phillips James Chisholm Kalman Mair ben Dina Brenda Snipes Shulamit Chana bat Rachel Razel (Sally Fischbein) Baruch ben Moshe Sura bat Oudis Would you like to have Friends and Family added to the Dor Tikvah Mishaberach List? Please contact Charles Steinert at with both their English and Hebrew Names. (All names will be published in the weekly announcements unless otherwise requested.)

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