Parshas Vayechi, 5772

 

Vol. 12, Issue 38 (#661) E-mail Edition Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie Shul News – Shabbos Parshas Vayechi, 5772 (12 Teves-1/7/2012)

Table of Contents

News and Announcements  
Tradition and Compassion: Homosexuality and the Orthodox Community 
GIRLS NIGHT This Tuesday  
New JLI Course: MONEY MATTERS  
Friday Night Shabbat Dinner: OF GOLEMS AND GENIUSES  
Baba Sali Hilula Dinner  
Yud Shvat Farbrengen for Men  
Thank Yous  
Chanukah Recap  
Shul Family Album  
Jewish Youth House  
Mazal Tov  
MISSING!  
Kiddush Sponsors  
Timely Reminders  
Schedule for the Coming Week  
Shabbat L’Yisraelim  
Useful Information  
From our Online Magazine

This Sunday, January 8, 7: 30 p.m. , the cRc will host “Tradition and Compassion – Homosexuality and the Orthodox Community,” at Or Torah, 3800 Dempster St. , featuring Rabbi Judah Dardik of Oakland, CA, Rabbi Barry Freundel of Washington, DC, and Benzion Sorotzkin Psy.D.

Opening remarks from Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, Av Beit Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Admission is free.

Join N’Shei Skokie Chabad for Ladies night out this Tuesday, January 10, 2012, with jewelry designed by YOU!We will be using colorful and textured beads, to create a one-of-a-kind necklaces or accessories, learn a bit about jewelry in Kabbalah, and enjoy some delicious sushi, sushi, sushi, and other snacks.

At the home of Tal Gold, 8821 Kilpatrick in Skokie. Cover $10, free for first-timers, RSVP atwww.SkokieChabad.org/Women or just come!

MONEY MATTERS is an epic JLI course about Jewish Financial Ethics.Is Judaism socialist or capitalist? Who is responsible for preventing poverty? Is unionization a Jewish ideal? Must Walmart pay its workers a livable wage? Where would you draw the line? An ethical, Talmudic, and legal debate on the economic issues of our time.

This course meets on Thursdays or Sundays, starting the last week in January, with Rabbi Yochanan Posner. (MCLE credits available) More info is available on the website at www.SkokieChabad.org/JLI

This year marks 500 years since the birth of Rabbi Yehudah Loew of Prague, known as the Maharal. One of the outstanding Jewish minds of the sixteenth century, he is best-known as the creator of the mysterious Golem. The Maharal’s approach to Talmud and Jewish philosophy are the foundation of modern Chassidus and his works are studied by Jews across the spectrum.

OF GOLEMS AND GENIUSES is the theme of our next Friday Night Shabbat Dinner, with great food and a fascinating presentation by Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz. It will take place on Friday evening, January 27, 2012. More info and discounted reservations are available on the website atwww.SkokieChabad.org/1714863.

Please join us for a Hilula dinner in honor of the Baba Sali, Rabbi Yisrael Abichatzeira. Featuring Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun, Rabbi Baruch Hertz, Rabbi Yosef Posner, Rabbi Daniel Raccah and guest speaker Rabbi Asher Vaknin, as well as live music by Isaac Bitton of Raya Mehemna fame, Sunday, January 29 2012, 7:30 pm promptly (doors open at 7:15 pm) at Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie, 4059 Dempster in Skokie.

There is limited seatingand this year advance reservation is required, online atwww.SkokieChabad.org/hilula or (847)677-1770.

In honor of Yud Shvat (the 10th of Shvat), date of the passing of the Previous Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and the ascendancy of the Rebbe, Rabbi M.M. Schneerson to the leadership of Chabad, there will be a farbrengen for men on Thursday evening, February 2.

More information will come in future weeks.

To read more about Yud Shvat and the events of those years, visit this page on our website:www.skokiechabad.org/ 108303

We thank Tal Adar, Avi Belson, Ozzie Meir Belson, and David Superstein for taking down the giant Menorahs all around town.

We thank Tel Aviv Kosher Pizza donating gift certificates which were used as prizes at our Chanukah events.

We thank TenderCare for laundering our tablecloths for us.

We thank Olympic Moving for storing our giant Menorahs year round.

We thank Hillel Singer for donating some of the gifts distributed to winners at the Chanukah Wonderland.

Chanukah this year was tremendous! We have lots of photos and videos.

This is part of Skokie Mayor Van Dusen’s remarks at the outdoor Menorah Lighting in downtown Skokie, talking about how the village welcomes our Menorah: http://youtu.be/x5mDRTXz4Kg

This is a photo montage of our various Chanukah events this year: http://youtu.be/9d7qdU6ksxQ

Here is some video of Governor Quinn dancing with Chabad Rabbis including Rabbi Yosef Posner at a Menorah lighting: http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/67011944/News/Gov-Quinn-dances-at-Hannukah-ceremony

Photos are on our website at www.SkokieChabad.org/photos.

Please send us your family photo, so we can get a shul photo album together. The album will have names & photos of all shul members, so you can properly identify your shul buddies. The album will be in a private (password protected) corner of our website.

Why not browse our existing photos online at www.SkokieChabad.org/photos? Perhaps we have one of you that you’d like us to use, let us know.

Please submit current pictures either by email to [email protected] or by snail mail to Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie, 4059 Dempster St., Skokie, IL 60076.

Our Jewish Youth House team is hard at work preparing the next series of new and improved programming which will be rolled out it two weeks. Watch this space!

Mazal Tov to Leon and Adele Benkovitz on the forthcoming marriage oftheir daughter Shera to Michael Libraty. May they have much Yiddishe, Chassidishe Nachas!

A sefer has gone missing from our shul library, it is the Artscroll Brachos Vol. I - we need it back! If you have knowledge of where it is, please help restore it to its rightful owner, and enable the many to benefit from it.

WANTED

Earliest Tallis: on Mon: 6:23 am - Fri: 6:22 am *  
*) The time we are posting is primarily with our weekday 6:30 minyan attendees in mind. If someone must daven earlier, please be aware that there are other opinions of how to calculate this.

4:14 p.m. Candlelighting  
4:25 p.m. Mincha and Kabolas Shabbos

9:37 a.m.Latest Morning Krias Shma  
9:00 a.m.Shacharis  
11:30 a.m.Kiddush sponsored WANTED  
2:30 p.m. Rabbi Raices class in his home, 3534 Arcadia  
4:15 p.m. Mincha followed by Gemara Megilla with Rabbi Raices, or Seudah Shlishis with Nigunim & Divrei Torah, & Seudah Shlishis for Teen boys  
5:21 p.m.Maariv and Shabbos ends

8:00 a.m. Shacharis  
4:25 p.m. Mincha  
followed by Living Torah  
5:07 p.m. Maariv  
8:00 p.m.Hebrew Language with Rabbi Eliezer Bakaleynik

6:30 a.m. Shacharis  
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner  
7:00 p.m.Parashat Hashavua L’Dovrei Ivrit with Rabbi Raices  
7:45 p.m.Maariv  
8:00 p.m.Weekly Torah Class with Rabbi Yochanan Posner

6:30 a.m.Shacharis  
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner  
10:00 a.m.Weekly Parsha and discussion with Rabbi B. Epstein  
7:45 p.m.Maariv  
8:00 p.m.Chassidic Discourses with Rabbi Raices  
8:00 p.m.“Girls Night”

6:30 a.m.Shacharis  
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner  
11:00 a.m.Explanation of Tefila, Halachos of Shabbos, Etc. with Rabbi Posner  
5:00 p.m.Works of Maharal with Rabbi Posner at First Equity Bank, Dempster & Crawford  
7:45 p.m.Maariv  
8:00 p.m.Gemora, Mesechta Pesachim with Rabbi Raices

6:30 a.m.Shacharis  
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner  
7:45 p.m.Maariv

6:30 a.m.Shacharis  
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner  
4:22 p.m. Candlelighting  
4:30 p.m.Mincha and Kabolas Shabbos

Shabbat L'Yisraelim, provided by Rabbi Menachem Slavaticki and the Chabad Israeli Center, will meet this Shabbat at 10:00 a.m. on the lower level for Shacharit. The Tefila is followed by a complete Seudat Shabbat.

 

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