Parshas Vayigash, 5772

Vol. 12, Issue 37 (#660) E-mail Edition Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie Shul News – Shabbos Parshas Vayigash, 5772 (5 Teves-12/31/2011)

Table of Contents

News and Announcements 
     New JLI Course: MONEY MATTERS 
     Friday Night Shabbat Dinner: OF GOLEMS AND GENIUSES 
      “GIRLS NIGHT” Next Week  
     Thank You 
     Shul Family Album 
     Mazal Tov 
Kiddush Sponsors 
Timely Reminders 
Schedule for the Coming Week 
Shabbat L’Yisraelim 
Useful Information 
From our Online Magazine

 

MONEY MATTERS is an epic JLI course, on Thursdays or Sundays, starting the last week in January, with Rabbi Yochanan Posner. (MCLE credits available) More info is available on the website atwww.SkokieChabad.org/JLI

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 is available on the website at www.SkokieChabad.org/1714863

Join N’Shei Skokie Chabad for Ladies night out with jewelry designed by YOU!  We will be using colorful and textured beads, to create a one-of-a-kind necklaces or accessories. Hear about the Four Senses in Kabalah! (Yes, only 4), while snacking on delicious sushi, sushi, sushi, and other snacks.

More info is available at www.SkokieChabad.org/Women

We had so much going on this Chanukah: 11 giant Menorahs around town, CTeen event with the Jewish Youth House, the Chanukah Lounge for adults, Public Menorah Lighting with Skokie Mayor Van Dusen, Chanukah Wonderland for kids, and visiting all the area nursing homes and hospitals!

Please check out our photos on the website at www.SkokieChabad.org/Photos, and our YouTube channel atwww.youtube.com/user/SkokieChabad

Hundreds and hundreds of people were touched by light of Chanukah, and we could not have done it without the many, many volunteers, who helped in so many ways. Here are some more of the people whom we need to thank:

Avi Belson, Andi Belson, Emunah Belson, Ozzie Meir Belson, Baila Belson, Sarah Burnstein, Laura Chuven, Sapir Fedida,  Shani Fedida, Shlomi Fedida, Tiffany Fedida, Michael Fisher, Mordechai Gutkovsky, Katie Horowitz, Stacey Hunt, Sammy Hunt, Mollie Jakofsky, Howard Kaplan, Rivkah Kaplan, Sarah Leah Kaplan, Evan Loiterman, Elsa Macks, Chaim Naiditch, Ilana Peritt, Chaya Phillips, Rob Phillips, Jerry Raiber, Mushkie Raices, Mrs. Rivkie Raices, Yehudis Raices, Shevach Reuven (Steve) Rosenberg, Moshe Sperling, Rivky Sperling, Sora Leah Sperling, David Superstein, Eli Superstein, Steve Tag, and all the girls who came to help from Lubavitch Girls’ High School.

We thank the following establishments that donated gift certificates used as prizes at our Chanukah events:  Bagel Country, Hungarian Kosher Foods, Illinois Nut and Candy, The Main Pizza/Chalavi, Shallots Bistro, Taboun Grill, and Tel Aviv Kosher Bakery. Thank you to Ellen J. Levine for organizing this.

And, we thank Sid Stein and Sue Bohm for help us get out the JLI mailing.

Thank you to Shlomit Hoch for hanging up posters announcing our different events.

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.

Mazal Tov to Moshe Zalman and Miriam Gold Olive on the engagement of their daughter Sara Malka to Judd Barton. May they have much Yiddishe, Chassidishe Nachas!

Mr. and Mrs. Shlomoh and Yarona Ben-David in honor of his birthday and in honor of Hei Teves.

Earliest Tallis: on Mon: 6:23 am - Fri: 6:23 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.

Shabbos, the Fifth of Teves, is celebrated by Chasidim as the day on which the federal courts recognized ownership of the Previous Rebbe's library by Agudas Chasidei Chabad and by extension rejected challenges to the authenticity of the Rebbe's leadership. The Rebbe declared that this day is an auspicious time especially to add to one's personal library of Torah books. To read more about Hey Teves, click here.

Monday, being it is a legal holiday, we will have Shacharis at 8:00 a.m. and Mincha/Maariv at 4:20 p.m. There will not be a 7:45 Maariv Minyan.

Next Thursday is Asara B'Teves (the Tenth of Teves). We fast on this day from dawn until nightfall, because this is the date on which the siege of Yerushalayim began, which lead eventually to the destruction of the First Bais Hamikdash. Selichos are said in davening, and there is Torah-reading at Shacharis and Mincha. It is permissible to get up early to eat until approximately 5:35 a.m. (if, when going to sleep the night before, one had in mind to do so). The fast ends at 5:10 p.m. Please note that we WILL have a Minyan for Mincha on Thursday beginning at 4:10 p.m. because of the fast. There will NOT be a 7:45 Maariv Minyan.

 

4:08 p.m.   Candlelighting 
4:15 p.m.   Mincha and Kabolas Shabbos

9:36 a.m.    Latest Morning Krias Shma 
 9:00 a.m.  Shacharis 
11:30 a.m.  Kiddush sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Shlomoh and Yarona Ben-David in honor of his birthday and in honor of Hei Teves 
2:30 p.m.    Rabbi Raices class in his home, 3534 Arcadia 
4:05 p.m.   Mincha followed by Gemara Megilla with Rabbi Raices, or Seudah Shlishis with Nigunim & Divrei Torah, & Seudah Shlishis for Teen boys 
5:15 p.m.   Maariv and Shabbos ends

8:00 a.m.   Shacharis 
9:00 a.m.    Tanya 
4:20 p.m.   Mincha 
                  followed by Living Torah 
5:02 p.m.   Maariv 
8:00 p.m.    Hebrew Language with Rabbi Eliezer Bakaleynik

8:00 a.m.   Shacharis 
4:20 p.m.   Mincha 
                  followed by Living Torah – catching up on recent missed installments 
5:02 p.m.   Maariv 
7:00 p.m.    Parashat Hashavua L’Dovrei Ivrit with Rabbi Raices 
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.    Knit, Purl, and Parsha with Yona Posner in the Phillips home, 9040 Kildare

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

5:35 a.m.   Fast Begins
6:30 a.m.   Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.    Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
4:10 p.m.   Mincha 
                  followed by Living Torah – catching up on recent missed installments 
5:05 p.m.   Maariv 
5:10 p.m.   Fast Ends

6:30 a.m.   Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.    Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
4:14 p.m.   Candlelighting 
4:25 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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