Parshas Vayishlach, 5773

Vol. 13, Issue 34 (#708) E-mail Edition Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie Shul News – Shabbos Parshas Vayishlach, 5773 (17 Kislev-12/1/2012)

Table of Contents

News and Announcements 
     Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen for Men 
     Prize Week 
     Chanukah 2012 
     Join us in Lighting Up Illionis 
     Join us in Lighting up Skokie 
     Chanukah Wonderland for Kids 
     Chanukah Lounge for Adults 
     Chanukah Learning for Men and Women 
     Spreading the Chanukah Light 
     Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau Lecture – On the Verge of Selling Out 
     Jewish Youth House Update 
     Conclusion and a New Beginning 
     Thank You 
     Kiddush Committee News 
Kiddush Sponsors 
Timely Reminders 
Schedule for the Coming Week 
Shabbat L’Yisraelim 
Useful Information 
From our Online Magazine

 

We will have a grand Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen on Tuesday, December 4, starting at 8:00 p.m. at shul. The Farbrengen will be led by Rabbi Moshe Miller. 

Yud Tes Kislev is celebrated as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus,” and is the day the Alter Rebbe was freed from prison in czarist Russia. This was a watershed event in the history of Chassidism, heralding a new era in the revelation of the “inner soul” of Torah. You can read about Yud-Tes Kislev on our website here.

Rabbi Miller a prolific author and translator, with some twenty books to his name on a wide variety of topics. He is a popular lecturer, mostly on Jewish mystical topics.  He teaches the Sunday evening course on the introduction to Chasidus and should have lots of interesting things to share with us about Yud Tes Kislev.

We will daven Maariv at 7:45 p.m. and begin the farbrengen at 8:00 p.m.

This week we are opening up “shop” for the kids to redeem their tokens for prizes and games. Everyone can shop and choose prizes which will then be placed in bags, with their names, to be taken home after Shabbos.

On Shabbos, one is not allowed to acquire things, so for this halachic reason, prizes cannot be taken home on Shabbos. If the parents cannot pick up the prizes at a time when the shul is open for regular davening, you can contact Yona Posner at 847 677 1770 x305 to arrange another time.

We are excited about Chanukah this year! With an event every night, it’s going to be a very bright holiday.

Information about ALL the events of Chanukah are online. The Chanukah pages are up and running on the website at www.SkokieChabad.org/Chanukah2012.

You should have received  information about the Chanukah Wonderland for kids, the Chanukah Lounge for adults, and the Chanukah holiday guide, all in your mailbox. Make sure to share these with someone else, when you have absorbed all the useful information.

Don’t forget to click over to www.SkokieChabad.org/Chanukah2012 for the full inside scoop on everything that’s going on.

You’ve always admired the cartop menorahs and wondered how to get one for yourself. This seasonal car ornament that is sure to turn heads admiringly. Well, it is simple to get one. Just contact Rabbi Raices and he will make all the arrangements for you!

Join the Jewish Youth House on Thursday night, the 6rd night of Chanukah, December 13, 6:00 p.m. as we light the large Menorah at the “Site of Civic Pride” in downtown Skokie at Oakton and Lincoln. We will be joined by His Honor the Mayor of Skokie , music, hot latkes, and lots of fun.  

Bring all the kids to the Chanukah Wonderland on December 9, 2012, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm at Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie. Everyone will have a great time, with activities, crafts and live shows, facepaint, dreidel slam, Make-a-Donut, digital Chanukah station, make a card for an IDF soldier, moon bounce, Chanukah gelt, and even take a photo with Judah Maccabee!

Kids, check your mailbox next week to find special scratch-off cards! Bring them with you  to see if you're a winner!

For more information and to get the discount for advance reservations, go to the website  here: www.SkokieChabad.org/2036852.

Mark your calendars for 12/11/12, and our Chanukah party for adults! We are excited about the Chanukah lounge, where you’ll enjoy drinks, good food, and great entertainment!

Reserve online now for the Chanukah Lounge and get a $5 discount per person. RSVP here:www.SkokieChabad.org/2037320.

Enjoy another riveting class from the Torah Perspectives series with Rabbi Yosef Posner, to take place December 12, 8:00 p.m.!.  This time the topic is, “Chanukah: Which Miracle are we Celebrating?” Men and women are welcome to join.

During Chanukah volunteers will be visiting the Jewish residents of all of the nursing homes and the hospital in Skokie, bringing them the light and joy of Chanukah. This is being coordinated by Tiffany Fedida. If you would like to be part of this, please contact her.

Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Yisrael Meir Lau will be speaking about his childhood experiences at Buchenwald this Sunday evening.  This event has generated a lot of interest and tickets are going fast. The event will be THIS Sunday evening, December 2, 7:00 PM at the Niles North High School Auditorium (across from Old Orchard mall).  This event is organized by JLI of Metropolitan Chicago. Tickets are $18 in advance. If you are interested in attending do not wait to buy tickets at the door; click here now to see if seats are still available.  

JLI Teens 
This Monday will be our final class of the "SuperJew" course. We will be discussing how to implement the knowledge we have gained in the past 6 weeks to become a true "SuperJew."

Jewish Youth Club 
Jewish Youth Club boys ended its first session with a grand BBQ this week. We all had a great time.

Chanukah 
The Jewish Youth House is in full swing preparing for Chanukah! Stay tuned for our teen event and public Menorah lighting with the mayor of Skokie.

Mazel Tov 
We wish a very hearty Mazel Tov to our very own Tani Kleinman on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah! May you grow to be source of pride to your parents, community and all of Klal Yisroel.

The Gemara class which meets every weekday morning after Shacharis began the study of Tractate Brachos last Yud Tes Kislev with the goal of finishing it before this Yud Tes Kislev as our participation in the annual world-wide joint completion of the Talmud, instituted by the Alter Rebbe and celebrated each Yud Tes Kislev. We are very close to the finish line and hope to have it completed by Monday. We will then start on Tractate Makos to be completed, G‑d willing, in the coming year.

Thank you to Beri Cohen, Aliza Korrub, Chaya Phillips, and Yona Posner, for helping with the kids’ room last week in absence of regular staff.

Thank you to the salad committee of Friedman & Scheer for making our Kiddush salads. Salads this week are: fully dressed tuna with capers, succulent tomato and garbanzo bean salad, fall sweet corn salad, and. cool, calm, crispy, critically acclaimed, crunchy, coleslaw with sumptuous noodles.

Hiam and Sheri Naiditch in honor of their son Ari’s birthday and co-sponsored by Luba Adler in memory of  her uncle Berl Adler. – We thank the Finkel, Miller, Phillips and Shudnow families for sponsoring last week’s Kiddush

Earliest Tallis: on Mon: 6:06 am - Fri: 6:10 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.

Monday and Tuesday, Yud-Tes & Chof Kislev, mark the Alter Rebbe’s release from Czarist imprisonment (5559/1798) and are celebrated as Rosh Hashanah L’Chasidus. We do not say Tachnun on Sunday afternoon, Monday, and Tuesday. To read more about the life and times of the Alter Rebbe, founder of Chabad Chassidus, click here.

The first Chanukah light will be kindled next Motzei Shabbos. For detailed instructions on how to light your menorah and more about Chanukah, read here.

 

4:00 p.m.   Candlelighting 
4:10 p.m.   Mincha and Kabolas Shabbos

9:19 a.m.    Latest Morning Krias Shma 
9:00 a.m.   Shacharis 
11:30 a.m.  Kiddush sponsored by Hiam and Sheri Naiditch in honor of their son Ari’s birthday and co-sponsored by Luba Adler in memory of  her uncle Berl Adler 
2:30 p.m.    Rabbi Raices’ class in his home, 3534 Arcadia 
4:00 p.m.   Mincha 
followed by Gemara Megilla with Rabbi Raices, or Seudah Shlishis with Nigunim & Divrei Torah 
5:06 p.m.   Maariv and Shabbos ends

8:00 a.m.   Shacharis 
9:00 a.m.    Tanya 
10:30 a.m.  JLI: “Kabbalah of You” with Rabbi Yochanan Posner 
4:10 p.m.   Mincha 
                  followed by “The Living Torah” 
4:52 p.m.   Maariv 
8:00 p.m.    Introduction to Chassidus with Rabbi Moshe Miller

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 
7:00 p.m.    JLI Teens 
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 
2:30 p.m.    “What Page are We On in the Prayerbook?” Davening class in the home of Susan Rosenberg, 8343 Lowell 
7:45 p.m.   Maariv 
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

6:30 a.m.   Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.    Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
10:30 a.m.  JLI: “Kabbalah of You” with Rabbi Yochanan Posner 
1:00 p.m.    Tanya Class (Women) – contact Mrs. Raices 
7:45 p.m.   Maariv 
8:00 p.m.    JLI: “Kabbalah of You” with Rabbi Yochanan Posner

6:30 a.m.   Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.    Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
3:59 p.m.   Candlelighting 
4:10 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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Vol. 13, Issue 34 (#708) E-mail Edition Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie Shul News – Shabbos Parshas Vayishlach, 5773 (17 Kislev-12/1/2012) -Addenda

Table of Contents

 

Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau Lecture – Sold Out 
Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen for Men Has Sponsors 
Timely Reminders Omitted from This Weeks Shul News

 

Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen for Men has Sponsors

 

The Grand Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen on Tuesday, December 4, is sponsored by David and Judi Superstein in honor of the conclusion of 11th months since the passing of her father R. Kalman Glustoff, and by Dovid Grinker.

The Farbrengen will be led by Rabbi Moshe Miller. 

Yud Tes Kislev is celebrated as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus,” and is the day the Alter Rebbe was freed from prison in czarist Russia. This was a watershed event in the history of Chassidism, heralding a new era in the revelation of the “inner soul” of Torah. You can read about Yud-Tes Kislev on our website here.

Rabbi Miller a prolific author and translator, with some twenty books to his name on a wide variety of topics. He is a popular lecturer, mostly on Jewish mystical topics.  He teaches the Sunday evening course on the introduction to Chasidus and should have lots of interesting things to share with us about Yud Tes Kislev.

We will daven Maariv at 7:45 p.m. and begin the farbrengen at 8:00 p.m.

 

Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau Lecture – Sold Out

 

The Auditorium seats are sold out! There will be live feed in an adjacent room for $10 per person for people buying tickets at the door.(The auditorium will be open for all immediately following the talk, tomeet Rabbi Lau in person)

 

Timely Reminder Omitted from this week's Shul News

 

In Maariv Tuesday evening, we begin saying "v'Sen Tal uMutor" in the ninth Bracha of the Amidah (Annotated Sidur, pages 48, 106, 126). Details of how to correct errors are in the Annotated Sidur on page 590.