Parshas Mikeitz-Chanukah, 5773

Vol. 13, Issue 36 (#710) E-mail Edition Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie Shul News – Shabbos Parshas Mikeitz-Chanukah, 5773 (2 Teves-12/15/2012)

Table of Contents

News and Announcements 
Come to the Finkel and Fedida homes! 
Spreading the Chanukah Light 
Of Locks and Keys and Security – 2^nd Notice 
Breakfast and Learning for Men 
More Thank Yous 
Kiddush Committee News 
Kiddush Sponsors 
Timely Reminders 
Schedule for the Coming Week 
Shabbat L’Yisraelim 
Useful Information 
From our Online Magazine

 

This Friday night, Shabbos Chanukah, Tiffany Fedida is hosting a farbrengen for women at her home, 8653 Keeler, and all women are invited. At the same time, Phil Finkel is hosting a farbrengen for men across the street, at the Finkel home, 8636 Keeler.

Please come and enjoy time with friends on a lovely Chanukah Shabbos! We will see you there with brightness and cheer! Friday night, December 14, 2012, at 8:00 p.m.

We thank Moshe Melton for providing aluminum for our giant outdoor Menorahs.

We thank Mordechai Gutkovsky and Mike Fisher for lighting the Menorahs around town each night.

We thank Shai Cohen and Ben Tessler of Olympic Moving for storing the Menorahs year round and for delivering them before Chanukah.

We thank the many hosts of our public Menorahs. Here’s a complete list of our public Menorah displays: 
1. Bee-Zee Auto Body 
2. First Equity Bank 
3. Hungarian Kosher Foods 
4. Gross Point Medical Center 
5. Main & Crawford Auto Repair 
6. Olympic Moving 
7. SAS shoes 
8. Sigler’s Auto Center (Lincoln) 
9. Zevro Corp. 
10. Barasch Insurance Service and Financial Planning, Inc. 
11. Village of Skokie - Civic Pride 
12. Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie 
13. Champion Embroidery 
14. Gross Point Medical Center 
15. Supersteins

We’ve been having an exciting week! Pictures from lots of our Chanukah events are now up online atwww.SkokieChabad.org/Photos or on our facebook page at www.facebook.com/skokiechabad.

Look at them, enjoy, and remember to share them!

Over the past few months you may have noticed work being done on our building. We have upgraded and added security systems to protect all of us. As part of this process we have rekeyed the exterior locks and the old key no longer works to those locks. In the coming week, we will change the combination of the alley door.

If you find that your key no longer works or that the combination you enter does not unlock the door, do not use force on the lock. The lock is not broken; it is just that you don’t have a current key or combination.

If you need to be able to gain access to the building at times when it is not open to the public, please speak to Rabbi Yosef Posner about getting a new key. If your usual means of entry is via the combination lock, the new combination is ●,●,●,●. If your computer does not have the security clearance to read that encrypted combination, please speak to Rabbi Yosef Posner.

There will be a breakfast for men at Shul on January 13, 2013, 9:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. Rabbi Posner will discuss some interesting Halacha of Business case studies. We thank Hiam Naiditch for being the driving force behind this event, and his committee of Yehuda Leib Burgeman, Evan Loiterman, Rob Phillips, Dr. Berel Polisky, Steve Rosenberg.

We thank the following for helping to make the Chanukah Lounge the success that it was:

Tiffany and Shlomi Fedida, Rivkah Kaplan, Aryeh Kitzes, Ellen J. Levine, Chaya Phillips, Mushkie Raices, Ellyn Scheer, Sanford Schwartz, Judi Superstein, Shmuli and Yossi Telsner.

Thank you to the salad committee of Friedman & Scheer for making our Kiddush salads. This week’s salads are: scrumptious coleslaw, mouthwatering egg salad with pickle relish, enjoyable sweet corn salad with grapes, and everyone's favorite, Israeli salad with olives and pickles. There will also be special Chanukah treats provided by the sponsors.

Dave and Gail Goldberg in honor of his father's Yahrzeit and in memory of Manny Scheer, and Marty and Terry Stub in honor of their first anniversary.

This Friday is the beginning of the Hebrew month of Teves.

Chanukah continues through Sunday. Friday, we light the Chanuka Menorah before the Shabbos candles. The Chanukah candles have to burn for at least a half hour after dark, which is about an hour and a half in total. Ordinary Chanukah candles will not burn that long. Suggestion: use oil, Shabbos candles, or tea lights. After Shabbos, light the Chanukah candles after Havdalah. For detailed instructions on how to light your menorah and more about Chanukah, read here.

Earliest Tallis: on Mon: 6:17 am - Fri: 6:19 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.

Tuesday, 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.

 

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

9:28 a.m.Latest Morning Krias Shma 
9:00 a.m.Shacharis 
11:30 a.m.Kiddush sponsored by Dave and Gail Goldberg in honor of his father's Yahrzeit yahrzeit and in memory of Manny Scheer, and Marty and Terry Stub in honor of their first anniversary 
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 
5:07 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” 
4:53 p.m. Maariv 
8:00 p.m.Introduction to Chassidus with Rabbi Moshe Miller

6:30 a.m. Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Makos 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 Makos 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 Makos 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 Makos with Rabbi Posner 
1:00 p.m.Tanya Class (Women) – contact Mrs. Raices 
7:45 p.m.Maariv

6:30 a.m.Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Makos with Rabbi Posner 
4:03 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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