Parashat Vayeishev
Torah: Genesis 37:1 –
40:23
Haftarah: Amos 2:6 – 3:8
Kislev 23, 5780 /
December 20-21, 2019
COMING SOON: NEW ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT TBH/CBM!
Starting January 12, 2020, we'll have two Sunday morning classes:
1. "(Re) Introduction to Judaism", with Rabbi Richard Flom - Sundays at 9:30 am. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn or relearn everything they should have taught you inHebrew School
2. "History of Israel and the Middle East", with David Silon - Sundays at 11:00 am.
Class schedules, curricula, and reading lists will be available on-line and in snail mail the first week of January.
COMING SOON: NEW ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT TBH/CBM!
Starting January 12, 2020, we'll have two Sunday morning classes:
1. "(Re) Introduction to Judaism", with Rabbi Richard Flom - Sundays at 9:30 am. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn or relearn everything they should have taught you in
2. "History of Israel and the Middle East", with David Silon - Sundays at 11:00 am.
Class schedules, curricula, and reading lists will be available on-line and in snail mail the first week of January.
Dedications and calendar follow below. For complete listings, see our web site at:
Please feel free to pass
this on to a friend, and please cite the source.
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PRINCE OR SLAVE?
"And it came to
pass after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker
had sinned against their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was angry at
his two princes - the prefect of the cupbearers and the prefect of the bakers." Genesis
40:1-2
Rabbi Samson Raphael
Hirsch says that the reference to the two courtiers as "princes" is
mockery. To those who served beneath them, they were "princes",
wielding great power; but to the king, they were nothing more than slaves with
fancy titles. He threw them into prison for no apparent reason. The
cupbearer and baker failed to understand that, when one's position is dependent
solely upon the whim of one's superior, one's position is, at best, precarious.
So it is all too often
with people who attain positions of power granted by another. They clothe
themselves in self-importance. The opinions of those who work for them are
irrelevant. These "princes" believe that direct contact with the
king somehow makes them as powerful as the king.
The most desirable
community, it seems to me, is one where every member, whether leader or not,
fully understands that they are serving a higher purpose; where there is no
self-aggrandizement, no delusion of grandeur interfering with their dedication
and perseverance. Fortunate is that community whose leaders understand that
they are NOT royalty. Equally fortunate are the leaders and workers who serve
that community which does not treat them like slaves. I am thankful to be a
member of such a community! May it be thus for all of us.
Shabbat Shalom! Chag
Urim Sameach!
Rabbi Richard A. Flom
הַלּוֹמֵד מִכָּל
אָדָם ?אֵיזֶהוּ חָכָם
Who is wise? The
one who learns from every person.
Ben Zoma - Pirkei Avot
4:1
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Candle lighting: 4:30 pm
Friday: Simchah Shabbat Evening Service –
6:30 pm. Simchah Shabbat Dinner follows. Dinner is
complimentary, and reservations have closed. If you failed to make a
reservation, we might still be able to squeeze you in. Thanks to Lynda and Tony
Foster and family for sponsoring this dinner in honor of their wedding
anniversary.
Saturday: Torah study/breakfast – 8:45
am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.
Sunday: NO Religious School – resume January 5. Hanukkah begins at 5:31 pm. Get out your hanukkiyah, your oil or candles, your latkes, and your dreidels!
Sunday: NO Religious School – resume January 5. Hanukkah begins at 5:31 pm. Get out your hanukkiyah, your oil or candles, your latkes, and your dreidels!
Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.
Thursday: Community
Hanukkah Menorah Lighting and Dinner – 6:30 pm. Cost: $10/adult, $5 under 13, free 5 and under. Reservations
by 12/24 are a must! Bring your hanukkiyah and oil or candles! Thanks
to Gina and Bernie Seeman for co-sponsoring this dinner in honor of their
wedding anniversary.
Friday, December 27: Shabbat
Evening Service – 6:30 pm. Oneg
Shabbat follows.
Saturday, December
28: NO Torah study/breakfast – resume January 4. Women's Rosh Chodesh Shabbat
Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush lunch follows.
Tuesday, December 31: NO Lunch and Learn – resume
January 7.
Next time you come to
TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and
personal items (no glass) for SOVA.
This d’var torah is
offered for a refuah shleimah for Leah bat Sarah Imanu, Sarah bat Devorah,
Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Elsbet Brosky, Mark Brownstein, Jerry Daniels,
Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel),
Bernard Garvin, Leah Granat, Gabor Klein, Elaine Kleiger, Philip Kronzek, Tonya
Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Imanu), Ina Labowitz, Stuart Lytton, David
Marks, Gail Neiman, Sandra Raab, David Russak, Josef Sands, Shirley Sands,
Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat
Kreina), and William Sragow.
Please let me know if
there is anyone you would like to add to this list or if there is anyone who
may be removed from this list.
