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Parshat Bereshit
24 Tishrei 5778 14 October 2017
Shabbat (Mevarchim) Kabbalat Shabbat
18:00
(Candle Lighting)
18:00
Shacharit
09:00
Leining
10:00
Mincha followed by Seudah & Ma’ariv
17:50
Shabbat Ends
19:04
Weekday
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Thought For The Week
Shacharit
Mincha & Ma’ariv
Sun
09:00
18:30
Mon
07:00
18:30
Tues
07:00
18:30
Wed
07:00
18:30
Studies tell us that spending too much
the other hand, is an awareness of one’s
Thurs
07:00
18:30
time on the internet can make you anti-
uniqueness.
Fri*
06:45
18:00
social. We trust, of course, that our com-
A lonely person, even when surrounded by
18:00**
munity e-letter has the opposite effect,
friends, feels that his unique experiences
inspiring you to increase your involvement
separate him from others. This existential
in the activities of our Kehilla.
loneliness is what forces us to commune
Candle Lighting
* Rosh Chodesh ** Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat
Chayim Arukim
To Jeffrey and Ruby Knopf on the loss of Tara, and to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows
d"sb
Behjat Sarir Marilyn Segal Sonia Lee Adrienne Paul Avril Spier
Brother Father Mother Mother Mother
Louise Kaye Kitty Joseph Andrea Flax Michelle Green
Mother Husband Father Father
Mark Davies Joy Polak
Father Father
20 October 30 Tishrei
Debbie Hilton
Father
שבת
Norman Luft Reuben Berg Stuart Marks Carol Marks
Father Father Father Husband
Mon
16 October 26 Tishrei
Wed
18 October 28 Tishrei
Thurs
19 October 29 Tishrei
Fri
21 October 1 Cheshvan
Kiddushim
It Takes Two
with our Creator by opening our hearts Jews need to connect themselves. Other
and praying to the One who truly under-
religions may encourage lone meditation
stands us.
and seclusion, but Judaism requires us to gather together to daven, to help one
Jewish life is about striking the bal-
another, and to build community. Many
ance between communing with Hashem
of our mitzvot are impossible to fulfil in
and playing our part in the community.
isolation. As Hashem said – in this week’s
Knowing when it is not appropriate to talk
parasha - before He created the second
in Shule, how best to comfort a mourner,
person, Eve, “It is not good for man to be
or who would appreciate a phone call or
alone”.
a Shabbat invitation – it’s a constant balancing act that I’m sure we in Hale can
In his essay “The Lonely Man of Faith”, Rav
Rabbi Joel Portnoy
Soloveitchik distinguishes between being
14 October Community Kiddush
alone and being lonely. Aloneness means
21 October Sarah & Darren Massel
entirely destructive feeling. Loneliness, on
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achieve.
lacking love and friendship; this is an
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