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Parshat Va’era

Shabbat (Mevarchim) Kabbalat Shabbat

15:50

(Candle Lighting)

15:50

Shacharit

09:00

Leining

10:00

27 Tevet 5776 8 January 2016

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Mincha follows kiddush Shabbat terminates

17:07

Ma’ariv*

17:25

Leining Haftarah 318 372 232

1149 1400 244

*Followed by Parent & Child Learning

Weekday Shacharit

Ma’ariv Only

Sun

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19:30

Mon*

07:00

19:30

Tues

07:00

19:30

Wed

07:00

19:30

Thur

07:00

19:30

Fri

07:00

16:00**

Candle Lighting

16:00

*Rosh Chodesh **Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

Chayim Arukim

to all those who have Yarzheit in the coming week as follows Sun

10 January 29 Tevet

Mon

11 January 1 Shevat

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12 January 2 Shevat

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13 January 3 Shevat

Thurs

14 January 4 Shevat

‫שבת‬

16 January 6 Shevat

Raymond Taube Shirley Horwich Sara Crammer

Father Husband Father

Joanne Feldman

Father

Howard Hymanson Ruth Glass Estelle Glynn Susan Lentin Jonathan Ferster Stuart Ferster Warren Ferster Chaim Ferster Gary Simon

Father Father Father Brother Mother Mother Mother Wife Mother

Irene Varley Basil Latter Jacqueline Luft Ian Buchalter Jeanette Abrahams Rabbi Portnoy

Mother Mother Mother Mother Mother Mother

Norma Freeman

Father

Barbara Rosen John Blaskey Roger Blaskey Michelle Levy Jayna & Guy Levy

Father Father Father Husband Father

Kiddushim 9 January Gillian & Tony Raynes

Thought For The Week Being Grateful In this week’s parsha Hashem commands

of lice, which required striking the ground,

Moshe to bring the plague of blood to the

Moshe refused again to strike it, because

Egyptians, and start the painful process

the ground saved him by covering up the

of forcing Pharoah to let the Jews leave

Egyptian taskmaster that he had killed in

Egypt. He tells him that he should stretch

last week’s parsha.

his staff over the River Nile, and strike the water, and this will start the transforma-

The message for us is that if Moshe was

tion of water to blood.

able to show such sensitivity to water and dust which are not living beings, then how

However, when the plague eventually

much more so do we have to be careful to

starts, it is not Moshe who strikes the

show gratitude and sensitivity to anybody

water, but rather his brother, Aharon. The

who does us even the slightest favour,

famous question is why did Moshe not

even something as small as lending a pen

listen to Hashem and do it himself?

or giving us directions.

One answer is that since Moshe was

However big or small the favour or ges-

saved by the River Nile as a baby, he would

ture, the correct thing to do is to say

not be showing appropriate gratitude to

thank you, and try and do something nice

the river by striking it, and cursing it.

in return.

Rabbi Nick Similarly, it is Aharon who strikes the Nile when bringing about the second

Shabbat Weather

plague of frogs. And at the third plague

AM Rainy

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