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Parshat Vayeitze 9 Kislev 5777 9 December 2016
Shabbat Kabbalat Shabbat
15:30
(Candle Lighting)
15:30
Shacharit
09:00
Leining
10:00
Power Kiddush
11:00
Shabbat Ends
16:48
Ma’ariv
17:05
followed by Musaph & Mincha
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Thought For The Week
Shacharit
Ma’ariv
Sun
09:00
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Mon
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Tues
07:00
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Wed
07:00
19:30
When Yaakov falls asleep, he dreams of a
greatness or we will fall away and become
Thurs
07:00
19:30
ladder whose base is fixed to the ground
insignificant. It is up to each of us to decide
Fri
07:00
16:00
and whose top reaches heaven. (Bereishit
in which direction we are moving on the
28:12) The Rabbis teach us that what
ladder which represents our lives.
Candle Lighting
15:30*
* Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat
Hashem was showing Yaakov in the dream
Chayim Arukim
to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows
Sun 11 December
Jeremy Hart Michael Gould Harvey Burman
Mother Sister Father
Mon
Fiona Berg Philip Braunstein
13 December 13 Kislev
Jeremy Arnold
Wed
11 Kislev
Stairway To Heaven
was the nature of the nation who would
But a ladder is only usable if it is standing
descend from him.
firmly and will not fall. Just as the ladder in Yaakov’s dream was ‘mutzav artzah’ – fixed
The Gemara (Megilah 16a) says that the
in the ground - so we must be firmly rooted
Father Mother
Jewish people are compared to dust and to
in the ground of our lives: the everyday ritu-
stars – referring to a previous prophecy to
als of relationships, work, and responsible
Father
Avraham. When the Jewish people are on a
citizenship. We cannot be totally spiritual
Jonathan Koslover Mother Lynda Arron Husband
downwards path they descend to dust, but
and self-obsessed, sitting meditating on a
when they go up they ascend all the way
mountain top. We must have our feet firmly
Louise Burman
Father
to Heaven.
on the ground in order to have our head in
16 December 16 Kislev
Murray Patt
Father
שבת
Irene Varley Sheilah Sheldon
Husband Brother
12 December 12 Kislev
Tues
14 December 14 Kislev
Thus
15 December 15 Kislev
Fri
17 December 17 Kislev
the clouds, so that we can reach the great A ladder is the perfect representation of
things we strive for without falling.
the Jewish people. No one ever remains standing on a ladder – its purpose is to
Kiddushim
enable us to travel up or down to reach
10 December Power Kiddush
something. That is what the Jewish people
17 December Sara & Raymond Crammer 24 December Unsponsored
Rabbi Joel Portnoy
are all about. We are a nation that cannot
Shabbat Weather
remain stagnant. We can either ascend to
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