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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

Weekday

Security team: Red

Page No.s Artscroll Gutnick Hertz

Leining

Haftarah

144 180 106

1139 1386 118

Thought For The Week

Shacharit

Ma’ariv

Sun

09:00

19:30

Mon

07:00

19:30

Tues

07:00

19:30

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

AM Showers 11o High 6o Overnight Low


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