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ד"בס MIZRACHI MATTERS

SHABBAT VAYESHEV (Vol 10, No 12) Rabbi Mottel Krasnjanski will speak from the Pulpit Friday night.

Friday, 4 December (22 Kislev) EARLY SHABBAT

Plag Mincha: 6:45pm (Beit Haroeh)

Candle Lighting between 7:05 - 7:10pm

LATER SHABBAT Mincha: 7:15pm (Beit Yehuda)

Candle Lighting: 8:10pm

SHKIYAH MINYAN Mincha: 8:20pm

Beit Haroeh 1. Beit Yehuda 2. Beit HaRoeh 3. Kehillat Ohr David/Beit Midrash 4. Bnei Akiva 5. Elsternwick 6. Midrashah 7. Goldberger Hall

Shabbat

5 December 23 Kislev

Sunday 6 December

24 Kislev

Monday 7 December

25 Kislev

Tuesday 8 December

26 Kislev

Wednesday 9 December

27 Kislev

Thursday 10 December

28 Kislev

Friday 11 December

29 Kislev

Shacharit 7:30am 1 9:30am 1 7:00am 1 8:00am 1 9:00am 4

6:20am 1 7:20am 1

6:20am 1 7:20am 1

6:20am 1 7:20am 1

6:20am 1 7:20am 1

6:20am 1 7:20am 1

Dawn 4:40am 4:40am 4:40am 4:40am 4:40am 4:40am 4:40am Tallit & Tefillin 4:49am 4:49am 4:49am 4:49am 4:49am 4:49am 4:49am Sunrise 5:52am 5:52am 5:52am 5:52am 5:52am 5:52am 5:52am Sh'ma (גר״א) 9:31am 9:31am 9:31am 9:31am 9:31am 9:32am 9:32am Earliest Mincha 1:48pm 1:48pm 1:49pm 1:49pm 1:50pm 1:50pm 1:51pm

Early Shabbat *FRIDAY 11 December:

Plag Mincha (Mincha Only): 6:50pm followed by Chanukah & Shabbat Candles at home AFTER 7:10pm Regular Mincha: 7:15pm followed by a Combined Kabbalat Shabbat 7:30pm

Shabbat *FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER: Light Chanukah candles followed by Shabbat candles, ALL BEFORE 8:17pm. Minchah at 8:25pm1.

Mincha followed by

8:05pm1 6:50pm1 6:50pm1 6:50pm1 6:50pm1 6:50pm1 7:15pm1 Plag HaMincha (גר״א) 6:58pm 6:59pm 6:59pm 7:00pm 7:01pm 7:02pm 7:02pm Sunset 8:29pm 8:30pm 8:31pm 8:32pm 8:33pm 8:34pm 8:35pm Night 9:17pm 9:18pm 9:19pm 9:20pm 9:21pm 9:22pm 9:22pm

Second Ma'ariv 9:30pm3 9:30pm3 9:30pm3 9:30pm3 9:30pm3

SHIURIM

R’ Leor Broh 9:00am

R’ James Kennard 9:30am (Kinder)

Drashot R’ Danny Mirvis1

R’ Leor Broh2 R’ Chezy Deren3

Midrasha Seudah Shlishit for Ladies

6.00 pm Parashat HaShavua

Shiur R’ James Kennard

7:00pm

Daf Yomi 8:45am6

Post Bar Mitzvah Chabura with

R' Danny Mirvis 7.30 pm

Gemara Beginner Workshop with Doodie Bankier

8.30 pm

Daf Yomi 8:15am6

Ramban Shiur for Ladies with Rabbi

Danny Mirvis 9:30am6

Bein Haftara leParasha Shuir

Adina Bankier-Karp Shiur for post high

school girls 8:30pm6

R’ Chezy Deren Contemporary

Halacha (CHANGE ADDRESS)

8:30pm Michal Kaufman (Lewis’ house)

9:00pm

Daf Yomi 8:15am6

Scotch & Shiur with Rabbi Danny Mirvis

12:00pm3

Daf Yomi 8:15am6

Weekly Parashah Shiur for

ladies & girls 43 Lumeah Rd

Mrs Chaya New 11:00am

Lunch and Learn Chanuka Special Shiur with Rabbi

Danny Mirvis L1 Capital, Lvl 51

101 Collins Street, Melbourne

1:00-2:00pm

Daf Yomi 8:15am6

Hilchot Shabbat Shiur in Hebrew

with Rabbi Danny Mirvis

7:30pm Gemara Shiur for

Women For women in high

school and University

8:30pm Ladies Chanukah

Get Together 8:30pm at the home

of Althea Mirvis Parasha Shiur

(Ivrit Kala) with Rabbi Danny Mirvis

8:45pm3

Daf Yomi 8:15am6

Mishnah Yomit

Nidah 2:3-4 Nidah 2:5-6 Nidah 2:7-3:1 Nidah 3:2-3 Nidah 3:4-5 Nidah 3:6-7 Nidah 4:1-2

7:55pm Between Mincha and Ma'ariv

Between Mincha and Ma'ariv



Between Mincha and Ma'ariv 6:40pm

EVENTS Bnei Akiva

Not this week Seudah Shlishit: Michael Lawrence

Holy Bagel Not this week

Chillen Chulent 9:45pm3

Molad for Tevet

7:19 (12 chalakim) AM

YAHRTZEITS

David Lindell (Father)

Aaron Bell (Mother)

Reuben Wein (Father)

Karl Ginzburg (Father)

Barry Kras (Father)

Helen Bentley (Father)

Errol Rink (Mother)

Phil Symons (Father)

Ben Zehnwirth (Father)

MAZAL TOV Mazel Tov

Adina and Noam Malki on the BIRTH of a baby boy.

Mazal tov to the Grandparents:

Sonia Slonim and Pauline Wroby & Yossi and Esther Malki.

Mazal Tov to the Great-Grandparents: Ben and Eva Slonim & Godl and Rosa Wroby.

Mazel Tov Aron Goodhardt and Dalia Lederberger on their recent wedding

Mazel tov to the parents Rabbi Ian & Sharon Goodhardt and Sam & Minna Lederberger

Mazel tov to the grandparents Helen Brooks (London) and Prof Gerald & Valerie Goodhardt (London)

BAR MITZVAH ANNIVERSARIES

Menachem Broner, Ilan Kraus, Jarrad Pyke, Ari Wenig

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Shabbat: Menachem Broner (HBD), Mark Epstein, David Greenberger (HBD)

Sunday: Jeremy Herz

Monday: Gabriella Debinski

Tuesday: Caylee Hyman

Thursday: Shosh Kloot, Hayley Rosenbaum, Mikey Teller

Friday: Sonia Greenberger

If you have an occasion or milestone event that you would like to be mentioned in Mizrachi Matters,

please email it to [email protected] by 12:00pm on Thursdays

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NE W S L E T T E R F O R T H E

ELSTERNWICK JEWISH COMMUNITY

ס ב "ד 5 December 2015 23 Kislev 5776 Parshat Vayeshev

Yahrzeits during the coming week Marilyn Schimmel (Father) [5 December] Susan Epstein (Mother) [10 December] Cecilia Zydower (Mother) [5 December] Shabbat times Candle Lighting this week 8.11 pm Candle Lighting time if attending Kabbalat Shabbat 6.56 pm Kabbalat Shabbat this week 6.30 pm Pre-Shacharit Shiur 9.00 am Shacharit 9.30 am Rabbi’s Shabbat Shiur 7.15 pm Mincha at 8.00 pm Shabbat ends at 9.16 pm Candle Lighting next week 8.17 pm Candle Lighting next week if attending Kabbalat Shabbat 7.02 pm Kabbalat Shabbat next week – Special Chanukah celebration 7.20 pm The Rabbi’s Shabbat Shiurim The early shiur (9.00am, before Shacharit) - come join the Rabbi for cake, coffee and an exploration of the mystical parsha Birthdays this week Noah Epstein turns 9 on 9 December Kayla Boymal turns 2 on 9 December Ilan Kamien turns 2 on 10 December In shule this week … Bernie Simai will be leading Kabbalat Shabbat, Rabbi Cowen will be leading Shacharit, Daniel Lowinger will be leining, Sam Laser will be saying the Haftorah, and Elan Jacobs will be leading Mussaf. Kiddush this Shabbat You are all invited to the kiddush, which will be sponsored by EJC. At the Rabbi’s For the Young Adults – the Wick on Thursday evenings from 8.00 to 9.00pm at the Rabbi’s home, Unit 3, 301 Glen Eira Road, Caulfield North Weekday times Sunday: Tefillin beginners class, including breakfast 8.00 am Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 6.30 am FIDDLER ON THE ROOF! See Fiddler on the Roof with EJC on 21 February 2016. Contact Sally-Ann 0437-625-350 or [email protected]. Tickets $105 in A Reserve. All bookings and payments must be made by 21 December or you’ll miss out. Limited seats.

Contact numbers Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Cowen

0433-308-584 [email protected] Chairman Mark Kras

0410-460-970 [email protected] Gabbai Elan Jacobs

0419-527-227 [email protected] Secretary Sally-Ann Jaye

0437-625-350 [email protected] Haftorah requests Dennis Max

9528-6865 [email protected]

Contributions to Newsletter (please) Sally-Ann

[email protected]



A few words from Chagai Feigenbaum, Hesder Bachur 2015-2016

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Dreams. Yosef dreams very interesting dreams. He comes to his father who loves him dearly and tells him about them. Yosef is probably expecting a positive response, an explanation. And what does he hear? What is Yaacov’s reply? A total rejection;

But his father protesting said, what sort of a dream is this? Am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?(Genesis 37:10).

This is very confusing: Yaacov himself knows what value dreams have! He has seen G-d in his own dream when he fled his home to go to Haran. And all the more so, he himself knows how to use a dream as a valid argument. When he planned his escape from his father-in-law, Lavan, he approached his wives to tell them that it is time to run away and that it is just to take the sheep that belong to him. What did he tell them? What made his claim valid? He had a dream! As the passuk states:

And in my dream the angel of the L-rd said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you. I am the G-d of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth. (Genesis 31:11-13)

In order to answer this question we must point to another theme in the parasha: deception. Beside dreams we see a lot of deception, lying, and falsehood. The brothers lie to their father, Tamar deceives Yehuda and Potifar’s wife lies about what occurred between her and Yosef. What are these two themes doing in the same parasha?

A dream has a very moving, driving power. But sometimes it could be false, an illusion, as vividly displayed in the film, “Inception”. When dreaming we bring forth a power to change the world. But we also run the risk of running away from the real world into our own “make believe” world.

So what does one do? I think that the other part of Yaacov’s response can help us. We see that after the total rejection Yaacov does something – he “kept the matter in mind” (Genesis 37:11). Rashi explains that Yaacov was waiting to see how events unfolded. This teaches us that when it comes to our dreams we must balance them – not only with a strong connection to reality, but also to take a step back. To loosen our grip and let it go. In a certain sense it means to create a certain void in which we let G-d into our dreams, into reality.

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"I Seek my Brethren"

One of the most difficult questions about Josef, is why didn't he inform his

father that he was in Egypt. One may say that while he was in prison or

during the time he was a servant for Potiphar, Josef couldn't go back to his

father or send a message. But when he became the ruler in Egypt, surely he

could “pick up the phone” and let his father know about his situation! Josef,

as a matter of fact, caused his father to mourn him for 22 years, how could

Josef cause his father such pain?

In order to answer this question, we must understand that there is Divine

plan which organizes and guides all the events throughout history. Our

current story begins when Josef is sent by his father on a mission, “And

Israel said unto Josef: 'Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem?

come, and I will send thee unto them.' And he said to him: 'Here am I.' And

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he said to him: Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well

with the flock; and bring me back word.' So he sent him out of the vale of

Hebron, and he came to Shechem.” (Genesis 37, 13-14).

First, we should notice who exactly is sending Josef. While his father's

name is Jacob, the name used in this case is 'Israel'. This is a clear

indication that this mission is about all Am Israel; while the name Jacob is

of an individual, Israel represents the national level. Josef's mission was to

go to Shechem, to check out the flock, see if his brothers are well and then

go back and report to his father. It seems a simple task, but when Josef gets

there, things get a little tricky: “And a certain man found him, and, behold,

he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying: 'What

seekest thou?', And he said: 'I seek my brethren. Tell me, I pray thee, where

they are feeding the flock.' And the man said: 'They are departed hence;

for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.' And Josef went after his

brethren, and found them in Dothan.” (Genesis 37, 15-17).

Josef went to Shechem, but his brothers were no longer there. If this

mission was merely an informative one, we would expect Josef to go back

home and tell his father that he went to Shechem and did not see his

brothers and the flocks. But Josef did not stop there. He gathers more

information from a “certain man” and goes to Dothan to look for his

brothers, where he will be thrown into a pit and eventually sold into

slavery in Egypt.

The Ramban on the Torah explains: “And a certain man found him” – that

means he was lost and didn’t know where to go. He went into a pasture

seeking his brothers. It is to say that he had many reasons to go back home,

but he did it to honor his father. The story further explains that G-d’s

commands are truth and diligence is a lie, because G-d appointed a guide

for Josef to bring him to his brothers".

This commentary gives us a much broader perspective to understand the

story of Josef and his brothers. It is important to note that Jacob was

aware of the animosity between Josef and his brothers. Surely he saw that

they couldn’t even say hello to him. But still he sends Josef on mission that

is potentially dangerous for him. Josef himself also knew that his brothers

were capable of attempting to murder him, but still he was ready to take on

this dangerous task. We must understand what was so important in this

mission: that Josef was ready to risk his life to achieve it.

There is something unique about Jacob and his family. From the time of

Adam until Jacob, G-d gave a unique quality to those He chose. This was



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passed on from father to son, and always to one son only. Jacob is the one

who breaks the mold; he passed this unique quality to all 12 of his

sons. Every one of them had a share in the special relationship with G-d.

When Josef was favored by his father, his brothers feared that once again

this unique quality would be given only to one son, Josef, and they would

be left out. Perhaps that truly was what Josef thought as well. However,

eventually both Jacob and Josef understand that in order for each and

every one of the 12 tribes to fulfil their destiny, they all have to act together

in brotherhood.

That was the crucial mission Josef was sent on, which he could not leave

unfinished. That is also why he could not tell his father what happened to

him for so many years. Josef's mission is to reveal the brotherhood of the

12 tribes, and he cannot stop until it is fulfilled. This goal will be

reached only when Yehuda will announce “For thy servant became surety

for the lad unto my father, saying: If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I

bear the blame to my father for ever.” (Genesis 44, 32). Only then do all the

sons of Jacob take responsibility one for another, understanding that they

will only fulfil their destiny if they are united together.

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Learning night in Torah MiTzion

Montreal

New Gemara Shiur for 7th and

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held its inaugural Motzei

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In cooperation with:

'Lilmod' Coordinator and Head of European Desk in Torah MiTzion

The Har Etzion Yeshiva usually

referred to as "The Gush" is one of the

largest and oldest Yeshivat Hesder in

Israel, and is located in the Alon Shvut

settlement in Gush Etzion.

The yeshiva was established in 1968,

after the liberation of Gush Etzion in

the Six Day War, by Rabbi Yehuda

Amital, who served as head of the

Yeshiva. It was first located in Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, and after a while relocated to

Alon Shvut. Two years later Rabbi Amital invited Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, the

son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik, who was then in the United

States, to serve as a Rosh Yeshiva alongside him.

These two rabbis were and remained prominent leaders and thinkers of religious

Zionism until their death a few years ago.

The learning of the yeshiva is characterized by the Brisk methodoligical way of

Talmud study, extensive academic learning of Tanach, and conceptually a

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The Yeshiva established other institutions with an important influence in the world



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of Torah study both in Israel and abroad; The Herzog College for teachers trained

thousands of educators and teachers for their important role and gradually became

one of the important center for academic Tanach learning and teaching.

It also established the Migdal Oz Midrasha for Women, continuing the revolution of

Torah study for women. Today the head of the Beit Midrash is Rebbetzin Esther

Rosenberg, the daughter of Rabbi Lichtenstein z"l.

The Yeshiva itself has thousands of graduates, many of them are today prominent

rabbis and leading educators. Since its founding to the present it has absorbed a

large number of students from abroad, especially from the United States.

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next week‘s edition.

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high impact formal and informal

educational programs.

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