October 31, 2020 • 13 Cheshvan 5781

Lech-Lecha

Mazel Tov to proud parents, Abbie Singer and James Harte on the Mincha Bar Mitzvah of their son, Uri Singer-Harte. October 31, 2020 • 13 Cheshvan 5781 Please proceed to WWW.ANSHEEMET.ORG/LIVESTREAM to view our services. Lech-Lecha

KRISTALLNACHT: Shabbat Shalom and Welcome! Reflections for Today Anshe Emet Men’s Club Invites We welcome you to Anshe Emet Synagogue and hope that All Congregants to Participate you enjoy our worship service. If you are a visitor, please and Share Your Voices introduce yourself so we may welcome you and wish you When: November 10 • 6:45pm – 8:30pm Shabbat Shalom. Everyone is invited to join our community Where: Your home via Zoom. Free to attend but for Kiddush lunch following services. registration is required by Sunday, November 8. Open to the first 100 registrants. What: An evening to remember and reflect on Mission Statement the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, the still-hard- Anshe Emet Synagogue seeks to encourage involvement to-grasp Nazi pogrom against Nazi Germany’s Jewish citizens. and create a special sense of belonging. We are committed Rabbi Siegel will provide introductory remarks to meeting the religious, educational, social, and cultural and then we will view a brief video highlighting Kristallnacht’s major historical details. We will needs of our members within the framework of the Conservative then break into small groups to share reactions on Kristallnacht and the Shoah and their relevance to Movement. In keeping with the teachings of Judaism and contemporary Jewish society. Please have a yahrzeit candle handy, if possible, for the the spirit of Klal Yisrael, we recognize our responsibility to memorial service at the end of the program. serve the Jewish community, the wider community and the Register at: tinyurl.com/aeskristallnacht82 state of Israel.

Michael S. Siegel • Senior Rabbi, Norman Asher Rabbinic Chair Registering to vote has never Alberto Mizrahi • Hazzan Emeritus, Arnold H. Kaplan M.D. Cantorial Chair been easier or more convenient. You can register online, in person David Russo • Rabbi or by mail here. D’ror Chankin–Gould • Rabbi Want to avoid crowded polling places on Election Day? Click Elizabeth Berke • Interim Hazzan here for more information. Naomi Weiss-Weil • Ritual Director Click here to Learn About Illinois' New Vote By Mail Law. Art Friedson • President Boni Fine • Executive Director Transliteration of the Prayer for the State of Israel: Avinu sheh-bashamayim, tsur Yisrael v’goalo, bareikh et m’dinat Yisrael reishit ts’michat g’ulateinu. Hagein aleha b’evrat chasdekha ufros aleha Established 1873 sukat sh’lomekha, ushlach or’kha va’amit’kha l’rasheha sareha v’yoatseha, Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism v’tak’neim b’eitsa tovah mil’fanekha. Chazeik et y’dei m’ginei eretz kodsheinu, v’hanchileim Eloheinu y’shua, va’ateret nitsachon t’at’reim. V’natata shalom 3751 North Broadway • Chicago, Illinois 60613-4104 ba’arets v’simchat olam l’yosh’veha, v’nomar: Amen. AnsheEmet.org • 773.281.1423 Parsha Summary Yahrzeits We remember those of our Anshe Emet family who are no longer Lech Lecha • Take Yourself, Go Forth with us and whose Yahrzeits we observe this week. Genesis 12:1 - 17:27 May their memory be for a blessing.

God commands Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s Errikos Alcheh Felice Leglaire house to the land that I will show you.” Promised that he will become Tillie Balaban Walter Levy a great nation, Abram leaves Haran with his wife, Sarai, his nephew, Lot, and Florence Bearak Jacob Lichtenstein their entourage, and they reach the city of Shechem in Canaan. God promises Arthur Beermann Herman Malkov this land to Abram’s descendants, and Abram builds an altar to God at Beth Beverly Berman Yetta Malvin El. A famine forces Abram and Sarai down to Egypt, where Pharaoh lusts after Karen Blackman Elsie Mayzels Mandel Sarai, thinking she is Abram’s sister. God prevents Pharaoh from touching her. Dorothy Brand George Mandel Instead, Pharaoh gives Abram great wealth and expels the group to Canaan. Lauren Brill Adeline Maremont There the servants of Lot and Abram quarrel; the two agree to separate, with Andrew R. Cirillo Sarah Marshall Lot choosing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the well-watered plains of Leah Dry Anna Mintz Jordan. God reiterates the promise that the land will belong to Abram’s heirs Murray Esbitt Alan Oppenheimer Walter Fainman Harry Pink who will number the dust of the earth. Four kings battle five kings, and in Lili Finkelstein Gertrude Posner the process capture Lot. When Abram hears of this, he musters 318 fighters, George Fisher Lilli Provus routing them near Damascus and rescuing Lot and the residents and wealth Betty Fox Sophie Rapoport of Sodom. In gratitude, King Melchizedek of Salem – later Jerusalem – blesses Mayer Freed Harry Reisin Abram in the name of God Most High. Arthur Gold Louise Robinson God tells Hagar that her son, Ishmael, will become a great nation, and that Hyman N. Goldberg Orville Rosen she must, in the meantime, return to Abram and Sarai. God changes Abram’s Harry A. Goldman Bertha Rosenberg name to Abraham (“father of a multitude”) and Sarai’s name to Sarah (“princess”), Kenneth Goldman Herman Rothenberg ordaining the mitzvah of the brit milah, the ritual circumcision binding William R. Goodman Joseph Schatz on all Jewish males throughout the generations. God promises that Sarah will Carol Greenman Lucy Schwartz bear a son – despite being 90 years old – and that the boy will be called Isaac. Jacob K. Hammerman Morris Serlin Abraham circumcises himself and all his followers. Responding to Abraham’s Irving Harris Jeanne H. Solomon complaint that he is still childless, God tells him to look toward heaven and Lotte Hausler Leona Stern Etta Immergluck George M. Stern count the skies: “So shall be your offspring.” God tells Abraham to sacrifice Harold Isan Abraham Suss a heifer, a goat, a ram, a turtle dove, and a bird. Abraham sleeps between Fannie Jacobson Frances Tabloff the split carcasses, and God tells him that his descendants will be enslaved Max A. Jaffy Gilda Tames for four hundred years but that God will liberate them with great wealth and George Jaquith Ervin Tarjan Abraham will die in peace. Sarah takes matters into her own hands and has Calvin W. Kaminsky Harold Weinberg Abraham sleep with her servant, the Egyptian handmaid Hagar. Hagar conceives Harold Koloms Stuart Wolf and thereafter disdains her barren mistress. In response, Sarah treatsher harshly; Sidney Krieger Lucy May (Taylor) Yntema Hagar runs away. An angel tells her to return. Samuel Kroll Roza Zaika Michael Kurman Efym Zingman The Bedside Torah: Wisdom, Visions, and Dream Rabbi Bradely Shavit Artson Life Cycle • Support HaZaK • Torah Readings

Help Us Be There For You HaZaK • Mondays at 1pm Synagogue is a place where you want to feel at home, nourished, nurtured and spiritually fulfilled; a place where your soul, heart and head are touched. It is a HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is place where you and your children feel a sense of relevance. It is a place where focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” you are safe, where you are stimulated, and where you will find a welcoming Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l. community. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 • HAZZAN ELIZABETH BERKE As part of this commitment, the clergy at Anshe Emet are here to help with Visit ansheemet.org/livestream to join | Meeting ID: 663 098 957 Simchas and crises in your or your family’s life. If you know someone who needs Contact Cantor Liz Berke for Zoom password to speak with a member of our clergy, or if you want to add a name to the Mi and more information at [email protected] Sheberach list, please contact Antoinette (Toni) Nuñez at 773-868-5120 or anunez@ ansheemet.org. Names will be kept on the Mi Sheberach list for two weeks only unless otherwise specified. On-Line Bereavement Group Supporting our community in Condolences times of loss. It is with deep regret to inform you of the recent passing of Barry Mark Kreiter, November 23 • 7:30pm • Via Zoom age 63, beloved husband of Cheryl, nee Shapiro; father of Rachel and Elizabeth; brother of Robert Berg, Pamela Cohen Berz, Sam (Debbie) Kreiter Please join us, every fourth Monday of the and Dayna Kreiter; nephew and cousin to many; friend to many more. month, for our online support group for adults who have experienced the death The Anshe Emet community extends its deepest condolences to the Kreiter of a loved one within the past two years. family during this difficult time. May they be comforted among the mourners in Zion and Jerusalem. Amen. Meeting ID: 170 885 666 | Contact Tamar Brooks for Zoom Password: [email protected] Siman Tov U'Mazel Tov

Mazel Tov to Rachel and Max Kaplan, older brother, Jordan and to the proud TORAH READING PAGE NUMBERS IN ETZ HAYIM grandparents, Mary and Norman Geller and Janet and Ivan Kaplan on the DEUTERONOMY Chapters 14-17 newest addition to their family! Shmuel Tuvia/Samuel Teddy was born on st Thursday, October 15 at 12:26 am, weighing in at 9 lbs., 3 oz. and 20.5 in. long. 1 Aliyah: p. 77, 14:1-14:9 Everyone is home and doing well. 2nd Aliyah: p. 79, 14:10-14:16 3rd Aliyah: p. 80, 14:17-14:20 Mazel Tov to Jennifer Pehr and Jon “JAR” Adam Ross on the birth of their son, th James “Jamie” Levi-Pehr-Ross on Wednesday, October 7 at 5:20 am, weighing in 4 Aliyah: p. 81, 14:21-14:24 at 6 lbs., 11 oz. Everyone is home in NYC where the family resides and doing well. 5th Aliyah: p. 82, 15:1-15:6 Congratulations are also extended to Jennifer’s aunt and uncle, Lisa Goldberg, 6th Aliyah: p. 83, 15:7-15:16 Michael Cohen and their children, Sarah, Adam and Adina on the newest 7th Aliyah: p. 85, 15:17-15:21 addition to the family!

The Anshe Emet community extends its heartiest congratulations to these Maftir: p. 93, 17:24-17:27 families. May their newborns grow up to attain Torah, Chuppah, and Good Haftarah: p. 95, Isaiah 40:27-41:16 Deeds. Amen. WHAT’S HAPPENING AT ANSHE EMET?

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