CONGREGATION BETH AARON ANNOUNCEMENTS Shabbat Parshat Vayechi January 2-3, 2015 12 Tevet 5775

SHABBAT TIMES This week’s announcements are sponsored by Carmela & Jack Rosenbaum & family to commemorate Friday, January 2 the 15th yahrtzeit of Jack’s father, Meir ben Yaakov Yehuda, niftar 15 Tevet 5760. Latest Candles: 4:23 p.m. Slower-paced, ruach-filled Mincha/ Kabbalat Shabbat: 4:25 p.m. in Beit This week’s announcements are sponsored by Lamdeinu. For details of the exciting Spring semester and to sign up, Regular Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: go to lamdeinu.org. 4:25 p.m. in Main Shul Study in depth; be inspired!

Shabbat, January 3 SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 4 Hashkama Minyan: 7:30 a.m. Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Tefillah : 8:20 a.m. Richie Schiffmiller’s shiur on 4 5 6 7 8 9 “The Mathematics of Kinnim” follows Earliest 6:21 6:21 6:21 6:21 6:21 6:21 the Hashkama Minyan Shacharit 6:30 MS 6:10 SH 6:10 SH 6:10 SH 6:10 SH 6:10 SH Main Minyan: 8:45 a.m. 7:15 MS 6:20 BM 6:30 BM 6:30 BM 6:20 BM 6:30 BM Youth Minyan: 9:15 a.m. 8:00 MS 7:10 BM 7:15 BM 7:15 BM 7:10 BM 7:15 BM Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:40 a.m. 8:45 MS 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Early Mincha: 1:45 p.m. : 3:05 p.m. Mincha 1:00 BM Women’s Learning: 3:05 p.m., at the Greenberg home, 291 Schley Place, Mincha/Maariv 4:30 MS 4:30 BM 4:30 BM 4:30 BM 4:30 BM 4:35 MS Haftarah study Meir Hirsch’s shiur: 3:15 p.m Maariv 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Mincha: 4:15 p.m., followed by Rabbi 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM Rothwachs’ shiur, “The Fast of the 9th of Tevet: Revealing the Secret Legacy of St. KEY: MS = Main Shul BM = Beit Midrash SH = Social Hall Peter” MAZAL TOV TO Maariv: 5:23 p.m. Havdalah: 5:32 p.m. • Yoni Celnik, on his aufruf and upcoming marriage to Michla Lane. • Carrie & Dr. Stanley Cooper, on being honored by Beit Orot at its Annual Dinner this coming Tuesday. Latest Candles on Friday, January 9: • Ken Goffstein, on being honored by the JLE at its Annual Dinner this Motzaei Shabbat. 4:30 p.m. • Marlene Greenspan, on the marriage of her daughter Chaya to Ahron Kostiha. • Ayelet Kurz, on her Bat . Mazal Tov also to her parents, Rebecca & Jeremy Kurz, and to her JANUARY CALENDAR siblings, Yonatan, Aviva, and Daniel. • Temima Macklin, on her Bat Mitzvah (her Hebrew is this Shabbat). Mazal Tov also to her THIS WEEK’S PARSHA QUESTIONS parents, Danit & Garron Macklin, and to her brothers, Tuvya and Amitai. Welcome and Mazal Tov Printed copies are available in the lobby. to her grandparents, Linda & Lionel Eliovson and Esther & Stuart Macklin, and to the entire family who have come from near and very far to celebrate with her. On Shabbat, the shul elevator will CONDOLENCES TO operate in Shabbat mode as follows: Friday: • David Landsman, on the passing of his mother, Marta Landsman. , which took place in Chicago, 4:10-6:00 p.m. has concluded. Shabbat: • Dr. David Richman, on the passing of his sister, Gail Richman. Shiva has concluded. 8:15 a.m.-Noon; 1:30-2:15 p.m.; 3:00-5:30 p.m. WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY

Is the Eruv Up? Call the Eruv Hotline Dr. Etta & Dr. Isaac Novick, who live on Carroll Place. before Shabbat: 201-530-0222 MEN’S CLUB KIDDUSH Do Chesed! Fill out our online chesed form. There is no Kiddush following the Main Minyan this week. The next Kiddush will take place on Shabbat, Shop Amazon January 10. & Support Beth Aaron Go to Kiddushim cannot be successful without the support of the kehilla. Sponsorships for the weekly www.bethaaron.org/amazon Kiddushim are $72 (L’Chaim Sponsor) and $54 (Mezonot Sponsor). If you are celebrating a simcha, and click on the Amazon link to start commemorating a yahrtzeit, or simply want to say “thank you,” consider sponsoring a Kiddush. Visit the your online shopping. Kiddush website to sponsor. For questions, contact Ari Gononsky at [email protected].

Contact Beth Aaron at To support the Hashkama Minyan’s monthly hot Kiddush on Shabbat Mevorchim for a second year, [email protected] join the Hashkama Minyan Kiddush “Society.” The membership of $54 can be made online; please note in the “comments” section that the contribution is for the Hashkama Minyan Kiddush. Contact Ari Gononsky, [email protected], with any questions. SHUL ANNOUNCEMENTS SERVING OUR CREATOR WITH A HEALTHY BODY, MIND, AND SOUL This Friday evening, January 2, a special slower-paced, ruach-filled Lecture series given by Rabbi Rothwachs Kabbalat Shabbat minyan will be held in the Beit Midrash, led by Monday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Rabbi Moshe Stepansky. The davening will begin with mincha at 4:25 p.m. and will include a d’var by Rabbi Stepansky. All are invited January 5: Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community: and encouraged to attend. The usual Kabbalat Shabbat davening will Prevention, Detection, and Treatment take place at 4:25 p.m. in the Main Shul. Rabbi Moshe Stepansky, a January 12: Genetic Testing and Preventive Medical Intervention University musmach, was the gabbai at the Carlebach Shul in in Halacha and Hashkafa New York City for more than 12 years. During Reb Shlomo’s final years, February 2: Shemirat Shabbat vs. Shemirat ha-Nefesh: Health he was one of Reb Shlomo’s closest talmidim, actively supporting his Management and Medical Treatment on Shabbat work at the shul. Reb Shlomo personally asked Moshe to be Ba’al Shacharit for the High Holidays and periodically throughout the year. This lecture series is sponsored by: Reb Moshe has been a consistent guest rabbi at the Carlebach Shul w Linda & Rabbi Jay Goldmintz for many years, as well as leading at Shabbatonim from North Dakota w Linda & Rabbi Mark Karasick, in honor of their children and to Jerusalem and many points in-between. Reb Moshe and his wife grandchildren Shira have lived in Tzfat for the past 8 years. Reb Moshe has been, and w Cathy & Dr. Steve Schuss, in memory of their parents, Naftali continues to be, involved in bringing Reb Shlomo’s philosophy to the Herz ben Yizchok, Miriam bat Avraham, and Shalom Tzvi ben general public and connecting everywhere. Aharon

The Women’s Rosh Chodesh shiur for Tevet will be given by Mira Recordings of earlier sessions and the source sheets are (Leifer) Stokar this Wednesday, January 7, at 8:00 p.m. at the home of available online at www.bethaaron.org/torah. Upcoming Evie Leifer, 150 Chadwick Road. Future shiurim will be held each month lectures will be posted to the shul website as they become on an evening close to Rosh Chodesh. We hope you can all join us. For available. more information, or to host a future shiur, please contact Fern Amper, [email protected]; Esther Chaitovsky, [email protected]; or Tzippy BETH AARON ANNUAL DINNER Staum, [email protected]. Sign up online at www.bethaaron.org/dinner The next Sisterhood Book Club selection will be Like Dreamers, the for the Beth Aaron Annual Dinner on Sunday, story of the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem and divided February 22, at 5:00 p.m. Our honorees will a nation, by Yossi Klein HaLevi. We will meet to discuss this book be our long-time members and supporters next Motzaei Shabbat, January 10, at 6:00 p.m. This program is open Arlene & Arthur Eis. This year’s Service to both men and women. The location will be announced shortly. Awardees are our dynamic Youth Leaders For questions, contact Diane Fogel, 201-837-0651,[email protected] . Erica & Jason David. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE: The Men’s Club Cholent-less Challenge will take place on Friday night, February 13. We know who can make a PARNAS HAYOM great cholent, but who can make a great non-cholent in a crockpot? The only rule is that you can’t make a cholent, chili or cholent-like Dedicate a day of learning at Beth Aaron on the occasion of a stew, but anything else that is fleshik or parve and can be cooked in a yahrtzeit, in the zechut of a refuah shelaima, or in honor of a crockpot is eligible! Sign up online for a spot at www.bethaaron.org/ simcha, a birthday or any other occasion. Each week’s dedications event/cholent-less-challenge.html. are prominently displayed in the shul lobby and sent out to the membership via email. For more information, or to sign up, please It is absolutely prohibited to remove the current Daf Yomi Gemara go to www.bethaaron.org/parnashayom. volume from the Beit Midrash. The current volume is Yevamot.

We are often willing to accept donations of used seforim to our library NEED A PASSWORD FOR THE BETH AARON WEBSITE? in the Beit Midrash. If you wish to donate such seforim to our library, please contact Mitch First, [email protected], or Joshua Zakheim, Do you need a password to log-in to BethAaron.org? Just go to [email protected]. Please do not bring any donations of bethaaron.org/password and type in your e-mail address for a link seforim to the Beit Midrash without first contacting Joshua or Mitch. to be sent to you. If the email you entered isn’t registered with the Thank you for your cooperation. If you wish to donate money for the website, it won’t recognize you. Contact [email protected] with purchase of new seforim and have particular titles in mind, also please the e-mail address you would like in your profile so we can update it. contact them. WEEKLY SHIURIM

PAYMENTS TO BETH AARON • Daf Yomi: For Daf Yomi shiurim and resources in Teaneck, go to www.teaneckshuls.org/daf/. In order to properly post payments made by check, please note on • Daf Yomi shiur by Rabbi Rothwachs/ Rabbi Daniel Feldman/ Rabbi the memo line how the funds should be applied. Payments also can Mark Staum/ Rabbi Daniel Herrmann: Monday-Thursday be made online at www.bethaaron.org. Please log into your account evenings, at 9:45 p.m. to ensure that payments are applied appropriately. If you do not • Rabbi Rothwachs’ Bava Kama shiur: Wednesday evenings at know your password, contact the office at [email protected] to 8:30 p.m. have your password sent to you. Thank you for your cooperation. • Morning Mishna Chabura: Monday, Thursday: 6:55 a.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 7:00 a.m. BETH AARON YOUTH BEIT MIDRASH LIBRARY Next Friday evening, January 10, at 7:30 p.m., in the shul, there will Because there are books and sefarim still missing from the Beit be an Oneg with Rabbi Rothwachs for children in Grades 6 to 8. Midrash, we are reinstituting the old policy that existed before the expansion: Parent-Child Learning will take place next Motzaei Shabbat, January 10, at 6:15 p.m. Parents and children are encouraged to 1. Books on the right side of the Beit Midrash, facing the Aron, may come and learn. Bring your own materials to learn, or take out a circulate for 3 weeks. book from our Youth Library. Ices or ice cream will be served each 2. Books on the left side of the Beit Midrash, facing the Aron, and week. Each week, there also will be a raffle for great prizes and a those in the rear of the Beit Midrash, may not be removed from the door prize for every child who attends. Children are welcome to Beit Midrash without special permission. sign up to say a Dvar Torah. Sponsorships are available starting at $36 (ice cream party) or $125 (pizza party). To sponsor or to sign This new policy takes effect immediately. up to say a Dvar Torah, please go to http://goo.gl/8abPB or email [email protected]. Below please find an initial list of missing sefarim. If you, or someone you know, has one or more of these, please return them ASAP. “Banim Mitpalelim,” an initiative designed to enable broader participation of our boys between the ages of 7-12 in leading the If anyone would like to sponsor the purchase of any of these missing conclusion of davening on Shabbat mornings, has begun. Those volumes, please contact Mitch First, [email protected], or Joshua interested may sign up using the online form or contact Mark or Zakheim, [email protected]. Shimon Staum, or Jason David, directly. A. Mishnayot For more information about youth programs, contact Beth 1. Kahati with Bartenura Aaron Youth Directors Erica and Jason David, 732-618-9473, a. Moed–2 -- Volume 4 [email protected]. b. Taharot–3 – Volume 13 For more information about events for 6th to 8th graders, please 2. Kahati Hebrew-English contact Batsheva & Zev Weisinger, [email protected]. a. Nezikin–3 -- Volume XII b. Nezikin–4 – Volume XIII c. Kodashim–1 – Volume XIV NCSY d. Kodashim–2 – Volume XV These programs are open to all high school students: 3. Artscroll w On Thursday nights, there will be a Latte and Learning from 7:00 to a. Nezikin – Volume III(a) 8:30 p.m. at the Lazy Bean Cafe, 1404 Queen Anne Road. Every b. Kodashim – Volume I(b) teen gets a free $5 or under item. c. Taharot – Volume V(b) For information on NCSY events, or if you have questions, B. Artscroll English Gemara comments, and ideas, email Spence Weitzen, [email protected]. 1. Kiddushin–1 – Volume 36 Join us on Facebook or email us, [email protected]. 2. Horayot-Eduyot – Volume 54 3. –1 – Volume 71 4. Niddah–2 – Volume 72 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

C. Hebrew-English Rambam (Moznaim) CareOne needs volunteers for a minyan. On Friday evening, 1. Hafla’ah Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat will be at 4:25 p.m. On Shabbat, Shacharit 2. Zera’im will be at 9:00 a.m, Mincha at 4:20 p.m., and Maariv at 5:25 p.m. 3. Avodah (except Hilchot Beit Hamikdash) 4. Korbanot This Motzaei Shabbat, January 3, at 7:45 p.m., at Temple Beth 5. Taharah Sholom, 40-25 Fair Lawn Avenue, Fair Lawn, JLE will hold its Annual Dinner. This year’s honoree is Ken Goffstein. For more information, D. Kaf Hachaim contact Rabbi David Pietruszka, 201-966-4498, [email protected]. 1. Volume 3 This Sunday, January 4, at 9:30 a.m., at Congregation Keter Torah, E. Hebrew-English Berurah (Pisgah-Feldheim) 600 Roemer Avenue, for Special Children will hold 1. Volume IV its Annual Breakfast. Among the honorees are Dena & Moshe 2. Volume VI(b) Kinderlehrer. The couvert is $60. For more information, contact JESC, 201-262-1090, [email protected]. F. Circulating 1. I Maccabees (Anchor Bible) This Sunday, January 4, at 6:00 p.m., at Congregation Keter Torah, 2. Hakirah volumes 2, 6, 15, 16 600 Roemer Avenue, Torah Academy of Bergen County will hold its Annual Dinner. Guests of Honor are Lianne and Etiel Forman. Thank you for your cooperation, Norman Blumenthal will receive the Service Award and Etan Mitch First and Joshua Zakheim Bluman ‘06 will receive the Alumni Service Award. Reservations and donations can be made at www.tabc.org/dinner.

This Tuesday, January 6, at 6:00 p.m., at the Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel in New York City, Beit Orot will hold its annual dinner. On Tuesday evenings, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., at Ma’ayanot, 1650 Honorees include Beth Aaron members Carrie & Dr. Stanley Cooper. Palisade Avenue, the school will offer an Intermediate level Uplan For more information, go to http://beitorot.org/english. class, taught by Tamar Appel, Ma’ayanot Assistant Principal. The 15 sessions, which begin on January 27, is open to men and women. This Wednesday, January 7, at 7:00 p.m., at Congregation Bnai The cost is $210. To register, contact Pam Ennis, ennisp@maayanot. Yeshurun, 641 West Englewood Avenue, Professor Shnayer Leiman org, 201-833-4307, ext. 265. will speak on “The Rabbi’s Daughter - New Evidence on Spiritual Resistance in the Holocaust.” The program commemorates the On Thursdays, January 1, 8, and 14, from 12:20 to 1:15 p.m., at first yahrtzeit of Esther Manischewitz and launches the Esther Ma’ayanot, 1650 Palisade Avenue, Rabbi Zev Prince, Maayanot Manischewitz Community Education Fund in her memory. Director of Religious Programming and teacher, will offer a shiur on “Ketav ve-: The Story of the Sidrah as Told by the On Saturday, January 10, at 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Keter Torah, Sages of the Talmud.” Both men and women are welcome. For more 600 Roemer Avenue, Yavneh Academy will hold its Annual Dinner. information please contact Pam Ennis, [email protected]. Faculty Award Recipients are Rabbi Yitzchok Furst and Susie Ammer. For more information, go to https://yavnehdinner.adjournal.com/. The Amud Yomi shiur meets weeknights at 9:30 p.m. at Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue. For more The Rinat Chaim Gemach, in memory of Renee Chaya Levy, collects information, contact Mordechai Ungar, 201-741-3920. and lends new and used medical equipment in good condition to those in need, for short-term or long-term use. To borrow equipment or to contribute to the Gemach, please go to www. rinatchaimgemach.com or contact Micah Kaufman, micakauf@gmail. LAMDEINU: Study in depth. Be inspired. com; Larry Kahn, [email protected]; or Yehiel Levy, yehiel@ Spring 2015 Weekly Course Schedule optonline.net. • Parshanut HaMikra: Bereishit For help with Hebrew, please contact Yehiel Levy, 201-357-5495, • Introduction to Talmud: Berakhot Chapter 4 [email protected]. He will coach any shul member for free. • Megillat Esther • Yoga with Shifra • Parashat HaShavua COMMUNITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES • Megillat Ruth • Sefer Yirmiyahu: The Later Prophecies • Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, presents Torah in the AM: Tuesday and Thursday: 9:45 to 10:45 a.m., Chavura on personalities in Chumash - Sefer Bereishit; All classes will cover new topics and new students are welcome 10:45 to 11:45 a.m., Rabbi Menachem Meier’s Talmud shiur on to join any class. Please see our website for exact dates, holiday Masechet Sanhedrin; Tuesday only: 11:00 a.m. to Noon, Rabbi programming and special events. For class details and to register, Baum’s shiur on Trei Asar; Thursday only: 11:00 a.m. to Noon, Rabbi go to lamdeinu.org. Menachem Meier’s shiur on Rambam, Mishneh Torah. Rachel Friedman, Dean Shira Schiowitz, Assistant Dean Lamdeinu at Congregation Beth Aaron On Tuesday mornings at 9:45 a.m. at Yeshivat Noam, 70 West Century Road, Paramus, the school offers a weekly parent shiur. The current series -- “Tricks, Loopholes, and Legal Fictions: Does Halacha Allow Us to Deceive God?” -- is presented by Rabbi Uri Goldstein. The series will travel through different places and periods of to look at the Halachic and historical circumstances behind some famous loopholes, including the Prozbul, the sale of chametz, and the sale of the during a Shemita year. For more information, please email [email protected].

CONGREGATION BETH AARON 950 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 Phone: 201-836-6210 www.bethaaron.org [email protected]

Laurence Rothwachs, Rabbi Yair Mayerfeld, President