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BULLETIN Los Angeles, CA 90035 ADAS TORAH Rabbi Dovid Revah 9040 W Pico Blvd. BULLETIN Los Angeles, CA 90035 פרשת וישלח ט״ז כסלו תשע״ט • November 24, 2018 SHABBOS SCHEDULE ATTENTION 6-8th GRADE GIRLS SHIURIM & Please join us for the first of our monthly get togethers and enjoy Divrei Torah, a Candle Lighting 4:27 pm LEARNING fun activity and great food. Next Motzei הדלקת נרות .PROGRAMS Shabbos, December 1 at Adas Torah מנחה Mincha 4:35 pm We are excited to have Kayla Goldberg .after 5:26 pm running the program שמע Repeat FRIDAY NIGHT BAIS MEDRASH Our Bais Medrash will be open on Friday השכמה Hashkamah 8:00 am ZICHRON MENACHEM PROGRAM nights for anyone who wants to learn. Every Monday & Wednesday from 7:00 שחרית Shacharis 8:50 am Rabbi Revah will be giving a shiur on - 7:45 pm, there is a 6 - 8th grade boys Daf Yomi 3:45 pm Please speak to Moshe learning Seder at Adas Torah. Either .שב שמעתתא דף היומי Rottenberg for more details. .learn with a chavrusa or join a shiur מנחה Mincha 4:20 pm There will be refreshments, punch cards, !CHOVOS HALEVAVOS CHABURA great prizes and more סעודה שלישית Seudah Shlishis 4:40 pm Rabbi Simcha Bornstein will be giving a Chabura in Chovos Halevavos on מעריב Maariv 5:25 pm .Shabbos after the 8:00 am minyan מוצאי שבת Shabbos ends 5:26 pm FUNDAMENTALS OF FAITH SHIUR ר’’ת Rabbeinu Tam 5:58 pm Rabbi Revah is continuing his Fundamentals of Faith shiur before SHUL davening on Shabbos morning at 8:30 am. We are learning Sefer Tanya. ANNOUNCEMENTS SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK INYAN SHIUR KIDDUSH Will not take place this week. /Please join us for a sit down Kiddush שחרית Shacharis Tisch this Shabbos morning at 11:20 GIRLS BNOS יום א׳ Sunday 6:45/8/9 am am in our Simcha Hall with singing and Every Shabbos from 2:30 - 4:00 pm for Divrei Torah. The sit down Kiddush is יום ב׳, ה׳ Mon, Thu 6:40/7:45 am girls in grades 1 - 5. There is no Bnos if sponsored by Rabbi and Mrs. Asher and יום ג׳, ד׳, ו׳ Tue, Wed, Fri 6:45/7:45 am it rains after 12:00 pm. For questions, Yael Rosen in honor of the birth of or to sponsor, contact Nechama Denbo their daughter, Sara Aliza. Divrei Torah מנחה/מעריב Mincha/Maariv 4:35 pm at 310-309 - 0349 or at ndenbo@ .will be given by Rabbi Asher Rosen מעריב ב׳ Maariv 7:45 pm gmail.com. A special thank you to the Rabbi Chaim Rosen, Rosh Kollel of Kollel Essas family for sponsoring Bnos this L’Hora B’Givat HaMivtar in Eretz Yisrael, Shabbos. and Rabbi Shlomo Rosen Rebbe at Ida Crown. DAF YOMI SHABBOS Z’MANIM Daf Yomi is at 6:05 am Mon - Fri and The Kehilla is invited to Kiddush at 7:20 am on Sundays. Rabbi and Mrs. Binyamin & Shira Rowshanshad’s house in honor of their עלות השחר Alos Hashachar 5:16 am YOREH DEAH CHABURA daughter Yael, after shul at 11:30 am זמן ציצית ותפילין Tzitzis/Tefillin 5:47 am Sunday 8:00 – 9:00 am at Adas Torah. 9315 Alcott St #301. הנץ החמה Sunrise 6:35 am MRS. REVAH’S CHUMASH SHIUR This Monday night, Nov 26th at 8:30 SEUDAH SHLISHIS סוף זמן ק’’ש–מ׳’א L/T for Shema 8:28 am Is sponsored by Scott Sidlow L’ilui .pm at the home of Nina Adler, 1547 S סוף זמן ק’’ש L/T for Shema 9:07 am Durango. Nishmas his grandmother Rachel bas Please bring a Sefer Shemos with Velval whose yahrzeit was 7 Kislev. Scott סוף זמן תפילה L/T for Tefilah 9:58 am Mefarshim. will be making a siyum on Mishnayus Midday 11:40 am .Seder Nashim חצות היום NEW MORNING CHABURA מנחה גדולה Mincha Gedolah 12:11 pm There will be a Mishna Berura/Mussar TOMCHEI SHABBOS ROUTE פלג המנחה Plag Hamincha 3:41 pm Chabura on Tuesdays and Fridays Thank you to the Fain family for driving .from 7:30 am - 8:10 am. Currently the Tomchei Shabbos route this week שקיעה Sunset 4:45 pm and Mesilas To volunteer to drive, please email סי׳ שיח doing Hilchos Bishul *HATZOLAH: (800) 613 - 1911* Yesharim. [email protected]. THANK YOU To the Women’s Committee for organizing the Cake Pop Evening. Thank you to the Nagel family for sponsoring the supplies, and to the Motzei Shabbos father - son learning Elishis family for hosting the event. program will continue this Motzei ETTA ISRAEL’S ANNUAL GALA Come and support ETTA’s 25th Shabbos. Please join us every Motzei Anniversary Annual Gala Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 Shabbos from 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm to The Beverly Hilton, 6 pm Honoring Jacob Katz Call (818) 985 - 3882 ext. 333 for more learn with your son. We are looking information. for sponsors for the Avos Ubanim TOMCHEI SHABBOS CHANUKKAH GIFT WRAP program. Sponsorship per week is Sunday December 2nd 10:00 - 11:30 am. Help pack gifts for other kids in the community with Tomchei Shabbos and $180.00. Please speak to Rabbi Revah enjoy cotton candy, pop corn, dreidel cookies, photobooth, music and more! if you would like to sponsor. In memory of the Atar Family. 8761 West Pico Blvd. TFOR8 AT ADAS TORAH NOVEMBER 30 Adas Torah Presents Tfor8, Table for Eight. Join Singles Ages 22-34 for Friday Night Dinner on November KIDS 30th in groups of eight at an Adas Torah family’s home followed by an Oneg where everyone will come CORNER! together and have a chance to meet. Email adastorahtfor8@gmail. com for the link to register or with any questions. Deadline to register: Dear Kids and Parents, Wednesday, November 21st. Dear Adas Torah Children and parents, Looking forward to seeing you by the Chanukah Chagiga Sunday 12/2 2:00pm-4:00pm! There will be so many cool things to make, like DIY snowglobes, beeswax shamashim, sufganiyot decorating, dreidel making, craft will פרשה moon bounces, ice cream and much more! This weeks edible .קבר רחל be an edible slept on. Bonus answer יעקב riddle is the rocks פרשה The answer to last week’s This weeks riddle is: One was hidden in a box, the other was .דינה and דן was hidden behind one called an ox. Who are we? Bonus question: I lost the race to my brother but I still got to shine, who am I? YAHRZEITS Kisleiv 16 - 22 / Nov. 24 - Nov 30 Good Shabbos, Shabbos: Judith Arnall’s husband Rabbi Avrohom Wagshul Rabbi Daniel Arnall אברהם דניאל מרדכי בן ישיעהו ע׳ה HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Jaclyn Levine - November 28 Nava Barz - November 28 Yitzy Levine - November 29 Yoni Adler - November 29 Aliza Snyder - November 30 D’VAR TORAH Steve Kirschenbaum The first words of the Parsha He saw the Yad Hashem in everything. are ‘Vayishlach Yaakov He says this also explains why we find many times in the Talmud Tannaim malachim.’ The Medrash performing miracles which seem to be without a special purpose. Rav records two interpretations, Chanina ben Dosa in Taanis 25a says that the G-d that says that oil can either malachim mamash or burn can also say vinegar should burn; miraculously, he ultimately caused sheluchim -- either Yaakov vinegar to burn. Why did he need such a miracle? Because in Rav Chanina sent angels literally, or he sent ben Dosa’s world and in Rav Shimon Bar Yochai’s world, whether oil or messengers. For some reason, vinegar burns is the same miracle since it’s always the Yad Hashem in control. Rashi only quotes the pshat We find many times there were miracles despite the fact that Hashem doesn’t that it was malachim mamash. do miracles for no purpose. Yet, in the Beis Hamikdash, the Aron didn’t take Rav Moshe in the Darash Moshe up space. Why was it important to have that miracle? We find that Rav asks why would Yaakov send Pinchas ben Yair made the Yam split and he crossed the Yam. Kriyas Yam angels and perform a neis -- we is an extraordinary miracle, why would he do it just to cross. The Talmidim have a rule that miracles are couldn’t come with him they had to cross on the bridge. Why? When you not done without a purpose. are on the level of Rav Chanina ben Dosa or Rav Pinchas ben Yair, this is Moreover, Yaakov Avinu himself life, everywhere you see Yad Hashem so things happen in a different way. was afraid when he returned So, in Yaakov Avinu’s existence, the fact that malachim are available to from Lavan that all the miracles him is not something that is extraordinary since everything is Yad Hashem. that happened to him expended his zechusim. When someone does a miracle, it affects his zechusim. If that is the case, why would he send malachim mamash, what was the purpose of sending these angels? Says Rav Moshe, to a Baal Madreiga, to someone on an elevated level, there is no difference if something happens miraculously or within the bounds of nature. G-d can do nissim. Rav Yisroel Reisman quoted Rav Hutner saying that Hashem can perform miracles, and for ordinary people that is something incredible. However for great people, it is not such a chiddush when something happens miraculously or ‘naturally.’ When you are on that level, the concept of Neis is something else. Everything is the hand of G-d.
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