Shabbos Youth Programs: • Shmiras HaLashon (Guard Your Erev Shabbos Tongue) for girls in grades 1-6. WILL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 NOT MEET THIS SHABBOS. Candlelighting...... 5:12 pm • SKIP 18 months – grade 5, ECD Wing, Mincha (MS)...... 4:50 pm 9:45am - 11:45am • Mommy & Me Mommies with Shabbos children 2 years and under, ECD wing in the Ruach Rainbows classroom, 9:45am DECEMBER 14 - 11:45am. Shacharis • B’nei BJ, boys grades 2 – 5 with Early Minyan (K)...... 8:00 am Good Shabbos and Welcome! Lawrence Stroll, Board Room, 10:30am. Main Minyan (MS)...... 8:45 am • Nine fif-TEEN Minyan, boys and girls 9:00am Minyan (DM)...... 9:00 am grades 5 - 12, with Rabbi Shalom Yosef Nine fif-Teen Minyan (CFR)....9:15 am Horowitz, Conference Room, 9:15am. Adult Beginners (CSR)...... 10:00 am PARSHAS VAYECHI Followed by their famous cholent Mincha DECEMBER 14, 2013 • 11 TEVES 5774 Kiddush. Early Mincha (DM)...... 4:00 pm • NCSY Shalosh Seudos with Rabbi Page Numbers: Reading: page 268, Haftarah: page 1145 Mincha (MS)...... 4:55 pm Chaim Neiditch, high school boys & girls, between Mincha & Maariv, Carson Maariv Room. Maariv/Shabbos ends (MS)...6:05 pm • Shalosh Seudos with Jonathan Late Maariv (K)...... 6:15 pm Klein boys & girls grades 6-8, between Welcome New Member to our Beth Jacob Family! Mincha & Maariv, Youth Lounge • Avos Ubanim/ Father Son Learning, Weekday Matthew, Erika, Binah & Mindy Needleman Kollel Beis Medrash, 6:55pm. For fathers WEEK OF DECEMBER 15 - 20 & sons of all ages. Each week there is a Shacharis child given dvar Torah and a raffle! Sunday (DM)...... 7:00, 8:00, 9:00am Mon/Thurs (DM)...... 6:50 am Tues/Wed/Fri (DM)...... 7:00 am Mon-Fri (K)...... 7:30 am Shabbos Classes: Mincha (Brought to you by Beth Jacob and Sunday (K)...... 1:00 pm Atlanta Scholars Kollel) Mon - Thurs (K)...... 2:30 pm • , Rabbi Reuven Stein, one Sun - Thurs (DM)...... 5:15 pm hour before Mincha, Kollel, for men. Maariv • Shabbos Morning Chumash Shiur, Sun - Thurs (DM).....following Mincha Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich, 8:15am, Sun - Thurs (K)...... 7:40 pm Main Shul, for men & women. Sun - Thurs (DM)...... 9:00 pm • Shabbos Shiur for Men, Rabbi Sun - Thurs (K)...... 9:45 pm Doniel Pransky, 10:45am, Kollel. • 12 Minute Halacha, Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich, following the 9:00am Next Shabbos Minyan Kiddush, for men & women. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 Candlelighting...... 5:14 pm Ilan D. Feldman, Rabbi • Yechezkel Freundlich, Associate Rabbi Mincha (MS)...... 5:15 pm Dr. Emanuel Feldman, Rabbi Emeritus (CFR) Conference Room, (CSR) Carson Harvey Steele, Executive Director • Joey Fink, President Room, (BR) Board Room, (DM) Daily Mindy Tanenbaum, Preschool Director Jodi Wittenberg & Tzippy Teller, Co-Presidents, Sisterhood This Shabbos flyer is brought to you in Minyan, (FR) Franco Room in the loving memory of Marlene Mendel, z"l. Kollel, (K) Kollel, (MS) Main Shul 1855 LaVista Road Atlanta, GA 30329 • (404) 633-0551 • Fax (404) 320-7912 Her light does not go out at night. - Prov. 31 www.bethjacobatlanta.org Like us on facebook: facebook.com/bethjacobatlanta Thank You to Our Donors! Mazal Tov! NORMAN RAAB KIDDUSH FUND • Ben & Jacquie Hirsch on the birth of a great grandson born to Chananel & Chana • Gail Raab, Joey Raab, David & Hallie Chasen in honor of Rabbi Yechezkel & Rifki Tova Ginzberger in Israel. Freundlich for the outstanding service and positive impact they have made in our community. • Rabbi Michael & Marcia Kramer in memory of their daughter, Jenifer Rotenstreich, Gitel Bayla bat Yisroel, z”l. Upcoming Events & Classes SPECIAL DEDICATIONS • Sundays, December 15 - Advanced Tanach for Women with Batsheva Gelbtuch. 9:30am, Carson Room. A text-based class for women with Hebrew reading skills. • Dr. Nison & Helene Shleifer are dedicating the Torah Reading in memory Nison’s Participants take turns reading and translating. mother, Ann Shleifer, z”l. • Sunday, December 15 - Dinner Conversations with BJ Rosenfeld: “The th • Josh Wittenberg is dedicating the Rabbi’s Sermon in honor of Jodi on their 16 Chameleon in the Closet.” $25 per person, 5:30pm, Heritage Hall, RSVP to Rabbi Y. wedding anniversary and on her birthday. • Monday, December 16 - Shimon Shlomo & Margalit Ovadia Great Controversies • Meyer Greenberg is sponsoring the 9:00 Minyan Kiddush with love and in honor of in Jewish History Course. 7:45pm, Heritage Hall. Topic: The Spanish Inquisition: Exiles his lovely wife, Marci, of 20+ years, his Aishes Chaiyel, mother to Gavriella Shoshana, & and Marranos with Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich. Devorah Elianna and his best friend. • Tuesdays at 8:45pm & Wednesdays at 12:00pm - Advanced Women’s Parsha and • Stephen, Ellen, Ayelet, Daniel and Franklin Filreis sponsored the Kollel Kiddush Halacha with Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich. Carson Room, for women with a last Shabbos in honor of the Shloshim of their beloved friend MosheAron Gross, z”l. or seminary background, will be comprised of two parts: A selection from Maharal or • Moshe Bengigi is sponsoring Shalosh Seudos in memory of his parents David & Ramban on the Parsha (texts studied in the original), followed by a brief halacha shiur Simcha Bengigi, z”l. related to Shabbos, kashrus and other areas of contemporary observance. • Thursday, December 19 - “Zichron Moshe” Practical Halacha shiur on Choshen Mishpat (Monetary Law), presented by Rabbi Dovid Grossman in memory of R’ Moshe Esral, z”l. 8:30pm Kollel Beis Medrash. Rabbi Grossman studied Jewish monetary law in Israel for over ten years at which point he received his ordination as a Rabbinic Judge in the city of . After serving as a Judge in Jerusalem for a number of years Dayan Grossman relocated to New Jersey and continued practicing as a Talmudic Judge and as a Halachic arbitrator in the tri-state area. Neat of the Week Some of the topics to be addressed: Thank you to everyone who came last Sunday night to our Annual Dinner • “My employee has violated our non-compete agreement. He claims it was honoring Rabbi Yechezkel & Rifki Freundlich! halachically invalid. Where did I go wrong?”; • “Many years ago I took out a personal loan on behalf of the company. Is this a violation of the ribbis (lending with interest) prohibition? What do we do now?”; • “Our contract calls for disputes to be resolved in a court of law. Does that absolve me of my religious obligation to adjudicate in a Beis Din?” • Shabbos, January 11 - Scholar-In-Residence with Rabbi Shlomo Horowitz, founder of Jewish Crossroads Seminars. Each seminar is a live performance by Rabbi Horwitz, portraying multiple characters from different places and times who interact with the audience. Each character’s point of view is then thoroughly dissected and analyzed in a lively discussion with the participants. • Friday Night: Tough Cases from one of Israel’s leading Poskim. People from all over the world regularly ask the toughest questions of Rav Yitzchak Zilbershtein, shlita. In this program, several of these vexing cases are acted out, and the audience is called upon to make the tough decisions. Three actual cases will be shared in this unusual presentation. • Shabbos Morning: “Lost at Sea? Reclaiming the Lessons of the Shira.” After Kiddush: Touched by an Angel - Your Guide to Celestial Beings. Ever wonder how angels work and if they must follow any rules? Are they greater than we simple humans? • Motzei Shabbos: Raid on the Sun! On June 8, 1981, eight F-16’s from the Israeli Air Force took off from the Etzion Air Base and flew 600 miles to destroy Saddam’s nuclear reactor near Baghdad. Learn shocking and recently declassified information about the raid which brings Hashem’s hidden involvement to light in amazing ways.