Shomrei Emunah Weekly Bulletin December 9, 2017 21 of Kislev 5778 Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev Vol. 8 No. 9

CONGREGATION SHOMREI EMUNAH 6221 GREENSPRING AVENUE , MD 21209 410-358-8604 FAX 410-358-0664 (RABBI EMERITUS (1972-1989 ,זצ׳ל ,RABBI BINYAMIN MARWICK, RABBI RABBI DR. TZVI HERSH WEINREB, RABBI EMERITUS RABBI BENJAMIN BAK

Rabbi Sklare's weekly in halachic sugyos will begin a new stimulating topic in anticipation for Chanukah בענייני הלכות חנוכה

A series of four shiurim is planned for Sunday evenings:

Sunday December 10th: Practices of Chanukah

Attain newfound meaning for this beloved Yom Tov, as developed by Rabbi Sklare's characteristic combination of creativity, passion, and lomdus.

The shiur will take place in Shomrei Emunah classroom one at eight pm followed by Maariv at nine pm. Friday Night Learning Program

The Bais Medrash will be open for learning from 8:30-9:30pm

Refreshments/Chulent to follow. Chulent Sponsored by O’Fishel’s Mitzvah Motivators.

Note: Please enter through the rear entrance, as the front door will be locked. This Sunday and Monday night at 10:15pm members of the Shomrei Night Kollel will give short chaburas after maariv on inyanei Chanukah as preparation for Chanukah.

V2 SW Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev December 9 2017/21 of Kislev 5778

Mincha: 4:25pm Candle Lighting: 4:25pm Shacharis: 7:00am (Main Shul) Parshas 8:15am (Bais Medrash) HaShavuah: 8:30am 8:45am (Social Hall) Sof Z'man 9:00am (Main Shul) Krias Sh'ma: 9:37am Mincha: 2:00pm 3:00pm Shiur: 3:30pm 4:15pm Maariv: 5:27pm Daf Yomi: After Havdallah

Shabbos Afternoon Shiur: will be given by Rabbi Marwick, on the topic: A Historical Approach to Mitzvas Hadlakas Neros Chanukah.

Shalosh Seudos Sponsors:  Laurence and Tzipie Moss in memory of Laurence’s father, Barry Moss, 20 of Kislev.

Notes for this week:  Chaburah following the 8:15am davening will be given by Chanina Mazel Tov Reischer.  Beth and Avigdor Loeb on the engagement of their daughter, Batsheva, to Yudi Bendahan, son of Karen Bendahan of Toms River, NJ Next Week: Chanukah Parshas Mikeitz and Amram Bendahan of Jerusalem. Mincha: 4:20pm Candle Lighting: 4:26pm Daf Yomi The Big Brother Program  Laurence Moss in memory of his father, Barry Moss, 20 of Kislev. An Ongoing Partnership between Shomrei and our Sister Community, Eli The 2017-2018 Winter Lecture Series in Jewish History by Rabbi Letter from Sarah Klein, wife of Roi Klein, Dovid Katz continues this Motzei Shabbos, 8:00pm at Suburban who gave his life to save his comrades during the second Lebanese War Orthodox Congregation.

On behalf of myself and my family, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Hubris and Atonement: the Shomrei community. I thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for your participation in and generous contributions to my dear sons’ learning and to our The State of Israel and the Jewish People 1972-1975 family’s happiness. Lecture 6: Affliction: The Yom Kippur War Part 2 As is known, Roi hy”d, Gilad and Yoav’s father, was wholly committed to a life of Torah. His constant Torah learning, in all circumstances, is what distinguished him. Sponsored by Barbara and David Cohen, in honor of the soldiers who fought in I now see it as a privilege and an obligation to provide my sons with the the Yom Kippur War, including friends who served on the Golan Front; and by opportunity to continue in their father’s footsteps, both as an inheritance and as a Mr. and Mrs. Ken Birnbaum, in memory of Ed and Anne Birnbaum A”H beacon of life for their future.

The help, which your kind community has extended to us and to our school, has Yahrzeits enabled Gilad and Yoav to invest in their learning, thus enabling us to fulfill our Laurence Moss 20 Kislev Father Barry Moss dream. Marthe Vidaver 21 Kislev Father Sam Kanner And for this, we thank you again and again. Chaim Haber 22 Kislev Grandmother Dora Bleiweiss Graf

With warmest wishes and blessings for all of Paula Minsk 22 Kislev Grandmother Sophie Parnes you, our dear friends, to be able to continue Adina Tarshish 22 Kislev Father Leon Zehnwirth your holy work to benefit the future of Our Tessa Lebinger 22 Kislev Mother Freda Gorenstein People Israel! Marcia Fried 23 Kislev Father Sydney Ginsberg Fred Sunness 24 Kislev Mother Marian Sunness חג אורים שמח Sarah Klein Etta Friedman 25 Kislev Sister Evelyn Klavens Contributions can be made payable to the Avraham Landesman 25 Kislev Mother Rachel Yettel Landesman Shomrei Israel Fund, earmarked: Ethel Fischer 26 Kislev Father Albert Goldscheider Big Brother Program. Ronald Mitnick 26 Kislev Mother Mollie Mitnick

Shacharis DAVENING TIMES This Week 12/3-12/7 1 Chanukah 2 Chanukah 3 Chanukah Rosh Chodesh Mincha/Marriv: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday Weekday 4:30pm (MS) ETT: 6:16am ETT: 6:17am ETT: 6:18am ETT: 6:18am ETT: 6:19am ETT: 6:20am Sunday Mincha: 6:20 (MS) 6:20 (BM) 6:30 (BM) 6:15 (BM) 6:15 (BM) 6:15 (BM) 6:05 (MS) 6:10 (BM) 12:40pm 6:50 (MS) 7:00 (MS) 7:00 (MS) 6:50 (MS) 7:00 (MS) 6:40 (MS) 7:15 (BM) 7:20 (BM) 7:30 (BM) 7:30 (BM) 7:20 (BM) 7:30 (BM) 7:15 (BM) 7:15 (BM) Additional Maariv: 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 8:00 (MS) 7:15pm (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:30 (BM) 8:15pm (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00 (MS) 9:00pm (MS) MS - Main Shul, BM - Bais Medrash, SH - Social Hall, ETT - Earliest Talis/Tefilin 10:00pm (BM) Shul Notes  Aliyos If you have a Bar Mitzvah or Aufruf coming up, please Y O U T H N E W S contact David Bienenstock at [email protected] to arrange your Aliyos. Please take note of updated group times and locations

 Message From The Chessed Committee: A family in the community is in need of Shabbos meals. Please see "take a meal" Shabbos Youth Programs form http://www.takethemameal.com/meals.php?t=NHYU1159 or  Babysitting (12mo. to 3 years) - Board Room , Time: 8:45 - end of Shul contact [email protected] or Rochel Katz at  Preschool Group (4-5 year olds) - Classroom 2, Time: 8:45 - end of Shul [email protected] or call 410-292-4113.  Beginner’s Minyan (1st-3rd Grade) - Shul next door, 8:45 - end of Shul  Did you know? Gifts can be made to Shomrei Emunah with a  Younger Girls Groups (1st-3rd Grade) - Kallah Room, 10:00 - end of Shul stock donation? Shomrei has an account with Morgan Stanley and  Junior Congregation (4th-6th Grade Boys) - Begin and End in main Vanguard to accept all stock gifts. Check the donations tab at minyan 9:00 - end of shul (Classroom 1 for Kiddush and activities). www.shomreiemunah.org for more information or call Shira at  4th-6th Grade Girls - Tower Classroom 1, 10:00 - end of Shul (410) 358-8604.  Teen Minyan - Classroom 3, 9:15. Hot kiddush following davening  Special Chessed Opportunities: Larry Soltz is in Tudor Heights dedicated in memory of Gilad Schwartz. and would appreciate visitors. For more information contact Rabbi Marwick at [email protected]. **Note: Girls’ groups officially begin at 10:00, but there will be a supervised games/hang-out room available from 8:45-10:00 (Kallah Room)

Memorial Donations  Tessa Lebinger in memory of her mother, Freda Gorenstein, 22 of Kislev, The youth department would like to remind all parents to remain on sponsorship of Rabbi Sklare’s shiur. the shul premises if your children are participating in youth groups.

 Jane and Morris Mayer in memory of Dr. Jacob Reiner, father of Barry Reiner donation to the Laure Guttman Beautification Fund. Happy Birthday to all Shomrei Youth Please join Shomrei in partnership with ACHI (American Communities with December Birthdays!!

Helping Israel) to spread ACHI's message of "Think Israel--Buy Joshua Bernstein Shira Rosenberg

Israeli." Thank you to the following people who have donated

Shmuel Chaim Breuer Noam Schulman towards this project by sponsoring an Israeli product at Seuda

Shlishit. Sammy Carter Yosef Spatz

Gittel Friedman Nava Stein If you would like to sponsor an Israeli product for Seuda Shlishit, or

any other Shomrei function, in future weeks, please send an $18 Zevi Goldsmith Yehuda Traub

check made out to ACHI to Tova Taragin at 6600 Baythorne Road

Kayla Lasson Nachum Wealcatch

21209. If you sponsored last year, and would like to sponsor again,

Aharon Meth Doni Weichbrod feel free to do so. We will soon need more sponsors. Jechiel and Hadassah Juskowicz Sonney Taragin Is your child’s birthday in December and not on this list? Fill out Simcha and Leah Kossman Jechiel and Hadassah Juskowicz the youth survey on the Shul web site! Rick and Sarah Bernard Michael and Layne Lowenstein Jechiel and Hadassah Juskowicz Jechiel and Hadassah Juskowicz Please Daven for a Refuah Sheleimah for: Ari and Inbal Elman Marvin and Mindy Pazornick Michael and Layne Lowenstein Yeshaya Shalom ben Malka Gittel Chaim Yitzchok Yaakov ben Chava Feiga Yaakov Mordechai ben Chana Reuven Yisroel ben Tzippora Rachel Please continue in the ACHI spirit. Fill a dish (KLEE) every week with Chaya Masya bas Tova Noach ben Chaya Israeli products and spread the message of "Think Israel-Buy Israeli" Mordechai Leib ben Mira Leah Ronit bas Hadassa Esther Rafoel Chayim Yoel ben Shayna Golda Aidel bas Ettel at your Shabbat table. Fill it and refill it every week. Klee cards are

Tuvia Avraham ben Chaya Zeesha Yehoshua ben Devorah

Yechezkel Avrohom ben Shoshana Fraida Chava bas Chaya Masha Reuven Halevi ben Masha Moshe Simcha ben Genendal Emes Yosef Aryeh ben Miriam Reuven Eitan ben Chava Breina Shmuel ben Devorah Avigdor HaCohen ben Hedwig Important Note: To add a name please contact the office by email: [email protected]. The list will be cleared every Rosh Chodesh.

Kiddush at the 8:45/D’veykus Minyan last week was sponsored by Ezri Klein in honor of his wife, Zahava's new job.

To sponsor, please contact [email protected] Sympathy  Mark Feld on the loss of his father, Henry Feld.

May the families be comforted amongst the mourners of Tzion & Yerushalayim. Rabbi Shlomo Stein zt''l Kol Hanearim Motzei Shabbos Learning Program

All boys are invited to join in the learning! Come with your father, with a chavrusa, or alone.

Pizza! Soda! Raffles! Amazing Prizes! 6:45pm

Sponsorship opportunities available. Email: [email protected]. LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Community Notes WITH RABBI MARWICK! SHARE YOUR RIDE GMACH 410-358-RIDE (7433) when you or your visitors travel. Offer a ride for a person or a small item [forgotten laptop, tefillin, medicine, wallets, cell phones.] Last month there was  Shomrei Post-Carpool Shiur for an elderly man, who said to me that he is too elderly to drive any more! Who was asking for a ride to Women a weekly discussion of Flatbush to attend his grandchild's wedding. contemporary issues connected to December 10, 8:00 pm, Congregation Tiferes Yisroel, 6201 Park Heights Avenue, a media presentation, "A Walking Tour of the Third Beis Hamikdash, In the Footsteps of Yechezkel,” presented the Parsha. Meets Tuesdays at by Rabbi Yoav Elan, editor and illustrator for Artscroll. No charge. 9:30am. Please contact Rabbi On December 9, Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Vayashev, the Northwest Citizens Patrol will be having its Marwick with any questions. This annual Anniversary Reception, at Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion at 8:00pm. his is a very important event for shiur will be on hiatus until the community, especially since many local, city and state officials will be attending including the December 5th. Honorable John Sarbanes, Mayor Katherine Pugh, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, and Police Chief Terrence Sheridan. Community presence is critical, and everyone should please make every effort to  Thursday Morning Shiur on attend. Please call 410-664-6927 extension 8 or email [email protected], as soon as possible to make Contemporary Halachic Issues at your reservation. 9:30am. (note time change) For AMIT Baltimore EVENT: An Evening Celebrating Innovative Education DATE: Sunday evening, December more information contact David 10, 2017 TIME: 6 PM – Dinner LOCATION: Knish Shop, 514 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore 21208 Bienenstock at [email protected]. COST: $54 (includes dinner) – Sponsorships are available to help fund this program which covers tefillin, clothing, transportation, celebration and recording of the child’s Bar Mitzvah. Contact: AMIT  “Pizza & Parsha” for Students & Office 410-484-2223, [email protected] Young Professionals ages 17 - Join the community to help Ohr Chadash Academy hit their annual campaign goal of $350K in just 24 29 this program is dedicated L’ilui hours! All donations x4. New: Monthly giving option! OCA provides a joyful Jewish learning environment Nishmas Gilad Schwartz and that promotes Torah, general studies and a love of Israel. Enrollment has surged from 75 to 258 sponsored by the Mayer Family. students since 2011. Contribute to the continued success of the staff and students of OCA at Takes place at 7:30pm on www.charidy.com/oca. To donate by phone, call: 410-900-2200. Thursdays. Ner Yisroel Dinner 2017: The 84th annual Ner Yisroel dinner (commemorating the 30th yahrtzeit of the Rosh Moreinu V'Rabbeinu Harav Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman zt”l) will be held at the Grand  Thursday Nights in the Knish Shop Hyatt in New York City on Sunday December 10 at 5:00 p.m. Free transportation will be provided for Party Room 9:15pm, 11th and 12th dinner attendees (buses leave at 1:00 p.m. from Greenspring Shopping Center). For dinner reservations grade boys Parsha Discussion.Q and information call 443-548-6087 or visit dinner.nirc.edu.  Halachic Themes from the Parsha The Baltimore Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Group’s monthly meeting will be on Sunday, December 17 2017, 12:00 noon Park Heights JCC. Program: Chanukah Party featuring Baltimore Shiur Thursdays at 10:15pm. This Klezmer Band. 12-09Fee: $5.00 per person includes lunch and program, dietary laws are observed. past week’s topic was: Y a a k o v RSVP by December 11,2017 to Lisa Shifren 410- 843-7338. For more information, contact Felicia at Avinu and Burial In Eretz Yisrael vs. [email protected] or 443-759-5556. Chutz L’aretz. Celebrate Chanukah at the J with fun-filled activities for the entire family at Chanukah Wonderland,  Shabbos Afternoon Shiur will be Sunday, 12/17 from 1-4pm at the Park Heights JCC. Enjoy donut decorating, Chanukah arts & crafts, face painting, an inflatable obstacle course, olive press demonstrations and more! In partnership with given by Rabbi Marwick, on the topic: A Cheder and Chabad of Park Heights. $18/family for Members and Cheder families, $25/ Historical Approach to Mitzvas Hadlakas family for Guests. Find out more at jcc.org/ChanukahWonderland. Neros Chanukah. THE YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON–TIFERES GEDALIAH BOYS DIVISION BALTIMORE OPEN  The Rav’s Mishna y o s S h iu r ! HOUSE. Come meet our staff, administrators, and students! SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2017 @ 8:00 PM At the home of Mr. & Mrs. Shimon Weichbrod 6714 Woodbury Road, Baltimore, MD 21209 If you Attention Boys in 5th, 6th grade. have a son going into Grades 7 –11 come and fnd out what the Yeshiva of Greater Washington is all The shiur will take place in Rabbi about! FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT RABBI HILLMAN [email protected] • 301-962- Marwick’s office at 3:00pm . 5111 EXT. 1553 • WWW.YESHIVA.EDU Learning Maseches Shabbos. WIT welcomes Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller Monday night, December 11th. The lecture entitled “Chanukah: True Jewish Identity” will begin at 8:30 pm and take place at Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion. No Charge for WIT Members. $10 for Non Members. For more information please visit WIT’s website, www.witbaltimore.org The Men's Chabura in Shmiraas HaLashon continues its study of Hilchos Lashon HaRah, a text based experience that is changing lives. Replete with real life examples and challenges, each Sunday is a new moment of growth. Come join us. Sunday's, after the 8am minyan in Classroom 1. Shmiras HaLashon--it's a life changer.