BAIS TORAH BULLETIN פרשת וישלח הדלקת נרות 00:4 טו‘ כסלו תש“פ December 13, 2019 ערב שבת וישלח Candle Lighting 4:10 WHAT’S NEW Mincha 4:15 This week’s Kiddush is available for sponsorship is sponsored by Ronnie Herrmann commemorating the first סעודת שלישית Shkiah 4:28 yartzheit of his mother, Brynna bas Tzvi Halevi שבת פרשת וישלח Bais Torah offers streamed video shiurim through the Torah Confer- Hashkama 7:30 encing Network as follows: Rabbi Mansour’s shiur is Thursday nights at Daf Yomi 8:00 7:45, Rabbi Frand’s shiur is Thursday nights at 9 PM,and Rabbi Reisman’s Shacharis 8:45 shiur is Motzoei Shabbos at 7:30 PM. Avos Ubanim continues this Motzoei Shabbos at 6:30 with learning, Sof Zman K”S 9:32 pizza and prizes! This week is sponsored by Peter and Felise Katz Halacha 3:15 honoring the shloshim of Shraga Tzvi ben R’ Shlomo HaCohen, Mr. George Katz. The Avos Ubanim program offers a great opportunity to Mincha 0044 sponsor an evening of learning at a cost of only $50. Please contact Amy Shkiah 82:8 Gottlieb at [email protected] or 845 216 1194 to be a part of this nationwide program! Maariv 5:10 The Daf Yomi Shiurim for this upcoming week are sponsored by Jay Ro- Shabbos Ends 5:18 din in memory of his father, Philip Rodin, Faivel ben Leibel. December 15 is sponsored by Samuel Wilen in memory of his father, Mordechai Avigdor Weekday Schedule: ben Moshe Elchonan and December 16 is sponsored by Rosalind Siegel Week of 12/15-12/20 in memory of her mother, Yetta bas Yerachmiel Shacharis Join us Motzei Shabbos January 4 at 8 PM for a Gala Siyum Hashas Melave Malka at Bais Torah with special guest speaker Rabbi Betzalel Sun 7:45 Rudinsky .The cost is $50 per person, with many sponsorship opportuni- Mon.., Thurs 6:20, 7:45 ties available. Please contact Malkie Zamore at 305-8514 or MZamo- Tues.Weds.Fri [email protected] 6:30, 7:45 MINCHA-MAARIV Sun-Thurs 4:15 PM MAZAL TOV NEXT WEEK Michael and Sharon Kronenberg on the birth of granddaughter, born to their children, Yocheved and Dovid Lisker. ערב שבת פרשת וישב Irving and Eudice Rohinsky on the birth of a great-granddaughter, born to their Candle lighting 4:12 grandchildren Michael and Aviva Rohinsky and the birth of a great- Mincha 4:20 granddaughter,born to their grandchildren Yosef and Sara Chana Rohinsky . Shkiah 4:30 Irwin and Leslie Goldress on their grandson Ilan Eisenberger being selected to be a presenter in front of 1200 people at the annual Chai Lifeline Gala on De- cember 8. Congregation Bais Torah 89 West Carlton Rd Suffern, NY 10901 (845)352-1343 www.baistorah.org Parashas Vayishlach “Yaakov, the “Man of Truth,” Meets Pope John Paul Refuah Shelaimah Katie Tannenbaum’s II ) grandson- Pope John Paul II said, “With Judaism, therefore, we have a relationship which we do not יהונתן משה בן have with any other religion. You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it דבורה טובה Rosalie Kallner could be said, that you are our elder brothers.” שיינה רחל בת שרה הודל Larry Seligson’s son- In 1979, John Paul II visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where many of his compatriots had perished during the German occupation there in World War II, the first pope רפאל אפרים בן סימא פריעדל Manny Mayerfeld to do so. In 1998, he issued “We remember, a Reflection on the Shoah,” which outlined his מנחם בן קילה thinking on the Holocaust. He became the first pope known to have made an official papal פנחס ליאן בן ריזל visit to a synagogue, when he visited the Great Synagogue of Rome on 13 April, 1986. On Ruth Malinowitz 30 December 1993, John Paul II established formal diplomatic relations between the Holy רבקה בת פריידא .See and the State of Israel, acknowledging its centrality in Jewish life and faith אליהו זבי בן Andy Yurowitz חנה On 7 April 1994, he hosted the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust. It was the Goldress grandson first-ever Vatican event dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews murdered in World אילן רפאל בן טובה רבקה War II. This concert, which was conceived and conducted by US conductor Gilbert Levine, Jennifer Herrmann’s moth- er was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, the President of Italy Oscar Luigi -Scalfaro, and survivors of the Holocaust from around the world. The Royal Philharmonic Or שרה צירלא בת ידיל Ruth Lowenstein’s mother chestra, actor Richard Dreyfuss and cellist Lynn Harrell performed on this occasion under בתיה בת מרים Marty Ginsberg Levine’s direction. משה זאב בן אסתר In March 2000, John Paul II visited Yad VaShem, the national Holocaust Memorial in Israel, and later made history by touching one of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Western Wall in BIKUR CHOLIM- Jerusalem, and placing a letter inside it (which contained the message “We are deeply sad- Please Call Before Visit- dened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused the children of ing yours to suffer, and in asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves to genuine Rosalie Kallner brotherhood with the People of the Covenant”). In part of his address, he said, “I assure the Fountainview 356-2506 Jewish People that the Catholic Church … is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of perse- Tova Eizik 356-7981 cution and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time and SHIURIM at any place,” he added that there were “no words strong enough to deplore the terrible trag- Women’s Tehilim, l’zecher nishmas Feigel bas Menachem edy of the Holocaust.” Mendel, meets Shabbos after- noon 45 minutes before the Pirkei Avos shiur In 2003, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a statement congratulating John Paul II Sunday: on entering the 25th year of his papacy. In January 2005, John Paul became the first pope 6:25 AM Daf Yomi Rabbi Avromy Fein known to receive a priestly blessing from a rabbi, when Rabbi Benjamin Blech, Barry Dov, 8:30 AM Gemara Miseches and Jack Bemporad visited the Pontiff at Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace. Immediate- Pesachim Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb ly after John Paul II’s death, the ADL said in a statement that he had revolutionized Catholic- Mon-Friday Jewish relations, saying, “more change for the better took place in his 27-year Papacy than 5:25 AM Daf Yomi I in the nearly 2,000 year before.” In another statement issued by the Australia/Israel @ Jew- Rabbi Avromy Fein 7:00 AM Daf Yomi II ish Affairs Council, Director Dr. Colin Rubinstein said, “The Pope will be remembered for his Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb inspiring spiritual leadership in the cause of freedom and humanity. He achieved far more in 8:25 AM Chumash Shiur Rabbi Yosef Fischer terms of transforming relations with both the Jewish People and the State of Israel than any 9:45 AM Gemara Shiur other figure in the history of the Catholic Church.” Rabbi Leibel Reznick Wednesday – 8:00 PM Navi Shiur-Shir In an interview with the Polish Press Agency, Michael Shudrich, chief rabbi of Poland, said Hashirim that never in history did anyone do so much for Christian-Jewish dialogue as Pope John Paul Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb II. Shudrich praised John Paul II for condemning anti-Semitism as a sin, which no previous Thursday 8:00 The Sandra Thurm Wom- pope had done. On John Paul II’s beatification the Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo di Signi en’s Mishna Class said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that “John Paul II Dr. Deborah Raice Fox was revolutionary because he tore down a thousand-year wall of Catholic distrust of the Jew- ish world.” Meanwhile, Elio Toaff, the formar Chief Rabbi of Rome, said that: “Remembrance of the Pope Karol Wojtyla will remain strong in the collective Jewish memory because of his appeals to fraternity and the spirit of tolerance, which excludes all violence. In the stormy his- tory of relations between Roman Popes and Jews in the ghetto in which they were closed for over three centuries in humiliating circumstances, John Paul II is a bright figure in his unique- ness, In relations between our two great religions in the century that was stained with bloody wars and the plague of racism, the heritage of John Paul II remains one of the few spiritual islands guaranteeing survival and human progress.” L’Illuy Nishmas beni, Aharon Baruch Mordechai ben Pinchas Menachem Congregation Bais Torah 89 West Carlton Rd Suffern, NY 10901 (845)352-1343 www.baistorah.org .