בס"ד MIKETZ | DEC 18 - DEC 25, 2020 | 3 TEVET - 10 TEVET | CANDLE LIGHTING 4:12 PM | HAVDALAH 5:16 PM SHABBAT THIS SHABBAT days). Please email Steve Plotnick to commit to any/all days of the week and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 Commencing this Shabbat afternoon, you'll receive email confirmation the Ma’ariv minyan at shul will be held at night before. For Mincha-Maariv, we are SHACHARIT 6:15AM Shkia (directly following Mincha). This attempting to solidify the minyan by will replace the Ma’ariv minyan held at going back to the daily email sign-up CANDLE LIGHTING 4:12PM the conclusion of shabbat. Those sheet. Please contact Rabbi Shestack if davening Ma’ariv at shkia must still keep you are a male and around during the shabbat until the Havdalah time listed MINCHA / MAARIV 4:15PM 4-5pm hour and ever able to attend and (this week, 5:16), at which time they you'll be added to the daily email sign- should recite Havdalah as usual. Those up list in the morning. Upon receiving SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 not attending Ma’ariv minyan at shul the emails, you just click the “Minyan” should daven Ma’ariv at home at the link and sign up. SHACHARIT 9:00AM normal time (end of shabbat). Approxi- mately 5 minutes after Havdalah, the LAST KRIAT SHMA 9:35AM THIS WEEK Sefer Daniel shiur will resume on Zoom. עשרה בטבת Friday, December 25th is MINCHA 4:10PM Minyan Registration Policy: Registration The fast will start at 6:08AM, there will for indoor minyan only; outdoor minyan be leining at Mincha, and the fast will HAVDALAH 5:16PM does not require registration. Contact end after Maariv. We wait until 40 the Rabbi to be added to the outdoor minutes after shkia to make kiddush. All DANIEL SHIUR 5:25PM shabbat minyan WhatsApp group. Every normal Shabbat preparations are permit- minyan participant still agrees by virtue is not recited at Mussaf ted. The tenth of Tevet - on which the אב הרחמים is not recited at Mincha of attendance to inform the rabbi/ siege of Yerushalayim began, was the צדקתך צדק president about any exposure to COVID. beginning of the whole chain of calami- 'In the event of rain, persons normally ties that finally ended with the destruc- Have news to share in the bulletin? attending the outdoor minyan may join tion of the Beit Hamikdash. “And it was Send an email to the indoor minyan without separate pre- in the ninth year of his reign, in the [email protected] with the registration (assuming sufficient space is tenth month, in the tenth (day) of the information. available). To register, use this Google month, that Nebuchadnetzar, King of Form or visit our website. Babylon came, he and all his hosts, up- on Yerushalayim, and he encamped up- IN OUR SHUL on it and built forts around it. And the city came under siege till the eleventh To ensure we have consistent Sha- year of King Tzidkiyahu. On the ninth of charit minyan attendance over the the month famine was intense in the course of the winter we are going to a city, the people had no bread, and the daily email format (like the good 'ol city was breached.” (2nd Melachim 25). ZEMANIM SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 12/20 12/21 12/22 12/23 12/24 12/25 Shacharit 8:15 AM 6:30 AM 6:30 AM 6:30 AM 6:30 AM 8:00 AM Mincha/Maariv 4:19 PM 4:20 PM 4:20 PM 4:21 PM 4:21 PM 4:10 PM Earliest Talit 6:17 AM 6:18 AM 6:18 AM 6:18 AM 6:19 AM 6:19 AM Gedolah 12:17 PM 12:18 PM 12:18 PM 12:19 PM 12:19 PM 12:20 PM Shkia 4:31 PM 4:32 PM 4:32 PM 4:33 PM 4:33 PM Tzait 5:11 PM 5:12 PM 5:12 PM 5:13 PM 5:13 PM 5:14 PM בס"ד MIKETZ DEC 18, 2020 gghgh ADULT EDUCATION UPCOMING EVENTS All classes on Zoom can be accessed using the shul Zoom Following the success of our previous food trains, sign Room: up for December’s Soup Train by Saturday, December * https://zoom.us/j/729131189918-25 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ 0741026th 201.797.0502. The exchange WWW.AHAVATACHIM.ORG will happen on Friday, January 1st. Password: 112233 After the overwhelming success of the first parlor meeting, Rabbinic Intern R' Yair Lichtman will be continuing an excit- we are planning a third parlor meeting scheduled for Tues- ing series exploring Responsa literature from current lead- day, December 29th at 8:30 pm. The goal once again will ing Poskim to COVID Halachic inquiries. Look behind the be to pitch the Ahavat Achim community to prospective curtain to see the halachic process of using precedent in member families. If you have any leads or would like to the midst of the "unprecedented". Don't miss this fascinat- help with this, reach out to Natan Santacruz. ing opportunity to learn with your families and Rav Yair. Please contact Rabbi Shestack to sponsor a session. The The next shul board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, series will continue on Sunday, December 20th at 9 AM on January 5, 2021 at 8:30pm on Zoom. Zoom. IN OUR FAMILY The Beginners Gemarah Shiur will take place on Monday, December 21st at 8:15pm with Rabbi Shestack and will Thank you to Kira Wigod and the entire Youth Committee continue in Brachot. for organizing a very special and creative drive-through carnival for our youth this past Sunday. Thank you to car- Fundamental Texts of Jewish Thought will continue this nival volunteers – Helene Brenenson, Lori and David Gar- week on Thursday, December 24th at 9pm on Zoom with funkel, Joan Goldberg, Steve Plotnick, Randi and Arnie Spi- Rabbi Shestack. We will read & discuss essays by great er, and Seymour Wigod; and to hosts - Zehava and Nor- Jewish thinkers on their approaches to some of life's big- mal Baron, Joyce Heller, Betsy and Marty Sonnenblick, and gest questions. Shelly and Steve Winchester. A wonderful time was had by all. You can check out the pictures on Flickr at: https:// flic.kr/s/aHsmSQe36m ע״ה Shirley Vann has dedicated the attached Covenant & Conversation (used with permission of the Office of Rabbi Sacks) in memory of her beloved mother Necha Bat Yitzchok C O N G R E G A T I O N A H A V A T A C H I M P R E S E N T S : SOUP TRAIN EXCHANGE W E ' V E B E E N E N J O Y I N G T H E F O O D E X C H A N G E S A N D S A F E , S O C I A L L Y D I S T A N T I N T E R A C T I O N S , S O W E A R E C O N T I N U I N G T H E F U N W I T H A S O U P E X C H A N G E P R O G R A M ! Please sign up to make a soup and receive a soup from another individual! Sign up by December 26th and we will share the assignments on December 27th. T H E E X C H A N G E W I L L H A P P E N O N J A N U A R Y 1 S T ! Sign up here! Email: [email protected] CONGREGATION AHAVAT ACHIM PRESENTS AN AMERICANA SERIES E X P L O R I N G " O N E N A T I O N U N D E R G O D " T H R O U G H T H E L E N S O F J U D A I S M This series will take place on the following days: 11/27: Day after Thanksgiving 2/15: President's Day 1/1: New Year's Day 4/18: Tax Day 1/18: Martin Luther King Day 5/31: Memorial Day 7/4: 4th of July H T T P S : / / Z O O M . U S / J / 7 2 9 1 3 1 1 8 9 9 P A S S W O R D : 1 1 2 2 3 3 L E A R N M O R E A T W W W . A H A V A T A C H I M . O R G Rabbi Sacks zt”l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. Te Office of Rabbi Sacks will continue to distribute these weekly essays, so that people all around the world can keep on learning and fnding inspiration in his Torah. Three Approaches to Dreams Mikketz 5781 In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in a single bound from prisoner to Prime Minister. What was it about Joseph – a complete outsider to Egyptian culture, a “Hebrew,” a man who had been languishing in jail on a false charge of atempted rape – that marked him out as a leader of the greatest empire of the ancient world? Joseph had three gifs that many have in isolation but few in combination. Te frst is that he dreamed dreams.