פרשת ויצא קהילת תפארת ישראל bWelcome to CongregationParshas Tiferes Vayetze פרשת Yisroel מטות-מסעי /Tiferes שבת to Congregation מברכים Welcomeאב Yisroel!Rabbi Menachem Goldberger Parshas Tazria/Metzora בס״ד הרב מנחם ראובן הלוי גולדברגר שליטא מרא דאתרא בלב אחד Pushka to tal: $570.35 (see p. 3) 10 Kislev 5773/November 24, 2012 5746-5773 Celebrating our 27th year 1986-2012 DAVENING SCHEDULE make a mincha/maariv minyan 15 minutes unlocking the secrets of sefer Tehillim, Friday before sunset each weeknight. main shul, 7:15-8:15 pm, for men; Candle Lighting: 4:28 pm Join us at 4:30 pm in the upstairs Bais Rebbetzin Etti Rosenbaum speaking on Mincha: 4:30 pm Medrash. If you can come on a regular or Elisheva bas Aminadav, the wife of close to regular basis, please call Mordechai Aharon HaKohen, main shul, 8:30-9:30 Shabbos Day Beleck at 443-570-3850 so he can put you on pm, for women Shacharis: 8:30 am the minyan list. • December 9: Chanukah Carnival for the Mincha: 4:15 pm Rabbi Goldberger teaches Tur Bais-Yosef, whole family, 10 am-noon Maariv: 5:45 pm Sunday through Thursday nights between • December 16: Grand Siyum/Luncheon Shabbos is over after: 5:58 pm mincha and maariv and Mishna Berura on Zos Chanukah, 11:30 am-2:30 pm, Sunday nightly after mincha/maariv. The Bais Etz Chaim Shacharis: 8:00 am Medrash learning program will still continue Mincha/Maariv: 4:30 pm each weeknight from 8 to 9 pm, but there will R&R Away for R&R not be a 9 o’clock maariv minyan (unless Monday-Friday those present want to make one). While the Rabbi and Rebbetzin are away, Shacharis: 6:30 am please contact Rabbi Yehuda Leib Goldberger Mincha/Maariv: 4:30 pm Mazel Tov to for shailos, including taharas hamishpacha, at Bais Medrash: 8:00 pm 410-585-1318. If you get the voicemail, leave Next Shabbos — Parshas Vayishlach • Rabbi Shlomo and Rivka Slatkin on the a message. In an emergency call Reb Shlomo Candle Lighting: 4:26 pm birth of a daughter. May they be zocheh Goldberger at 410-299-9960. He will know Friday Mincha: 4:30 pm l’gadla l’Torah l’chupah ul’maasim tovim. how to reach the Rabbi. For shul matters, Please join the Slatkins for Kiddush at their please call Ari Blum at 410-358-5478. home this Shabbos after davening. This Shabbos • Drew and Adriana Steinberg on the Baruch Dayan HaEmes upsherin of their son Avi. May they be • 7:30 pm: Father/Son Learning zocheh l’gadlo l’Torah l’chupah ul’maasim Congregation Tiferes Yisroel is saddened tovim. to learn of the passing of Eileen Miller, grandmother of our member, Leah Bennett. Pushka Campaign • Moshe and Shaina Margolese on the upsherin of their son Ephraim. May they be May Leah and the Miller family be The pushka challenge is to put whatever zocheh l’gadlo l’Torah l’chupah ul’maasim comforted along with all the mourners of Zion amount of money one is able into a pushka tovim. and Jerusalem. every day or as often as possible. The recommended amount is only 36 cents a day. Focus on Tanach Week of Sisterhood Event When your pushka is full, drop it into the Celebration Please join the Tiferes Yisroel Sisterhood Goldbergers’ locked mailbox at 3310 W. for a planning meeting to discuss shiurim and Strathmore Avenue or call Shlomo and Ahuva The Siyum HaTanach events are on the event ideas and to get your input and help, Goldberger at 410-358-4456 to arrange a way, culminating in a grand siyum on Zos December 4 at 7:15 pm in the Nancy Taffel pickup. If you need a shul pushka, you may Chanukah. Each Shabbos we have been Annex. take one from the shul window sill. hearing a 2-3 minute d’var Torah from one of The evening will also feature a talk by Sign up by emailing [email protected]. the participants in the learning. Thank you to Rena Rotenberg called “A Jewish Child Eric Gerstenfeld and Louis Feinstein for your Growing Up in Tientsin, China, 1939-1948” Weekday Mincha/Maariv Minyan excellent divrei Torah these past two weeks. about her late husband’s childhood spent in Thanks to Eric and Elaine Gerstenfeld for Over the years we have had a maariv-only Shanghai and Tientsin. She will show artifacts planning and coordinating upcoming shiurim, and pictures and a Q & A session will follow. minyan during the fall and winter months. a carnival and the grand siyum. This year we have a strong enough nucleus to • December 2: Rabbi Silber speaking about This week’s Lev Echad is in honor of: Yaakov and Batsheva Goldman Visit us at w ww.tiferesyisroel.org Parshas Vayetze Making a Grown Man Cry The Weekl y Parsha (from http://www.torahtots.com) Bais Medrash Renovation It is with much pleasure and excitement When Yaakov first saw Rachel, he bawled that we announce a major new construction like a baby. That’s right! And with good project for Tiferes Yisroel. With G-d’s help reason. we will embark upon a mission to expand and A few good reasons to be exact: beautify the upstairs Bais Medrash. This will Servant Sisters 1. When Yaakov laid eyes on Rachel, he involve building a space directly above the from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; knew she was destined to be his wife, so he “sunroom” of the main shul. Upstairs on the adapted by Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky kissed her. The shepherds that gathered at the well grumbled about the immorality of this second floor, we will knock down the wall of (from www.kabbalaonline.org) the Bais Medrash facing Pinkney Road and stranger kissing one of their women. They build out over the sunroom adding 50 percent She [Rachel] gave [Jacob] her handmaid didn’t realize that Yaakov and Rachel were more space to our Bais Medrash. At the same Bilhah as a wife. (Gen. 30:4) cousins. Yaakov was saddened that he was time, we will redecorate the Bais Medrash She [Leah] took her handmaid Zilpah and judged to have committed an immoral act. with a new look, additional bookshelves and gave her to Jacob as a wife. (Gen. 30:9) Yaakov immediately knew that though seforim. The main sanctuary will not be Bilhah and Zilpah were sisters. Rachel was destined to be his wife, she would affected or altered. Nonetheless, in marrying them, Jacob did not die at a young age and they wouldn’t be We have enlisted the services of our friend violate the Torah’s prohibition of marrying buried together. Bernie Schulman as our contractor. Our long- two sisters, since they did not have the legal 2. When Eliezer had come to Charan time shul member Bob Rosenfelt will be status of sisters. Bilhah and Zilpah were the seeking a wife for Yitzchok, he brought helping with the site plans and drawings. Bob daughters of Laban’s maidservants, and camels loaded to the hilt with lots of precious is a former president of the shul and was our according to Jewish law were thus considered jewels and gifts for the Machatanim (in-laws). outstanding building chairman when we built his property, devoid of any familial status. But Yaakov was about to face Lavan empty- our current shul. Much thanks to Bob and Spiritually, every Jew is, in a sense, a handed. Bernie. servant of G-d. Not only does his property Here’s why: Our dear friends and members Drs. Ed and belong to G-d, his very existence belongs to Originally, Yaakov started off with plenty Mesa Leventhal will be dedicating the new G-d. This aspect of our relationship to G-d is of money, jewels and gifts. But moments after Bais Medrash renovation in memory of Ed’s in a way superior to the son-father aspect of Yaakov cleared the Brachot from Yitzchok, parents, Harry B. and Sylvia Leventhal a”h. our relationship to G-d. When we consider he zoomed off towards Charan before Esav Much thanks and appreciation to Ed and Mesa our relationship to G-d like that of a child to could catch him. Esav ordered his son, Elifaz, for their support and generosity. Yaakov and his father, i.e., when we fulfill G-d’s will out to catch Yaakov and kill him. Elifaz did Ester Gur have also given generously to the of love for G-d, our self-awareness is a factor eventually track down Yaakov. expansion project to help us get started. in the relationship: the more we sense how Now Elifaz had a dilemma. Even though he Thank you to Yaakov and Ester for your much we love G-d, the more we desire to was Esav’s son, he had grown up in support and generosity. fulfill His will. In contrast, when we serve Yitzchok’s house and learned “some” decent Rabbi Goldberger will be starting the G-d as a servant, our service is pure; there is things from his grandfather. He knew it was fundraising effort in the very near future to no admixture of self-awareness, for we are wrong to kill Yaakov. But he also wanted to raise the additional amount necessary for the merely the “property” of our Master. do the Mitzvah of Kibud Av (honoring one’s project, and a smaller amount to paint the Through this attitude, the Jew becomes an father) and carry out Esav’s orders.