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2010-12-03
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Paarl - Western Cape.
Friday 03 December 2010
Candle Lighting (3 candles Plus Shammes) of the Channukiah followed by Shabbos Candles 18:10
Saturday Night - Motzai Shabbos 20:28 Havdolloh followed by Chanuka Candle Lighting (4 candles plus Shammes)
The Parshah in a Nutshell - courtesy Chaabad.org
Mikeitz - Genesis 41:1-44:17
Joseph’s imprisonment finally ends when Pharaoh dreams of seven fat cows that are swallowed up by seven lean cows, and of seven fat ears of grain swallowed by seven lean ears. Joseph interprets the dreams to mean that seven years of plenty will be followed by seven years of hunger, and advises Pharaoh to store grain during the plentiful years. Pharaoh appoints Joseph governor of Egypt. Joseph marries Asenath, daughter of Potiphar, and they have two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Famine spreads throughout the region, and food can be obtained only in Egypt. Ten of Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt to purchase grain; the youngest, Benjamin, stays home, for Jacob fears for his safety. Joseph recognizes his brothers, but they do not recognize him; he accuses them of being spies, insists that they bring Benjamin to prove that they are who they say they are, and imprisons Simeon as a hostage. Later, they discover that the money they paid for their provisions has been mysteriously returned to them.
Jacob agrees to send Benjamin only after Judah assumes personal and eternal responsibility for him. This time Joseph receives them kindly, releases Simeon, and invites them to an eventful dinner at his home. But then he plants his silver goblet, purportedly imbued with magic powers, in Benjamin’s sack. When the brothers set out for home the next morning they are pursued, searched, and arrested when the goblet is discovered. Joseph offers to set them free and retain only Benjamin as his slave.
Rambling of the Rev.
Our family thank all of you who took the trouble to join in our celebration of Moshe Zundels Bar-Mitzvah. We had a tremendous time. Some of our community could not make it and we thank you for the good wishes.
In my view, the simcho was a family affair, the family being ourselve, the PHC and the other Jewish communities in the Cape. Without the friendship and support that we enjoyed, it would not have been the success that it turned into.
Wednesday night was the beginning of Chanuka. In celebration of this wonderful, happy festival and in honour of Moshe Zundel, the newest meber of our Minyon, the Jubilers are sponsoring doughnuts and snacks for the Kiddush after the service tonight.
Chanukah in a Nutshell
Chanukah -- the eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev -- celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration, of spirituality over materiality.
More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G-d.
When they sought to light the Temple's menorah (the seven branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; miraculously, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.
To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah (candelabrum) lighting: a single flame on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when all eight lights are kindled.
On Chanukah we also add the Hallel and Al HaNissim in our daily prayers to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d for "delivering the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few... the wicked into the hands of the righteous."
Chanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil -- latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (doughnuts); playing with the dreidel (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, "a great miracle happened there"); and the giving of Chanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children.
Ten quick Jokes
1. A car hit an elderly Jewish man. The paramedic says, 'Are you comfortable?'
The man says, 'Ah…, I make a living.'
2. I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
3. Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did.
4. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
5. She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate. She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.
6. The Doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so the doctor gave him another six months.
7. The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying, 'Mrs. Cohen, your cheque came back.
Mrs. Cohen answered, 'So did my arthritis!'
8. A doctor held a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, 'Doc, how do I stand?'
The doctor says, 'That's what puzzles me.'
9. Patient: I have a ringing in my ears.
Doctor: Don't answer.
10. Did you hear about the vagrant who walked up to a Jewish mother on the street and said, 'Lady I haven't eaten in three days.'
She replied, 'Force yourself.'
Good Shabbos & Happy Chanuka,
DOVID JUBILER
SPIRITUAL LEADER
KEHILLAS OHR YISROEL
PAARL
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