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9th December 201721st Kislev 5778
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Hertz 141/152 Stone 198/1142
This week Shabbat begins 3.37 pm. Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat 3.45 pm.
Shabbat ends 4.46 pm. Next Shabbat begins 3.36 pm.
Service Times Shacharit Mincha Ma’ariv
Shabbat 9.15 am 3.35 pm 4.46 pm
Sunday 8.30 am 3.45 pm Follows Mincha
Monday 7.15 am 1.30 pm 7.30 pm
Tuesday 7.25 am 1.30 pm 7.30 pm
Wednesday Chanukah I 7.05 am 1.30 pm 7.30 pm
Thursday Chanukah II 7.05 am 1.30 pm 7.30 pm
Friday Chanukah III 7.05 am 3.45 pm Follows Mincha
Next Shabbat Chanukah IV 9.00 am 3.35 pm 4.46 pm
Dayan Ivan Binstock will give a chumash shiur before davening at 9.00 amYossi Fachler will lead the services
Jeremy Davidson will leinJoel Toledano will read the haftarah
Rabbi Yoni Golker will deliver the sermonAlex Toledano will sing anim zemirot
Dayan Dr Pinchas Toledano will speak over seudah shlishit
PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THIS LEAFLET FROM THE SHUL ON SHABBAT AS THERE IS NOT YET AN ERUV!For information on our eruv planning please contact [email protected]
The congregation is invited to Kiddush in the Moritz Gertler Hall after the service which has been kindly sponsored by Daniel and Jan Toledano.
a TasTe of TorahThis shabbaT wiTh rebbeTzen Dina Golker
Kiddush at 10.00am in the Dora Freedman Hall followed by talk from 10.15am - 10.45am
Parsha Puzzle
How many brothers were persuaded by Judah to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites? Last week’s question: How old is Jacob when his father dies?Answer: 120Winners: Sam Vecht, Menachem Mendel Vogel, Lionel Kopelovitz, Stephen Goldwyn
bereaVemenT serVices
Contact Susan [email protected] or 020 3441 9476
Thank you
to the Kiddush Rota and Security Team for this Shabbat.
QuoTaTion
“A lion has roared – who would not fear? My L-d G-d has spoken – who would not prophesy?”[Bible, Amos 3:8, the concluding verse of today’s haftarah]
on This Day
Rav Yitzchak Hutner died on 20 Kislev, 1981. Born in Warsaw in 1906, he became known as the ‘Warsaw illui’ (prodigy). He studied in Israel and for a time was a disciple of Rav Kook. He founded Yeshivat Chaim Berlin in America and developed a unique blend of Jewish philosophy and halacha. His works, Pachad Yitzchak, were edited for publication by his daughter, Rebbetzen Dr Bruria David, an outstanding rabbinical scholar in her own right.
in The eVenT of an emerGency
Please follow the instructions of the security officer in charge.
Stewards should wear yellow vests. Unless otherwise advised, the evacuation
point is at the American School(entrance opposite 3-5 Loudoun Road).
Children should be under the supervision of a responsible adult at all times in the
building.Our defibrillator can now be found adjacent
to the Shul noticeboard in the Foyer.
chilDren's & youTh serVices aT 10.45am
Toddlers: in the Bride's RoomChildren's Service: in the Dayan's OfficeBreakfast Club: in the Carter Club
weekly shiurim
Chumash Shiur with Dayan Binstock/Rabbi Golker, 15 minutes before Shabbat morning service‘Talmud Shiur’ with Alex Grunfeld follows Ma'ariv on Friday Night
Tuesday Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Fine at 10.30am
Wednesday Ladies Shiur at 10.30am in the Beth Hamedrash. 13th December special Chanukah session. Restarting 10th January 2018. Continuing with the Book of Job. All welcome.
For info contact [email protected]
Fortnightly shiur led by Rabbi Faivish Vogel at the home of John Fenner at 10.00am.
For more information 020 7586 2282
suPer siDDur sleuTh
Where can you find a reference to ‘Seven Shepherds’ in the siddur? Last week’s question:If strong is to weak and wicked is to righteous, what is arrogant to?Answer: “Those who are engaged in the study of Torah.” The reference is to the Al Hanissim prayer for Chanukah. NS 93.Winners: Lionel Kopelowitz, Jacob Cohen, Daniel Goldwater, Stephen Goldwyn
We are delighted to welcome Dayan Dr Pinchas Toledano to our community this Shabbat. Dayan
Toledano was the Acting Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Community in London. Born in Morocco, he qualified as a rabbi aged 20. He gained a BA and Ph.D. from London University. Until
recently he was the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese community in Holland. He is the author of many volumes on Jewish law. Dayan Toledano will be speaking over Seudah Shlishit.
MORNING SOLD OUT!!
TheaTre club
Quiz. Noel Coward Theatre. Tues 5 June. 7.30pm. £45 Brief Encounter. Empire Cinema Haymarket. Wed 20 June. 7.30pm. £39.50The King and I. London Palladium. Thurs 2 Aug. 7pm. £42.50Details from Richard Mernane020 7289 9173 [email protected]
briDGe club
Duplicate Bridge: Mondays from 1.00 to 4.00pm.Donation £8 a session including tea.Director: Mike Eden.Contact: Gillian Burr on 020 7586 0156
book club
For details contact Valerie Garston on 020 7435 7507.
keeP fiT for women - weekDays
with Stevie Sillers - 07836 784823
regular eventS
hebrew classes St John’s Wood Synagogue ChederReception - Year 6 & GCSE classSundays 9.45am – 12.45pmContact Rabbi Ronen Broder0794 108 7701 or [email protected]
kinDerGarTen
St John’s Wood Synagogue KindergartenDaily, from 2 years old.Monday to Thursday 8.45am-1.15pm or 3.00pmLunch now available 4 days a week! Friday 8.45am-12noonContact Estelle Brown 020 7286 3859 [email protected]
babes in The wooD
Every Friday at 10.30am. Join us for play, coffee & our fun Shabbat table! Jewish Eductional and Israeli songs with Elisheva Tatz and Einav, on alternative weeks. Contact Dina Golker at [email protected]
laDies GuilD
14th December - Visit to ‘Charles II: Art & Power’ at 11.00am. Private talk. Members £25, guests £2810th January - Visit to 'Modigliani', 1.30pm. Private talk. Members £28, guests £3123rd January - Visit to 'Designs on Britain' at The Jewish Museum at 1.00pm. Private talk. Members £15, guests £18
Gentlemen welcome to all events Contact Gillian Burr on 020 7586 0156
communal chanukah lunch - Tuesday 12th DecemberDrinks 12.30pm. Home cooked lunch 1.00pm. £7.00 for Synagogue members, £8.00 non-members.Please RSVP to: Gillian Burr on 020 7586 0156 or Melody Salem on 020 7286 9810.helP aVailableIf you are housebound and would like a visitor or a regular phone call, if you need advice or information on local services and activities or if you would like a lift to the Shul’s Communal Lunches, please get in touch. Please contact Gillian or Melody.
forThcominG eVenTs
Shabbat 16th December Bar Mitzvah of Joshua BreckerGolden Wedding of Hazel & John Cosgrove
Friday 12th January Community Friday Night with Rabbi Lord & Lady Sacks. Booking open now!
Please join us on
Tuesday 12th December for our
Chanukah Party
12.45pm - Drinks12.50 - Children Singing
1.00pm - Home cooked lunch3.00pm - Menorah Candle Lighting
Donation: £7 Synagogue members
£8 non - Synagogue members
If you would like an additional £5 takeaway salt beef meal please call and let us know in advance.
Booking essential.Please RSVP to Melody 0203 214 3820 or
Gillian 0207 586 0156
Transport available if essentialfor members only.
We look forward to seeing you!
PEACE OF MIND 28Th January – 4Th february
St John’s Wood are welcoming a unit of 20 former IDF soldiers for a week’s programme of intensive therapy, and activities in our community. We are needing families to host two men for this week. The men can share a room. You will have breakfast every morning and dinner together on two evenings. And you will be part of a unique programme, with a communal dinner on Friday 2nd February. The men are 31 years old and speak English. It is a privilege and a mitzvah. For more details please contact :Andrew Loftus: [email protected] or 07810 551351 or Anthony Goldstein: [email protected] or 07801 753450
PleaSe SuPPort our luncHtime mincHa Service at St JoHn'S Wood
DAILY 1.30-1.45pm (Mon-Thurs)
Social & PerSonal
ThouGhT for The week by Dayan Ivan BinstockFULFILLING DREAMS
In 1995 the US Congress and Senate passed, overwhelmingly, the Jerusalem Embassy Act, mandating the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Bill Clinton used his waiver authority to avoid implementing the Act. Yet the waiver was only valid for six months. Since that time, the waiver has been renewed periodically by Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama and by President Trump when he first came to office. The latest waiver was due to expire on Friday 8th December.In announcing on Wednesday, the relocation of his embassy, President Trump was, therefore, only reiterating what has been an unequivocal plank of US policy towards Israel for twenty-two years.It is fascinating to observe that a period of twenty-two years also separates a dream and the process of its realization in this week’s portion.Joseph, as a seventeen-year-old has his dreams of leadership that his brothers would bow down to him. Whilst his brothers are jealous and angry the Torah says “his father - shamar et hadavar - kept the matter in mind.” Rashi, explains “He was waiting and looking forward to when the realization would come about.”At aged thirty, Joseph is hauled from prison to successfully interpret Pharaoh’s dreams and become the Viceroy of Egypt. After seven years of plenty and two years of famine, Joseph’s brothers come down to Egypt and bow down to the Viceroy, twenty-two years after they had originally mocked him for his fantasies. The Talmud (Berachot 55b) observes that one can expect to wait for as much as twenty-two years for the fulfilment of a good dream.Yet in the brothers’ initial response to Joseph there lies an important message that is vital to appreciate in the present climate in the Middle East. When Joseph tells his brothers that he dreamed that their sheaves of wheat would bow down to his, they said: “Would you then reign over us? Would you then rule over us?”The double expression refers to two kinds of authority: consensus and tyranny. The brothers say rhetorically to Joseph did he think that they would accept his leadership voluntarily or was he expecting to impose himself upon them by force.As welcome as the announcement of the relocation of the embassy is, it is crucial that efforts are redoubled to achieve a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. Ultimately peace will only be achieved when both sides are prepared to live in harmony with one another. May that dream be fulfilled speedily in our time.
MAZEL TOVMazel tov to Beryl Slade on the birth of a great grandson in Jerusalem, first grandson to Moshe and Yocheved SladeMazel tov to Sidney Hauswirth and Patricia Hauswirth on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson, Max Gerbi this Shabbat at Hampstead Garden Suburb SynagogueMazel tov to Sheila Gewolb on her 70th BirthdayCONDOLENCESChaim aruchim, long life to Mrs Jeanette Owide, Mr Daniel Owide and Ms Juliette Owide on the passing of their husband and father, Oscar Owide.
CONSECRATIONS21/01/2018 Late Dr Louis Freedman 12.00 noon Bushey Cemetery28/01/2018 Late Anne Freeman 9.30 am Bushey Cemetery
NEXT SHABBAT Next Friday, 15th December, we will be kindling the Chanukah lights in shul at 3.36 pm, followed by Mincha at 3.45 pm. Chanukah lights are kindled before Shabbat lights, at least one Chanukah
candle needs to be long enough to last till about 5.15 pm