Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky

Ilene Rosen—Executive Director

Jeff Kline—Shul President

Please join us for Kiddush in the Social Hall sponsored by BMH-BJ.

If you wish to sponsor a Kiddush, breakfast, or rent space in the synagogue please call us at 303-388-4203. Please respect the sanctity of our services by refraining from entering or leaving while the ark is open, Mourners Kaddish,

Kedusha and Sermon. Please note that our services are cell free zones.

Life & Legacy - Live On. Make a difference in your lifetime by making a difference in our future. For more information or to learn how to be a part of Life & Legacy contact one of our committee members: Brian Story, Lisa Engbar, Rabbi Chaitovsky, Andy Schwartz, Jeff Kline or Ilene Rosen.

Parashat Mikeitz, Shabbat Chanukah, Rosh Chodesh

December 28, 2019 - January 3, 2020 — 30 Kislev - 6 Tevet 5780

Shabbat B’yachad—Joint Shabbat Service in the Adelman Chapel 9:00 am

Torah reading — Gen. 41:44:17; pg 222, Rosh Chodesh reading — Nu. 28:9-15; pg 890

Chanukah Maftir pg 768, Baal Koreh — Jerry Rotenberg, Haftarah — Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7 pg 1210

Taste of Torah parashah shiur with Essie Fleischmann at 10:00 am in the Gallery

The Week Ahead

Saturday — December 28 Rosh Chodesh Tevet Chanukah Day 6 Daf Yomi 8:00 am Shacharit (Chapel) 9:00 am Mincha 12:30 Havdalah 5:25 pm Sunday— December 29 Rosh Chodesh Tevet Chanukah Day 7 Daf Yomi 7:30 am Shacharit 8:30 am Mincha/Maariv 4:30 pm Monday— December 30 Chanukah Day 8 Daf Yomi 5:30 am Shacharit 6:30 am Mincha/Maariv 4:30 pm Tuesday— December 31 Daf Yomi 5:45 am Shacharit 6:45 am Mincha/Maariv 4:30 pm Wednesday— January 1 Daf Yomi 7:30 am Shacharit 8:30 am Mincha/Maariv 4:30 pm Thursday— January 2 Daf Yomi 5:30 am Shacharit 6:30 am Mincha/Maariv 4:30 pm Friday— January 3 Daf Yomi 5:45 am Shacharit 6:45 am Candle Lighting 4:28 pm Mincha 4:30 pm

שבת שלום ומבורך!

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Cantor Emeritus Joel Lichterman

Cantor Emeritus Zachary Kutner

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Daily/Weekly Torah Learning

►Daf Yomi one hour before Shacharit - Rabbi Fleischmann ►Law, Legend & Lore daily after Mincha - Rabbi Chaitovsky ►Sefer HaChinuch Mondays at 8:00 pm - Rabbi Stern (in the Gallery) *On break ►Verse by Verse through the Torah *On break Wednesdays at 7:30 am - Rabbi Chaitovsky

►Conversational Hebrew Class Wednesdays at 7:00 pm - Roberta Feinsmith (in the Library) *On break

►Women’s Parashah Shiur Thursdays at 11:00 am - Ellyn Hutt (in the Gallery) *On break ►Taste of Torah Shabbat at 10:00 am - Essie Fleischmann (in the Gallery) ►Ten Minutes of Text Shabbat at Seudah Shelishit - Rabbi Chaitovsky *On break ►Junior Congregation Schedule at 10:30 am - Joel Rozansky on Jan 11 & 25 (in room 113)

Parashat Miketz (Gen. 41:44:17; pg 222)

Torah Reading 1. The sidrah continues to follow Joseph’s experiences in Egypt. Joseph had proven himself a success-ful interpreter of dreams while in prison, and when Pharaoh has dreams that even his wisest men cannot explain, his chief butler remembers Joseph and recommends him. Joseph comes before Pharaoh and interprets his dreams to mean that there will be seven years of plenty ahead for the Egyptian empire, to be followed by seven years of drought and failing harvests. Satisfied with the interpretation and with Joseph’s suggestions to avoid disaster, Pharaoh appoints Joseph as his chief economic planner. Sold into slavery by his brothers when he was seventeen, Joseph at thirty, is now Pharaoh’s valued adviser. The thirteen years of ups and downs have made Joseph, the cocky young fellow of Canaanite days, into a mature man in Egypt. The seven prosperous years pass quickly, and Egypt enters into the period of famine. Hunger affects all of the ancient Middle East, including Canaan where Joseph’s family still lives. Jacob urges his sons to go down to Egypt to buy grain for the clan. When Joseph’s brothers appear before him, he recognizes them, but the brothers have not the slightest idea who the important Egyptian official is. Joseph has mixed feelings about his brothers. On the one hand, he is excited by this first meeting with members of his family after twenty years. On the other hand, a feeling of anger is awakened in Joseph as he recalls the treatment his brothers had given him. Joseph needs time to decide whether to make peace with his brothers or to take vengeance for the past. He plans to test them to see how they feel about their wrongdoing of long ago.

Torah Reading 2 for Rosh Chodesh (Nu. 28:9-15; pg 890)

Torah Reading 3 Maftir pg 768 The supplementary Torah reading reports on the offerings brought by the tribal leaders of ancient Israel. Each day during the period in which the altar of the Sanctuary was dedicated, a tribal leader brought the day’s sacrifice. The Torah emphasizes the selflessness of each leader. No one attempted to outdo his neighbor in the value of his gift to the Sanctuary.

In Today’s Haftarah (Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7 pg 1210)

In this special haftarah for Shabbat Chanukah, the Prophet Zechariah was one of the returnees from Babylon when Cyrus of Persia issued his Decree of Restoration to the exiles, in 537 B.C.E. But those who returned to Palestine were soon discouraged by the problems which they encountered. Here Zechariah, whose faith remained strong, brings a message of hope to the people. If only they will continue with their effort to reestablish the homeland which G-d has intended for them, there will be better times ahead. Zechariah urges them to “sing and rejoice” for G-d is among them. Not only will Zion be glad, but many nations will join with her in rejoicing. The vision of the menorah in the haftarah serves as the special link to Chanukah as a time when the Temple was rededicated.

Birthdays Leo Boscoe, Jacob Eskanos, Toby Mower, Isaac Sar, Jonathan Ramo-Cofino, David Fogel,

Miriam Yehudah, Moshe Levitt, Kelsey Goldhirsch, Fred Mechanik, Mike Gornbein, Eva Ruda-Hull

Anniversaries Jeffrey & Sharon Waldman (54) Ronald & Audree Saliman (51)

Jay & Deirdre Schreiber (7) Larry Mizel & Carol Mizel (49)

Refuah Sheleima/Speedy Recovery Avrom ben Moishe, Bracha bat Basha, Daniel ben Batya,

Esther bat Chana, Sara Behmoaras, Hally Bregman (Tzvi Arye ben Devorah), Eliya Feivel ben Miriam, Linda Fox, Frimette bat Miriam, Bobbi Furer, Pip Goldstein, Elaine Greenberg, Francine Greenberg (Feige Esther bat Ita Liba), Hilda Kass, Yitzchak ben Beile (Isaac Krajmalnick), Shraga Feivel ben Sima (Fabian Krajmalnick), Dona Mandell, Menucha bat Bayla Zelda, Mark Millenson, Rabbi Larry Moldo (HaRav Tzvi Liev ben Nechama), Mordechai ben Ida, Mordechai ben Pauline, Barbara Oxman, Lilian Schaeffer, Shmuel Yaakov ben Chana, Renee Shraiberg (Rivkah bat Ita), Jay Stark, Tamar bat Phoebe, Terry Wolf, Tziviya Trana bat Rivka, Yitzchak ben Feige, Clifford Weller, Pam Zeldin

Yahrzeits Shabbat, December 28, 2019 / 30 Kislev 5780 Morris Binstock, Ruth Ray Cohen, Jacob David Devine, Rose Frieda Glassman, Bessie Greenberg, Sylvia Greenberg, Minna Jacobs, Doris M. Karsh, Pesya Kopelevich, Jack Kushner, Max Lutz, Natalie Moses, Sara Belle Pepper, Zalman Rubinchik, Helen Wildfeuer

Sunday, December 29, 2019 / 1 Tevet 5780 Valeriy Aylyarov, Richard Bluestein, Maurice Duman, Dan Garner, Charles Glass, David Gochman, Goldie Goldberg, Mary Goldberg, Rose Goldberg, Albert Greenberg, Anne E. Greenblatt, Leah Bat Yitzchak HaKohane, Betty Itkin, Evalyn Rose Kalish, Phillip S. Kauvar, Ben Krim, Edith Krivitzkin, Shayna Avery Lazarus, Bess Rogell Lazere, Nathan Levitt, Towia Liberman, Hyman Litvak, Andrew Lowinger, Abraham Melnick, Dorothy Oppenheimer, Sara Robbins, Sam Rosen, Zoya Rubinchik, Jake Sarobnick, Sam Schmerman, Marvin Slatkin, Irene Miller Stein, Sam Swengel, Abe Weiner

Monday, December 30, 2019 / 2 Tevet 5780 Devorah Bolshoun, Lucie Cohen, Samuel Fisher, Frances S. Glickman, Max Gold, Seymour Gumbiner, Rose Jacobstein, Genia Kavalerchik, Yitzchak Julius Kimel, Annette Korn, Boris Lerman, Irwin Levine, Naoum I. Paley, Lawrence Rosenberg, Abraham Rothberg, Kenneth Schoninger, Herbert Weinfeld

Tuesday, January 1, 2020 / 3 Tevet 5780 Rose Belleli, Morris Bernstein, Froma Charles, Theodore Epstein, Jacob Feder, Sarah Goldstein, Ida Goralnik, Keri Hale, Henry L. Hendler, Sonia Hora, Joseph Jackson, Bessie Kantrowitz, Shirley Kasztl, Ethel Katz, Joel Scott Kline, Rosa Leah Lehrman, Rabbi Jerome Lipsitz, Sarah Littman, Gertrude Marcove, Lena Mintz, Zalman Pollak, David Primock, Morris Rifkin, Lena Robinson, Mary Rosenthal, Dora Schneiderman, Eileen Sclarow, John E. Streltzer, Eli Tawil, Deborah Wine-Kramer

Wednesday, January 2, 2020 / 4 Tevet 5780 Gloria Abrams, Rose Altberger, Rabbi Abram M Brener, Rebecca Chutkow, Walter Felsenburg, Lorraine Gardenswartz, Morris Ginsberg, Mary Goldman, Sam Greenstein, Marvin J. Kippur, Elsa Klaiman, Jennie Krasner, Harold Lustig, Joseph David Mandel, Nathan Mendelsberg, Thersea Millenson, Goldie G. Rabinowitz, Nicholas Rosenthal, Elaine F. Rothenberg, Rose Schatz, Robert Schiff, Morris Schwartz, Anne N. Wittow, Isaac Wolf

Thursday, January 3, 2020 / 5 Tevet 5780 Meyer Averch, John Gawerc, Hyman Gerskovitz, Mary Goldman, Lily Halpern, Emil Hecht, Louis Hellerstein, Sam Horwitz, Bertha Jacobs, Lev Katsnelson, Jean Z. Kolinsky, Heinz Kotlarczyk, Jacob Lewin, Gerald Merenstein, Sophie Miller, Mona Milzer, Libbie Steinberg, Arthur M. Wald, Belle Weinberg, Diana G. Weinstock, David Zahn

Friday, January 4, 2020 / 6 Tevet 5780 Malcolm Albert, Blaine Lee Block, Betty Epstein, Phyllis Frank, Earl E Friedland, Boris Fruman, Hazel Gardenswartz, Benjamin Ginsberg, Minia Gorelik, Minia Gorelik, Abraham Grossman, Alfred Gunn, Elsie Haber, Arnold Held, Donald F. Kaatz, Vera Kessler, Lester Leight, Irving Lesser, Rose Litvak, David Jacob Pailet, Frank Quicksilver, Bessie Rabinowitz, Carl Richman, Abraham Rubin, Esther Seligson, Sarah Stern - Fox, Thelma Zeppelin, Jack Zerobnick

560 S. Monaco Pkwy. 80224 www.bmh-bj.org main office: 303-388-4203

Happenings @ BMH-BJ Office Closures over New Years — December 31 (8-12) - January 1 (all day) We wish everyone a Happy Chanukah, Sunday evening 22 December – Monday evening 30 December. All classes apart from Daf Yomi will be on break during 23 December—3 January. Ellyn Hutt’s Thursday class will not meet on January 2 and will resume on January 9. BMH-BJ Preschool will be closed through Tuesday, January 7.

Mincha, Maariv, Seudat Shlishit, Havdalah changes — January 4 & 11 Mincha will take place at 12:30 pm — please stay after Kiddush to join us. Seudat Shlishit, Maariv and Havdalah will not be taking place at the shul on those dates.

Junior Congregation with Joel Rozansky — January 11 & 25 at 10:30 am in room 113 Children grades 3-8 are invited to join Joel Rozansky for this fun and educational prayer service.

Jewish Journey Friday Night Dinner — Friday, January 10, 2020 • 6:00 - 7:30 pm Coinciding with Parashat Vayechi, our clergy and guests will speak about Jewish journeys they have been on while attendees enjoy appetizers. Following the talks, guests are encouraged to share stories from their own journeys during dinner. Adults $25, children $12. Register at www.bmh-bj.org/event/Jan20Shabbat

Rockin’ Havdalah — Saturday, January 11 at 6:00 pm Close out Shabbat with joy! Cantor Goldstein and Jack Brogen, along with other musicians, will provide an upbeat Havdalah service with high energy, fun melodies, audience participation. This is a great opportunity to engage in Havdalah and bring glee into the rest of your week.

We are accepting care package donations by the front office now through February Packages of water bottles, personal care products and snacks will be prepared and delivered to Denver’s homeless population. Help us gather items for these packages and make a mitzvah for the needy.

Shalom Salaam Women’s Interfaith Group —Sunday, January 26, • 3:00 - 5:00 pm We'll discuss a very interesting book, “The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding”. Please come even if you don't get a chance to read the book. RSVP to Bobbi Furer. light2u@comcast.net. Mosaic Foundation. 10855 E. Bethany Drive, Suite 100, Aurora, CO 80014.