Z’manim & Services

Shabbat Parashat Vayeshev  

Date: 23 Kislev 5776 * 5 December 2015

Candle Lighting - 4:10pm

Minḥa/Kabalat-Shabat/Arvit - 4:15pm

Shaḥrit - 8:30am * Latest Sh’ma - 9:25am

Parasha Limud - 3:15pm * Zohar - 3:40pm

Minḥa - 3:50pm * Sh’ki’a - 4:28pm

Shiur: 4:20pm * Arvit - 5:09pm

Shabbat End: 5:13pm

Weekday Prayers (Tefilat Avraham)

Shaḥrit: Sun: 8:30am

Mon/Thu: 6:40, 8:00am

Tue/Wed/Fri: 6:45, 8:00am

Minḥa/Arvit: Sun-Thu: 4:15pm

Picture of the Week

A Moment of BAN

“All people are smart, but if you judge a fish based on his ability to climb a tree, he will spend the rest of his life thinking that he is a complete failure.”

(Albert Einstein)

Happy Hanukka! This Year Hanukka will take 8 days!

In the Beginning

“Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places and to repair them. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into mount Sion. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.

And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads: And they fell face down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places...”

“And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within the temple: and they sanctified the temple, and the courts. And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick, and the altar of incense, and the table into the temple. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.”

(The First Book of the Maccabees, 4: 36-41, 48-50)

This Shabbat & Beyond

Shah’rit: 8:30am * Beth Aharon Sh’ma: 9:15am - all kids participate!

Youth Groups: See the Bayit Bulletin for all programs!

Parasha: 9:45am * Yimlokh: 10:45 - All kids! * D’var Torah: 10:50 - Rav Dov

Before Kiddush with Rav Dov: Shiur on the Miracle(s) of Hanukkah.

Kiddush: is sponsored by the Small Family in memory of Akiva's father, Tzvi Moshe ben Avraham Mordechai z"l.

After Minha in Hebrew: “Mila baParasha” – understanding a word in parashat Vayishlah: "Tamar - תָּמָר" - what’s the meaning of her name; where was she from; and was she sweat?

After Minha in English: Armchair Conversation and Q&A with Ruth & Ibtisa.Iin English.

After Minha in Aramaic: Limud Daf Yomi with Rav Linzer on the 3FL

Condolences to the families of all those who were murdered in San Bernardino, CA.

Refuaa Shelema to Israel’s injured bodies & souls.

Congratulations to Ruben Mahgerefteh and Riverdale Y swim team Rapids on their victory over Tarrytown Sharks.

Happy Birthday to YOU.

Many Thanks to Sova Catering for sponsoring kiddush last Shabbat.

Visit to the NAHMIAS ET FILS Distillery  - Sun. Dec. 6th @ 1pm. Detalis on the back.

Happy Hanuka: This Sunday evening, 25 Kislev, & beyond!

The weekly Riddle

On average how many time a day kids laugh; how many times adults laugh?

(Guess before you take a peek. The answer on the back page)

  Rav Ovadia Yosef z”l  

נס חנוכה

בתקופת בית המקדש השני גזרו מלכי יוון גזירות על ישראל, ועמדו עליהם להשכיחם מצוות התורה, ולבטל אותם מדתם, ולא הניחום לעסוק בתורה ובמצוות, ונכנסו להיכל בית המקדש ופרצו בו פרצות, והיה צר מאד לישראל מפניהם, עד שריחם עליהם הקדוש ברוך הוא, והצילם מידם, וגברו עליהם בני החשמונאים הכהנים הגדולים, והרגום, והושיעו את ישראל מידם, והעמידו מלך על ישראל מן הכהנים.

  וכשגברו החשמונאים על היוונים, נכנסו לבית המקדש, ורצו להדליק את המנורה הטהורה, ולא מצאו אלא פך אחד של שמן טהור שהיה בו כדי להדליק את המנורה יום אחד בלבד, ונעשה בו נס והדליקו ממנו שמונה ימים, עד שכתשו זיתים ועשו מהם שמן טהור. ואותו היום שבו נמצא פך השמן, יום כ"ה לחודש כסליו היה. ולכן תיקנו חכמים שהיו באותו הדור לעשות שמונה ימים הללו, מיום כ"ה בכסליו, ימי הלל ושמחה, ומדליקים בהם נרות בכל לילה משמונת הלילות, כדי לפרסם הנס, וימים אלו נקראים "חנוכה".

הזהירות בהדלקת נרות חנוכה

צריך להזהר מאד במצות הדלקת נרות חנוכה, כי מצוה זו חביבה עד מאד, כדי לפרסם את הנס בהודאה לה' יתברך. ואמרו רבותינו (שבת כג:) שהמקיים מצוה זו כהלכתה זוכה לבנים תלמידי חכמים, שנאמר (בספר משלי פרק ו.) "כי נר מצוה ותורה אור", ופירש רש"י, על ידי נר מצוה בא אור של תורה. וכתב המאירי, דהיינו לעשותו בהידור רב ובדרך חיבוב.

כמה נרות יש להדליק

כמה נרות צריך להדליק בחג החנוכה? מעיקר הדין די בנר אחד בכל בית מישראל, בין שבני הבית רבים ובין שבני הבית מועטים, ונהגו כל ישראל להדר במצוה ולהוסיף נר אחד בכל לילה, עד שבלילה האחרון מדליק שמונה נרות. (ועוד נר אחד כ"שמש". מלבד יוצאי ארם צובא, שחלקם נהגו להדליק שמונה נרות, ועוד שני נרות, אחד כ"שמש", והשני, זכר לנס שנעשה להם).

  מנהג הספרדים ובני עדות המזרח, כדעת מרן שקבלנו הוראותיו, שאחד מבני הבית מדליק, ופוטר את כל בני הבית בהדלקתו, אבל האשכנזים נוהגים שכל אחד מבני הבית מדליק נרות חנוכה בפני עצמו.

Daf Bite  –   טעם דף

The Mishna (37b-38a) focuses on birkat kohanim - the three part blessing that the kohanim give to the rest of the people - distinguishing between the way it was done in the Temple and the way it is done outside the Temple as part of the prayer service. Among the differences enumerated in the Mishna are the way God's name is pronounced (according to the actual writing or the way it is commonly said) and the way the kohanim hold their hands during the blessing (in front of them or above their heads).

 The Gemara presents an odd situation and asks how birkat kohanim should be done when the entire group is made up of kohanim. Rav Adda quotes Rav Samlai as teaching that they stand up and make the blessing in the normal way. In response to the question of who they are then blessing, Rabbi Zeira says that the blessing will affect those Jews who are working in the fields.

 (Daf Yomi from Steinsaltz.org; Sota 38a-b)

Rav Question – שאלת רב

Can a woman recite the Sh’ma’ Yisrael prayer using a feminine person, like “v’ahavt” instead of “v’ahavta?”

Biblical News - A Twit from King Hizkiah

For the first time, the royal seal of King Hezekiah in the Bible has been found in an archaeological excavation. The stamped clay seal, also known as a bulla, or a stamped impression, was discovered in the Ophel excavations led by Dr. Eilat Mazar at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The bulla, which measures just over a centimeter in diameter, bears a seal impression depicting a two-winged sun disk flanked by ankh symbols and containing a Hebrew inscription that reads “Belonging to Hezekiah, (son of) Ahaz, king of Judah.”

The bulla was discovered along with 33 other stamped bullae during wet-sifting of dirt from a refuse dump located next to a 10th-century B.C.E. royal building in the Ophel.

In the ancient Near East, clay bullae were used to secure the strings tied around rolled-up documents. The bullae were made by pressing a seal onto a wet lump of clay. The stamped bulla served as both a signature and as a means of ensuring the authenticity of the documents.

Hezekiah, son and successor of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah (reigning c. 715–686 B.C.E.), was known for his religious reforms and attempts to gain independence from the Assyrians.

(biblicalarchaeology.org)

Time to Smile  

A person felt too much pressure at home and went to see the doctor.

Patient: “Listen doc. the tension at home simply kills me. I can’t take it  any more.”

Doctor: “No worries. I will give you an advice to reduce the level of pressure. Every day you should run 10 miles. After a week please call me to tell me how you feel.”

After a week the patient calls.

Doctor: “How do you feel?”

Patient: “I am feeling great.”

Doctor: “And how things are going at home?”

Patient: “Home?! What home? I am 70 miles away...”

A Story - of Children

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you...

You are the bows from which your children

as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,

and He bends you with His might

that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies,

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

- Khalil Gibran

Makon baParasha - Dotan

“…for I overheard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.”

“.כִּי שָׁמַעְתִּי אֹמְרִים נֵלְכָה דֹּתָיְנָה…”

Be’er Yoseph (Joseph’s Well) in Dotan, north of Shkhem, Samaria, Israel. (wiki)

Parasha – Bereshit: (Genesis) Vayeshev 37:1-40:23

Historical Context: Location: Kena’an and Mitsrayim. Creation Time: the second half of the 22nd century to the beginning of the 23rd century. General Calendar: approx. 1665-1715 bce.

Parashort: In the year 2216, Yakov settles in kena’an. Yoseph was 17 years old and Yakov gives him the multi-colored coat. Yoseph relates his two dreams to his brothers. The brothers conspire to kill Yoseph, but Reuven intervenes and suggests throwing Yoseph into a pit to buy time. During Reuven's absence, Yehudah suggests selling Yoseph into slavery. The brothers gives Yaakov a contrived evidence of Yoseph's death. The story of Yehudah and Tamar ends with their first son, Peretz, being the progenitor of Mashiah. Yoseph is being purchased by Potiphar and is appointed to run Potiphar's household. Potiphar's wife attempts to seduce Yoseph, but Yoseph withstand temptation and flees his mistress's presence. He is thrown into the royal prison and is chosen by the warden to run the prison. Due to his managerial position, Yoseph comes in contact with the former royal wine steward and baker. He successfully interprets their dreams and the wine steward is re-appointed to his position. Yoseph asks the wine steward to intervene on his behalf with Pharaoh. In the year 2227, Yoseph is 28 years old. (Rabbi Aron Tendler, Torah.org)

Biblical Quiz

Kids: Which son did Ya’akov love the most? Is it fair?

Teens: How should we pronounce the name Amos?

Adults: Where was the prophet Amos born?

Experts: Who in the Bible wore k’tonet pasim besides Yosef?

Speechless in the Parasha

Parashat Vayeshev starts in Kena’an and ends in Egypt. In between 5 places are mentioned; 3 in connection with Yoseph and 2 in connection with Yehuda. Try and find out these places as you read the parasha. Do you know its location within Israel?

Join Beth Aharon's Hanukka Party

Keeping our Tradition!

Beth Aharon's Hanukka Party, will take place b"H this year on Motsae Shabbat kodesh - Ner Shvi’ei shel Hanukka – December 12 @ 6:15pm @ the Bayit's social hall.

Join us for songs, sevivonim, sufganiot, light eats and more...

Raffle tickets and Great Prizes for the Winners!!!

Hanukka crafts and dreidel competition for the kids!

Suggested Contribution: $20 per family / $10 per Individual - at the door.

All BAnners and Friends are welcome!

May we all have Hag Hanukka shel Or!

Why Did Yoseph not Contact his Father?

It says in Minhath Yehudah that one should not be surprised that after Yoseph was appointed to be in charge of Potiphar's house, he did not send a letter to his father to let him know that he was in Egypt. Yoseph thought that his father had passed away as a result of his anguish over the loss of his son. Proof of this is that Joseph asked his brothers several times, "Is your father still alive?" Not only that, but after he made himself known to his brothers he asked again, "Is my father still alive?"

It seems apparent, therefore, that Joseph did not know that his father was alive and that is why he did not send a letter. Because he would have said to himself, "to whom shall I send the letter? To my father and mother who have passed away, or to my brothers who hate me?"

(See Minhath Yehudah, ch. 46, Parashath Wayyesheb)

(ATorahMinute.Com - Rabbi Ya'aqob Menashe)

 Could we think of another reason?

Haftara – Amos 2:6-3:8

Haftit: The 10 Tribes of Israel had four sins that Hashem was unhappy with. The first three were Idolatry, Immorality, and Bloodshed. The last is that the Israelite Judges could be bribed. The first three, Hashem was willing to forgive his nation for but the fourth Hashem wasn't willing to forgive. The Haftorah discusses why Hashem – G-d - deals with the Jews strictly. It's because Hashem really does love us and He cares enough about us, to punish us for our sins. This enables us to reflect, do teshuva – repentance - and in turn improve ourselves.

Connection to the Parasha: The prophet Amos accuses certain Israelites for having sold the righteous for money and the poor for shoes. The Parasha acknowledges that Yaakov’s sons sold Yoseph into slavery for money. (haftorahman)

Support Beth Aharon!

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Contact: Email: bethaharon@gmail.com; Phone: 917-885-4714

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Fill up your Shabbat and Holiday table by inviting friends and guests. Need a table? Contact Rahel Wachsman @ drftager@gmail.com for help.

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Martial Art @ the Bayit - Join Sensei Aryeh (Mike Fendrich) for Martial Arts & Meditation classes. Teens (12+) and adults. mfendric@gmail.com.

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Join Talia Michaeli Half Marathon - This Jan. in FL. with Team Lifeline & the Sean Team. Details on the BABlog orl michaelifam@hotmail.com

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Support the Ruth Family in Israel - and to facilitate their ability to stand in their own two feet. Contact Sandra @ 917-885-4714 or email us.

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Support Rimon and Riverdale Lone Soldiers. Check the BABlog for details: bethaharon.blogspot.com or Tsuri.

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Chai Lifeline Chanukah Toy Drive - Mon., Nov. 16 to Wed., Dec. 16! Bring a smile to a child's face this Chanukah! Drop off ONLY NEW packaged toys in the Bayit coat room. Toys are given to children with weak immune systems. Gifts for kids 13+ are especially appreciated.

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Visit to the NAHMIAS ET FILS Distillery  - Sun. Dec. 6th @ 1pm with The Shearith Israel League, The American Sephardi Federation, and Cong. Beth Aharon. Demonstration of how the distillery works & tasting of kosher products. Light eats. Cost $10. 201 Saw Mill River Rd. Yonkers. 914-294-0055. RSVP to mosserig21@bigplanet.com. www.nahmiasetfils.com

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BA Hanuka Party is coming soon - Motsash December 12 @ 6:15pm - Ner Shvi’ei. Contact Rahel Wachsman for donations to our great Raffle party - 718-644-9053 or drftager@gmail.com. 

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Becky Bakes for Beth Aharon: Come to Becky Wachsman's bake sale in support of BA’s new Chesed Fund aimed at helping those in need in our community and beyond. 100% of proceeds will go to Tzedaka! Get your goodies for Shabbat Chanukah. When: Wed. Dec. 9th bet. 5-9pm

Where: 3210 Arlington ave #2F.

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Sigal Chen & the Magic Flute - Sigal will perform the role of Pamina of the Magic Flute with the Manhattan Opera Studio at Carnegie Hall.

Monday, December 14th, 8:00 P.M. at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall.

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We are collecting tsedaka and donations for the Sefer Torah that fell.

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Biblical Quiz - Answers

Kids: Ya’akov loved Yoseph more than all his sons. No.

Teens: Amos is pronounced with the guttural letter a’yin.

Adults: In the mountaintop city of Tekoa in the Land of Judah.

Experts: King David’s daughter, Tamar - Amnon’s sister, as wore the daughters of the King.

Prayer for wellness

To Israel in captivity and Israel’s wounded bodies & souls; Reuven ben Aliza, Leah Channa bat Shifra, Yisrael Yair ben Yehudit Tzvia, Adi ben Talia, Menachem ben Yehudit, Avraham Uriel Halevy ben Myrel, Aharon ben Adina, Ziva Esther bat Rivka, Alisa bat Tsipora Malka, Ron Avdan, Yuval Refael ben Miryam Haya, Yarin ben Rivka, Orel Azori Bat Limor, Nina bat Rahel, Shmuel ben Hava, Binyamin ben Simona, Yagel ben Hofit, Eliyahu Menachem ben Devora Sarah, Yisrael ben Leah, Shayna basya bat Chaya Feiga, Leslie bas Rifka, Chaya Michal Malka bta Rachel, and all the sick.

Congregation Beth Aharon is Riverdale’s Sephardic Orthodox Congregation, located at the Riverdale Bayit (HIR) Bronx, NY. We welcome all worshipers regardless of eda or level of observance. Our congregants take an active-leading role in Tefila and Kria’at haTorah.