Thursday. January 21.1981 - THE BULLETIN — 9
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Friday, January 22,4:33 p.m. Sedra Va^rai(.Exodus) / Havdala, .Sabbath ends
January 23,5:33 p.ip.
Betit Hainidrasb .Congregation. 3231 Heather. Gamliel. Aharon. Services: Friday. 6 p.m.;Saturday, 8:30 a.ni.' Miticha 4 p.m. Sunday
9 a.m. 872-5702. (Sephardic Orthodox).
Beth Israel Congregation. 4350 Oak. Rabbi Wilfred Solomon. Rabbi Jeffrey Hpffman. Cantor Murray Nixon. Torah reader, D. Rubin. Chcir, S. Pelman, director. Servicesf Frijiay, 8:15 p.m.( Saturday. 9:15 a.m. 731-4161 (Conservative).
Beth Tikvah Congregation. 9711
Geal Road, Richmond, B.C. Rabbi Harvey Markowitz. Services: Friday, 8 x p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Minyan, Sundays, 9 a.m. 271-6262. (Conservative).
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Chabad^Lubavitch. 5750 Oak. Rabbi Yitzchak Wineberg. Rabbi Yakov Feliig. Services: Friday, sunset. Saturday, 10 a. m. Sundays, 9 a.m. and at sunset. Weekdays, 7 a.m. and at sunset. 266-1313. (Orthodox).
Congregation Emanuel. 1461 Blanshardl^ Victoria. Services: Friday, 8 p^ih.^ Saturday, 10 a.m. (Conservative).
Friday, January^29,4:44 pun. Sedia Bo (Exodus) Havdala, Saiibath ends
/ January 30. 5:44 p.m.
EitZ'Chalm Congregation. 9211 Blundell Road^ Richmond, B.C. Services: Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. 274-^107. (Orthodox). .
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touis Brier Home. 1055 W. 41st Avenue. Services: Daily 4 p.m. Shabbat. 9:15 a.m. and 4 p.m. with Sam Zingerman, Ralph Rosenberg, Ron and Dan Kornfeld, Moe Frum-kin. (Orthodox).
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North Shore Jewish Community Association.' Corner of Lloyd and Gladwinr North - Vancouver. Rabbi Daniel Siegel. Services: Friday, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Informa-r tion, 984-9824. (Conservative).
Schara Tzedeck Congregation.
3476 Oak. Rabbi Baruch Zaichyk. Rabbi Menahem Fogel. Cantor Moshe Preis. Services: Friday 4:45 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.nii. Mincha4:45 p.m. followed by Seuda Shlishitand Maariv. Havdala at 5:45 p.m. Sunday services 8:30 a.m., followed by breakfast. Services during week, 7:30 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. 736-7607. (Orthodox).
^ * . ♦ ■ ♦ ■'■ Temple Sholom. 4426 W. lOth Ave. Rabbi Philip Bregman. Murray Kenig, Cantorial Soloist/Choir lI>irector. Services: Friday, 8:15 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m. 224-1381. (Reform).
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Ffi6m&BADES9'10 TO PAimCIPAT^ IN ITS
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Spring iSemesler: Tiieddays, Jan. 26 - April 6,1982|
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THEHAQ6AOA: An in-depth study designed to make your Pesach seder more interesting and enjoy-' able. - ^ Rat>bi; Hoffman 6:30 - 7:20 p.m. ^ .: JEWISH ETHICS: Discussions on ethical questions such as: When is it permitted to lie? Must one always obey one's parents? IHow much should one sacrifice lor a friend? Cantor Slotkf 6:30 - 7:20 p.m.
'^HEARING BETWEEN THE UNES^OPTHEBIBLE: How the ancient rabbis expanded on, and.some-times twisted, the stories of JosQph.^ Mo^es; and others iathe Midrash. Mrs. Laurie Hoffman ■ 7:30-8:20p-m. ,•>■:■ 7 JEWISH COUIIT CASES An intensive study of a fbw. iseiected court cases. Cantor SIbtki 7:30 - 8:20 p.ni.
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TIffi ROYAL COURT AND MIUTARY INTRIQIIES OF THE IBOOK OP JONAH: Ah ahaly^ of slri ajnd
SAUL AND DAVID: A look ^ ancient Israelite politic dashes i|nd |ea-iousl08 through the book of Samuel. „ Mrs. Phyllis Solomon _ ^ 8:30-7:20.p.m. forgiveness in the book which is read on Yom Kippur. Mrs. Laurie Hoffman 6:30-7:20 p.m. .
QRADES^IO
MIDDUEASTP0UT1CS TODAY:
An examination of current news from th^ Middle East Mr. Paul AzaR»ff 7:30-8:?0p.m.
CHRISTIAN MISSK>N-ARIBS AND CULTS: Identifying the tactics of misstonaries and life within cults.
Rabbi Hoffman 7:30 •8:20 p.m.
For Further IntomBtion mone 731-4161
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The man who offers sympathy to someqne bereaved a year ago is like a • doctor who asks a man who has broken a leg to break it again — so that the doctor can mend it to show his skill.
Talmud: Mo*ed Katan, 21b
Don't poke fun. at an uneducated man: you may mock your own ancestors.
Ben Sirach, Ecclcsiasticus, 8:4
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Hasdal
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Man drives, but G-d holds the reins.
~ Yiddish proverb
BYRABBI MEIRGOTTESMAN
PARSHAT VA*ERA
Weekly Halacha: Even if a Jew doesn^t don tefillin, be should recite the Shma Yisraelniorning and evening. ^^^^^^^^ • : - :
What makes a great leader? Courage, a good heart, and Torah.
RebSbneonSei^ once wrote a letter toaChassidic Rebbe who was known as a wonder worker. He addressed the letter *^To the great wonder worker, comparable to the ministering angels (Mahchai Hasharait...)"
When l?e^ 5iitieon's family wondered at the exalted titles he wrote, he explained. **There are two reasons why he is to be compared to the ministering angels. First, the angels work miracles, and so does he. Secondly/ our rabbis teach that **the Torah wasn't given to the angels** — and hedoesn*t know too much Torah either
JEWISH CALENDAR
5742 -1982
Tu B'Shvat Fast of Esther Purimr Passover YomHaShoa Yom HaAtamaut LagBtlnier .Yom Yerushalayim May 21 Shavuot May 28-29
Shiva Asar BTammus July 8 TishaB*av July 29
Feb. 8 March 8 . March 9\ ^pril 8-15V April 20 AprU 29 May 11
B.I. sets early Shabbat services
An early Friday evening service at Beth Israel, commencing at 6 p.m. for approximately 45 minutes in the Groberman Chapel, begins weekly on Jan. 29. -
The service, is being geared to those who, regularly or occasionally, want,to take their young.fhildren.tb an early Shabbat service and then return home to enjoy a leisurely Sabbath meal with family and friends. ,
The service will be conducted by volunteer laymen, and will afford aui opportunity to learn how to l^di part of the tefillot. Each of Beth Israel's Chayurot groups are being invited to lead one or more of these alternative Shabbat services in the coming weeks.
But you need something else to be a great person — a good wife at your side..' '\r-'-'
When Moses left Miie/^an to save the Jews in Egypt, he took along his wife, Tziporah. When his father-in-law Jethro heard about it, he protested: "Are there not enough prisoners already in Egypt that you are bringing down even more?** But Moses insisted in schlepping down his wife and children with him. Why did he bother' after all?
But it shows... when Moses came to the Jews with his message of freedom, they did not listen to him. They told him — what do you know about our suffering or conditions in Egypt? You were living the good life in Midyan!
-But Moses pointed to his wife and said: **lf 1 was not sure that G-d would redeem the JeWs. would I have brought down my own wife into this slavery?** Moses' wife was proof of his confidence in G-d.,
A wife can make or break her husband. Too often, marriages consist of a man and woman who are '^oked" together by their children, but are each pulling in different directions. They are like two strangers sharing the same house. , ' ■ ; '
A husband and wife have to be one— and G-d has to the partner with them. A wife has to give encouragement to her husband, and even inore. lead him to become a better Jew. G-d made men and women to share as one. and to serve Him as a team.
To be a great leader you need a good wife at your side — and the people behind you.
Poor Moses! When he went to. the Jewish people, they wouldn't listen to him. They didn't believe him. To add to his troubles, he Was an aral sefataykn^ a stutterer who had great pains pronouncing; his words properly.
It is fair, though? If G-d was sending him on this sacred mission, why did he make him hard of ^>eech? ,
But it teacfies.. .a leader takes his skill, his ability to sway an audience, to present his faith— from the support he gets from his people. When the people didn't believe in Moses, he, nebich. became a **stutterer**, impossible to hear or understand. The power of a leader comes from the. people.
When a new rabbi enters a shul, he is just a human being. He has the same needs, and a lot of the same failings ^ of just you and me. What makes him inspired, what lifts hiih. what gives^him power? Only the faith, the support! the respect, the harmony and unity — of his congregation. When the people in a shul are great — their rabbi becomes even greater.
**Every man is given a wife.according to his merit.** teach our rabbis. And every community gets the quality of inspiration and leadership that it itself ignites. May we be zocheh to the Messiah soon. amen.
Shabbat Shalom and a Gotten Chodesh.
Role of 'names' in tradition
holds
By REUBEN TURNER
What tremendous joy and delight are brought to parents and faihily on the birth of a child! IMscussibns immediately take place regardmg the naming of tiie new-bom infant
Indeed, the parents have probably spent hours on the choice of a name even before the birth itself. After all, the child will carry the name given to it through •life — and even alter.
One^ Hebrew nunc is used on all legal Jewish docuinents, such as the inarriage docunient (Uie ketubfi), in bfferiiig prayers for health, on bdag called up to the reading .of the Law, on tombstones and in memorial
prayers iecited on appropriate ooca* sioiis duriiig the year. '
One €ihsn hears the remark, **What% in a namer Jewish tradition, in fact, attaches great signifi-cance. to a name and to the repuWtion associated with it The Talmud states, for exathple; th*t Rabbi Meir was able to establish the' true character 'oif - a fteirt^ni b^i analyzing bis.name (Ycona 83)^:^ VI ^ Inioider editions of life sid^uri lit the end of the daily Amifjbk pi^^^f^ alphabetical list of biblical nsi^ JS:
given. An appropriate one is to be selected by the worshipper m order to reminid hiim (or her) of the significance of his own name. It is dear from this that women are also expected to recite ^prayers from the ihoming service.
- A girl is often given a name sooner than a boy, since the father is able to do: this on any day. on which the Torah is read. A boy, on the othier
hand» is named at hisbrit(ciivun-cision), just as Abraham was named by GhI at the time of the covenant (Genesis 17)-r- and the same applied to his son, Isaac.
_ It is customary (though not, of course, mandatory) to name a child alter a deceased relative in order to honor him or her and to perpetuate the memory of that person. Bekrin^ the name of an illustrious foitlMaU' should apt as a reminder of l^s^^^ deeds and ^knI name.
and ^piviti^p^:'iBiie^ ^pibisc^abh^
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of royalty; but the crown of a good name excels them allV"
Our sages teach that every person has, in fact, three hamles: one given by parents, one given by friends, and one given — and made — by oneself (Kbhelet Rabbah 7:3). The same source quotes Rabbi Shimon bar li^(K^is;^y^ **Mqre beloved by G^thaitUie ark of the covenant is a
t Itisbnlyiii thepast^OO years or so that surnames or family names, i^Kicli becoine obligatory by law, wi^it^ intirbdi^ .lews in tinost ||i#bi|^tt^^ settlers in
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