Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael, Jerusalem בית כנסת מורשת ישראל, ירושליםVisitors: Please inform the Gabbai if you are a Cohen or bat Cohen, Levi or bat Levi. PARSHAT VAYISHLACH - פרשת וישלחSHALOM AND WELCOME … to Jerusalem's premier egalitarian Masorti (Conservative) synagogue. Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael is made up of English speaking olim and native Israelis. Locals and tourists attend our shul on weekdays, shabbatot, and chagim. Our worldwide Friends Of Moreshet network gives the opportunity for Jews in all countries to have membership in a captivating Israeli Beit Knesset. Conservative Judaism is intended to be the nexus between Jewish tradition and the modern world… Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael is that meeting place. PARSHAT VAYISHLACH - פרשת וישלחIn anticipation of the possibility of an unwelcome reunion with his brother Esav, Yaakov removes his family from the encampment which could come under attack, And he got up that night and took his two wives, his two handmaids, and his eleven children - תֶ אְ ו- יוָ דָ לְ ר, יָ שָ ד עַ חַ א– and crossed the Jabbok ford. (Genesis 32:23) Rashi asks the question: where was Dina, after all, Yaakov has 12 children – 11 sons and a daughter, Dina? However, the text does not read ‘his eleven sons’ it reads ‘his eleven children’ – so the Vilna Gaon asks, from where do we know that it was Dina who was missing, perhaps it was one of the sons? Ultimately, the Vilna Gaon teaches that the fact that the Temple was in due course built in the territory of the tribe of Binyamin is proof that none of the other brothers merited the Temple in their territory because they all must have bowed down to Esav (Binyamin was the only son who had not yet been born so he surely did not bow to him); thus, the other 11 brothers comprise the ‘eleven children’ who do bow to Esav. The question of where Dina’s whereabouts still remains; however, a message of the Vilna Gaon’s teaching is that assumptions of gender derived from non-gender specific language can be erroneous and impede the potential richness of meaning found in the Torah’s teachings for all of בני ישראל– the Children of Israel. Rabbi Adam Frank OUR SERVICE TIMES DAILY SHACHARIT SERVICES Sunday – Friday 7:30 am FRIDAY EVENING Kabbalat Shabbat & Maariv 4:30 pm SHABBAT Shacharit ~ 8:30 am Mincha ~ 4:15 pm THIS WEEK’S PARASHAH can be found in the Etz Hayim Chumash on page 198 HAFTARAH can be found on page 222 1 st December 2017 – 13 th Kislev 5778
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Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael, Jerusalem בית כנסת מורשת ישראל, ירושלים
Visitors: Please inform the Gabbai if you are a Cohen or bat Cohen, Levi or bat Levi.
PARSHAT VAYISHLACH - וישלחפרשת
SHALOM AND WELCOME … to Jerusalem's premier egalitarian Masorti (Conservative) synagogue. Beit Knesset Moreshet
Yisrael is made up of English speaking olim and native Israelis. Locals and tourists attend our shul on
weekdays, shabbatot, and chagim. Our worldwide Friends Of Moreshet network gives the opportunity
for Jews in all countries to have membership in a captivating Israeli Beit Knesset.
Conservative Judaism is intended to be the nexus between Jewish tradition and the modern world…
Beit Knesset Moreshet Yisrael is that meeting place.
PARSHAT VAYISHLACH - וישלחפרשת In anticipation of the possibility of an unwelcome reunion with his brother Esav, Yaakov removes his
family from the encampment which could come under attack, And he got up that night and took his two
wives, his two handmaids, and his eleven children - ַאַחד ָעָשר, ְיָלָדיו -ְוֶאת– and crossed the Jabbok ford.
(Genesis 32:23) Rashi asks the question: where was Dina, after all, Yaakov has 12 children – 11 sons
and a daughter, Dina? However, the text does not read ‘his eleven sons’ it reads ‘his eleven children’ –
so the Vilna Gaon asks, from where do we know that it was Dina who was missing, perhaps it was one
of the sons? Ultimately, the Vilna Gaon teaches that the fact that the Temple was in due course built in
the territory of the tribe of Binyamin is proof that none of the other brothers merited the Temple in
their territory because they all must have bowed down to Esav (Binyamin was the only son who had
not yet been born so he surely did not bow to him); thus, the other 11 brothers comprise the ‘eleven
children’ who do bow to Esav. The question of where Dina’s whereabouts still remains; however, a
message of the Vilna Gaon’s teaching is that assumptions of gender derived from non-gender specific
language can be erroneous and impede the potential richness of meaning found in the Torah’s
teachings for all of בני ישראל– the Children of Israel. Rabbi Adam Frank
OUR SERVICE TIMES
DAILY SHACHARIT
SERVICES
Sunday – Friday
7:30 am
FRIDAY EVENING Kabbalat Shabbat
& Maariv
4:30 pm
SHABBAT
Shacharit ~ 8:30 am
Mincha ~ 4:15 pm
THIS WEEK’S
PARASHAH
can be found in the
Etz Hayim Chumash
on page 198
HAFTARAH
can be found
on page 222
1st December 2017 – 13th Kislev 5778
SHABBAT CANDLELIGHTING
3:59 pm
FRIDAY NIGHT
SERVICES LED BY: Rabbi Adam Frank
SHABBAT
MORNING
OFFICIATING RABBI:
Rabbi Adam Frank
TEFILAH LED BY:
Ahuva Tamar Batz
BA’AL KOREH:
Ya'akov Young
HAFTORAH READER:
Rabbi Adam Frank
SHABBAT
KIDDUSH
CO-SPONSORED
BY:
Irene Rabinowitz
&
Nina & Ed Paul
HAVDALAH
Motzei Shabbat
5:14 pm
Thank you to Irene Rabinowitz for co-sponsoring the Kiddush this Shabbat in honor
of the 55th yartzeit of her father, Israel "Tex" Rabinowitz z"l.
Thank you to Nina & Ed Paul for co-sponsoring the Kiddush in honor of the recent
wedding of their daughter, Lainey Paul, to Yair Richler.
Welcome to our visiting group from Adath Israel Congregation of Cincinnati, OH
led by Rabbi Irvin Wise.
YARTZEITS OBSERVED DURING THE WEEK ENDING 8TH DECEMBER 2017
02-Dec-17 14 Kislev 5762 *Molca Falcon Wife of Alex Falcon z"l
03-Dec-17 15 Kislev Moishe Selinger Grandfather of Dolly Chinitz
04-Dec-17 16 Kislev Edith Kaplan
05-Dec-17 17 Kislev Dr. Moshe Beer Goldgraber Father of Rivka Regev
05-Dec-17 17 Kislev 5773 *Esther Francis Matlow Wife of Irving Matlow
05-Dec-17 17 Kislev Evelyn Busch Family of Michael Busch
05-Dec-17 17 Kislev Ilan Davidson Son of Sarah Davidson z"l
05-Dec-17 17 Kislev 5744 *Pearl Green Mother of Rabbi Dr. Yosef Green
06-Dec-17 18 Kislev 5762 *Israel Goodman Father of Lorraine Skupsky
