ECHODECHOD - · PDF fileGedaliah Riesenberg of Melbourne, Australia, son of Rabbi Yitzhok I. and Sheyna Rissenberg. Thank You To Our Kiddush Sponsors

Thank you to our volunteer Security Guards, Greeters, and Ushers this Shabbat

Shaul Robinson Rabbi

Sherwood Goffin

Senior Cantor

Yanky Lemmer Cantor

Elana Stein Hain

Community Scholar

Lloyd Epstein President

Ben Keil

Executive Director

PARSHAT MIKETZ • 27 KISLEV 5774 • NOVEMBER 29-30, 2013 SHABBAT MEVARCHIM • SHABBAT CHANUKAH

MENORAH LIGHTING 4:10PM• SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING: 4:12PM

ECHODECHOD

Mazal Tov To Our Members Mazal Tov to Anna Propp, daughter of Gail Propp and

the late Ephraim Propp, z”l on her engagement to Gedaliah Riesenberg of Melbourne, Australia, son of Rabbi Yitzhok I. and Sheyna Rissenberg.

Thank You To Our Kiddush Sponsors

Hashkama Kiddush Sponsored by the Fund Main Kiddush Co-sponsored by Gloria and Richard Kestenbaum in commemoration of the yahrtzeits of their fathers Israel Stieglitz, z"l, and Bernard Kestenbaum, z"l; and by Rocky and Freddy Kohn in commemoration of the yahrtzeits of their fathers, Solomon Sharfman, z"l, and Henry Kohn, z"l.

Beginners Kiddush Sponsored anonymously in loving memory of Shmuel Shoshani z”l, and in honor of Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald.

Seudah Shlishit Sponsored by Dr. Ira Friedman in memory of his wife Rivka Rachel bat Yosef, a"h and mother-in-law, Yenta Bat Zev, a"h; and by Dr. Steven and

Yona Lazar in commemoration of the yahrtzeit of our father, Louis Eliezer Lazar, z”l And in memory of our dear friend, Mark, Mordechai Wald, z”l.

Weekday Prayer Schedule Sunday, Dec . 1 - Friday, Dec. 6

Mincha/Ma’ariv: Sun-Thursday at 4:15 pm **See the Chanukah Menorah Lighting Times on page 4

Sun Shacharit: 7:00am Daf Yomi: 7:45am Shacharit: 8:30am

Mon, Tue, Wed & Thurs Daf Yomi: 6:15am Shacharit: 7:00am Shacharit: 7:40am

Fri Daf Yomi: 6:20am Shacharit: 7:10am Shacharit: 7:50am

Friday Evening

Shabbat Day

Lincoln Square Synagogue • 180 Amsterdam Ave. at 68th Street New York, NY 10023 • 212-874-6100 • lss.org

Shabbat Afternoon

Happy Chanukah from LSS!Happy Chanukah from LSS!

You are invited to continue to join us every night of Chanukah between Mincha and Ma’ariv for the Menorah Lighting.

Welcome to everyone who is attending the Annual Chanukah Dinner!Welcome to everyone who is attending the Annual Chanukah Dinner!

4:10pm: Menorah Lighting

4:12pm: Candle Lighting

4:20pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat led by Chazzan Sherwood Goffin

5:30pm: Annual Chanukah Dinner in the Ballroom (SOLD OUT)

7:40am: Hashkama Minyan in the Belfer Beit Midrash followed by Kiddush and shiur with Rabbi Moshe Sokolow

9:00am: Services in the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Main Sanctuary led by Chazzan Sherwood Goffin. Post-musaf drasha by Community Scholar Elana Stein Hain.

9:15am: Beginners Service with Dr. Leonard Davidman in room LL201 (lower level)

9:21am: Latest Shema

9:45am: Rabbi Herschel Cohen Memorial Minyan in the Belfer Beit Midrash. Drasha by Rabbi Eitan Bendavid: "Thanksgivukkah" -An Oxymoron?

10:00am: Tween Minyan in the Ballroom for boys and girls in 5th-7th grade. Includes tefilah, snacks, games, and prizes.

2:50pm: Beginners Mishna Chavura with Moshe Sheinwexler in the Belfer Beit Midrash

3:00pm: Bikur Cholim. Meet in front of LSS. New volunteers are needed.

3:20pm: Talmud Class with Rabbi Eitan Bendavid: Special Chanukah Shiur: "The Art of Seeing"

3:20pm: Bible Class in room 211

4:05pm: Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit with special guest speaker, Rabbi Ian Pear of Shir Hadash.

5:12pm: Ma'ariv/Shabbat Ends/Menorah Lighting

Take Part in the Mitzvah of Bikur Cholim

Every Shabbat, a group of volunteers leave from in front of LSS and head to Roosevelt Hospital to visit the sick. This chesed opportunity is open to all and there is no commitment necessary. If you have not taken part yet, please consider doing so. Even when Shabbat is early this chesed opportunity will continue to take place. Please note the new meeting time of 3:00pm.

See the Proper Menorah Lighting Times on Page 4

The molad for Rosh Chodesh Tevet will be Tuesday morning 58 minutes and 5 chalokim after 12 AM. Rosh Chodesh Tevet will be on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Please remember to say “V’tain Tal U'Matar" in the Shemonah Esrei Beginning Wednesday night (Dec. 4), at Ma’ariv.

Youth Groups Shabbat Schedule

Youth Breakfast at 9:30

Pre-K: 10:00 am — room 208

K and 1st grade: 10:00 am — room 207

2nd- 4th Grade: 10:00 am — room 206

Tween Minyan: 10:00 am– Ballroom

SUNDAY Midrash on the Upcoming Parsha

Dr. Ben Elton • 9:15am

TUESDAY Parsha Class

Rabbi Shaul Robinson • 10:30 am Special Chanukah Shiur

Dr. Ben Elton • 7:15pm Rabbi JB Soloveitchik on Chanukah: An Introduction to the Lomdus of the Rav.

Tuesday Beit Midrash Night • 8:15-9:15pm Chavurot led by LSS members:

Tanach Survey: The Books of Samuel and Kings. Led by Marcy Zwecker and Robyn Mitchnick.

The First Book of Samuel: Politics and Kingship. Led by Ron Platzer.

Zionist texts of the 40s and 50s (NEW) Led by Judy Sokolow

WEDNESDAY Nach B’Iyun

Rabbi Hayyim Angel • 7:15pm To Sponsor, email [email protected]

Talmudic Methodology

Rabbi Dennis Weiss • 7:30pm

Wednesday Beit Midrash Night• 8:15-9:15 pm Chavurot led by

LSS members:

Yiddish Writings of the Rav. Led by Moshe Sheinwexler.

New for Young Professionals! Jewish Literacy 101: A Journey Through Jewish Intellectual History. Rabbi Eitan Bendavid, Topic : "Chanukah’s Identity Crisis”

Contact [email protected] for more information.

The Chief Rabbis of Britain (NEW) Dr. Ben Elton

THURSDAY The Jacob Adler Parsha Class

Rabbi Shaul Robinson • 7pm

WEEKLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES with THE JOSEPH SHAPIRO INSTITUTE

Beginners Announcements

Youth Announcements

The LSS Math Circle

The LSS Math Circle is dedicated to expanding, deepening, and disseminating mathematical knowledge. It is a place to learn mathematics and meet others with like interests. Open to children 4th grade and up, it meets from 6-8pm on Mondays. Contact Harvey Stein ([email protected]) for details.

Sponsor A Shabbat Help make Shabbat extra special for our kids by sponsoring a Shabbat. Contact

Edina Silver at [email protected] to learn more.

Save THIS Monday, December 2nd, 7:00 pm for the Beginners Annual Chanukah Bash. Live music by Psachya Septimus. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Register online at www.beginners.lss.org. Sorry, no phone reservations.

Save the date! The next Beginners Luncheon will be Shabbat, January 4th, 2014. The cost is still only $20. Please make your reservations by Thursday, January 2nd. You can register online at www.beginners.lss.org or call 212-874-6100.

New sessions of the Hebrew Reading Crash Course Levels I and II, will begin Monday, January 13th, 2014 at 6:30pm. The 5 classes last 1 1/2 hours, and are free and open to all. Register at www.beginners.lss.org.

Upcoming Youth events:

Simcha Dancing - Sunday Morning February 2, 2014 (for girls 5th grade & up)

Founded by young Jewish professionals with backgrounds in secu-rity, the Community Security Service (CSS) proactively protects the people, institutions and events of the American Jewish community. In December, CSS will be launching a completely free training course that will train volunteers -- men, women, young, old, secu-lar and religious -- in how they can better protect the Jewish com-munity and its synagogues and institutions. We urgently need to expand CSS's volunteer base to meet the community's rising de-mand.

All applicants are scheduled with an interview where they will re-ceive full details as to what the course entails. To apply, please visit: visit http://css.memberlodge.org/ and click on "cadet appli-cation."

They can also contact CSS's volunteer manager, Deena, at [email protected] with any questions. The next class will begin after Chanukah.

You can also contact Harvey Stein [email protected] Lincoln Square Synagogue's head of security or Ian Silver, Deputy Team Manager.

CSS Security Training Opportunity

If you would like to receive the Shabbat Echod by e-mail, sign

up at www.lss.org.

In case of a bereavement, please call 646-543-7485 (day or night)

LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE OFFICERS Lloyd Epstein, President ([email protected])

Michael Doppelt, Alan Samuels, Shirley Stark, Vice Presidents Ian Silver, Treasurer Josh Neuman, Controller Ari Klapholz, Financial Secretary

Debra Verstandig, Executive Secretary Jay Ziffer, Corresponding Secretary Morey Wildes, Recording Secretary

You may contact our officers by emailing [email protected]

Upcoming Events Beginners Chanukah Bash.

Monday, December 2 • See Beginners Announcements on page 2. Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Rachel Levmore Shabbat, December 6 -7 Rabbinical Court Advocate, who has specialized in cases of Iggun and Get-Refusal. Dr. Levmore will be giving three talks throughout Shabbat related to the theme of Judging the Judges: Israeli Rabbinical Courts, Changing the Courts, and Women Appointed Rabbinical Court Judges in Israel. (Co-Sponsored by Chavie Kahn and Heshy Kofman in commemoration of the 21st yahrtzeit of Chavie’s father, Rabbi Solomon Kahn, z”l.)

Inaugural Jewish Music and Cantorial Concert Saturday, Motza’ei Shabbat, December 7 • 8:00pm Featuring our new Chazzan Yanky Lemmer with Senior Chazzan Sherwood Goffin and Cantor Netanel Herstik • Reception by Prime Catering to follow. $100 & $50. $500 Sponsorship includes two premium reserved seats. LSS is partnering with Israel Bonds to offer one complimentary concert ticket to the first 50 purchasers of a new Israel Bond online after October 16, with a minimum purchase of $54. Only 10 complimentary tickets remain.

Book Club Meeting Saturday, Motza’ei Shabbat, December 14 • 7:30pm Led by David Stone. • The book club will be discussing Like Dreamers: The Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi. **Meet the author at our Book Talk on Dec. 25th. See Below for details

Ethics CLE Class on “Ten Commandments of Conflicts” Monday, December 16 • 6:30-8:00pm Presented by Professor Roy Simon and Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard. Tuition is $180 • Kosher box dinner available by advance order for $18. This program is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. It is primarily aimed at lawyers, but non-lawyers are welcome and will be able to follow the material. Asarah B’Tevet Food Drive Sunday, December 15 Collecting food between Shacharit and Mincha (4:15pm). Use the money you save on not eating meals to help the hungry: Jewish homeless at Project ORE and all hungry at our local food pantry.

Lies My Father Told Me LSS members enjoy discounted tickets to the National Yiddish Theatre– Folksbiene’s newest hit musical. Performed in English with some Yiddish at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, Nagelberg Theater, 55 Lexington Ave. Special Price $35/ticket (reg. $60) limited to evening shows on 15. Contact Itzy Firestone at 212-213-3120 x204 or [email protected]

Book Talk with Yossi Klein Halevi Wednesday, December 25 • 10:00-11:00am Free • Like Dreamers: The Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation

AIPAC Policy Conference March 2-4, 2014 Thinking of joining the LSS delegation at AIPAC Policy Conference this year? Stay tuned for special pricing for LSS members if you register from Dec. 9-16." $100 off for all; an additional $100 off for AIPAC Club Members.

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d’var echod b’lev echod Insights into the weekly Parsha and other matters at the heart of the LSS community

PARSHAT MIKETZ 5774 • SHABBAT CHANUKAH • 27 KISLEV 5774

NOVEMBER 29-30, 2013

By: Kenneth Cappell

ChanukahChanukah

Sat., Nov. 30 (Fourth Night): 5:12pm

Sun., Dec. 1 (Fifth Night): 5:01pm

Mon., Dec. 2 (Sixth Night): 5:01pm

Tue., Dec. 3 (Seventh Night): 5:01pm

Wed., Dec. 4 (Eighth Night): 500pm

Time to Light the Chanukah Menorah: Visit Rabbi Robinson’s blog at Visit Rabbi Robinson’s blog at lss.org for Clergy Chanukah lss.org for Clergy Chanukah

FAQs. FAQs.

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Members-Only Webpage Is Now Live!

We now have a Members-Only page on our website! It can be accessed by going to lss.org/members. This page is ONLY visible if you are an LSS Member and are logged-in to your account. The page includes Photo Albums, Bereavement Announcements, Upcoming Lifecycle events, Members’ Business cards, and more.

Share your Chanukah Photos!

LSS Members: Please email a photo of your Chanukah Celebrations from this year to [email protected]. We will be putting together a photo gallery of our members celebrating Chanukah. The photo album can be viewed in our new Members-Only Webpage (lss.org/members). One photo per household please.

Calling All Outstanding Balances!

The calendar year is coming to a close, and many of our congregants still have outstanding bills. Please pay your dues and/or any other outstanding pledges now. Mail a check, call the office to pay by credit card, or pay online at lss.org/payment

To Sponsor the Shabbat Echod, please email [email protected]

Attention LSS Members

The Talmud in Shabbos (Daf 21b) in discussing the origins of the Chanukah holiday states that the holiday was established only in the year after the miracle of Chanukah occurred . Why was it not celebrated immediately, when the miracle occurred? My grandfather, Jacob Cappell , in his sefer Emet L’yakov cites an insight from his brother in law Rabbi Shaoul Taub, the Modzhitzer Rebbe, to explain this . When Moses appeared before the burning bush he said ,”let me turn aside now and see this great sight.” On the surface , this makes no sense . If he was turning aside Moshe would see less of the bush, not more! Reb Shaoul explained that when one beholds something wondrous or miraculous one can’t fully comprehend what has happened, and it is only after the passage of time that one can begin to understand what he witnessed and appreciate its meaning. Accordingly, my grandfather said perhaps the same was true about Chanukah ; at the time it happened we could not appreciate and understand the miracle that had just occurred and it was only after the passage of time and we reflect on what happened did we appreciate the many miracles that occurred the prior year.

With this thought in mind , perhaps we can understand Yosef’s reaction the moment he saw his brothers. The posuk says that as soon as he saw his brothers he recalled his dreams. After everything that his brothers did to him ,he recalls his dreams? Wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to recall his being thrown into a pit and then being sold as a slave and how his brothers mistreated him? It was only after the passage of time that Yosef realized that his ordeals were all part of Hashem’s master plan as foretold in his dreams and appreciated the signicance and meaning of the many mira-cles he experienced..

For the first and only time in our lives we had the opportunity to celebrate both Chanukah and Thanksgiving on the same day just two days ago. It’s an opportunity for us to reflect on the wondrous miracle of this great country and our ability to make our mark in it as Jews and Americans.

Shabbat Shalom and Happy Chanukah