Devember 29 — Parashat Vayeḥi

Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President

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Important Messages

  • The next Shabbat Mevarchim luncheon will be on Shabbat Parashat Shemot, January 6, 2024. Sponsors welcome. Thanks again to Rabbi and Rabbanit Tal for spearheading the effort and donating towards it. Click Her to Sponsor.
  • The next Chumash and Chamin is January 4 at 7:00pm. Contact Leora Wagner at etz@leoraw.com for more information and to help sponsor.
  • New families are moving to Highland Park If you hear of any new families moving to Highland Park, please inform the Hospitality Committee.
  • The wooden main/front door should be used only when security is present. When the guard is not there or once he has left, that door must remain locked and the downstairs side door used instead.
  • Contact our Hesed Committee at hesed@etzahaim.groups.io if you know of a member or family of a member who is in a local hospital or nursing home.

Friday

  • Shaḥarit: 6:30am
  • Minḥa and Kabbalat Shabbat: 4:20pm
  • Candle Lighting: 4:21pm

Saturday -- Parashat Vayeḥi

  • Youth Groups for ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30am to 11:00am
  • Recite Shema: by 9:12am
  • Shaḥarit: 8:45am
    • Qiddush After Services (Sponsored by Shalom and Yardena Cohen, in memory of Shalom’s father Aharon Cohen)
  • Talmud — Amud HaYomi: 3:10pm
  • Class: 3:40pm
  • Minḥa: 4:10pm — Followed by:
    • Se'udah Sh'lshit (Sponsored by Shalom and Yardena Cohen, in memory of Shalom’s father Aharon Cohen)
  • Arvit and End of Shabbat: 5:11pm

Sunday

  • Shaḥarit: 8:00am
  • Women's Class: 10:00am
  • Minḥa and Arvit: 4:20pm

Monday — January 1

  • Talmud — Amud HaYomi: 7:45am
  • Shaḥarit: 8:00am
  • Shulḥan Aruḥ Class 4:00pm
  • Minḥa and Arvit: 4:20pm

Tuesday

  • Shaḥarit: 6:30am
  • Talmud — Amud HaYomi: 7:30am
  • Shulḥan Aruḥ Class: 4:00pm
  • Minḥa/Arvit: 4:20pm

Wednesday

  • Shaḥarit: 6:30am
  • Talmud — Amud HaYomi: 7:30am
  • Shulḥan Aruḥ Class: 4:00pm
  • Minḥa/Arvit: 4:20pm

Thursday

  • Shaḥarit: 6:30am
  • Talmud — Amud HaYomi: 7:30am
  • Insights on the Parasha: 4:00pm
  • Minḥa/Arvit: 4:20pm

Next Friday

  • Shaḥarit: 6:30am
  • Talmud — Amud HaYomi: 7:30am
  • Minḥa: 4:25pm
  • Candle Lighting: 4:26pm

Bikur Ḥolim of Congregation Etz Ahaim

The Regency Nursing Home is currently closed to visitors. Drivers and coordinators needed. Call (732) 572-7181 for more information. The congregation extends refua shelema wishes to:

  • Asher ben Mazel
  • Yacov Gideon ben Miriam
  • Liba Shaindel bat Chava Sachs
  • Gershon ben Sara
  • Dvorah Shahala bat Sarah Parvin
  • Chava bat Esther
  • Jacob Krief (Yacov Gideon ben Miriam)
  • Lita Greenberg (Tzvia Sarah bat Golda)
  • Linda Balavram (Emmunah bat Sara)
  • Sara Shifra bat Yehudit
  • Sharona Bella bat Malka
  • Yosef Daniel ben Feige
  • Leah Chava bat Shayna
  • Keren Noar bat Chana

If you like to add someone to this list, or merely want the Rabbi to say a Mi Shaberaḥ on someone after Torah reading on Shabbat, please go to our webpage and fill out the form.

News and Events

Community News

Donation to aid fallen soldier’s family: Elisha Loewenstern z"l, 38 years-old from Harish, Israel, was killed in Gaza on December 13 by an anti-tank missile fired by Hamas. He was on a mission to rescue wounded soldiers.

The Loewenstern family made Aliyah from Highland Park in 1993 with Elisha, 8 years old, and his 3 siblings at the time. Elisha's dad, Rabbi Heshy Loewenstern, worked as a rebbe at RPRY and his mom, Sharon, was a labor and delivery nurse at RWJ hospital. Elisha leaves behind a wife, Hadas, and six children ages 10 months to 12-years.

Your donation will go directly to assist Elisha's family in the challenging years ahead. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/b19e505e-b2a2-4e10-beb6-3278a7795765

Mystical Zionism's Surprising Origins: Rav Kook's Early Decades By: Prof. Yehuda Mirsky (Brandeis University) on January 31 at 7:00pm

Presented by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University. Free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

Bikur Cholim is looking for more male volunteers to visit seniors and also looking for more seniors to visit. Please contact Cindy Baruch at 908-309-8818 or cindy.baruch@verizon.net

Rartian Valley Hadassah

  • Book Club: New Book: A Bride for One Night by Ruth Calderon, paperback, 184 pp. This book club has no homework as we read the book aloud together. Now is a great time for new members to join. The next meeting will be on Sunday, January 7 at 1:00pm in the home of Rosey Bell. For the address and to order a book, contact Rosey at roselynbe@aol.com.

  • Chug Ivrit for Intermediate to Advanced Hebrew Speakers is reading מגולה לגאולה: מבבל לירושלים by Flora Taasan. It is Flora’s autobiography about her life growing up in Baghdad, and then making Aliyah in 1950. The next meeting will be on Sunday, January 14 at 11:00 a.m. in the home of Rachel Weintraub. For the address Please contact Rachel at 732-819-9298 or rachel@weintraubworld.net.

  • Tu Bishvat Seder on Wednesday, January 24 at 7:00pm at the Highland Park Community Center at 220 South 6th Avenue. Contact Raritan.Valley.Hadassah@gmail.com for more information. RSVPs encouraged but not required.

Shomer Shabbat Scouting is available for boys and girls of all ages. If you are interested, contact Steve Springer.

Rebbetzin Eichenstein Classes for Women

Please text Nechama at 347-909-2755 for information.