This evening’s Erev Shabbat celebration will begin at a 5:30 pm Likrat Shabbat “meet, great and nosh” hour at 5:30 pm. A Simchat Shabbat service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus, — with music and Guitar backup by Rabbi Dreyfus — will begin at 6:15 pm.
Tomorrow morning’s Shabbat Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus, will begin at 10:00 am. Niki Cummings will be the cantorial soloist.
The Parsha is Vayishlach, Genesis 32:4?36:43. Having left and ultimately making peace with his twice father-in-law, Jacob and wives and handmaidens and sons and daugther and lots of wealth returns home, for the inevitable confrontation with Esau. He is so worried that Esau might still be angry because of Jacob’s perfidy decades earlier, Jacob divides his large entrouage in to, so at least half could escape Esau’s rath. The night before the big confrontation Jacob wrestles with a man, but as day breaks, he is given a new name, Israel, because he has struggled with G-d. G-d had also touched Jacob’s thigh, and to this day, Jews do not eat meat from an animal’s thigh. Jacob’s worry proves unnecessary, as Esau greets Jacob and his minions like welcome family. Next we learn of the “rape” of Dinah, the awful revenge of the sons of Jacob, the death of Isaac, and the listings of the progeny of Esau.
The Haftarah is Hosea 11:7–12:12.
And if this Shabbat is 14 Kislev, can Chanukah be far behind?
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