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Schedule for the Weekend

Erev Shabbat, December 9 (Kislev 15)
6:45am Shacharit
8:15am Shacharit
4:15pm Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv
4:16pm Candle Lighting

Shabbat, December 10: Vayishlach (Kislev 16)
8:00am 8AM Minyan
8:30am Sephardic Minyan
9:00am Main Sanctuary Minyan
9:32am Latest Shema
10:00am Youth Groups
10:30am Tot Shabbat
10:30am Donuts & Discussion
11:00am Kiddush is sponsored by Yaakov Linder & Sari Gindoff-Linder
3:55pm Mincha
4:25pm Seudah Shlishit
5:10pm Maariv
5:20pm Havdalah
6:30pm Parent Child Learning

Sunday, December 11 (Kislev 17)
7:00am Shacharit
8:00am Shacharit
4:20pm Mincha/Maariv

I am very excited for the opportunity to share words of Torah with you. Each week, in this spot, I look to share an idea I've found that speaks to me and that I think will resonate with you as well. This week, I share an excerpt from an article by Rabbi Yissocher Frand entitled ‘The Name of the Angel’ where he shares an interesting interpretation of a famous dialogue in this week's Parsha.

[...] Throughout the night, Yaakov struggled with the angel of Eisav, and he was victorious. Toward morning, the angel asks Yaakov to release him, but Yaakov refuses unless the angel blesses him. The angel informs Yaakov that his name will be changed to Yisrael. "And what is your name?" Yaakov asks the angel. But the angel's only response is a cryptic question, "Why do you ask my name?" What is the implication of this dialogue?

According to our Sages, this angel was the guardian angel of Eisav, also known as Satan, also known as the yetzer hara, the evil inclination. Rav Leib Chasman explains that, since the name of a person or being reflects his essence, when Yaakov asked the angel for his name he was actually trying to discover his essence. He was actually saying, "What are you all about, yetzer hara? What makes you tick? What is the secret of your power over people?" [...]

Rav Chaim Dov Keller offers [an] interpretation of the dialogue between Yaakov and the angel. He interprets Yaakov's question along the same lines as does Rav Chasman. Yaakov wanted to know the essence of the yetzer hara, because he wanted to forewarn his descendants and fortify them against this formidable foe.

"Why do you ask my name?" the angel replied. "It is a pointless endeavor to prepare your descendants for their encounters with me. My mission is to test people, and in order to do this, I change form in every generation. The situations change, the temptations change, and I change. In one generation, the temptation may be idol worship, and that is where I concentrate my efforts. In another generation, it may be the heresies of so-called enlightenment, and that is where I concentrate my efforts. I am always taking on a different form and changing my essence. Telling what my name is now would not help your descendants in the future." [...]

Have a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Davies
Rabbi@SOICherryHill.org

We are excited to be partnering with Mizrachi World Movement to provide their publication of HaMizrachi Parasha Weekly.

Welcome to Rabbi Avraham and Chava Friedler and family who have recently become members of SOI.

Mazal tov to Andy Rauer on the birth of a
grandson. Proud parents are Daniel and Peninnah Rauer.

Mazal tov to Gila Davis and Mordecai Krumbein on their upcoming wedding.

Mazal tov to Yaakov and Miriam Levinson and big brother Alex upon the birth of baby girl Sophia Simcha.

Thank you to Vicki Miltz, Flo Shulman,  Alisa Fox, Tamar Wiener, Sabra Weinberg, Dan Malamud, Donna Moskowitz, Ilana Weiss, Heshy Chaitoff, Devora Schpektor, Anna Schwartz, Sabrina Spector, Neely Elisha, Metal Henig for helping prepare kiddush last week.

Thank you to Anna Schwartz for coordinating the Yoetzet Initiative's shiur for women given by Yoetzet Stacey Goldman. 
Thank you to Alise Pantich for hosting the event in her home.

Thank you to Shlomo Aronoff, David Barg, Jon Bender, Marvin Bleiberg, Rabbi Michael Davies, Sid Goldberg,  Moshe Moskowitz,  Avi Rynderman, Hoosh Sadiky, Sol Sadres, Jay Schmulowitz,  Dovid Schwartz,  Chemmie Sokolic, and Charles Weg for helping move furniture in and out of the chapel to assist with the carpet cleaning.
 Thank you to Shari Goldberg who was instrumental in arranging for the cleaning of the shul.

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