TORAH PORTION
Temple Emanu-El
IT'S HAPPENING
14450 West Ten Mile Road
Oak Park, Michigan 48237
(313) 967-4020
RABBI LANE STEINGER
RANI L. DAVID FEDER
DECEMBER
6:00 p.m. 5th Grade Family Shabbat Dinner
7:30 p.m. New Members Family Shabbat
Service
2- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
6:00 p.m. TEMTY Havdalah Service then TEMTY
to Greektown
6- 7:30 a.m. Overeaters Anonymous - Meets
every Wednesday
8:15 p.m. Jewish Welfare Federation Shabbat
8-
Service - Signed for the Hearing
Impaired
9- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:15 a.m. Young Family Service
10 ; 30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
10-
9:15 a.m. Parent Education Program
9:15 a.m. Brotherhood Meeting
10:45 a.m. It's My Temple Too! Services for 2-5
year olds and their parents
12:30 p.m. EMES - Book Review by Rabbi
Emeritus Milton Rosenbaum
11-- 12 Noon Sisterhood Board Meeting
13 & 14 6:00 p .m. Nursery School Chanukah Dinner
15-
8:15 p.m. Social Action Shabbat Service.
16- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
17- 9:00 a.m. PTO Chanukah Programs
20- 6:00 p.m. JARC Chanukah Party
6:00 p.m. Brotherhood Chanukah Dinner
22-
7:30 p.m. Shabbat Chanukah Service
23-
9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service -
Michael Strausz, Bar Mitzvah
29-
8:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
30-
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
1-
JANUARY
7:30 p.m. Shabbat Family Service
5-
6- 9:30 a.m. Torah Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service
Challah, Candles And A Cloud:
The Three Miracles Of Sarah
CHAYA SARAH SILBERBERG
Special to The Jewish News
A
t the conclusion of its
narrative of the first
recorded Jewish mar-
riage - the arranged match
between Yitzchak and Rivka
- this week's Torah portion
relates that "Yitzchak
brought her into the tent of
his mother Sarah . . . and he
was comforted after his
mother."
On this verse, the famous
commentator Rashi cites the
midrash in Bereishis Rabba
that three miracles con-
sistently occurred during
Sarah's lifetime: the candles
she lit each Friday night
before Shabbat remained for
an entire week; there was a
"blessing in the dough," that
all who ate of Sarah's bread
were sated; and a cloud, signi-
fying the Divine Presence,
was always over her tent.
Chaya Sarah Silberberg is
rebbetzin, Bais Chabad Torah
Center and a teacher at
Yeshivat Akiva.
ORTHODOX:
Bais Chabad of Birm-
ingham/Bloomfield Hills: Moshe
Polter, rabbi. 646-3010.
• • GIFT CERTIFICATE • GIFT CERTIFICATE • •
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM
ington Hills. Chaim Bergstein, rab
bi. 855-2910.
fu-
1 -
1JJ
1 -
U-
SHERRI'S
This Gift Certificate
Entitles You To
$5000
Off
Your Next Purchase Of
ANY Cocktail Dress or Suit
excludes sale merchandise and previous sales, Exp. Dec. 9
1JJ
SHERRI'S
31025 Orchard Lake Road e Hunters Square
Farmington Hills • 626.7470
••
54
GIFT CERTIFICATE • GIFT CERTIFICATE • •
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1989
woman's domain. A man who
is alone lights Shabbat
candles; a male maker also
must separate challah; and
while mikvah is strictly the
woman's obligation, she cer-
tainly requires her husband's
cooperation in observing the
laws of family purity. Why,
then, are these laws termed
"women's mitzvot"?
lb answer this, we must
first understand how Judaism
views the role of the woman.
The Talmud states bina
Shabbat
Chaye Sarah:
Genesis 23:1-25:18,
Kings 1:1-31.
yeseira nitna la'isha, an extra
measure of ina, understan-
ding, was given to women.
Chassidic philosophers ex-
plain "understanding" to be
the intellectual quality that
develops and expands upon
the seminal flash of com-
prehension that is called
SYNAGOGUE SERVICES
Bais Chabad of Farmington
Hills: 32000 Middlebelt Rd., Farm-
4R
When Sarah passed away,
these miracles ceased. Now,
when Rivka entered into
Sarah's tent, these miracles
resumed, and Yitzchak knew
he had found a fitting suc-
cessor to his mother.
As the first Jewish woman,
and the mother of the entire
Jewish nation, Sarah is cer-
tainly meant to serve as a role
model for all Jewish women.
Thus it is surely significant
that these three miracles are
specifically associated with
her.
Although women are
obligated in the majority of
mitzvot (being exempt only
from those positive command-
ments that have a time con-
straint), three are considered
distinctly "women's mitzvot":
challah, the separation of a
piece of dough from the whole
and its dedication to God;
hadlakat neirot, thel ighting
of the Shabbat and holiday
taharas
candles; and
hamishpacha, the laws of
mikvah and family purity.
Now obviously these mitz-
vot are not exclusively in the
Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield:
5595 W. Maple Rd., West Bloom-
field. Melech Silberberg, rabbi.
855-6170.
Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham:
15751 W. Lincoln Dr., Southfield.
Dov Loketch, rabbi. 557-6750.
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah:
24225 Greenfield Rd., Southfield.
Leizer Levin, rabbi. 559-5022.
B'nai Israel-Beth Yehudah:
15400 W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park.
Yoel Sperka, rabbi. 967-3969.
B'nai Zion: 15250 W. Nine Mile
Rd., Oak Park. Solomon Gruskin,
rabbi. 968-2414.
Dovid Ben Nuchim: 14800 W. Lin-
coln, Oak Park. Chaskel Grubner,
rabbi. 968-9784.
Huntington Woods Minyan:
meets at the Burton School. Dave
Morrison, 542-1491.
Kollel Institute: 15230 W. Lincoln,
Oak Park. Moshe Schwab, rabbi.
968-0109.
Machon L'Torah: 15221 W. Ten
Mile Rd., Oak Park. Avraham
Jacobowitz, rabbi. 967-0888.
Mishkan Israel, Nusach H'ari,
Lubavitcher Center: 14000 W. 9
Mile Rd., Oak Park. 543-6611.
Shaarey Shomayim: 15110 W. 10
Mile Rd., Oak Park. Leo Goldman,
rabbi. 547-8555.
25451
Shomrey Emunah:
Southfield Rd., Southfield. Shaiall
Zachariash, rabbi. 559-1533 or
557-9666.
Shomrey Emunah-Ohel Moed:
6191 Farmington Rd., West Bloom-
field. Eli Jundef, rabbi. 967-1806.
Young Israel of Greenfield: 15140
W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park. Reuven
Drucker, rabbi. 967-3655.
Young Israel of Oak-Woods:
24061 Coolidge, Oak Park. Eliezer
Cohen, rabbi. 398-1177.
Young Israel of Southfield: 27705
Lahser, Southfield. Elimelech
Goldberg, rabbi. 358-0154.
Young Israel of West Bloomfield:
6450 Farmington Rd., West Bloom-
field. Ira Lutzky, 259-8500.
TRADITIONAL:
B'nai David: 24350 Southfield Rd.,
Southfield. Morton Yolkut, rabbi.
557-8210.
CONSERVATIVE:
Adat Shalom: 29901 Middlebelt
Rd., Farmington Hills. Efry Spectre,
rabbi. 851-5100.
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses:
5075 W Maple, West Bloomfield. A.
Irving Schnipper, rabbi. 851-6880.
Beth Achim: 21100 W. 12 Mile Rd.,
Southfield. Milton Arm, rabbi.
352-8670.
Beth Shalom: 14601 W. Lincoln
Rd., Oak Park. David Nelson, rab-
bi. 547-7970.
Beth Tephilath Moses: 146 South
Ave., Mt. Clemens. 465-0641.
31840 W. 7 Mile Rd., Livonia.
477-8974.
Shaarey Zedek: 27375 Bell Rd.,
Southfield. Irwin Groner, rabbi.
357-5544.
REFORM:
Beth El: 7400 Telegraph Rd., Bir-
mingham. Daniel Polish, rabbi.
851-1100.
Beth Isaac: 2730 Edsel Dr., Tren-
ton. 675-0355.
Beth Jacob: 79 Elizabeth Lake
Rd., Pontiac. Richard Weiss, rabbi.
332-3212.
Emanu-El: 14450 W. 10 Mile Rd.,
Oak Park. Lane Steinger, rabbi.
967-4020.
Temple Israel: 5725 Walnut Lake
Rd., West Bloomfield. M. Robert
Syme, Harold Loss, Paul Yedwab,
rabbis. 661-5700.
Kol Ami: 5085 Walnut Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield. Norman Roman,
rabbi. 661-0040.
Shir Shalom: 5642 Maple Rd.,
West Bloomfield. Dannel Schwartz,
rabbi. 737-8700.
Shir Tikvah: 3633 W. Big Beaver,
Troy. Arnie Sleutelberg, rabbi.
643-6520.
HUMANISTIC:
Birmingham Temple: 28611 W. 12
Mile Rd., Farmington Hills. Sher-
win Wine, rabbi. 477-1410.
B'nai Israel of West Bloomfield:
4200 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloom-
field. Sherman Kirshner, rabbi.
681-5353.
B'nai Moshe: 14390 W. 10 Mile
Rd., Oak Park. Allan Meyerowitz,
rabbi. 548-9000.
Downtown Synagogue: 1457
Griswold, Detroit. Noah Gamze,
rabbi. 961-9328.
Livonia Jewish Congregation:
RECONSTRUCTIONIST:
T'Chiyah: St. Antoine at Monroe,
Detroit. 393-1089.
UNAFFILIATED:
Sephardic Community of
Greater Detroit: meets at
Yeshivah Beth Yehudah, 15751 W.
Lincoln, Southfield. David Hazan,
vice president. 545-8945.