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it. "Sid is a businessman who takes several hours every week to
hat do you do when you can't
make the cholent for the congregation," Rabbi Bergstein said.
go to synagogue on a day
1 "He went to the shul, brought the pots he uses every week,
when you really need to be
took them to the Guyers' and began to cook, following his rit-
there?
ual of cleaning the potatoes and putting in the onions and
If you're Dr. Martin Guyer, you call your
exactly
18 mushrooms."
rabbi. And if your rabbi is Chaim Moshe
Stutz
made his usual two choices of cholent, one extra spicy
Bergstein, he brings the synagogue to you.
I and one mild. Dr. Guyer's wife, Sheila, prepared the rest of the
Unable to walk to Bais Chabad of
kiddush for the group.
Farmington Hills following orthopedic foot
SHELLI
Dr. Guyer is filled with gratitude to those who hiked the
surgery
a
few
weeks
ago,
Dr.
Guyer,
who
is
LIEBMAN
1 extra distance to his home.
Shabbat
observant,
knew
he
would
not
be
DORFMAN
"I am grateful to the rabbi and to the beautiful people who
able to attend services. "I realized that this
Staff Writer
walked
to my home on this wintry, incredibly beautiful
would be the first time since my father died
38 years ago that I would be
missing saying Kaddish on his yahrtzeit."
Because the Kaddish is a prayer that needs to
be said in the presence of a minyan (10 adult
males at the Orthodox Bais Chabad), "I asked
Rabbi Bergstein if we could hold services at my
(Farmington Hills) home on Friday evening."
Not only did the rabbi agree, but Dr. Guyer
said, "He immediately and enthusiastically sug-
gested that all of the Shabbos services (includ-
ing those on both Saturday morning and
Saturday afternoon) be held at my home."
Rabbi Bergstein then made the necessary
arrangements. "I nulled those who usually come
to shul and told them we would be davening at
the Guyers'," Rabbi Bergstein said. "When I
told them there was somebody who needed to
say Kaddish, I didn't have to twist any arms. It
was easy to get enough people to come."
The rabbi also left a big note on the door of
Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein learns with Dr. Martin Guyer after Shabbat.
the synagogue "in case somebody came who I
didn't get a hold of"
Shabbos," he said.
Next, Rabbi Bergstein gathered up siddurim, Chumashim
But the rabbi and the congregation didn't want thanks. "We
and talleisim to bring to the Guyer home. "It just took a little
were just expressing ahavat Yisrael (love for the Jewish peo-
bit of shlepping," said the rabbi, who also brought a Torah
ple)," he said.
from the synagogue and designated "an honored place for it to
"The best part of the whole thing was how happy everyone
sit."
was for the opportunity to do this small favor. The most won-
In order to keep the synagogue's usual Saturday lunch tradi-
derful part was how good everybody felt to be able to partici-
tion going, a cholent (stew) was served. Member Sid Stutz of
pate." ❑
Franklin came to the Guyer home on Friday to help prepare

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n Hebrew scriptures, the
descendants of patriarch Jacob's
12 sons inherit the land of
Israel, becoming the 12 tribes.
Jacob had 13 children; what happened
to the 13th child?

— Goldfein

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Quotables

"What is unique about this develop-
ment is the way it demonstrates faith
in the future. Perhaps because Jews
here have lived so long amid violence,
there is a yearning to come together,
this time in tranquil surroundings."

— Rabbi Carlos Tapiero about
Guatemala's Har Carmel, a new 142-
acre development intended to unify and
strengthen Guatemala's Jewish commu-
nity of 850 people. Many Jews left
Guatemala during a 36-year civil war
that ended in 1996, as quoted by JTA.

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Yiddish Limericks

My wife's silent treatment just may
Push me past the limit one day.
Just take our last tiff ...
A krechtz* and a ziff*
Were all I could get her to say.

.

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

Shabbat Candlelighting

* groan
** sigh

"When I light my Shabbos candle, it is my special time with God. I ask Him for what I need and
to help me be a better person. I feel God's presence as I bring in the Shabbos."

— Pesha Leah Roetter, 16, Oak Park

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Shabbat Ends
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Shabbat Ends
Saturday, Jan. 25, 6:23 p.m.

Source: The Joys of Yiddish by Leo
Rosten (McGraw-Hill).

2003