Shucheling, mumbling, clapping and bowing – find out more…

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Congregants and Friends,
What a wonderful Hanukah party we had last week.  A huge thank you to all who came and helped make it such a wonderful success.  Please note that we have our regular Friday night services tonight at 7pm.
I know that was a strange heading: Shucheling, mumbling, clapping and bowing, but become a regular at Bam Rubenstein’s monthly Davening classes and all will be revealed.
Davening for all levels! Next week WEDNESDAY December 11 at 7pm.
Interested in sharpening your synagogue skills and learning more about the service?  Gabbai Bam Rubenstein will be teaching an ongoing and extremely informative and entertaining Davening  class on the second Wednesdays of the month at 7:00 pm at Congregation Beth El. This coming Wednesday evening, Bam will be focusing on all aspects of the minyan, reasons, background, different kinds and more.  Next month, that’ll be the shuchelling one!
Sisterhood Get Together next week 12/11/13 at 12 noon

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 12 noon.  We would love to have a little sisterhood get together at La Madeline’s on 183.  Ladies, you can come for lunch, coffee, dessert or just to say hello.
 Sunday, January 19, 2014 2–4 pm.  Please hold that date.  It is at Juliette Meinstein’s home .  Please let Elaine Jacobs know if you can make one or both.  Email her at (jaqel@yahoo.com) or phone her at 512-261-0112.  Please bring a healthy dairy or parev desert, or little nosh (like cut up fruit, veggie plate, etc.) to share.  We really hope you can make it.  Please bring a friend and enjoy a warm and friendly get together.  Mom’s with young uns are welcome.
Cantor Ben-Moshe’s weekly message:
This week’s parshah, Vayigash, contains one of the most dramatic scenes of true repentance, t’shuvah g’murah, in the entire Bible.  Judah, who years before had advised selling Joseph into slavery, is now faced with a similar situation.  Benjamin, now his father’s favorite in Joseph’s absence, is falsely accused of theft and condemned to slavery.  Judah has the opportunity to leave his brother in Egypt, but instead offers himself in Benjamin’s place.  In so doing, of course, he passes Joseph’s test.  He proves that he is no longer the person  that he once was.  Judah’s t’shuvah is an example for all of us-we are all able to repent and do the right thing, no matter what our past transgressions.  Shabbat Shalom.