7:01pm - Early candle lighting
8:10pm - Candle Lighting, Friday
9:16pm - Havdalah, Saturday
7:01pm - Earliest time to kindle chanukiah (Fri)
First Torah:
Mikeitz: Genesis 41:1 - 44:17Haftarah:
Zachariah 2:14 - 4:7; Isaiah 66:1; Isaiah 66:23-24; Isaiah 66:23; Samuel I 20:18; Samuel I 20:42PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
Genesis 41:1–44:17
Joseph's imprisonment finally ends when Pharaoh dreams of seven fat cows that are swallowed up by seven lean cows, and of seven fat ears of grain swallowed by seven lean ears. Joseph interprets the dreams to mean that seven years of plenty will be followed by seven years of hunger, and advises Pharaoh to store grain during the plentiful years. Pharaoh appoints Joseph governor of Egypt. Joseph marries Asenath, daughter of Potiphar, and they have two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Famine spreads throughout the region, and food can be obtained only in Egypt. Ten of Joseph's brothers come to Egypt to purchase grain; the youngest, Benjamin, stays home, for Jacob fears for his safety. Joseph recognizes his brothers, but they do not recognize him; he accuses them of being spies, insists that they bring Benjamin to prove that they are who they say they are, and imprisons Simeon as a hostage. Later, they discover that the money they paid for their provisions has been mysteriously returned to them.
Jacob agrees to send Benjamin only after Judah assumes personal and eternal responsibility for him. This time Joseph receives them kindly, releases Simeon, and invites them to an eventful dinner at his home. But then he plants his silver goblet, purportedly imbued with magic powers, in Benjamin's sack. When the brothers set out for home the next morning, they are pursued, searched, and arrested when the goblet is discovered. Joseph offers to set them free and retain only Benjamin as his slave.
HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
Chanukah - Shabbat - Rosh Chodesh - Machar Chodesh: Zachariah 2:14 - 4:7; Isaiah 66:1; Isaiah 66:23-24; Isaiah 66:23; Samuel I 20:18; Samuel I 20:42
SAGES ON THE PARSHAH
It came to pass . . . (Genesis 41:1)
The three Torah sections (Vayeishev, Mikeitz and Vayigash) that relate the story of Joseph and his brothers . . . are always read before, during or immediately after the festival of Chanukah.
Since "to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose" (Ecclesiastes 3:1), certainly the arrangement of the festivals of the year, which are the "appointed times of G‑d" (Leviticus 23:4), as well as the festivals and fasts instituted by the sages, all have a special connection to the Torah readings in whose weeks they fall, since everything is masterminded by G‑d. Thus the story of Joseph was destined to be repeated with the royal Chashmonai family in the Greek era . . .
(Shaloh)
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