This Week

SHIURUM THIS WEEK

 Sunday - 9:30 am (after Shacharis) Breakfast shiur - in Shul 
Looking at the Haphtorah in depth with the Rabbi
 
Tuesday - 8:30 pm on Zoom
Reviewing the weekly sedra with the Rabbi

Wednesday - 8:00 pm in Shul
Gemorah Shiur with The Rabbi (after Ma’ariv)

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This week's Communal Kiddush is sponsored by

Yvonne Wajchendler
Leslie Wajchendler
and
Melvyn Weinberg
on their birthdays 

Susan Gordon for her Mother's 90th Birthday

Ray Kinsler in Commemoration of his wife Valerie's Yahrzeit

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If you are celebrating a birthday, anniversary or

any other Simcha and would like to join in with the next Communal Kiddush

please contact Frances Bookatz on 07956 166518.

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Forthcoming Stone Settings (at Rainham, unless specified)

  6-Nov-25 - 11:15 am Emmauel Field  

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

5 November - Ladies Keep Fit
16 November - Film Night “The Big Liar”
23 November  Mitzvah Day AND Arts & Craft's Exhibition
7 December - Annual Quiz Night
13 December - Shabbaton
21 December - Chanukah Party
31 January - Melava Malka

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Weekly Torah Portion
With our thanks to Aish

Lech Lecha Genesis 12:1 - 17:27
The Almighty commands Abram (later renamed Abraham) to leave Haran and go to “the place that I will show you” (which turned out to be the land of Canaan – later renamed the Land of Israel). The Almighty then gives Abram an eternal message to the Jewish people and to the nations of the world, “I will bless those who bless you and he who curses you I will curse.” Finding a famine, Abram travels to Egypt asking Sarai (later renamed Sarah) to say she is his sister so they won’t kill him to marry her (the Egyptians were particular not to commit adultery...so they would kill the husband instead).
Pharaoh evicts Abram from Egypt after attempting to take Sarai for a wife. They settle in Hebron (also known as Kiryat Arba) and his nephew Lot settles in Sodom. Abram rescues Lot – who was taken captive – in the Battle of the Four Kings against the Five Kings.
Entering into a covenant with the Almighty (all covenants with the Almighty are eternal, never to be abrogated or replaced by new covenants), Abram is told that his descendants will be enslaved for 400 years and that his descendants (via Isaac not Ishmael, “through Isaac will offspring be considered yours” (Genesis 21:8)) will be given the land “from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”
Sarai, childless, gives her handmaid Hagar to Abram for a wife so that he will have children. Ishmael (the grandfather of our Arab cousins) is born. The covenant of brit mila, religious circumcision, is made (17:3-8), God changes their names to Abraham and Sarah and tells them that Sarah will give birth to Isaac (Yitzchak). Abraham circumcises all the males of his household.