Parshas Shemini Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Mincha / Candle Lighting 5:44pm Shacharis 9:00am Shkiya 6:01pm Latest time for Shema 9:31am Shabbos Mincha 3:30 / 5:30pm Shabbos Ends 6:41pm Ladies Shiur This Shabbos morning there will be a Ladies shiur given by Mr Brett Cohen all ladies and girls welcome Motzei Shabbos Avos Ubonim Starting this Motzei Shabbos will be the Shaarei Winter Avos Ubonim This week 7:40-8:25pm Special treat this week - Pizza and Chips! Shabbos afternoon program for boys Learning with your Madrichim - 30 mins before the late mincha Youth Seudah Shlishis program - come and find out more... Short Vort on the Parsha The Torah in this week's parsha tells us 'Wine and other intoxication beverages you (the kohanim who are doing the Avodah) shall not drink' The Medrash warns against the harm of alcohol 'if a person drinks too much wine, he will end up selling all that he owns to keep up his addiction to drinking'. The Medrash then relates the story of a man who spent so much money on his habit of drinking that his children were worried they would soon be penniless. When he was drunk, they tied him up and took him out to a cemetery. They hoped that when he became sober he would be shocked to find himself in in the cemetery and would become aware of the dangers of drinking to excess. That day a caravan carrying vats of wine passed near the cemetery. The caravan was attacked and traveled as fast as it could. One of the large barrels it was carrying fell off and landed right next to the head of the drunk man. When he awoke from his drunken sleep, he was surprised to find the faucet of the barrel right next to his face and kept drinking right there in the cemetery. In a letter to his father, Rav Dessler (Michtav Eliyohu Vol 3, P319-320)) commented that we see from this the principal that Hashem leads a person in a way he wants to go. The events that let the person to find wine in the cemetery were so unusual that they were almost miraculous. If this is so when a person wants to do something that is improper, all the more so is it true when a person has a strong will to do what is good.