Chabad of the Five Towns: Jewish Outreach and Education Community Center serving the Five Towns and Nassau County
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A Word From the Rabbi

Dear Friends,

Chabad's Tenth Anniversary Dinner this past Sunday was a truly meaningful and invigorating evening! Over 600 people celebrated Chabad's accomplishments and saluted our worthy honorees at the gala event, themed "Expanding Horizons," which attracted people from all walks of life, including Chabad's core supporters and friends.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all who participated, for their support and commitment to Chabad of the Five Towns. It was most encouraging to see that our community and friends value and appreciate the vital work carried out by the Chabad Center. I would also like to express our gratitude to the guest of honor, the dinner chairmen and committee for their tireless efforts in making the dinner the tremendous success it was.

I encourage you to view photos of the dinner on our website, I'm sure you'll enjoy them!

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik

 

Happening at Chabad This Week

Imbue the coming month with spirituality beginning with Chabad's Rosh Chodesh morning class for women. We are honored to have Mrs. Chaya Franklin leading this intriguing class on the divine powers and Kabbalistic meaning unique to the new month of Shevat. All women are welcome and encouraged to join, Monday, April 4, 10:30 am, at the Chabad Center, 74 Maple Avenue. Click here for a complete schedule of adult education classes offered at our Chabad Center.

Relax and "Redeem Yourself" at an interactive pre-Pesach workshop for women this week, Tuesday April 5th, 8:15 pm at Chabad. This workshop on self analysis and self discovery will be led by Mrs. Rivka Saltz, MA is a professional human resource trainer and coach. Suggested donation $10 - light refreshments will be served. All women are welcome to join.

We will be celebrating Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka’s birthday, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, OBM, with a special farbrengen for men on Tuesday, April 5th. Farbrengens create a warm and vibrant sense of community and are an enjoyable and effective way to communicate Chassidic ideas & ideals. Join us for a Chassidic evening, 8:15 pm - location to be announced.

With the holiday of Passover quickly approaching, our Ma'ot Chittim campaign has been launched. In the weeks preceeding Passover it is customary to assist needy families by providing them with monetary aid, enabling them to purchase all the Holiday necessities. Rabbi Wolowik can represent you in your acts of charity and distribute funds to families in need in our community. Donations can be made online or by mailing your tax-deductible contribution to Chabad, 74 Maple Ave. Cedarhurst NY 11516.

As always, we wish to remind you that Chabad hosts a lavish Kiddush luncheon every Shabbat, following services. We are now booking sponsorships for all upcoming Kiddushim. Celebrate an occasion or commemorate a yartzeit by sponsoring a Kiddush at Chabad in honor or in memory of a family member of friend. To schedule a Kiddush, please contact Dr. Muller at 516-569-0169 or to view sponsorship availabilities please visit our online calendar.

NEW! Passover Holiday Megasite Launched!

The world's most comprehensive Passover site has opened for the upcoming Passover season at www.chabad5towns.com/passover.

This Passover megasite includes hundreds of web pages chock full of Passover information from practical, how-to guides to deep mystical insights, video and audio clips and stories and games for the entire family.

Employing a variety of design styles, our supersite includes on-line features like the complete translated text of the Haggadah (Passover eve liturgy), Passover recipes, a Seder companion, day-by-day calendar, and a directory of Passover celebrations around the world.

In addition, the site has forms to fill out to acquire authentic, hand-baked Matzah, and to sell one's chametz, leavened goods, in advance of Passover — a critical function of the holiday preparations.

A Matzah mascot, introduced on the site's front page, will accompany visitors throughout their time at the site. Video and audio clips include a guided tour through the process of Matzah baking by hand, and traditional Passover Seder songs.

Rabbi Wolowik explains that the site was designed "with every Jew in mind. Young and old, scholars and laymen of all backgrounds alike will find the site informative and useful."

Log on today! Click here to get started...

 
 

Candle Lighting Times for
Cedarhurst, NY
[Based on Zip Code 11516]

Shabbat Begins:
Apr. 01, 2005
6:01 PM
Shabbat Ends:
Apr. 02, 2005
7:01 PM
Parshah Shemini
 
Upcoming Events, Services & Classes
Chassidic Mysticism with Rabbi Wolowik
Apr. 01 2005 - 5:30 AM - 6:30 AM

Shacharit - Morning Prayer Services
Apr. 01 2005 - 6:30 AM

Daf Yomi
Apr. 01 2005 - 7:15 AM - 8:00 AM

Chassidic Thought with Rabbi Ross
Apr. 02 2005 - 8:45 AM - 9:20 AM

Shacharit
Apr. 02 2005 - 9:20 AM

Youth Groups - Junior Congregation
Apr. 02 2005 - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Kiddush Luncheon
Apr. 02 2005 - 12:00 PM
Call for sponsorship opportunities: 516.295.2478

Code of Jewish Law with Rabbi Meir Dahan
Apr. 02 2005 - 4:15 PM

Mincha, Shalosh Seudot, Chassidic Melody & Discourse, Maariv
Apr. 02 2005 - 6:00 PM

Shacharit - Morning Prayer Services
Apr. 03 2005 - 8:00 AM

Breakfast & Bavli with Rabbi Wolowik
Apr. 03 2005 - 8:45 AM

Youth Zone II - 9
Apr. 03 2005 - 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tanya Class
Apr. 04 2005 - 5:45 AM

Shacharit - Morning Prayer Services
Apr. 04 2005 - 6:30 AM

Daf Yomi
Apr. 04 2005 - 7:15 AM - 8:00 AM

Bagel Babies
Apr. 04 2005 - 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

View all upcoming events

 
Mazal Tov

Mazal Tov to Morah Sara Avtzon, Gan Chamesh Educational Consultant on the birth of a baby girl! Mazal Tov to Moshe & Dina Teichman on the birth of a baby
boy and to Yosef Yitzchok and Penina Popack on Moshe's engagement to Yaffa Yakubo.

Happy Anniversary to
R' Chaim & Tovah Brill

Happy Birthday to Gavriel Lazari, Menachem Mendel Furst, Mordy Kirsch, Chana Fishbein, Talia Gottesman, Robert Fishbein, Rifky Robinson, Sabrina Lagreca, Matthew Goldstein

 
Featured Page on our Site
Purim Under the Stars & More... We've launched our Passover Megasite! Visit today for the complete virtual passover experience. We know you'll enjoy it!
 
Youth News & Shmooze

The Mitzvah Men

Once "Rabbi & the Mitzvah Men" get rolling with Mitzvot they can't stop. This week they took out their rolling pins and began to roll the dough to bake matza the same way it is done in a professional Kosher for Passover Matzah bakery. Within 18 minutes they had done it all from sanding the pins and kneading flour and water into dough, to rolling it out and making sure the dough was "holy" by poking it, ensuring it wont rise, and finally into the oven. What happened after that is alarmingly true : The boys also decorated beautiful goblets to present to their parents in appreciation for all that their wonderful parents do for them.

The Bat Mitzvah Club members participated in their very own fashion show last night, incorporating the dress-up spirit of Purim with the "modest-dressing" message that Torah mandates. Photos will be posted online shortly.

Youth Center Online

 
This Week on www.ChabadFiveTowns.com
Question
Can a Person be 'Good' without being Spiritual?
Is it better to keep Shabbat and eat only kosher but be unkind and dishonest, or to be a good person who is not as observant?
 
Voices
From One World to the Next
She was so beautiful as she lay there on her back, perfectly still. I cradled her head in my arms as we washed her face. Her skin was smooth and her limbs remarkably flexible
 
Essay
Jewish Grandchildren
My aim here is not to engage directly in arguments about the Torah's view of homosexuality, or feminism, or the problems of singles in the Jewish community. Rather, these questions have raised for me a deeper, underlying question: Beyond the usual platitudes, why is the family so important in Judaism?
 
Story
A Rock
"I stand here and wonder," mused the Chasssidic master, "how such a small rock could puff itself up till it became such a big mountain!"
     
The Jewish Calendar
Friday
Shabbat
Parah
Laws and CustomsParshat Parah
Sunday
Today in Jewish HistoryMishkan assembled; 7 "days of training" (1312 BCE)
Today in Jewish HistoryPassing of 1st Rebbe of Ger (1866)
Monday
Today in Jewish HistoryBlood Libel Declared False (1817)
Tuesday
Today in Jewish HistoryNebuchadnezzar died (397 BCE)
Today in Jewish HistoryRebbetzin's Birthday
Wednesday
Thursday
Today in Jewish HistoryPassing of Zedekiah (397 BCE)
Friday
Today in Jewish HistoryTalmudic holiday (2nd century)
Shabbat
Hachodesh
Laws and CustomsParshat Hachodesh
Laws and CustomsBless New Month
 
Daily Thought
Friendly Hardships

Hardships in life are the material worlds way of beckoning to you, Purify me! Elevate me! They come to you knowing you can overcome them, and thereby they will fulfill their purpose of being.

 

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

 
The Parshah In a Nutshell
Parshat Shemini

On the eighth day following "seven days of inauguration," Aaron and his sons begin to officiate as Kohanim (priests); a fire issues forth from G‑d to consume the offerings on the Altar and the Divine Presence comes to dwell in the Sanctuary.

Aaron's two elder sons, Nadav and Avihu, offer a "strange fire before G‑d, which He commanded them not" and die before G‑d. Aaron is silent in face of his tragedy. Moses and Aaron subsequently disagree as to a point of law regarding the offerings, but Moses concedes to Aaron that Aaron is in the right.

G‑d commands the kosher laws, identifying the animal species permissible and forbidden for consumption. Land animals may be eaten only if they have split hooves and also chew their cud; fish must have fins and scales; a list of non-kosher birds is given, and a list of kosher insects (four types of locusts).

Also in Shemini are some of the laws of ritual purity, including the purifying power of the mikvah (a pool of water meeting specified qualifications) and the wellspring. Thus the people of Israel are enjoined to "differentiate between the impure and the pure."

 

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