8/25/05 - Chabad of the Five Towns

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

As I've shared with you earlier this week, our family celebrates the birth of a baby boy! Thank G‑d, mother and baby are doing well and we look forward to seeing you at our home tomorrow night, at 9:30 pm, 748 Central Avenue in Woodmere. The brit of our son will be held at Chabad on Sunday morning (services at 8:00 am.) Your participation will be most meaningful to Chanie and myself and will surely enhance our celebration!

May we merit to share many more joyous occasions together!

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom & Shana Tova,
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik

	Happening @ Chabad This Week

The Kiddush at Chabad this week is sponsored by David & Anita Zwibel in honor of their son Avi's Bar Mitzvah. The Kiddush is co-sponsored by dear friends of Rabbi and Chanie Wolowik, in honor of the birth of their baby! Please join us for services at 9:20 am, followed by the Kiddush.

Back by popular demand, a scribe-in-residence will be on hand at the Chabad Center to check your mezuzot while you wait - this Sunday, September 18th. It is a custom to have mezuzot and tefillin checked during the month of Elul. Bring them into the Chabad center between 9:30 am and 3:00 pm. If you do not yet have mezuzot in your home, Rabbi Wolowik will be happy to walk you through purchasing and posting them - you're just a phone call away: 516-295-2478.

Begin the New Year with a new Menu! Celebrate with us at our High Holiday Food Fair! Chabad is hosting a Holiday food fair with informative discussion on the upcoming holidays! This meaningful women's program will be held on Monday, September 19th, 8:15 pm at Chabad. To share your famous Holiday dish - call Chabad to schedule your cooking appointment: 516-295-2478. Recipes will be entered into “The Kosher Table” Chabad's Premiere Cookbook. Click here to learn more about our cookbook.

After a long summer break, we're pleased to once again offer "Connection to the Source," the women's Perek Shira class with our very own, Leah Muller! The class begins this Monday, 2:45 pm - all women are welcome. Please note the corrected time for our Beginners Hebrew Class, continuing this Tuesday night at 7:45 pm, also at Chabad. For further information on all our classes, please visit our website.

What are all the kids talking about? Agent Emes, of course! What greater treat could we possibly offer for your youngsters than a preview screening of not-yet released 4th episode of the popular Jewish Secret Agent: Agent Emes and the Giant Ego! The latest, and most exciting installment of the popular Agent Emes action-adventure video series will be shown at Chabad on Sunday, September 5th, 74 Maple Ave. Show times 10:30 am, 2:00 pm, 5:00 pm. Fee: $6 per person.

B"H

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Shabbat Begins: Aug. 26 2005	7:20 PM
Shabbat Ends: Aug. 27 2005	8:19 PM

Parshah Eikev

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It's the first word a baby learns to speak. It's the kindest word in any language. It's the name of G‑d

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As long as you are always giving without asking for anything in return, you have not allowed any space for her in your life

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"Hundreds of mitzvot were about to be performed in Szchedrin! Never mind the eighteen rubles that will be raised---considering the sums of money that the Yetzer Harah deals with, this is a mere pittance. But the mitzvot..!"

	The Jewish Calendar

Zohar Published (1558)

Passing of R. Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1944)

Friday

Av 21 | Aug 26

Passing of R. Chaim Brisker (1918)

Shabbat

Av 22 | Aug 27

Ethics: Chapter 4

Hasmonean Holiday (circa 100 BCE)

Tzemach Tzeddek Departs Petersburg

Bless New Month

Ethics: Chapter 5

	Daily Thought

Uncharity

Do not give charity.

Giving charity means being nice and giving away your money. But who says it is your money to begin with?

It is money put in your trust, to be disbursed for good things and for others when they will need it.

Change your attitude. Instead of doing what is nice, do what is right. Put the money where it belongs.

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 Eikev

In the Parshah of Eikev ("Because"), Moses continues his closing address to the Children of Israel, promising them that if they will fulfill the commandments (Mitzvot) of the Torah, they will prosper in the Land they are about to conquer and settle in keeping with G‑d's promise to their forefathers.

Moses also rebukes them for their failings in their first generation as a people, recalling their worship of the Golden Calf, the rebellion of Korach, the sin of the Spies, their angering of G‑d at Taveirah, Massah and Kivrot Hataavah ("The Graves of Lust"); "You have been rebellious against G‑d," he says to them, "since the day I knew you." But he also speaks of G‑d's forgiveness of their sins, and the Second Tablets which G‑d inscribed and gave to them following their repentance.

Their 40 years in the desert, says Moses to the people, during which G‑d sustained them with daily manna from heaven, was to teach them "that man does not live on bread alone, but by the utterance of G‑d's mouth does man live."

Moses describes the land they are about to enter as "flowing with milk and honey", blessed with the "Seven Kinds" (wheat and barley, grapevines, figs, pomegranates, olive oil and dates), and the place that is the focus of G‑d's providence of His world. He commands them to destroy the idols of the land's former masters, and to beware lest they become haughty and begin to believe that "my power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth."

A key passage in our Parshah is the second chapter of the Sh'ma, which repeats the fundamental mitzvot enumerated in the Sh'ma's first chapter and describes the rewards of fulfilling G‑d's commandments and the adverse results (famine and exile) of their neglect. It is also the source of the precept of prayer and includes a reference to the resurrection of the dead in the Messianic Age.

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