9/22/05 - Chabad of the Five Towns

Chabad of the Five Towns: Jewish Outreach and Education Community Center serving the Five Towns and Nassau County

Chabad of the Five Towns ~ Email: Chabad5Towns@aol.com ~ Voice: 516-295-2478 ~ Web: www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

	A Word from the Rabbi

It's time to make your High Holiday seat reservations! Chabad's High Holiday services are designed to guide you step-by-step and will make you comfortable, regardless of previous exposure and background. This, coupled with modern Jewish melodies and an easy to read prayer book translation will make this year's High Holidays an enjoyable and meaningful experience.

Once again, we will be offering a complete Junior Congregation and Youth Program for children of all ages – lunch will be served. Services and Youth Programs will take place at HAFTR High School , 635 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. We're ready to take your High Holiday seat reservations 24 hours a day at www.chabad5towns.com or call 516-295-2478.

Please note: Selichot begins this Motzei Shabbat, 1:00 am at Chabad, and continues Monday - Friday 6:10 am.

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

	Happening @ Chabad This Week

Farbrengens create a warm and vibrant sense of community and are an enjoyable and effective way to communicate Chassidic ideas and ideals. R' Faivish Pewzner will be hosting Chabad's farbrengen for men tonight (on his birthday), in honor of 18 Elul, celebrating the birthdays of the Baal Shem Tov and the Baal HaTanya. The farbrengen will be held Thurday, September 22nd, 8:15 pm at the Pewzner's home, 23 Waverly Place in Lawrence. All men are welcome to participate!

The Kiddush at Chabad this week is sponsored by Larry & Susan Sachs in honor of their son, Jonathan's Bar Mitzvah. Please join us for services at 9:20 am, followed by the Kiddush. If you'd like to sponsor a future Kiddush at the Chabad Center, please contact Dr. Muller: 516-569-0169.

Space is filling up quickly for our annual sunset cruise - the much anticipated "Reflections V". If you'd like to join us for a thrilling evening, replete with delicious delicacies, entertainment and a spirited social atmosphere - we urge you to call in asap with your reservations. We're set to sail this Sunday, September 25th, 7:30 -10:30 pm, boarding at 7 pm. It promises to be a We invite you preview and purchase auction tickets on our website, and while you're there, you can even make your reservations online as well! Otherwise, we're standing by 9 - 5 to take your phone reservations & ticket purchases: 516-295-2478. I look forward to your participation on Sunday!

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 25th, 74 Maple Ave. Show times 10:30 am, 2:00 pm, 5:00 pm. Fee: $6 per person.

The women's parsha class with Mrs. Rivka Kotlarsky, "Food for the Body & Soul," begins this week, Monday, September 26th, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Bruch is served - all are welcome!

B"H

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

Shabbat Begins: Sep. 23 2005	6:34 PM
Shabbat Ends: Sep. 24 2005	7:30 PM

Parshah Ki Tavo

	Shul Announcements
Happy Birthday to R' Faivish Pewzner, Randy Alenick, Ariela Bortz, Kayla Dahan, Shuey Geisinsky, Sarah Kurtz, Lizzy Plaut, Ariel Chava Taitz Mazal Tov To: R' Leibel & Myrna Zisman on the celebration of a Siyum Sefer Torah in honor of their grandson, Ely Portal's, Bar Mitzvah. Yanki & Raizel Feder on the birth of their daughter, Shoshana Leah Mushka. Morah Michal Grauman-Gutnick (past Hebrew School teacher) on the birth of a firstborn son. Rabbi Meir & Hadassah Geisinsky on their son, Shuey's upshernish! Larry & Susan Sachs on their son, Jonathan's Bar Mtizvah


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	This Week on www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

Comment

	The Case of the Basket
That "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is a fact already noted by the Talmud some 1,500 years ago. But what's so great about being rich, anyway?

Voices

	Sosua
Baila, who fled Nazi Europe as a young girl, wept as her 5-year-old granddaughter kissed a mezuzah for the first time. Paula, who grew up in New Jersey and married a non-Jew, has mixed feelings about her own daughter's discovery of Judaism...

Question

	When a Loved One Dies, is that the End of the Relationship?
I am almost embarrassed to say it, but I went to my grandmother's grave and begged her to come to my wedding. Did she hear me?

Story

	A Rich Man's Hospitality
Disguised as simple beggars, the holy brothers journeyed from village to village, refining their souls with the travails of exile and inspiring their brethren with words of wisdom and encouragement...

	The Jewish Calendar

Thursday

Elul 18 | Sep 22

Chai Elul
Passing of Maharal (1609)

Baal Shem Tov Born (1698)

Chassidic Movement Founded (1734)

1st Chabad Rebbe Born (1745)

Chassidic Holiday

12 Days of Reflection

Links

Ethics: Chapters 3 & 4

Selichot

Dove brings Olive Leaf

Wednesday

Elul 24 | Sep 28

Passing of Chafetz Chaim (1933)

Thursday

Elul 25 | Sep 29

Creation (3761 BCE)

Jerusalem Walls Rebuilt (335 BCE)

Passing of R. Elazar (102 CE)

Passing of R. Michel of Zlotchov (1786)

Passing of Belzer Rebbe (1855)

Ethics: Chapters 5 & 6

	Daily Thought

Mystical & Practical

You cannot separate the mystical from the practical. Each thing has both a body and a soul, and they act as one. Neither can contradict the other, and in each the other can be found.

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 Ki Tavo

Moses instructs the people of Israel: When you enter the land that G‑d is giving to you as your eternal heritage, and you settle it and cultivate it, bring the first-ripened fruits (bikkurim) of your orchard to the Holy Temple, and declare your gratitude for all that G‑d has done for you.

Our Parshah also includes the laws of the tithes given to the Levites and to the poor, and detailed instructions on how to proclaim the blessings and the curses on Mount Grizzim and Mount Ebal — as discussed in the beginning of the Parshah of Re'ei. Moses reminds the people that they are G‑d's chosen people, and that they, in turn, have chosen G‑d.

The latter part of Ki Tavo consists of the Tochachah ("Rebuke"). After listing the blessings with which G‑d will reward the people when they follow the laws of the Torah, Moses gives a long, harsh account of the bad things — illness, famine, poverty and exile — that shall befall them if they abandon G‑d's commandments.

Moses concludes by telling the people that only today, forty years after their birth as a people, have they attained "a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear."

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