11/10/05 - 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: [email protected] ~ Voice: 516-295-2478 ~ Web: www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

	A Word from the Rabbi

January may sound like it's months away, but preparations for our Israel trip are well underway! Chanie and I invite you and your family to join us on an exhilarating mission to Israel this winter. Allow yourself the opportunity for a great vacation and meaningful experience while supporting Israel!

I'm pleased to inform you that our itinerary is now complete and available for download on our website. To view the itinerary log on to www.ChabadFiveTowns.com/israel. Limited space available.

To find out more about this enriching and exhilarating summer experience for yourself and your family, you may view our itinerary online, stop by to pick a copy or call us at 516-295-2478.

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik

	Happening @ Chabad

Kiddush
The Kiddush at Chabad this week is sponsored by Rob & Lisa Fishbein in honor of their anniversary. If you'd like to sponsor a future Kiddush at Chabad in honor or in memory of a family member or friend, please contact Dr. Muller at 516-569-0169.

November 14: Relationship Series
You may have recovered from the hectic holidays but has your relationship with your family? The festive month of Tishrei brings us a month of bonding with G‑d through many traditions and rituals. It also can place a strain on our “normal” lives with extra cooking, cleaning shopping, sukkot to construct and de-construct, and many lost hours at the office and school to make up for. Chabad invites you to get back in the swing of things with a two part series focusing on harmony in the home.

On Monday, November 14, Dr. Chaim Brill, CSW, CASAC, and Mrs. Chana Epstein, a noted relationship expert, will discuss “Attaining a Healthy Relationship”. On Monday, November 21, Rabbi Shmuel Stauber, MA, ABD of Psychology, Imago Relationship Therapist, will speak about “Family Environment and Its Impact on Behavior and Character Development of Children”. Both classes will take place at the Jean Fishman Chabad Center at 74 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst beginning at 8:15pm. There is a suggested donation of $10 per class or $18 for the series. For further information, please call 516-295-2478 or visit www.chabad5towns.com .

November 16: Exciting Excursion for Women
All women are welcome to join us for an exciting trip to the Jewish Museum in Chelsea, NY with noted tour guide, Mrs. Sharfstein. We'll depart 9:15 am sharp from Chabad and return at 2:30. The fee of $36 includes lunch in the city. Reservation are required: please call Devorah at 516- 295-2478.

November 20 - Father & Son Melava Malka
It's a Boys' Night Out – for fathers and sons (ages 5–12)! Come and enjoy a fantastic evening with your son, featuring a fun crafts project, exciting father/son games, delicious pizza dinner and more. The Melava Malka will take place Motzei Shabbat, November 19, 7:15 – 9:00 pm , at the Chabad Center. Suggested donation is $10 per person, $25 max per family.

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

Shabbat Begins: Nov. 11 2005	4:23 PM
Shabbat Ends: Nov. 12 2005	5:23 PM

Parshah Lech-Lecha

	Shul Announcements
Happy Birthday to Yehudah Furst, Baily Schuckman, Sara Schnoll and Adina Feder Mazal Tov to Ely & Elisheva Baum on the birth of a baby girl.


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Youth News & Shmooze

Clubs Meeting this Week:

November 10:
Chai Five club for girls, grades 3 - 5, 5:30 - 7:00 pm

November 13:
Youth Zone for boys & girls, ages 4 - 10 @ Chabad, 10:00 - 11:30

November 13:
BATT Bar Mitzvah Club for boys, grades 7 - 8, @ Chabad, 1:30 pm

November 17:
Bat Mitzvah Club for girls, grade 6
6:00 - 7:30

	This Week on www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

Comment

	The First Jew
To be a Jew is to be constantly moving from what you are to what you can be, and from what you have made of yourself to yet a deeper truth of what you are

Inner Dimensions

	The Kabbalah of Love
We all yearn for the intimate touch of another soul. So why are we forever repelling love with our anger and criticism?

Current

	Impact
Our mission and purpose may be hidden, perhaps, even, never fully revealed; yet a simple action—or inaction—on our part has the power to change the world

Story

	The Miser's Slippers
It was a cold and miserable night, snow and sleet blew through the deserted streets. The miser asked the rabbi in, as usual. But the rabbi refused. "'No," he said, "I won't be long...."

	The Jewish Calendar

Passing of Rosh (1327)

Passing of Methuselah (1656 BCE)

Rachel (1553 BCE)

R. Nachum of Chernobyl (1797)

Passing of Mattityahu (139 BCE)

Great Flood Begins (2105 BCE)

	Daily Thought

Forgetting to Learn

Learning is not the mere acquisition of knowledge and more knowledge. Learning is a process of making quantum leaps beyond the subjective self. No matter how high a summit you may reach, there is always another peak above.

But you can only reach that peak once you realize you are still in the valley.

The Talmud tells of Rabbi Zera, who fasted one hundred fasts to forget all the Torah he had learned in Babylonia before going to study the Torah of the land of Israel.

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 Lech-Lecha

G‑d speaks to Abram, commanding him to "Go from your land, from your birthplace and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you." There, G‑d says, he will be made into a great nation. Abram and his wife Sarai, accompanied by his nephew Lot, journey to the Land of Canaan, where Abram builds an altar and continues to spread the message of a One G‑d.

A famine forces the first Jew to depart for Egypt, where beautiful Sarai is taken to Pharaoh's palace; Abram escapes death because they present themselves as brother and sister. A plague prevents the Egyptian king from touching her and convinces him to return her to Abram and compensate the brother-revealed-as-husband with gold, silver and cattle.

Back in the Land of Canaan, Lot separates from Abram and settles in the evil city of Sodom, where he falls captive when the mighty armies of Chedorlaomer and his three allies conquer the five cities of the Sodom Valley. Abram sets out with a small band to rescue his nephew, defeats the four kings, and is blessed by Malki-Zedek the king of Salem (Jerusalem).

G‑d seals the Covenant Between the Parts with Abram, in which the exile and persecution (Galut) of the people of Israel is foretold and the Holy Land is bequeathed to them as their eternal heritage

Still childless ten years after their arrival in the Land, Sarai tells Abram to marry her maidservant Hagar. Hagar conceives, becomes insolent toward her mistress, and then flees when Sarai treats her harshly; an angel convinces her to return and tells her that her son will father a populous nation. Ishmael is born in Abram's 86th year.

Thirteen years later, G‑d changes Abram's name to Abraham ("father of multitudes") and Sarai's to Sarah ("princess"), and promises that a son will be born to them; from this child, whom they should call Isaac ("will laugh"), will stem the great nation with which G‑d will establish His special bond. Abraham is commanded to circumcise himself and his descendents as a "sign of the covenant between Me and you."

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