8/25/06 - Chabad of the Five Towns

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	A Word From the Rabbi

I'm pleased to share with you that our Partnership Drive is in full swing! We mailed out a package for you this week and I hope you received it. I'm sure you were delighted to learn of our various partnership opportunities and I look forward to receiving your response soon. Please make every effort to respond in a timely manner, allowing us ample time to process your family's information and reserve your High Holiday seats.

If you haven't received a copy, please e-mail or call us and we'll send you one right away. You can also learn more about our partnership opportunities and download the form on our website, click here. Should you have any questions, comments, concerns or simply would like to share your thoughts, I'd be happy to discuss this with you - feel free to call me at 516-295-2478 or email [email protected].

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

	Current Happenings @ Chabad

KIDDUSH
The Kiddush at the Chabad Center this Shabbos is sponsored by Toby & Seymour Kleiman in honor of Chavi & Alan Kessler! If you would like to sponsor the Kiddush at Chabad at a future date in honor or in memory of a family member or friend, please contact Dr. Muller at 516-569-0169.

Club Sign Up Party: Monday, September 4, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Catch the Action! Register your child in our Youth Clubs! Space is Limited

Bagel Babies – Boys & Girls 12 – 36 Months
Chabad Hebrew School – Boys & Girls, ages 5-13
Chabad Youth Zone – Boys & Girls Ages 3 - 8
Cheder Menachem Mendel – Boys & Girls Grades 1-7
Chai Five Mitzvah Club – Girls Grades 3-5
Rabbi & The Mitzvah Men – Boys Grades 4-6
Bat Mitzvah Club – Girls Grades 6
BATT – Boys Accepting Torah Treasures – Boys Grades 7 & 8
Teen Talk – Girls Grades 7&8
Friendship Circle – Boys & Girls Grades 9 – 12
* Gifts for all members

For those unable to attend, visit our Virtual Clubhouse: www.Chabad5Towns.com/clubs or call 516-295-2478 x19 to register.

Save the Date: Tuesday, September 5
Enjoy a beautiful outing with your Chabad Family! You're invted to join Chabad's Beach BBQ, Tuesday, September 5th, 5:00 - 7:00 pm at hte new Plaza Beach Club, 1751 Ocean Blvd, Atlantic Beach. *Fabulous Food *Fantastic Fun *Exciting Entertainment for all! Food will be availabe for purchase. Further information will be posted on our website shortly, stay tuned!

B"H

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

Shabbat Begins: Aug. 25 2006	7:21 PM
Shabbat Ends: Aug. 26 2006	8:20 PM

Parshah Shoftim

Shul Family News

Happy Birthday To:
Mr. Joe Radomsky, Meira Max, Binyomin Wolowik, Ettie Groisman, Shalom Landman, Heather Plaut, Malka Rozenblat, Mr. Avi Weiss, Mr. Moshe Boruch Merwitz, Mikaelah Dror, Benyomin Ambalo, Yakira Schreiber, Racquel Faith Greenstein, Yaakov Dovid Wolowik

Mazal Tov To:
Mazal Tov to Avi & Janet Weiss, on the birth of baby girl, Batya Breindel Dobra!

Dr. & Mrs. Edwin Bronstein on the engagement of their son, Dovid!

	Daily Quote
Though summer still lingered and the day was bright and sunny, there was a change in the air. One smelled already the Elul-scent; a teshuvah-wind was blowing. Everyone grew more serious, more thoughtful... All awaited the call of the shofar, the first blast that would announce the opening of the gates of the month of mercy — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, describing the Shabbat before Elul in the town of Lubavitch

	This Week on www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

Comment

	The Third Marriage
What did Moses feel ascending Mount Sinai for the third time, on the early morning of the 1st of Elul, 3,308 years ago?

Current

	They All Prayed...
Chabad brought prayer to the army bases and the streets of Israel, distributed hundreds of thousands of Psalms, lit Shabbat candles with IDF units, and united Jews with letters in Torah scrolls...

Question

	Getting Forgiven
How do you know when you have been forgiven? Or does the guilt just go on and on?

Kids

	Non-For-Prophet
G-fish tries to cheat at board games by pretending to be a prophet (double gulp!)

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Elul 1 | Aug 25

Rosh Chodesh
Moses ascends Sinai for 3rd 40 days (1313 BCE)

Rosh Chodesh Observances

Elul observances

Good Year greetings

Shabbat

Elul 2 | Aug 26

Shulchan Aruch published (1555)

Sunday

Elul 3 | Aug 27

Rabbi A. I. Kook (1935)

First Chassidic Aliya (1777)

Moses' parents remarry (1394 BCE)

Spies die (1312 BCE)

Nachmanides Renews Jerusalem community (1267)

	Daily Thought

The Unnatural Nature of Things

He could have made a world where the nature of each thing may be deduced from its parts. A predictable, orderly world. A world void of wonder. And then we would say, "Things are this way because they must be this way." G‑d would be a stranger in His own world.

Instead, at each step another surprise greets us, a new way of being emerges unexpected from everything we knew before. Until we must conclude that things are the way they are for no particular reason — other than His desire that they be that way.

He has made a world that has room for Him, because its nature is wondrous.

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 Shoftim

Moses instructs the people of Israel to appoint judges and law-enforcement officers in every city; "Justice, justice shall you pursue," he commands them, and you must administer it without corruption or favoritism. Crimes must be meticulously investigated and evidence thoroughly examined — a minimum of two credible witnesses is required for conviction and punishment.

In every generation, says Moses, there will be those entrusted with the task of interpreting and applying the laws of the Torah. "According to the law that they will teach you, and the judgement they will instruct you, you shall do; you shall not turn away from the thing that they say to you, to the right nor to the left."

Shoftim also includes the prohibitions against idolatry and sorcery; laws governing the appointment and behavior of a king; and guidelines for the creation of "cities of refuge" for the inadvertent murderer. Also set forth are many of the rules of war: the exemption from battle for one who has just married, built a home, planted a vineyard or is "afraid and soft-hearted"; the requirement to offer terms of peace before attacking a city; the prohibition against wanton destruction of something of value, exemplified by the law that forbids to cut down a fruit tree when laying siege (in this context the Torah makes the famous statement "For man is a tree of the field").

The Parshah concludes with the law of Eglah Arufah - the special procedure to be followed when a person is killed by an unknown murderer and his body is found in a field - which underscores the responsibility of the community and its leaders not only for what they do but also for what they might have prevented from being done.

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