10/05/06 - Chabad of the Five Towns

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	A Word From the Rabbi

As we're all busy putting the final touches to the sukkah and wrapping up preparations for this joyous Yom Tov Holiday, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a Chag Sameach!

I also wanted to let you know about a great opportunity for your family this January! Consider joining us on our 8th annual Solidarity Mission to Israel! We've finalized the dates and details, so it's time to mark your calendar and give this some serious thought: January 16 -26.

Transform your winter break into an enriching and exhilarating experience - singles and families welcome! We've carefully planned our itinerary to provide a fun-filled, meaningful trip while touring our land with a renowned tour guide and highest levels of security adhered to.

The complete itinerary is available for viewing online, www.chabad5towns.com/israel and photos of our last mission are online too: www.chabad5towns.com/album. Feel free to email me for more information or to further discuss this opportunity. I look foward to hearing from you and I do hope you'll join!

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom & Chag Sameach!
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik

	Happening at Chabad

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Kiddush
The Kiddush at Chabad tomorrow and the following day of Yom Tov are available for sponsorship, respond to this email if you'd like to sponsor the kiddush in honor or in memory of a family member or friend.

October 7 • Children’s Sukkah Hop this Shabbat
Kids! Meet at Chabad for our annual spectacular Sukkah hop! • Meet at Chabad at 5:00 pm, pick up at 6:00 pm. For kids, ages 4-13. Join us for fun, games, stories and a chance to hop around to many sukkas in the neighborhood!

October 9 • Simchat Beit Hashoeva in Cedarhurst Park!

October 11 • Adult Sukkah Hop – Scavenger Hunt
Rediscover the kid in you! Hop along for a mysterious and delicious experience! Wednesday, October 11, 9:00 PM—Meet for Hors D’oeuvres and begin the hunting expedition at Chabad, 74 Maple Avenue, Cedarhurst.

October 12 • Holiday Youth Trip
COMPLETELY BOOKED / NO SPOTS AVAILABLE
Excitiing trip for Kids to New Roc City, on Chol Hamoed Sukkot! For Boys & Girls, Grades 2-7.

B"H

	I S R A E L

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

Shabbat / Holiday Begins: Oct. 06 2006	6:12 PM
Shabbat Ends / Second Day Holiday Begins: Oct. 07 2006	7:09 PM
Holiday Ends: Oct. 08 2006	7:07 PM

	Shul Family News
Happy Birthday To: Itzik Cohen, Tristen Kowal, Avigayil Schreiber, Ronie Benarie, Melly Hecht, Chana Rosenzweig, Mr. David Ambalo, Sarah Kellner, Ratzel Sarah Kirsch, Adam Doron, Jared Adams, Mr. Doron Evans, Sivan Herman, Ruth Strauss.


	OPPORTUNITIES

	Daily Quote
"His left arm is under my head, and His right arm embraces me" (Song of Song 2:6). "His left arm under my head"--this refers to the "Days of Awe" of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; "His right arm embraces me"--this refers to the seven days of Sukkot. — Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (Likkutei Torah)

	This Week on www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

Voices

	The Bleeding Hat
We danced and sang in the sukkah, the transformative rain a mikvah-like immersion in G‑d's presence and will...

Voices

	A Sixth Dimension
They were carrying branches and fruit. They wanted me to wave them in the air, to shake them in all directions. For G‑d. For world peace. For unity...

Inner Dimensions

	The Secret of the Fifteen Steps
At the call of the dawn, two priests sounded their trumpets and began to descend the 15 steps that led down from the Men's Courtyard to the Women's Courtyard...

Story

	Hakafot in Liozna
"Fire consumes fire,." said the Rebbe. "The 'fiery law' of Torah will consume the fever induced by the frost..."

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Tishrei 14 | Oct 6

Prepare "Four Kinds" in Sukkah

Shabbat

Tishrei 15 | Oct 7

Sukkot
Eat in Sukkah

The Ushpizin

"Water Drawing" Celebrations

Four Kinds postponed

Links

Sunday

Tishrei 16 | Oct 8

Sukkot
The "Four Kinds"

Monday

Tishrei 17 | Oct 9

Sukkot
Chol Hamoed

Hoshana Rabbah
Hoshana Rabbah

Night Learning

Willow and Hoshaanot

Festive Meal

Shabbat

Tishrei 22 | Oct 14

Shemini Atzeret
Hakafot

Rain Prayer

Yizkor

	Daily Thought

All of Him

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—-that force is a single whole and it is G–d.

It is not all of G–d. It is an expression of G–d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothing would have changed.

Where is it that you can find all of G–d? Wherever He wishes to be found.

Right now, He hides within some scattered branches placed upon an autumn hut.

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

The Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret Torah readings are from Leviticus 22-23, Numbers 29, and Deuteronomy 14-16. These readings detail the laws of the moadim or "appointed times" on the Jewish calendar for festive celebration of our bond with G‑d; including the mitzvot of dwelling in the sukkah (branch-covered hut) and taking the "Four Kinds" on the festival of Sukkot; the offerings brought in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem on Sukkot, and the obligation to journey to the Holy Temple to "to see and be seen before the face of G‑d" on the three annual pilgrimage festivals — Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.

On Simchat Torah ("Rejoicing of the Torah") we conclude, and begin anew, the annual Torah-reading cycle. First we read the Torah section of Vezot Haberachah, which recounts the blessings that Moses gave to each of the twelve tribes of Israel before his death. Echoing Jacob's blessings to his twelve sons five generations earlier, Moses assigns and empowers each tribe with its individual role within the community of Israel.

Vezot Haberachah then relates how Moses ascended Mount Nebo from whose summit he saw the Promised Land. "And Moses the servant of G‑d died there in the Land of Moab by the mouth of G‑d... and no man knows his burial place to this day." The Torah concludes by attesting that "There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom G‑d knew face to face... and in all the mighty hand and the great awesome things which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel."

Immediately after concluding the Torah, we begin it anew by reading the first chapter of Genesis (the beginning of next Shabbat's Torah reading) describing G‑d's creation of the world in six days and His ceasing work on the seventh—which He sanctified and blessed as a day of rest.

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