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I'm writing from Israel during our annual Solidarity Mission which has been absolutely remarkable so far! In the short 2 days we've been here, we went to the Kotel and its tunnels, Ir Dovid, Yad V'shem, and the Southern Wall Excavations where our group found a bracelet from the Roman period, pieces of gold mosaic and a glass cup that's estimated to be dated back to the times of the first Temple !!
Perhaps most significant off all was our group's experience yesterday! You've surely heard by now that the Bar/Bat Mitvah participants of our trip were raising funds to dedicate a recreation suite for the Golani Brigade. We traveled to the army base near Kissufim yesterday for the grand dedication, which was just that, absolutely Grand!!
Following the ribbon cutting, one of the Generals addressed us and explained the importance of this suite for soldiers who are constantly on the run and desperately need a venue for unwinding and relaxing. The gratitude and appreciation the soldiers expressed was truly heartwarming. We placed a mezuzah on the hi-tech recreation suite and also set up an area in the suite with a pair of tefillin, a tzedakah box and a siddur. We want our soldiers to not give security but also gain security through putting on tefillin. We'll post beautiful pictures next week of this unique dedication.
We're on our way to Machaneh Yehudah Shuk for a true Erev Shabbos experience! We'll be spending Shabbos in Jerusalem and we'll keep you posted next week with an update on the remainder of our trip.
Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom & a Shana Tova!
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik
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Kiddush
The Kiddush at Chabad this week is sponsored by Joe Radomsky, commemorating his wife, Bea's yartzeit this week. If you'd like to sponsor a future kiddush in honor or in memory of a family member or friend, please contact Dr. Muller at 516-569-0169.
Shabbat, September 1 • Fabrengen
What’s learned in a class or lecture is stored in the mind; what’s learned at a Farbrengen is engraved in the heart. The Farbrengen format dates back to the days of the Baal Shem Tov and is an effective and enjoyable way to communicate Chassidic ideas and ideals. Farbrengens are especially appropriate to celebrate Chassidic holidays and important dates in the Chabad movement. All men are invited to join us in celebrating the birthdays of the Baal Shem Tov and the Baal HaTanya, following services.
Monday, September 3 • Club Sign Up Party
Register your child in our exciting Youth Clubs! Join us 5-7 pm.
• Kosher Cooks - Kids in the Kitchen - Girls, Grades 1-3
• Little Jewish Scientists - Boys, Grades 1-3
• Middos Mentchen - Grades 3 & 4
• Chai Five - Girls, Grade 3-5
• Rabbi & The Mitzvah Men- Grades 5& 6
• Bat Mitzvah Club- Girls, Grade 6
• B.A.T.T. Boys Accepting Torah’s Treasures - Grade 7
• Teens In Action - Girls, Grades 7 & 8
• J.I.V.E. - Boys, Grades 8 and up
Thursday, September 6 • Chessed Night Grades 3-6
Prepare for Rosh Hashana by helping others, 6:00 - 7:30 PM. No club membership required—All are welcome to participate.
Shabbat, September 8 • Birthday Shabbat
Once a month, Chabad celebrates the Jewish Birthdays of children born during that Jewish month. After services, a big birthday cake is presented complete with an announcement of all those celebrating their birthdays, and a special birthday gift. This month’s Birthday Shabbat celebrates every child who’s Jewish Birthday falls in the month of Tishrei—Join us!
Sunday, September 9 • Sofer– Scribe in Residence
Have your tefilin and mezuzahs checked by a reputable sofer at the Chabad Center. He will be here for ONE DAY only, so come by between 9:30 am and 3:00 pm.
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Shabbat Begins:
Aug. 24, 2007 |
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Shabbat Ends:
Aug. 25, 2007 |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Ephraim Max, Goldie Wolowik, Monica Rosenthal, Dr. Nathan Rubin, Ari Begun, Benny Begun, Faygie Begun, Mendy Begun, Mr. Moshe Bellehsen, Shoshana Feder, Joseph Richards, Chaya Ross, Aharon Tzvi Turk, Mr. Avi Cohen, Jonathan David Sachs
MAZAL TOV !
To Elliot and Renee Singer, on the birth of a grandson.
THANK YOU!
Gloria Schreiber, Alan Raskin and Gavi Nelson for helping with the membership mailing this week!
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Despair
Despair is the ultimate form of self-worship —the perception that you have the capacity to truly mess up, to take the world's destiny out of its Creator's hands and sabotage His plans.
Know that the world is in a constant state of elevation, rocketing upwards towards its ultimate wholeness at every moment. Every quivering of every leaf, every subtle breeze, every slightest motion of any particle of our universe is another move in that same direction. Even those events that seem to thrust downward are in truth only a part of the ascent —like the poise of an athlete before he leaps, the contraction of a spring before its energy is released.
There is not a thing you could do halt that dynamic even for a moment. True, you must take responsibility for your deeds and work hard, very hard, to clean up your own mess. But when all the dust settles, you are exactly in the space where you were meant to be: One step closer.
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.
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Parshat Ki Teitzei
Seventy-four of the Torah's 613 commandments (mitzvot) are in the Parshah of Ki Teitzei. These include the laws of the beautiful captive, the inheritance rights of the first-born, the wayward and rebellious son, burial and dignity of the dead, the returning of a lost object, sending away the mother bird before taking her young, the duty to erect a safety fence around the roof of one's home, and the various forms of kilayim (forbidden plant and animal hybrids).
Also recounted are the judicial procedures and penalties for adultery, for the rape or seduction of an unmarried girl, and for a husband who falsely accuses his wife of infidelity. The following cannot marry a person of Jewish lineage: a bastard, a male of Moabite or Ammonite descent, a first- or second-generation Edomite or Egyptian.
Our Parshah also includes laws governing the purity of the military camp; the prohibition to turn in an escaped slave; the duty to pay a worker on time and to allow anyone working for you - man or animal - to "eat on the job"; the proper treatment of a debtor and the prohibition against charging interest on a loan; the laws of divorce (from which are also derived many of the laws of marriage); the penalty of 39 lashes for transgression of a Torah prohibition; and the procedures for yibbum ("levirate marriage") of the wife of a deceased childless brother or chalitzah ("removing of the shoe") in the case that the brother-in-law does not wish to marry her.
Ki Teitzei concludes with the obligation to remember "what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt."
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