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I am writing this email to you as I join my many colleagues and friends at our annual international convention at the Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn. It is encouraging and heartwarming to spend the weekend with thousands of Chabad Rabbis from around the world. It is a weekend of gaining renewed strength and energy to continue the mission the Lubavitcher Rebbe OBM has empowered us to do, to bring Jews closer to their Jewish roots, thus hastening the coming of Moshiach. By attending this convention, we can all feel and see how the Rebbe's work is alive and increasing rapidly throughout the world through the dedication of his emissaries, the Chabad emissaries around the globe. It is truly uplifting!
 I invite you to tune in this Sunday at 5 pm - the annual gala banquet culminating the convention will be streaming live on our website! Tune in to be a part of a remarkably extraordinary evening like none other - with over 2,000 Chabad Rabbis and over 1,000 friends and partners of Chabad worldwide. The live broadcast will be available at this link on Sunday: Live Broadcast. (To learn more about this invigorating weekend, click here)
On another note, on behalf of all who enjoyed the fabulous Shabbaton activities and programs offered by Chabad last Shabbos, I would like to thank our co-sponsors whose generous support helped make this Shabbaton possible and our dedicated staff and volunteers who worked countless hours to make the Shabbaton a success!
Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom and Good Chodesh,
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik
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Kiddush
The Kiddush at Chabad is sponsored by Max and Fabiana Kirsch in memory of Max's mother, Ratzel bat Menachem Mendel HaKohen. To sponsor a future kiddush at Chabad, please contact Dr. Muller to book your date, 516-569-0169.
November 10 • Farbrengen for men - Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Celebrating the Lubavitcher Rebbe, OB”M’s miraculous recovery form the 1977 heart attack: following Kiddush at Chabad
November 12 • Women’s Circle
For an enlightening evening, come together with other women to hear Mrs. Malka Touger speak abouth the Marvels and Mysteries of the Mitzvah of Mikvah. This invigorating lecture will be held on Monday, November 12 at 8:15, in the home of Simone Ambalo, located at 24 Oak Street, Woodmere.
November 13 • The Parenting Hour with Mrs. Suzanne Wallin
Meet for an instructive morning with Mrs. Suzanne Wallin and listen to her Guide to Positive Parenting from 9:30—10:30 am at Chabad.
November 14 • Intergenerational Knitting Circle
For women and girls ages 9—129. Create your own masterpiece and
enjoyintergenerational conversations in a warm and friendly enviroment. 7:00 – 8:00 pm.
November 18 • Odyssey - Annual Women's Luncheon
In addition, the Annual Women's Luncheon, Odyssey, is scheduled for next Sunday, November 18, 2007 at the Lawrence Village Country Club. This event will start at 10:00am with boutiques, followed by an inspirational talk with Mrs. Shaindy Jacobson and featured guest speaker Mrs. Yael Quittner. This will be an inspiring and enjoyable event that all women will truly enjoy. If you haven't received our invitation in the mail, please call 516-295-2478 and we'll gladly mail one to you.
November 19 • Farbrengen: The 9th of Kislev-For Men
In honor of the birthday and yahrzeit of the Mitteler Rebbe, the 2nd Chabad Rebbe at 8:15 PM
November 24 • Farbrengen: The 14th of Kislev For Men
In honor of the wedding anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe OB”M, after services.
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Candle Lighting Times for
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Shabbat Begins:
Friday, Nov. 9 |
4:25 PM |
Shabbat Ends:
Shabbat, Nov. 10 |
5:25 PM |
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Shul Family News
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Adam Leventhal, Dubi Fischman, Yechiel Friedman, Mrs. Dina Richards, Benjamin Dror, Menachem Mendel Ivry, Mendel Pewzner, Shira Schechter, Rachel Richards, Mr. Ayal Rosenthal
MAZAL TOV!
To Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh Ginsberg on the engagement of their daughter.
To Aaron & Alysha Bhatia on the birth of a daughter, Meital Gittel.
To Ben & Sandy Gordon on the bris of their grandson, Moshe
To Yechiel Friedman on being selected for the National Honour Society, Achdut Chapter
To Eli Kirsch & Yechiel Friedman for receiving Torah Growth Awards at
last week’s DRS Parent-Son Melava Malka.
THANK YOU
Mrs. Chanah Sharfstein for her fascinating lecture about Scandinavian Jewry.
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YOUTH CALENDAR
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YOUTH EVENTS
www.chabad5towns.com/youth
November 11 • Friendship Circle, Sunday Circle, 1:00—3:00 pm
November 11 • Youth Zone, 10:00am-12 ;00pm
November 14 • J.I.V.E. begins, Boys grades 8 & up, 7:00-8:30 pm
November 15 • Bat Mitzvah Club II, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
November 17 • Birthday Shabbat for children born in Kislev.
November 18 • Youth Zone, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
November 18 • Friendship Circle, Girl Teens Night Out 7:30-9:00 pm
November 21 • Middos Menchen, 5:30-6:45
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Beyond I
The primordial blunder was the discovery of self.
The first man and woman in the Garden of Eden ate of the Tree of Knowledge and realized that they exist. Ever since then, that self-consciousness has been the root of every disaster.
Every "I" and "me", every sense of being is a denial of the Oneness of the Creator and the creation. It is a statement that there is something else , namely me, and I am autonomous from all this.
The goal of mankind is to reach beyond the state of Adam and Eve in the Garden —to a state where any sense of ego is meaningless. A place called Eden, which is beyond the Garden, the place of Essential Being from where all delights flow... "And a river went out from Eden to water the Garden."
And now you know why they ate of the fruit to begin with.
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 Toldot
Isaac marries Rebecca. After twenty childless years their prayers are answered and Rebecca conceives. She experiences a difficult pregnancy as the "children struggle inside her"; G‑d tells her that "there are two nations in your womb", and that the younger will prevail over the elder.
Esau emerges first; Jacob is born clutching Esau's heel. Esau grows up to be "a cunning hunter, a man of the field"; Jacob is "a wholesome man", a dweller in the tents of learning. Isaac favors Esau; Rebecca loves Jacob. Returning exhausted and hungry from the hunt one day, Esau sells his birthright (his rights as the firstborn) to Jacob for a pot of red lentil stew.
In Gerar, in the land of the Philistines, Isaac presents Rebecca as his sister, out of fear that he will be killed by someone coveting her beauty. He farms the land, reopens the wells dug by his father Abraham, and bores a series of his own wells: over the first two there is strife with the Philistines, but the waters of the third well are enjoyed in tranquility.
Esau marries two Hittite women. Isaac grows old and blind, and expresses his desire to bless Esau before he dies. While Esau goes off to hunt for his father's favorite food, Rebecca dresses Jacob in Esau's clothes, covers his arms and neck with goatskins to simulate the feel of his hairier brother, prepares a similar dish, and sends Jacob to his father. Jacob receives his fathers' blessings for "the dew of the heaven and the fat of the land" and mastery over his brother. When Esau returns and the deception is revealed, all Isaac can do for his weeping son is to predict that he will live by his sword, and that when Jacob falters, the younger brother will forfeit his supremacy over the elder.
Jacob leaves home for Charan to flee Esau's wrath and to find a wife in the family of his mother's brother, Laban. Esau marries a third wife — Machlat, the daughter of Ishmael.
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