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The Shul<br />
W E E K L Y M A G A Z I N E<br />
Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin and Ethel Sirotkin<br />
and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz<br />
An Institution of The Lubavitcher Rebbe,<br />
May His Merit Shield Us<br />
A House of Torah, Prayer And Acts of Goodness<br />
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B”H<br />
Shabbos Parshas <strong>Lech</strong> <strong>Lech</strong>a<br />
Cheshvan 7 - 8, 5771<br />
October 15 - 16, 2010<br />
Hashem said to Avram, after Lot had parted from him, “Please<br />
raise your eyes and, from the place where you are positioned, look<br />
northward, southward, eastward and westward. Because, I will give<br />
all the land that you see to you and to your descendants for<br />
eternity. I will make your descendants like the soil of the earth.<br />
Just as a man is not able to count the soil particles of the earth, so<br />
too your descendants will not be able to be counted. Get up and<br />
walk through the land, across its length and its breadth, for I am<br />
going to give it to you”<br />
(Genesis: Ch.13 v.14-17) v.14 17)
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Weekly Message<br />
Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar<br />
Shabbos <strong>Lech</strong> <strong>Lech</strong>a<br />
“Since the Torah was given, the correct<br />
sequence of Man’s avoda is: First, removal<br />
of the orla “foreskin” (The layer of dullness,<br />
insensitivity of the body) then of the<br />
speech, then of the heart – deed, speech,<br />
then thought. Our Father Abraham, who<br />
lived prior to the giving of the Torah,<br />
however, first recognized his Creator –<br />
thought; then he disseminated G-dliness –<br />
speech; and finally circumcision – removal<br />
of the orla -deed. (Hayom Yom Cheshvan 7)”<br />
It is important to recognize the reverse<br />
order of behavior dictated by Torah to that<br />
dictated by general human conditions. For a<br />
person to commit to certain actions or<br />
deeds he/she first attempts to understand the concept with<br />
proper analysis, synthesis and rational deductive<br />
thinking. Once the concept is comprehended, one attempts<br />
to have complete clarity and structure which is verified by<br />
being able to verbalize, or articulate and <strong>pub</strong>licly defend that<br />
position to others. Only then does one integrate that idea<br />
into his own behavior and practical action.<br />
This order of events is represented by Abraham who first<br />
researched and analyzed Monotheism from the age of 3 to 48<br />
when he intellectually concluded that G-d exists and is the<br />
Creator, Owner and Conductor of the Universe and all that<br />
exists within it. Then he began to promulgate and proclaim<br />
that belief and its obvious beneficial consequences. Then at<br />
the age of 99 did he implement those<br />
conclusions in the vital act of<br />
circumcision – first thought, then<br />
speech then action.<br />
After Revelation, when the Jewish People<br />
became G-d’s Nation and were given a<br />
G-dly, Holy, Torah way of life, the order<br />
of living pattern was dramatically<br />
altered. First we have action as an 8 day<br />
old child is circumcised. Then speech is<br />
integrated as the child is taught Torah<br />
terms and concepts as soon as he/she is<br />
able to speak and only then is he<br />
exposed to intellectually compelling<br />
thought and ideas; action, speech and<br />
then thought.<br />
Though it seems more logical to pursue<br />
the first method of behavioral<br />
modification and training, the Torah<br />
gives us a radically different approach<br />
which is very successful.<br />
The Mitzvos which G-d formulated for us to<br />
fulfill have special powers that transcend<br />
ordinary methods of inculcation. Mitzvos<br />
by their Divine nature and supra-rational<br />
energy have the capacity to infuse the<br />
performer of the Mitzvah with an intrinsic<br />
force that not only influences but actually<br />
molds one’s speech and thought. This is<br />
why it is important to do the Mitzvah even<br />
before we fully comprehend it and why the<br />
Children of Israel prefaced “Naaseh” – we<br />
will do - to “Nishmah” – we will<br />
understand.<br />
Abraham, our first Father, engineered our<br />
genetic physiology to be able to receive the<br />
enormous gift of Mitzvahs that allows us<br />
to infuse and imbue ourselves and our children with G-dly life<br />
and spirit even when our minds have not yet reached that<br />
level.<br />
When we do what is G-d’s will – we will eventually feel,<br />
understand and internalize it.<br />
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In honor of the 15th yahrtzeit of his father, Yisroel<br />
Yoseif ben Dovid HaCohen on the 14th of Cheshvan<br />
“Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to pray,<br />
those who provide lights for illumination, wine for kiddush and havdalah, food<br />
for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who occupy<br />
themselves faithfully with communal affairs— may the Holy One, blessed be<br />
He, give them their reward, remove them from all sickness, heal their entire<br />
body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their<br />
endeavors, together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.”<br />
- Shacharis for Shabbos.<br />
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Mr. Allen Berry / Mr. Mauricio Fux / Mr. David Pollack /<br />
Mr. Andrew Roth / Mr. David Portnoy /Mr. Henry Eichler<br />
Please note that the distribution of Aliyot according to our customs<br />
is in the order of certain Simchot, Yahrtzeits, Birthdays, Guests and<br />
general rotation. We encourage you to participate in the weekday<br />
Davening and Aliyot on Mondays and Thursdays.<br />
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During the taking out of the Torah for leining, please allow seat<br />
holders to return to their seats before occupying open seating.<br />
Designated seats are for the use of members who dedicated them.<br />
On Shabbos and Yom Tov, dedicated seats may be occupied by<br />
anyone after 10:30 a.m. in the men’s section and 11:00 a.m. in the<br />
women’s section.<br />
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar<br />
Rabbi Zalman Lipskar<br />
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Rabbi Mendy Levy<br />
Rabbi Shea Rubinstein<br />
Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
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Mrs. Janice Barney<br />
Mrs. Pnina Wuensch<br />
Ms. Lydia Hasson<br />
Mrs. Devorah Leah<br />
Andrusier<br />
Mr. Shlomie Katan<br />
Mrs. Renee Moore<br />
Chana or Shani<br />
Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
Mrs. Aurit Katan<br />
Mr. Lazer Milstein<br />
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Celebrating Shabbos With Our Youth<br />
Everything you need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience<br />
Shabbos Schedule<br />
No longer will your children get lost amongst the crowds in Shul on<br />
Shabbos morning. The Shul youth has worked together to organize a<br />
highly educational and fun program for children and teens of all<br />
ages. Each Shabbos morning program involves a mix of Tefilla<br />
(prayer), Parsha (weekly Torah study) and general "Jewishness",<br />
through games, songs, and stories. Taught by our very own Shul<br />
Bochurim and youth girls, each child will experience Shabbos in its<br />
full glory; leaving with a taste of holiness and fun memories that will<br />
keep them coming back from week to week. A Kiddush exclusively<br />
for the children culminates the exciting program.<br />
Shabbos<br />
10:45 - 11:45 a.m.<br />
Malkie’s Tot Shabbat (ages 0 - 4): Montessori Classroom 2<br />
(enter from the Women’s Sanctuary)<br />
Girls: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.<br />
Yakira Leah's Program for Girls: ages 5-7: Classroom 2<br />
Bashy’s Program for Girls: ages 8-10: Classroom 1<br />
Batsheva’s Program for Tween Girls: ages 11-13: Rabbi Lipskar’s Study<br />
Sarah Malka’s Program for Teen Girls: ages 14 and up: Teen Room<br />
(at the back of the women’s sanctuary)<br />
Boys: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.<br />
Eli’s Program: Boys ages 5-9: The New Montessori Classroom 3<br />
Yossi’s Program: Boys ages 10-13: Haime Library<br />
Menachem’s Program: Teen Boys 14-18: Montessori Classroom 1<br />
5:45 p.m.<br />
Father & Son (2nd floor) - Sponsorship available at $100<br />
6:45 p.m.<br />
Shalosh Seudos for all Boys & Girls (Youth Synagogue)<br />
For more information on any of our Youth Programming,<br />
please contact Devorah Leah Andrusier at 305 868-1411 ext 7328<br />
YOUTH COUNSELORS<br />
GIRLS:<br />
Bashy<br />
Batsheva<br />
Sarah Malka<br />
Yakira Leah<br />
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Eli<br />
Menachem<br />
Yossi<br />
Shalosh Seudos<br />
For Boys & Girls<br />
Every Shabbos evening at 6:45 pm<br />
In the Youth Synagogue (upstairs)<br />
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Prizes kindly sponsored by the Goldczer Family<br />
Father & Son<br />
Every Shabbos at 5:45 pm (2nd floor)<br />
Learning * Stories * Ice-Cream * Lucky Dips<br />
Sponsorship available at $100 - please contact Devorah Leah Andrusier<br />
at 305 868-1411 ext 7328<br />
or send an email to DLA@theshul.org<br />
Shabbos <strong>Lech</strong> <strong>Lech</strong>a<br />
Shabbos with the Teen Boys Minyan<br />
Ever wonder how you can teach your son to follow with a real<br />
Minyan, or even run his own? The Shul youth has created the scene.<br />
Every Shabbos morning, each teen has his own chance to play a<br />
vital role in his own Shul Minyan, lead by one of our very own<br />
Rabbis and Youth leaders. Every week all the boys have a chance to<br />
act as Chazzan, Gabbai or ‘Rabbi’. This hands-on approach gives<br />
each teen the opportunity to experience Shul and prayer to its<br />
fullest, by involving them in every aspect of the Davening.<br />
For Boys Only: ages 14-18<br />
Shabbos<br />
Child Enrichment Center Classroom # 2<br />
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.<br />
*Please note: The Teen Minyan is strictly for the Teens. We would<br />
appreciate it if adults would stay in the Main Sanctuary.<br />
For more information: Contact 305 868 1411 ext. 7345<br />
Torah Quiz<br />
Questions This Week:<br />
1. How long was Avraham imprisoned for <strong>pub</strong>licly opposing<br />
the worshipers of avodah zarah (idol worship) ? - (Seder<br />
Hadoros)<br />
2. How is it possible that triplets are born and yet their Bris<br />
Milah must occur on three different days? (Mishnah<br />
Shabbos)<br />
3. Why did Avraham not want to leave his hometown?<br />
(Bereishis Rabbah)<br />
Answers for Last Week:<br />
1. Hashem “sat shivah” (so to speak) for mankind before He<br />
destroyed the world. In addition, the Gadol Hador,<br />
Mesushelach, Noach’s righteous grandfather, passed away<br />
a week before the Mabul. Hashem hoped that that society<br />
would take his passing to heart and repent that week – but<br />
they didn’t. (Bereishis Rabbah 32:7)<br />
2. Noach got luminous gems from Gan Eden to light up the<br />
Ark. (Targum Yonasan 6:15)<br />
3. Noach saw one bird called “Orshina” (Phoenix) exhausted<br />
on a shelf. He asked it, “Don’t you need food, too?” It<br />
replied, “I saw that you were busy, so I didn’t want to<br />
bother you!” A grateful Noach blessed that creature that it<br />
would never die. (Sanhedrin 108b)<br />
New Rules for The Torah Quiz...<br />
One winner per question. Each child may only answer one question.<br />
Answers may be given from after Mincha on Friday afternoon until the<br />
printing of the next week’s bulletin. Tell your answer to Rabbi Mendy<br />
Levy or e-mail them before or after Shabbos to: mlevy@theshul.org. If<br />
you answer your questions correctly ten weeks in a row, you will qualify<br />
to win a MP3 music player!<br />
Prizes kindly sponsored by the Goldczer Family.<br />
Last Week’s Winners<br />
To be announced
Friday Night<br />
Yedid Nefesh pg. 151<br />
Vayedaber pgs. 99-101<br />
Ashrei pg. 101<br />
SHABBOS SCHEDULE<br />
Friday Evening<br />
Early Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbos 6:15 p.m.<br />
Candle lighting 6:35 p.m.<br />
Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbos 6:35 p.m.<br />
Shabbos Day<br />
Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m.<br />
Tanya / Hayom Yom 8:50 a.m.<br />
Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m.<br />
Children's Programs 10:00 a.m.<br />
- 12:00 p.m.<br />
Shabbos Women’s Tanya: Classroom #1 +/- 11:40 a.m.<br />
With Mrs. Vivian Perez After Davening<br />
Kiddush 12:00 p.m.<br />
Shabbos Women’s Class 5:45 p.m.<br />
Daf Yomi 5:45 p.m.<br />
Father & Son (2nd floor) 5:45 p.m.<br />
Ethics of the Fathers 5:45 p.m.<br />
Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudos 6:20 p.m.<br />
Shalosh Seudos for Boys & Girls 6:45 p.m.<br />
Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 7:26 p.m.<br />
Weekly Video of The Rebbe<br />
Sephardic Minyan<br />
Friday Evening<br />
Mincha<br />
Shabbat Day<br />
6:20 p.m.<br />
Shacharit 8:45 a.m.<br />
Mincha 6:20 p.m.<br />
Shabbat Ends / Arvit & Havdalah 7:26 p.m.<br />
Next Week: Vayeirah<br />
Candle lighting 6:29 p.m.<br />
Mincha 6:30 p.m.<br />
Celebrating Shabbos<br />
Everything you need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience<br />
The Friday Evening Service and Shabbos Torah Portion<br />
Eruv Information<br />
We would like to emphasize that every Erev Shabbos, individuals<br />
should call the Eruv Hotline to make sure that the Eruv is<br />
operational prior to carrying on Shabbos.<br />
The number is 305- 866-ERUV (3788).<br />
The Eruv message is recorded approximately two hours prior to<br />
Candle lighting. Please note that the Eruv in Bal Harbour and<br />
Surfside does not include the path along the beach. The backs of the<br />
buildings form the Eruv in that section. It is forbidden to push<br />
strollers or carry anything on this path or beach area on Shabbos.<br />
Shabbos Day<br />
(Stone Chumash)<br />
Torah Portions pgs. 54-76<br />
Haftorah pg. 1133<br />
Shabbos Day<br />
(Gutnick Chumash)<br />
Torah Portions pgs. 70-96<br />
Haftorah pg. 369<br />
Kiddush This Week<br />
Kindly sponsored by Mr. Sami Rohr, Mr. & Mrs. Moris & Lillian<br />
Tabacinic, Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel & Evelyn Katz and<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George & Pamela Rohr in honor of the yahrtzeit of<br />
Mrs. Charlotte Rohr, obm. May her neshama have an aliyah.<br />
Shalosh Seudos This Week<br />
Kindly sponsored by Ms. Shay Kardonski, Mr. & Mrs. Henry & Claudia<br />
Kardonski, Mr. & Mrs. Jaime & Raquel Gililnski and<br />
Mr. Mark Kardonski in honor of the yahrtzeit of their mother, Devorah<br />
bas Eliyahu, obm. May her neshama have an aliyah<br />
Welcome to President of the Orthodox Union,<br />
Stephen Savitsky, who will speak during Shalosh Seudos.<br />
“The Torah Secret Mitzvah to Living a Long and Meaningful Life”.<br />
SPONSOR A<br />
KIDDUSH!<br />
Shabbos <strong>Lech</strong> <strong>Lech</strong>a<br />
Kiddushim at The Shul<br />
Please help us continue to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush<br />
and Shalosh Seudos by offering to become a sponsor.<br />
Sponsorship by one or more individuals is encouraged.<br />
PARTNER<br />
$770<br />
The following dates are available for sponsorship:<br />
Kiddush: Shalosh Seudos:<br />
Oct. 30 Oct. 23, 30<br />
If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Pnina<br />
at 305 868-1411 x 7313 or email: pwuensch@theshul.org<br />
KIDDUSH<br />
5771<br />
PATRON<br />
$360<br />
The Shul has a “Kiddush Bank” to ensure that there are always<br />
adequate funds to cover the costs of our weekly,<br />
non-sponsored Shabbos Kiddushim and Shalosh Seudos.<br />
There are two levels of participation:<br />
Partner - annual contribution of $770<br />
Patron - annual contribution of $360<br />
Please help make our Kiddushim special.<br />
To participate in this mitzvah please call Pnina at (305) 868-1411 x 7313<br />
Or email pwuensch@theshul.org<br />
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The Investment with a Guaranteed Return<br />
KIDDUSH BANK 5771<br />
Our very special thanks to the following Partners & Patrons whose contributions will help us to cover some<br />
of the costs of the un-sponsored Kiddushim and Farbrengens in the coming year.<br />
Partners - annual contribution of $770:<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen and Bella Brenner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward and Pauline Kopelman<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Gene and Sandra Moteles<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Temuri and Maya Nanikashvili<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Schwalbe and Jody Soltanoff<br />
Mr. Abe Stein<br />
Patrons - annual contribution of $360:<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Leonardo and Joni Blachar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Martin and Susan Packer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph and Zohara Weiss<br />
Following is a list of some of the non-sponsored 5770 Kiddushim which our<br />
Kiddush Bank Investors helped provide to our community and visitors during the past year:<br />
Dates Un-Sponsored Events Paid by Kiddush Bank<br />
Dec. 25 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Jan. 2 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Feb. 6 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Feb. 13 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Feb. 20 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Feb. 27 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Apr. 10 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
May 15 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
May 22 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
May 29 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
July 3 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
July 17 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
July 24 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Aug. 7 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Aug. 14 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Aug. 28 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Sept. 11 Shabbos Shuvah Farbrengen $1,000<br />
Sept. 23 Sukkos 1st Day Kiddush $1,800<br />
Sept. 24 Sukkos 2nd Day Kiddush $1,800<br />
Sept. 25 Shabbos Chol HaMoed Sukkos Kiddush $900<br />
Sept. 30 Kiddush $1,800<br />
Sept. 30 Hakafos Kiddush $1,800<br />
Oct. 1 Hakafos Kiddush $500<br />
Oct. 2 Kiddush $1,800<br />
Oct. 2 Farbrengen $700<br />
The shortfall for 5770 was over $20,800!<br />
(Excluding the expenses for all the non-sponsored Shalosh Seudos meals provided by The Shul)<br />
Your contribution will allow The Shul to continue providing adequate<br />
Kiddushim to our large community and many visitors!<br />
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!<br />
Make a deposit in our Kiddush Bank<br />
IT’S A GREAT INVESTMENT!<br />
GUARANTEED RETURN: SMILING FACES ...EVEN WHEN KIDDUSH ISN’T SPONSORED!<br />
Call Pnina at 305 868 1411 ext. 7313 to share in this special mitzvah.
A Time to Pray<br />
Davening schedules and locations throughout the week<br />
MORNING SCHEDULE - Monday through Thursday<br />
6:15 - 6:45 am Sichos Kodesh Parshas Vayeirah R’ Zalman Lipskar<br />
7:00 - 7:25 am Halacha Kitzur Shulchan Aruch R’ Dov Schochet<br />
8:00 - 8:45 am Daf Yomi Avoda Zarah R’ Dov Schochet<br />
8:45 - 9:00 am RamBam 1 Chapter per day R’ Dov Schochet<br />
8:45 am (approx) Halacha Sephardic Custom Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
10:00 - 10:45 am Sichos Sicha of the Rebbe - Textual R’ Shea Rubinstein<br />
Halachic Times for the Week: Based on times for October 20, 2010<br />
Alot Hashachar / Dawn 6:14 am<br />
Earliest Talit & Tefillin<br />
Netz Hachamah / Sunrise<br />
(Earliest Amidah)<br />
6:36 am<br />
7:22 am<br />
Latest Shema 10:13 am<br />
Zman Tfillah 11:11 am<br />
Chatzot / Midday 1:05 pm<br />
Earliest Mincha 1:34 pm<br />
Plag HaMincha 5:37 pm<br />
Shekiah / Sunset 6:49pm<br />
(preferable latest time for Mincha)<br />
Tzeit Hakochavim/Nightfall 7:17 pm<br />
(earliest preferable Ma’ariv)<br />
(Times taken from www.chabad.org.<br />
Please note that during the week the times may vary by a minute or two.)<br />
Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul<br />
Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan<br />
EVENING KOLEL SCHEDULE - Monday through Thursday - 8:00-10:00 pm<br />
Mon. to Thurs. 8:00 – 9:00 pm Chavrusah ~ Subject of Choice 1st Session<br />
Mon. to Thurs. 9:00 - 10:00 pm Chavrusah ~ Subject of Choice 2nd Session<br />
Daily Minyanim at The Shul<br />
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Shabbos<br />
6:50 am No Minyan R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar<br />
7:30 am No Minyan R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Mendy Levy<br />
8:00 am R’ Dov Schochet No Minyan No Minyan No Minyan No Minyan No Minyan<br />
9:00 am R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet<br />
1:45 pm No Minyan R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy No Minyan<br />
6:35 pm R’ Sholom Lipskar R’ Mendy Levy R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Sholom Lipskar<br />
10:00 pm TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA No Minyan<br />
Sephardic Minyanim at The Shul<br />
The Shul of Downtown<br />
Shacharis Monday & Thursday only 8:00 am<br />
Mincha Monday through Thursday 2:00 pm<br />
Rabbi Chaim Lipskar<br />
48 East Flagler Street, #363 (3rd Floor), Miami<br />
305-373-8303 or 786-368-9040<br />
Email: RCL@ShulofDowntown.com www.shulofdowntown.com<br />
This is Hashem’s House!<br />
When in the Sanctuary ……...…shh!…...…...<br />
PLEASE, NO TALKING!!<br />
If you speak in Shul...then where do you Pray?<br />
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See Complete<br />
Shabbos<br />
Schedule<br />
on page 5<br />
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Shabbat<br />
8:00 am Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
9:00 am Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
6:35 pm Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
See Complete<br />
Shabbat Schedule<br />
on page 5
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Community Happenings<br />
Dates to Celebrate and Commemorate<br />
Birthdays<br />
Mar Cheshvan 8 Mr. Edward Ohayon<br />
Mar Cheshvan 8 Mrs. Zehava Sheftel<br />
Mar Cheshvan 9 Ms. Paige Sussman<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Ms. Adine Mitrani<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Mr. Benjamin Colonomos<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Ms. Jennifer Ann Lindenfeld<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Mr. Matthew Sussman<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Mr. Elias Sussman<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Mrs. Lauren Sragowicz<br />
Mar Cheshvan 11 Mr. Gustavo Klimberg<br />
Mar Cheshvan 11 Mr. Lee Weinberger<br />
Mar Cheshvan 11 Ms. Dora Fialkoff<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Ms. Jane Marcus<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Mr. Jonathan Izak<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Mr. Howard Behar<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Mrs. Elise Bonwitt<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Mrs. Janie. S Kupferman<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Mrs. Renee Felice Moore<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Ms. Shirley Abraham<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Mr. Jack Shohet<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Mr. James (J.J.) Katz<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Mr. Abraham Gilinski<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Mr. Lawrence E. Sheftel<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Mrs. Nava Izak<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Dr. Leonardo Blachar<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Mr. Abraham Gewirtz<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Mrs. Joni Blachar<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Mrs. Joy Ziefer<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Mrs. Miriam Weinschneider<br />
Our Kids’ Birthdays<br />
Mar Cheshvan 8 Eva Hannah Gelb<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Esther Leah Gassner<br />
Mar Cheshvan 11 Shay Gilinski<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Chana Simcha Portnoy<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Joshua Schmutter<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Simcha Yisroel Gassner<br />
Mazel Tov<br />
Mazel Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Shabtai Plutno on the engagement of<br />
their son, Akiva to Ms. Tova Adler of Toronto. May the marriage be<br />
in a good time.<br />
Have you celebrated a special occasion that warrants a Mazel<br />
Tov? PLEASE SHARE YOUR NACHAS WITH US!<br />
Please email all info to Lydia@theshul.org or call 305 868 1411<br />
Anniversaries<br />
16-Oct Mr. & Mrs. Dan and Judith Sragovicz<br />
16-Oct Dr. Enrico Knobloch & Mrs. Cota Cohen<br />
20-Oct Mr. & Mrs. Martin and Susan Packer<br />
Thanks to Our Volunteers<br />
The Shul thanks all our Volunteers for their invaluable help:<br />
Mrs. Ofelia Wiener for assisting the Hashkama Minyan<br />
Welcome<br />
The Shul welcomes the following new members<br />
to our community:<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Boruch & Rochel Waldman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Rabb<br />
Yahrtzeits<br />
Mar Cheshvan 8 Esther obm<br />
Mother of Mr. Gideon Azari<br />
Mar Cheshvan 8 David Isaacson obm<br />
Brother-in-law of Mrs. Lauren Sragowicz<br />
Mar Cheshvan 8 Yacov ben Abraham obm<br />
Father of Mr. Manuel Jaimovich<br />
Mar Cheshvan 9 Sonia bas Tzvi obm<br />
Mother of Barbara Eisenbaum & Gary Stein<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Shlomo ben Meir obm<br />
Father of Mr. Paul Hamburger<br />
Mar Cheshvan 10 Sara bas Yekutiel Yehuda obm<br />
Wife of Mr. Sami Rohr<br />
and Mother of Mr. George Rohr, Mrs. Evelyn<br />
Katz and Mrs. Lillian Tabacinic<br />
Mar Cheshvan 11 Tzila bas Moshe obm<br />
Mother of Mrs. Aviva Greenberg<br />
Mar Cheshvan 11 Moshe Michael ben Eliezer Pinchas obm<br />
Husband of Mrs. Hinda Leah Pantirer<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Mazaltov bas Zohara obm<br />
Mother of Mr. Isaie Bouhadana<br />
Mar Cheshvan 12 Moshe Chaim ben Yosef David haLevi obm<br />
Brother of Mrs. Anne Paul<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Rachel bas Benyamin obm<br />
Mother of Mrs. Nily Falic<br />
Mar Cheshvan 13 Moshe Yehuda obm<br />
Father of Mr. Lawrence Jaffe<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Chaim Sholom ben Dov Ber obm<br />
Brother of Mr. Leo Paul<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Yisroel Yosef ben Dovid Hacohen obm<br />
Father of Mr. Andrew Roth<br />
Mar Cheshvan 14 Shloyme ben Yitzchak obm<br />
Father of Mrs. Fana Holtz<br />
Condolences<br />
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Mr. Jeffrey Shapiro and his<br />
son Kevin on the passing of their dear wife and mother, Kim, on 5<br />
Cheshvan. May her dear soul be bound with the Eternal Bond of<br />
Life. May all their family be comforted among the mourners of<br />
Zion and Jerusalem.<br />
CELL PHONE ALERT<br />
All cell phones should be turned to vibrate<br />
when entering The Shul premises. It is disturbing to those<br />
praying and studying and a disrespect to Hashem.
Special Thank You<br />
We sincerely thank the following members & supporters of The<br />
Shul for donations received between 10/05/10 and 10/11/10.<br />
We apologize for any errors or omissions we may have made.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Raphael Ammar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Oded Ben-Arie<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Max Benoliel<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Berend<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Brener<br />
Mrs. Orit Cohen<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Vernon Dorfman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Garson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Goldfarb<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Mordechai Gottleib<br />
Mr. Irving Hoine<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Abel Holtz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Menahem Ivcher<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Kamhazi<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Kavana<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Nachman Lokshin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Moore<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Saul Retelny<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Roth<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer<br />
Mrs. Beverly Schottenstein<br />
Mrs. Mireille Shaio<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol<br />
Mr. Abe Stein<br />
Mrs. Beverly Stein<br />
Dr. Rita Steiner<br />
Mr. Eli Tourgeman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lee Weinberger<br />
Mr. Mark Weisleder<br />
Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh Wuensch<br />
Mrs. Sybil Weinstein<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Avrom Chaim<br />
Zelmanovitch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Ziefer<br />
Refuah Shleimah<br />
If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would<br />
like to keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered.<br />
MEN<br />
Chaim ben Golda (Joey Givner’s<br />
father)<br />
HaTinok ben Yehudis<br />
Noah ben Malka (#9)<br />
Shmuel Nachum ben Sara Raizel<br />
Mordechai ben Bracha (#48)<br />
Zachariah Kalman HaCohen ben<br />
Yael Margolit<br />
Chaim ben Nechama<br />
Mayer ben Jamie<br />
Eliyahu ben Batiya<br />
Joseph ben Alegria<br />
Moshe ben Henia<br />
Ariel Leib ben Nechama<br />
Baruch ben Tzipa Faiga<br />
Yitzchak Chaim ben Rivkah Yehudis<br />
Rachmiel ben Miriam<br />
Beryl ben Miriam<br />
Levi Yitzchok ben Tzirel<br />
Binyomin ben Chasha Riva<br />
Yaakov ben Esther Gittel (Mr. Jacob<br />
Farkas)<br />
Avraham Yosef ben Sofie<br />
Yishaia ben Celia<br />
Yitzchok ben Chana Rochel<br />
Avrum ben Moshe<br />
Moshe Yehuda ben Sheva Ruchel<br />
Yaakov ben Miriam<br />
Aron Wolf<br />
Baruch Chaim ben Tuve (# 5)<br />
Ariel ben Miriam<br />
Mordechai Gershon ben Malia<br />
Rochel<br />
Raphael Moshe ben Sara<br />
(Mr. Moshe Behar)<br />
WOMEN<br />
Zahava Nechama bas Chaya Rochel<br />
Sara bas Ida<br />
Miriam Gietel bas Hinda (Ilona<br />
Feldman)<br />
Dora bas Sinuru<br />
Fruma bas Chaya Sarah<br />
Pnina bat Hannah<br />
Miriam bas Rivka<br />
Rachel bas Yula<br />
Leah bas Shaindel<br />
Rivka bas Esther<br />
Itel Dina bas Shivra<br />
Shima bas Sarah<br />
Chaya Leah bas Yenta<br />
Rachel bas Bracha Sheindel<br />
Pessa Devorah bas Malka<br />
Sandal bas Leah (Sonia Kawa)<br />
Bracha bas Sarah<br />
Leah bas Feiga<br />
Esther bas Hilda<br />
Chaya bas Ginta<br />
Miriam Hagar bas Chayenah<br />
Michlah<br />
Chaya bas Rachel<br />
Freda bas Adelle<br />
Haddassah Rivka bas Sara<br />
Ilana Leah bas Shaindel Rochel<br />
Malka bas Shoshana<br />
Ruchama Alisa Sara Chana bas<br />
Esther Liba<br />
Rina Chaya Miriam bas Leah Bracha<br />
Plutno. Please read Tehillim<br />
especially #10, for her recovery.<br />
Community Happenings<br />
Dates to Celebrate and Commemorate<br />
Community Notice Board<br />
If you haven’t yet seen The Shul’s online community board –<br />
here’s the link: http://www.theshul.org/communityboards<br />
There’s a guest book, job/help wanted section, message board<br />
– all in all seven categories. The more you post the better a<br />
resource it becomes.<br />
Free Fertility Counseling:<br />
Puah Institute<br />
Experts in the World of Jewish Fertility: devoted to providing<br />
counseling, advocacy, halachic and medical expertise, halachic<br />
supervision, research and education worldwide.<br />
lewis@puah.org.il<br />
718.336.0603<br />
www.puahonline.org<br />
A Peek at the Past<br />
I remember when……………..<br />
By Fay Garber<br />
A<br />
regular attendant at our Minyanim related to me his<br />
memories of yesteryear and a cousin left behind in<br />
Mintz many years ago. His cousin used to push him<br />
in his “wegelah” (baby carriage) in those early days.<br />
Avraham and his family emigrated but he never lost contact<br />
with his cousin. He spoke to her telephonically. On one<br />
particular occasion time she mentioned to him that she had<br />
no family left in her town and was concerned that when her<br />
time came she would have no one to attend her passing on.<br />
This became a worry to Avraham and he did everything in<br />
his power to see that his cousin would be re-united with his<br />
family in Israel. This too came to pass and his cousin<br />
became neighbors with family.<br />
Now after a period of time the sad news came to Avraham<br />
that his cousin had passed on.<br />
He was sad about the news and he undertook to say<br />
Kaddish for his cousin who had taken care of him and had<br />
pushed him in his “wegelah”.<br />
This bond and sincerity is a typical reflection of what our<br />
Jewish Community is all about.<br />
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Editor’s note: If you would like to share a fond memory<br />
with an uplifting message, please write to The Shul by<br />
sending an email to lydia@theshul.org. It would be lovely<br />
to have more of our members share their stories and<br />
pictures of their early days in our community.<br />
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Inspiration, Insights & Ideas<br />
Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!<br />
The Three Journeys of Abraham<br />
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe<br />
Courtesy of MeaningfulLife.com<br />
A<br />
sizable portion of the book of Genesis is devoted to the life<br />
of Abraham, the first Jew. Most curiously, however, we first<br />
meet Abraham rather late in his celebrated life: the first<br />
event of Abraham's life described in detail by the Torah occurred<br />
when he was seventy-five years old!<br />
By that time, Abraham was able to look back upon a lifetime of<br />
fruitful--indeed unprecedented--achievement. As a young child, his<br />
inquisitive mind discerned a greater truth implicit in the workings<br />
of the universe, and he came to know the One G-d. A lone man<br />
pitted against the entire world, he battled the entrenched pagan<br />
perversity of his time, bringing many to a life of monotheistic<br />
belief and morality.<br />
But then came an event of such significance that it eclipses the<br />
first seven and a half decades of Abraham's life. An event that<br />
marked the forging of a new phenomenon--the Jew--and redefined<br />
the journey of life.<br />
The event was G-d's call to Abraham to "Go to you, from your land,<br />
from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land that<br />
I will show you." Now that you have realized the full capacity of<br />
your conscious powers, go on to you. I will show you a place that is<br />
the essence of your own self, a place that lies beyond the land,<br />
birthplace, and father's house that you know.<br />
Instinct, Environment and Reason<br />
The countless factors involved in making us what we are can be<br />
generalized under three categories: the natural, the impressed, and<br />
the acquired.<br />
We begin life already programmed with the drives and inclinations<br />
that form an inborn psyche and character. Then begins, from the<br />
moment of birth, the influence of our environment, as parents,<br />
teachers and peers impress their manners and attitudes upon our<br />
souls. Finally, a third and overriding influence comes with the<br />
attainment of intellectual maturity: man, alone among G-d's<br />
creatures, has been granted an objective intellect with which he<br />
can, to a great extent, control the stimuli to which he is exposed<br />
and the manner in which they shall affect him. With his mind, he is<br />
empowered to develop himself beyond--and even contrary to--his<br />
genetic and conditioned self.<br />
This is the deeper significance of the words "your land, your<br />
birthplace and your father's house" in G-d's call to Abraham. Eretz,<br />
the Hebrew word for land and earth, is etymologically related to the<br />
word ratzon--will and desire; so your land also translates as your<br />
natural desires. Your birthplace--moladtecha--is a reference to the<br />
influence of home and society. And beit avicha, your father's<br />
house, refers to man as a mature and rational being, forging his<br />
mind-set, character and behavior with the transcendent objectivity<br />
of the intellect. (In the terminology of Kabbalah and Chassidism,<br />
the intellect is referred to as the father within man, since it is the<br />
progenitor of, and authority over, his feelings and behavior<br />
patterns.)<br />
By conventional standards, this constitutes the ultimate in human<br />
achievement: the development of one's natural instincts, the<br />
assimilation of learned and observed truths, and the remaking of<br />
Parsha Messages<br />
self through the objective arbiter of mind. In truth, however, the<br />
intellect is still part and parcel of our humanity, remaining ever<br />
subject to the deficiencies and limitations of the human state;<br />
while it may surmount the confines of the inborn and the<br />
impressed, ultimately, the intellect is never truly free of the ego<br />
and its prejudices.<br />
But there is a higher self to man, a self free of all that defines and<br />
confines the human. This is the spark of G-dliness that is the core<br />
of his soul--the divine essence that G-d breathed into him, the<br />
image of G-d in which he was created. The eretz that G-d promised<br />
to show Abraham.<br />
[This explains the order in which the terms land, birthplace and<br />
father's house appear in the verse. When a person embarks on a<br />
journey, he first leaves his (father's) home, then departs his city<br />
(birthplace), and only then leaves the borders of his land; yet in our<br />
verse this order is reversed. According to the deeper meaning of<br />
these terms, however, the order is accurate: first a person departs<br />
from his base instincts via his education and environmental<br />
influences; these, in turn, are overruled by his faculty for objective<br />
reasoning; finally, he is called upon to transcend even his rational<br />
self in his journey to the divine essence of his soul.]<br />
In his journey of discovery, Abraham must obviously depart the<br />
land, birthplace and father's house of his native Mesopotamia; he<br />
must obviously reject the pagan culture of Ur Casdim and Charan.<br />
But this is not the departure of which we are speaking in the abovequoted<br />
verse. For Abraham received this call many years after he<br />
had renounced the pagan ways of his family and birthplace,<br />
recognized G-d, and had a profound impact on his society. Still he<br />
is told: Go! Depart from your nature, depart from your habits,<br />
depart from your rational self. After rejecting your negative,<br />
idolatrous origins, you must now also transcend your positive and<br />
gainful past. Reach beyond yourself, albeit a perfected self.<br />
Human perfection is simply not enough. For anything human--even<br />
the objective, transcendent intellect--is still part and parcel of the<br />
created reality, ever subject to and defined by it. Yet G-d invites us-<br />
-in His first command to the first Jew--to experience that which<br />
transcends all limit and definition: Himself.<br />
But first we must go to you. Go away from your finite self, to come<br />
to the you that only G-d can show you--the you that is one with<br />
Him.<br />
<br />
Halacha of the Week<br />
By Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
Laws of Circumcision<br />
In this week’s portion we learn of the first Mitzvah given to<br />
Abraham, the commandment to circumcise himself and his family.<br />
Despite the fact that Abraham adhered to all the Laws of the Torah<br />
without direct commandment from G-d, for this Mitzvah which<br />
would imbue the physical with holiness, he waited for a direct<br />
command from Hashem. The circumcision was to be the sign of<br />
the eternal covenant between the Jew and G-d. One marked in our<br />
flesh which can never be erased. The story is told of King David that<br />
while he was bathing and was despondent that he was “naked” of<br />
Mitzvot, when he saw his circumcision he was calmed. This
indicates that circumcision is a continuous Mitzvah which is<br />
fulfilled every moment of one’s life.<br />
There is a positive Mitzvah for a father to circumcise his son. This<br />
Mitzvah is more significant than other positive commandments as<br />
it is one of only two positive commandments which carry the<br />
punishment of Karet (excision) for their lack of fulfillment. If the<br />
father is unable or unwilling to perform the circumcision the local<br />
Rabbinical court must ensure that it takes place. If they don’t the<br />
child upon reaching adulthood must arrange it on his own.<br />
The circumcision is performed after sunrise on the eighth day from<br />
the birth e.g. if the child was born on Sunday, the Bris is on the<br />
following Sunday. It is proper to perform the Bris early in the day<br />
unless there will be a larger crowd if the Bris is pushed to later. If<br />
the child is born “Bein Hashemashos” (between sunset and three<br />
average stars being visible) there is Halachic doubt as to which day<br />
that is considered, if from sunset is already considered the next<br />
day or is it the previous day until three start come out. In a regular<br />
case we consider it to be the next day e.g. if the child was born<br />
Bein Hashemashos on Sunday he is considered born on Monday<br />
and the Bris is the following Monday. If a child is born Bein<br />
Hashemashos on Friday we cannot perform the Bris is performed<br />
on Sunday. (Because a Bris is only done on Shabbat if it is the<br />
Eighth day, as there is doubt if this child was born on Shabbat or<br />
Friday and Shabbat might be the ninth day, we must wait till<br />
Sunday.)<br />
If a child is ill the circumcision is delayed until the child is healthy<br />
again. There are certain times where we must wait one week from<br />
when the child gets better to perform the Bris.<br />
At the Bris two blessing are made, the first for the commandment<br />
of circumcision and the second to bring the child into the<br />
covenant of Abraham our father. At this point the community<br />
blesses the child “as he has entered into the covenant may he<br />
come to Torah, Chupah (marriage) and Ma’asim Tovim (good<br />
deeds). There is a third blessing which is then said after making a<br />
blessing over a cup of wine, which is a request that in the merit of<br />
the covenant may the child be saved from purgatory.<br />
If possible there should be a Minayn (10 men) at the Bris. There<br />
should be a chair which is explicitly designated as the chair of<br />
Elijah. It is a great Mitzvah to hold the child during the Bris, the<br />
custom is that every father honors separate people for each boy.<br />
After the Bris it is customary to make a meal which is considered a<br />
Seudat Mitzvah. As one who is invited to such an auspicious meal<br />
and chooses not to attend is “banned from heaven” the custom is<br />
not to invite to the meal following the Bris. There is also a custom<br />
to make a meal on the Friday night following the birth. There are<br />
many reasons given for this custom, amongst them are that<br />
people are coming to comfort the child about the Torah it forgot.<br />
Also, as a child can only have a Bris after living through one<br />
Shabbat, it is considered the first step of the Bris.<br />
The Bris represents our connection to Hashem which transcends<br />
logic. The 8 day old infant enters a covenant of which he has no<br />
understanding. We proclaim that whether we understand or not,<br />
whether it’s easy or difficult, the primary factor is the will of<br />
Hashem. This fundamental principle is signed into our flesh from<br />
infancy and we can only pray that we allow this ideal and intrinsic<br />
commitment to guide us through our entire lives.<br />
<br />
Inspiration, Insights & Ideas<br />
Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!<br />
Parsha Messages<br />
Garments<br />
By Rabbi Simon Jacobson ~ www.meaningfullife.com<br />
Based on a letter by the Rebbe dated Kislev 2, 5707 (November 25, 1946)<br />
“<br />
The righteous emulate their Creator,” say our sages. If you want<br />
to know how to behave in a given situation, see what G-d does.<br />
On the whole, G-d chooses to run His world in accordance with<br />
a series of unchanging (and thus predictable) behavior patterns—<br />
what we call “the laws of nature.” It would be just as “easy” for Him<br />
to rain down manna from heaven as to cause grain to grow and<br />
flour and water to bake into bread; but with the exception of one<br />
forty-year period in our history, G-d has consistently chosen to<br />
nourish us via natural bread from the earth rather than miracle<br />
bread from the heavens.<br />
So we, too, manage our lives in accordance with the rules of nature.<br />
While we believe with complete faith that G-d is the sole provider of<br />
life and sustenance, we labor to construct the natural vehicles<br />
through which His providence may flow. We know that to be<br />
nourished by a piece of bread supposedly produced by human hands<br />
is no less a “miracle” than to be nourished by “bread” falling from<br />
the heavens; nevertheless, we do not sit around waiting for manna<br />
to rain down upon us, but devote hours, energy and talent—<br />
resources that could have been devoted to “holier,” more spiritual<br />
pursuits—to plowing, sowing, milling, kneading and baking, or to<br />
earning the money to pay others to produce our bread.<br />
In the 12th chapter of Genesis, we find our model for this approach<br />
to life in the behavior of the first Jew, Abraham. G-d had<br />
commanded Abraham to take up residence in the Holy Land; but<br />
when shortly thereafter a famine swept through the land, Abraham<br />
journeyed to Egypt, where there was bread to be had. Approaching<br />
Egypt, a land notorious for its depravity, Abraham realizes that he is<br />
in mortal danger on account of the beauty of his wife, Sarah, and he<br />
tells her to say that she is his sister, lest he be killed by an Egyptian<br />
coveting her beauty.<br />
The famine in the Holy Land and Abraham’s travails in Egypt are<br />
counted among the “Ten Tests” which established the depth and<br />
invincibility of his faith in G-d. At first glance, however, it would<br />
seem that Abraham “failed” these tests: he did not stay in the Holy<br />
Land, trusting that G-d would provide for him even under conditions<br />
of famine; he did not assume that if G-d desired that he live, no lustmaddened<br />
Egyptian could take his life.<br />
In truth, however, a disavowal of the natural tools of life does not<br />
imply a greater faith in G-d. Indeed, to do so is to go against the<br />
divine desire that we live within the natural world as G-d’s “partners<br />
in creation.” The true test of faith lies in how a person regards his<br />
natural activities. Does he consider them the source of his<br />
achievements? Or does he recognize that they are merely<br />
“garments” within which G-d enclothes and disguises His essentially<br />
supra-natural sustenance of our lives?<br />
Abraham’s faith did not prevent him from going to Egypt when the<br />
natural sources of nourishment ceased to function in the Holy Land,<br />
or from resorting to connivance and deceit to ensure his safety<br />
when his life was threatened. Indeed, the fact that he could take<br />
these actions and experience their apparent success in bringing him<br />
material gain and, at the same time, relate to G-d as the sole source<br />
of his safety and enrichment, was the ultimate proof of his faith in<br />
G-d.<br />
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Joseph<br />
But G-d, on occasion, does perform “miracles”—events in which the<br />
cloak of consistency and predictability is swept away and His<br />
involvement in our lives stands denuded from the garments of<br />
nature. In this, too, we are enjoined to emulate our Creator: there are<br />
occasions in our lives that call for a “miraculous” response, for a<br />
mode of behavior that utterly disregards the dictates of nature and<br />
convention.<br />
These, however, are the exception rather than the rule, to be<br />
employed under exceptional circumstances in our lives, or by<br />
exceptional individuals whose entire lives emulate the miraculous<br />
dimension of G-d’s relationship with our reality.<br />
Such an individual was Abraham’s great-grandson, Joseph. When<br />
Joseph was incarcerated in an Egyptian prison and did a good turn<br />
for a fellow prisoner, the chief butler of Pharaoh, he availed himself<br />
of the opportunity to request of him:<br />
In three days’ time, Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to<br />
your station.... But remember me when your situation is improved.<br />
Pray, do me a kindness and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and<br />
have me taken out from this house.<br />
Joseph, however, is criticized for his behavior; indeed, he is punished<br />
for placing his trust in man rather than relying solely on G-d. “The<br />
chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him,” and he was<br />
left to languish for two more years in Pharaoh’s dungeon.<br />
What for Abraham was desirable behavior and a demonstration of his<br />
faith in G-d, was a breach of faith for Joseph. For Joseph belonged to<br />
that select group of righteous individuals whose mission in life is to<br />
emulate their Creator in the miraculous, rather than the natural,<br />
plane of His relationship with His creation.<br />
The Many and the Few<br />
These two approaches to life were personified by two great Talmudic<br />
sages— Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. In the words of<br />
the Talmud:<br />
It is written: “And you shall gather your grain.” What does this come<br />
to teach us? But since it says, “This book of Torah shall not cease<br />
from your mouth [and you shall study it day and night],” I would<br />
have thought that one must take these words literally; comes the<br />
verse to teach us, “you shall gather your grain”—conduct yourself<br />
also in the ways of the world. These are the words of Rabbi Ishmael.<br />
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said: If a person plows in the plowing<br />
season, sows in the sowing season, reaps in the reaping season,<br />
threshes in the threshing season, and winnows when there is wind,<br />
what shall become of the Torah? But when Israel does the will of the<br />
Almighty, their work is done by others, as it is written, “And<br />
strangers will stand and graze your sheep...”<br />
The Talmud concludes: “Many did like Rabbi Ishmael, and succeeded;<br />
like Rabbi Shimon, and did not succeed.”<br />
In every generation, a few elect “Josephs” rise to a state of utter<br />
aloofness from the ways and cares of the material world,<br />
exemplifying the truth that, in essence, there is literally “none else<br />
besides Him.” But for the vast majority of us, the path through life is<br />
the path blazed by Abraham: a path in which G-d clothes His<br />
involvement in our lives in the garments of nature and we employ<br />
the resources and norms of our physical existence as the implements<br />
of our relationship with Him.<br />
<br />
All of Us Are Miners<br />
A Chassidic Parable and the Rescue at Copiapó<br />
By Shais Taub<br />
Making It Out Alive<br />
"O Lord, You have brought my soul from the grave; You<br />
have revived me from my descent into the pit."<br />
T<br />
oday the entire world is talking about a miracle of survival. The<br />
rescue at the Copiapó mine gives us pause to reflect on the<br />
remarkable capacity of the human being to live through<br />
conditions that resemble death itself. While the actual rescue brings<br />
the story to its climax, what is much more amazing is what<br />
happened for the sixty-nine days beforehand – that the miners were<br />
able to stay alive long enough to be rescued at all.<br />
A Lesson in Survival<br />
The Baal Shem Tov taught that from everything that one sees or<br />
hears, one should try to learn a lesson. Thankfully the miners are all<br />
safe, and the harrowing episode is ending in joy and elation. But<br />
what can we take away from our knowledge of this story?<br />
For one thing, this amazing story causes us to consider the question:<br />
What are the most basic needs for human survival? What does a<br />
human being need to live?<br />
The rescue operation didn't just work to provide the miners with<br />
their physical needs such as food, water and air. Experts were<br />
brought in from all over the world to help promote the miners'<br />
mental and emotional health as well. NASA specialists who<br />
monitored the crisis commented that perhaps the most decisive<br />
factor in the miners' survival was that a clear leader stepped forward<br />
early on to organize the men.<br />
Luis Urzua, 54, the shift chief on duty when the mine collapsed,<br />
made the tough decision to ration food – a spoonful of tuna for each<br />
man every forty-eight hours – for the first seventeen days until<br />
contact was made with rescue crew above ground. In the days that<br />
followed, Urzua continued to lead his men, and, under his<br />
organization, various roles emerged. One miner became the group's<br />
spokesman, another saw to their health, and still another was<br />
designated to provide comic relief.<br />
When we consider our most basic needs, most of us probably think<br />
only of bodily necessities like air, water and food. Perhaps this is<br />
because we, who merely ponder this question theoretically, tend to<br />
overlook the obvious. When we look at the men who actually<br />
emerged from nothing less than a sixty-nine day burial within the<br />
bowels of the earth, we see that there may be a need even more<br />
crucial to survival than all others. The need for a leader.<br />
Working in the Mine<br />
On a few occasions, the Rebbe related a Chasidic parable of his<br />
father-in-law's that likens us Jews to a crew of miners. Our souls<br />
descend from on High to do a job down below, the Rebbe explained.<br />
Like work in a mine, our duties are strenuous and the conditions are<br />
dangerous. As we navigate the twists and turns of this life looking<br />
for its treasures, one thing is crucial to our safety and survival. We<br />
must have a leader, and we must follow his direction.<br />
So, in light of this parable, and in light of recent events, let's ask the<br />
age-old question. What is the secret of Jewish survival? Is it anything<br />
like the survival of the thirty-three miners? Could it be that we have<br />
survived innumerable challenges to our existence because, even<br />
when our collective mission has lead us into the deepest and darkest
places in the realm of human experience, there has always been a<br />
leader down there with us?<br />
The Limits of a Leader<br />
The Rebbe explained that there is another aspect to the parable of<br />
the miners. Although the miners' welfare depends on submitting<br />
themselves to the care and direction of their foreman, there is one<br />
thing that he cannot do for them. Each miner has to have access to<br />
the lifeline that connects the mine to the world above.<br />
In spiritual terms, a Jewish leader can set an agenda for how we as<br />
Jews ought to live. But the leader can't live for us. Each of us needs to<br />
have our own lifeline to the One Above in the form of a vital and<br />
conscious connection with G-d.<br />
To Live or Enliven?<br />
There is a verse in the Book of Habakkuk that reads, "The righteous<br />
one will live by his faith." Because Scripture is written without<br />
vowels, a single word may take on various meanings. In this case, by<br />
changing the vocalization of the verb, this same verse may be read,<br />
"The righteous one will enliven with his faith."<br />
Is the tzaddik defined as one who lives his own life by faith, or as one<br />
who enlivens others with faith?<br />
When the Chabad school of Chasidism first emerged in the late<br />
1700s, one of the key points by which Chabad differed from the other<br />
branches of the fledging Chasidic movement had to do with which<br />
reading of this verse described the role of a Chasidic rebbe.<br />
The Alter Rebbe, founder of the Chabad method of "intellectual<br />
Chasidism," insisted that although a rebbe could teach his disciples<br />
how to relate to G-d, he could not "give them life" – that is – have a<br />
relationship with G-d on their behalf. Each and every soul that<br />
descends to toil down here on earth must have its own connection<br />
to the Source. In practical terms this means that each of us must<br />
have a personal appreciation for G-d that comes as a result of our<br />
own study and meditation.<br />
Whether we speak of our bodily needs or our spiritual needs, we<br />
cannot rely on someone else to give us life – not even on the very<br />
person who is keeping us alive. Maybe that's why being a Jew<br />
requires such a unique blend of deference and independence. Maybe<br />
that's also why the best metaphor to describe the secret of our<br />
miraculous survival is the image of miners, who, no matter how deep<br />
they must go, always remain connected to their source up above.<br />
<br />
Actor Tony Curtis Remembered By<br />
Chabad www.lubavitch.com<br />
F or<br />
the last few years of his life, actor Tony Curtis enjoyed a<br />
close relationship with Rabbi Mendy Harlig at Chabad Green<br />
Valley, in Henderson, NV, where he lived. The famous film star<br />
passed away on September 29 at the age of 85.<br />
Rabbi Mendy first met Mr. Curtis after receiving a call from his<br />
daughter Allegra Curtis. She felt that it would be good for her father<br />
to have some spirituality in his life. Both New York Jews, the actor<br />
and the rabbi quickly developed a great rapport.<br />
“Tony shared a lot about his childhood with me,” Rabbi Mendy<br />
recalled. “He told me much about growing up in poverty, the many<br />
challenges that he faced, and how he set out to overcome them.”<br />
Mr. Curtis also shared his paintings with Rabbi Mendy and gave him<br />
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an autographed copy of his book, American Prince, with his own<br />
drawing of a mezuzah alongside the inscription.<br />
Rabbi Mendy’s five children sometimes accompanied him on his<br />
visits. “Tony always welcomed my children. They made him laugh<br />
and he made them laugh,” said the rabbi.<br />
“My 10 year old<br />
daughter, Chana Sara,<br />
had school assignment<br />
to write a report about a<br />
famous Jewish<br />
personality. She chose<br />
to write about Tony<br />
Curtis and later showed<br />
him her work. He was<br />
Tony Curtis wrapping Tefillin with Rabbi Mendy Harlig<br />
very touched.”<br />
Over the years Rabbi Mendy visited Mr. Curtis at his home many<br />
times, delivering honey cake for Rosh Hashana, shaloch manos on<br />
Purim, and Passover matzah, and other times just to chat.<br />
“Tony (whose Hebrew name was Boruch Hershel ben Emmanuel)<br />
was a very proud Jew,” said Rabbi Mendy. “Whenever I asked him to<br />
participate in a mitzvah he was always eager to do so. I hung a<br />
mezuzah at his home, we put on tefillin and I once took a picture of<br />
him wearing a white yarmulke. When he saw it he asked me to take<br />
a different picture saying, 'People might think I’m the Pope'!”<br />
Two years ago, Chabad of Green Valley honored Mr. Curtis with the<br />
lighting of the menorah at its <strong>pub</strong>lic Chanukah ceremony at the<br />
Green Valley Ranch Hotel. Five hundred people turned out for the<br />
event, delighted at the opportunity to get up close and personal<br />
with the beloved star, happy to express his Jewish pride at the<br />
event. Although it was difficult for him to get around, when the<br />
time came to get up on the stage and light menorah, he refused<br />
any help that was offered to him.<br />
On October 4, 2010 Rabbi Mendy attended Tony’s funeral. “We will<br />
sorely miss him. He was a proud Jew, a wonderful person and a<br />
great friend.”<br />
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Injured Israeli Soldier Reunited With His<br />
Savior in New York City<br />
By Joshua Runyan<br />
A n<br />
American tour of wounded Israeli soldiers led to an<br />
unexpected reunion of comrades-in-arms last weekend when<br />
the delegation made their first stop at a New York City Chabad<br />
House for Friday night dinner.<br />
A dozen wounded Israeli soldiers spent last weekend at Chabad-<br />
Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, kicking off a tour<br />
of American institutions. While there, former special-forces soldier<br />
Roi Agustus ran into Elad Portal, a member of his unit three years ago<br />
who rescued him from a firefight in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.<br />
According to Brocha Chana Metzger, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch<br />
of Midtown Manhattan, the soldiers came for a Friday night dinner<br />
held in their honor. Among those in the audience was Elad Portal and<br />
his two brothers, who had discovered Metzger and her husband,<br />
fellow co-director Rabbi Joshua Metzger, while celebrating<br />
the holiday of Sukkot in the couple’s sukkah in Bryant Park.<br />
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Portal and Agustus had<br />
been soldiers in the elite<br />
special-forces Duvdevan<br />
unit when they were in<br />
pursuit of terrorist Luis<br />
Saadi in the Arab village of<br />
Tulkarm. Saadi opened<br />
fire, hitting Agustus in the<br />
shoulder. In the midst of<br />
the ensuing firefight that<br />
claimed Saadi’s life, Portal<br />
rescued his friend from the battle.<br />
“As a result of his injuries, Roi’s tour of<br />
duty came to an end,” said Brocha<br />
Chana Metzger. “He would require long<br />
years of therapy to help him recover<br />
from the trauma, and would not see his<br />
savior, Elad, until their unexpected<br />
reunion this past Shabbat, three years<br />
later, and across the ocean.”<br />
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campus life<br />
College Students Wouldn’t Think of<br />
Missing New York Weekend<br />
By Jessica Naiman, Chabad.edu<br />
Jewish college students around the world are gearing up for the<br />
annual Chabad on Campus International Shabbaton, set to take<br />
place Oct. 22-24 in New York.<br />
Dubbed the “Jewish Mega Event of the Year,” the autumn<br />
Shabbaton, a project of the Chabad on Campus International<br />
Foundation, brings nearly 1,000 students from 100 schools in North<br />
America and Europe to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for an<br />
immersive weekend focusing on cultural explorations and<br />
leadership growth.<br />
“This will be my third New York trip, and I just love it,” says Matt<br />
Rissien, a 24-year-old from the University of Kansas who’s heading<br />
his campus’ trip this year under the guidance of Chabad-Lubavitch<br />
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, director of the local Chabad House.<br />
“Every time I go, it’s so much fun, and the experience in Crown<br />
Heights is just unique,” adds Rissien. “The atmosphere is unlike<br />
anything I’ve ever experienced.”<br />
Rich in cultural significance, the weekend includes tours of Jewish<br />
sites and the opportunity to meet Jewish leaders and entertainers,<br />
and allows participants to network with hundreds of their peers.<br />
“The part that I really loved was meeting all those new people that<br />
are there for the same reason, to learn more and share ideas and<br />
talk about their Chabad House on campus,” says Matt’s younger<br />
sister, 19-year-old Emily Rissien, also from the University of Kansas.<br />
The sister, who is returning for her second year, was one of two<br />
students from her campus selected to participate in the<br />
Shabbaton’s adjoining Leadership Conference. She’ll be joining<br />
Brittany Choikhit, student president of the local Chabad House, on<br />
the program, which will bring students together with business and<br />
communal leaders.<br />
“I’m really looking forward to the leadership program,” says<br />
Choikhit, a junior majoring in design with a minor in Judaic studies<br />
and psychology. “We’ll be able to talk to each other and feed off<br />
each other for ideas and events on campus. I think we can also help<br />
people out a lot, too, as most of our events here on campus have<br />
been really successful and fun.”<br />
In addition to the leadership component, this year’s Shabbaton will<br />
also feature a scholarly track for students with more advanced<br />
Jewish knowledge, and an expanded women’s program, says<br />
Tiechtel, who is chairing this year’s event.<br />
“Our goal is to cater to every student, which is why we have a very<br />
big smorgasbord of options,” he says. “People come back because<br />
they love it so much. There are no words for the atmosphere. On the<br />
one hand, everyone becomes a family, and there’s a tremendous<br />
sense of Jewish unity. On the other hand, there’s a very unique<br />
blend of people from different cultures.”<br />
Each year, the Shabbaton brings nearly 1,000 college students to the<br />
Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y.<br />
Everyone Knows the Words<br />
The weekend experience revolves around a memorable Shabbat<br />
experience in which students are placed at homes of local Crown<br />
Heights families. After the Friday night meal, students will reunite<br />
for inspirational Chasidic gatherings and a visit to Lubavitch World<br />
Headquarters. The agenda on Saturday includes a communal lunch<br />
followed by workshops, lectures, networking and a musical<br />
ceremony marking the conclusion of the holy day.<br />
A Saturday night carnival will offer live musical entertainment and a<br />
combination of games and other activities.<br />
Boris Lipovetsky, 21, a senior at Babson College in Massachusetts<br />
who describes the Shabbaton two years ago as a life-changing<br />
experience, says the entire weekend exudes a special kind of energy.<br />
“When one person starts singing a song, everyone knows the words.<br />
Someone starts dancing, and everyone knows how to do the dance,”<br />
he explains. “It was really the first time in a very long time where I<br />
was in an environment with so many students I could connect to,<br />
not only on a spiritual level but on a cultural level.”<br />
The business management major missed last year’s Shabbaton<br />
while on a semester abroad in Australia, but harbored no thoughts<br />
of missing this year’s bash.<br />
“When [Boris] came back, that was one of the first things he said to<br />
me: ‘That Shabbaton was amazing. I want to be a part of it,’ ” recalls<br />
Rabbi Moshe Bleich, director of the Wellesley Weston Chabad<br />
serving Babson and Wellesley College.<br />
For Rabbi Yossy Gordon, executive vice president of the Chabad on<br />
Campus International Foundation, the goal is provide a positive<br />
growth experience for each and every student.<br />
“For some, it might mean an intense educational experience, for<br />
another it might mean being uplifted by a Chasidic melody, and for<br />
others it might mean learning something relatively basic,” says<br />
Gordon. “100 percent of students walk away with a growth<br />
experience.”
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Kids Corner / Teen Seen<br />
Educate, inspire and most of all have FUN!<br />
Mother & Daughter<br />
Wednesdays, October 27, November 10, 24<br />
from 6:00 - 7:00pm in Classroom # 1<br />
Mothers and daughters are invited to join and participate in this<br />
fun and educational program.<br />
The program starts with a study session for each mother and<br />
daughter as they explore their heritage and its place in the home.<br />
Following the study session the mothers and daughters<br />
participate in cooking, crafts and quality time.<br />
For Girls : 1st - 5th grade<br />
Fee: $12 (mother and daughter included)<br />
Art expression with Sarah Libke Caplin<br />
An innovative program using various art mediums to convey<br />
feelings about Torah and Mitzvah messages.<br />
Boys ages 6-10: Mondays from 5.00 - 6.00pm<br />
Girls ages 6-10: Tuesdays from 5.00 - 6.00pm<br />
In the Teen Girls Room (Back of Women’s Sanctuary)<br />
Fee:$15 (including snacks and materials)<br />
Also available upon request: individual classes, classes for<br />
younger girls & boys. For more information call Sarah Libke on<br />
786 389 6528 (space is limited)<br />
Imagine Tomorrow Computer Classes<br />
Tuesdays<br />
3:30 - 4:30pm and 5:00 - 6:00pm<br />
Custom Software, curriculum, and classes developmentally designed<br />
for young learners ages 4-7.<br />
For more info visit www.imaginetomorrow.com<br />
Cost: $20<br />
Classroom #2 - Enroll now as space is limited. For more<br />
information call Iesha 305-967-3604<br />
Bar Mitzvah Club<br />
Every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:00pm<br />
Call Yossi at 646-410-1779 for more information<br />
Dinner will be served<br />
Bat Mitzvah Club<br />
Every other Wednesday from 7:00 - 8:30pm<br />
Call Dobie at 305-984-8805 for more information<br />
Mishmar for Boys ages 5 - 9 & 10-12<br />
Wednesdays from 6:00 - 7:00pm<br />
Spanish Library & Classroom #1<br />
Call Eli at 305-742-3375 or Yossi 646-410-1779 for more details<br />
Exciting After School Programming!<br />
Weekly Tutoring Program<br />
Monday - Thursday from 4:45 - 5:45pm<br />
For boys & girls ages 6-13. Does your son or daughter need<br />
help with his Jewish Studies Homework? Bring your son or<br />
daughter to The Shul to learn with one of our youth leaders. To<br />
schedule a learning time, please call Devorah Leah Andrusier @<br />
917-686-5300.<br />
Aleph Wonder Girls Program<br />
Every Wednesday starting Oct. 13 from 6:00 - 7:00pm<br />
For girls ages 4-7. For more information, call Yakira Leah<br />
305-331-8161.<br />
Super Shul Sundays<br />
Every Sunday beginning October 17<br />
10:00 - 12:00 pm in the Social Hall<br />
Come enjoy a morning of learning, arts & crafts, music and<br />
prizes! Homemade pancakes served each week!<br />
Tween & Teen Girls Activities<br />
Pre-Tween Jewelry Course<br />
Oct. 26, Nov. 9, 23. Grades 4 & 5<br />
For more information call Bashy 786-389-7796.<br />
Pre-Tween Learning<br />
Oct. 19, Nov. 2, 16, 30. Grades 4 & 5<br />
For more information call Bashy 786-389-7796.<br />
Tween Baking Course<br />
Oct. 26, Nov. 9, 23. Grades 6 & 7<br />
For more information call Batsheva at 786-301-3510.<br />
Tween Learning<br />
Oct. 19, Nov. 2, 16, 30. Grades 6 & 7<br />
For more information call Batsheva at 786-301-3510<br />
Teen Photography Course<br />
Oct. 28, Nov. 11, 25.<br />
For more information call Sarah at 718-406-7185<br />
Teen Learning<br />
Oct. 21, Nov. 4, 18<br />
For more information call Sarah at 718-406-7185<br />
Teen Boys Activities<br />
Mishmar Night & Talmud for Teen Boys<br />
For details, call Menachem Light at 917-892-4716.<br />
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Does your son or<br />
daughter need help<br />
with his/her<br />
Jewish Studies<br />
Homework?<br />
Join Our Weekly Homework Help Program<br />
For Boys & Girls ages 6-13<br />
Every Monday - Thursday<br />
from 4:45 - 5:45 pm<br />
Bring your son/daughter to The Shul<br />
to learn with one of our student Rabbis/<br />
Girl’s Youth Counselors.<br />
To schedule a learning<br />
time, please call<br />
Devorah Leah at<br />
917-686-5300<br />
Kids Corner / Teen Seen<br />
Educate, inspire and most of all have FUN!<br />
The Shul is happy to announce the return of its popular program<br />
Art Expression with Sarah–Libke Caplin<br />
for boys and girls<br />
Boys: Mondays from 5:00 - 6:00 pm<br />
Girls: Tuesdays from 5:00 - 6:00 pm<br />
Although the official ages range from 6 to 10 years<br />
old , we have found that there is often a call for<br />
some younger members of families to join in,<br />
and on occasion, straight after the computer class<br />
or other after-school activities. This too can be<br />
arranged. Please encourage your children by<br />
using this innovative program with various art<br />
mediums to explore their feelings about life,<br />
Torah and mitzvah messages.<br />
In the Teen Room at the back of the<br />
Women’s Sanctuary<br />
For more information<br />
call Sarah Libke on<br />
786 389 6528<br />
fees: $15<br />
(adjusted for more than one sibling)<br />
includes snacks and materials<br />
Topics & Classes Will Include:<br />
• Code of Jewish Law:<br />
Fundamentals in Judaism<br />
• Talmud:<br />
Textual Based Learning & Stories<br />
• Jewish History:<br />
Lessons For Life<br />
• Chumash & Parsha Study:<br />
In-depth Learning & Discussion.<br />
*All With Practical<br />
Hands-On Approach!*<br />
Devorah Leah at 917-686-5300<br />
dla@theshul.org<br />
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Reflexión Semanal<br />
Resumen de la Parashá<br />
Génesis 12:1-17:27<br />
Di-s habla con Avram, diciéndole "Vete de tu tierra, de tu lugar de<br />
nacimiento y de la casa de tu padre, a la tierra que te mostraré". Allí, dice<br />
Di-s, hará de Avram una gran nación. Avram y su mujer Sarai,<br />
acompañados por su sobrino Lot, viajan a la Tierra de Cnaan, donde<br />
Avram construye un altar y continúa difundiendo el mensaje de Di-s.<br />
La hambruna causa que el primer judío viaje a Egipto, donde la hermosa<br />
Sarai es llevada al palacio del Faraón; Avram se escapa de la muerte<br />
porque se presentan como hermano y hermana. Una plaga evita que el<br />
rey egipcio toque a Sarai y ella lo convence de que debe devolverla a<br />
Avram y compensarlo con oro, plata y ganado.<br />
De vuelta en la Tierra de Cnaan, Lot se separa de Avram y se establece en<br />
la malvada ciudad de Sdom, donde es capturado cuando el ejército de<br />
Quedarlaomer y sus tres aliados conquistan las cinco ciudades del Valle<br />
de Sdom. Avram sale con una pequeña banda a rescatar a su sobrino,<br />
derrota a los cuatro reyes, y es bendecido por Malki-Tzedek el rey de<br />
Salem (Jerusalén).<br />
Di-s sella el Pacto Entre las Partes con Avram, donde el exilio y la<br />
persecución (Galut) del pueblo judío le son informados y la Tierra Santa<br />
es asignada a ellos como su herencia eterna.<br />
Aún sin hijos diez años luego de su arribo a la Tierra, Sarai le dice a Avram<br />
que se case con su sirvienta Hagar. Hagar concibe, se vuelve insolente<br />
hacia su señora, y se escapa cuando Sarai la trata duro; un ángel la<br />
convence de retornar y le dice que su hijo será el padre de una nación<br />
numerosa. Ishmael nace en el año 86 de la vida de Avram.<br />
Trece años después, Di-s cambia el nombre de Avram por Avraham<br />
("padre de multitudes") y el de Sarai por Sara ("princesa"), y promete que<br />
tendrán un hijo; de este hijo, a quien deben llamar Itzjak ("se reirá"),<br />
surgirá la gran nación con la cual Di-s establecerá Su pacto especial.<br />
Avraham es mandado a circuncidarse a si mismo y a sus descendientes<br />
como "una señal del pacto entre tu y Yo".<br />
Dejando el Hogar<br />
Por Yossy Goldman<br />
S e<br />
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cuenta una anécdota ocurrida durante el encuentro entre dos<br />
famosos rabinos de antaño —el Rabino Eliahu, el "Gaon" (erudito) de<br />
Vilna, y el Rabino Iaakov Krantz, conocido como el<br />
"Maguid" (predicador) de Dubno. El Maguid de Dubno visitó Vilna y fue al<br />
gran Gaon. El Gaon le pidió al Maguid que predicara para él, como era su<br />
especialidad. "Déme musar (palabras de reprimenda). Regáñeme" dijo el<br />
Gaon. "Di-s no permita, que tenga la jutzpah (insolencia) de regañar al<br />
gran Gaon de Vilna", contestó el Maguid, absolutamente horrorizado por<br />
la sugerencia. "No me importa, este es su fuerte y deseo oír musar de<br />
usted", insistió el Gaon.<br />
El Dubner Maguid pensó un rato y después accedió renuentemente a los<br />
deseos de su ilustre anfitrión. Dijo el Maguid, "¿Que gran logro es ser un<br />
Gaon, estando sentado en Vilna en su aislado kloiz (pequeño salón de<br />
estudio)? Salga al mundo, mézclese con la gente, y entonces veamos qué<br />
clase de Gaon es".<br />
De hecho, es mucho más fácil ser estudioso y piadoso en un ghetto que<br />
está fuera de este mundo, el cual a menudo es indiferente e incluso<br />
hostil, a la Torá y a sus valores.<br />
Ésta, de hecho, fue más o menos la prueba de Abraham en la Perashá de<br />
esta semana. "Vete de tu tierra, de tu lugar de nacimiento, de la casa de<br />
tu padre, a la tierra que te mostraré" Y allí —lejos de su entorno natural y<br />
comodidad —Abraham llevó a cabo su misión Divina. Él difundió la<br />
Parashá de la Semana<br />
existencia de un Di-s único en un mundo totalmente pagano y, en el<br />
proceso, su propio nombre y reputación quedaron marcados<br />
eternamente. Fue solamente después de salir de su hogar, que Abraham<br />
se convirtió en el padre fundador del pueblo judío.<br />
Cien años atrás, una generación entera de judíos observantes de la Torá<br />
emigró de Europa. Vinieron a América, la tierra de las oportunidades de<br />
oro, para escapar pogromos y persecuciones. Con sangre, sudor y<br />
lágrimas se levantaron de las cenizas a las riquezas y personificaron el<br />
sueño americano —una historia de éxito que sorprende e inspira. Pero el<br />
hecho es que en su mayor parte, a medida que sus negocios prosperaban,<br />
sus vidas religiosas decaían. Indiscutiblemente, el judaísmo recibió un<br />
golpe descomunal. La mayoría no podía sostener sus valores del viejo<br />
mundo en el nuevo mundo de América. La transición del shtetl (aldea<br />
judía europea) a los rascacielos resulto demasiado contrastante, y los<br />
hijos y nietos de estos inmigrantes crecieron ignorantes de sus propias<br />
tradiciones sagradas.<br />
En una escala menor, vemos este fenómeno hoy en día, cuando las<br />
familias emigran o se mudan de una ciudad a otra. Al alejarse de sus<br />
apoyos espirituales a los cuales estaban acostumbrados, forcejean y<br />
batallan con su espiritualidad. La mayor parte de sus esfuerzos está<br />
dirigida al restablecimiento y reorganización de sus vidas. Reordenar las<br />
infraestructuras religiosas, a menudo, llega último.<br />
Y en un nivel más sutil, una prueba similar se nos presenta cuando<br />
tomamos nuestras vacaciones anuales. Lejos del hogar y de nuestras<br />
normas habituales de comportamiento, somos desafiados a mantener el<br />
código de la conducta al que estamos acostumbrados durante todo el<br />
año.<br />
Es como la historia del shadjan (casamentero) quién sugirió una jovencita<br />
a un muchacho y la alabo exageradamente. Después de su primera cita,<br />
el muchacho llamo ofuscado al shadjan para decirle lo que opinaba de el.<br />
"¡¿Cómo se atreve a presentarme tal muchacha?! ¿Usted no sabía que<br />
cojea?" Absolutamente impávido, el shadjan replico, "Pero, ¿cuál es el<br />
problema? Eso ocurre solamente cuando ella camina."<br />
Es cuando salimos de nuestros capullos espirituales, de nuestros<br />
cómodos hogares y comunidades, hacia la sociedad en general que<br />
podemos notar que cojeamos un poco, perdiendo nuestro equilibrio<br />
judío. Es entonces que nuestra fe, nuestros valores y creencias se ven<br />
realmente desafiadas.<br />
Que Di-s ayude a que los hijos de Abraham a que emulen a su<br />
antepasado, que dejó su tierra y caminó fuerte en su fe, creciendo hasta<br />
alcanzar gran éxito espiritual y material.<br />
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Rabbi Shea Rubinstein<br />
Lunes 8:45 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.<br />
Sinagoga Principal<br />
Lecciones practicas para<br />
nuestra vida cotidiana<br />
(Para Mujeres)<br />
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Kolel Español<br />
Moshe S. Lerman<br />
Miercoles 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.<br />
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Tanya<br />
Moshe S. Lerman<br />
Miercoles 7:15 PM - 8:05 p.m.<br />
Haime Library - 2do piso en Shul<br />
Sra. Vivian Perez<br />
Jueves 2:00pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Chabad of Aventura,<br />
21001 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura
Du moi au moi<br />
Partir de soi pour arriver à soi<br />
Adapté des enseignements du Rabbi de<br />
Loubavitch par Yanki Tauber<br />
D.ieu dit à Abraham : « Pars pour toi,<br />
de ton pays natal, de ton lieu de<br />
naissance et de la maison de ton père,<br />
vers la terre que Je te montrerai »<br />
(Genèse 12, 1)<br />
Il y a trente siècles, vivait un homme qui, à<br />
l’âge de soixante-quinze ans, pouvait<br />
regarder en arrière sur une vie<br />
d’accomplissement réellement sans<br />
précédent. Jeune enfant, son esprit<br />
inquisiteur avait discerné une vérité<br />
grandiose dans les mécanismes de l’univers,<br />
et il vint à connaître le D.ieu Unique. Homme<br />
seul dressé contre le monde entier, il se battit<br />
contre le paganisme enraciné de son temps,<br />
conduisant de nombreux hommes à une vie<br />
de croyance monothéiste et de moralité.1 Et puis vint l’appel divin :<br />
« Pars ! Pars de ton pays, de ton lieu de naissance et de la maison de<br />
ton père, vers la terre que Je te montrerai ». Maintenant que tu as<br />
pris conscience de l’entière capacité de tes forces conscientes, dit<br />
D.ieu à Abraham, « pars pour toi » pour ton véritable moi. Je te<br />
montrerai une terre qui est l’essence même de ta personne, une<br />
terre qui s’étend au-delà de la « terre », du « lieu de naissance » et de<br />
« la maison paternelle » que tu connais.<br />
L’instinct, l’environnement et la raison<br />
Les facteurs innombrables intervenant pour faire de nous ce que<br />
nous sommes peuvent être regroupés en trois catégories : ce qui est<br />
inné, ce qui est le produit de la formation initiale et ce qui est<br />
acquis plus tard.<br />
Nous commençons une vie déjà programmée avec des penchants et<br />
des inclinations qui forment le psychisme inné et le caractère. Et<br />
puis commence, depuis le moment de la naissance, l’influence de<br />
notre environnement, quand les parents, les maîtres et les amis<br />
impriment leurs manières et leurs attitudes sur nos âmes. Enfin,<br />
une troisième et dominante influence s’exerce lorsque l’on atteint<br />
la maturité intellectuelle : seul l’homme, dans la création de D.ieu, a<br />
été nanti d’un intellect objectif avec lequel il peut, dans une grande<br />
mesure, choisir les stimuli auxquels il sera exposé et la manière<br />
dont il en sera affecté. Avec son esprit, il a la force de se développer<br />
au-delà et même à l’inverse de son moi génétique et conditionné.<br />
C’est là le sens plus profond des mots « ta terre », « ton lieu de<br />
naissance » et « la maison de ton père ». Dans l’appel de D.ieu à<br />
Abraham. « Erets », le mot hébreu pour « pays » et « terre » est<br />
étymologiquement lié au mot « Ratsone » qui signifie « volonté » et<br />
« désir » ; c’est pourquoi « ton pays » se traduit aussi par « tes désirs<br />
naturels ». « Ton pays natal », « Moladeté’ha », est une référence à<br />
l’influence de la maison et de la société. Et « Beth Avi’ha » : « la<br />
maison de ton père » se réfère à l’homme comme être mûr et<br />
rationnel, forgeant sa tournure d’esprit, son caractère et son<br />
comportement avec l’objectivité transcendante de son intellect.<br />
Vivre avec la Paracha<br />
French Connection<br />
Réflexions sur la Paracha<br />
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Selon les critères conventionnels, cela<br />
constitue l’étape ultime de<br />
l’accomplissement humain : le<br />
développement de ses instincts naturels,<br />
l’assimilation de vérités apprises et<br />
observées, et la transformation du moi à<br />
travers l’arbitrage objectif de l’esprit. En<br />
réalité, pourtant, l’intellect est encore une<br />
partie de notre humanité, restant toujours<br />
sujet aux déficiences et aux limites de l’état<br />
d’homme ; alors qu’il peut surmonter les<br />
limites de ce qui est inné ou marquant,<br />
l’intellect n’est jamais véritablement libre de<br />
l’ego et de ses préjugés. Mais il existe un moi<br />
plus élevé pour l’homme, un moi libre de<br />
toutes les limites de l’être humain. C’est<br />
l’étincelle de divinité qui est au cœur de son<br />
âme : l’essence divine que D.ieu a insufflée en<br />
lui, l’image de D.ieu selon laquelle il a été<br />
créé : le « Erets » que D.ieu a promis de<br />
montrer à Abraham.<br />
Dans son itinéraire de découverte, Abraham<br />
dut quitter « le pays, le lieu de naissance », la maison paternelle de<br />
sa Mésopotamie natale ; il rejeta bien évidemment la culture<br />
païenne de Our Kasdim et de ‘Haran. Mais ce n’est pas de ce départ<br />
dont D.ieu parle. Abraham reçut cet appel dans sa huitième<br />
décennie ; de nombreuses années après avoir renoncé au mode de<br />
vie païen de sa famille, de son lieu de naissance, reconnu D.ieu et<br />
exercé une profonde influence sur sa société. Et pourtant, il reçut un<br />
ordre: « Pars ! Sors de ta nature, sors de tes habitudes, sors de ta<br />
logique. Après avoir rejeté tes origines négatives et idolâtres, tu dois<br />
maintenant aussi transcender ton passé positif. Dépasse-toi même<br />
si tu es déjà parfait. La perfection humaine n’est pas suffisante». Car<br />
tout accomplissement humain, fut-il intellectuel, reste limité et<br />
circonscrit à la nature humaine. Tel fut donc le premier<br />
commandement divin au premier Juif : « sors de tes limites pour<br />
accéder au « moi » que seul Moi Je peux te montrer, ce moi qui fait<br />
corps avec Moi ».<br />
Basé sur un discours du Rabbi, Chabbat Lekh Lekha 5750 (1989)2<br />
Cours de Torah en Français<br />
Tefillah (pour Femmes)<br />
Rabin Zalman Gansburg<br />
Jeudi de 10h30 à 11h15<br />
Kabbalah et Psychologie (pour Femmes)<br />
Rabin Zalman Gansburg<br />
Jeudi de 11h15 à12h00<br />
Haime Library<br />
NOTER: Il n’y aura pas de cours le<br />
21 octobre, ni le 4 novembre
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Delve into the power, strength and beauty in the life of the Jewish Woman<br />
Women’s Mikvah:<br />
Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an<br />
appointment: 305-866-1492 or<br />
305-323-2410<br />
PLEASE NOTE:<br />
Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be PREPAID<br />
Sisterhood Membership Drive<br />
Come see how you can get involved in The Shul<br />
Sisterhood. October 18th at 8pm<br />
at Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar’s Home,<br />
153 Bal Bay Drive, Bal Harbour<br />
Who we are...<br />
The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul's<br />
programming and classes geared toward women<br />
in the community. Our objective is to bring<br />
women of all ages and backgrounds together to<br />
learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their<br />
mind, body and soul. Meet new friends,<br />
relax and get inspired!<br />
If you would like to be a part of The Shul<br />
Sisterhood, please call 305. 868.1411<br />
Rosh Chodesh Kislev<br />
Lunch & Learn<br />
with<br />
Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar<br />
and<br />
Special Guest Speaker<br />
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010<br />
@ 10:00 a.m.<br />
At The Shul 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside<br />
Lunch will be available at noon<br />
following the weekly Tanya class<br />
The lecture is free if you are<br />
not staying for lunch<br />
Weekly Classes<br />
Monday<br />
Practical Halacha Rabbi Dov Schochet 11:00 - 11:30 am<br />
Women’s Study Group - Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm<br />
At the home of: Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar<br />
153 Bal Bay Drive, Bal Harbour Village<br />
SPECIAL SISTERHOOD EVENT<br />
Tuesday<br />
Tanya Class in Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:45 - 2:30 p m<br />
~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village<br />
Torah Portion Class in Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm<br />
~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour<br />
Wednesday<br />
Parenting Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:00 am<br />
Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am<br />
The Weekly Portion - Woman’s Perspective<br />
~ Haime Library<br />
Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:30 - 3:00 pm<br />
~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour<br />
Thursday<br />
Tanya of the Week Rabbi Eily Smith 10:30 - 11:15 am<br />
~ Women’s Sanctuary - Teen Lounge<br />
Tefillah Class in French Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 10:30 - 11:15 am<br />
~ Haime Library<br />
Kabbalah Class in French Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 11:15 - 12:00 pm<br />
Tanya in Spanish for Women Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:00 - 3:00 pm<br />
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In this Week’s Living Torah:<br />
A weekly video magazine featuring the Rebbe's<br />
application of Torah to timely events and issues<br />
Talk<br />
Predestination<br />
Timeless Moments<br />
Tune of “Zol Shoin Zein Di Geulah”<br />
Eye to Eye<br />
Sons and Daughters of Abraham<br />
Enjoy a live video presentation every Saturday<br />
Night at The Shul immediately following Havdalah<br />
To see the video on-line:<br />
"Living Torah" Weekly Video Magazine<br />
Featuring the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson obm.<br />
http://www.theshul.org/LivingTorah<br />
Shabbos Hospitality<br />
If you would like to host or be hosted at a Shabbos meal,<br />
please call The Shul at 305-868-1411<br />
Staying Connected<br />
The Shul's Staying Connected Program<br />
For College Students<br />
More & more Jewish college students from different universities<br />
across the country keep joining The Shul's Staying Connected program!<br />
These students are excited about this "cool" program that offers them<br />
the opportunity to "stay connected" to The Shul family while they are<br />
away at school. They enjoy receiving candies, chocolate, matzah, wine,<br />
menorahs, and special CD's from The Shul video-library to celebrate the<br />
Jewish holidays. Staying Connected students also enjoy sharing special<br />
events such as the Winter- Break & Summer Shabbatons at The Shul with<br />
over 150 Jewish college students from 18 universities across the country.<br />
To learn more about Staying Connected, please call Rabbi Zalman Lipskar<br />
at 305.868.1411 ext. 7345 or email stayingconnected@theshul.org.<br />
To enroll in The Shul's Staying Connected program , please mail the<br />
Student’s name, Hebrew name, complete address, telephone & email to:<br />
The Shul - Staying Connected<br />
Attn. Rabbi Zalman Lipskar<br />
9540 Collins Avenue<br />
Surfside, FL 33154<br />
Stay Connected! Sign up now to receive delicious packages throughout<br />
the year to celebrate our wonderful Jewish Holidays! It's Free!<br />
If you already joined Staying Connected, please remember to send us<br />
your new address if the one you had last semester has changed.<br />
Permanent Seating in The Shul<br />
There are a limited number of seat dedications still available<br />
in our Main Sanctuary, with finance options as well.<br />
If you are interested in more information please speak to or<br />
call Lydia Hasson or Penina Wuensch at 305 868 1411<br />
It’s Good To Know<br />
Find out what's going on and how You can get involved<br />
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Looking for the Perfect Gift?<br />
Would you like to honor someone’s Anniversary, Wedding,<br />
Yahrtzeit, or any other occasion?<br />
Honor them by making a donation to The Shul in their name.<br />
A card will be sent to each Honoree on your behalf,<br />
from The Shul, acknowledging your meaningful gift.<br />
The amount of the donation will not be disclosed<br />
unless requested.<br />
For more information, please call Renee @ 305-868-1411 x 0<br />
It Just Clicks!<br />
The Shul's weekly E-News<br />
Everything you need to know sent straight to your inbox!<br />
Send us your email address to info@theshul.org and let us know your<br />
interests at The Shul and we will keep you in touch.<br />
Write a letter to the Ohel<br />
http://www.theshul.org/RebbeLetter<br />
Find a picture of yourself with the Rebbe!<br />
The Living Archive Preservation Project has launched this interactive archive<br />
so that you can locate and request a video of your personal moment with<br />
the Rebbe. http://www.theshul.org/mymoment<br />
Download and listen to the latest classes and lectures<br />
in The Shul, at the convenience of your home or office.<br />
http://www.theshul.org/audio<br />
Fill all your Judaica needs<br />
(Books, Tefillin, Mezuzahs, etc) at www.theshul.org/store<br />
The Shul will get commission on every sale!<br />
The Shul Video of 'Journey of The Souls' has been one of the<br />
main popular features this year all over Chabad.org.<br />
To view go to:<br />
http://www.theshul.org/Journey<br />
The New Jewish Marriage Website:<br />
http://www.theshul.org/marriage<br />
The New Jobs Board<br />
www.theshul.org/jobs<br />
JNET: The Jewish Learning Network:<br />
Learning one-on-one over the phone:<br />
http://www.jnet.org/<br />
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute<br />
http://www.myJLI.com<br />
Emergency Evacuation Procedures:<br />
Older Folks with special needs can call 311 or register at<br />
http://www.miamidade.gov/oem/EEAP.asp<br />
www.StandWithUs.com<br />
You will find a very informative, factual and - not political, short booklet<br />
about Israel, which was issued by a non partisan organization<br />
"Stand With Us". Your readers around the world will definitely benefit<br />
from the available multiple languages.<br />
www.MythsandFacts.org<br />
Go to this website for the link to the booklet “This Land is My Land”<br />
educational booklet by Eli Hertz.<br />
All the books can be downloaded for free.<br />
Get connected to The Shul online<br />
at www.theshul.org
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Daily Study<br />
A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul<br />
Sichos Kodesh Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 6:15 - 6:45 am<br />
Halacha (Men) (Monday - Friday) Rabbi Dov Schochet 7:00 - 7:25 am<br />
Daf Yomi Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:00 - 8:45 am<br />
RamBam (Monday - Thursday) Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:45 - 9:00 am<br />
Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic Custom Shimshon Tzubeli 8:45 am<br />
Sichos - The Rebbe’s insights on the weekly Parsha Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 10:00 - 10:45 am<br />
Community Kollel (Men) Mon - Thurs. Shul Rabbis and Kolel 8:00 - 10:00 pm<br />
Daf Yomi (Men) Rabbi Dov Schochet 9:00 am<br />
Spanish Kolel - Chassidus (Men) Mr. Isaac Gorin / Mr. Moshe Lerman 8:00 - 10:00 pm<br />
Executive Smicha (Men) Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:00 - 10:00 pm<br />
Weekly Torah Portion (Spanish) Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 8:30 - 9:30 pm<br />
Women’s Study Group: SPECIAL SISTERHOOD EVENT<br />
At the home of: Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar<br />
153 Bal Bay Drive, Bal Harbour Village<br />
*All classes located at The Shul unless otherwise specified.<br />
Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar<br />
8:30 - 10:00 pm<br />
Senior Torah Academy: Meditations in Prayer Rabbi Mendy Levy 11:00 - 11:45 am<br />
Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women<br />
Ein Ya’akov: Stories of the Talmud<br />
Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
12:00 - 12:45 pm<br />
Tanya Class in Spanish (Women) Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 1:45 - 2:30 pm<br />
Torah Portion Class in Spanish (Women) Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 2:30 - 3:45 pm<br />
Vayeirah Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 8:00 - 8:45 pm<br />
Executive Smicha (Men) Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:00 - 10:00 pm<br />
Rabbi Lipskar’s Tuesday Class Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 9:00 - 10:15 pm<br />
Parenting Class (Women) Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:00 am<br />
Morning Torah Class (Women) - Weekly Parsha Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am<br />
Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women<br />
Tanya<br />
Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar<br />
11:00 - 11:45 am<br />
Tanya Class in English (Women) Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm<br />
Spanish Kolel Rabbi Moshe Lerman 8:00 - 10:00 pm<br />
Tefillah Class in French (Women) - Haime Library Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 10:30 am - 11:15 am<br />
Kabbalah & Psychology in French (Women) - Haime Library<br />
NO CLASS ON OCTOBER 21<br />
Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 11:15 am - 12:00 pm<br />
Mitzvos of the Weekly Parsha (Men & Women) Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 11:00 - 11:45 am<br />
Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women (Main Sanctuary)<br />
Ethics of the Fathers ~ Pirkei Avos<br />
Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
12:00 - 12:45 pm<br />
Tanya in Spanish (Women)<br />
Mrs. Vivian Perez<br />
(Chabad of Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd)<br />
2:00 - 3:00 pm<br />
Tanya (Men & Women) Rabbi Eily Smith 8:00 pm
Community Nachas<br />
A Peek at Recent Happenings<br />
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Six Wednesdays, starting<br />
Wednesday, October 27, 2010<br />
8:00 - 9:30pm<br />
With Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
The Shul<br />
9540 Collins Ave,<br />
Surfside, FL 33154<br />
Fee: $75 (textbooks included)<br />
Scholarships available upon request.<br />
For more information, please call<br />
305 868-1411 ext 7343<br />
or email JLI@TheShul.org