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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 />
A Home of of The Lubavitcher Rebbe,<br />
May His Merit Shield Us<br />
A House of Torah, Prayer And Acts of Goodness<br />
Shabbos Parshas <strong>Eikev</strong><br />
Menachem Av 19 - 20, 5771<br />
August 19– 19 20, 2011<br />
Candle Lighting: 7:35 PM<br />
(See page 5 for full Shabbos schedule)<br />
Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside<br />
9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, FL 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TheShul.org Email: info@TheShul.org<br />
B”H<br />
Chof Menachem Av<br />
Yahrtzeit of<br />
Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson
T ake a Deeper Look<br />
Celebrating Shabbos<br />
Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you<br />
need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience.<br />
Kiddush Bank<br />
The Investment with the Guaranteed Return<br />
A Time to Pray<br />
Check out all the davening schedules and locations<br />
throughout the week.<br />
Community Happenings<br />
Dates to Celebrate and Commemorate.<br />
Inspiration, Insights and Ideas<br />
Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE.<br />
Get the Picture<br />
The full scoop on all the great events around town.<br />
Just for the Gals<br />
Delve into the power, strength and beauty in the life<br />
of the Jewish Woman.<br />
The ABC's of Aleph<br />
Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments.<br />
Kids Korner / Teen Seen<br />
Educate, inspire and most of all have FUN!<br />
Latin Link<br />
Reflexión Semanal<br />
French Connection<br />
Réflexions sur la Paracha.<br />
The Network<br />
Get Connected! All your advertising needs<br />
in one convenient spot.<br />
It’s Good To Know<br />
Find out what's going on and how you can get involved.<br />
Daily Study<br />
A complete guide to all classes and courses offered<br />
at The Shul.<br />
Community Nachas<br />
A peek at recent happenings<br />
Featured Upcoming Events<br />
Events you won’t want to miss<br />
Shul Office Hours<br />
Mon. - Thurs. 9 am - 5 pm<br />
Friday 9 am - 2 pm<br />
*National Holidays and Chol Hamoed 9 am - 2 pm<br />
Please remember to take personal<br />
belongings with you when you leave The Shul.<br />
The Shul Weekly Magazine<br />
Everything you need for every day of the week<br />
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8-9<br />
10-15<br />
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Special Thank You<br />
Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah<br />
for the month of Menachem Av is sponsored by:<br />
Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar & Mrs. Evelyn Katz<br />
In Honor Of Their Husbands’ Birthdays<br />
Mrs. Ingrid Dorfman<br />
In Honor Of Her Wonderful Husband and<br />
Rabbi & Rebbetzin Lipskar<br />
Mrs . Sarah Libke Caplin<br />
In Loving Memory Of Her Father,<br />
Gershon ben Zvi HaCohen<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 />
Gabayim Corner<br />
The Shul’s Gaboyim:<br />
Mr. Allen Berry / Mr. David Pollack / Mr. Andrew Roth /<br />
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 />
Attention members and guests:<br />
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 />
Contacts at The Shul 305-868-1411<br />
Rabbi<br />
Rabbi<br />
Rabbi’s Secretary<br />
Rabbi’s Assistant<br />
Outreach/Kolel/Websites<br />
JLAC/Adult Ed/Singles/<br />
Special Events<br />
CYS College / Senior Kolel<br />
Accounting<br />
Controller<br />
Events /Office Manager<br />
Youth Director /Dinner/Lay-<br />
Leadership<br />
Operations / Maintenance<br />
Reception/Accounts Payable<br />
Mikvah<br />
Pre-School<br />
Sephardic Minyan<br />
Hebrew School/Editor<br />
Hashkama Minyan<br />
Mashgiach<br />
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Rabbi Sholom Lipskar<br />
Rabbi Zalman Lipskar<br />
Mrs. Fay Garber<br />
Ms. Lydia Hasson<br />
Rabbi Mendy Levy<br />
Rabbi Shea Rubinstein<br />
Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
Mrs. Geri Kelly<br />
Mrs. Janice Barney<br />
Mrs. Pnina Wuensch<br />
Mrs. Devorah Leah<br />
Andrusier<br />
Mr. Shlomie Katan<br />
Mrs. Renee Moore<br />
Mrs.Devorah Failer<br />
Chana or Shani<br />
Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
Mrs. Aurit Katan<br />
Mr. Lazer Milstein<br />
Mr Mordechai Olesky<br />
Ext. 7315<br />
Ext. 7345<br />
Ext. 7315<br />
Ext. 7314<br />
Ext. 7333<br />
Ext. 7342<br />
Ext. 7343<br />
Ext. 7341<br />
Ext. 7318<br />
Ext. 7313<br />
Ext. 7328<br />
Ext. 7319<br />
Ext. 0<br />
305-323-2410<br />
Ext. 7325<br />
305 790-4634<br />
786-389-9274<br />
305-349-3040<br />
786-292-9115
Shabbos Schedule<br />
Celebrating Shabbos With Our Youth<br />
Everything you need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience<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 />
6:45 p.m.<br />
Messibos Shabbos for all Girls (Classroom 1)<br />
6:45 p.m.<br />
Shalosh Seudos for all Boys (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 />
Shalosh Seudos<br />
For Boys<br />
Every Shabbos evening at 6:45 pm In the Youth Synagogue (upstairs)<br />
Be There! GREAT PRIZES!!!<br />
Prizes kindly sponsored by the Goldczer Family<br />
Father & Son will resume in the Fall<br />
when the clocks change again!<br />
Messibos Shabbos<br />
For Girls<br />
An exciting program for all Girls: 1st-5th Grade.<br />
Every Shabbos afternoon at 6:45 pm (Afternoon Mincha) In Classroom # 1<br />
Come and Enjoy Tzivos HaShem learning, great food & nosh,<br />
prizes, games and stories.<br />
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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<br />
would 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:<br />
1. a) Who made up the first Brocha of Bentching?<br />
b) Who wrote the second Brocha (about Eretz Yisroel) of<br />
Bentching?<br />
2. Which historical event, mentioned in this Parsha, is<br />
remembered more than all others?<br />
3. When the Jewish people sin, why are they considered<br />
worse than the generation of the Flood?<br />
Answers for Last Week:<br />
1. The Ten Commandments are written down in the 2 Torah<br />
portions of Yisro and Vaeschanan.<br />
2. Some of the things that we should have in mind when we<br />
say the Shema are that: HaShem is One, HaShem is King<br />
over the whole world (all four directions), that we were<br />
each a witness of the giving of the Torah and we accepted<br />
all the Mitzvos.<br />
3. HaShem wanted Moshe to be buried in the desert because<br />
in his merit all of the Jewish people who were buried in<br />
the desert will get up for Resurrection of The Dead.<br />
Torah Quiz Rules:<br />
Each winner receives points towards a Torah Quiz prize.<br />
One winner per question. Each child may only answer one<br />
question. Answers may be given from after Mincha on<br />
Friday afternoon until the printing of the next week’s<br />
bulletin. Tell your answer to Rabbi Mendy Levy or e-mail<br />
them before or after Shabbos to: mlevy@theshul.org.<br />
Last weeks winner:<br />
Batya Segal<br />
Prizes kindly sponsored by the Godczer Family<br />
In loving Memory of Aryeh Leib ben Zev Volf obm<br />
Children should respect all School & Shul property.<br />
Their Parents will be held responsible for<br />
any damage they may cause.
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 6:20 p.m.<br />
Candle lighting 7:35 p.m.<br />
Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbos 7:40 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 />
30 Minutes of Tanya: Classroom #1 +/- 12:00 p.m.<br />
With Mrs. Vivian Perez (for Women) After Davening<br />
Kiddush 12:00 p.m.<br />
Farbrengen in Honor of Chof Av 12.30 p.m.<br />
Messibos Shabbos for Girls 6:45 p.m.<br />
Shalosh Seudos for Boys 6:45 p.m.<br />
Daf Yomi 6:45 p.m.<br />
Pirkei Avot: Chapter 5 6:45 p.m.<br />
Women’s Shiur 6:45 p.m.<br />
Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudos 7:25 p.m.<br />
Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 8:28 p.m.<br />
Weekly Video of The Rebbe<br />
Sephardic Minyan<br />
Friday Evening<br />
Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 7:25 p.m.<br />
Shabbat Day<br />
Shacharit 9:00 a.m.<br />
Mincha 7:25p.m.<br />
Shabbat Ends / Arvit & Havdalah 8:28p.m.<br />
Next Week: Re’eh<br />
Candle lighting 7:29 p.m.<br />
Mincha 7:30 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 />
Shabbos Day<br />
(Stone Chumash)<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 />
Torah Portions pgs. 980-996<br />
Haftorah pg. 1197<br />
Shabbos Day<br />
(Gutnick Chumash)<br />
Torah Portions pgs. 56-82<br />
Haftorah pg. 276<br />
Kiddush This Week<br />
Kiddush this week is sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Moishe & Ofelia<br />
Hersman in honor of the yahrtzeit of Moishe’s father,<br />
Berel Ben Hershel, Av 22. May his Neshama have an Aliyah<br />
Shalosh Seudos This Week<br />
Available for Sponsorship<br />
Farbrengen In Honor Of Chof Av<br />
The Chof Av Farbrengen is sponsored by<br />
Devorah Leah Andrusier in honor of the yahrtzeit of her<br />
husband’s father, Rav Rephael ben Reb Nissan Isaac . May his<br />
Neshama have an Aliya<br />
Please help us cover the cost of non-sponsored Kiddushim by<br />
becoming a Partner or Patron of our Kiddush Bank.<br />
THE CATERER FOR THIS WEEK’S KIDDUSH & SHALOSH SEUDOS<br />
IS EMERALD CATERING<br />
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Kiddushim at The Shul<br />
Please help us continue to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush<br />
SPONSOR A<br />
KIDDUSH!<br />
and Shalosh Seudos by offering to become a sponsor.<br />
Sponsorship by one or more individuals is encouraged.<br />
The following dates are available for sponsorship:<br />
Kiddush: Shalosh Seudos<br />
August 20, 27<br />
If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Pnina<br />
PARTNER<br />
$770<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 call Pnina at (305) 868-1411 x 7313<br />
Or email pwuensch@theshul.org
Partners - annual contribution of $770:<br />
Anonymous<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard and Carolyn Baumel<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen and Bella Brenner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Boruch and Yonit Duchman<br />
Mr. Chaim Gubitz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence and Roslyn Jaffe<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward and Pauline Kopelman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory and Veronica Levine<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 />
Mr. Sheldon David William Taiger<br />
Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh and Pnina Wuensch<br />
Kiddush Bank<br />
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 />
Patrons - annual contribution of $360:<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jack and Amy Benishai<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson and Shelley Berman<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Leonardo and Joni Blachar<br />
The Count Elkaim Family Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Beryl and Florence Miller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Martin and Susan Packer<br />
Mr. Allan S. Roness<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Harold and Susan Rosenstein<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence and Rhea Rosenzweig<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph and Zohara Weiss<br />
Following is a list of some of the non-sponsored 5771 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 />
Oct. 1 Hakafos Kiddush $500<br />
Oct. 2 Kiddush $1,800<br />
Oct. 2 Farbrengen $700<br />
Oct. 30 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Nov. 6 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Nov. 20 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Nov. 21 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Jan. 29 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
Mar. 26 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
April 16 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
April 23 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
May 28 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
June 10 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
June 24 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
July 8 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
July 16 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
July 30 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
August 6 Shabbos Kiddush $700<br />
The shortfall for 5771 is over $13,000!<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 />
Make Make a a deposit deposit in in our our Kiddush Kiddush Bank Bank<br />
IT’S IT’S A A GREAT GREAT INVESTMENT!<br />
INVESTMENT!<br />
GUARANTEED RETURN: SMILING FACES FACES ...EVEN ...EVEN WHEN WHEN KIDDUSH ISN’T ISN’T SPONSORED!<br />
Call Call Pnina Pnina at at 305 305 868 868 1411 1411 ext. ext. 7313 7313 to to share share in in this this special mitzvah.
A Time to Pray<br />
Davening schedules and locations throughout the week<br />
Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul<br />
MORNING SCHEDULE - Monday through Thursday<br />
6:15 - 6:50 am Sichos Kodesh Parshas Re’eh R’ Zalman Lipskar<br />
6:50 - 7:15 am Halacha Kitzur Shulchan Aruch R’ Dov Schochet<br />
8:00 - 8:45 am Daf Yomi Chulin 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 />
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 />
Shacharis<br />
Halachic Times for the Week: Based on times for August 24, 2011<br />
Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:46 am<br />
Earliest Talit & Tefillin 6:11 am<br />
Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:57 am<br />
(Earliest Amidah)<br />
Latest Shema 10:09 am<br />
Zman Tfillah 11:14 am<br />
Chatzot / Midday 1:22pm<br />
Earliest Mincha 1:55 pm<br />
Plag HaMincha 6:28 pm<br />
Shekiah / Sunset 7:49 pm<br />
(preferable latest time for Mincha)<br />
Tzeit Hakochavim/Nightfall 8:17 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 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 />
Early Mincha 2:00 pm No Minyan R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy No Minyan<br />
Mincha/<br />
Maariv 7:40 pm R’ Sholom Lipskar R’ Mendy Levy R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Sholom Lipskar<br />
Maariv 10:00 pm TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA No Minyan<br />
Shacharit<br />
Shacharit<br />
Mincha/<br />
Arvit<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 />
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 />
7:40 pm Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli<br />
See Complete<br />
Shabbat<br />
Schedule on<br />
page 5<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 />
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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?
Birthdays<br />
Menachem Av 21 Mr. David Benoliel<br />
Menachem Av 21 Mr. Jacob Solomon Gassner<br />
Menachem Av 21 Ms. Jessie Franco<br />
Menachem Av 21 Mr. Charles Ness<br />
Menachem Av 21 Mrs. Efrat Fedida<br />
Menachem Av 21 Ms. Penni Silverman<br />
Menachem Av 22 Mr. Ariel Zuckerman<br />
Menachem Av 22 Dr. Moisey S. Katsman<br />
Menachem Av 22 Mrs. Judith Roth<br />
Menachem Av 22 Mr. Samuel Shaio<br />
Menachem Av 22 Ms. Shani Gottlieb<br />
Menachem Av 23 Ms. Alia Feltenstein<br />
Menachem Av 23 Ms. Ariella Raviv<br />
Menachem Av 23 Mr. Mayer Goldstein<br />
Menachem Av 23 Mr. Robert Diener<br />
Menachem Av 23 Mrs. Bertha Baum<br />
Menachem Av 24 Mr. Josef Weiss<br />
Menachem Av 24 Mr. Reuven Herssein<br />
Menachem Av 24 Mrs. Sarah Rachel Sheridan<br />
Menachem Av 24 Rabbi Aaron Lipskar<br />
Menachem Av 24 Mr. Steven Peissach<br />
Menachem Av 25 Ms. Esther Zoila Bejar<br />
Menachem Av 25 Mr. Garrick Feldman<br />
Menachem Av 25 Mrs. Yvette S Woldenberg<br />
Our Kids’ Birthdays<br />
Menachem Av 20 Kaylee Andrusier<br />
Menachem Av 20 Rivka Chaya Chattah<br />
Menachem Av 21 Noah Markofsky<br />
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Menachem Av 20 Shmuel ben Tzvi obm<br />
Husband of Mrs. Orit Colodner<br />
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Mother of Mr. Abraham Gewirtz<br />
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Mother of Mrs. Randy Freedman<br />
Tehillim<br />
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still missing in action:<br />
Ron Arad Zacharia Baumel<br />
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The Shul thanks all our Volunteers for their invaluable help:<br />
Mrs. Ofelia Wiener for assisting the Hashkama Minyan<br />
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David (Mauricio Fux) obm, the community has<br />
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Welcome<br />
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to our community:<br />
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leaving incomplete sets. Congregants are constantly<br />
looking to study or pray and cannot find what they are<br />
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Challenges On The Road<br />
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several occasions, it has been explained that the task of<br />
transforming the world into a dwelling for G-d began after<br />
the entry of the Jewish people into Eretz Yisrael. The 40<br />
years in the desert were to prepare the Jews for their Divine service<br />
in that holy land.<br />
Divine service involves persevering in one's mission despite<br />
challenges and obstacles. For it is only by overcoming challenges<br />
that our innermost powers of soul are aroused. For this reason, the<br />
40 years of wandering were years of challenge for the Jewish people,<br />
as it is written: "to challenge you, to verify what is in your heart,<br />
that you will keep His commandments."<br />
In general, there are two types of challenges: poverty and affluence.<br />
In the desert, the Jews were confronted by both. Indeed, both were<br />
associated with the manna. For the manna represented the ultimate<br />
in affluence. It was "bread from heaven"; it did not produce any<br />
waste, and in it, one could taste any flavor one desired. In contrast,<br />
"bread from the earth" produces waste and is limited in its flavor.<br />
Moreover, our Sages relate that jewels and pearls descended<br />
together with the manna, bestowing affluence upon the Jewish<br />
people in the most literal sense.<br />
On the other hand, the manna also produced a challenge of poverty,<br />
as reflected in the verse: "He fed you manna... to give you hardship."<br />
As our Sages explain, the hardship involved the fact that the manna<br />
did not provide complete satisfaction.<br />
One opinion explains: "A person who has a loaf of bread in his bread<br />
box cannot be compared to one who does not." The manna would<br />
descend day by day, and the Jews could not set any aside for the<br />
following day. This detracted from the satisfaction they felt while<br />
eating.<br />
Another rationale is offered: "A person who sees what he is eating<br />
cannot be compared to a person who does not." For although the<br />
manna could taste like any food the Jews wanted, they would see<br />
only manna, and this prevented them from feeling satisfied.<br />
The question arises: How can one entity induce both poverty and<br />
affluence?<br />
What Our Pockets Cannot Contain<br />
The two contradictory effects of the manna are a result of its<br />
transcendent nature. The wealth which accompanied the manna<br />
(the ability to taste any flavor, and the jewels which came with it)<br />
was a result of it being "bread from heaven," a G-dly entity, for<br />
G-dliness is totally unlimited. For this reason, even after the manna<br />
descended and became part of our material world, its spiritual<br />
qualities were retained. Accordingly, it did not produce waste, nor<br />
was it limited to one particular flavor. Indeed, its perfection<br />
included precious stones, the ultimate in the realm of inanimate<br />
objects.<br />
Because of the manna's unique spiritual nature, it could not be<br />
produced by ordinary worldly effort. Our plowing and sowing would<br />
not cause it to grow. It was given as a present from G-d, and not as<br />
a reward for our Divine service. For this reason, it was totally<br />
dependent on His initiative, and descended from day to day --<br />
reflecting the integration of spirituality (which is above time and<br />
space) and our material world, in which each day is different from<br />
every other.<br />
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For this reason, we could not see in the manna all the foods whose<br />
flavors it could manifest. For our limited mortal eyes could not<br />
appreciate the unbounded spiritual potential the manna contained.<br />
This explains the manna's fusion of affluence and poverty. Since it<br />
was a manifestation of spirituality, it was not limited at all.<br />
Nevertheless, as it became part of our world, it was associated with<br />
poverty, for it left a person with nothing of his own. Nor was he able<br />
to see what he was eating. For the manna did not take on the<br />
appearance of even simple food.<br />
Thus although the manna represented ultimate wealth, with regard<br />
to its recipients, it represented ultimate poverty. For they could not<br />
point to it and say: "This is mine."<br />
Within -- and Beyond -- Our Ken<br />
The above also helps us understand the interpretation of the verse:<br />
"He made you suffer, and He starved you by feeding you the<br />
manna," which implies that not only did the manna not produce<br />
satisfaction, it produced hunger. This is difficult to understand. Why<br />
did the manna produce hunger?<br />
The concept can be explained as follows: Every entity in this world is<br />
a discrete creation, different from every other. This also describes<br />
"bread from the earth." It is food, nothing else. It has a specific<br />
flavor. This can be sensed by a person, and this satisfies him.<br />
When a limited human being eats "bread from heaven," by contrast,<br />
he can feel its transcendent, spiritual nature. And yet, for that very<br />
reason, it does not satisfy him. For his appreciation of its unlimited<br />
nature causes him to desire more. Since the object of his desire is<br />
unlimited, his hunger for more is never sated. This concept is<br />
alluded to in the continuation of the verse cited above which<br />
describes the manna as something "which neither you nor your<br />
ancestors knew," i.e., something which cannot be grasped by our<br />
conceptual framework.<br />
What is the way to relate to this unbounded potential? To step<br />
beyond one's own boundaries and limitations.<br />
When Adding Causes a Loss<br />
On this basis, we can understand how the 40 years in the desert<br />
prepared the Jews for their observance of the Torah and its mitzvos<br />
in Eretz Yisrael, giving them the spiritual fortitude to overcome the<br />
challenges of both poverty and affluence.<br />
Overcoming the challenge of affluence means negating the thought<br />
that "my strength and the power of my hand brought me this<br />
prosperity," for it is "G-d who gives you the strength to prosper."<br />
Overcoming the challenge of poverty means realizing that no evil<br />
descends from above, and that it is man who is responsible for any<br />
difficulties he suffers. For this reason, we should not reject our<br />
sufferings, but should instead accept them with happiness.<br />
In this context, the manna can teach a significant lesson. Influence<br />
which descends from above is unlimited, the ultimate in affluence.<br />
Nevertheless, since all created beings are by nature limited, in order<br />
for that affluence to remain intact, man must not tamper with G-d's<br />
influence. Indeed, not only will tampering not bring him any gain --<br />
as the Torah relates with regard to the manna, "he who took more<br />
did not retain it" -- he will lose. He will introduce poverty into<br />
matters which are by nature associated with the ultimate affluence.<br />
The way to achieve affluence is to rise above one's limited existence<br />
and desires, to forget about self-pride and to rely totally on G-d.<br />
This makes man into a receptacle for G-d's influence, not
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only in spiritual matters, but also in material matters, opening him<br />
to an affluence that extends beyond the scope of our ordinary<br />
mortal capacities.<br />
Human Wisdom and Divine Knowledge<br />
Wisdom is described with the analogy of food. For just as food is<br />
ingested and becomes part of a person's being, so too, intellectual<br />
ideas are absorbed by our minds and become one with them.<br />
As above, there are two general categories of food: "bread from the<br />
earth" and "bread from heaven." Similarly, with regard to the study<br />
of Torah, there is "bread from the earth" (mortal intellect) and "bread<br />
from heaven" (Divine intellect).<br />
To explain: All forms of wisdom other than the Torah have their<br />
limits. Aside from the fact that they are restricted to intellect and do<br />
not involve other potentials, every idea is limited, just as ordinary<br />
food is limited to one taste. Moreover, all ideas developed by mortal<br />
intellect lead to certain irrelevant matters, "waste."<br />
Use of our mortal intellect to comprehend ideas leads to<br />
satisfaction. Figuratively speaking, a person "sees what he is eating,"<br />
and has "a loaf of bread in his bread box," for these concepts are<br />
accessible. For these reasons, the study of mortal wisdom can lead<br />
to self-satisfaction and pride.<br />
The opposite is true with regard to the wisdom of the Torah. The<br />
Torah is pure truth, with no waste. And it is unlimited, including all<br />
"flavors." Moreover, the Torah also leads to actual material wealth<br />
(as the manna contained jewels and pearls).<br />
For this reason, when studying Torah, a person feels that he cannot<br />
grasp it in its totality; the Torah's unlimited truth transcends his<br />
comprehension. As a result, Torah study will never lead to pride;<br />
indeed, it leads to self-nullification. As the verse states: "As one<br />
adds knowledge, one increases pain." The more one studies the<br />
Torah, the more one feels an acute lack in one's comprehension, and<br />
a great thirst and hunger to study.<br />
Extending the analogy, both of the categories exist within the Torah<br />
itself. Nigleh, the revealed dimension of Torah law, is G-d's wisdom<br />
and will. Nevertheless, it is presented in a form which has<br />
descended until it relates to mortal intellect and material entities.<br />
For this reason, it has certain limitations, and there is a parallel to<br />
waste, as our Sages comment: "If one is unworthy, the Torah<br />
becomes like poison." Thus it can be described as "bread from the<br />
earth."<br />
P'nimiyus HaTorah, the Torah's mystic dimension, by contrast, is<br />
utterly without limits and produces no waste whatsoever. It is "an<br />
elixir of life," "bread from heaven."<br />
Who a Jew Really Is; What Makes Him Happy<br />
The yetzer hora is "experienced at its craft." It realizes that it is<br />
impossible to convince a Jew to deny the importance of the Torah,<br />
for every Jew holds the Torah dear. Indeed, the Tanach relates that<br />
Achav, who voluntary committed the sin of idol worship, considered<br />
the Torah as "the treasure of [his] eye." Therefore, when it desires to<br />
draw a person away from the study of the Torah in general, and the<br />
study of P'nimiyus HaTorah in particular, the yetzer hora offers<br />
indirect arguments.<br />
It claims: "The Torah is unlimited; no matter how much you study,<br />
you will never be able to comprehend it entirely. Indeed, the more<br />
you study, the farther you feel from complete comprehension.<br />
Therefore the best course of action is to deal with entities which you<br />
can comprehend. Devote yourself to material things. This will<br />
satisfy you, for material entities can be fully comprehended."<br />
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Nor does the yetzer hora tell a person to ignore Torah study entirely.<br />
It agrees that one must know how to observe Torah law, and<br />
therefore should study a fixed amount of Torah in the morning and<br />
a fixed amount of Torah in the evening. "But," argues the yetzer<br />
hora, "it should be a fixed amount, a law or two. If you want to be<br />
meticulous, an entire chapter, and if extremely meticulous, one<br />
should attend a class. But by no means should you make an<br />
overwhelming commitment. You will never be satisfied, for there is<br />
no way you can grasp it entirely. All you will do is cause yourself<br />
suffering."<br />
Continuing, the yetzer hora also addresses itself to the subject<br />
matter studied: "You should study only nigleh, not P'nimiyus<br />
HaTorah. After all, P'nimiyus HaTorah deals with concepts which we<br />
cannot grasp. These ideas are by nature above mortal intellect."<br />
A person must realize that these are the arguments of the yetzer<br />
hora. The argument not to involve oneself with "bread from heaven,"<br />
but instead deal solely with "bread from the earth" is the first step<br />
away from the path of Torah. By accepting one aspect of the yetzer<br />
hora's argument, a person allows himself to fall deeper and deeper<br />
into its snares. In this vein, our Sages say that the yetzer hora is at<br />
first like a passerby. Afterwards, it is like a guest; ultimately, it<br />
becomes the owner of the home.<br />
Based on the above, we can appreciate the lesson taught by the<br />
Torah with regard to the people's complaints about the manna. They<br />
did not want "bread from heaven," food that is above the material<br />
realm. Instead, they wanted ordinary food, food which produces<br />
waste.<br />
And this initiated a downward trend. Soon they were "weeping with<br />
their families," interpreted by our Sages to mean, "lamenting the<br />
prohibitions against incest and adultery."<br />
Moreover, the yetzer hora's argument that it is the material, and not<br />
the spiritual which will bring satisfaction is also faulty. The essence<br />
of a Jew's being is spiritual. If, heaven forbid, he cuts himself off<br />
from the spiritual and involves himself in material matters alone, he<br />
will never be sated. Regardless of how much he achieves, he will not<br />
be satisfied. There is no way he can, for this is not who he is.<br />
It is the spiritual which reflects his essential nature. And thus, if he<br />
becomes an empty receptacle and sheds his self-concern and<br />
individual limits, he will be able to receive, being granted not only<br />
spiritual things, but also material things. He will enjoy G-d's<br />
abundant generosity, more than a mortal is able to accept. Since he<br />
regards the spiritual and the material as the same, he will be<br />
granted unlimited blessings in both realms.<br />
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It shall come to pass because you will<br />
listen to these laws." (7:12)<br />
Q<br />
UESTION: Instead of the word "eikev" — "because" — it could<br />
have said "keshetishme'un" — "when you will listen" — or "im<br />
tishme'un" — "if you will listen"?<br />
ANSWER: On Mount Sinai Hashem gave the Jewish people the Ten<br />
Commandments, which included the six hundred and<br />
thirteen mitzvot of the Torah (see Shemot 24:12, Rashi). In the version<br />
of the Ten Commandments as they are recorded (ibid. 20:2-14), there is<br />
a total of one hundred and seventy-two words. The word "<strong>Eikev</strong>," has<br />
the numerical value of one hundred and seventy-two. Hence,<br />
the Torah is saying, "It shall come to pass, 'eikev tishme'un' —
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because you will listen i.e. observe 'eikev' — the six hundred and<br />
thirteen mitzvot which are in the one hundred and seventy-two words<br />
of the Ten Commandments. Thus, your G-d will safeguard for you the<br />
covenant and kindness that He swore to your forefathers."<br />
Alternatively, the Gemara (Yoma 28b) says that our father Avraham<br />
kept the entire Torah, as Scripture states, "eikev asher shama Avraham<br />
bekoli" — "because Avraham hearkened to My voice [kept My charge,<br />
My commandments, My statutes, and My laws] (Bereishit 26:5). In<br />
light of the above, the proof that Avraham kept the Torah may be<br />
deduced from the word "eikev," which refers to the one hundred and<br />
seventy-two words of the Ten Commandments, that contain the six<br />
hundred and thirteen mitzvot of the Torah.<br />
Alternatively, the Gemara (Avodah Zarah 9a) says that the world will<br />
exist for six thousand years. Two thousand of these are utterly void of<br />
Torah, two thousand are years of Torah without Mashiach, and the<br />
last two thousand years will start the era of Mashiach. The first twothousand-year<br />
period concluded when Avraham reached the age of<br />
fifty-two and was introduced to Torah. The second two-thousand-year<br />
period ended one hundred and seventy-two years after the destruction<br />
of the second Beit Hamikdash, and then the era of Mashiach began<br />
(see Rashi).<br />
With the word "eikev," which has the numerical value of one hundred<br />
and seventy-two, the Torah is hinting that "eikev" — one hundred and<br />
seventy-two years after the destruction — "tishme'un" — "you will<br />
hear" — the footsteps of Mashiach.<br />
Science of the Soul?<br />
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By: Jonathan Sacks<br />
W hat<br />
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would we do for entertainment<br />
without scientists telling us, with<br />
breathless excitement, that “G‑d did not<br />
create the universe,” as if they were the first to<br />
discover this astonishing proposition?<br />
Stephen Hawking is the latest, but certainly not<br />
the first. When Napoleon asked Laplace, two<br />
hundred years ago, where was G‑d in his<br />
scientific system, the mathematician replied, Je n’ais besoin de<br />
cette hypothese. “I do not need G‑d to explain the universe.” We<br />
never did.<br />
That is what scientists do not understand. There is a difference<br />
between science and religion. Science is about explanation. Religion<br />
is about interpretation. Science takes things apart to see how they<br />
work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean. They are<br />
different intellectual enterprises. They even occupy different<br />
hemispheres of the brain. Science – linear, atomistic, analytical – is<br />
a typical left-brain activity. Religion – integrative, holistic, relational<br />
– is supremely a work of the right-brain.<br />
It is important for us to understand the mistake Professor Hawking<br />
has made, because the mutual hostility between religion and<br />
science is one of the curses of our age, and it is damaging to religion<br />
and science in equal measure. The best way of approaching it is<br />
through the autobiography of Charles Darwin. Darwin tells us that<br />
as a young man he had been impressed with the case for G‑d as set<br />
out by William Paley in his Natural Theology of 1802. Paley<br />
updated the classic “argument from design” to the state of<br />
scientific knowledge as it existed in his day.<br />
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Find a stone on a heath, says Paley, and you won’t ask who designed<br />
it. It doesn’t look as if it was designed. But find a watch and you will<br />
think differently. A watch looks as if it was designed. Therefore it<br />
had a designer. The universe looks more like a watch than a stone.<br />
It is intricate, interlocking, complex. Therefore, it too had a designer,<br />
whose name is G‑d. Darwin, in a simple yet world-transforming<br />
idea, showed how the appearance of design does not require a<br />
designer at all. It can emerge over a long period of time by, as we<br />
would put it today, an iterated process of genetic mutation and<br />
natural selection. So the universe is not like a watch, or if it is, the<br />
watchmaker was blind. Q.E.D.<br />
But whoever thought the universe was like a watch in the first<br />
place? The scientists and philosophers of the seventeenth and<br />
eighteenth centuries. Newton. Leibniz. Laplace. Auguste Comte.<br />
What was wrong about Paley’s argument was not the theology but<br />
the science on which it was based. Good science refutes bad<br />
science. It tells us nothing at all about G‑d.<br />
Professor Hawking has done something very similar, except that this<br />
time he plays both parts. He is both Paley and Darwin, and with<br />
great legerdemain and panache, Hawking II, the good scientist, has<br />
brilliantly refuted Hawking I, the poor theologian. Hawking I was the<br />
person who wrote, at the end of A Brief History of Time, that if we<br />
found science’s holy grail, a theory-of everything, we would know<br />
“why it is that we and the universe exist.” We would “know the mind<br />
of G‑d.” This is so elementary a fallacy that it is hard to believe that<br />
Professor Hawking meant it. We would know how we and the<br />
universe came into being, not why. Nor, in any but the most trivial<br />
sense, would we “know the mind of G‑d.”<br />
The Bible simply isn’t interested in how the universe came into<br />
being. It devotes a mere 34 verses to the subject. It takes fifteen<br />
times as much space to describing how the Israelites constructed a<br />
sanctuary in the desert. The Bible is not proto-science,<br />
pseudoscience or myth masquerading as science. It is interested in<br />
other questions entirely. Who are we? Why are we here? How then<br />
shall we live?<br />
It is to answer those questions, not scientific ones, that we seek to<br />
know the mind of G‑d. Hawking II has now refuted Hawking I. The<br />
universe, according to the new theory, created itself. (This reminds<br />
me of a joke I heard as an undergraduate about a smug business<br />
tycoon:<br />
“He is a self-made man, thereby relieving G‑d of a grave<br />
responsibility”). Should you reply that the universe must be<br />
astonishingly intelligent to have fined-tuned itself so precisely for<br />
the emergence of stars, planets, life and us, all of which are<br />
massively improbable, then the answer is that there is an infinity of<br />
universes in which all the possibilities and permutations are played<br />
out. We struck lucky. We found the universe that contained us.<br />
I first heard this theory from that brilliant and wise scientist, Lord<br />
Rees, President of the Royal Society. He too, as he explains in his<br />
book Just Six Numbers, was puzzled by the precision of the six<br />
mathematical constants that define the shape of the universe.<br />
So unlikely is it that the universe just happened, by chance, to fit<br />
those parameters that he too was forced to suggest the parallel<br />
universes hypothesis. If you hold an infinity of lottery tickets, one of<br />
them is going to win.<br />
That is true, but not elegant. The principle of Ockham’s Razor says:<br />
don’t multiply unnecessary entities. Given a choice between a single
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intelligent creator and an infinity of self-creating universes, the<br />
former wins hands down.<br />
But let us hail a scientific genius. Professor Hawking is one of the<br />
truly great minds of our time. Two thousand years ago the rabbis<br />
coined a blessing – you can find it in any Jewish<br />
prayer book – on seeing a great scientist, regardless of his or her<br />
religious beliefs. That seems to me the right attitude of religion to<br />
science: admiration and thankfulness.<br />
But there is more to wisdom than science. It cannot tell us why we<br />
are here or how we should live. Science masquerading as religion is<br />
as unseemly as religion masquerading as science.<br />
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Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson<br />
(1878-1944)<br />
Lubavitcher Rebbe's father<br />
R<br />
abbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson was born<br />
on the 18th of Nissan in the town of<br />
Podrovnah (near Gomel) to his parents,<br />
Rabbi Baruch Schneur and Rebbetzin Zelda<br />
Rachel Schneerson. His great-great grandfather<br />
was the 3rd Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem<br />
Mendel of Lubavitch.<br />
In 1900, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak married Rebbetzin<br />
Chana Yanovski, whose father, Rabbi Meir<br />
Shlomo, was the rabbi of the Russian city of<br />
Nikolaiyev. In 1902, their eldest son, Menachem Mendel, later to be<br />
known as The Lubavitcher Rebbe, was born.<br />
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak lived in Nokolaiyev until 1909, when he was<br />
appointed to serve as the Rabbi of Yekatrinoslav (today,<br />
Dnepropetrovsk). In 1939 he was arrested by the communist regime<br />
for his fearless stance against the Party's efforts to eradicate Jewish<br />
learning and practice in the Soviet Union. After more than a year of<br />
torture and interrogations in Stalin's notorious prisons, he was<br />
sentenced to exile to the interior of Russia, where he died in 1944.<br />
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Unwavering Jewish Courage<br />
T he<br />
Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, was the<br />
Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, at a time when Jewish<br />
leaders were persecuted for preserving Judaism. Rabbi Levi<br />
Yitzchak, however, was defiant; publicly declaring that he would not<br />
be coerced into submission. More<br />
To ensure the production of Kosher for Passover Matzah, Rabbi Levi<br />
Yitzchak traveled to Moscow and met with the President of the<br />
USSR. He was appointed rabbinical supervisor over the central<br />
wheat mills of the entire country, and was granted authority to<br />
approve or reject any shipments he saw fit, no questions asked.<br />
Although his unflinching stands were a great risk to himself and his<br />
family, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, encouraged by his wife, Rebbetzin<br />
Chana, remained resolute in the face of danger.<br />
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Halacha Of The Week<br />
By: Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
Laws of Prayer<br />
T he<br />
Torah tells us “You shall fear your G-d<br />
and you shall serve Him”. Maimonides<br />
explains that although the charge to<br />
serve G-d is a general exhortation to follow<br />
the precepts of the Torah, it is also<br />
understood as referring specifically to the<br />
service of G-d through prayer. The Chinuch<br />
explains that as all good and blessings a person receives are a result<br />
of behavior, G-d who desires our success gave us many opportunities<br />
through the commandments to achieve this. He also gave us this<br />
course of prayer, where we can make a request for whatever we need,<br />
and the omnipotent G-d answers those who call to him in truth.<br />
While there is a dispute if the Biblical commandment is to pray daily<br />
or only when one is in distress, today one is obligated to pray three<br />
times every day; morning afternoon and night. (This corresponds to<br />
the Temple service, the daily morning and afternoon offerings and the<br />
nighttime service of burning the limbs of the sacrifices. The text of<br />
the 18 benedictions were established by Ezra the scribe and his court.<br />
The 19th was added later by the sage Samuel, with the approbation of<br />
the court of Rabbi Gamliel when the Jewish people were in great<br />
distress from the heretics and informants. The order of the prayer is 3<br />
blessings praising G-d, 13 asking for everything we need and the final 3<br />
are giving thanks for all of G-d’s kindness to us.<br />
The time for the Morning Prayer is from sunrise until 1/3 of the day<br />
has passed (measuring from sunrise to sunset). In times of need one<br />
can begin praying at daybreak. If one did not pray by then they can<br />
still pray until midday.<br />
One should pray in a closed area, unless they are traveling and the<br />
only available area is an open field. This is because being in a closed<br />
area puts the person in the proper frame of mind to pray. If possible,<br />
one should pray in a room with windows, so if they are lacking in<br />
intention they can look to the heavens and regain it. One should not<br />
pray in front of a painting as it can disrupt their concentration. One<br />
should also not pray in front of a mirror.<br />
One should face Israel and Jerusalem while praying. If one started<br />
praying and realized that they’re facing the wrong direction they<br />
should turn their head towards Jerusalem, if they are in the opposite<br />
direction then they should just continue praying. If this happened<br />
while praying with a Minyan then one should turn to face the same<br />
direction as the Minyan.<br />
One should not hold anything that they’re concerned shouldn’t fall<br />
during the Amidah. The exception is something used to aid in prayer;<br />
therefore one can hold a siddur (or a phone with the prayers on it). If a<br />
holy book is lying on the floor and disrupting one’s concentration,<br />
they may bend down and pick it up during the Amidah.<br />
One must concentrate on the words of the prayer and their meanings.<br />
One should purge any disturbing thoughts until they are focused fully<br />
on the prayer, recognizing that they would do so for a king of flesh<br />
and blood and how much more so for G-d.<br />
While the prayer should be recited silently, it is insufficient to think<br />
the words, rather one must utter them softly.<br />
Prayer is a testament of our faith in Hashem. If we turn to prayer in<br />
our times of difficulty and need, then we are making a clear<br />
statement that G-d runs the world. And clearly indicating that we’re<br />
cognizant that all blessing we receive are a direct result of Hashems’<br />
beneficence.
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Turns 55<br />
By Malina Saval and Joshua Runyan<br />
I n<br />
the spring of 1956, faculty of the central Chabad-Lubavitch<br />
grade-school yeshiva in New York faced the distinctly modern<br />
problem of summer vacation: They had no place to send their<br />
students to continue their studies during the summer months.<br />
A Lubavitch overnight boys’ camp had been established in the 1940s<br />
in Montreal, and since 1953, Camp Emunah in upstate New York<br />
provided a Lubavitch summer camp option for Jewish girls.<br />
But the New York students had nowhere to go and Rabbi Moshe<br />
Lazar sought out a solution. Just 22 years old at the time, Lazar<br />
approached the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of<br />
righteous memory, for guidance. On the face of it, the issue was<br />
relatively simple: The modern educational calendar had created a<br />
block of time in which kids were frequently without structure.<br />
But as so often happened when the Rebbe addressed a “problem,” he<br />
advised that this particular challenge actually offered a unique<br />
opportunity.<br />
Yes, there should be boys’ camp, the Rebbe responded. But it would<br />
be different: It would leverage the beauty of rural surroundings to<br />
provide a Jewish atmosphere, coupled with the warmth of Chasidic<br />
life, in a manner not possible in a year-round school environment. It<br />
would serve youngsters from both Jewish day schools and public<br />
schools and would allow each of them to partake of their favorite<br />
summer activities on the one hand, while simultaneously nurturing<br />
their spiritual identities on the other.<br />
Unlike other camps of the era, which served to protect religious<br />
students from wandering aimlessly through the summer, this camp<br />
would offer an open door to attract new students to the beauty of<br />
Jewish life.<br />
“There were a few Jewish camps in existence, but they were not<br />
doing much in the way of reaching out to children that were not<br />
already exposed to their Jewish backgrounds,” explains Lazar, now 76<br />
years old and a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Milan. “The Rebbe was<br />
very enthusiastic and with his blessing and constant involvement,<br />
we were able to successfully turn our camp idea into a reality.”<br />
In April that year, with nary a few months to get things in order,<br />
Lazar rented a property in Ellenville, N.Y. The Rebbe named the camp<br />
Gan Israel, literally “Garden of Israel” in honor of Rabbi Israel ben<br />
Eliezer, the 17th-century founder of Chasidism known as the Baal<br />
Shem Tov.<br />
“The Rebbe said that all children should be shown the greatest love<br />
and from this love, they become closer to G‑d,” says Lazar. “The idea<br />
behind Camp Gan Israel was to create a combination of the spiritual<br />
and the material and show that there is no conflict between the two.<br />
In this way children can lead full and enriched lives.”<br />
Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, who first signed on as the camp’s learning<br />
director and today serves as its executive director, recalls the Rebbe’s<br />
directives as revolutionary. Far from merely comprising the two<br />
identifies of a camp and a yeshiva, the uniqueness of Camp Gan<br />
Israel lies in its ability to make each opposing strain inform and<br />
strengthen the other. In short, Camp Gan Israel is “a camp on the<br />
outside and a yeshiva within,” the Rebbe would later emphasize.<br />
“Nobody had thought that this was possible to do,” explains<br />
Shemtov, who also serves as chairman of Agudas Chasidei Chabad,<br />
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the worldwide umbrella organization of Chabad-Lubavitch. “Summer<br />
camp was always either a place devoid of the protections offered by<br />
a yeshiva environment, or was solely concerned on essentially<br />
relocating the yeshiva to the countryside.”<br />
The Rebbe offered a third way, continues Shemtov. “Camp could be a<br />
new opportunity to do what the yeshiva couldn’t do. It could be an<br />
island; it could provide an overall 24-hour experience.”<br />
(Educators today, backed by several recent studies, similarly point to<br />
the immersive nature of camp as providing a unique opportunity to<br />
instill and nurture Jewish values.)<br />
Of the three times the Rebbe travelled outside of New York City after<br />
ascending to the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch, all three were to<br />
the original Camp Gan Israel and Camp Emunah.<br />
Offshoots of that first Gan Israel reflect the central importance the<br />
Rebbe placed on the summer camp experience, says Shemtov. “Each<br />
place may look different, but when you begin to pull at the strings,<br />
you’ll find they each have the same foundation.”<br />
The first summer brought together 92 boys. Today, 55 years later,<br />
Camp Gan Israel, headquartered in Parksville, N.Y., represents the<br />
largest network of Jewish camps in the world. Run by Chabad Houses<br />
and affiliated institutions in more than 40 countries, including<br />
Canada, Australia and Chile, its day and overnight programs serve<br />
both boys and girls and cater to Jewish children of all backgrounds.<br />
“I had the time of my life,” Jeffrey Klein fondly recalls of the 10 years<br />
he spent as a child at Camp Gan Israel in Fenton, Mich., eight as a<br />
camper, one as a waiter, and one as a certified lifeguard.<br />
“The way they took religion and intertwined it with fun activities<br />
such as sports, baseball, soccer and swimming was a very positive<br />
experience for me,” he adds, “and, as a result, my religious<br />
observance grew.”<br />
Klein was so inspired by his camping experience – he celebrated his<br />
Bar Mitzvah at camp in 1974, the summer he turned 13 – he<br />
convinced his parents to keep a kosher home and enroll him in a<br />
local Detroit-area yeshiva. Today, the prominent podiatrist has three<br />
grown children, two of whom also attended Camp Gan Israel.<br />
“The friends that I made at camp – the children of friends that I met<br />
at camp – are worldwide,” says Klein, who, decades later, still sings<br />
songs that he learned at camp as a seven-year-old, including the<br />
Camp Gan Israel anthem. “A lot of people who went to this camp are<br />
amazing” Jewish leaders.<br />
Camp Gan Israel’s alumni include Rabbis Shmuel Lew, director of the<br />
Lubavitch House School in London, and Rabbi Moshe Feller, director<br />
of the Upper Midwest regional headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch.<br />
“The camp experience is attractive to all kinds of parents,” explains<br />
Shemtov. “The Rebbe turned camp into a tremendous instrument in<br />
attracting youth with little in the way of Jewish involvement, who<br />
then were able to strengthen Judaism in their own families.”<br />
Daniella Uminer, program director of the Chabad Jewish Center of<br />
Martin and S. Lucie County, Fla., says that she and her husband<br />
founded the local Camp Gan Israel before they established a Hebrew<br />
school.<br />
Their area has a small, assimilated Jewish population, she says. “We<br />
started out with 15 kids and now we have at least 60. We’ve grown<br />
over the years, and it’s been a great journey.”<br />
What distinguishes Camp Gan Israel from a typical summer<br />
camp is the one-on-one attention devoted to each child,
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Calif.<br />
“We recognize that each child is unique in his or her abilities and<br />
interests, and therefore offer a variety of choices for the child during<br />
his or her camp experience,” says Pinson. “This flexibility ensures<br />
that each child thrives in the camp environment and leaves at the<br />
end of the day with the greatest of smiles, looking forward to the<br />
next day’s surprises and fun activities.”<br />
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Brooklyn, NY - DA Hynes Unveils<br />
Kletzky-Inspired Safe Stop Program<br />
B rooklyn,<br />
NY - Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes<br />
today announced the creation of Safe Stop, an initiative which<br />
provides a safe place for youth, seniors and all others to go if<br />
they need help in case of an emergency to access information about<br />
the District Attorney’s Neighborhood Office Program and crime and<br />
prevention programs offered both by his office and the Police<br />
Department.<br />
Safe Stop is an idea which sprang directly from the community itself.<br />
Each year the District Attorney honors 31 Brooklyn women as<br />
Extraordinary Women for their devotion to neighborhood,<br />
community and public service. The District Attorney invites each<br />
honoree to bring fresh ideas to his staff about how to make their<br />
communities safer. About one year ago, Betty Cooney, Executive<br />
Director of the Graham Avenue Business Improvement District in<br />
Williamsburg, and an Extraordinary Woman in 2009, suggested reinstituting<br />
in Williamsburg the “Safe Haven” program, an NYPD<br />
initiative with which the District Attorney’s Office collaborated in<br />
the 1990’s. After speaking with Betty, other Brooklyn BID Executive<br />
Directors and NYPD Community Affairs, the District Attorney decided<br />
to launch Safe Stop.<br />
District Attorney Hynes said, “We are always looking for ways to<br />
make Brooklyn safer. We welcome suggestions from the<br />
community. Sometimes people who need help don’t know where to<br />
turn. Now, if someone is lost, has a medical emergency, or is a crime<br />
victim, they can go into any of these Safe Stop locations where<br />
merchants will have all kinds of information and resources for those<br />
who need help. They will be trained to know where to refer people<br />
and how to help them.”<br />
Participants of Safe Stop will display decals in their store windows<br />
identifying them as a designated Safe Stop location. The merchants<br />
will be trained by Executive Directors of neighborhood Business<br />
Improvement Districts (BID).<br />
They will make public safety information from the District<br />
Attorney’s Office and the Police Department available and refer nonemergency<br />
situations to the local District Attorney’s Neighborhood<br />
Office. The merchants will be directed to call 911 for emergencies<br />
that require immediate medical, police or fire response.<br />
Another component of Safe Stop is Assistant District Attorneys<br />
spreading the word about this public safety initiative through the<br />
Legal Lives Program, in which prosecutors appear in hundreds of<br />
schools throughout Brooklyn each year to present a law-related<br />
curriculum to students.<br />
Each Safe Stop merchant was selected by the Executive Directors of<br />
the participating neighborhood BIDs. There are currently 77 Safe<br />
Stop locations in Brooklyn: 45 in Sunset Park, 19 in Williamsburg and<br />
13 in Park Slope with plans to add more merchants in other<br />
neighborhoods.<br />
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As Calm Returns to England, Leaders<br />
Consider Roots of Rioting<br />
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A<br />
fter nearly a week of rioting and chaos, a sense of calm has<br />
finally returned to the streets in cities across the United<br />
Kingdom. What started as a youth protest in North London<br />
last Sunday after the death of a London man quickly turned violent.<br />
Police struggled to quell the looting and destruction as it spread<br />
across London and other cities.<br />
As Britons have begun to sift through the rubble, the country’s<br />
leaders have turned to the issue of youth rebellion and the wanton<br />
destruction of property by children as young as 10 or 11, a reflection,<br />
in Prime Minister David Cameron’s words, of nothing less than<br />
society’s “moral collapse.”<br />
“Do we have the determination to confront the slow-motion moral<br />
collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few<br />
generations?” he asked at youth center in his home constituency of<br />
Witney in Oxfordshire.<br />
Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, Chabad’s representative to Ilford, an East London<br />
suburb, and a 2009 recipient Member of the Order of the British<br />
Empire (MBE), runs Drugsline, a drug rehabilitation center providing<br />
crisis intervention, education, counseling, and family support. He<br />
agrees with the Prime Minister.<br />
“This wasn’t an issue of race,” Sufrin says. “All communities face the<br />
same challenges. We struggle to engage young people be it from the<br />
synagogue, the mosque or elsewhere. We must come off our<br />
pedestals as preachers and directly engage the youth.”<br />
Though Ilford itself was spared from most of the violence, Sufrin<br />
sees the roots of youth “disenfranchisement” as one across<br />
community lines.<br />
Sufrin’s organization plans on bringing British youth together in<br />
focus groups to directly address their feelings about what happened.<br />
Plans for a new curriculum will be put into effect this fall as well.<br />
“We have used this opportunity to carry the moral message of<br />
rebuilding family and finding positive role-models,” Sufrin says.<br />
“Only through positive reinforcement can we bring greater respect<br />
for those we encounter, be they family, stranger or government.”<br />
Despite his belief that the problem is deeply rooted, Sufrin says that<br />
the youth involved in last week’s violence were by far only a<br />
minority. He points to community members who took to the streets<br />
with brooms to clean London over the past few days.<br />
“If ultimately a small group of people can cause so much<br />
destruction, one can only imagine how many more can rebuild.”
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Women’s Study Group - Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:15 - 10:00 pm<br />
Please call the shul for more details<br />
Tuesday<br />
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~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village<br />
Torah Portion Class in Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm<br />
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Thursday<br />
Kabbalah & Psychology (in French) Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 10:30 - 11:30 am<br />
~ Haime Library<br />
Atelier d’Etude du Sens Cache des Berachot Rabbi Z. Gansburg 11:30 - 12:00 pm<br />
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Weekly Parsha For Kids<br />
23<br />
Hashem commanded the Jewish<br />
people to say Birchas Hamazon<br />
after eating in order to remind<br />
them, that all of their success<br />
comes from Him.<br />
Hashem commanded the Jewish<br />
people to serve Him through<br />
prayer, and to cling to Him by<br />
connecting themselves to Talmidei<br />
Chachamim<br />
In the second part of the Shema<br />
prayer, Hashem promised the<br />
Jewish people that if they keep<br />
the mitzvos, Hew will bless them<br />
with all that they need. However, if<br />
Chas Veshalom they sin, they will<br />
not have rain, food or livelihood.
Encontrando tu Fortuna<br />
Por Elisha Greenbaum<br />
H asta<br />
hace poco, él había sido el<br />
hombre más rico de la ciudad,<br />
pero la rueda de la fortuna lo llevó<br />
a convertirse en un mendigo, sin<br />
dejar rastros de su antigua fortuna y riqueza.<br />
Más terrible que la pérdida de sus lujos, y de<br />
la vida anterior que tanto había disfrutado,<br />
era su imagen pública. Se había<br />
acostumbrado tanto a la forma diferente en<br />
la que todos lo trataban. Había sido tan<br />
placentero sentirse bienvenido por todos, y<br />
tratado con el mayor de los respetos. Había<br />
disfrutado de poder ofrecer opinión en cada<br />
cosa y añoraba terriblemente la habilidad de<br />
poder ganarse la opinión pública con solo<br />
algunas palabras bien elegidas.<br />
Antes, había pensado que su consejo era<br />
valorado independientemente, pero ahora,<br />
que había sido relegado a acatar órdenes,<br />
estaba forzado a mirar a otros disfrutar de la<br />
adulación que alguna vez le había<br />
correspondido a él.<br />
¡Pero ahora estaba volviendo! Había<br />
enfrentado la tormenta, y re invertido el<br />
capital, y con algunos golpes de suerte,<br />
volvió a lo que era antes. No sólo había<br />
vuelto a ser rico, sino que además, le había<br />
vuelto la sabiduría.<br />
Le consultaban frecuentemente, y la gente lo<br />
aplaudía por su perspicacia e inteligencia.<br />
Todos iban a pedirle sus consejos, y le<br />
felicitaban por su disposición de querer<br />
compartir.<br />
La única persona que no se dejó llevar, era el<br />
magnate mismo. Muy frecuentemente se oía<br />
recalcándose a sí mismo, acerca de lo<br />
agradecido que estaba por el breve período<br />
que se encontró en “la sombra”, para que<br />
poder ver quienes eran sus verdaderos<br />
amigos y cual era la estima social verdadera<br />
de sus opiniones y pensamientos.<br />
¿No es extraño que cuando alguien es<br />
acaudalado, automáticamente se le<br />
atribuyen muchas otras cualidades? ¿Por qué<br />
asumirías lógicamente que los subastitas<br />
por ejemplo, tienen un gran aprecio por el<br />
arte o que pueden confiarse para decidir la<br />
política pública? No todos los financieros son<br />
gigantes intelectuales. La adquisición de<br />
dinero demanda ciertos tipos de habilidades<br />
y dotes, y esto no necesariamente se<br />
transporta a otras disciplinas.<br />
La Torá nos advierte acerca de desarrollar<br />
una visión equivocada de la realidad.<br />
Latin Link<br />
Reflexión Semanal<br />
Parashá de la Semana<br />
Sé cuidadoso en no olvidar a Di-s y en faltar<br />
en cumplir Sus mandamientos…Debes comer<br />
y saciarte, construir buenas casas y morar en<br />
ellas. Al crecer tu rebaño, tu oro y tu plata y<br />
todo lo que posees, tu corazón puede<br />
volverse arrogante y puedes olvidarte de Dis.<br />
(Deuteronomio 8:11-13)<br />
Una lección permanente para todos sobre los<br />
peligros del lujo y la riqueza, aunque<br />
codificada en las palabras, y se puede leer en<br />
el mensaje sobre cómo relacionarnos con la<br />
riqueza del otro.<br />
Sólo porque una persona posea casas, oro y<br />
plata, no hay que asumir que todo lo demás<br />
crecerá también. Mantén las cosas en<br />
perspectiva, la riqueza no confiere<br />
legitimidad intelectual. En el Judaísmo, la<br />
sabiduría es atribuida tradicionalmente a<br />
aquellos que estudian Torá. Los eruditos son<br />
nuestra verdadera aristocracia y el rol del<br />
hombre rico es mantener al estudio de la<br />
Torá y ayudar al funcionamiento de la<br />
sociedad.<br />
La riqueza puede ser un desafío para<br />
aquellos que fueron bendecidos con ella.<br />
Recuerda siempre quiénes son tus<br />
verdaderos amigos. El dinero va y viene, pero<br />
la personalidad dura para siempre. Si te<br />
olvidas de este recordatorio, corres el riesgo<br />
de volverte arrogante y desagradecido.<br />
El desafío para el resto de la sociedad es<br />
aceptar y honrar a un hombre de manera<br />
proporcional a su intrínseco valor, no a su<br />
balance bancario. Estamos orgullosos de los<br />
valores de nuestra Torá y nos sostenemos en<br />
ellos, a pesar de todo. Nunca debemos<br />
olvidar que Di-s es Quien gobierna el mundo<br />
y que debemos responder solamente a Él.<br />
* * * * *<br />
Resumen de la Parashá<br />
Deuteronomio 7:12-11:25<br />
M oshé<br />
continúa su discurso final a<br />
los Hijos de Israel, prometiéndoles<br />
que si cumplen los preceptos de la<br />
Torá, van a ser prósperos en la<br />
tierra que están a punto de conquistar y de<br />
establecerse, cumpliendo así la promesa de Dis<br />
a sus patriarcas.<br />
Moshé también los reprende por los fallos en<br />
su primera generación como pueblo,<br />
recordando la idolatría del Becerro de Oro, la<br />
rebelión de Koraj, el pecado de los espías, su<br />
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incitación de Di-s en Taveeirá, Masá y Kivrot<br />
Hataavá; "Tú has sido rebelde contra Di-s," les<br />
dice, "desde el día en que te conocí".<br />
Sin embargo, también habla del perdón Divino<br />
y de las Segundas Tablas de la ley que Di-s<br />
escribió y les dio luego de haberse arrepentido.<br />
Los 40 años en el desierto, les dice Moshé,<br />
durante los cuales Di-s los alimentó con el<br />
diario Man del cielo, fueron para enseñarles<br />
que "el hombre no vive solo de pan, sino de la<br />
palabra de Di-s vive el hombre".<br />
Moshé describe la tierra a la que van a ingresar<br />
como una tierra que "fluye leche y miel", una<br />
tierra bendecida por las siete especies (trigo,<br />
cebada, uva, higo, granada, aceite de oliva y<br />
dátiles), como el lugar que es el foco de la<br />
Providencia Divina en el universo. Los manda a<br />
destruir los ídolos de los habitantes anteriores<br />
de la tierra, y a ser cuidadosos de no volverse<br />
soberbios y pensar que "mi poder y la fuerza de<br />
mi mano me dieron esta riqueza".<br />
Un pasaje clave de esta sección es el segundo<br />
capítulo del Shemá, que repite los preceptos<br />
fundamentales enumerados en el primer<br />
capitulo del Shemá y describe la recompensa<br />
por observar los preceptos de Di-s y el<br />
resultado adverso (hambruna y exilio) por no<br />
cumplirlos. También es la fuente del precepto<br />
de rezar e incluye una referencia a la<br />
resurrección de los muertos en la Era<br />
Mesiánica.<br />
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Né au sommet d’une<br />
montagne<br />
par Mendy Wolf<br />
O n<br />
raconte l’histoire d’un groupe<br />
d’alpinistes déterminés à atteindre<br />
le sommet d’une très haute<br />
montagne. Ils se préparèrent des<br />
années durant, s’entraînant des conditions<br />
difficiles, escaladant de nombreuses<br />
montagnes mineures. Un jour, ils jugèrent<br />
qu’ils étaient finalement prêts. Chargés de<br />
leur équipement et remplis d’excitation, ils<br />
entamèrent leur longue ascension.<br />
Au bout de nombreuses journées difficiles, le<br />
groupe parvint finalement au sommet. Leur<br />
satisfaction était totale : ils avaient atteint<br />
leur but et réalisé leur vieux rêve. Soudain, à<br />
leur grand étonnement, ils aperçurent un<br />
petit garçon assis confortablement sur un<br />
rocher. Eux avaient dû s’entraîner des années<br />
pour gravir cette montagne. Comment lui<br />
était-il arrivé là ?<br />
En réponse à leur question, le garçon répondit<br />
simplement : « Je suis né ici. »<br />
Imaginez que vous êtes cet enfant, ayant la<br />
chance de vous voir donner ce que d’autres<br />
n’ont pu obtenir qu’au prix d’un travail<br />
laborieux. Que ressentiriez-vous ? Seriez-vous<br />
reconnaissant ? Trouveriez-vous cela normal ?<br />
Vous sentiriez-vous supérieur aux autres ?<br />
Cessez maintenant d’imaginer. Vous êtes cet<br />
enfant. Oui, chacun de nous est né avec des<br />
talents et des aptitudes uniques qui nous<br />
permettent d’atteindre des sommets qui<br />
demeureront hors d’atteinte pour d’autres.<br />
Chacun d’entre nous est né au sommet d’une<br />
montagne, qu’elle soit faite d’intellect, de<br />
force physique, de créativité et de quoi que ce<br />
soit d’autre.<br />
Il est aisé de se laisser aller à penser que nos<br />
succès sont exclusivement nôtres. Nous<br />
sommes fiers de nous pour un travail bien<br />
fait. Nous considérons que nous méritons de<br />
jouir des profits de notre travail. Charité ?<br />
Mais c’est mon argent ! Gratitude ? Pourquoi ?<br />
C’est le fruit de mon travail !<br />
Dans le Deutéronome (8, 17-18), Moïse nous<br />
exhorte de ne pas tomber dans le piège de<br />
l’autoattribution. Lorsque nous commençons<br />
à penser « C’est ma force et la puissance de<br />
ma main qui m’ont fait toute cette richesse »,<br />
nous devons nous souvenir que, somme<br />
toute, cette force nous a été donnée par<br />
D.ieu.<br />
Oui, lorsque nos travaillons dur, nous<br />
French Connection<br />
Réflexions sur la Paracha<br />
Vivre avec la Paracha<br />
méritons que cela soit reconnu. Mais<br />
n’oublions pas que nos qualités nous<br />
avantagent. Lorsque nous faisons une bonne<br />
affaire, ce n’est que parce que nous avons été<br />
« tuyautés ». Nous sommes nés au sommet<br />
d’une montagne : nos efforts, aussi louables<br />
qu’ils puissent être, exploitent les talents et<br />
les capacités qui nous ont été données,<br />
gratuitement.<br />
* * * * *<br />
L'homme et le pain<br />
Savez-vous ce que vous mangez ?<br />
par Lazer Gurkow<br />
L a<br />
création tout entière peut être divisée<br />
en quatre éléments :<br />
1) Le premier consiste en l'inanimé, le<br />
minéral, qui ne montre aucun signe<br />
extérieur de vie ou de vitalité.<br />
2) Le second est le règne végétal qui jouit d'un<br />
mouvement vertical (par la croissance) mais<br />
est incapable de mouvement latéral.<br />
3) Le troisième est le règne animal qui fait<br />
montre d'une énorme énergie vitale par les<br />
mouvements verticaux et latéraux.<br />
4) Enfin l'homme domine tous les règnes.<br />
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L'homme montre des signes de vie non<br />
seulement à l'extérieur mais également à<br />
l'intérieur. Aucune créature n'a un intellect<br />
comparable et des talents de communication<br />
semblables.<br />
Cependant cette hiérarchisation pose un<br />
problème. Pourquoi l'homme est-il nourri,<br />
sustenté par ce qui lui est inférieur ? La<br />
logique ne dicte-t-elle pas que des formes de<br />
vie élevées soient alimentées par ce qui leur<br />
est supérieur ? Et à l'inverse, une forme de vie<br />
supérieure ne compromet-elle pas, en<br />
quelque sorte, sa pureté en recevant son<br />
énergie vitale d'une forme de vie inférieure ?<br />
Le plus bas est le plus élevé<br />
Cette question nous oblige à réévaluer la<br />
manière dont le monde apparaît et les valeurs<br />
que nous lui attribuons. La Kabbale nous<br />
enseigne que les créatures qui apparaissent<br />
les plus basses ont, en fait, leur origine à un<br />
niveau plus élevé. Leur origine supérieure leur<br />
permet de séjourner à un statut très bas parce<br />
qu'une source plus forte est capable d'envoyer<br />
ses jaillissements plus loin qu'une source<br />
moins puissante.<br />
Quand nous envisageons la hiérarchie de<br />
cette perspective, nous découvrons que<br />
l'origine de la végétation est en fait plus<br />
élevée que celle de l'homme. L'homme n'est<br />
pas nourri par la substance du pain, qui lui est<br />
inférieure, mais par l'énergie divine qu'il<br />
renferme, l'origine spirituelle du pain qui, elle,<br />
est plus élevée.<br />
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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 />
Likutei Torah Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 6:15 - 6:50 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:<br />
At the home of : Call The Shul for details<br />
Senior Torah Academy:<br />
From Exile to Redemption: Insights on Moshiach<br />
Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women<br />
Pirkei Avot: Ethics of our Fathers<br />
*All classes located at The Shul unless otherwise specified.<br />
Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar<br />
8:15 - 10:00pm<br />
Rabbi Mendy Levy 11:00 - 11:45 am<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 />
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 Rabbi Mendy Levy 10:00 - 11:00 am<br />
Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women<br />
Tanya<br />
Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar<br />
9:00 - 10:15 pm<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 Benchimol 8:00 - 10:00 pm<br />
Kabbalah & Psychology in French (Women) - Haime Library Rabbi Zalman Postponed Gansburg Until September 1st<br />
10:30 am - 11:30 am<br />
Atelier d’Etude du Sens Cache des Berachot (Women) Haime Library Rabbi Zalman Postponed Gansburg Until September 1st<br />
11:30 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 />
Book of Judges<br />
Tanya in Spanish (Women)<br />
Rabbi Dov Schochet<br />
Mrs. Vivian Perez<br />
(Chabad of Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd)<br />
12:00 - 12:45 pm<br />
2:00 - 3:00 pm<br />
Tanya (Men & Women) Rabbi Uri Cohen 8:00 pm<br />
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Community Nachas<br />
Community Nachas<br />
A Peek at Recent Happenings
Chof Av Farbrengen<br />
Shabbos, August 20, 2011<br />
at 12:30 pm<br />
In The Shul Social Hall<br />
In honor of the 67th Yahrtzeit of<br />
Reb Levy Yitzchok Schneerson, OBM<br />
the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe<br />
Also commemorating the 3rd Yahrtzeit of<br />
Arturo Colodner (Shmuel Ben Tzvi OBM)<br />
Come and share stories and memories about<br />
our beloved brother and friend!<br />
Sponsored by Devorah Leah Andrusier in honor of the yahrtzeit of her<br />
husband’s 16 father Rav Rephael Ben Reb Nissan Isaac Obm.