Bulletin05.07.2011 - Emor

Yom Hazikaron 

Sunday May 8, 2011 

The Shul 

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A House of Torah, Prayer And Acts of Goodness 

Shabbos Parshas Emor 

Iyar 2 - 3, 5771 

May 6 - 7, 2011 

Candle Lighting: 7:36PM 

(See page 5 for full Shabbos schedule) 

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Emor 

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n this week’s portion of Emor, we 

learn about the timely significant 

mitzvah, namely the counting of 

the Omer during this entire month 

and for a total of 49 days between 

Pesach and Shavuot. 

The Torah portion however begins 

with an address to Aaron and all of the 

Kohanim who are considered to be 

the servants of G-d, representing the 

Jewish People to Almighty G-d by 

bringing their offerings, and 

representing G-d to the Jewish People 

in accepting their offerings. 

The standards set for the Kohanim are 

extremely high to maintain the most 

pristine level of holiness necessary to 

properly serve in G-d’s sanctuary. In 

this way, the Kohanim were unique 

and different than the rest of the community. They were held 

to higher standards, eligible to serve only when complying 

with strict physical conditions. Their personal lives were 

likewise limited both in whom they could marry and whose 

funeral they could attend. This was mandated because the 

Kohanim represented a segment of society that interacted 

professionally with G-dliness on a regular basis, in a physical 

manner as G-dliness manifested in the Beis HaMikdash. The 

Kohanim never diminished or denied their difference and lived 

according to the rules and regulations that underscored that 

they were unique and different. 

Though this Torah portion speaks to the genetic Kohanim, it 

actually has a direct lesson to every single Jew who is also 

referred to as a Kohain in the Book of Exodus stating, “and you 

shall be for Me a Kingdom of Kohanim and a Holy People”. (Ch. 

19 vs 6) The Talmud relates a story that indicates that the term 

Kingdom of Kohanim here literally means behaving on a more 

refined level as an actual King served a Kohain, referencing the 

fact that they are “a nation of Kohanim”, of royalty. Every 

single Jew, not only biological progeny of the tribe of Levi, is 

included in that G-dly statement. 

Maimonides extrapolates clearly in his laws of Shmita and 

Yovel (Ch. 13 Law 13) “not only the tribe of Levi but any person 

in the world whose spirit generously motivates him and he 

wisely recognizes his need to set himself aside to stand before 

G-d and serve Him, minister to Him and know Him, proceeding 

correctly as G-d made him, removing the pressures of the 

many machinations which people seek, he is sanctified as a 

Holy of Holies. G-d will be his portion and heritage forever and 

will provide what is sufficient for him in this world, as He 

Weekly Message 

Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 

provides for the Priests and the Levites.” 

It is clear that every single Jew can be 

categorized as a Kohain, being in a 

critical sense unique and different. 

Though throughout the generations 

many Jews as a result of presumed and 

real attitudes and actions of anti- 

Semitism by their host countries, 

whether overtly or covertly, felt that if 

they would integrate into the 

environment around them and give up 

their uniqueness and Jewish identity, 

they would not incur the negativity of 

their neighbors. History has proven that 

the unique and singular aspects of the 

Jew that make him outstanding 

transcends his behavior and his 

assumed identity. The Holocaust 

massacre underscores this as many who 

were murdered because they were Jews 

proclaimed and protested, claiming that 

their direct ancestors were not Jewish 

so they were not Jewish. A single 

grandparent who was Jewish was enough to infuse them with 

that Jewish uniqueness. 

What makes us unique? What are the practicalities that make 

us different? The pattern of our individuality and uniqueness 

can be traced to our genesis when Abraham was rebelling 

against his idolatrous society, and later when the Jewish 

People were accused by Pharaoh to be a unique nation that 

would rise up against them, as we were consistently accused 

by multiple nations throughout history. This is true today, as 

the standards by which the Jewish people and the Holy Land of 

Israel are measured are completely beyond the pale of any 

standards set by any country for similar circumstances. There’s 

no Goldstone report on the criminal behavior of the American 

forces in Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq. Nor was there one 

regarding the indiscriminate slaughter of thousands in Syria, 

Egypt, Libya, Yemen and other sub-Saharan countries. The 

Goldstone investigation was initially sanctioned by the Jewish 

people who were proud of how they conducted themselves in 

times of war against avowed enemies. The entire world 

expects the Jewish people to leave their homes in Judea and 

Samaria and create a Judenrein country right next to the State 

of Israel, 60 years after the Holocaust. No other people in the 

world would be denied the opportunity to live anywhere as 

free people. If any country in the world would declare their 

place to be Judenrein, it would be considered illegal. And yet 

the world supports that kind of a position. 

Our uniqueness also manifests itself in the extraordinary 

humanitarian efforts that Israel, in the midst of facing 

enemies who pose an existential threat, send their finest 

Continued on page 10

T ake a Deeper Look 

Celebrating Shabbos 

Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 

need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience. 

Kiddush Bank 

The Investment with the Guaranteed Return 

A Time to Pray 

Check out all the davening schedules and locations 

throughout the week. 

Community Happenings 

Dates to Celebrate and Commemorate. 

Inspiration, Insights and Ideas 

Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE. 

Get the Picture 

The full scoop on all the great events around town. 

Kids Korner / Teen Seen 

Educate, inspire and most of all have FUN! 

Latin Link 

Reflexión Semanal 

French Connection 

Réflexions sur la Paracha. 

Just for the Gals 

Delve into the power, strength and beauty in the life 

of the Jewish Woman. 

The ABC's of Aleph 

Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 

The Network 

Get Connected! All your advertising needs 

in one convenient spot. 

It’s Good To Know 

Find out what's going on and how you can get involved. 

Daily Study 

A complete guide to all classes and courses offered 

at The Shul. 

Community Nachas 

A peek at recent happenings 

Featured Upcoming Events 

Events you won’t want to miss 

Shul Office Hours 

Mon. - Thurs. 9 am - 5 pm 

Friday 9 am - 2 pm 

*National Holidays and Chol Hamoed 9 am - 2 pm 

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Special Thank You 

Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah 

for the month of Iyar is sponsored by: 

Henry and Evy Eichler 

In honor of our Children 

Eliav Shimon on his upcoming upsherin in Israel on 

Lag B'Omer, Gaby's Bat Mitzvah, and our beautiful 

little artist Dalya. 

We love you, 

Mom and Dad 

“Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to pray, 

those who provide lights for illumination, wine for kiddush and havdalah, food 

for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who occupy 

themselves faithfully with communal affairs— may the Holy One, blessed be 

He, give them their reward, remove them from all sickness, heal their entire 

body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their 

endeavors, together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” 

- Shacharis for Shabbos. 

Gabayim Corner 

The Shul’s Gaboyim: 

Mr. Allen Berry / Mr. David Pollack / Mr. Andrew Roth / 

Mr. David Portnoy /Mr. Henry Eichler 

Please note that the distribution of Aliyot according to our customs 

is in the order of certain Simchot, Yahrtzeits, Birthdays, Guests and 

general rotation. We encourage you to participate in the weekday 

Davening and Aliyot on Mondays and Thursdays. 

Attention members and guests: 

During the taking out of the Torah for leining, please allow seat 

holders to return to their seats before occupying open seating. 

Designated seats are for the use of members who dedicated them. 

On Shabbos and Yom Tov, dedicated seats may be occupied by 

anyone after 10:30 a.m. in the men’s section and 11:00 a.m. in the 

women’s section. 

Contacts at The Shul 305-868-1411 

Rabbi 

Rabbi 

Rabbi’s Secretary 

Rabbi’s Assistant / Editor 

Outreach/Kolel/Websites 

JLAC/Adult Ed/Singles/ 

Special Events 

CYS College / Senior Kolel 

Accounting 

Controller 

Events /Office Manager 

Youth Director /Dinner/Lay- 

Leadership 

Operations / Maintenance 

Reception/Accounts Payable 

Pre-School 

Sephardic Minyan 

Hebrew School/Co-Editor 

Hashkama Minyan 

Please remember to take personal belongings with you when you leave The Shul. 

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Rabbi Sholom Lipskar 

Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 

Mrs. Fay Garber 

Ms. Lydia Hasson 

Rabbi Mendy Levy 

Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 

Rabbi Dov Schochet 

Mrs. Geri Kelly 

Mrs. Janice Barney 

Mrs. Pnina Wuensch 

Mrs. Devorah Leah 

Andrusier 

Mr. Shlomie Katan 

Mrs. Renee Moore 

Chana or Shani 

Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 

Mrs. Aurit Katan 

Mr. Lazer Milstein 

Ext. 7315 

Ext. 7345 

Ext. 7315 

Ext. 7314 

Ext. 7333 

Ext. 7342 

Ext. 7343 

Ext. 7341 

Ext. 7318 

Ext. 7313 

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305 790-4634 

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Shabbos Schedule 

Celebrating Shabbos With Our Youth 

Everything you need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience 

No longer will your children get lost amongst the crowds in Shul on 

Shabbos morning. The Shul youth has worked together to organize a 

highly educational and fun program for children and teens of all 

ages. Each Shabbos morning program involves a mix of Tefilla 

(prayer), Parsha (weekly Torah study) and general "Jewishness", 

through games, songs, and stories. Taught by our very own Shul 

Bochurim and youth girls, each child will experience Shabbos in its 

full glory; leaving with a taste of holiness and fun memories that will 

keep them coming back from week to week. A Kiddush exclusively 

for the children culminates the exciting program. 

Shabbos 

10:45 - 11:45 a.m. 

Malkie’s Tot Shabbat (ages 0 - 4): Montessori Classroom 2 

(enter from the Women’s Sanctuary) 

Girls: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 

Yakira Leah's Program for Girls: ages 5-7: Classroom 2 

Bashy’s Program for Girls: ages 8-10: Classroom 1 

Batsheva’s Program for Tween Girls: ages 11-13: Rabbi Lipskar’s Study 

Sarah Malka’s Program for Teen Girls: ages 14 and up: Teen Room 

(at the back of the women’s sanctuary) 

Boys: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 

Eli’s Program: Boys ages 5-9: The New Montessori Classroom 3 

Yossi’s Program: Boys ages 10-13: Haime Library 

Menachem’s Program: Teen Boys 14-18: Montessori Classroom 1 

6:45 p.m. 

Messibos Shabbos for all Girls (Classroom 1) 

6:45 p.m. 

Shalosh Seudos for all Boys (Youth Synagogue) 

For more information on any of our Youth Programming, 

please contact Devorah Leah Andrusier at 305 868-1411 ext 7328 

Shalosh Seudos 

For Boys 

Every Shabbos evening at 6:45 pm In the Youth Synagogue (upstairs) 

Be There! GREAT PRIZES!!! 

Prizes kindly sponsored by the Goldczer Family 

Messibos Shabbos 

For Girls 

An exciting program for all Girls: 1st-5th Grade. 

Every Shabbos afternoon at 6:45 pm (Afternoon Mincha) In Classroom # 1 

Come and Enjoy Tzivos HaShem learning, great food & nosh, 

prizes, games and stories. 

Father & Son will resume in the Fall 

when the clocks change again! 

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Shabbos with the Teen Boys Minyan 

Ever wonder how you can teach your son to follow with a real 

Minyan, or even run his own? The Shul youth has created the scene. 

Every Shabbos morning, each teen has his own chance to play a 

vital role in his own Shul Minyan, lead by one of our very own 

Rabbis and Youth leaders. Every week all the boys have a chance to 

act as Chazzan, Gabbai or ‘Rabbi’. This hands-on approach gives 

each teen the opportunity to experience Shul and prayer to its 

fullest, by involving them in every aspect of the Davening. 

For Boys Only: ages 14-18 

Shabbos 

Child Enrichment Center Classroom # 2 

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

*Please note: The Teen Minyan is strictly for the Teens. We 

would appreciate it if adults would stay in the Main Sanctuary. 

For more information: Contact 305 868 1411 ext. 7345 

Torah Quiz 

Questions This Week: 

1. Which women may a Kohen marry (at least three 

conditions)? 

2. Name three events that happened in the month of Iyar 

which are important to the Jewish people. 

3. What Brachos will we need to say when we see Moshiach 

for the first time (at least three)? 

Answers for Last Week: 

1. The Mitzvah of Orlah is that we may not eat or benefit 

from fruit that grows during the first three years after one 

plants a tree. This Mitzvah also applies outside of the 

Land of Israel but only if one is sure that the produce is 

Orlah. Similarly, it applies to produce grown by a gentile if 

one is sure that the produce is Orlah. 

2. Eight of Moshiach’s names are: Menachem, Shiloh, Yinon, 

Chaim, Peleh Yoetz, Shalom, Kal, & Gibor. 

3. The twelve Roshei Chodesh (new months of the year) 

honor the twelve Shevatim. 

Prizes kindly sponsored by the Goldczer Family. 

Last Week’s Winner 

To be announced 

YOUTH COUNSELORS 

GIRLS: BOYS: 

Bashy Eli 

Batsheva Menachem 

Sarah Malka Shimon 

Yakira Leah Yossi 

Children should respect all School & Shul property. 

Their Parents will be held responsible for 

any damage they may cause.

Friday Night 

Yedid Nefesh pg. 151 

Vayedaber pgs. 99-101 

Ashrei pg. 101 

SHABBOS SCHEDULE 

Friday Evening 

Early Mincha 6:00 p.m. 

Candle lighting 7:36 p.m. 

Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbos 7:40 p.m. 

Sephira 18 

Shabbos Day 

Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. 

Tanya / Hayom Yom 8:50 a.m. 

Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m. 

Children's Programs 10:00 a.m. 

- 12:00 p.m. 

30 Minutes of Tanya: Classroom #1 +/- 12:00 p.m. 

With Mrs. Vivian Perez (for Women) After Davening 

Kiddush 12:00 p.m. 

Daf Yomi 6:35 p.m. 

Pirkei Avot: Chapter 2 6:40 p.m. 

Women’s Shiur with Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 6:40 p.m. 

Messibos Shabbos for Girls 6:45 p.m. 

Shalosh Seudos for Boys 6:45 p.m. 

Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudos 7:25 p.m. 

Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 8:32 p.m. 

Weekly Video of The Rebbe 

Sephira 19 

Sephardic Minyan 

Friday Evening 

Mincha 7:25 p.m. 

Shabbat Day 

Shacharit 8:45 a.m. 


Shabbat Ends / Arvit & Havdalah 8:32 p.m. 

Next Week: Behar 

Candle lighting 7:40 p.m. 


Celebrating Shabbos 

Everything you need for an "Over the Top" Shabbos experience 

The Friday Evening Service and Shabbos Torah Portion 

Shabbos Day 

(Stone Chumash) 

Eruv Information 

We would like to emphasize that every Erev Shabbos, individuals 

should call the Eruv Hotline to make sure that the Eruv is 

operational prior to carrying on Shabbos. 

The number is 305- 866-ERUV (3788). 

The Eruv message is recorded approximately two hours prior to 

Candle lighting. Please note that the Eruv in Bal Harbour and 

Surfside does not include the path along the beach. The backs of the 

buildings form the Eruv in that section. It is forbidden to push 

strollers or carry anything on this path or beach area on Shabbos. 

Torah Portions pgs. 672-694 

Haftorah pg. 1176 

Shabbos Day 

(Gutnick Chumash) 

Torah Portions pgs. 178-206 

Haftorah pg. 261 

Kiddush This Week 

Kindly sponsored by Mr. Sami Rohr in honor of the yahrtzeit of his 

Mother, Perel bas Reb Meir HaLevy obm on 7 Iyar. 

May her neshama have an aliyah. 

Shalosh Seudos This Week 

Kindly sponsored in honor of Ze’ev ben Shimon’s yahrtzeit on 3 Iyar, 

by his children: Shay Kardonski, Mark Kardonski, 

Henry & Claudia Kardonski and Jaime & Raquel Gilinski. 

May his neshama have an aliyah. 

Please help us cover the cost of non-sponsored 

Kiddushim by becoming a Partner or Patron of our 

Kiddush Bank. 

THE CATERER FOR THIS WEEK’S KIDDUSH & SHALOSH SEUDOS 

IS EXECUTIVE CATERERS 

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Kiddushim at The Shul 

Please help us continue to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush 

and Shalosh Seudos by offering to become a sponsor. 

Sponsorship by one or more individuals is encouraged. 

The following dates are available for sponsorship: 

SPONSOR A 

KIDDUSH! 

PARTNER 

$770 

Kiddush: Shalosh Seudos: 

May 14, 28 May 14, 21, 28 

If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Pnina 

at 305 868-1411 x 7313 or email: pwuensch@theshul.org 

KIDDUSH 

5771 

PATRON 

$360 

The Shul has a “Kiddush Bank” to ensure that there are always 

adequate funds to cover the costs of our weekly, 

non-sponsored Shabbos Kiddushim and Shalosh Seudos. 

There are two levels of participation: 

Partner - annual contribution of $770 

Patron - annual contribution of $360 

Please help make our Kiddushim special. 

To participate in this mitzvah call Pnina at (305) 868-1411 x 7313 

Or email pwuensch@theshul.org

Partners - annual contribution of $770: 

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard and Carolyn Baumel 

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen and Bella Brenner 

Mr. & Mrs. Boruch and Yonit Duchman 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence and Roslyn Jaffe 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward and Pauline Kopelman 

Dr. & Mrs. Gene and Sandra Moteles 

Mr. & Mrs. Temuri and Maya Nanikashvili 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Schwalbe and Jody Soltanoff 

Mr. Abe Stein 

Kiddush Bank 

The Investment with a Guaranteed Return 

KIDDUSH BANK 5771 

Our very special thanks to the following Partners & Patrons whose contributions will help us to cover some 

of the costs of the un-sponsored Kiddushim and Farbrengens in the coming year. 

Patrons - annual contribution of $360: 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack and Amy Benishai 

Mr. & Mrs. Nelson and Shelley Berman 

Dr. & Mrs. Leonardo and Joni Blachar 

The Count Elkaim Family Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. Beryl and Florence Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Martin and Susan Packer 

Mr. Allan S. Roness 

Mr. & Mrs. Harold and Susan Rosenstein 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence and Rhea Rosenzweig 

Mr. Sheldon David William Taiger 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph and Zohara Weiss 

Following is a list of some of the non-sponsored 5770/5771 Kiddushim which our 

Kiddush Bank Investors helped provide to our community and visitors during the past year: 

Dates Un-Sponsored Events Paid by Kiddush Bank 

July 24 Shabbos Kiddush $700 

Aug. 7 Shabbos Kiddush $700 



Sept. 11 Shabbos Shuvah Farbrengen $1,000 

Sept. 23 Sukkos 1st Day Kiddush $1,800 

Sept. 24 Sukkos 2nd Day Kiddush $1,800 

Sept. 25 Shabbos Chol HaMoed Sukkos Kiddush $900 

Sept. 30 Kiddush $1,800 

Sept. 30 Hakafos Kiddush $1,800 

Oct. 1 Hakafos Kiddush $500 

Oct. 2 Kiddush $1,800 

Oct. 2 Farbrengen $700 

Oct. 30 Shabbos Kiddush $700 

Nov. 6 Shabbos Kiddush $700 



Jan. 29 Shabbos Kiddush $700 

Mar. 26 Shabbos Kiddush $700 

April 16 Shabbos Kiddush $700 

April 23 Shabbos Kiddush $700 

The shortfall for 5770 was over $20,800! 

(Excluding the expenses for all the non-sponsored Shalosh Seudos meals provided by The Shul) 

Your contribution will allow The Shul to continue providing adequate 

Kiddushim to our large community and many visitors! 

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 

Make Make a a deposit deposit in in our our Kiddush Kiddush Bank Bank 

IT’S IT’S A A GREAT GREAT INVESTMENT! 

INVESTMENT! 

GUARANTEED RETURN: SMILING FACES FACES ...EVEN ...EVEN WHEN WHEN KIDDUSH ISN’T ISN’T SPONSORED! 

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 

Davening schedules and locations throughout the week 

Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul 

MORNING SCHEDULE - Monday through Thursday 

6:15 - 6:50 am Sichos Kodesh Parshas Behar R’ Zalman Lipskar 

6:50 - 7:15 am Halacha Kitzur Shulchan Aruch R’ Dov Schochet 

8:00 - 8:45 am Daf Yomi Menachot R’ Dov Schochet 

8:45 - 9:00 am RamBam 1 Chapter per day R’ Dov Schochet 

8:45 am (approx) Halacha Sephardic Custom Shimshon Tzubeli 

10:00 - 10:45 am Sichos Sicha of the Rebbe - Textual R’ Shea Rubinstein 

Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan 

EVENING KOLEL SCHEDULE - Monday through Thursday - 8:00-10:00 pm 

Mon. to Thurs. 8:00 – 9:00 pm Chavrusah ~ Subject of Choice 1st Session 

Mon. to Thurs. 9:00 - 10:00 pm Chavrusah ~ Subject of Choice 2nd Session 

Shacharis 

Halachic Times for the Week: Based on times for May 11, 2011 

Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:22 am 

Earliest Talit & Tefillin 5:47 am 

Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:37 am 

(Earliest Amidah) 

Latest Shema 9:57 am 

Zman Tfillah 11:03 am 

Chatzot / Midday 1:17 pm 

Earliest Mincha 1:50 pm 

Plag HaMincha 6:33 pm 

Shekiah / Sunset 7:57 pm 

(preferable latest time for Mincha) 

Tzeit Hakochavim/Nightfall 8:27 pm 

(earliest preferable Ma’ariv) 

(Times taken from www.chabad.org. 

Please note that during the week the times may vary by a minute or two.) 

Daily Minyanim at The Shul 

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Shabbos 

6:50 am No Minyan R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Zalman Lipskar 

7:30 am No Minyan R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Mendy Levy 

8:00 am R’ Dov Schochet No Minyan No Minyan No Minyan No Minyan No Minyan 

9:00 am R’ Zalman Lipskar R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet 

Early Mincha 2:00 pm No Minyan R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy R’ Mendy Levy No Minyan 

Mincha/ 

Maariv 7:40 pm R’ Sholom Lipskar R’ Mendy Levy R’ Shea Rubinstein R’ Dov Schochet R’ Dov Schochet R’ Sholom Lipskar 

Maariv 10:00 pm TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA No Minyan 

Shacharit 

Shacharit 

Mincha/ 

Arvit 

Sephardic Minyanim at The Shul 

The Shul of Downtown 

Shacharis Monday & Thursday only 8:00 am 

Mincha Monday through Thursday 2:00 pm 

See Complete 

Shabbos 

Schedule 

on page 5 

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Shabbat 

8:00 am Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli 

9:00 am Shimshon Tzubeli 

7:40 pm Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli Shimshon Tzubeli 

See Complete 

Shabbat 

Schedule on 

page 5 

Rabbi Chaim Lipskar 

48 East Flagler Street, #363 (3rd Floor), Miami 

305-373-8303 or 786-368-9040 

Email: RCL@ShulofDowntown.com www.shulofdowntown.com 

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This is Hashem’s House! 

When in the Sanctuary ……...…shh!…...…... 

PLEASE, NO TALKING!! 

If you speak in Shul...then where do you Pray?

Iyar 3 

Birthdays 

Mr. Jackie Abraham 

Iyar 4 Mr. Murray Laulicht 

Iyar 4 Ms. Laurie Laulicht (Hoste) 

Iyar 4 Mrs. Nancy Karp 

Iyar 4 Rabbi Jacob Katz 

Iyar 5 Mr. Mayer Rivkin 

Iyar 5 Mr. Ezra Cappell 

Iyar 5 Mr. Michael Szafranski 

Iyar 5 Mrs. Shena Dominitz 

Iyar 5 Mr. Alexander Shear 

Iyar 6 Mr. Igal Fedida 

Iyar 6 Ms. Natalie Brod 

Iyar 6 Mr. Moshe Retelny 

Iyar 6 Ms. Debby Tabacinic 

Iyar 7 Mr. Jack Azout 

Iyar 8 Mr. Lloyd Stanley Rubin 

Iyar 8 Mr. Menachem Koegel 

Iyar 8 Mr. Velvel Freedman 

Iyar 9 Mr. Mark S Herskovits 

Iyar 9 Mr. Joseph Musikar 

Iyar 9 Mr. Avraham Dorfman 

Our Kids’ Birthdays 

Iyar 4 Shmuel Falic 

Iyar 4 Matt Levine 

Iyar 5 David Yerushalmi 

Iyar 5 Adina Amelie Andrusier 

Iyar 5 Rachel Noa Groisman 

Iyar 5 Charlotte Kavana 

Iyar 7 Joshua Diener 

Iyar 9 Sarah Btesh 

Bikur Cholim 

If you or someone you know is not feeling well or is undergoing 

health issues and would like a visit, we want to hear from you. 

Please call Fay at The Shul or send an email. 

Tel: (305) 868-1411 ext. 7315 or Fay@theshul.org. 

Lost & Found 

FOUND: A Man’s Watch was handed in at The Shul office 

before Passover. Please call The Shul to claim it if it’s yours. 

We have several items in our lost property that remain 

unclaimed after many months. If you have lost any items 

please call Lydia with a description. 305 868 1411 ext 7314 

Community Notice Board 

The Chayenu & Dvar Malchus publications will now be 

available for sale at the front receptionist. 

There is only a limited amount each week and we will 

unfortunately not be able to hold books for anyone. First 

come first serve. $2 a copy. 


Dates to Celebrate and Commemorate 

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Anniversaries 

13-May Mr. & Mrs. Jackie and Johana Abraham 

Yahrtzeits 

Iyar 3 Jacob Chosher obm 

Grandfather of Mrs. Chava Fux 

Iyar 3 Ze'ev ben Shimon obm 

Father of Ms. Shay Kardonski 


Father of Mr. Henry Kardonski 


Father of Mrs. Raquel Gilinski 

Iyar 3 Harry Naimer obm 

Father of Mrs. Vivian Naimer 

Iyar 5 Moshe ben Eliyahu Hacohen obm 

Father of Mr. Elias Sussman 

Iyar 6 Yisroel ben Reb Shneur Zalman Halevi obm 

Father of Mr. Boruch Duchman 

Iyar 7 Yaakov Yosef ben Manes obm 

Brother of Mr. Natan Kaufman 

Iyar 7 Perel bas Reb Meir HaLevy obm 

Mother of Mr. Sami Rohr 

Iyar 7 Felix Shalom obm 

Father of Mrs. Sarita Lekach 

Iyar 8 Chaim Leib ben Yitzchak obm 

Father of Mrs. Lillian Glick 

IIyar 9 Josef ben Shimon Hanouch HaCohen obm 

Husband of Mrs. Marilyn Cohen 

Iyar 9 Rochel Esther bas Benjamin obm 

Mother of Dr. Fran Glicksman 

Tehillim 

Please continue to daven for these Israeli soldiers 

still missing in action: 

Ron Arad Zacharia Baumel 

Zvi Feldman Guy Hever 

Yehuda Katz Gilad Shalit 

Kashrus Korner 

Kosher Alert: Non kosher Post cereal bars were inserted 

in boxes of Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles bearing the 

OK symbol. Although the non-kosher bars were clearly marked 

with a warning that they are not kosher, many kosher consumers – 

especially children – did not notice the warning and ate the bars. 

OK Kosher sincerely apologizes for this error. In the future, any 

promotional boxes that contain non-kosher items will not be 

allowed to bear the OK symbol. 

For a complete list of Kosher Miami certified establishments, 

please visit www.koshermiami.org. To sign up for kosher 

notifications by email go to www.ou.org, www.koshermiami.org 

and/or www.star-k.org 

Do you need help with going Kosher? For personalized 

assistance, call Lydia at 305 868 1411 ext 7314

Special Thank You 

We sincerely thank the following members & supporters of The 

Shul for donations received between 04/26/11 and 05/02/11. 

We apologize for any errors or omissions we may have made. 

Mr. & Mrs. Flavio Alfie 

Mr. & Mrs. Naman Alibayof 

Mr. & Mrs. Raphael Ammar 

Mrs. Sylvia Baum 

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Baumel 

Mr. Amadee Bender 

Mr. Yohan Benitah 

Mr. Tzvi Bercovits 

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Haim 

Borochoff 

Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Boruchin 

Mr. Julio J. Brener 

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Brenner 

Mrs. Genia Bruder 

Ms. Sophie Dadure Bitton 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Davit 

Dr. & Mrs. Jean Jaques Edderai 

Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Failer 

Falic Family Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Errol Feldman 

Mr. Raphael Fleming 

Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Gilinski 

Mr. Jonathan Gilinski 

Mr. & Mrs. Moises Gilinski 

Dr. & Mrs. Horacio Groisman 

Mrs. Rita Grossman 

Mr. Dominique Haccoun 

Mr. & Mrs. Mendy Halberstam 

Mr. & Mrs. Halbfinger 

Ms. Lydia Hasson 

In Memory: Muriel Kadin 

Ms. Shay Kardonski 

Disclaimer 

Many collectors approach our members for donations claiming 

referral from Rabbi Lipskar or one of The Shul’s rabbis. Kindly 

confirm with The Shul to verify the authenticity of their claim as 

typically our policy is that we do not to give our member 

information to anyone, under any circumstances. One of our 

rabbis would always contact our members directly, on behalf of 

the person in need of assistance. 

Thanks to Our Volunteers 

The Shul thanks all our Volunteers for their invaluable help: 

Mrs. Ofelia Wiener for assisting the Hashkama Minyan 

Ms. Stacie Weintraub for assisting at the front desk 


Dates to Celebrate and Commemorate 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kopelman 

Mr. Shmuel Levinsky 

Mr. & Mrs. David Lichter 

Mr. Morris Mendal 

Ms. Susan Meyerson 

Mr. & Mrs. Lazer Milstein 

Drs. Raul & Janet Mitrani 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Moore 

Ms. Sylvia Moses 

Mr. & Mrs. Simon Moshel 

Mr. & Mrs. Temuri Nanikashvili 

Mr.& Mrs. Michael Ritzer 

Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer 

Dr. & Dr. Stephen Robert 

Scheinman 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Schmutter 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Schwalbe 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Shapiro 

Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Shuster 

Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Slomianski 

Dr. & Mrs. Menahem Srur 

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Stein 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sterental 

Mrs. Esther Vlosky 

Mr. & Mrs. Adam Weinberg 

Mr. & Mrs. Leon Weinschneider 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weintraub 

Mr. & Mrs. Yaakov Weitman 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Wolf 

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Wolf 

Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh Wuensch 

In memory of our beloved Gabbay, Mordechai Ben 

David (Mauricio Fux) obm, the community has 

established a fund for the care of his family. All 

contributions should be made to The Shul, specifically 

noting “Mauricio Fux fund”, if by check. 

THANK YOU 

Important Notice 

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Refuah Shleimah 

If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would 

like to keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. 

MEN 

David Fishel ben Rachel 

Avraham ben Yitzchak 

Daniel ben Tova Basha (#5) 

Yehonoson ben Malka (Jonathan 

Pollard for Refuah and Yeshua) 

Yitzchak Arie ben Leah 

Nochum Mordechai ben Chana Zlata 

Pinchas Rafael ben Yehudis 

Chaim ben Golda (Joey Givner’s 

father) 

Noah ben Malka (#9) 

Shmuel Nachum ben Sara Raizel 

Chaim ben Nechama 

Mayer ben Jamie 

Eliyahu ben Batiya 

Moshe ben Henia 

Ariel Leib ben Nechama 

Baruch ben Tzipa Faiga 

Rachmiel ben Miriam 

Beryl ben Miriam 

Binyomin ben Chasha Riva 

Avraham Yosef ben Sofie 

Yishaia ben Celia 

Yitzchok ben Chana Rochel 

Raphael Moshe ben Sara 

(Mr. Moshe Behar) 

WOMEN 

Sarah Libke bas Bayla 

Leah Bracha bas Shoshana Basya 

Tziporah bas Mindel 

Miriam Chaya bas Yachad 

Rochel bas Bracha Sheindel 

Chaya Bahiya Zlata bas Sara 

Devorah 

Yochevet Bayla Emunah bas 

Michal Chaya 

Chava bas Mazal 

Shifra bas Chaya 

Itel Dina bas Shivra 

Baili bas Shayna 

Devorah Elka bas Eliesheva Batya 

Miriam Hagar bas Chayenah Michlah 

Perl bas Sarah 

Chaya Yael bas Sarah Imanu 

Chana bas Frecha 

Sara bas Ida 

Miriam Gietel bas Hinda (Ilona 

Feldman) 

Dora bas Sinuru 

Fruma bas Chaya Sarah 

Pnina bat Hannah 

Miriam bas Rivka 

Sandal bas Leah (Sonia Kawa) 

Ilana Leah bas Shaindel Rochel 

Ruchama Alisa Sara Chana bas 

Esther Liba 

Mother and Daughter 

One Day trip to New York ( all ages ) 

Tentative date: Thursday June 2nd. 

We will be leaving from Miami early in the morning 

and returning late the same evening. The trip includes: 

- Ohel 

- Mincha in the Rebbe's room 

- Crown Heights Shopping 

- Tour of the Jewish Children's Museum 

- Breakfast lunch and dinner will be served 

Total cost: $250 per person 

Please let us know as soon as possible as price 

depends on flight availability. 

Hana Barouk: 305-785-2900

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Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 

Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! 

Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 

physicians to save lives and limb in China and Haiti, where they 

become the most proficient and efficient hospital, servicing the 

indigenous population. The director of the program 

commented that though the cultural, behavioral and religious 

differences etc. caused an initial sense of suspicion and 

distance, it quickly dissipated by the good that the Israeli team 

brought. 

We could point to countless examples in the millennia of 

history when the standards to which the Jews were held were 

180° different than the rest of society. 

The reality and truth is that we are different. What makes us 

different? We have the same blood types and body parts of 

most homosapiens. When one receives an organ transplant or 

a blood transfusion it matters not whether it comes from a Jew 

or a non-Jew. We all look, walk, work, eat the same, and are part 

of a common humanity. Yet we stand out as having been 

chosen by G-d. 

It is important to understand and recognize what makes us 

different so we can strengthen those ingredients to gain the 

maximum benefit of our being unique and chosen. As we look 

at the general population vis á vis the Jewish population, we 

find that there are two fundamental elements that make us 

different than any other nation. Torah and Mitzvos. 

The Torah, also known as the Bible, is more than a holy book. 

Even the most just and moral nations of the world who accept 

the Bible with its 24 books do not live by what it states in that 

Bible, for whatever reason. For the Jewish People, the Bible is 

completely different. Together with clear directives and 

implications, it contains an endless reservoir of oral 

interpretation and tradition articulating instruction for every 

aspect of life with wondrous relevance to our life and time. 

Since G-d used the Torah as a blueprint to create the world, we 

study that blueprint to know how to sustain and maintain the 

world and fulfill its purpose. 

Our rabbis tell us to believe that there is wisdom among the 

nations, but not Torah. Great secular leaders of all generations 

already recognized the extraordinary quality of Torah and its 

impact in molding the special uniqueness of the Jewish people. 

They attribute to the study of Torah the honing of minds, 

adding dimension to their perspectives, opening subconscious 

levels of understanding and connecting to a higher level 

wisdom. King Ptolemy commissioned 70 Torah scholars to 

translate the Torah into Greek because he wanted to tap into 

the power of the Jewish People. 

Today in South Korea, families of the intelligentsia and upper 

middle class have taken to study the Talmud which they have 

translated into Korean because they want to utilize the same 

mechanisms that the Jews have in order to create that brilliance 

and outstanding capacity that the Jewish people have shown, 

even in secular human applications. 

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That’s the first thing that makes us different: the Torah. 

The other aspect that distinguishes the Jewish people from the 

nations of the world, is Mitzvos, the 613 precepts that G-d 

commanded us (248 positive commandments - things that we 

should do, and 365 prohibitions - things that we are not 

supposed to do). Some mitzvos cannot be fulfilled today as the 

physical elements that are required for their performance are 

not extant, i.e. the Holy Temple. The multitude of Mitzvos 

(Divine laws) pertain to every aspect of our lives. Only the 

Jewish people have specific Divine direction for everything they 

do, from waking up, washing, dressing, eating, studying, 

working, relationships or business dealings. We are directed 

how to tie our shoes, how to wash, what to wear, what not to 

wear, what to eat, how to eat, making proper blessings before 

and after eating, how to conduct business ethically as dictated 

by the Torah and give charity from our earnings, and how to 

have healthy and positive relationships with our spouses, 

children, parents, siblings, relatives, friends, neighbors, 

community and society. 

Those are the 2 fundamental elements that make us different. 

These are not theoretical and philosophical concepts that 

address theology or scholarship but applicable practical paths 

for life. 

I am puzzled that when realizing and bearing the consequences 

of being different, including the double standards that are 

applied to us because we are Jews, the negative feelings that 

are directed towards us because we are Jews, the desire by 

some to harm us because we are Jews, why do we not own and 

utilize that difference to achieve the power that it gives us? If 

what makes us special and exclusive is the Torah and Mitzvot, it 

is incumbent upon us to utilize them to continue in our holy 

journey. 

Of course we can attribute our differences to a much more 

fundamental level in the sub-genetic pluro potential source of 

our existence, but on the most practical level, our uniqueness is 

in our practicing and behaving like Jews should. 

The Torah reiterates often that when the Jewish people behave 

in the unique way that they should, the nations of the world 

respect us instead of hating us as we achieve authority by 

example and by consensus bringing the wholesomeness, 

holiness, morality and ethics of Torah and Mitzvahs to the 

whole world. Let us be proud that we are different, not with any 

sense of ego but with a sense of responsibility and gratitude to 

Hashem for having given us this opportunity to be His 

Kohanim, His personal representatives, representing the world 

to Hashem and representing Hashem to the world. 

Have a great Shabbos and a good week.

Counting the Omer 



Halacha of the Week 

By Rabbi Dov Schochet 

Starting from the day the Omer offering was brought in the Temple 

(it was a meal offering of barley brought on the second day of 

Passover) the Torah commands us to count seven weeks (which 

bridge the Omer offering and the festival of Shavuos). This 

commandment was actually a matter of great contention between 

those who accept the Oral Law and the sects which only believed in 

the Written Law and not willing to accept any oral tradition. 

The issue was the language the Torah uses in this week’s portion, 

“And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat, 

from the day that you brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks 

shall there be complete". While a literal reading would obviously 

imply that the counting must always begin on a Sunday (the day 

after the Shabbat) the Mosaic tradition was to understand this word 

as referring to the festival of Passover (which can also be referred to 

as Shabbat) and not the seventh day of the week. Obviously the 

Halacha follows this tradition and therefore, starting from the 

second day of Passover, for 49 nights, there is an obligation to count 

the Omer. 

The proper way to count is to mention the days and the weeks e.g. 

from day 1 through 6 one should say "today is day 1 to the Omer etc. 

from day 7 and on one should mention the weeks as well e.g. on day 

13 one should say "today is 13 days which are 1 week and 6 days to 

the Omer" 

It is proper to count while standing although if one counts sitting 

down they do not have to count again. 

The counting can be done in any language one understands. If one 

does not understand what they're saying even if they are counting 

in Hebrew they have not fulfilled their obligation. 

As this is an individual obligation one is required to fulfill the 

Mitzvah on their own and not rely on an emissary. Although if one 

hears their friend counting and has in mind to exempt their 

obligation it is sufficient, it is preferable for one to count every night 

on their own. 

Like all Mitzvot which are time bound, women are exempt although 

if they wish they can count the Omer with its requisite blessing. 

Sefardic women do not recite the blessing. 

There is a dispute if the counting can only be done at night or if one 

can count the following day as well, therefore in the event one 

forgot to count at night they should count the following day (to 

fulfill the Mitzvah according to the second opinion) but do so 

without the prior blessing. 

There are two opinions as to the nature of this Mitzvah, one holding 

that every day is an independent commandment while the second 

holds that one can only count any of the days if they have counted 

all the prior ones. The accepted practice if one forgot to count one of 

the days is to continue counting the rest of the days like the first 

opinion (as one might be fulfilling a Mitzvah) but to do so without 

the prior blessing as the rule is anytime one is not certain if a 

blessing must be recited we do not recite it. It is important to note 

the Mitzvah is not the blessing but the counting and therefore if 

one missed a day it is not a reason to be lax with the counting of 

the rest of the Omer. (In a case where one is uncertain if they 

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missed a night or not or where one forgot to count at night but 

counted the following day without the blessing they can count the 

following days with the blessing). 

The lesson of the Omer is clear, all days must be counted. Every 

moment of our lives has meaning and purpose and must be 

properly accounted for. And as the first counting culminated with 

receiving the Torah by us all "counting our days" may we merit to 

the revelation of the coming of Moshiach. 

 

Your Guide to Personal Freedom 

Counting the Omer: Week Three 

This is an excerpt from “Counting the Omer – A Spiritual Guide” by 

Rabbi Simon Jacobson 

Day 18 - Netzach of Tiferet: Endurance in Compassion 

Is my compassion enduring and consistent? Is it reliable or 

whimsical? Does it prevail among other forces in my life? Do I have 

the capacity to be compassionate even when I'm busy with other 

activities or only when it's comfortable for me? Am I ready to stand 

up and fight for another? 

Exercise for the day: In the middle of your busy day take a moment 

and call someone who needs a compassionate word. Defend 

someone who is in need of sympathy even if it's not a popular 

position. 

Day 19 - Hod of Tiferet: Humility in Compassion 

If compassion is not to be condescending, it must include humility. 

Hod is recognizing that my ability to be compassionate and giving 

does not make me better than the recipient; it is the 

acknowledgment and appreciation that by creating one who needs 

compassion G-d gave me the gift of being able to bestow 

compassion. Thus there is no place for haughtiness in compassion. 

Do I feel superior because I am compassionate? Do I look down at 

those that need my compassion? Am I humble and thankful to G-d 

for giving me the ability to have compassion for others? 

Exercise for the day: Express compassion in an anonymous fashion, 

not taking any personal credit. 

Day 20 - Yesod of Tiferet: Bonding in Compassion 

For compassion to be fully realized, it needs bonding. It requires 

creating a channel between giver and receiver; a mutuality that 

extends beyond the moment of need. A bond that continues to live 

on. That is the most gratifying result of true compassion. 

Do you bond with the one you have compassion for, or do you 

remain apart? Does your interaction achieve anything beyond a 

single act of sympathy? 

Exercise for the day: Ensure that something eternal is built as a 

result of your compassion. 

Day 21 - Malchut of Tiferet: Nobility in Compassion 

Examine the dignity of your compassion. For compassion to be 

complete (and enhance the other six aspects of compassion) it must 

recognize and appreciate individual sovereignty. It should boost 

self-esteem and cultivate human dignity. Both your own dignity and 

the dignity of the one benefiting from your compassion. 

Is my compassion expressed in a dignified manner? Does it elicit 

dignity in others? Do I recognize the fact that when I experience 

compassion as dignified it will reflect reciprocally in the one 

who receives compassion?



Continued from p. 11 Parsha Messages 

Exercise for the day: Rather than just giving charity, help the needy 

help themselves in a fashion that strengthens their dignity. 

Your Guide to Personal Freedom 

Counting the Omer: Week Four 

During the fourth week of counting the Omer, we examine and 

refine the emotional attribute of endurance known as Netzach. 

Netzach means endurance, fortitude and ambition and is a 

combination of determination and tenacity. It is a balance of 

patience, persistence and guts. Endurance is also being reliable and 

accountable, which establishes security and commitment. Without 

endurance, any good endeavor or intention has no chance of 

success. Endurance means to be alive, to be driven by what counts. 

It is the readiness to fight for what you believe, to go all the way. 

This, of course, requires that endurance be closely examined to 

ensure that it is used in a healthy and productive manner. 

Day 22-Chesed of Netzach: Loving kindness in endurance 

For anything to endure it needs to be loved. A neutral or indifferent 

attitude will reflect in a marginal commitment. If you have 

difficulty making commitments, examine how much you love and 

enjoy the object that requires your commitment. Do I love my 

work? My family? My choices? 

For endurance to be effective it needs to be caring and loving. Does 

my endurance cause me to be, or seem to be, inflexible? Does my 

drive and determination cause me to be controlling? Am I too 

demanding? Do others (my employees, friends, children) cooperate 

with me out of the sheer force of my will and drive, or out of love? 

Exercise for the day: When fighting for something you believe in, 

pause a moment to ensure that it is accomplished in a loving 

manner.. 

Day 23 - Gevurah of Netzach: Discipline in Endurance 

Examine the discipline of your endurance. Endurance must be 

directed toward productive goals and expressed in a constructive 

manner. Is my endurance and determination focused to help 

cultivate good habits and break bad ones? Or is it the other way 

around? Does my endurance come from strength or weakness? 

Does it come out of deep conviction or out of defensiveness? Do I 

use my endurance against itself by being tenacious in my lack of 

determination? 

Exercise for the day: Break one bad habit today. 

Day 24 - Tiferet of Netzach: Compassion in Endurance 

Healthy endurance, directed to develop good qualities and 

modifying bad ones, will always be compassionate. The 

compassion of endurance reflects a most beautiful quality of 

endurance: an enduring commitment to help another grow. 

Endurance without compassion is misguided and selfish. 

Endurance needs to be not just loving to those who deserve love, 

but also compassionate to the less fortunate. Does my 

determination compromise my compassion for others? Am I able to 

rise above my ego and empathize with my competitors? Am I 

gracious in victory? 

Exercise for the day: Be patient and listen to someone who usually 

makes you impatient. 

 

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Beis Iyar: Birthday of Rebbe Maharash 

T he 

fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Shmuel 

Schneersohn (1834-1882), known by the acrynom "Maharash", 

was born in the town of Lubavitch (White Russia) on the 2nd 

of Iyar of the year 5594 from creation (1834). His father, Rabbi 

Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the 3rd Chabad Rebbe, known as 

the "Tzemach Tzeddek") once remarked that Rabbi Shmuel's 

birthday, coinciding with the 17th day of the Omer Count, is defined 

by the Kabbalistic masters as Tifferet sheb'Tifferet ("Beauty of 

Beauty") 

Although Rabbi Shmuel was the youngest of Rabbi Menachem 

Mendel's seven sons, he was chosen to succeed his father as 

"rebbe" and leader of Chabad in the movement's capital, Lubavitch 

(four of his brothers established branches of Chabad Chassidism in 

other towns in White Russia and Ukraine). In addition to leading his 

Chassidim, guiding and advising their spiritual and material lives 

and authoring many maamarim (discourses of Chassidic teaching), 

Rabbi Shmuel traveled extensively throughout Europe, meeting 

with government and business leaders to exert pressure on the 

Czarist regime to halt its instigation of pogroms against the Jews of 

Russia. 

Rabbi Shmuel passed away at age 48 on the 13th of Tishrei, 5643 

(1882). 

 

Advice for Life from Rabbi Shmuel of 

Lubavitch as recorded by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn 

Obstacles 

Rabbi Shmuel is famous for the following aphorism: 

The world says that if you cannot crawl under an obstacle, try 

to leap over it. However, I say do not even try to bend down 

and pass under it; leap over it in the first place! 

Act vigorously, don't be deterred by obstacles, act as needed in 

every situation. When you are committed to accomplishing that 

which needs to be done, G‑d will be with you. 

Absolute Self-Honesty 

When conducting a introspective soul searching, just as one must 

be completely honest not to overlook any negative traits, so to one 

may not overlook any positive traits or strong points. 

Thinking About Oneself 

Someone once came and unburdened his heart before Rabbi 

Shmuel. "My entire life," he confessed, "I preoccupy myself with 

deceiving others and all sorts of sly behavior." The Rebbe advised 

him to set aside fifteen minutes every day during which time he 

should refrain from speaking and instead to concentrate – not on 

lofty chassidic subjects, but – on himself, and on ways to improve 

his character. 

Every Person a Teacher 

To a disciple venturing into business: 

"G‑d causes individuals to meet other specific individuals at 

specific times—and all for good reason. You need to view every 

person you meet as a teacher. Character flaws that you see 

in another—know that you also possess them. Positive



traits that you see in another, try to incorporate into your character 

too." 

Every Event a Lesson 

One needs to take a lesson from everything he or she sees and 

hears—a lesson that enhances one's service of G‑d. Serving G‑d 

includes prayer and refining one's character. Serving G‑d starts with 

exerting control over one's thoughts, speech and actions. 

Purpose 

A soul descends to this world not merely to refine itself through 

personal study, prayer and selfless service of G‑d. Rather, G‑d 

dispatches the soul to this physical and mundane world, enclothing 

it within a body replete with animalistic urges, in order to vanquish, 

refine, illuminate and introduce spirituality into his surroundings. 

Fools 

To fool the world is one thing, but to fool yourself is no big deal. 

You’re a fool for wanting to fool yourself —and anyone can fool a 

fool. 

 

Life is a Picture Postcard . . . 

By Yossy Goldman 

I 

was planning to procrastinate, but I never 

got around to it. 

Whether you consider the above quotation 

wise, witty or silly, it can actually be quite a 

sobering thought. How many of us can truly 

say we don't put off important things we know we should have 

done yesterday? Don't you just go green with envy when you meet 

those super-efficient amazons who are so punctual, organized and 

always put together? Don't they infuriate you…with yourself? 

From my own experience I now know that if something is important 

I better attend to it immediately, otherwise I simply don't trust 

myself to "get around to it." I know I could benefit from a Time 

Management course. In fact, I once signed up for one but I never 

made it there. No time. There are still so many new ideas, projects 

and plans I'd like to get around to. I know that with better personal 

discipline they might actually materialize. 

You might be surprised to learn that effective time management is 

not only a professional value but also a religious imperative. This 

week's Parshah details the Jewish Festivals, in the context of which 

we read about the Counting of the Omer during the 49 days 

between Passover and Shavuot. Just as the Israelites counted the 

days after the Exodus in eager anticipation to receive the Torah, so 

do we count these 49 days annually. 

But why count time? Time marches on inexorably, whether we take 

note of it or not. What value is there in counting the days? The 

answer is that we count these 49 days to make us conscious of the 

preciousness of every single day. To make us more sensitive to the 

value of a day, an hour, a moment. As Rabbi Sholom DovBer of 

Lubavitch once said, "A summer's day and a winter's night is a 

year." 

I heard a classic analogy on this theme in the name of the saintly 

Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan (1838-1933). Life is like a 


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picture postcard, he said. Ever had the experience of being on 

vacation and sending a picture postcard home or to a friend? We 

start writing with a large scrawl and then think of new things to say 

and before we know it we're at the end of the card and there's no 

more room. So what do we do? We start writing smaller and then 

when we're out of space we start winding our words around the 

edges of the card to get it all in. Before we know it, we're turning 

the card upside down to squeeze in the last few vital words in our 

message. 

Sound familiar? Isn't life like that? We start off young and reckless 

without a worry in the world and as we get older we realize that life 

is short. So we start cramming and trying to squeeze in all those 

important things we never got around to. Sometimes our attempts 

are quite desperate, even pathetic, as we seek to put some meaning 

into our lives before it's too late. (Maybe that's what a mid-life crisis 

is all about.) 

So the Torah tells us to count our days – because they are, in fact, 

numbered. We each have an allotted number of days and years in 

which to fulfill the purpose for which we were created. Hopefully, by 

counting time we will appreciate it better. So, whatever it is that is 

important for each of us to get done, please G‑d, we will all get 

around to it. 

The Kohen Gene 

By Elisha Greenbaum 

E ver 

 

looked around a synagogue and noticed the incredible 

array of people from different races wandering the aisles? 

Hard to believe we’ve got anything in common, let alone 

common ancestry and religion. 

In the late ’90s, a study came out attempting to prove that 

kohanim (priests), no matter their facial or racial makeup, all 

descend from a common paternal ancestor. The geneticists 

involved collected DNA samples from hundreds of kohanim, and 

searched for common markers on the Y-chromosome. Incredibly, 

they found that over 98% of men with a family tradition of 

priesthood showed evidence of descent from the same great-greatgreat 

grandfather.1 

Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Yemenites and Italians can trace their 

backgrounds back to the Jews of the ExodusI find it fascinating that 

Moses’ older brother, the biblical High Priest Aaron the kohen, lived 

some 3,300 years ago but bequeathed his genetic signature to 

these men. Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yemenite and Italian kohanim can 

actually trace their backgrounds back to the Jews of the Exodus. 

And if modern science has given us the tools to prove common 

ancestry, isn’t the next obvious step to dedicate ourselves to our 

common purpose—G‑d’s Torah and mitzvot? 

The Fidelity Gene 

Recently, I came across a statistic that absolutely floored me. 

According to one Australian laboratory, nearly one-quarter of the 

DNA tests performed demonstrate the assumed father not to be the 

real biological parent. One quarter! 

Contrast this sorry record with that of Jews throughout history. 

What would happen if a kohen’s wife committed adultery? 

The resulting illegitimate child would be an assumed



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kohen. He’d join his “father” on the dais and recite the Priestly 

Blessing; he’d get dibs on the first aliyah. He’d hand down a 

tradition of priesthood to his own sons . . . But in reality he’s no 

kohen, and his DNA and that of his future male descendents would 

not bear those crucial markers. 

But almost 100% of all men with family tradition of priesthood do 

descend from kohanim. Generation after generation of Jewish 

women were faithful to their husbands and their tradition. What a 

proud record of fidelity. Geneticists describe these results as “the 

highest record of paternity-certainty ever recorded,” and there is no 

reason to assume that their sisters married to Levites and Israelites 

were any less faithful to their spouses and religion. 

Geneticists describe these results as “the highest record of 

paternity-certainty ever recorded”This devotion to our spouses and 

our G‑d has always been the way of the Jew. Even during our slavery 

in Egypt, subject to the capricious demands of an evil nation, our 

women distinguished themselves. The Book of Leviticus2 records 

the only example of illegitimacy, the product of the rape of a Jewess 

by an Egyptian overseer. The Torah hints that this woman’s 

flirtatious manner may have precipitated the dreadful occurrence, 

but the crime was committed by the Egyptian. 

This sad exception only demonstrates how refreshingly modest and 

chaste were all other Jews. The very worst and most unfortunate 

incident of all the time they were in slavery was not a case of 

adultery, G‑d forbid, but abuse. It is to the credit of our ancestors 

that, no matter the temptations, irrespective of the dangers, they 

fought to stay faithful, and almost without exception they 

succeeded. This proud heritage they vouchsafed to us. 

Jewish marriages throughout history are a model for all humanity, 

and the oaths and bonds that unite us with our partners and Creator 

will remain firm and unwavering for now and eternity. 

 

A Path and a Choice 

Ethics 2:1 

By Yanki Tauber 

T 

he long, sunny Shabbat afternoons of summer are perfect for 

Torah study. Which is why our sages instituted a weekly 

chapter of Ethics of the Fathers, starting with the Shabbat after 

Passover. 

This Shabbat, we study Chapter Two of the Ethics, the first lines of 

which read: 

Rabbi [Judah HaNassi] would say: Which is the right path for man to 

choose for himself? Whatever is harmonious for the one who does 

it, and harmonious for other people. 

Half the people reading these lines will go on reading. The other half 

will stop short in their tracks, scratch their heads and say, "Huh?" 

I must have read those lines dozens of times without giving them a 

second thought. After all, I've been doing the annual Ethics-of-the- 

Fathers thing since I was a kid. But the first time that I actually paid 

attention to what I was reading, I was shocked. I stopped short, 

scratched my head and said, "Huh?" 

There's nothing unusual, of course, about Rabbi Judah HaNassi's 

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words per se. They'd fit right into a politician's speech or an 

"ethicist"'s advice column. They'd sit very comfortably on the 

"Quotable Quotes" page of Reader's Digest. But the Ethics of the 

Fathers is none of these things--it's one of the 63 tractates of the 

Talmud. And to see a statement like that in the Talmud is not just 

amazing--it flies in the face of just about everything else the 

Talmud, indeed Torah as whole, says everywhere else. 

What is "The Torah"? What does it come to say to us? If the message 

of the Torah could be summed up in a few lines, it might be 

something like this: "There is an objective, divinely ordained path of 

goodness and truth. G-d has revealed this path to us at Sinai, and it 

has been handed down through the generations in an unbroken 

chain of tradition. It is this path that you should follow--not the 

desires of your heart or the conventions of your society. The fact 

that 'I want this' or 'it feels right' does not imply that the desire is 

moral. The fact that 'everyone says it's ok' doesn't mean that it's the 

right thing to do. The Creator of the universe is the arbiter of good 

and evil, not the wiles of the human heart or the 'political 

correctness' of the current decade." 

So it's quite surprising to see Rabbi Judah HaNassi (one of the most 

central figures in the Talmud, and in the history of Torah's 

transmission through the centuries) advising us to "follow your 

bliss." Nor would we think that he, of all people, would make a 

statement to the effect that "if it's going to make other people like 

you, that's the thing to do." Certainly we wouldn't expect him to 

define these guidelines as "the right path for man to choose for 

himself"! Unless I've completely misunderstood what the Torah is 

and says? 

There's a story told about a child who's just starting to learn Talmud 

and is experiencing confusion with its new, unfamiliar language. 

The Arameic word chamra means "donkey." But chamra also means 

"wine." "How do I know," asks the cheder boy, "which is which?" 

"Simple," says the teacher. "It depends where it's standing. If it's 

standing in the stable, it's a donkey; if it's standing on the table, it's 

wine!"1 

Context is everything: show me where it's written, and I'll tell you 

what it means. 

That's how the Lubavitcher Rebbe explains Rabbi Judah HaNassi's 

perplexing statement. If we examine more closely where this 

statement appears, says the Rebbe, we'll better understand its 

meaning. 

Rabbi Judah's statement is set as the opening lines of the second 

chapter of Ethics of the Fathers. So we need to understand the 

relationship between the Ethics' second chapter to its first, as well 

as the place that the Ethics occupies in the Talmud. 

The teachings contained in the Ethics are described as "matters of 

piety" (mili d'chassiduta) or behavior that's "beyond the line of the 

law" (lifnim mishurat ha-din). For example: In the other tractates, 

you'll find the details of the Torah's laws forbidding one to slander, 

insult or curse one's fellow, but you won't find a law that 

commands you to smile at a neighbor and wish him good morning; 

the Ethics, however, enjoins, "Receive every man with a pleasant 

countenance." Torah law obligates us to lend material support to 

the needy; the Ethics instructs that "the poor should be members of 

your household." The strict letter of the law states that "One who 

says, 'I am giving this selah to charity so that my son shall live,' is a 

perfectly righteous person." The Ethics, however, admonishes: 

"Do not be as slaves who serve their master for the sake of



reward." The Torah commands us to obey G-d's will; the Ethics 

wants us to "make that your will should be as His will." 

In other words, while the other sixty-two tractates of the Talmud 

concern themselves primarily with the "law"--the do's and don'ts of 

the Torah's commandments--the Ethics is wholly devoted to the 

conduct of the one whom the Talmud calls a chassid: one who takes 

these laws to the next level, going beyond what is mandated as his 

or her moral duty. The chassid is not content with fulfilling the 

"body" of the law; he desires its "soul," its inner spiritual truth, even 

if, technically, he's not "obligated" to go that far. 

The "body" of Torah is a set of actions. The "soul" of Torah is the 

deeper significance of those actions-- the inner purpose they 

achieve. 

The connection between the Torah's "body" and it's "soul" is 

emphasized in the opening lines of the Ethics' first chapter, which 

reads: 

Moses received the Torah at Sinai and gave it over to Joshua; Joshua 

[gave it over] to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the 

Prophets gave it over to the Men of the Great Assembly.... 

Why does the Ethics begin by describing the Torah's "chain of 

tradition"? The commentaries explain: The rules, laws and 

regulations contained in the rest of the Talmud were obviously 

commanded by G-d at Sinai. But when it comes to the pietistic 

sayings of the Ethics, one might think that these are "personal" 

teachings of the sages in whose names they are quoted. Thus the 

Ethics emphasizes that these, too, form an integral part of the 

Sinaic tradition. Indeed, they are the soul of the laws--their inner 

expression, their ultimate fulfillment. 

When creating the first man and woman (as described in Genesis 

2:7) G-d first formed a body out of the "dust of the earth" and then 

"blew into its nostrils the soul of life." Similarly, the Talmud 

describes all subsequent creations of human life: a body is formed 

in the mother's womb, into which a soul is infused from on high. 

The same is true of the body and soul of Torah. First comes the 

grounding of a moral life--an existence governed by the rules, laws 

and regulations of the right path. Then, the chassid breathes life 

and spirit into this body, uncovering the "beyond" that lies within. 

But first must come the body; for a soul without a body is but a 

ghost, a disembodied spirit with neither grasp of, nor effect upon, 

the terrain of reality. 

In this context, we can understand Rabbi Judah HaNassi's saying: 

"Which is the right path for man to choose for himself? Whatever is 

harmonious for the one who does it, and harmonious for other 

people." 

The "right path," obviously, is the path of Torah. But there are two 

ways a person can tread this path: he can walk it as a stranger, or he 

can chose it as his own. 

The body of the law is fulfilled by simply walking the path. It may be 

difficult and uncomfortable. It may be a lonely path, scorned by 

society and a burden even to those who walk it. But as long as they 

obey its signposts and remain true to its trajectory, they have 

fulfilled their duty to G-d and man. 

But the chassid wants more. He wants the soul. He says to himself: 

if this is the right path, why don't I desire it with every fiber of my 

being? If this is the right path, why doesn't all the world recognize it 


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as such? Obviously, there is much about myself that requires 

improvement and development. Obviously, there is much about my 

world that requires improvement and development. 

But the chassid also knows that to attain the soul, he must first 

attain the body. To chose the path, he must first walk the path. To 

make that the path should be in harmony with his wiles and desires, 

he must first subordinate his wiles and desires to its law. To make 

that the path should ultimately be in harmony with all inhabitants 

of earth, he must first commit to it despite its unpopularity. 

The chassid knows that life's journey has two chapters. In Chapter 

One, Moses receives the Torah at Sinai and hands it over to Joshua, 

and to all subsequent generations, as the divinely ordained path of 

life. In Chapter Two, this right path is chosen as harmonious for the 

one who does it, and harmonious for all mankind. 

 

Six Days Shall Work Be Done 

By Yitschak Meir Kagan 

T 

his week's Torah reading, Emor, contains the following 

command pertaining to the Shabbat: "Six days shall work be 

done, but the seventh day is a Shabbat of rest... you shall do 

no manner of work" (Leviticus 23:3.) 

How meaningful are even the most simply worded of G-d's 

commands! In fact, there is significance even in the sequence and 

order of the Torah's words concerning the Shabbat day. First the 

Torah commands us to work for six days and then we are 

commanded to rest on the seventh. 

The calendar week begins on Sunday. Prevalent custom has 

designated this first day as a day of rest with the working week 

following. The Torah, however, sets the working week first, to be 

followed by the day of rest, the holy Shabbat. "Six days shall work be 

done" and only then "the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest" -- 

the exact reverse of general practice. The precedence of labor before 

rest indicates that the purpose of man on earth is not to while away 

his time indolently, but to work for his spiritual as well as his own 

material welfare and for that of his community. 

Immediately following the creation of Adam, the Torah states: "And 

the L-rd G-d took Adam, and placed him in the Garden of Eden to 

work it and guard it" (Genesis 2:15). The meaning of the verse is as 

follows: it is G-d's will that man work to develop within himself the 

spiritual qualities with which he had been endowed by G-d. In this 

way man can become an active partner with G-d in the development 

and revelation of his own and the world's innate good qualities. 

Having informed us that our purpose in the world is to "work it and 

guard it," G-d gave us the Torah (derived from the Hebrew word 

hora'a --"teaching") to teach us how we are to "work" and "guard" 

the world. 

With the Torah as our guide we are able to fulfill our task and bring 

fulfillment to ourselves and to the world around us.

Rejoicing Over Osama is Early 

By Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet 



Op-Ed: "I had a feeling of uneasiness as I listened to reports 

of jubilation at Ground Zero over the death of Osama Bin 

Laden." 

T 

wo immediate sensations overcame me when listening to news 

of Osama Bin Laden's death this morning. 

The first was a twinge of sadness as I flashbacked to that 

ineffable event when more than three thousand people lost their 

lives. 

I, like countless others, vividly recall where I was at that precise 

moment. I suddenly felt myself transported back in time, clutching 

my then two year old daughter and watching the planes crash into 

the World Trade Centre. 

Now, 10 years on, I was surprised myself when I felt this wave of 

emotion wash through me as I was listening to this "end of chapter." 

I'm quite sure many others will have felt these same pangs. 

The American media will probably scramble first thing this morning 

to get in touch with families who lost loved ones on that tragic day. 

For most it will open old wounds though it is probably also an 

essential part of a healing process. 

The other feeling was one of uneasiness as I listened to reports of 

scenes of jubilation at Ground Zero. 

Sure, death was the only appropriate punishment for this archterrorist. 

The religious rationale for capital punishment is that taking 

the life of another is perceived as a crime so hideous that the 

murderer has effectively forfeited their right to exist as no practical 

punishment can suffice. 

Still, the ancient Sages enjoin us, "do not rejoice when your enemy 

falls." This quote, which originates with King Solomon in Proverbs, 

has several different explanations offered by commentators. 

To offer one of my own, I think what the wisest of all men was 

suggesting is that while you can feel relief knowing that Pharaoh, 

Stalin, Hitler, Bin Laden have been terminated, true jubilation has no 

place in a world where evil continues to exist. 

We can declare victory in this battle, but the war is yet to be won. It is 

only when all evil will be eradicated from this earth that we can revel 

in that ultimate joy. 

Until then, we can learn an obvious lesson from this historic 

moment. An unimaginable amount of time, energy, money and 

manpower spanning a decade, has gone into bringing the world's 

most wanted man down. Imagine what we could do if we exerted 

similar resources to eliminate some of the other evils that pervade 

our world – such as poverty, war and hunger. 

We don't need to be CIA operatives or Navy seals. We just need to 

follow a directive from our Commander in Chief to seek to perpetuate 

more goodness and kindness in the world through the simple acts of 

reaching through hearts and touching souls. 

While the search for Bin Laden took them into the deepest terrains 

and mountainous hill of Pakistan he was hiding only 800 meters 

away from the country's Capitol. Salvation is so much nearer than 

you think. 

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We look forward to the day when we will be able to utter the same 

words as those soldiers who emerged from the compound in 

Abbotabbad: "Mission accomplished." 

-- Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet is the rabbi of the Mill Hill Synagogue in 

north west London and one of the foremost spokesmen for Anglo- 

Jewry. 

 

My Passover Seder in Cusco, Peru 

A Rabbinical Student Helps Prepare a Seder for 1200 

www.lubavitch.com 

A 

few weeks before Passover, I logged in to my account on the 

Lubavitch Headquarters Shlichus placement website, and saw 

that I’d be going with a few friends to run a Seder in Cusco, 

Peru. 

I contacted the Shluchim in Cusco, Rabbi and Mrs. Ofer and Yael 

Kripor to work out the details, then promptly went Pesach shopping. I 

had a long checklist of food staples that would not be available in 

remote Cusco. 

We arrived to Cusco, a beautiful city 11,000 feet above sea level and 

found ourselves in a lively, well traveled tourist destination. We had 

dinner in the kosher restaurant where streams of backpackers joined 

us. 

Amid the chaos, Ofer and Yael found time review the details of the 

outreach activities we’d be involved in over the next few weeks. 

“The restaurant must operate until the Holiday, and then again on 

Chol Hamoed--the intermediate days-- from 10am until 10pm so that 

any Jewish visitor can have easy access to kosher – and then kosher 

for Passover – food. From our recent years’ experience, hundreds of 

tourists will be coming in daily for kosher meals, even on erev chag— 

in the hours before Passover sets in. 

“One of you has to in the restaurant area at all times to help the 

visitors with whatever they need, register them for the Seder and 

other holiday and Shabbat meals. Someone needs to be in the 

kitchen to supervise the kashrut; there’s still shopping to do before 

the holiday, and we need to go to immerse “toivel” some new 

Passover dishes in the swamp. The kitchens have to be koshered as 

well for Passover at least two days before the holiday, so that there is 

enough time to prepare food for the Seder. 

“On one of the upcoming days, we’ll all have to go to the chicken 

farm to slaughter 3,300 pounds of chicken for the Seder night. It’s 

tough, dirty work; we’ll have to take off all their feathers, and clean 

the guts. On Sunday night we’ll press grapes for fresh juice that we 

will use for the Four Cups at the Seder night.” 

We lost no time dividing the tasks among ourselves and moved at a 

swift pace through Friday. On Friday the matzahs and other Passover 

items arrived. 

15 Chefs, 30 Hired Hands, 170 Security Agents 

Shabbat before the holiday, there were some 100 people in the 

synagogue, and some 350 for the meal. These numbers, which 

exceeded the usual, gave us some indication of what to expect at the 

Seder—said to be the largest in the world.



Saturday night, 30 hired hands, of which 15 were chefs, and a large 

number of Israeli tourists arrived at Chabad to help for the Seder, all 

under the guidance of Yael Kripor. Cleaning, washing, cooking, 

checking vegetables for bugs. A small group was also drawing the 

Seder steps on large placards. This work lasted until Monday 

afternoon. 

Monday at 2pm, a truck came to the Chabad House to haul all the 

food and equipment to the hall in which the Seder would take place. 

We too, finished our preparations and took a few pairs of tefillin with 

us, and drove to the hall. 

On the way, Rabbi Ofer told us that in the morning he met with the 

Cusco sheriff and 12 colonels regarding security for the event. When 

we neared the hall, we saw that all the surrounding streets were 

blocked off, so we parked the car and walked the distance to the hall. 

Police forces were spread across the entire area, and we saw snipers 

on rooftops. We passed no less than three security screenings before 

being allowed into the hall itself, where we met a security agent 

contracted for this project from the Israelis. He told us that there 

were some 170 of Cusco’s police and 30 Israeli tourists – themselves 

veterans of special unit forces of the IDF – dispersed the breadth of 

the area to secure our Passover Seder event. He confirmed that his 

superiors in Israel had advised him that this would be the “biggest 

Seder in the world.” 

An Astounding View 

The sight of the huge hall, set with 1,200-plus seats was stunning. At 

around 4:30pm the guests started arriving. At the hall entrance, we 

opened our tefillin bags and started wrapping tefillin with the guests. 

There was no rest until sunset. 

When the hall was full, the women lit holiday candles and the men 

went to pray the maariv evening prayer. Guests then made their way 

to the tables. Rabbi Ofer divided the hall between us (eight students) 

into four groups, making each pair of rabbinical students “in charge” 

of 300 people. 

The Rabbi himself got up on a chair in middle of the hall and spoke 

loudly, laying out the schedule. He requested that no one take 

photos during the event out of respect for the holiday. At the end he 

raised the first large placard: Kaddesh. The eight of us followed with 

our placards. 

The enormous hall filled with more than 1200 people was silent. The 

waiters came in and filled every individual's cup and the Rabbi made 

Kiddush reminding everyone to drink their Kiddush while reclining. 

We proceeded with Urchatz, Karpas, Yachatz. 

Maggid was extraordinary. Each of the four groups sang one of the 

Four Questions of the Ma Nishtana, and so we continued the 

haggadah while every page and a half, the entire hall joined the 

singing. 

What amazed me and my friends was that we indeed did not see a 

single camera throughout the duration of the Seder, which added 

immensely to the spirit of holiday. Clearly, Rabbi Ofer had the ear and 

respect of his guests. 

The Rabbi lifted the placard of Rachtza and everybody got up to wash 

while the waiters rushed in to bring everyone their matzah. Silence 

again. The Rabbi made the blessing and all followed. No one spoke, 

as is the tradition, while they broke and ate the first of the matzah. 

And so the Seder continued: marror, korech... 

Chad Gadya 

Shulchan Orech. The evening moved along without too much 

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interruption. The kitchen staff moved like clockwork. There was 

plenty of food for everyone. Salads, soup, chicken . . . I and the other 

rabbinical students went table hopping, giving us a chance to chat 

with groups of guests and share some of the Rebbe’s insights on the 

Haggadah, tell stories and sing. 

Towards the end, Rabbi Ofer got up on a chair and announced that 

most of the evening is now behind us, “but the best part is yet to 

come.” We weren’t sure what he meant until the hall reverberated 

with the Chad Gadya. I haven’t experienced such lively spirit in a very 

long time. It was as if the entire Cusco was singing and dancing 

together with us. 

Slowly people started to leave. We remained with a small group of 

people, singing holiday songs and discussing Torah thoughts deep 

into the night. On my way out, as I passed Rabbi Ofer speaking with 

the heads of the Israeli security personnel, I overheard one of them 

tell him, “The cords of my soul were vibrating to the songs of this 

Seder.” 

Next year in Jerusalem. 

 

T 

he Sanhedria Children's Home in Jerusalem is a residential 

rehabilitation center for extremely disadvantaged boys aged 6- 

18 years old. The children suffered severe forms of emotional 

and physical abuse and neglect in their early childhood and 

subsequently were removed from their parents custody by court 

order. Sanhedria is these children's first experience in a loving and 

stable home. A dedicated professional staff provides the boys with 

skills to manage their pain. Therapeutic programs and activities, 

many with the participation of yeshiva and seminary volunteers 

brighten up the children's orbit. Miriam Braun, director of program 

development at Sanhedria visited Florida earlier this year and spoke 

at our Rebbetzin's Parsha class where she told of the children's plight. 

One of The Shul's members, who asked to remain 

anonymous, hooked Sanhedria up with Soles for Souls, an 

organization that provides shoes for the needy. The new sport shoes, 

lovingly repacked and shipped to Jerusalem by our congregant 

arrived over Pesach and the children delighted in their new gear! In 

addition to meeting a physical need, the beautiful new shoes lifted 

the children's spirits and feelings of self-esteem. 

To find out how you can help the children, please visit Sanhedria's 

website at: www.sanhedria.co.il or call their U.S. toll free # 866 409 

5718. Our members are also invited to visit the facility and meet the 

children when in Jerusalem. Visits should be coordinated with Ms. 

Braun at Israel cell 0504 566526 or via e-mail: 

tara_br@netvision.net.il



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The program starts with a study session for each mother and 

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Following the study session the mothers and daughters 

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For Girls : 1st - 5th grade 

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¿Matrimonio Santo? 

Por Yossy Goldman 

L 

os primeros cohanim fueron Aarón 

(hermano mayor de Moisés) y sus 

cuatro hijos. Junto con sus futuros 

descendientes, fueron elegidos por Di-s para 

conducir el servicio en el Santuario como 

representantes de todo el pueblo de Israel. 

Debido a su posición santificada como 

ministros servidores en el Templo de Di-s, el 

cohen no puede estar en contacto con los 

muertos, su cuerpo debe ser inmaculado, 

ciertos matrimonios están prohibidos para 

él, etc. 

Quizás no conocen la historia del hombre 

que visita a su rabino y le pide que lo haga 

cohen. El debe pertenecer a la tribu 

sacerdotal y está dispuesto a pagarle al 

rabino cualquier cantidad de dinero por el 

honor. Pacientemente el rabino le explica 

que ni él ni nadie lo puede hacer cohen. No 

está en manos del rabinato hacer esto. El 

hombre está desesperado. Promete al rabino 

una enorme donación si le hace este único 

favor. El rabino está exasperado pero 

también intrigado y le pregunta al hombre 

por qué es tan importante para él que lo 

hagan cohen. El individuo responde: 

"Rabino, mi padre fue cohen, mi abuelo fue 

cohen, ¡yo también quiero ser cohen!" 

En verdad, aunque suene cómico que 

alguien que nació cohen quiera comprar su 

ingreso a su propia familia, ser cohen no es 

una broma. 

Por mi propia experiencia, estuve 

involucrado en numerosas tragedias 

humanas que emanaban de la ignorancia 

judía acerca del rol del cohen y las 

regulaciones que corresponden a la tribu 

sacerdotal. 

Aunque la conducta y el protocolo en el 

cementerio para un cohen es una mitzvá 

muy importante, fracasar en cumplir esas 

regulaciones es entre él y Di-s. No afecta a 

nadie más, al menos no en una manera 

terrenal y tangible. Sin embargo, cuando se 

trata de elecciones matrimoniales siempre 

hay alguien más involucrado y, 

subsecuentemente, muy afectado. 

Algunas tragedias son inevitables. Cuando el 

terror golpea, Di-s no permita, puede ser 

imposible estar fuera del camino del daño. 

La enfermedad no es algo que una persona 

sana elige concientemente. Pero la más 

frustrante tragedia de todas es aquella 

evitable. Y cuando la ignorancia de nuestras 

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Reflexión Semanal 

Parashá de la Semana 

tradiciones lleva al dolor y la angustia 

humana, entonces el familiarizarnos con 

esas tradiciones puede ser un largo camino 

hacia evitar que ocurra la tragedia en primer 

lugar. 

Imaginen la escena. Un joven anuncia su 

compromiso y llega a la sinagoga para 

inscribir su boda. El rabino descubre que es 

un cohen y la novia es una divorciada, 

conversa, alguien que previamente estuvo 

casada fuera de la fe, o quizás la hija de un 

padre no judío. Con mucha sensibilidad, le 

aconseja a la joven pareja que puede haber 

un impedimento halájico para que se 

consagre su unión "de acuerdo con la ley de 

Moisés e Israel". La parashá de esta semana 

nos da las leyes básicas que ordenan con 

quién se puede y con quién no se puede 

casar un cohen. Si él realmente es un cohen 

genuino y ella, en efecto, pertenece a una de 

las anteriormente mencionadas categorías, 

tenemos un problema. 

Mi pregunta es, ¿por qué en los dos o tres 

años de su relación este tema nunca surgió? 

La respuesta es, ignorancia. Nunca nadie les 

dijo que había un problema. 

¿Quién es culpado? El rabino, por supuesto. 

Es acusado de ser un fundamentalista 

religioso, intolerante, despreocupado, rígido 

e inflexible. Muy bien, Pueden estar seguros 

que mis colegas y yo amamos el ser 

bienvenidos y acomodarnos a todos los 

tiempos. Sin embargo hay situaciones 

cuando la ley y la tradición judías, que para 

nosotras son sagradas e inviolables, parecen 

interponerse en el camino de la felicidad 

humana. Y no tenemos el poder de cambiar 

la ley para que se acomode a la situación. 

Personalmente digo que la responsabilidad 

de educar a nuestros jóvenes acerca de estos 

temas particulares es de los padres. 

Especialmente un padre que es cohen y ha 

transmitido ese linaje a su hijo tiene la 

obligación moral de explicarle a su hijo que 

significa ser cohen. Es verdad que hay 

privilegios, como ser el primero en ser 

llamado a la Torá, pero también hay 

responsabilidades, como elegir 

cuidadosamente la pareja para el 

matrimonio. 

Estas clases de dolor y miseria son 

absolutamente evitables si educamos a 

nuestros hijos. Antes de que se involucren 

románticamente, los padres deben informar 

a sus hijos acerca de con quien se 

comprometen. De la misma manera que un 

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matrimonio interreligioso nunca ocurre sin 

antes inter-comprometerse, ningún cohen 

debe sentirse decepcionado por un 

matrimonio no permitido si sólo se 

compromete con mujeres con las que se 

puede casar. No debe saber esto por primera 

vez cuando se acerca a un rabino con un 

compromiso matrimonial. 

El matrimonio hoy es una institución tenue. 

Es un gran desafío permanecer en el lado 

correcto de las estadísticas. Si la Torá nos 

dice que una unión particular no es kosher, 

en lugar de resentirse por la interferencia 

debemos considerar como si el 

Todopoderoso mismo descendiera y 

susurrará una palabra de amoroso consejo 

en nuestros oídos: "Créeme; esta no es 

correcta para ti". A veces pensamos que la 

Torá se interpone en el camino de nuestra 

felicidad, cuando la verdad es a la inversa. A 

la larga, protege bien a lasa dos partes de 

cometer un serio error con ramificaciones 

para toda la vida. 

El sacerdocio es tan viejo como el pueblo 

judío. Ser cohen no es algo que se pueda 

comprar con dinero. El espacio no me 

permite extenderme aquí acerca del tema. 

Basta con decir, es una bendición especial. 

Asegurémonos que nuestros hijos nunca 

consideren a esta bendición una maldición. 

Clases y Eventos 

Porción Semanal 

Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 

Lunes 8:45 p.m. - 9:45 p.m. 

Sinagoga Principal 

Lecciones practicas para nuestra vida 

cotidiana 

(Para Mujeres) 

Sra. Vivian Perez 

Martes 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. 

198 Park Dr., Bal Harbour 

Por favor llamar al 305 213 3202 

para confirmar 

Kolel Español 

Moshe S. Lerman 

Miercoles 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. 

Domingo 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. 

Tanya 

Moshe S. Lerman 

Miercoles 7:15 PM - 8:05 p.m. 

Haime Library - 2do piso en Shul 

Sra. Vivian Perez 

Jueves 2:00pm – 3:00 pm 

Chabad of Aventura, 

21001 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura

La source de l'harmonie 

La femme, le Chabbat et l'équilibre du monde 

Adapté des enseignements du Rabbi de Loubavitch 

D 

ans la Paracha Emor, au troisième verset du chapitre 23 de 

Vayikra, nous lisons : «Six jours, le travail sera fait. Mais le 

septième jour est un Chabbat de repos solennel, un appel de 

sainteté, tu ne travailleras pas : c’est un Chabbat pour D.ieu dans 

toutes tes habitations…» 

La Kabbale explique que la création fut entreprise par le biais de 

différentes Sefirot, un enchaînement de canaux divins affectant la 

création. Chaque Sefira se définit par une caractéristique unique qui 

imprègne la création. La Sefira de ‘Ho‘hma, la Sagesse, contient 

l’attribut de la compréhension. La Sefira de ‘Hessed, la Bonté, 

apporte la bienveillance et la qualité du don, dans la création. A 

l’opposé, la Sefira de Gevoura, la rigueur, introduit la restriction. Et 

ainsi en va-t-il de toutes les autres Sefirot. 

Les six Sefirot émotionnelles (‘Hessed, Gevoura, Tiféret, Nétsa’h, 

Hod et Yessod) dessinent les six directions fondamentales des trois 

directions de l’univers : nord-sud, est-ouest et haut-bas. Elles 

représentent les modes fondamentaux pour atteindre les six 

directions de la création. 

On se réfère à ces Sefirot comme aux Sefirot masculines parce 

qu’elles se dirigent vers l’extérieur. 

Mais elles ne pourraient pas exister sans un point central, un point 

de convergence. Mal’hout, la dernière Sefira, est l’axe au centre de 

ces six directions. Elle reflète un regard intérieur et évoque la 

manière dont nous faisons pénétrer l’illumination spirituelle à 

l’intérieur de nous-mêmes. Mal’hout est la Sefirah féminine. 

Les six jours de la semaine, du dimanche au vendredi, figurent ces 

six dimensions se dirigeant vers l’extérieur et masculines. Par 

ailleurs, le Chabbat, qui est féminin, est le point central vers lequel 

convergent ensemble les six points. 

Durant toute la semaine, dans notre combat pour le gain spirituel, 

nous fonctionnons dans un mode masculin. Pendant ces six jours, 

nous dominons notre environnement et exerçons notre influence 

sur lui. Nous sommes constamment en état de conflit, choisissant 

parmi les éléments de notre monde ceux que nous devons 

embrasser et développer et ceux qui doivent être rejetés et soumis. 

La Torah nous aide à faire la distinction entre ce qui peut être 

positivement utilisé et ce qui doit être rejeté. Elle nous guide pour 

opter pour les aliments, les matériaux, les sujets et les relations qui 

donneront de l’énergie à notre être et sanctifieront notre vie, et 

repousser ceux qui tueront notre sensibilité spirituelle ou 

affecteront et abimeront notre cœur et notre esprit. 

Au cours des six jours, nous opérons dans une attitude masculine 

de conquête et d’assaut, dans un état d’agitation extrême. 

Et puis vient le Chabbat. Nous entrons alors nous rafraîchir dans 

une spirale d’harmonie, de sérénité et de paix. Après nous être 

affirmés et avoir accompli notre but durant les jours de la semaine, 

nous prenons un temps de pause dans nos combats. 

Le Chabbat, nous cessons le processus de tri et de suppression en 

entrant dans le mode féminin, à l’intérieur de nous-mêmes et de la 

création. Nous vivons un état d’harmonie, de paix, de repos et de 

French Connection 

Réflexions sur la Paracha 

Vivre avec la Paracha 

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réceptivité. C’est pour cette raison que les références aux Chabbat 

sont toujours au féminin, Chabbat Hamalka, la reine Chabbat ou 

encore, Kalla, l’épousée. 

Les femmes, qui représentent la Sefirah unificatrice, Mal’hout, et le 

jour d’harmonie, le Chabbat, ressentent un besoin plus profond de 

chercher et d’apporter cette unification et cet équilibre dans leur 

vie. 

Chabbat est la source des bénédictions à la fois pour la semaine qui 

précède et celle qui suit. De la même façon, la femme est la source 

des bénédictions pour son mari et son foyer. Comme le déclarent 

nos Sages : «un homme ne reçoit de bénédictions que par le mérite 

de sa femme» et «la joie, le bien, la Torah (sa protection) viennent 

de la femme». 

C’est la raison pour laquelle bien que l’on puisse avoir une 

abondance de bénédictions dans la vie, elles ne sont véritablement 

les nôtres que lorsque nous pouvons être capables de nous arrêter, 

apprécier et absorber ce bien. 

Le Chabbat, nous pouvons enfin absorber les bénédictions des 

efforts de la semaine écoulée et également nous revigorer pour 

continuer ce nouveau voyage qui nous attend dans le cycle 

hebdomadaire prochain. 

Parce que le Chabbat exemplifie l’expérience et le mode féminins, 

c’est à la femme qu’a été confié l’allumage des lumières qui fait 

pénétrer ce saint jour. Même «si le mari veut allumer lui-même les 

bougies, sa femme en a la priorité» car l’essence de l’être féminin 

est en harmonie avec le message essentiel du Chabbat. 

C’est la raison pour laquelle il est préférable que ce soit l’homme 

qui récite la prière de la Havdala qui conclut le Chabbat, faisait 

entrer le travail de la semaine. L’homme qui représente le combat et 

la bataille du cycle hebdomadaire, met fin au Chabbat en le 

séparant. Havdala signifie «séparation», du labeur de la semaine. 

L’homme dit «au revoir» au Chabbat en faisant pénétrer la semaine 

masculine par sa récitation de la Havdala. Et c’est la femme qui fait 

pénétrer le Chabbat féminin par l’allumage des lumières et sa 

bénédiction. 

Et c’est ainsi qu’elle apporte les bénédictions, l’harmonie et 

l’équilibre du Chabbat dans sa propre vie et dans la vie de tous ceux 

qui l’entourent. 

Cours de Torah en Français 

Kabbalah et Psychologie 

(pour Femmes) 

Rabin Zalman Gansburg 

Jeudi de 10h30 à 11h30 

Haime Library 

Atelier d’Étude du Sens Caché 

des Bérachot (pour Femmes) 

Rabin Zalman Gansburg 

Jeudi de 11h30 à 12h00 

Haime Library

Just for the Gals 

Delve into the power, strength and beauty in the life of the Jewish Woman 

Women’s Mikvah: 

Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an 

appointment: 305-866-1492 or 

305-323-2410 

PLEASE NOTE: 

Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be PREPAID 

The Shul Sisterhood 

Who we are... 

The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The 

Shul's programming and classes geared 

toward women in the community. Our 

objective is to bring women of all ages and 

backgrounds together to learn, laugh, 

experience, and rejuvenate their mind, body 

and soul. Meet new friends, 

relax and get inspired! 

If you would like to be a part of The Shul 

Sisterhood, please call 305. 868.1411 

Happy Happy 

Mother’s Mother’s 

Day! 

Day! 

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Weekly Classes 

Monday 

Practical Halacha Rabbi Dov Schochet 11:00 - 11:30 am 

Women’s Study Group - Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:00 - 10:00 pm 

At the home of: Dr. Rita Steiner 

10155 Collins Avenue # 1806 

Bal Harbour FL 33154 

Tuesday 

Tanya Class in Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:45 - 2:30 p m 

~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 

Torah Portion Class in Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm 

~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour 

Wednesday 

Rosh Chodesh Society Class 

Devorah—The Prophetess Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:30 am 

Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am 

The Weekly Portion - Woman’s Perspective 

~ Haime Library 

Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:30 - 3:00 pm 

~ 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour 

Thursday 

Kabbalah & Psychology (in French) Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 10:30 - 11:30 am 

~ Haime Library 

Atelier d’Etude du Sens Cache des Berachot Rabbi Z. Gansburg 11:30 - 12:00 pm 

Tanya in Spanish for Women Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:00 - 3:00 pm 

~Chabad of Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura 

In the Friday night prayer of 

"Lecho Dodi," Shabbat is 

likened to a bride. After 

saying the blessing on your 

candles, uncover your eyes 

and imagine that you are at 

the ultimate wedding. Sing 

and do a little dance. It's a 

joyous union!

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To enroll in The Shul's Staying Connected program , please mail the 

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RamBam (Monday - Thursday) Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:45 - 9:00 am 

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Spanish Kolel - Chassidus (Men) Mr. Isaac Gorin / Mr. Moshe Lerman 8:00 - 10:00 pm 

Executive Smicha (Men) Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:00 - 10:00 pm 

Weekly Torah Portion (Spanish) Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 8:30 - 9:30 pm 

Women’s Study Group: 

At the home of: Dr. Rita Steiner 

10155 Collins Avenue # 1806 

Bal Harbour FL 33154 

Senior Torah Academy: 

From Exile to Redemption: Insights on Moshiach 

Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women 

Ein Ya’akov: Stories of the Talmud 

*All classes located at The Shul unless otherwise specified. 

Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 

8:00 - 10:00pm 

Rabbi Mendy Levy 11:00 - 11:45 am 


12:00 - 12:45 pm 

Tanya Class in Spanish (Women) Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 1:45 - 2:30 pm 

Torah Portion Class in Spanish (Women) Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 2:30 - 3:45 pm 

Executive Smicha (Men) Rabbi Dov Schochet 8:00 - 10:00 pm 

Rabbi Lipskar’s Tuesday Class Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 9:00 - 10:15 pm 

Parenting Class (Women) Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:00 am 

Morning Torah Class (Women) - Weekly Parsha Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am 

Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women 

Tanya 

Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 

11:00 - 11:45 am 

Tanya Class in English (Women) Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 

Spanish Kolel Rabbi Benchimol 8:00 - 10:00 pm 

Kabbalah & Psychology in French (Women) - Haime Library Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 10:30 am - 11:30 am 

Atelier d’Etude du Sens Cache des Berachot (Women) Haime Library Rabbi Zalman Gansburg 11:30 am - 12:00 pm 

Mitzvos of the Weekly Parsha (Men & Women) Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 11:00 - 11:45 am 

Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women (Main Sanctuary) 

Book of Judges 

Tanya in Spanish (Women) 


Mrs. Vivian Perez 

(Chabad of Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd) 

12:00 - 12:45 pm 

2:00 - 3:00 pm 

Tanya (Men & Women) Rabbi Uri Cohen 8:00 pm 

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Teen Shabbaton in Orlando 

Community Nachas 

A Peek at Recent Happenings 

Friday morning, a bus filled with 30 of our enthusiastic teens pulled out to Orlando for a Shabbaton weekend to be 

remembered! An inspiring, unique Shabbos experience was had by all, culminating in each person taking on a mitzvah at the 

BBQ on Saturday night! Sunday morning, tired but enthused, we headed out to Busch Gardens, Tampa for a day of fun in the 

park. Thank you to all those who joined, helped out and made this trip the awesome success it was!

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