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Community Happenings 6 - 7 Sharing with your Shul Family A Time to Pray Check out all the davening schedules and locations 8 - throughout the week
Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 9-15 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE
Get The Picture 16-22 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a woman’s world Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman 23
French Connection Refexions sur la Paracha 24
Latin Link Refexion Semanal 25 The ABC’s of Aleph Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 26 Networking Effective Advertising 27-28 Numbers To Know Contacts at The Shul 29 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 30 The Shul
Get The Picture 31-32 The full scoop on all the great events around town
Quotable Quote For everything there is a season, a time for every matter under the heaven: A time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot that which is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break and a time to build. A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time of wailing and a time of dancing. A time to cast stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to rend and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace... Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar
Shabbos Noach in our practical lives.
his portion opens with May we immediately merit the complete cleansing, purifcation and the verse: “these are the hallowing of our world as all evil is eradicated and goodness and Thappenings (children) of G-dliness prevails. “Noach,” “Noach” was a Tzaddik (Righteous) Person”. The repetition Have a good Shabbos and a great week. of “Noach”, which is grammatically and textually superfuous, relates to two levels of Noach. Besides being the name of a person, Noach means peaceful/calm/tranquil/restful. Noach, through his righteous behavior in a degenerate world, Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar brought a sense of peacefulness. Noach was such a positive force that he enabled G-d Almighty to continue creation though He had remorse for creating such a corrupt world. The Ark The two levels of “Noach”, tranquil in the Higher World and tranquil in the lower environments, according to the Zohar, relate to two Based on letters and talks of the levels that are part of every Shabbos: The Lower Shabbos and the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson Higher Shabbos; Shabbos Evening and Shabbos Day. The Lower Shabbos level relates to resting and elevating all the forces of physical activity, bodily function and animal life-force soul and the There is a raging storm at sea. There are hellish Higher Shabbos level relates to the drawing down of the G-dly Soul and Supernal forces into the lower realm. waves that crash and pound at the shore, carrying all away, leaving desolation behind. Positive energy requires a double effort. First one must utilize all of one’s material world and resources to serve G-d. One must extract the energies extant in the physical world and utilize them The sea is the world of making a living. for fulflling the purpose of creation; to be subservient to G-d’s will and direction and subdue one’s own will and desire to G-d’s will and The waves are the stress and anxiety of desire. Through this we then connect with G-d’s pure holiness indecision, not knowing which way to turn, and energy and bring it into our realms and environment. on what to rely. Up and down, hot and cold— Just like Shabbos, when we cease our weekday activity putting forth every effort to prepare ourselves, homes and feasts for Shabbos and constantly churning back and forth. only then do we attain a special, indescribable, pleasurable joy that only Jewish people can experience and know, so too, when creating Do as Noah did, and build an ark. “An ark” in a Shabbos world outlook and state of being, we need to accomplish the double Noach – the two levels of Holy tranquility. We must Hebrew is teivah—which means also “a word.” Your elevate the lowly and draw down the holy. ark shall be the words of meditation and of prayer. Today when we are at the threshold of the time when “It is completely Shabbos”- the Messianic Era – we must utilize all of our Enter into your ark, and let the waters lift you opportunities to harness our physical world as a vehicle for G-d’s up, rather than drown you with everything else. presence as we evoke the highest levels of G-d’s essence to dwell
3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle
Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Questions: Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 1) Which parshas are named for people? (6 answers) Montessori Classrooom 2 2) Aside from the 40 days of rain, where else is the number 40 classrooom 2 mentioned in this parsha? 3) Where else in the Torah was someone saved from harm by being situated in a taiva?
Answers from last week: 1) In Genesis 49:3, Yaakov refers to Reuven his frst-born as Reishit Oni – “my initial vigor.” Tehila's Basya's Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls 2) In Genesis 27:45, Rivka worries that her two sons will die on "Yom Echad" – “one day.” In Genesis 33:13, Yaakov excuses himself from Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 traveling with Esav by stating that if he does, the children and sheep will be too pressured for “one day.” 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Classrooom 4 3) In Genesis 37:9, the sun and the moon appear in the dream of Yosef.
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4 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience
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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. The number to call is 305- 866-ERUV (3788). The Eruv message is recorded approximately two hours prior to candle lighting. Surfside: The Eruv in Surfside now includes the walking paths along the beach. Pushing strollers and carrying is permitted on the paths, but not beyond the path or onto the beach. Bal Harbour: The Eruv in Bal Harbour included the inner (western) walking path only. The pier at Haulover Cut is not included.
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Birthdays Mazal Tov 4 Cheshvan Mr. Roni Arber Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs Shmulie and Adina Shmotkin on the birth of a baby girl. 4 Cheshvan Ms. Lily Colonomos May they raise her to Torah, Chupah and Ma'asim Tovim and have much nachas 4 Cheshvan Mrs. Amy Gelb from her. Mazal Tov also to the grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Yossi and Batya Lipskar 4 Cheshvan Ms. Shoshana Jacob and to the great grandmother Mrs. Rochel Lipskar. 4 Cheshvan Mr. Kobi Karp 5 Cheshvan Mr. Aaron Attias Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Boruch and Rochel Waldman on the birth of a baby boy. 5 Cheshvan Mr. Kevin Dunn Maythey raise him to Torah, Chupah and Ma'asim Tovim and have much nachas 5 Cheshvan Mr. Zushe Litchkowski from him. 5 Cheshvan Dr. Dinah Raizel Reich MD 5 Cheshvan Mr. David Schottenstein 5 Cheshvan Ms. Jodi Sirotkin 6 Cheshvan Ms. Tuli Davis 6 Cheshvan Mr. David Karchov Yahrtzeits 6 Cheshvan Mrs. Susie Lustgarten 4 Cheshvan Meir ben Benyamin obm 6 Cheshvan Mrs. Mildred Nyman Uncle of Mrs. Nily Falic 6 Cheshvan Mrs. Vivian Perez 4 Cheshvan Michael ben Shmuel Aryeh obm 6 Cheshvan Mrs. Viki Sasi Father of Mrs. Judith Farbman 6 Cheshvan Ms. Randee Schottenstein 4 Cheshvan Shosanna obm 7 Cheshvan Mrs. Danielle Arev Grandmother of Mr. Mitchell Feldman 7 Cheshvan Mr. Jerome Falic 4 Cheshvan Moshe ben Max Yellin obm 7 Cheshvan Mr. Amram Kamhazi Uncle of Mrs. Sarah Lotkin 7 Cheshvan Ms. Chaya Mushka Katz 4 Cheshvan Michael ben Esther obm 7 Cheshvan Mrs. Teri Knight Grandfather of Mr. Michael Perez 7 Cheshvan Ms. Hadassa Lipskar 4 Cheshvan Yosef Mordechai ben Shulem Aron obm 7 Cheshvan Dr. Bracha Reich Father of Mr. Saul Retelny 7 Cheshvan Mr. Saul Retelny 5 Cheshvan Yitzchak ben Nina obm Brother of Ms. Liv-Tiferet De Vitton 7 Cheshvan Mrs. Bluma Schneider 5 Cheshvan Chaya Leah bas Yentel obm 7 Cheshvan Mrs. Jayne Shapiro Wife of Mr. Jeffrey Shapiro 8 Cheshvan Mrs. Diana Cohen 5 Cheshvan Saad ben Sultana obm 8 Cheshvan Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Father of Dr. Menahem (Jimmy) Srur 8 Cheshvan Mr. Jeffrey Mandel 6 Cheshvan Devorah bas Eliyahu Kardonski obm 8 Cheshvan Mr. Edward Ohayon Mother of Mrs. Raquel Gilinski, Mr. Henry Kardonski, 8 Cheshvan Mrs. Zehava Sheftel Ms. Shay Kardonski and Mr. Mark Kardonski 9 Cheshvan Mrs. Eda Schottenstein 6 Cheshvan Daniel ben Yitzchok obm 9 Cheshvan Ms. Paige Sussman Brother of Mr. Richard Moore 10 Cheshvan Mr. Benjamin Colonomos 6 Cheshvan Nechama Sara bas Bracha obm 10 Cheshvan Ms. Esther Leah Gassner Wife of Mr. Isaac Olemberg 10 Cheshvan Mrs. Channah Hershman 6 Cheshvan Menachem Mendel ben Abraham obm 10 Cheshvan Ms. Jennifer Ann Kaplan Father of Mr. Jose Tabacinic and Mr. Moris Tabacinic 10 Cheshvan Ms. Adine Mitrani 7 Cheshvan Dovber ben Mordechai obm 10 Cheshvan Mr. Offy Shifman Husband of Mrs. Genia Bruder 10 Cheshvan Mrs. Loren Sragowicz 7 Cheshvan Levi Yitzchuk ben Yaacov David Hacohen obm 10 Cheshvan Mr. Elias Sussman Uncle of Mrs. Sarah Lotkin 10 Cheshvan Mr. Matthew Sussman 7 Cheshvan Chaviva bas Salha Gurgia obm Mother of Rabbi Shimshon Tzubeli 7 Cheshvan Shlomo ben Saadia obm Father of Mrs. Dana Werner Kid’s Birthdays 8 Cheshvan Esther obm 4 Cheshvan Mery Kamhazi Mother of Mr. Gideon Azari 4 Cheshvan Julia Sher 8 Cheshvan Osher ben David obm 5 Cheshvan Jetta Pearl Krieger Husband of Mrs. Rosita Boruchin 7 Cheshvan Suzan Leeat Izhak and Father of Mrs. Diana Ben-Arie 7 Cheshvan Yehuda Shanik 8 Cheshvan Yacov ben Abraham obm 8 Cheshvan Eva Hannah Gelb Father of Mr. Manuel Jaimovich 8 Cheshvan Ariel Leib Rubinstein 8 Cheshvan Hirsch Tzvi ben Isaac obm 8 Cheshvan David Yosef Sitbon Brother of Mrs. Fanny Selesky 8 Cheshvan David Isaacson obm Brother-in-law of Mrs. Loren Sragowicz Anniversaries 10 Cheshvan Sara bas Yekutiel Yehuda obm Mr. & Mrs. Motty and Jenny Klainbaum Mother of Mrs. Evelyn Katz, Mr. George Rohr and Mrs. Lillian Tabacinic 6 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family
Cheshvan Light & Power Thanks To Our Donors Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah for We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul the month of Cheshvan is Kindly Sponsored by for donations received between 10/25/16 and 10/31/16 We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Mr. & Mrs. Yankie Andrusier Mr. Raymond Louzoun The Falic Family Mrs. Bessie Bedzow Ms. Nina Mack Leeor & Ilana Ben-Moshe Mr. Salomon Maikhor In Loving Memory Of Mr. Roee Ben-Moshe Dr. & Dr. Raul Mitrani Dov ben Chaim HaCohen Z’L Mr. Uri Bublil Mr. & Mrs. Temuri Nanikashvili Mr. David Egozi Rabbi & Mrs. Harold Richter Rachel bat Benyamin Z’L and Ms. Eileen Ginzburg Mr. & Mrs. Seth Salver Meir ben Benyamin Z’L Mr. & Ms. Ighal Goldfarb Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Schmutter Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. David Schottenstein Rabbi & Mrs. Meir Shlomo Herz Ms. Esther Vlosky “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Rabbi & Mrs. Zalman Hilel Mr. & Mrs. Adam Weinberg pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Remy Jacobson Mrs. Pnina Wuensch and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Mr. Jack Kassin Mr. Jose Yankelevitch occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed Mr. & Mrs. Alex Klein Mr. Itzchak Yosef be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mr. & Mrs. Jacky Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Avrom Chaim body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Mr. & Mrs. David Lichter Zelmanovitch together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.”
Refuah Shleimah Dear Friends and Family, 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. As the shloshim of our Ima/Savta/Savta Rabah, Ilona MEN WOMEN Sholom Meir ben Pearl Miriam bat Risha Raizel Helena Rachel (Ilonka) Katz OBM approaches, we invite Michael Joseph ben Natalie Lee Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde you to join us in learning mishnayot to elevate her Gabriel ben Esther Chana bas Shoshana neshama. We would like to complete Pirkei Avot in her Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Shifra bas Chaya memory, and hold a siyum on the day of her shloshim. Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Yosef ben Edwina Chava bas Elka Menucha We feel that this is an appropriate way to honor Savta's Avrohom ben Feigel Chaya bas Rachel memory, because during her long life she imparted a Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Fayge bas Chaya tremendous amount of wisdom to us all. Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Miriam Leah bas Helen Yehuda ben Chaya Sara Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel Whether you are able to learn some of the mishnayot Roi ben Orly or not, if you happen to be in Miami, you are cordially Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel invited to join us for the siyum. The siyum will be held at The Shul, 9540 Collins Avenue, at 10 am on November 13th after morning prayers which begin at 9:00 am. Brunch will follow the siyum. We hope you can join us. Community Notice Board: If you have a new or slightly used Shaitel that you With love, would like to donate to The Shul Sisterhood Shmuel, Evelyn, Nicole, Jordan, JJ, Chantal, Elizabeth, Please Contact Charlotte, Julian and Lia Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410
7 A Time to Pray Davening schedules and locations throughout the week
Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul 6:20 -6:50 am Derech Mitzvosecha Foundational Chassidic Discourse R’ Zalman Lipskar 7:45 am Daf Yomi R’ Dov Schochet 8:45 am (approx) Halacha Sephardic Custom R’ Shimshon Tzubeli 10:15 - 11:00 am Maamorim Maamor of the Rebbe R’ Shea Rubinstein
Shacharis Minyanim (mon - Fri) Sunday Shacharis Minyanim Main Minyan 6:50 7:30 9:00 Main Minyan 8:00 am 9:00 am Sephardic Minyan 8:00 Sephardic Minyan 9:00 am
Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan Sunday Mincha /Maariv mincha / Maariv Minyanim (mon - Thurs) Minyanim Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 5:15 pm 10:00 pm Main Minyan 5:15 pm Sephardic Minyan 5:15 pm Following Late Maariv 10:00 pm
Evening Kolel Schedule - Monday and Thursday 8:45 -9:30 pm Mon & Thurs 8:45 - 10:00 pm Evening Community Kolel Chavrusah
To our beloved Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces, Halachic Times courageously protecting and defending Eretz Yisroel. Based on times for November 9 We pray for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily. Dan Shlomo ben Eliyahu Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:20 am Benyamin Aharon Ben Jeniya Gila Rut Earliest Talit & Tefllin 5:52 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:35 am Michael Shmuel ben Eliezer Eliyahu (Earliest Amidah) Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry Latest Shema 9:17 am Zman Tfllah 10:13 am
Chatzot / Midday 12:04 pm Earliest Mincha 12:32 pm Plag HaMincha 4:28 pm Shekiah / Sunset 5:34 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 5:58 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)
Times taken from www.chabad.org Please note that during the week times may vary by a minute or two. If anyone would like to send us the name of a soldier in the IDF we would love to add them. 8 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! Hayom Yom In the winter of 1942, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of righteous memory, gave his son- in-law, the future Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, the task of compiling an anthology of Chasidic aphorisms and customs arranged according to the days of the year. The calendar was entitled Hayom Yom. In describing this work Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak wrote: …”A book that is small in format…but bursting with pearls and diamonds of choicest quality.” “A splendid palace of Chasidism.” True to these words, Hayom Yom has become a beloved classic work and a source of daily spiritual sustenance. Friday - Cheshvan 3 sense or perceive the simpleton as belonging at (Continuing the above sicha:) Bereishit is a all to the category of human beings! Not that cheerful sedra, even though its ending is not the scholar dismisses or rejects him, G-d forbid, all that pleasant. Noach has the Flood, but the for that would be an evil trait; he simply sees no week ends on a happy note with the birth of our connection or relationship with him whatsoever. father Avraham. The really joyous week is that of parshat Lech L'cha. We live every day of the Now, when the sage instructs the simple man week with Avraham, the frst to dedicate his very to do something for him, that command brings life to spreading G-dliness in the world. And the simpleton "into being." In his own self- Avraham bequeathed his self-sacrifce as an perception he is no longer a nonentity but a inheritance to all Jews. "somebody"; he has assumed a status unto himself in that he is able to carry out an order of Shabbos - Cheshvan 4 the sage, and it is him that the sage addressed Torah-study every day is crucial to life itself. and instructed. In the eyes of the sage too, the This applies not only to the soul of the one simpleton now "exists"; he is a "somebody" to studying but also to the souls of his family. For Tuesday - Cheshvan 7 whom he (the sage) can speak and instruct. then (through Torah-study), the atmosphere of Since Torah was given, the correct sequence is: What is more, the command actually unites the the home becomes an atmosphere of Torah and First, removal of the orla of the body, then of the lofty, exalted sage with the gross simpleton. The piety. tongue, then of the heart - deed, speech, then analogue is obvious. thought. It is understood that in the above analogy there Sunday - Cheshvan 5 Our father Avraham, who lived prior to the is no difference at all what the command is The Jewish people are compared to the stars giving of the Torah, however, frst recognized about, whether a great, lofty matter or a simple twinkling in the high heavens. By their light, his Creator - thought; then he disseminated trivial one. even he who walks in the darkness of night G-dliness - speech; and fnally circumcision - shall not blunder. deed. Thursday - Cheshvan 9 When my father was four or fve years old he Every Jew, man or woman, possesses enough went to his grandfather, the Tzemach Tzedek, moral and spiritual strength to infuence friends Wednesday - Cheshvan 8 Mitzva is an idiom of tzavta - "joining," on Shabbat Vayeira, and began to cry as he and acquaintances, and bring them into the "attachment." Whoever performs a mitzva asked, "Why did G-d show Himself to our father light. becomes joined to the Essence of G-d - may Avraham - but He does not show Himself to us?" He be blessed - Who issues that particular The Tzemach Tzedek answered him: "When a Monday - Cheshvan 6 command. This is the meaning of "The reward tzadik decides at the age of ninety-nine years When the Alter Rebbe wished to bless R. of a mitzva is the mitzva (itself)": His becoming that he should be circumcised, he deserves that Yekusiel Liepler with wealth, the latter said attached to the Essence of the En Sof Who G-d appear to him." he did not want it; he did not want wealth to ordained the command, is itself his reward. distract him from studying Chassidus and from Friday - Cheshvan 10 his involvement with avoda. When the Rebbe The above can be understood through an wished to bless him with longevity, his answer The Alter Rebbe used to refer to Atzilut as analogy from the physical world: An extremely "Above." They say that because of intense was: But not "peasant years" - men that have simple person has an inner sense of bitul eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not emotion, when writing the word he could get no (nullity) before the wisdom and greatness of a further than "Atzi -." hear, who do not perceive G-dliness nor do they scholar - a bitul in which he senses himself to hear G-dliness. be an utter nonentity. The sage in turn, does not 9 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
PARSHA MESSAGES The Genesis Of Recovery with abuse and evil. Did G-d Really Have To Destroy the Is this not the tragic consequence of all World? addiction? After decades of frying your brain By: Rabbi YY Jacobson day after day with alcohol, drugs or other destructive substances or behaviors, you fnally Insanity manage to kill the last vestige of your soul and ne of the loveliest stories told by the your rationality. At this point, healing is not Chassidic master Rabbi Nachman of possible anymore. Your mind loses its last ounce OBreslov goes like this: of control over your life and you just watch The ability for us to perform this miracle in our yourself wither away and die. A king was informed by his chief minister that lives was sewn into the fabric of our existence there had been a blight on the crops that year. as a result of the food described in this week's During the time of Noach, man and his world did They were affected so greatly that anyone eating Torah portion, which occurred, according to the not yet possess the potential for rehabilitation the grain would become insane. "But," said the Jewish tradition, in the year 1656 after creation and self-renewal. Why? Because the spirituality minister, "there is no need for us to worry. I have (2105 BCE). and holiness accessible to the world during set aside enough grain from last year's harvest the pre-food era was a gift from above and for the both of us that will last until the harvest Why the food? not intrinsic to the very chemistry of humanity. of the following year." "And G-d said to Noach: The end of all fesh Like a student who grasps all of the profound has come before me, for the earth is flled teachings of his mentor, but lacks the ability The king shook his head. "No," he said. "I will not with violence; behold, I shall destroy them." to conceive of an original thought, man was a allow myself any privileges other than those Thereafter, a forty-day-long titanic shower recipient of the light, but did not own the light. shared by my subjects. descended from heaven and fooded the earth, Therefore, as long as man was a loyal pupil of "We shall eat of the same grain," the king putting an end to all of its inhabitants. G-d, he remained connected to the source of life. continued, "and we shall both go insane together Once man rejected G-d, his existence became Growing up in Yeshiva and learning this story valueless and purposeless. with the rest of the population. But here is what each year, I could never comprehend how G-d we shall do. You and I will mark our foreheads could actually wipe out an entire world because The rains of the food, described in Kabbalah with an indelible imprint, so that when we go of its wrongdoings. Even G-d Himself apparently as "a cosmic Mikvah," did not only destroy an insane, I will look at you and you will look at me came to the same conclusion after the food. unsalvageable world; they also cleansed it and and we will know we are insane." The Torah relates how following the food G-d purifed it, leaving in their wake a new world vowed that "I will never again curse the earth with a new nature. The mighty waters that were The path toward healing because of man; neither will I again smite emitted from heaven impregnated the truths Some time ago I encountered a woman. She everything living, as I have done. All days of the of spirituality and G-dliness into the very fabric was particularly kind and compassionate, but I earth, the seasons for seed time and harvest, of the earth. Like a pupil who had been trained noticed that she never smiled; a steady paleness cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, by his mentor to think on his own, humanity in and gloom seemed to settle across her face all shall never cease." What changed? the post-food era absorbed the goodness and the time. harmony of its creator within its very structure. Also, why from all ways to destroy civilization, When I asked her about it, she related to me From now on, even if man would alienate himself did G-d choose the food? that when she was three, her father became an entirely from his Divine source, he could always alcoholic. He would come home every evening recreate himself through the light engraved in The workings of addiction the depth of his being. drunk and knock her head against the brick wall The Lubavitcher Rebbe explained the tragic tale in the kitchen. of the food in this fashion: The food granted our world the gift and the Her mother would stand nearby silently, miracle of recovery. Even in the face of the The world ought to be a spiritual and G-dly place most horrifc abuse, we retain within ourselves covering her eyes with her hands. "When dad and man ought to be a spiritual, sacred creature. would conclude with the beating," the woman a sacred space, an untouchable innocence, from This is their ultimate purpose and destiny. But which we can always experience the wonder related to me, "Mom would tell him, 'Do you during the millennium preceding the food, have to do it so hard?'" of rebirth. Though insanity -- in all of its forms the human race defned itself exclusively as a -- may pervade our lives, our souls preserve a Recovery is a miracle. In the face of severe beastly and criminal race. Man corrupted himself memory of a sane world, a world flled with physical or mental abuse, for a person to and his environment so severely that healing innocence, love, and inner security. rehabilitate himself and reclaim his lost was no longer possible. The world turned into an innocence and zest for life is nothing short of unredeemable hell. Destruction was inevitable, a miracle. a natural consequence of ten centuries fooded 10 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
Why Noah Planted a Vineyard them in on their own existence and made them shrink away in shame. The harmony was and Got Drunk gone. The unity was gone. The transcendence By Zalmy Labkowsky was gone. What was left was a multitude of The Biblical Narrative independent creatures lacking the guiding n the year 1657 (2104 BCE), immediately and uniting force they once took for granted. following the Great Flood, Noah and his Noah, in his attempt to fashion a society based Ifamily, sole survivors of over 1,500 years of on proper ideals, tried importing the pre-sin human history, exited the Ark with the task state of existence. By getting drunk, Noah of regrouping, rebuilding and repopulating a thought he could get rid of the pervasive desolate earth. The Torah describes the first self-awareness and thereby resurrect a state event to occur after the Flood: Another explanation offered is that Noah of complete unity with the Divine. was after the cognitive powers that could And Noah began to be a master of the soil, be harnessed through alcohol, wanting to Noah’s mistake was that he thought all and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of broaden his horizons in the study of Torah. oblivion was created equal. What he didn't the wine and became drunk, and he uncovered realize was that lack of self-awareness that himself within his tent. And Ham, the father Chassidic teachings take a different approach. doesn't come from subjugation to a higher of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness, and he Noah wasn't trying to imbibe spirits to lift power, but rather from excessive alcohol told his two brothers outside. And Shem and his own. He also wasn't looking to drink in consumption, is merely confusion, and isn't in Japheth took the garment, and they placed [it] moderation to jump-start his brain. Noah's fact an enlightened spiritual state. One can't on both of their shoulders, and they walked plan from the beginning was to go all in, to take shortcuts in achieving transcendence; backwards, and they covered their father's get completely under-the-table, stripped- it has to come from hard work and steady nakedness, and their faces were turned down-to-the-flesh plastered. progress. backwards, so that they did not see their father's nakedness. Having witnessed extreme depravity and So Noah wasn't just looking for a good time, immorality, and the destruction it left in its and it wasn't just a passing idea. His actions And Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew wake, Noah had come face to face with the were part of a grand plan to fashion society on what his small son had done to him. consequences of sin. Noah got drunk (and the foundations of spiritual enlightenment. It subsequently disrobed) as an ambitious just didn't play out the way he imagined. And he said, "Cursed be Canaan; he shall be attempt to return the world to the innocent a slave among slaves to his brethren." And he time before sin. He was trying to undo and The Reaction said, "Blessed be the L-rd, the G-d of Shem, reverse the negative effects of Adam and On finding out about their father's and may Canaan be a slave to them. May G-d Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden. intoxication, Noah's three sons had three expand Japheth, and may He dwell in the different reactions, ranging from pious to tents of Shem, and may Canaan be a slave to The World Before Sin deplorable. them." Before there was sin, the universe was at peace. Nature and its Creator were completely “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his Why Did He Do It? in sync and the unity of G-d was manifest in father's nakedness, and he told his two Why was Noah drinking so heavily? A man all of creation. The only consciousness that brothers outside.” chosen by G-d to be the father of all mankind, existed was the consciousness of G-d, and someone who was, in the Torah’s words, "a Seems innocent enough. But as Rashi is quick one couldn't help but view every aspect of the to inform us, "saw his father's nakedness" righteous man" and "perfect,” was taking to the world as a component of that reality. The only bottle like some degenerate in a corner pub? means that he either sodomized him or self-awareness that existed before sin was castrated him. Neither of those being your We're talking about a man G-d communicated the awareness that one was an expression of with directly. We're talking about a man G-d average son's reaction to finding his father the Divine. There was no possibility of viewing sprawled on his bed in a drunken stupor. selected as the most eligible of all his peers oneself as an independent, self-sufficient to save humanity. entity when G-dliness was so revealed. One Ham lost no time in telling his brothers of A number of reasons are offered to justify unifying consciousness fused all of creation their father's shameful state. Shem, the Noah’s inebriation. together. youngest of the three, sprang into action and grabbed a garment to cover their father. The Seder Hadorot writes that, as a young Then came sin. The effects were quick in Japheth, following his younger brother's lead, man, Noah had once watched a goat munch coming and shattered the clarity that had also held onto the garment: on some grapes and then become giddy and existed previously. Confusion and friction cheerful. So perhaps Noah was looking for a became the dominant realities. In place of Shem and Japheth took the garment, and little pick-me-up after bearing witness to the the two innocent souls blissfully unaware of they placed [it] on both of their shoulders, obliteration of civilization from the face of their own nakedness, two people stood with and they walked backwards, and they covered the earth. a newly acquired self-awareness that focused their father's nakedness, and their faces were 11 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! turned backwards, so that they did not see rewards and punishments dished out as a their father's nakedness. result of this event are related to clothing. Halacha of The Week This is in keeping with the Torah’s general By Rabbi Dov Schochet Rashi explains that the seeming redundancy principle of "an eye for an eye," the idea that Byproducts of Animals in the verse teaches us that Shem and Japheth consequences are meted out measure for made additional efforts to avoid seeing their measure. If you're a good doctor, getting a fter leaving the Ark, Noach is instructed father in a state of nakedness even for just a taste of your own medicine isn't so bad. (But moment. by G-d as to what his diet will include. if you're a bad doctor...) AWhile from the time of Adam, up until And Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew Mirror, Mirror the flood man was only permitted to eat what his small son had done to him. And he grasses, fruits and other plants (some hold Chassidic teachings tell us that when one sees said, "Cursed be Canaan; he shall be a slave that man was meant to be herbivorous) negativity in others, it's really a projection of among slaves to his brethren." And he said, Noach is permitted to kill animals for food. the seer’s own negativity. However, is this true "Blessed be the L-rd, the G-d of Shem, and The only limitation placed on Noach was that across the board? Is it not possible for a really may Canaan be a slave to them. May G-d he cannot eat the limb of a living animal, he good guy to happen upon a really bad guy? expand Japheth, and may He dwell in the must first kill the animal and then consume it. Is it not possible for a completely selfless tents of Shem, and may Canaan be a slave to person to interact with selfish people? (It's them." While the general permission given to Noach okay if you're picturing yourself right now.) is restricted for Jews, not all animals are The answer is yes, it is possible. The key There are a number of explanations offered permitted for consumption, the prohibition to knowing if the negativity you see is a as to why Canaan, Ham’s son, is the one to against a limb from a living animal remains. reflection of you is in the kind of reaction it is. bear the brunt of Noah’s curse: Therefore, even from the animals we are 1) He was cursed because he was the one When Ham saw his father's disgrace, the permitted to consume e.g. cows, sheep etc. who initially informed his father, Ham, of thought of helping him didn't cross his mind. they can only be used after being properly the situation. (And not in the “Oh my word! Shem, on the other hand, saw the issue as one slaughtered. Whatever are we to do about this?” kind of that needed to be rectified, and instantly got way. More like in the “Dad you gotta check out to work doing that. While we are limited in when we can use an what I just found! You're gonna love this” kind animal for food, there are certain byproducts One's reaction to negativity is very telling. of way.) that are permitted even while the animal is If, when coming across it, you react like an alive. The most common of these is milk. Even 2) Because Ham tried preventing Noah from amateur food critic and just say "that's bad" though milk comes from a live animal, we can having a fourth son, Noah cursed his fourth and move on your way, then something's drink it or use it to make cheese. son. wrong. The negativity didn't bother you enough to attempt to get rid of it. It didn't While milk is not actually a limb from a live 3) Noah didn't think it was appropriate to rattle your proverbial cage. Negativity has to animal, the Talmud still looks for a source curse his son after G-d himself had blessed clash with everything you stand for. It has to which allows us to use milk for consumption. his children. shake you to your very core until you have no Ultimately there are multiple verses which choice but to correct it. 4) Ham actually learned his perverse ways describe the consumption of cheese and the drinking of milk. Furthermore, the Torah itself from his son Canaan. If it doesn't do that, then there's some of that praises Israel as a land flowing with milk and negativity in you as well. Our rabbis teach, that both Shem and honey. If milk was not Kosher, the Torah would Japheth were rewarded for their actions, For Shem, there was no buffering time. The not use it to extol the land of Israel. but in different measures. Shem, because he second he heard of his father's compromised initiated, was rewarded in both body and soul situation, he got to work fixing it. Finding out However, this license is restricted to the milk by meriting to have his descendants receive about the issue and finding a solution were of kosher animals. The milk of a not kosher the special mitzvah of tzitzit. Japheth, who one and the same for Shem. Because he was specie remains forbidden. Even the milk of a merely went along with Shem’s actions, was completely free of any of that negativity, he kosher animal e.g. a cow, could at times be rewarded in body by meriting the burial of instantly rejected it and went about trying to not Kosher. If the animal has a fatal wound his descendants during the war of Gog and change it. which makes it a Terefah (an animal which Magog. Ham, who not only didn't assist has certain physical defects which make it his father but added injury to insult, was So when you come across evil in the world, not Kosher, e.g. a punctured lung) the milk punished through his descendants when they you have a decision to make: do you want to cannot be used. In earlier times when it was were stripped naked and disgraced in the war be a part of it, or do you want to be a part of easier to track milk or cheese which came with the King of Assyria. bringing it down? from a specific cow, before mass production, it was a difficult question if a cow was found The Punishment Fits the Crime to be a Terefah what to do with the cheese What's interesting to note is that all the and milk which came from it. The general 12 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! issue was should we assume that the issue Her darling was gone. Her baby. Her love. Her happened after the milk was removed and Community Corner sky. Her world. Her everything. She wanted therefore not a problem or not. Even today to die. She was ready to die. Doctor Feldman there are certain veterinary procedures done Dr. Samuel Feldman convinced her not to, and in the process he that would render the animal not Kosher, and By: Ayala Avroya saved the lives of a mother, a father, a little one must be careful not to use that milk. boy, and a little girl. He taught them -- all ello, everyone. I of them -- how to go on living. Now, that The milk of humans is Kosher. However, greet you today mother has taken it upon herself to speak that is only if it has been expressed. It is Hin heavy spirits. A with innumerable strangers when the tragedy Rabinically forbidden to nurse directly from man beloved by many of death strikes, helping them along through a woman. The exception is obviously for a recently passed away. a time of need whether she knew them child, which is allowed to nurse up until His name was Samuel previously or not. She tells them, as she tells the age of four. If the child is sickly or weak Abraham Feldman, and me, "Pass it forward." then permission is granted until the age of he was a psychologist five. Obviously in a case of danger there is of great importance in If there is one thing for which I am grateful, no prohibition at all. While Halachically there Florida. I can't say much it is that he saw the longterm affects of his is no difference if the milk is from a Jew or about his professional work in me. Years after his initial appearance gentile, if one hires a wet-nurse for their child life. I was neither there to witness it nor in my life, he showed up again. This time, we it is preferable to choose a Jewish wet-nurse. around to hear about it. What I can say is that were at a meeting for JCURE. We arrived early The primary reason is that the gentile eats he will be missed. He will be mourned like a and at exactly the same time, so we explored not Kosher foods which are transformed into dear friend by people who only met him in the hallways together until we discovered milk, and can have a negative effect on the passing or hardly remember his face. the room in which we were supposed to meet. spiritual wellbeing of the child, which tells us He questioned me on our organization, and I the importance of eating the right foods for I'm ashamed to say that I can hardly remember answered as thoroughly and enthusiastically our physical and spiritual nourishment when his face, having seen him only once in the last as I could. I'm told that he talked about me nursing a child. thirteen years. Still, I know of him. I remember later that night, surprised and delighted by his words and his legacy, if not his appearance. my involvement. Only later did I find out that One other food which is allowed although it It is always telling when a man has a legacy the kind, smart man I met that night was also comes from an animal, and a not Kosher one at before he is gone from this world, and Doctor the man that saved my life, and I believe it that, is honey. There is a debate in the Talmud Feldman was one of those men. He is a hero. was only later that he found out the mostly why we can eat bees' honey. Some argue that There is no other word for him. Perhaps he mature, mostly intelligent young woman he it is never truly a part of the bee’s body, and didn't run into burning buildings, but even met was me. therefore never forbidden. Others contend with my extremely limited knowledge of his life, I can tell you specifically of five lives Months later, my mother and I were on a that there is a unique scriptural nuance which plane to North Carolina. We landed. We stood. allows it. The early commentaries discuss the he saved. It is uncountable, unknowable how many lives he saved in the end. My mother's phone powered on. And we got fact that it was common to have pieces of the the news that Dr. Feldman had passed away bee’s legs in the honey and what were the When my older sister died, it was the day in one of North Carolina's hospitals. If I grounds to eat it. Ultimately, as long as there after my third birthday. It was Dr. Feldman believed in god, and I know many of you do, are no actual remnants of the bee discernible who coached me through that time, stopping then I could hardly deny this was his work. in the honey, it is Kosher. a vulnerable, distraught toddler from falling Just imagine. I was there to view colleges. To into a pit of despair that I would've never been secure my future. Need I say more? Only after the flood and the refinement of able to escape. If it weren't for him, I might've both man and nature was permission granted crushed myself under the guilt of what had Doctor Feldman is a man with a legacy. He to consume meat. Eating is not simply a way to happened. It was my birthday, my celebration lives on. Not only in the souls of his family sustain the body, but an opportunity to engage that resulted in her disappearing from before or the hearts of his friends and coworkers. the world in a positive elevated manner. Once our eyes. I could've easily decided to bear that Not only in the memories he has left behind man went through the cleansing process of weight, but I didn't. Because Doctor Feldman or even the deeds he has done. Every life he the flood he was given the ability to elevate got through to me when no one else could, I saved brings forth a touch of him to the world. even the coarser elements of nature. This is an didn't ruin my own future, and really, what is Every life I touch and every life that follows important thought to consider when we eat, a life if not a future? from there will contain a bit of his essence to eat in a way which is not only healthy for because Dr. Feldman started this chain the body but a soulful elevating experience Another family, one with which I'm close reaction of kindness and life that continues as well. enough to call my own, had a similar tragedy to ripple through the masses. years ago. A child died, but two children were left behind. Both parents were overcome with It is a small world, but Doctor Feldman is a grief, but the mother was hit especially hard. big presence. He always will be.
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the Jews - not only in town, but wherever they "One thing I don't understand: Why did you have Stories With Soul could be found. Whatever they could grab would to come here to perform the miracle? Surely you It Once Happened be theirs. could have done it from Mezhibozh and spared the journey." ne Friday afternoon, the Baal Shem Tov "All of a sudden a man walked into the house, and came to a small town to spend the holy the poritz stood up to greet him. They embraced The Baal Shem Tov nodded. But then he went Shabbat there. On his usual visits, it was like long-lost brothers and went into another on to explain that if, G-d forbid, his intervention O room where they stayed for a few hours, while had not been successful, he had desired to be his habit to stay in the home of a wealthy householder who prized the honor of hosting the the crowd of hooligans drank more and more. It together with his fellow Jews in the time of their Baal Shem Tov. This time, to the consternation of turns out that the visitor was none other than great ordeal. The people saw the depth of the all, the Baal Shem Tov announced that he would the poritz's best school chum, whom he hadn't love the Baal Shem Tov had for them and the be spending the entire Shabbat in the shul seen in a dozen years. They sat together talking extent of self-sacrifce that the tzadik of the (synagogue). and reminiscing, and in the course of their generation has for every Jew. conversation, the poritz told his friend about When he arrived in shul, the Baal Shem Tov his plan to punish the Jews for destroying his prayed at great length, all the while weeping business. 'How can you think such a crazy thing?' copious tears. The whole congregation joined asked the friend. 'Can't you see that you're being him in the emotional prayers, and they wept too, led around by the nose by the enemies of the And it [the food] blotted out every although they didn't know the reason for their Jews? Listen to me: of all your local people, it's living thing...both man and animal tears. only the Jews you can really trust not to cheat (7:23) The Baal Shem Tov recited Psalms and enjoined you. Remember my old estate manager, Moshke? the others to do the same. When services came If not for him I would have been bankrupt more to an end, he sent the congregants home to times than I care to count!' Their conversation If mankind sinned, why did the enjoy their Shabbat meal, instructing them to continued in that vein, and when he came out animals have to be punished, too? return and continue reciting Psalms. of the room, the poritz had been completely convinced not to harm the Jews. In fact, he now This is explained by a parable. A The next morning, the Baal Shem Tov followed felt that they were his best friends. Who could person prepared a great wedding his usual custom and immersed himself before fgure that one out? He paid off the drunken feast for his son's upcoming prayer. When he returned to the shul, he peasants and sent them on their way." announced in a hearty voice that he would be marriage, and procured the fnest The Russian thanked the Baal Shem Tov for the joining his usual host for the Shabbat meal. delicacies for the celebration. The people were relieved, and a large crowd fne liquor and left. Everyone in the room was gathered at the wealthy man's home, hoping to perplexed and waited for an explanation. The Before the marriage could take understand the meaning of the day's events. Baal Shem Tov was obviously pleased at what place, however, the son died. the gentile had told him, and he explained to The Baal Shem Tov sat at the table in a happy the crowd, "I saw from Mezhibozh that there was The father then dismantled the mood, singing one Shabbat melody after another. a great danger hanging over this community wedding canopy and threw away Suddenly a gentile walked into the room. The and therefore I came to spend Shabbat here. As all the elaborate preparations he Baal Shem Tov beckoned to the Russian to enter you know, the poritz had raised his grain prices and join him at the table. to the point that no one wanted to buy from him. had made, saying, "What do I need "Offer him some liquor," the Baal Shem Tov called As a consequence, he suffered a tremendous all these for? Now that my son is out, and suddenly glasses and bottles appeared loss, and the local priest and his cronies took dead all this is useless." Similarly, the opportunity to slander the Jews. in front of them. The Russian was pleased to when G-d saw that mankind had down one glass after another, and soon he was "The poritz was convinced that the Jews were sinned, He said, "What use is there quite tipsy. Then the Baal Shem Tov asked him, conspiring against him, and he devised a plan "Well, now, tell me what happened over there." to destroy them. I knew that there was only one for the whole animal kingdom "Last night, the poritz (wealthy landowner) person who could persuade him otherwise, and now? I only created them to serve called in all his local fellows. He was very angry that was his old friend. The only problem was mankind." at the Jews for not buying his grains, and ruining that he had passed away years ago. I was forced his income. He had to put all his merchandise to bring him back into this world to avert this into storage and he lost a fortune when it terrible tragedy. Thank G-d, I had success." (Sanhedrin Kach) began to rot. So, he decided to get them back, The people now understood the heartfelt those Jews. All the local fellows gathered at the prayers and the night of reciting Psalms. They poritz's manor and got good and drunk, while were both shocked and relieved at what the the poritz incited them against the Jews. They Baal Shem Tov had related to them. Then, one were told that tonight was the night to attack of them turned to the Baal Shem Tov and asked, 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
of full recovery. My Encounter There was immense relief and rejoicing, with The Rebbe with everybody involved pronouncing this My Encounter with the Rebbe records the oral a miracle. What had begun as a hopeless histories of individuals who interacted with condition had ended as a complete medical the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson success. It was clear to all of us that G-d had a of righteous memory, through frst-person hand in this patient’s recovery. Today, she is a interviews. healthy, active grandmother, and I am still in touch with her family. We Must Never Lose Hope By JEM's Here's My Story I learned from this case that under no circumstances may we ever lose hope. We hile I never had a chance to meet must keep trying and searching for new ways the Rebbe personally, he managed Because of the Rebbe’s advice, this young and means – no matter how unconventional to have a strong impact on my life husband called our department and, by – until we succeed. Thus, the Rebbe’s blessing W was a turning point in my medical career; through various patients of mine. Of course, Divine Providence, it was me who answered already when I was a child growing up in his call that day. After describing the cancer, it changed the way I treat patients, teach Petach Tikvah, I heard about the Rebbe. The the treatments and the subsequent failures, students and do medical research. I can say local Chabad rabbi, Dovid Chanazin, who was he told me that he was turning to us on the with confidence that the success that I have married to my mother’s first cousin, was a instruction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. This got had in healing many patients since then is the frequent visitor in our home and, whenever he me thinking and I decided that, despite the result of the paradigm shift which the Rebbe came, he spoke about the Rebbe. Later, when failures of the previous doctors to remedy inspired in me. I married, I heard about him from my father- the situation, I would have to find an avenue in-law, Rabbi Meir Schochetman, who studied which nobody had considered earlier. I said, Some years later, the Rebbe taught me with the Rebbe at the Sorbonne in Paris, and “Let me confer with my staff. Come with your another lesson. A young man, the son of a continued to maintain contact with him. wife tomorrow, and we will have an answer.” prominent Israeli rabbi, was brought to my department with a bone marrow infection. We But it was not until 1985, when I was a After a brief discussion, the members of managed to cure the infection, but we feared young and inexperienced doctor working at my staff all agreed that we would accept that it would return. The medical staff was Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center in the the patient and try different experimental divided as how to proceed. One side felt that field of bone marrow transplantation, that treatments which had passed testing in we should do a bone marrow transplant and, I got to witness the power of the Rebbe’s the lab, but had never been tried on human in this way, eradicate the threat completely. blessings first hand. beings. The other side felt that that the situation did not warrant placing the patient in so much One day we received a desperate call from After this information was passed on to the danger, as a bone marrow transplant carries a young man whose wife – a mother of two Rebbe, he responded, “May they have much many risks. Neither side could persuade the children – was diagnosed with leukemia. success, and she should achieve a complete other; even the experienced doctors could She had undergone treatment at a hospital recovery.” Despite the slim chances of success, not agree which path posed a greater risk. in northern Israel, but to no avail. The cancer I was greatly encouraged by the Rebbe’s kept recurring and eventually turned more blessing. I felt this was an opportunity to In the end, the family took the decision out of deadly, all the while causing greater damage sanctify G-d’s name and show how a person our hands and wrote to the Rebbe, who said to her body. Her doctors finally gave up, as with no medical hope can recover with the that no transplant was necessary because the they had exhausted all of the conventional help of a blessing. young man would be fine. As it turned out, means at their disposal. The woman’s he was right. This served as a reminder to me husband, who was obviously very depressed We proceeded with the treatment and, to that doctors only serve as G-d’s instruments because of the situation, happened to meet everyone’s surprise, after three or four weeks, – an insight which has helped me over the several Lubavitcher chasidim from Afula and we began to notice results. Also, her overall course of my career. Many times I have faced told them about his wife. They explained to health began to improve little by little, situations in which my expertise was limited, him that there was no reason for despair, and and this allowed us to continue with our and I felt at a loss as how to proceed. But suggested that he write a letter to the Rebbe, unorthodox methods and even to complete a upon remembering the Rebbe’s blessing, I which he did. In response, the Rebbe insisted successful bone marrow transplant. It was a have been reminded that I only need do my that he turn to another hospital for help, very long and complicated process but, thank part for, in truth, the patient’s future is in G-d’s adding his assurances that a remedy did exist. G-d, after six months of treatment, she was hands. discharged from the hospital showing signs
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Torah Portion In Spanish Mrs Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Who we are... The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming Wednesday and classes geared toward women in the community. Our Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, body and soul. Meet new friends, Haime Library relax and get inspired! Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:00 - 3:00 pm 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, please call 305. 868.1411
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23 French Connection Reflexions sur la Paracha
Vivre avec la paracha Le déluge intérieur D.ieu est naturelle et profonde, dont l’essence n’est par 'Hava Shapiro pas contaminée par le déluge des préoccupations matérielles. Et peu importe avec quelle férocité la uand je m’imagine la paracha de Noa’h, je tempête des problèmes et des soucis s’abat sur me représente quelque chose tout droit sorti nous, cette partie de nous reste inchangée, dans un Qd’un flm d’aventure de Steven Spielberg état tranquille d’unité avec D.ieu. (D’ailleurs, le nom plein d’effets spéciaux, avec un héros innocent « Noa’h » est lié au mot ne’hamah, « consolation ».) qui se retrouve dans des circonstances aussi Pour reprendre les paroles expressives du Cantique extraordinaires que diffciles qui transforment son des Cantiques (8,7) : « Des torrents d’eau ne peuvent émerveillement d’enfant en une lutte intérieur pour éteindre l’amour, et des feuves ne peuvent le l’accomplissement et la conquête de soi. noyer... »
En fait, du point de vue ‘hassidique en tout cas, c’est Et pourtant, malgré son caractère violent et un peu cela. menaçant, le déluge n’est pas seulement un ennemi pour qu’un mikvé soit casher selon la loi juive. Le à vaincre ou à détruire. C’est le véhicule qui pousse déluge, dès lors, n’était pas une punition, mais un Cette portion de la Torah fait le célèbre récit de et élève l’arche vers de nouveaux sommets. Un processus de purifcation dont le monde avait besoin comment D.ieu décide de détruire la terre entière axiome fondamental du judaïsme est que le monde afn d’être nettoyé et de pouvoir renaître. Bienvenue qui, depuis la création d’Adam et Ève, avait dégénéré matériel n’est pas l’ennemi de la spiritualité. C’est dans le Monde 2.0. Dans cette nouvelle réalité, la une société de corruption généralisée : « Et D.ieu dit en fait le contraire. Ils sont faits l’un pour l’autre, conscience du divin non seulement affectait, mais à Noé : La fn de toute chair est arrivée devant Moi, comme la main et le gant. C’est l’un de ces paradoxes de fait saturait la terre et tous les êtres qu’elle car la terre est remplie de violence ; et Je vais les ironiques de la vie : c’est seulement lorsque nous contenait. La spiritualité devint si profondément détruire avec la terre. » (Genèse 6,13). sommes immergés dans le monde matériel, et enracinée dans l’essence même de l’existence que contraints de l’affronter, que notre relation avec chaque être humain pouvait désormais la trouver Comme nous le savons tous, D.ieu dit à Noé – le seul D.ieu devient quelque chose de puissant et de réel. en soi. Elle devint une conscience qui pénétra et homme vertueux de sa génération – de construire s’exprima à travers la fbre même de l’univers. une arche qui sera un abri sûr pour lui, sa famille et Lorsque nous luttons pour surmonter les angoisses deux animaux de chaque espèce (sept pour chaque qui menacent de nous engloutir dans une vie sans Mais le message du déluge est encore plus profond. espèce casher). Et ensuite, pendant quarante jours, but et vide de sens, lorsque nous combattons notre Le déluge représente l’ensemble de nos problèmes, le monde est inondé par des pluies ininterrompues poursuite obsessionnelle et égoïste du matériel à savoir, ceux qui nous assaillent du dehors. Les qui détruisent toute vie. et notre quête superfcielle des honneurs et de la exigences qui s’abattent sans cesse autour de nous reconnaissance, ces défs font ressortir ce qu’il y a de comme des vagues déferlantes nous acculent à une Comme nous connaissons tous si bien cette meilleur en nous. Ils nous permettent de ressentir mentalité insulaire et rigide dans laquelle il n’y a de histoire, nous ne réalisons pas à première vue à la douleur et l’angoisse de notre éloignement de disponibilité que pour agir et non pour être, et dans quel point elle est bizarre, voire choquante. Tout notre vrai moi, qui est la partie de nous qui est laquelle nous devons constamment nous efforcer d’abord, détruire le monde entier à cause de la totalement en phase avec D.ieu. Ils suscitent en et rivaliser pour faire quelque chose de nous- corruption de ses habitants ne semble-t-il pas nous une nouvelle volonté de réorienter notre vie mêmes (par exemple : « Je dois obtenir de bonnes quelque peu... exagéré ? Et en second lieu, si D.ieu vers un sens et un but plus élevés. notes pour que je puisse aller dans une bonne est tout-puissant, pourquoi ne pouvait-Il pas frapper université, pour que je puisse avoir un bon emploi, d’un coup tous ces êtres humains vils, violents et Ne laissez pas les déluges vous noyer dans l’oubli. pour que je gagne beaucoup d’argent, pour que je dégénérés, épargnant Noah et les autres passagers Trouvez d’abord un réconfort dans l’arche. Ensuite, puisse aller en vacances... et passer plus de temps de l’arche ? Cela aurait été beaucoup plus propre et prenez la barre. à réféchir sur comment ma valeur est directement beaucoup plus simple. Noé n’aurait pas eu besoin de proportionnelle à ma place dans la hiérarchie trimer pendant 120 ans à construire une arche. On Cet article est basé sur un discours ‘hassidique de d’entreprise, ou au nombre de zéros sur mes relevés aurait évité les problèmes d’assainissement. Et, tant l’Admour Hazakène, Rabbi Chnéour Zalman de Lyadi bancaires »). qu’à faire, cela aurait épargné une ou deux forêts (Torah Or, Noa’h, Maamar Mayim Rabim). tropicales. Le déluge est toutes ces choses qui menacent d’étouffer l’étincelle divine qui est en nous, qui Il y a tellement de façons de faire disparaître Classes pleure et aspire à s’exprimer, mais se ressent noyée une civilisation. D.ieu aurait-Il choisi le déluge Thursdays at 12.00 in the Haime Library par les angoisses et pressions écrasantes de la vie. seulement pour l’effet dramatique ? Classes alternate between the following teachers: Mais ce qu’il y a de bien, c’est que nous avons Dr. Hanna Barouk D’après la mystique juive, en amenant le déluge, Rabbi Amar une arche. Une partie de nous qui est pure, non D.ieu a trempé dans le monde dans un mikvé (un Rabbi Frankforter affectée par les angoisses douloureuses du monde bain rituel) géant. Les quarante jours de pluie font Rabbi Gansburg matériel, une partie de nous dont la relation avec allusion à la mesure des 40 séah d’eau nécessaires FOR WOMEN ONLY 24 Latin Link Reflexion Semanal
Parasha de la Semana La Vida en una Caja Por Yanki Tauber Ocasionalmente, el esfuerzo parece casi en vano. De una mente consumida por los negocios de uno, l 26 de Septiembre de 1991, un equipo de sólo una pequeña cantidad de poder mental es cuatro hombres y cuatro mujeres entraron a la desviada diariamente para unos minutos de Torá. De EBíosfera II, un medio ambiente herméticamente un corazón agitado por preocupaciones fnancieras, cerrado, construído por científcos como un modelo sólo una pequeña esquina está reservada para los funcional de la bíosfera (la capa que circunda la sentimientos puros hacia nuestro amado. ¿Y cuánto tierra y que sostiene la vida). La Bíosfera II, que queda para caridad después de pagar las cuentas? En desde entonces ha sido convertida en un lugar de el mejor de los casos, sólo una minúscula "muestra" vacaciones y centro de conferencias, abarcaba un de nuestros recursos son dedicados a un propósito área de 3.15 acres e incluía un desierto, un pantano, más elevado. una sabána, una selva húmeda y un océano con un millón de galones de agua. Era el hogar de más de En eso reside la eterna lección del arca de Noé. Noé 3.000 especies, mayormente plantas e insectos, pero no podía salvar al mundo entero-- no tenía ni la también peces, reptiles, aves y mamíferos. Estaba capacidad ni el mandato de construir un refugio de aislada del suelo por un revestimiento de acero de tales proporciones. Así que construyó un santuario 500 toneladas y de la atmósfera por 6.000 paneles del viejo. para una muestra de las diversas formas de vida de vidrio. Los costos de construcción sobrepasaron en la Creación. Esas eran, sin embargo, más que los 150 millones de dólares. Noé se enfrentó a una situación extrema -- la representaciones simbólicas: por doce meses, toda inminente destrucción de todo lo viviente -- y realizó la humanidad estuvo concentrada dentro de los Los ocho "biosferianos" pasaron dos años encerrados acciones extremas, construyendo una enorme ocho seres humanos en la Teivá, cada especie animal dentro de la estructura, obteniendo su comida, agua caja que pudiera contener y preservar muestras y vegetal residía en los representantes individuales y oxígeno del eco-sistema cercado. Emergieron el de todo el espectro de la vida en la tierra. En una traídos dentro de sus paredes. Y cuando la caja 26 de Septiembre de 1993. El experimento produjo escala menor pero no menos signifcativa, nosotros sellada se abrió, se convirtieron en las semillas de dos matrimonios y montones de datos científcos hacemos lo mismo cada día de nuestras vidas. un nuevo y revitalizado mundo. que, suponemos, nos han ayudado a entender como funciona nuestra macro-bíosfera. Nosotros también, nos enfrentamos a "diluvios" El mandato Divino de "¡Entrad al arca!" fué seguido, que amenazan con destruir todo lo que tiene vida doce meses más tarde por el mandato Divino de Si los científcos que dirigían el proyecto hubieran y es vital en nuestro pequeño universo personal. Y "¡Salid del arca!" Ese es nuestro reto: cultivar las tenido tendencias más bíblicas podrían haber nosotros, también, respondemos construyendo "cajas" semillas de la espiritualidad en medio de un mundo llamado a la estructura "Teivá II" ,(Arca II). La Teivá para contener y preservar preciosos especímenes de materialista y luego desatarlas para que infuencíen (palabra hebrea para "caja"), tenía tres pisos de alto nuestro mundo interior. todas las áreas de nuestras vidas. y 125.000 pies cuadrados, era una arca, construída con madera y "sellada por dentro y por fuera con Diariamente nos vemos abrumados por los cuidados brea," que Noé construyó por mandato de Di-s. y las demandas de la vida material. Si no estamos No sabemos cuanto costó construir la Teivá, pero trabajando como esclavos en nuestra tarea or nuestros sabios nos dicen que Noé trabajó 120 años preocupándonos por las cuentas, siempre hay algún Clases y Eventos en su construcción. El 17 de Jeshván del año 1656 aparato electrónico para ser reparado, ropa para Porcion Semenal de la creación (2105 antes de la era común), cuatro llevar a lavar o basura para sacar afuera. Un torrente Rabbi Shea Rubinstein hombres y cuatro mujeres (ya casados) entraron a la de materialismo inunda la vida del hombre moderno, Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm Orden de rezos diarios y su signifcado mistico Teivá. Trajeron con ellos un macho y una hembra de llenando nuestras horas y minutos, consumiendo cada especie de mamíferos y aves, semillas, gajos de nuestros talentos, trastornando nuestras emociones (Para Mujeras) varias especies de plantas y suministros de comida y casi ahogando la chispa de espiritualidad en Sra. Vivian Perez y pienso sufcientes para un año. El propósito no nuestras vidas. Martes 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm era estudiar la vida en la tierra sino preservarla del 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour diluvio ocasionado por un mundo corrupto. Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 Así que construimos cajas. Una caja de tiempo para confrmar dedicado a rezar cada mañana, un porcentaje de La Teivá fotó por muchos meses en el agua que nuestros ingresos dedicados a la caridad; un ápice Kolel Espanol Rabbi Shlomi Halsband cubría la tierra, cuando el diluvio empezó a amainar, de energía reservada para algún trabajo voluntario se posó en la cúspide del Monte Ararat. El 27 de Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm en la comunidad.Cerramos esas cajas, preservando Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm Jeshván de 1657, después de 365 días dentro de su celosamente esas puntas de los propósitos más encajonada bíosfera, los ocho "Teivanos" sus plantas elevados en nuestras vidas; de las aguas de la Sra. Vivian Perez Jueves 11:00 am -12:30 pm y sus acompañantes animales emergieron del arca inudación que buscan sumergirlas y reclamarlas para construir, un mundo mejor sobre los cimientos Chabad of Aventura para ellas mismas. 21001 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura 25 The Aleph Institute Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments
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Contacts at The Shul 305.868.1411 Rabbi Rabbi Sholom Lipskar Ext 315 Associate Rabbi Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Ext 345 Rabbi’s Executive Assistant Ms. Lydia Hasson Ext 311 Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 305.992.8363 JLAC / Adult Ed/ Singles Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Ext 342 CYS College / Kolel Rabbi Dov Schochet 305.790.8294 Accounting Mrs. Geri Kelly Ext 341 Controller Mrs. Janice Barney Ext 318 Offce Manager Ms. Stacy Waxman Ext 313 Events / Offce Assistant Mrs. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Youth Director / Dinner Mrs Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 329 Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 Shul Gaboim Operations / Maintenance Mr. Shlomi Katan Ext 319 Mr. Andrew Roth Reception / Accounts Payable Mrs. Mindy Natoli Ext 0 Mr. David Portnoy Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Rabbi Henry Eichler Pre-School Chana Ext 325 Mr. Ettai Einhorn Sephardic Minyan Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 305.865.4205 Mr. David Ben-Arie Hebrew School / Editor Mrs. Aurit Katan 786.382.9006 Mr. Seth Salver Hashkama Minyan Mr. Lazer Milstein 305.349.3040 Mashgiach Mr. Mordechai Olesky 786.262.9115
Board of Trustees Foundation Trustees Ambassador Isaac Gilinski - Chairman Abel Holtz Albert Pollans - President Simon Falic Mike Izak Jaime Gilinski Sidney Feltenstein Alberto Kamhazi David Lichter Matias Garfunkel Shmuel Katz M.D. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Jaime Gilinski Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Max Gilinski Lazer Milstein Saul Gilinski Michael Perez Board of Directors Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Mitch Feldman – President Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Morris Tabacinic Eric Stein – Vice President Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Joel Baum CPA – Treasurer Lazer Milstein Executive Committee Rabbi Zalman Lipskar – Secretary Orit Osman Mitchell Feldman - Chair Bruce Gelb Devorah Leah Andrusier Brian Roller Janice Barney Daniel Gielchinsky Eli Dominitz Yaacov Saidof Maurice Egozi David Schottenstein Joel Baum CPA Evelyn Katz Henry Eichler Daniel Shapiro Max Benoliel Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar Daniel Gielchinsky Daniel Sragowicz Dovid Duchman Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Jacob Givner Cynthia Stein Steven M. Dunn Ryan Shapiro Nicole Katz Kavana Michael Tabacinic Maurice Egozi Marc Sheridan Gregory Levine Jose Yankelevitch Velvel Freedman Eric P. Stein
29 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul
Derech Mitzvosecha PHL-101 PHL-301 PHL-501 Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 6:20 - 6:50 am
D Daf Yomi TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet 7:45 - 8:45 am a Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic Custom Reb Shimshon Tzubeli 8:45 am i l Chassisdic Discourses of The Rebbe PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 10:15 - 11:00 am y Community Kollel (Men) (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 Shul Rabbis and Kolel 8:00 - 9:30 pm
S Daf Yomi (Men) TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet 9:00 am u Tanya - Sichos PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband 8:00 - 10:00 pm n In Depth Chumash Study TXT-110 Rabbi Dov Schochet 1:30 pm m Insights to our daily prayers (Spanish) PHL-120 Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 8:45 - 9:45 pm o Women’s Study Group TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm n At the home of: Please call The Shul for details
Senior Torah Academy ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 12:00 - 1: pm T Pirkei Avos u Tanya Class in Spanish (Women) PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez, 2:00 - 2:30 pm e 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village s Torah Portion Class in Spanish (Women) TXT-110 Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Morning Torah Class (Women) - Weekly Parsha TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:30 am In Depth Tanya Class ( Men & Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 11:30 am -12:30 pm W Women) PHL-320 PHL-501 e Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 1:00 - 2:00 pm d Spanish Kolel - Chassidus PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Halsband 8:00 - 10:00 pm Parsha (Men and Women) TXT-501 Rabbi Shea Rubinstein 11:15 - 12:00 am t h Senior Torah Academy for Men & Women TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet 12:00 - 1 (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 u :00 pm r Tanya In Spanish (Women) PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez (Chabad of 11:00 am - 1:00 pm s Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd)
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