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Contents Nachas At A Glance The Shul Hebrew School has begun celebrating Weekly Message 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from Sholom D. Lipskar every student’s Jewish Birthday with a home visit, Celebrating Shabbos a special gift and cake. The student takes on a Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 4 - 5 need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience new resolution, gives Tzedakah and learns the importance of a Jewish birthday. 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 - 16 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE

Meyer Youth Center 1 7- 19 The full scoop on all the Youth events around town Get The Picture The full scoop on all the great events around town 20 - 23 In a woman’s world Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman 24 The ABC’s of Aleph Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 25

French Connection Refexions sur la Paracha 27

Latin Link Refexion Semanal 28

Networking Effective Advertising 28 - 32 Numbers To Know Contacts at The Shul 33 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 34 The Shul

Get The Picture 35 - 36 The full scoop on all the great events around town

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Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar

Shabbos Parshas Vayechi past and artifacts in a box while we live out of that box. Hundreds of times Shabbos Chazak in the last 47 years have I been approached by people whose parents or grandparents had passed away and left boxes of materials in their home his week's Torah portion that the children or grandchildren had no use for and wanted me to pick concludes the frst of the fve them up if they had any value to me. Generally these boxes were flled Tbooks of Moses, B'raishis/ with prayer books, story books Jewish artifacts such as Talit, Teflliin, and Genesis and prepares us for entry other powerful elements of Jewish living. They were placed in a box for into the book of Exodus/Shmos storage and for safekeeping in a place that would value their intrinsic (Names). meaningful objective but not relevant to their lives. The end of a cycle of Jewish living. This began the transition from Jewish power, until then, which was Recently we have experienced enormous angst and insecurity with anger unprecedented in a formal fashion as we felt violated and trespassed on by the United Nations supported by when a Jew/Joseph reigned at the United States in determining where we can or cannot live and what is the literal pinnacle of the most ours and not in our ancestral Holy Land. advanced, sophisticated, cultured and intellectually progressive They based their determining process on the false premise that our country in the world at that time rights to the Holy Land of originates from their intellectual and to a condition and circumstance of emotional desires to create a safe zone for Jewish people to assuage their slavery, enslavement, oppression horrifc guilt and complicity in the most malfeasant or nonfeasant massive and genocide. murderous Holocaust genocide in history and formalized that conclusion in 1948. As they presumed to create our land so do they assume the right The concluding words of the Book of Genesis entering into the book of to limit our presence wherever they feel it is politically or economically Exodus are “and Joseph passed on and they put him in a box/coffn in correct according to their personal biases. Mitzrayim/Egypt”. What is so important and signifcant for the Torah to tell us that Joseph was placed in a box/coffn? The truth is that all of the Holy Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People, given to us by Almighty G-d 4,000 years ago and transmitted to The language of the Torah is very precise and signifcant in that not only our ownership approximately 3,300 years ago. Our relationship to Israel every word but every single nuance in the text of the Torah is meaningful, is not subject to our limited constantly changing perspectives but is an signifcant and conveys a relevant message to our life and times today. eternal Promise by G-d to the Jewish people.

As we look at the origins of the Jewish people and their evolutionary Even as we attribute the blame of what took place at the United Nations development to Identity, preservation and eternity, we also are able to see on the administration of the United States of America, we should take our present state of being in an extremely clear and transparent manner. into account the unfortunate and painful fact that 75% of the Jewish The Hebrew word Mitzrayim that indicates the geographic location of population in America are in complete agreement with this position Egypt actually has deep meanings as it literally translates to mean the and lends credibility and support to this shameful action. Our Jewish concept of constraints, restraints, challenges, oppression and limitation. Torah values were placed in a box for storage and safekeeping without actualizing its intrinsic meaningful objective. The result of putting The Egyptian experience was the frst time that we as a Jewish people the Holy factors of Jewishness in a box unfortunately ends up in the became a signifcant infuence on the culture of a secular and alien UN dark resolution. Society that had standards and moral, ethical behaviors completely in opposition and challenging to Jewish Torah values. It is time to take Joseph out of the box and put him into our lives according to G-d's directives. In that way we attain respect Though the Torah at that time was not yet revealed our teach that from the nations of the world, respect from our own children and our Patriarchs and Matriarchs already fulflled the Torah way of life prior grandchildren, and ultimate blessings from Almighty G-d. to its being divinely revealed. Have a wonderful Shabbos and great week. Whereas the Israelites conducted their lives by Divine standards of morality and ethics connected to a Higher Authority in every aspect of life, the inhabitants of Mitzrayim/Egypt lived by their assumed intellectual superiority, translating that into material and physical hedonistic pleasure which was the natural, rational reward for achievement. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar When placing Joseph in the box, it indicated the placing of Jewish values in storage while we acquiesce to the secularity of life around us. This behavior is so similar to the modern phenomena of storing our Jewish 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 Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 Questions: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 1) Yaakov lived in Egypt for 17 years. Where else in the book of Genesis is 17 years referred to? Montessori Classrooom 2 classrooom 2 2) What similar ailment occurs to both Yitzhak and to Yaakov?

3) Where in this parsha is the same person mentioned twice in a verse, but referred to by different names?

Answers from last week: 1) Yosef informs the brothers that fve years of famine remain (Genesis Tehila's Basya's Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls 45:6). Yosef gives Benyamin fve suits (Genesis 45:22). Yosef brings fve of his brothers to meet Pharaoh (Genesis 47:2). Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 2) Hashem calls "Yaakov, Yaakov" when he heads down to Egypt 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (Genesis 46:2). In Genesis 22:11, Avraham's name is repeated by the Classrooom 4 angel to stop him from slaughtering his son Yitzhak. In Exodus 3:4, Moshe's name is repeated when Hashem calls to him at the burning bush. Hashem repeats Shmuel's name when He speaks to him for the frst time (1-Shmuel 3:10).3)An amtachat (sack) in which the brothers carry back the grain appears 15 times in this parsha but nowhere else in Tanach. Mendy's Sholom's Hebrew School 3) Dina and Serach bat Asher are the only females specifcally listed as Junior Boys traveling down to Egypt (Genesis 46:15, 17). Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 10:00 am - 12:00 pm RIDDLE RULES 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Answers to the riddles can be given to Sholom Classroom 1 Lobenstein any time over Shabbos. The first child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize!

Shaykee’s Debbie’s Shmuely's Davening With Dad Teen Girls Teen Boys Grades: 9th - 12th Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Teen Girls Room Montessori 3 Haime Library

4 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience

Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is co-sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Jackie & Johana Shabbos Schedule Abrahams in honor of their daughter, Reeva's Bat Mitzvah and by Mr. & Mrs. Shmuel & Gittel Wolf in loving memory of Shmuel’s Candle lighting 5:32 p.m. mother’s yahrzeit, Chaya bas Shmuel, obm. Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 5:35 p.m. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. Shalosh Seudos This Week: / 9:00 a.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is available for sponsorship. Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m. Children’s Programs 10:00 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 10:30 a.m. 30 Minutes of Tanya: Classroom #1 +/- 12:00 p.m. the caterer for this week’s With Mrs. Vivian Perez (for Women) After Davening kiddush and Shalosh seudos is Kiddush 12:00 p.m. Food Art Daf Yomi 4:35 p.m. Men’s Shiur 4:35 p.m. Women's Shiur 4:35 p.m. Shalosh Seudos for Boys 4:35 p.m. Mincha 5:20 p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 6:28 p.m. Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Weekly Video of The Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank Father & Son Learning 7:15 p.m. by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually)

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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.

To pay your annual dues visit: www.miamibeacheruv.com 5 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Birthdays Yahrtzeits 16 Tevet Mr. Yankie Andrusier 16 Tevet Velvil obm 16 Tevet Mrs. Shoshana Biton Father of Mrs. Joni Blachar 16 Tevet Mr. Alberto Camhi 16 Tevet Chaya bas Shmuel obm 16 Tevet Ms. Elizabeth Feltenstein Mother of Mr. Shmuel Wolf 16 Tevet Mrs. Rachael Kopel-Laoui 17 Tevet Reb Yakov ben Avrohom obm 16 Tevet Ms. Debbie Maya Grandfather of Mr. Jack Azout 16 Tevet Mr. Daniel Sragowicz 17 Tevet Henia bas Leib obm 17 Tevet Mrs. Genia Bruder Mother of Mr. Moises (Samuel) Selesky 17 Tevet Mrs. Galina Finger 17 Tevet Chana Leah obm 17 Tevet Dr. Ronnie Hershman Mother of Mr. Bernard Werner 17 Tevet Ms. Chai Miriam Jakobs 17 Tevet Blima bas David obm 17 Tevet Mr. Salomon Nehmad Aunt of Dr. Rita Steiner 17 Tevet Mr. Moshe Weinbach 18 Tevet Chana Baila bas Yoseph obm 18 Tevet Mr. Abel Holtz Mother of Mrs. Janice Lipton 18 Tevet Mr. Steven Schwartz 18 Tevet Shemuel ben Malkuna obm 19 Tevet Mrs. Michelle Diener Father of Mr. Joseph Maya 19 Tevet Mr. Allen Mark Perl 18 Tevet Avraham ben Shlomo obm 19 Tevet Mrs. Kayla Schochet Brother of Mrs. Dana Werner 19 Tevet Mr. Uri Spiwak Rotlewicz 20 Tevet Chaim Yisroel ben Kasriel Moshe HaLevi obm 19 Tevet Ms. Yael Viner Father of Mrs. Bluma Schneider 19 Tevet Ms. Marlene Weiner-Brenner 20 Tevet Efraim ben Yehuda obm 20 Tevet Ms. Leana Ammar Father of Rabbi Moshe Schneider 21 Tevet Ms. Angelica Hasenbichler 21 Tevet Rifka bas Isaac obm 21 Tevet Rabbi Dov Schochet Sister of Mrs. Fanny Selesky 22 Tevet Mr. Moises Gilinski 22 Tevet Chana bas Yisroel Isser obm 22 Tevet Ms. Shellie Laulicht Mother of Mr. Isi Halberthal 22 Tevet Dr. Amy Sabach 22 Tevet Silvia obm 22 Tevet Ms. Stefanie Suster Mother of Dr. Wayne Jared Kerness 22 Tevet Ms. Dahlia Yankelevitch 22 Tevet Rachamim obm Father of Ms. Reine Fiss

Kid’s Birthdays Mazal Tov Tevet 16 Naava Ainsworth Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Wachtel on the birth of a son. May they raise him Tevet 19 Yosef Chaim Katan to Torah, Chupah and Ma'asim Tovim and have much nachas from him. Tevet 19 Moshe Reboh Tevet 20 Zion Ariel Levi Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Jordan and Nicole Kavana on the birth of a daughter. May they raise her to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much nachas Tevet 21 Tal Gottesman from her. Mazal Tov also to the Grandparents, Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz. Tevet 21 Yisroel Walks Rappaport Tevet 21 Mathis Weingarten Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Jackie & Johana Abrahams on the Bas Mitzvah of their Tevet 22 Chana Jaimovich daughter Reeva. May they continue to raise her to Torah, Chupah and Ma'asim Tevet 22 Henna Feige Diamont Tovim and have much nachas from her. Mazal Tov also to the Grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Sergio and Rosita Zelcer and Mrs. Zina Abraham.

Mazal Tov to Mrs. Marilyn Golomb on the birth of a great-granddaughter, Anniversaries Riva Rochel. May she see her raised to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Mr. & Mrs. Ruben & Rachel Salama Tovim and may they have much nachas from her. Mazal Tov also to the Dr. & Mrs. Daryl & Meital Eber Grandparents, Shlomie and Suri Golomb and the Parents, Shmuly and Mr. & Mrs. Shmuly & Aleza Ainsworth Shira Golomb. Mr. & Mrs. Meir & Batya Cosiol Mr. & Mrs. Max & Ruthy Benoliel Mr. & Mrs. Nathan & Chaya Litchkowski Mr. & Mrs. Azriel & Chana Wasserman Mr. & Mrs. Alberto & Marlene Colonomos Mr. & Mrs. Martin & Golda Jacobs 6 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Teves 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 Teves is Kindly Sponsored by for donations received between 01/03/17 and 01/09/17 We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. The Falic Family Mr. & Mrs. Raphael Adouth Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Herzka Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Arber Rabbi & Mrs. Jacob Katz In Loving Memory of Chaim ben Dov Hacohen Z”L Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Azari Mr. & Mrs. Brian Lotkin Mr. & Mrs. Doron Barnes Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Maya “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Ms. Hana Barouk Mr. & Mrs. Sabeto Maya pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Baumel Dr. & Dr. Raul Mitrani 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 Mr. & Mrs. Laurent Becker Mr. Mordechai Olesky be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mr. & Ms. Yonathan Berdugo Mr. & Mrs. Shlomo Peretz body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Berman Mr. & Mrs. Levi Yitzchok together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Mr. & Mrs. Jose Biton Rosenblum Mr. & Mrs. Avi Bitton Saul Schottenstein Foundation Refuah Shleimah Mrs. Rosita Boruchin Mr. Thomas Schottenstein 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. Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Brenner Mr. & Mrs. Marc Sheridan MEN WOMEN Dr. & Mrs. Samuel Davit Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Slomianski Sholom Meir ben Pearl Miriam bat Risha Raizel Ms. Liv-Tiferet De Vitton Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol Michael Joseph ben Natalie Lee Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Dr. & Mrs. Jean Jacques Edderai Mr. Jan Stark Gabriel ben Esther Chana bas Shoshana Mr. & Mrs. Ettai Einhorn Ms. Helayne Stern Gadish Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Shifra bas Chaya Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Elbogen Street Holes, Inc. Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Rabbi & Mrs. Morris Esformes Town of Surfside Yosef ben Edwina Chava bas Elka Menucha Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Finkel Mr. & Mrs. Moris Tabacinic Avrohom ben Feigel Chaya bas Rachel Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Fiske Mr. & Mrs. Mendel Tenenbaum Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Fayge bas Chaya Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Freier Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waserstein Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Miriam Leah bas Helen Mr. Aaron Gindi Mr. & Mrs. Adam Weinberg Yehuda ben Chaya Sara Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Glick Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weintraub Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel Mrs. Raquel Grosfeld Mr. & Mrs. David Wolf Roi ben Orly Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel Ms. Renee M. Grossman Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Wolf Dr. & Mrs. Ronnie Hershman Rabbi Aryeh Wuensch Rabbi & Mrs. Meir Shlomo Herz Volunteers Needed After every Kiddush and event, The Shul donates the The Shul Parking Garage left over food to organizations or families in need. In response to numerous incidents in our garage and with the safety of our children, members and staff foremost in mind, we We are looking for volunteers to help collect and insist on TOTAL compliance with the following rules in the garage. wrap the food. • You must always park in a legal spot If you would like to help please contact the • Do not park in handicap parking Mashgiach, Mordechai Olesky after the Kiddush. • Do not park along the perimeter of the garage • Do not double park Community service hours will be awarded. • Do not take up more than one space • Do not block another vehicle Learning with The Bochurim There is additional parking in the lots North and South of The Shul. If you are interested in having your child When cars park illegally, you take an already challenging situation learn with one of our bochurim, in the garage and turn it into a near impossible and dangerous or if you would like to arrange situation. You create more havoc, less visibility and more aggravation which itself contributes to the likelihood of an accident, G-d forbid. a lunch and learn in your office, Please contact Rabbi Shaykee Farkash If you are not in a legal spot [email protected] YOU WILL BE TOWED 7 A Time to Pray Davening schedules and locations throughout the week

Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul 6:20 -6:50 am 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 5:30 pm 10:00 pm Main Minyan 5:30 pm Sephardic Minyan 5:30 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. We pray Based on times for January 18 for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily. Dan Shlomo ben Eliyahu Benyamin Aharon Ben Jeniya Gila Rut Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:11 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Earliest Talit & Tefllin 6:18 am Michael Shmuel ben Eliezer Eliyahu Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 7:09 am Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry (Earliest Amidah) Eitan Gabriel Ben Karine Cecile Latest Shema 9:14 am Zman Tfllah 10:20 am

Chatzot / Midday 12:31 pm Earliest Mincha 12:59 pm Plag HaMincha 4:47 pm Shekiah / Sunset 5:54 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 6:18 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)

Times taken from www..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. , 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 - Teves 15 Hearken and hear Israel, this is the time marked Tuesday - Teves 19 for the redemption by Mashiach. The sufferings Chabad chassidim have a tradition from befalling us are the birth-pangs of Mashiach. generations, instituted by the Alter Rebbe, that Israel will be redeemed only through teshuva. every day we study a parsha of Chumash of that Have no faith in the false prophets who assure week's sedra with Rashi. This was done by the you of glories and salvation after the War. Rebbe'im, too. Remember the word of G-d, "Cursed is the man who puts his trust in man, who places his Wednesday - Teves 20 reliance for help in mortals, and turns his heart The Mitteler Rebbe answered someone at from G-d" (Yirmiyahu 17:5). Return Israel unto yechidus: When two discuss a subject in avoda the Eternal your G-d; prepare yourself and your and they study together, there are two Divine family to go forth and receive Mashiach, whose coming is imminent. souls against one natural soul. Shabbos - Teves 16 Thursday - Teves 21 The Tzemach Tzedek told Reb Hendel at The Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak, once met a yechidus: "Study of Zohar exalts the soul; study watercarrier carrying full buckets and remarked: of Midrash arouses the heart; Tehillim with When one encounters water there is an tears scours the vessel. appropriate maxim of the Baal Shem Tov that he should say, namely: "When encountering water Monday - Teves 18 one should say that the Baal Shem says that it Sunday - Teves 17 When the Tzemach Tzedek was a boy and is a sign of blessing." The reason for not studying Torah on nittel- learned the passage, "Yaakov lived in the land night, I heard from my father, is to avoid adding of Egypt seventeen years," his teacher translated vitality. Friday - Teves 15 according to the Baal Haturim commentary: "Our My father proclaimed at a : Just as father Yaakov lived his seventeen best years in wearing tefllin every day is a Mitzva commanded My father once said: Those diligent students Egypt." When he returned home from Cheder by the Torah to every individual regardless of who begrudge those eight hours and cannot he asked his grandfather, the Alter Rebbe: How his standing in Torah, whether deeply learned tear themselves away from study - I am not fond can it be that our father Yaakov, the elect of the or simple, so too is it an absolute duty for every of them. This (abstaining from study) applies Patriarchs, should have as the best years of his person to spend a half hour every day thinking only until midnight. life the seventeen that he lived in Egypt, the about the Torah-education of children, and to do land of corruption? everything in his power - and beyond his power - to inspire children to follow the path along The Alter Rebbe answered: It is written, "And which they are being guided. Yehuda he sent before him to Yosef to give instructions for Goshen." The Midrash states, and Rashi quotes this, R. Nechemya said - to establish a house of study so Torah would be there and the tribes would study Torah. "To give instructions for Goshen" means (in a deeper sense), when one learns Torah he comes closer to The Al-mighty, may He be blessed, so even in Egypt it was true to say vay'chi - he lived.

9 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

PARSHA MESSAGES You Are Not Alone Why Does Genesis End on Such a Low Note? By: Rabbi YY Jacobson adie goes to see her rabbi. She complains about her very bad headaches, and whines, Scries and talks about her poor living conditions for hours. All of a sudden, Sadie shouts, overjoyed: "Rabbi, your holy presence has cured me! My headache is gone!" To which the rabbi replies: "No Sadie, it is not gone. I have it now." Thus are the culminating words of the frst—and in many ways the foundational—book of the Bible, the book of Genesis: "Joseph died at the age of one Even if the Torah felt compelled to culminate to allow for an egocentric universe. This hundred and ten years; they embalmed him Genesis with Joseph's death, it could have ended means that life, whichever way you twist it, is and he was placed in a coffn in Egypt." This with the second-to-the-last verse of Genesis: a confrontation with a void, and thus a painful ending is disturbing. Could have Genesis not "Joseph told his brothers: 'I am about to die, but experience. What a person must know is not concluded on a more inspiring note, just like the G-d will indeed remember you and bring you up how to get rid of his or her pain—that may not four following books of Moses? Even the ffth out of this land to the land that He swore to always be possible—but rather how to discover and fnal book, Deuteronomy, which concludes Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob... You will bring that they are empowered to deal with the with Moses' passing, culminates with a eulogy my bones up out of here." At least that would pain and that they are not alone in it. Viktor so rarely moving that it leaves one with an have ended the book with a promise for future Frankl (1905-1997), who survived three years unforgettable impression of Moses. Indeed, for redemption. What indeed are the fnal words of in the concentration camps of Dachau and thousands of years the classical Jewish sages, the book? " Auschwitz and went on to create a new school authors and rabbis have paid special attention of psychotherapy, Logotherapy, once shared the to conclude their written volumes and verbal “Joseph died… and he was placed in a coffn following story. A woman phoned him up in the speeches on a positive note. Even if the subject in Egypt!" The question about the ending of middle of the night and calmly told him that matter was one of melancholic nature, they Genesis increases upon considering the Jewish she was about to commit suicide. Frankl kept desired that at least the punch line, the "last custom that when the reader of the Torah her on the phone and talked her through her inning," as it were, should invigorate readers and concludes each of the books of the Five Books depression, giving her reason after reason to listeners with a message of hope and promise. of Moses, the entire congregation thunders out carry on living. Eventually she promised him she Yet, the Book of Books chooses to conclude its loud: Chazak! Chazak! Venischazak! "Be strong! would not take her life, and she kept her word. frst installment with a gloomy and despairing Be strong! Let us be strengthened!" This will punch line: Joseph's death and burial. That occur this Shabbat morning in synagogues When they met later, Frankl asked her which of incredible human being who in the best and the world over. When the reader of the Torah his reasons she had found convincing. "None," worst of times displayed enormous dignity and concludes with the verse—“Joseph died at she replied. What then persuaded her to go on richness of spirit, that tremendous visionary and the age of one hundred and ten years; they living? Her answer was simple. Frankl had been leader who rescued a world from famine is now embalmed him and he was placed in a coffn willing to listen to her in the middle of the gone. If that is not enough, Genesis informs us in Egypt"—Jews will sing out: Chazak! Chazak! night. A world in which someone was prepared that Joseph is embalmed and placed in a coffn Venischazak! "Be strong! Be strong! Let us be to listen to another's distress seemed to her one in Egypt. There his remains would be stored for strengthened!" in which it was worthwhile to live. hundreds of years until the Jews leave Egypt and bury his bones in the city of Shechem (Nabulus). But how can one glean strength, never mind "Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten While Joseph's father, Jacob, labored hard for triple strength, from this despairing end? Yet years; they embalmed him and he was placed assurances that his body would not remain it may be that it is precisely this ending that in a coffn in Egypt." In these very uninspiring among the morally depraved—and what would grants us a deeply moving and comforting words, one may sense profound inspiration. The turn out to be genocidal—Egyptian people but message. Unfortunately, we cannot live life Jewish people are about to become enslaved and would be brought back to the sacred soil of without pain. Every life comes with challenges. subjugated to a tyrannical government that will Hebron, Joseph's worn and sacred body must According to the , the very genesis of attempt to destroy them one by one, physically remain etched in Egyptian earth for centuries. existence is rooted in a void and a vacuum—the and mentally (as recorded in the beginning of concealment of the Divine infnite presence Exodus). This new Egyptian genocide program 10 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! will drown children, subject all Jewish men to dark and horrifc exile, we can hold each other’s This! slave labor and crush a new nation. What will hands and thunder aloud: Chazak! Chazak! By Chaya Shuchat give the people of Israel the resolve they will Venischazak! "Be strong! Be strong! Let us be desperately need? What will preserve a broken strengthened!" and devastated people from falling into the abyss? The knowledge that one day they would This idea transcribed above I had the privilege be liberated? Certainly. The knowledge that evil to hear from the Lubavitcher Rebbe 24 years will not reign forever? Absolutely. Indeed, this ago, on the Sabbath of the portion of Vayechi, is what Joseph told the Jewish people before January 1987. I will never forget the emotion his passing, recorded in the second-to-the-last the Rebbe displayed while giving this talk. verse of Genesis: "Joseph told his brothers: 'I am At its conclusion, he noted that the name about to die, but G-d will indeed remember you of his father-in-law, the sixth Lubavitcher and bring you up out of this land to the land that Rebbe (1880-1950), was Yosef (Joseph) and He swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob... You that his father-in-law was interred not in the will bring my bones up out of here." But, then, Holy Land but in New York, and continues to e can put up with quite a lot when we when Genesis seeks to choose its fnal words, provide energy, inspiration and blessings to our know there’s an end to it. it provides us with a message that perhaps generation. Indeed, the Rebbe would visit his W served as the greatest source of strength for an father-in-law's resting place frequently to pray Move with your entire family into one small orphaned and broken Jewish family. "Joseph died on behalf of Jews and non-Jews the world over. room for a week, and you call it “vacation.” But at the age of one hundred and ten years; they The Rebbe would spend hours standing at his if your one-week stay were to drag on endlessly, embalmed him and he was placed in a coffn in father-in-law’s resting place, immersed in prayer, even the nicest hotel room would no longer feel Egypt." Joseph's sacred body is not taken back meditation and refection, reading letters that like an exciting interlude. to the Holy Land to be interred among the he has received from people all over the world spiritual giants of human history: Abraham and requesting him to pray for them. I personally Those who suffer from chronic pain will tell you Sarah; Isaac and Rebecca; his father Jacob, or his observed many times the Rebbe returning from that it’s not any single moment of pain that’s mother Rachel. Joseph's spiritual and physical his father-in-law's graveside sometimes close unbearable. It’s the protracted nature of it that presence does not "escape" to the heavenly to midnight, his eyes swollen from tears and his gradually wears down their defenses. They may paradise of a land saturated with holiness. back bent over from the extraordinary effort. In be able to cope with the pain one day, only to Rather, Joseph remains in the grit and gravel June 1994, the Rebbe himself was interred near wake up and have to do it all over again the of depraved Egypt, he remains etched deeply his father-in-law's resting place, in the Montifore next. in the earthiness of Egypt, together with his cemetery in Queens, NY. Thousands of people And so it is for the ongoing stresses of life. What beloved people. This is based on the ancient visit the Rebbe's (resting place) on a daily sustains us is the expectation that the situation Jewish idea that has its roots in the Bible itself: basis, praying to the Almighty for themselves can turn around with the right amount of effort The burial place of a virtuous and saintly human and their loved ones. I visited the resting place and optimism. When we see no way out, no being contains profound holiness and spiritual last night, and observed many people from all possible solution, despair soon sets in. energy and constitutes a place conducive for walks of life, expressing their prayers to G-d in prayer to G-d. Since the soul and the body that sacred location. I know dozens of people In this week’s Torah portion, Jacob blesses his retain a relationship even after they depart from who have experienced major blessings, often children before his passing. He says to them, each other, the space where the physical body supernatural blessings, following their prayers “Gather around, and I will tell you what will of a holy man is interred is a space conducive at the “ohel.” happen at the end of days.” On this verse our for spiritual growth, meditation, refection sages say, “He wished to reveal the end date and inspiration. "He was placed in a coffn in If you are in need of a blessing for any matter [of the exile], but G-d’s Presence departed from Egypt"—that is the culmination of Genesis. The in your life, it is worthwhile to pay a visit there him.” Jew may be entrenched in Egypt and all that it for prayer. It is a place that continues to bestow represents, but Joseph is right there with him, in blessing, inspiration and strength upon untold When G-d’s presence departed, Jacob realized the midst of his condition, giving him strength, numbers of people from all walks of life during that it was not desirable for him to reveal the blessings and fortitude. The same is true in our our present state of exile, until the bright dawn end date of the exile to his children. Another own lives as well. In each generation G-d plants of redemption which shall transpire speedily in interpretation is that without the Divine such "Joseph's" in our midst, the Tzaddikim and our days. Presence, Jacob lost the ability to convey the , who are there with the Jewish people end date. in all their pain and agony. Sometimes, even What a tremendous boost it would have been after their passing, if we open our hearts, we can to know the end date of exile! How much feel the touch of their soul, the richness of their encouragement it would have given them to spirits, the faith of their lives. We may be stuck keep fghting, to keep struggling, knowing that in the quagmire of "Egyptian" dung, yet "Joseph" the battle is almost over and they are assured of is present with us. Thus, even in the midst of a I Can’t Take Another Minute of victory. Why would G-d deny them this little bit 11 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! of comfort and security? was Jacob thinking when he wanted to reveal Halacha of The Week the end date? Chassidic teachings explain that By Rabbi Dov Schochet The answer is that part of the experience of Jacob had already achieved this level in his own exile is not knowing. Despite never being truly right. He was nearing the end of his life, and Aliyot in Middle of the secure, never knowing when the rug will be had done his part to perfection. He had been Prayers swept from under our feet, we keep on going. through many challenges, from his dispute with To press on in the face of all obstacles—when his brother Esau and his father-in-law Laban to we see nothing but fog in front of our eyes— losing his beloved wife Rachel and his precious demands the deepest reserves of strength and son Joseph. Through it all, he survived with his faith. And it is precisely these reserves that G-d faith in G-d intact. In the end he merited to be wants to elicit from us during our experience in reunited with Joseph, and spent the last 17 years exile. of his life in tranquility, reaping nachat from his According to chassidic teachings, Jacob wanted children and descendants. He hoped that it to do more than just reveal the end date. He would be enough, and that his suffering would wanted to engineer the end date. The secret spare his children any further hardships. But he wished to reveal was that the exodus from G-d wanted all of Jacob’s children to reach the Egypt would in fact be the fnal redemption. The same level—something we could not do if Jacob date of the fnal redemption is not set in stone; would reveal the end date. ne of the highlights of our prayers is it depends a great deal on our spiritual status Still, Jacob’s request was not in vain. The fact at the time. If the Jewish people had merited it, the reading of the Torah. Every Monday, that he knew the end date and wanted to reveal Thursday and Shabbat people are called the exodus from Egypt would indeed have been this information, that he desired to alleviate O the fnal redemption. But they did not know that. to read from the Torah along with the Ba'al the pain of exile, remains with us as a source of Koreh, the Torah reader. If a person is in the Jacob hoped that by revealing this to his sons, strength. It gives us the capacity to hold on just it would spur them and their descendants to middle of his prayers and is called to the Torah a little bit longer, to press on despite the pain are they permitted to interrupt in order to take maintain their spiritual standing, so that they until we merit the complete redemption. would never have to go through another exile this honor? Should the Gabai call a person to again. When the pain is so strong that we cannot bear read that is in the middle of his prayers? What if another moment, that’s when we turn to G-d and the person is the only Kohen or Levi in the Shul The little “boost” that Jacob wanted to give his beg Him for Moshiach. And that, in itself, is what (who are needed for the frst and second Aliyot children would have signifcantly lightened the gives us the strength to overcome the challenge to the Torah)? burden of exile, but it would also have denied and get through the fnal moments of exile. This Prayer as we know it has a very specifc us an important component of our achievement is true especially in our generation, when we in exile—the fact that we attain it through our structure. We start with the praises, Pesukei have completed all the necessary preparations. D'zimra, then have the blessings of Shema along own efforts. There are no shortcuts, no handouts At this point, it is inexplicable why there is any from above. with Shema and fnally the zenith which is the delay at all. All that’s left for us is to turn to G-d Amida, the standing silent prayer. The praises Jacob wanted to reveal the end date to his and say, “We are ready. Now.” which we recited begin with the blessing children because he felt it was a worthwhile of Baruch Sheamar and conclude with the sacrifce to give up a bit of the perfection of blessing of Yishtabach. From the beginning to their achievement for the sake of a shorter, more the end of these blessings one is not allowed bearable exile. The sages use the word bikesh, And when he saw that the resting place to interrupt with any speech aside from the he “desired.” This word can also be interpreted was good...he bent his shoulder to bear prayers. Similarly, after Yishtabach we begin the as bakashah—he “beseeched” G-d to allow him (Gen. 49:15) blessing of Shema, Shema itself and concluding to do this, to alleviate the burden of exile. with the blessing of redemption. Again, during Issachar recognized that although leisure these blessings and Shema, one is not permitted Nevertheless, G-d removed His Presence from is a good and pleasant thing, it can also to interrupt. Jacob. Completing the work of exile on our be dangerous. In times of peace and own, without a boost from above, is not just an tranquility the Evil Inclination intensifes Therefore, if one is reciting the verses of praise “extra credit” but is essential to the process of its efforts to lead a person astray, which or the blessings of Shema, the question arises if redemption. If our work is aided from above, can lead to disaster. Issachar therefore it is appropriate for a Gabai to call that person then as soon as the boost is removed, we drop "bent his shoulder to bear" the yoke of for an Aliya. Furthermore, if the person was back to where we were before. When we’ve Torah, for Torah study is the antidote to called to the Torah should they accept the Aliya completed the work with our own effort, it’s ours this pitfall. or demure? and can never be taken away. According to all authorities the Gabai should not If it is so important to complete the work of exile (Likutei Diburim) call a person to the Torah from when they begin without any assistance from above, then what Baruch Sheamar until after they fnish the Amida.

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As one is not meant to interrupt the prayers a merchant who was not only trustworthy and then, it is inappropriate to call them to the Stories With Soul wealthy, but a scholar, too. Several months later, Torah.The only exception could be for a Kohen however, a fre destroyed everything the merchant or Levi, when they are the only Kohen or Levi It Once Happened owned and he was reduced to poverty. in the Shul. As they are critical for the reading, abbi Shneur Zalman of , the frst Rebbe Later, when the Rebbe asked his grandson how his even after they started the verses of praise if of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, expected investment had fared, the young man related the they are before the blessing of Yishtabach they all members of his household to be sparing catastrophe which had befallen the merchant. can be called to the Torah. (At that point there R when it came to the way they spent money. "Since is a debate if they should read along with the my household is supported by the public, and "Why didn't you listen to my advice and put the Ba'al Koreh or not, the general custom is to read our Sages teach that the Torah looks askance at money in this charity box?" admonished the Rebbe. along.) According to most opinions if there is wasting Jewish money, it is only proper that we live "Had you done that, then the capital and the only one Kohen and he has to be called, not only frugally," he would explain. interest would have remained intact. Why do my can he interrupt to say the blessings over the Chasidim not trust the advice of their Rebbe? Let Torah but he is also allowed to tell the Gabai his One time, when one of his grandchildren came me tell you a story about the simple faith of the full Hebrew name. to him wearing an expensive belt, Rabbi Shneur people of Volhynia. Zalman questioned him, "Are you such a rich man However, if the person was mistakenly called, that you should be wearing such an expensive "Once, in the midst of the bitter cold of winter, I even a Yisroel is allowed to take the Aliya at belt?" was on my way home from visiting my Rebbe, the that point in the prayers. It would be considered Maggid of Mezritch. I was nearly frostbitten by the disrespectful to the Torah if the person would The grandson was silent so Rabbi Shneur Zalman time we reached a Jewish inn. refuse the Aliya after they were called by name. continued questioning him concerning money matters. "How much money did you receive as a " 'How long have you been living here?' I asked the An interruption during the blessings of Shema is elderly innkeeper. considered more severe, therefore the Halacha dowry? is different at that point. According to some "Two thousand rubles," answered the grandson. " 'For nearly ffty years,' he answered me. opinions even if there is only one Kohen in " 'And are there other Jews nearby? Do you have the Shul he should not be called if he is in the "What are your plans for this money?" asked Rabbi Shneur Zalman further. a quorom to pray with, people with whom to middle of Shema or its blessings. Furthermore, celebrate the holidays?' they argue that even if he is called he should "I am planning on giving it to a successful merchant. not go to the Torah and interrupt. Others argue In this way I will be able to earn something on it." " 'Only on the High Holidays do I go to a nearby that once the Kohen or even a Yisroel is called village to pray together with a congregation.' they can receive the Aliya. In order to mitigate "Perhaps," countered Rabbi Shneur Zalman, "he will neither return you your capital nor any gain?" " 'Why don't you live in that village so that you can this problem, some adivise the Kohen to walk be together with other Jews?' I asked. out while they call the frst person to the Torah. "That is impossible," argued the grandson. "This If the Kohen does not leave the custom is to merchant is very wealthy and reliable." " 'How would I make a living?' he questioned me. call him, even during the blessings of Shema. "What difference does it make if he is wealthy " 'If G-d can sustain a hundred families, don't you It is proper for the Kohen to fnish whichever think He can sustain one more?' I asked him. I also paragraph he is in middle of so as not to interrupt now?" argued Rabbi Shneur Zalman. "The wheel of fortune turns. In time, he could become poor." happened to mention to him that I am a disciple of in the middle of a paragraph. While it would be the Maggid of Mezritch. improper to call a Yisroel, if he was called he can "What do you suggest I do with my money?" asked also accept the Aliya even during the blessings the grandson, hesitantly. "He left the room immediately. Not more than one of Shema. However, in this case both the Kohen half hour later, I saw a few wagons parked in front and Yisroel would not read along with the Ba'al "My advice to you," said Rabbi Shneur Zalman of the inn, loaded with all kinds of household items Koreh, they would recite the blessings and that seriously, "is to put the entire sum into this box." and furniture. I saw the innkeeper near the wagons is it. And with that, the Rebbe motioned to a charity box. and asked him, `What is going on here?' The grandson was certain that the Rebbe was If the person was after the blessing of " 'I am moving to that other town, just as you told joking. Two thousand rubles was a tremendous redemption or in middle of the Amida according me," the innkeeper answered simply. sum of money. He didn't think his grandfather was to all authorities, they cannot interrupt in order one to joke about such things, but still... "You see what strong faith that old man had in to accept an Aliya to the Torah. my Rebbe?" Reb Shneur Zalman challenged his "I really mean what I said. I suggest that you give grandson. "I only had to mention that I was a If one is not meant to interrupt the order of the entire sum to charity. In this way, the 'capital' disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch and he dropped prayer even to be called to the Torah, it certainly and the 'interest' will remain intact. I am afraid that everything immediately, including his home and alerts us to be mindful during prayer. While if you invest with some wealthy merchant, you livelihood for ffty years. He was not even a chasid. we're told to control our thoughts during the might lose both." And you heard from me twice that you should prayer, at the very least we should be careful place the money in the charity box and yet you did not to interrupt the praises of Hashem with The grandson heard what the Rebbe said and not listen. needless idle chatter. nevertheless, decided to invest his money with

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I obliged and wrote to the Rebbe about my My Encounter upcoming mission. In my letter, I noted the Then, the Rebbe asked if we distributed Jewish with The Rebbe problem of building in Alaska a mikveh – the educational materials so that little Jewish boys My Encounter with the Rebbe records the oral ritual pool, without which a Jewish community and girls of the Alaskan Range would be able histories of individuals who interacted with cannot function. The U.S. Army had allotted the to properly observe the holidays. I said, “No, we the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson money, but I could not fnd anyone who knew don’t do that.” of righteous memory, through frst-person how to build a mikveh, at least not anyone willing to come to Alaska. Then, the Rebbe asked if we visited the local interviews. prisons in order to connect with the Jewish When I fnished writing the letter I handed it to inmates. I said, “No, we don’t do that.” The One Hour Mission them, and they asked me if there was anything they could do to help me. I confded my problem And then the Rebbe said, “But from now on, to them and to my shock, the younger emissary, you’ll be doing all of this?” Rabbi Grossbaum told me that he makes a living I said, “Yes, yes, from now on, we’ll be doing all doing exactly this – designing mikvehs and of this!” overseeing their construction – and he would love to help me. Immediately a broad smile lit up the Rebbe’s face, and the only way I can describe this smile “Here I am looking all over America for someone is this: it was as if I was looking at the sun rising to build me a mikveh,” I thought. “And, before in the middle of an Alaskan winter. they even put the stamp on the letter to the Rebbe, my problem is solved!” In parting, the Rebbe blessed us with these words, “May your sons grow up to be rabbis of In 1975, while the mikveh was being built, we big cities.” (And this is exactly what happened.) came to New York for a private audience with grew up on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, the Rebbe. We got preferential treatment and, When we returned home, there was a letter Brooklyn, in the 1950s. Though Crown Heights even the yeshivah students came out to see the waiting for us addressed to Rabbi and Mrs. is mostly Chabad-Lubavitch, my family was rabbi from Alaska (I guess wanting to see if I Yisrael Haber. The sender was Rabbi Menachem I looked like an Eskimo). M. Schneerson, , Brooklyn, not – we were just “plain Orthodox.” However, New York. due to the proximity and fame of the Rebbe, we I was very, very nervous because I didn’t know would go see him twice a year during his public the Chabad protocol for a meeting with the We opened the letter, and both I and my wife appearances. Rebbe. I had a Lubavitcher friend who was going got very emotional. It was a two-page letter One of those times was Simchat Torah, when to tell me what to do, but we were invited into congratulating us on having the merit to be the we would go to see the Rebbe and his chasidim the Rebbe’s offce before he showed up! Going frst Jews to build a mikveh in Alaska. dancing with the Torah into the wee hours of the in, I had one request on my mind: a blessing for me and my wife to have children. We had been Shortly after that, my wife announced to me morning. The other time was on the frst day of that we were going to have a special guest Rosh Hashanah, when he conducted the Tashlich married for three years already but had not been blessed with any offspring. for . I was puzzled, since Passover was ceremony at the pond in the Brooklyn Botanic months away, but that was her way of telling me Garden. Thousands of people would march with I remember my knees shaking when we entered that the Rebbe’s blessing had come true – she the Rebbe, singing their hearts out, and I recall the room, but otherwise I was in a fog, so I can’t was pregnant, and the baby would be with us this making a tremendous impression on me as relate much of what followed. I do recall the come Passover. a child. Rebbe beginning an earnest conversation with my wife. He asked her about what it took to have When the baby was about to be born, things got Those were my childhood memories of the complicated, and the doctors wanted to operate. Rebbe. When I grew up, I moved away from the stamina to be Jewish in Alaska, and he invited her to call upon him personally whenever she I placed a call to the Rebbe, who said, “Don’t do Crown Heights. I went to university, became a anything. May we hear good news.” psychologist and, after getting married, became experienced any problems. He also asked her to a U.S. Air Force chaplain in Alaska. speak to the Jewish women of Alaska about the I told this to my wife, who responded, “We mikveh that was being built, and what it means will follow the Rebbe’s advice.” We had a fght In 1973, while on my way to take up my post for a Jewish woman to immerse in a mikveh. She with the doctors, but we prevailed. After some for the frst time, my wife and I drove across responded – to my surprise – that she would do tense moments of unusual activity, the baby’s the country, stopping among other places in whatever the Rebbe asked. vital signs returned to normal, and no special St. Paul, Minnesota. There we met two Chabad intervention was necessary. And two hours emissaries, Rabbi Moshe Feller and Rabbi When it came to me, the Rebbe asked if we distributed Jewish prayer books and copies of before the Rebbe’s own birthday that year, our Gershon Grossbaum, who upon hearing about frst son, Meir Moshe, was born. my deployment insisted that I inform the Rebbe. the Five Books of Moses. I said, “No, we don’t do that.” In 1978, we had a second audience with the 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Rebbe. At that time, we told the Rebbe that we at least a dozen major attacks on Western wanted to move to Israel. After we assured the Recently In The News European soil since 2012 in which local or Rebbe that out replacement would carry-on Is Europe’s jihadist problem foreign jihadists killed hundreds of victims the work we started in Alaska, he gave us his generating empathy toward Israel? using methods long associated with Palestinian blessing. By Cnaan Liphshiz terrorists. Two years later, when we came to see him again, hen a Palestinian terrorist used a car to Last month, a terrorist whom the Islamic State he asked us to briefy return to Alaska – “even ram and kill an Israeli soldier in eastern terrorist group described as its “soldier” killed for one hour.” WJerusalem in 2014, the European Union 11 people, including one Israeli tourist, at a urged “restraint” and, without condemning the Berlin Christmas market by plowing a stolen Though I didn’t understand why, I did as he attack, called it merely “further painful evidence truck through the crowd. In July, a similar attack asked. During my brief visit to Anchorage, two of the need to undertake serious efforts towards claimed over 80 lives in Nice, France. Days later, Jewish lawyers from Philadelphia showed up. a sustainable peace agreement.” an Afghan man injured four people with an axe They were working with Eskimos on issues on a train in southern Germany. concerning the oil pipeline. One of them was The statement by EU foreign relations chief in mourning for his mother and needed to say Federica Mogherini was “a typical EU reaction, These events happened just months after Kaddish. It turned out that I was an essential part which blames the victim for getting attacked,” the murder of over 30 people in a series of of the quorum of ten Jewish men without which Oded Eran, a former ambassador of Israel to the explosions in Brussels in March, and fresh on he couldn’t recite the blessing. I organized the European Union and a senior research fellow at the heels of a horrifc series of bombings and minyan and, after we fnished praying, I made the Institute for National Security Studies, said shootings that left 130 people dead in Paris in sure that the group would continue gathering at the time. November 2015. together even after I left. They did carry on, and this minyan has actually continued until the Two years later, however, European offcials had The Israeli government, and Prime Minister Chabad emissary, Rabbi Yosef Greenberg, moved a much different reaction to a similar attack Benjamin Netanyahu in particular, have been there and established a permanent synagogue. in eastern , which killed four Israeli persistently drawing an equivalence between soldiers on Sunday. the attacks in Europe and attacks against I think it’s safe to assume that this is why the Israelis by Palestinians. Rebbe told me I needed to be in Alaska for “even “The European Union condemns the murder of for one hour.” these four young Israelis, as well as any praise or “The terrorists who attack us have the same incitement for terrorist acts,” Brussels said in a murderous intent as those in Paris,” Netanyahu And only he would know. statement, which unlike the 2014 communique said about the November 2015 Paris attacks. “It omitted any reference to the fact that the is time for states to condemn terrorism against Rabbi Yisrael Haber and his wife Miriam have attack happened in an area of Jerusalem that it us like they condemn terrorism anywhere else been serving as Chabad emissaries in the Golan considers occupied. in the world.” Heights, Israel, for the past thirty-four years. Rabbi Haber was interviewed in his home in Unusually, following Sunday’s attack the Israeli Some European leaders clearly see his point. September of 2011. fag was projected on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and Paris City Hall, signs of solidarity with Following the Berlin attack, German President the Jewish state permitted by local authorities. Joachim Gauck said as much in a reply he sent Rotterdam City Hall few the Israeli fag at half- to a condolence message from Gauck’s Israeli And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt mast. counterpart, Reuven Rivlin. (Gen. 47:28) To Eran and other observers of Israeli-EU “You and your country are in a position to relations, this change in tune is indicative of understand fully what being threatened by Our forefather Jacob is symbolic of greater understanding and empathy in Europe terrorism means for a people and a nation the attribute of truth, as it states in to Israel’s fght against terrorism following because in your country it has become almost the book of Mica (7:20), "You will give a a wave of terrorist attacks on the continent a daily phenomenon. We know that you can feel with us and commiserate,” Gauck said. truth to Jacob." For with the quality of beginning in 2012. truth, a person can survive even the “I think it’s a new development that sincerely Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Avraham Nir- worst of times and live through the stems from the change in the mind of many Feldklein, further drove home the message in a statement following the projection of the direst of circumstances. (The Hebrew people in Europe, in government and beyond, who now understand better than a few years Israeli fag on the Brandenburg Gate, a gesture name for Egypt, Mitzrayim, means ago the impact and infuence of terrorism on initiated by pro-Israel activists. narrow boundaries and limitations.) the daily lives of innocent victims,” Eran told JTA “We all fnd ourselves facing the same terror, on Wednesday. from Nice through Berlin to Jerusalem, but (Chidushei HaRim) He was referring to the cumulative effect of together we will stand against evil, and we will prevail,” he wrote. 15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

On Twitter, the German Foreign Ministry shared Terror Victim Shir Hajaj, for Colel Chabad in a picture of the projection, stating it was “in Ma’ale Adumim, said solidarity with Israel.” Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Beloved Volunteer for Colel she had spoken with by contrast, described the gesture in her city Chabad Hajaj several times merely as a “tribute to the victims of the attack” Soldier killed in terrorist attack over the course of her in Jerusalem. tutored needy students in Ma’ale volunteering. “This was a young woman Muna Duzdar, an Austrian state secretary, Adumim who truly wanted insisted in an interview Wednesday with JTA By Jeremy Wimpfheimer to help her student. that “Europe always understood that Israel Upon meeting her, you were immediately has a right to defend itself and have security,” impressed by her maturity and desire to help and that greater empathy in Europe for terror others.” victims extends not just to Israel but to victims around the world. Hajaj’s funeral was held on Monday afternoon at But following the attacks in Europe, “now we’re the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery. having the situation that we have daily terrorist “Perhaps were it not for this tragedy, the world attacks. I wake up and there’s an attack in would never have gotten to know about Shir’s Israel, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Germany. No dedication and remarkable caring for others,” country is left unaffected. And it might be that said Rabbi Sholom Duchman, director of Colel someone who was affected himself has a better Chabad. “But she is a true example of what it understanding of this.” o an outsider, the claims of Israeli society means to be humbly performing charity, and we Duzdar, who was born in Austria to Palestinian as a tight-knit family might sound like can only hope that this remarkable lesson will parents and heads the Palestinian Austrian Ta cliché, but when it comes to times of offer some comfort to her family and friends Society, rejected during the interview claims tragedy, this reality takes on even greater truth. during this tragic time.” that the attack was not a terrorist incident For the Colel Chabad family, the terror attack in because it was directed against soldiers on land Jerusalem on Sunday directly struck its extended that Palestinians consider occupied. community. Among the four young victims—all “This attack targeted human beings, and as far of them soldiers in the early months of their as I understand it was a jihadist who did that, training—was a dedicated Chesed Menachem With you shall Israel bless...May whose intention was to attack people,” she said. Mendel tutor, Shir Hajaj, only 22 years old. G-d make you as Ephraim and In Belgium, the frebrand anti-Israel columnist A resident of the Jerusalem suburb of Ma’ale Menashe (48:20) Dyab Abou Jahjah, who for years justifed Adumim, Lt. Hajaj was the eldest of four violence against Israelis and Americans in daughters in her family and was an honors In the previous verses Jacob had the pages of the De Standaard daily, was fred student in school. Despite being an active service Monday for defending Sunday’s Jerusalem soldier, Hajaj also worked with the local branch said, "Ephraim and Menashe attack on social media. of Colel Chabad and the Chesed Menachem shall be to me as Reuven and “An attack on occupation soldiers in occupied Mendel program, and has been spending time territory is not terrorism! It is an act of Resistance. tutoring a local teenager whose father passed Shimon." Despite the fact that #FreePalestine,” Abou Jahjah wrote. away from an illness three years ago. Her last Ephraim and Menashe were session was completed on Saturday night, just In a statement, De Standaard editor-in-chief hours before she would leave her home and born in exile and were educated Karel Verhoeven wrote that Abou Jahjah “has family for the very last time. placed himself beyond the borders of acceptable in Egypt, a land not conducive debate” by endorsing violence. Four Dead, 15 Injured in Jerusalem Truck Attack to Torah learning and Judaism, Hajaj, whose quiet smile is now sadly featured Yet the gestures of empathy toward Israel will on newspaper covers and Israeli broadcasts, they were still as righteous and not likely carry over to EU policy, according to tutored in physics and math. Her student, a pure as Reuven and Shimon, Eran, the former ambassador. 16-year-old in high school, was preparing for “These gestures are heartwarming and her physics bagrut (matriculation exam) and who grew up in more enclosed indicative of a positive change, but there is a getting ready to begin preparing for math exams and insular surroundings in clear distinction between empathy and policy as well. Returning home after what would sadly in the corridors of the European Union, which be the fnal lesson, the student told her mother Jacob's household. is likely to remain as critical as ever of Israeli how much she appreciated having Hajaj as a teacher. settlements and continue to oppose them on (Lubavitcher Rebbe) every international arena,” he said. Leah Babayof, who serves as the coordinator 16 Meyer Youth Center The full scoop on all the Youth events and classes

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S p e c i a l G u e s t S p e a k e r f r o m I s r a e l Chaim Silberstein Founder and President of Keep Jerusalem-Im Eshkachech Jerusalem Public Diplomacy and Advocacy Organization

Shabbos Parshas Shemos JAnuary 21st Shabbos Morning “Jerusalem in the Trump Era: Oppertunities and Threats” Shabbos Afternoon “A Brief Journey Through the Jerusalem You Never Knew”

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The Shul Saturday, January 28 During Shabbat Services Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, educator, speaker and author attained OVER 78 PROGRAMS rabbinical ordination at University and his Ph. D. from Thousands Impacted Daily ...we’re just getng started. NY University. He founded and serves as Chancellor of Ohr Educaton Torah Stone, a network of educational institutions based upon Special Projects Torah values and tikkun olam. In 1983, he left his position as Outreach spiritual leader of Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue to make aliya and Community become the founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel, where he lives today. Youth Center Over 9 Daily Minyanim Kiddushim Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4 Shabbatons Fabrengens Scholar in Residence Ohel Trips Rabbi is Chief Rabbi of Russia and chairman of Family Events And more. the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. He was born in 1964 to parents who were among the first emissaries of The Lubavitch Rebbe. He was ordained at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in NY. In September 2005 Lazar became a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. Together with his wife, Channa Deren, they have 13 children.

Friday, Feb. 10 and Saturday, Feb. 11 Military Shabbaton Annual Aleph Institute (a DOD recognized Military Chaplain Ecclesiastical Endorsing Agency) Jewish Military Training Course and Sabbath with our Troops.

Wednesday, February 22 Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson served as a member of the team that prepared the public addresses of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson for publication. Editor-in-chief of the Yiddish weekly Algemeiner Journal, he is dean of TheYeshiva.net. He was the first rabbi invited by the Pentagon to present the annual keynote address to the US military Chief of Chaplains Senior Leadership Training Conference. He is the author of the audio series "A Tale of Two Souls" on the Tanya. This event is a unity project and will be held in Young Israel.

www.theshul.org 23 In A Woman’s World Issues of relevance to the Jewish Woman

Weekly Classes Monday Women’s Mikvah: Women’s Study Group Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an At the home of : At the home of: Mrs. Carene Ohayon appointment: 305-866 1492 or 9524 Byron Ave, Surfside 305-323-2410 Tuesday Please Note: Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be Prepaid Prayer Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:15 am 1111 Kane Concourse Suite 618 Tanya Class In Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:00 - 2:30 pm The Shul Sisterhood

198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Who we are... Torah Portion In Spanish Mrs Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village and classes geared toward women in the community. Our Wednesday objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am body and soul. Meet new friends, The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective relax and get inspired! Haime Library If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:00 - 3:00 pm please call 305. 868.1411 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village

Women’s Calendar Of Events A great listing of the places you want to be and the things you want to do!

Light A Candle Say a Prayer Shabbat Thought Shabbat belongs to each and every one of us. Tell a friend about candle lighting. Give her what is already hers.

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25 French Connection Reflexions sur la Paracha

Vivre avec la paracha Survivre à l’échec l’amena à devenir le commandant en second de Stanford, le regretté Steve Jobs raconta l’histoire des par le Rav Jonathan Sacks l’Égypte et la seule personne à même d’éviter à trois coups du sort qui ont façonné sa vie : avoir lâché l’ensemble du pays – ainsi qu’à sa propre famille – ses études à l’université, avoir été renvoyé d’Apple, la éréchit s’achève sur une sublime note de de mourir de faim dans les années de famine. société qu’il avait fondée, et avoir été diagnostiqué réconciliation entre Joseph et ses frères. Ceux- d’un cancer du pancréas. Plutôt que d’être terrassé Joseph possédait en abondance l’une des qualités Bci craignaient qu’il ne leur ait pas vraiment par ces événements, il les mit tous à proft à des fns nécessaires à un leader : la capacité à continuer pardonné de l’avoir vendu comme esclave. Ils se créatrices. disaient qu’il avait seulement retardé sa vengeance malgré l’opposition, la jalousie, les fausses jusqu’à ce que leur père soit mort. Ainsi, après la accusations et les échecs répétés. Pendant vingt-deux ans, j’ai vécu près d’Abbey Road, au nord de Londres, où un célèbre groupe de mort de Jacob, ils exprimèrent leur crainte. Mais Tout leader qui défend une cause se heurtera à une pop enregistra tous ses hits. Lors de leur première Joseph leur affrma : opposition. Cela pourra être un véritable confit audition, ils jouèrent pour une maison de disques d’intérêts. Un dirigeant élu sur la promesse de « N’ayez pas peur. Suis-je à la place de D.ieu ? Vous qui leur dit que les groupes de guitare étaient « sur rendre la société plus équitable suscitera presque aviez l’intention de me nuire, mais D.ieu en a fait du le déclin ». Le verdict de leur performance (en janvier certainement le soutien des pauvres et l’opposition bien, afn que s’accomplisse ce qui arrive aujourd’hui, 1962) était : « Les Beatles n’ont pas d’avenir dans le des riches. Un autre, élu pour réduire la pression que de nombreuses vies soient sauvées. Donc, n’ayez show-business. » pas peur. Je pourvoirai pour vous et vos enfants. » Et fscale, suscitera le contraire. Cela ne peut pas être il les rassura et leur parla aimablement. évité. La politique sans confits est une contradiction Tout cela explique la réfexion remarquable de dans les termes. Winston Churchill qui déclara : « Le succès est la C’était la seconde fois qu’il leur parlait en ces termes. capacité d’aller d’échec en échec sans perdre son Tout dirigeant élu à quelque fonction que ce soit, ou Il leur avait déjà parlé ainsi quand il leur révéla enthousiasme. » que lui, l’homme qu’ils pensaient être le vice-roi bien plus aimé ou plus doué que d’autres, suscitera égyptien nommé Tsafnat-Paanea’h, n’était autre que de la jalousie. « Pourquoi lui et pas moi ? » diront Il est possible que ce qui soutient les gens à travers leur frère Joseph : les rivaux. C’est ce que se dit Kora’h face à Moïse et des échecs répétés soit leur croyance en eux-mêmes, Aaron. C’est ce que les frères se dirent face à Joseph, ou leur ténacité, ou l’absence d’alternatives. Ce qui « Je suis Joseph votre frère que vous avez vendu quand ils virent que leur père l’aimait plus qu’eux. soutint Joseph, cependant, fut sa perception de la jusqu’en Égypte. Et maintenant, ne vous affigez pas, C’est ce que se dit Antonio Salieri face à un jeune providence divine. Un plan était en œuvre dont il ne ne soyez pas irrités contre vous-mêmes de m’avoir Mozart plus talentueux que lui, d’après la pièce de pouvait que vaguement discerner l’aboutissement, vendu pour ce pays, car c’est pour sauver des vies que Peter Shaffer, Amadeus. mais, à un certain stade, il semble qu’il ait compris D.ieu m’a envoyé au-devant de vous. Car voici deux qu’il était l’un des personnages d’un drame En ce qui concerne les fausses accusations, elles années que la famine sévit dans le pays et durant les beaucoup plus vaste, et que toutes les mauvaises n’ont pas manqué au cours de l’histoire. Jeanne d’Arc cinq années à venir, il n’y aura ni labour ni moisson. choses qui lui étaient arrivées étaient nécessaires fut accusée d’hérésie et brûlée sur le bûcher. Un Mais D.ieu m’a envoyé au-devant de vous pour vous pour que l’objectif global soit atteint. Comme il le dit quart de siècle plus tard, elle fut déclaré innocente préparer une survivance sur la terre et pour sauver à ses frères : « Ce n’est pas vous qui m’avez envoyé à titre posthume par une commission d’enquête vos vies dans une grande délivrance. Ainsi, ce n’est ici, mais D.ieu. » pas vous qui m’avez envoyé ici, mais D.ieu. » offcielle. Plus de vingt personnes furent mises à mort suite aux procès des sorcières de Salem en Cette disposition à laisser survenir les événements Ce fut là un moment décisif dans l’histoire de la foi. 1692-1693. Des années plus tard, lorsque leur en conformité avec la Providence, cette conscience Il marque la naissance du pardon, de la première fois innocence commençait à être admise, un prêtre que nous sommes, au mieux, seulement les coauteurs dans l’histoire écrite où une personne en pardonna présent au procès, John Hale, reconnut : « L’obscurité de nos vies, permirent à Joseph de survivre sans une autre pour le mal qu’elle avait fait. Mais cet de ce temps-là était telle... que nous marchions ressentiment vis-à-vis du passé et sans désespoir événement établit aussi un autre principe important dans le brouillard, et nous ne pouvions pas voir où face à l’avenir. Sa confance en D.ieu lui procura une : l’idée de la providence divine. L’histoire n’est pas ce nous allions. »3 La plus célèbre fausse accusation force immense, ce qu’il nous faudra à nous aussi si que Joseph Heller a appelé « un sac poubelle plein des temps modernes fut le procès d’Alfred Dreyfus, nous avons de l’ambition. Quel que soit le mal que de coïncidences fortuites jetées au vent ». Elle a un un offcier français d’origine juive accusé d’être un d’autres personnes fomentent contre nous – et plus sens, un but, un scénario. D.ieu est à l’œuvre dans les espion allemand. L’affaire secoua la France pendant vous aurez de succès, plus de mal il y aura –, si nous coulisses. « Il est une divinité qui donne la forme les années 1894-1906, avant que Dreyfus fût sommes capables de dire : « Vous aviez l’intention à nos destinées, dit Hamlet, de quelque façon que fnalement acquitté. de me nuire, mais D.ieu en a fait du bien », nous nous les ébauchions. » survivrons, avec notre force et notre énergie intactes. Les échecs se retrouvent aussi dans la vie de ceux La grandeur de Joseph était qu’il avait senti cela. Rien ayant le plus de succès. Le premier roman d’Harry dans sa vie, il en était désormais conscient, n’était Potter de J. K. Rowling fut rejeté par les douze Classes arrivé par accident. Le complot visant à le tuer, sa Thursdays at 12.00 in the Haime Library premiers éditeurs à qui elle le soumit. Un autre Classes alternate between the following teachers: vente comme esclave, les fausses accusations de la auteur d’un livre sur les enfants essuya vingt et un femme de Potiphar, son séjour en prison et son espoir refus. Le livre s’appelait Sa Majesté des mouches, et Dr. Hanna Barouk déçu que le chef des échansons se souviendrait de son auteur, William Golding, reçut fnalement le prix Rabbi Amar lui et obtiendrait sa libération, tous ces événements Nobel de littérature. Rabbi Frankforter qui auraient pu le jeter dans un désespoir toujours Rabbi Gansburg Dans son célèbre discours à l’occasion de la plus profond se révélèrent rétrospectivement avoir FOR WOMEN ONLY été les étapes nécessaires du cheminement qui cérémonie de remise des diplômes à l’université de 26 Latin Link Reflexion Semanal

Parasha de la Semana La Fuerza para Salir de Egipto es, que está por encima de las leyes de la naturaleza, porque siempre y cuando uno ntes de su muerte, Iosef informó a esté sujeto a las leyes naturales, se aplica sus hermanos sobre la redención de la regla "alguien preso no puede liberarse a AEgipto al decir: "Di-s seguramente los sí mismo de la cárcel". Por eso, precisamente recordará". Tanto el descenso a Egipto como Iosef, cuyo nivel espiritual superaba a la la redención vinieron a través de Iosef. Él naturaleza, dio al pueblo judío la fuerza para dio al pueblo judío, no sólo la señal de la salir de Egipto. redención, sino también la fuerza para no hundirse en la impureza de Egipto para, Cada judío y judía es llamado "el rebaño de finalmente, ser redimidos de allí. Iosef", lo que nos enseña que todo tenemos dentro nuestro un potencial que supera a la Esta fuerza está relacionada con el elevado naturaleza. La misión es revelarlo y utilizarlo nivel espiritual de Iosef, en el cual se para hacer de la naturaleza, un lugar para la expresaba la diferencia con sus hermanos presencia Divina. y hasta con su padre, Iaacov. Los hermanos de Iosef eran pastores de ganado, así apartándose del mundo a su alrededor, mientras que Iosef estaba en Egipto, centro de la impureza, donde se hizo virrey, aún así conservando su unión a la Torá y las Mitzvot. considerado un pecador. Es por esto que la acción de Iosef se considera un pecado, dado El elevado nivel espiritual de Iosef nos ayuda su elevado nivel espiritual. Cuando se trata a entender una frase de nuestros sabios. de seres humanos comunes, aún de hombres Cuando Iosef interpreta el sueño del Jefe de justos, es necesario "hacer un recipiente" Coperos del Faraón, le pidió ser mencionado natural para la bendición Divina, por lo cual ante el rey. Nuestros sabios dicen que Iosef que Iaacov mandó un regalo a su hermano fue castigado por haber confiado en el Jefe y se preparó para la guerra. Sin embargo, Clases y Eventos de Coperos, un ser humano, por lo cual Di-s estando en el nivel de Iosef, debería haber lo retuvo dos años más en la cárcel. Lo que es sido suficiente la confianza en Di-s y no Porcion Semenal difícil de entender es: ¿cuál es el problema apoyarse en seres humanos. Rabbi Shea Rubinstein en el hecho de que Iosef pidió ayuda de un Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm Orden de rezos diarios y su signifcado mistico ser humano? ¡Di-s mismo fijó en la Torá que Sobre el nivel de Iosef fue dicho el versículo una persona debe actuar según las leyes "Es mejor cobijarse en Di-s que confiar en (Para Mujeras) naturales, como está escrito: "Y Di-s te el hombre". En este nivel, uno debe poner Sra. Vivian Perez toda su confianza en Di-s, sin ser necesario Martes 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm bendecirá en todo lo que hagas"! De aquí se 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour aprende que una persona debe actuar, y no "hacer un recipiente" natural donde fluya la Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 esperar un milagro del cielo. bendición de Di-s. Debido a que Iosef no se para confrmar condujo según su nivel lo requería y confió Kolel Espanol Así también era el comportamiento de en un ser humano, fue castigado con tener Rabbi Shlomi Halsband Iaacov nuestro padre: antes de su encuentro que esperar dos años más en la cárcel. Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm con Eisav, estaba preocupado "no vaya a ser Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm Es por este nivel elevado de Iosef que tanto el que venga y me golpee, madres e hijos", Sra. Vivian Perez sin embargo, él rezó a Di-s y, junto con su descenso a Egipto como la redención de allí Jueves 11:00 am -12:30 pm rezo, actuó de acuerdo a la naturaleza, están relacionados con él específicamente. Chabad of Aventura preparándose para la guerra y hasta mandó Para poder descender hasta lo más bajo "al 21001 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura un regalo a su hermano. ¿Por qué, entonces, lugar más impuro de la tierra", es necesario Iosef fue castigado por haber actuado según el potencial más elevado, para no ser las normas de la naturaleza? afectado por las dificultades y las pruebas del descenso. La explicación es que, Di-s exige de una persona de acuerdo al potencial de la De la misma manera, para poder ascender persona. Todo momento en el cual la de la impureza de Egipto, es necesaria persona no utiliza sus fuerzas al máximo, es una fuerza que supera al mundo tal y cual 27 PLEASE READ ONLY Networking AFTER SHABBOS Effective Advertising

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Contacts at The Shul 305.868.1411 Rabbi Rabbi Ext 311 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 Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Youth Director / Dinner Mrs Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 329 Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 Shul Gaboim Operations / Maintenance Rabbi 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

33 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul

DAILY CLASSES SUNDAY MONDAY

Derech Mitzvosecha 6:20 - 6:50 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am In Depth Chumash 1:30 pm PHL 101 PHL-301 PHL-501 Rabbi Z. Lipskar TXT 220 Rabbi Dov Schochet TXT-110 Rabbi Dov Schochet Daf Yomi 7:45 - 8:45 am Tanya - Sichos 8:00 - 10:00 pm Insights to our Daily Prayers TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband (Spanish) 8:45 - 9:45 pm PHL-120 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic 8:45 am Reb Shimshon Tzubeli Women’s Study Group 8:30 - 10:00 pm TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Chassisdic Discourses 10:15 - 11:00 am At the home of: Mrs. Carene Ohayon PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi S. Rubinstien 9524 Byron Ave, Surfside Community Kollel (Men) 8:00 - 9:30 pm (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 Shul Rabbis & Kolel

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Women’s Morning Torah Class Parsha (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy 12:00 - 1:00 pm 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Pirkei Avot ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 10:00 - 11:30 am TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar TXT-501 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Women’s Tanya Class Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) (Spanish) 2:00 - 2:30 pm In Depth Tanya Class (Men & Women) 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez 11:30 - 12:30 pm TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom Lipskar (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Women’s Torah Portion Class Tanya Class - English 1:00 - 2:00 pm French Class (Spanish) 2:30 - 3:45 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez 12:00 pm Haime Library 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village TXT-110 Mrs. Vivian Perez Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Spanish Kolel - Chassidus 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 8:00 - 10:00 pm PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband Chabad of Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd

NUMERIC CODES INDICATE ALL CLASSES LOCATED CYS COLLEGE COURSES AT THE SHUL VISIT WWW.CYS-COLLEGE.ORG UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

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