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Shabbos Chol Hamoed Tishrei 19 - 20 October 21 - 22 CANDLE LIGHTING: 6:29 PM SHABBOS ENDS: 7:21 PM

Hoshana Rabba Tishrei 21 October 22 - 23 Shemini Atzeres - Simchas Torah Tishrei 22-23 October 23-25 candle lighting 1st night: 6:27 PM Candle Lighting 2nd Night : After 7:19 pm from existing flame Yom Tov Ends: 7:18 pm

Over Tirty Years of Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Fl 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TeShul.org Email: [email protected] The Shul Weekly Magazine Everything you need for every day of the week Contents Nachas At A Glance Weekly Message The Shul Hebrew School joined the Sukkah party at 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar The Shul this week and each child made a blessing Celebrating Shabbos on the Lulav and Esrog, enjoyed delicious BBQ food Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 4 -5 need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience and great entertainment.

The Month of Tishrei 6 - 7 Everything you need to know for the High Holidays

Community Happenings 8 - 9 Sharing with your Shul Family

A Time to Pray 10 Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 11 -17 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE

Get The Picture 18 The full scoop on all the great events around town

In a woman’s world 19 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman

French Connection Refexions sur la Paracha 20

Latin Link Refexion Semanal 21 The ABC’s of Aleph Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 22

Networking 23 - 24 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know Contacts at The Shul 25 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 26 The Shul Get The Picture 27 - 28 The full scoop on all the great events around town

Quotable Quote

Better that you not vow, than that you should vow and not fulfll

– Ecclesiastes 5:4 Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar

Parshas Shabbos Chol Hamoed - In our community we are especially blessed by so many Shemini Atzeres - Simchas Torah wonderful members, Families and seasonal guests who join our community for the Holiday and bring with them e are now in the special joyful spirit and good cheer that elevates the entire epicenter of the Community together. W happiest period of the year, so designated by the Torah Thank you very much. itself and repeated often in our prayers and Kiddush referring Have a wonderful continuing Sukkot great Shabbos and to this time as the " time of our over the top Simcha Torah. rejoicing / happiness / joy ".

From here it is only uphill in our ascent of rejoicing as we move to Shabbos / Succos Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar and then to Hashanah Rabah which is the absolute final conclusion in any appeals of Yom Kippur Judgment , and then dancing dancing dancing rejoicing rejoicing rejoicing on Shmini Atzeret / Simchas Torah when we are elevated in a special stage of euphoric joy spiritually and materially.

We transpose seamlessly from the joy of our gratitude to AlMighty God for His benevolent protection during our initial sojourn of forty years in the desert and throughout our exilic Dancing With Feet sojourn in the "deserts of Nations" , to the crystallization of Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, this incredible period of expiation, forgiveness, acceptance, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson cleansing rejoicing on Shmini Atzeres and the joy of all joys culminating on Simchas Torah when we conclude On Simchat Torah we dance with the reading of the entire five books of Moses and begin our feet, not with our heads. it at once again. Literally expressing our ecstatic joy in We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah accepting that incredible gift Almighty God has given us as a " how to directive" to achieve a whole and successful life. is something we study with our heads. But we It is very noteworthy to recognize that though our joy dance with our feet, not with our heads. is manifest in material, physical, experiential acts such If we would dance with our heads, each one as enjoying with friends, having great banquet meals, dancing, singing, and relaxing from any kind of mundane would dance a different dance, each in a work or labor, fundamentally it is the spiritual foundation different space, some with friends but not and concept that is the catalyst for all of this rejoicing. with others, some as lonesome souls.

In being thankful to Almighty God for His protection we One head is higher, one is lower, one is not only believ in Him but accept that every single action here on earth, the other in the clouds or that takes place in our lives is directed by Benevolent beyond, and some minds know only their Divine Providence. Our dancing and kissing the Torah with own space that no one else can know. such fervor and animation clearly illustrates our deep love fot that extraordinary gift of life. But we dance with our feet, and all our feet are here on the same earth—none higher

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 Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 Questions: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 1) I was born on the 7th and passed away on the 7th. Who am I and Montessori Classrooom 2 when is the 7th? classrooom 2 2) I am done on Sukkos, but only once every 8 years. What mitzvah am I? 3) I was put in a golden box near a sapphire rock. What am I?

Answers from last week:

1) The Bikkurim Tehila's Basya's Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls 2) The Aliya with all the curses. Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 3) The bikkurim basket.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm RIDDLE RULES Answers to the riddles can be given to Sholom Lobenstein any Classrooom 4 time over Shabbos. The frst child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize!

mishnayos Ba'al Peh Prizes kindly sponsored by the Goldczer Family Mendy's in loving Memory of Sholom's Hebrew School Aryeh Leib ben Zev Volf obm Junior Boys Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Classroom 1

Mishnayos Ba’al Peh Shaykee’s Debbie’s Shmuely's After Mincha Davening With Dad Teen Girls Teen Boys Montessori 3 Grades: 9th - 12th GREAT PRIZES!!! Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Prizes kindly sponsored by the 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Goldczer family in loving memory of Teen Girls Room Aryeh Leib ben Zev Volf Obm Montessori 3 Haime Library

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

Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is available for sponsorship. Shabbos Schedule

Early Minyan 5:45 p.m. Shalosh Seudos This Week: Candle lighting 6:29 p.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is available for sponsorship. Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 6:30 p.m. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. Tanya / Hayom Yom 9:00 a.m. 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 12:00 p.m. kiddush and Shalosh seudos is Daf Yomi 5:30 p.m. Food Art Men’s Shiur 5:30 p.m. Women's Shiur 5:30 p.m. Shalosh Seudos for Boys 5:30 p.m. Mincha 6:15 p.m. Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 7:21 p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Weekly Video of The Rebbe Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank Sephardic Minyan Friday Evening by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually) Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 6:25 p.m.

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Candle Lighting 6:29 p.m. Mincha 6:30 p.m.

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 THE MONTH OF TISHREI EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS

Yom Tov Schedule Sephardic Shacharis & Hoshanot 6:40 AM Morning Services 9:00 AM

Shemini Atzeres Eve Sunday, Night October 23 Candle lighting 6:27 PM Evening Service Followed by Kiddush & Hakafos 6:30 PM

Shemini Atzeres Day Monday, October 24 Hashkama Minyan 7:15 AM Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Shabbat Chol Hamoed Eve Morning Services 9:00 AM Friday, October 21 Upstairs Minyan 10:30 AM Candle lighting 6:29 PM Yizkor Memorial Services (Approx.) 11:05 AM Sephardic Mincha/Arvit 6:20 PM Mincha & Evening Services 6:30 PM Simchas Torah Eve Monday, October 24 Shabbat Chol Hamoed Mincha & Evening Services Followed by Kiddush & Hakafos 6:30 PM Shabbos, October 22 Light Candles 7:19 PM (from existing fame) Hashkama/Minyan 7:15 AM Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Simchas Torah Day Morning Services 9:00 AM Tuesday, October 25 Upstairs Minyan 10:30 AM Hashkama Minyan 7:15 AM Kiddush in the Sukkah 12:00 PM Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Shabbos Community Shiur 5:40 PM Morning Services 9:00 AM Sephardic Mincha 6:15 PM Kiddush & Hakafos 10:30 AM Mincha 6:05 PM (Everyone has an Aliyah/Choson Torah/Choson Bereishis) Shalosh Seudos 6:35 PM Grand Simchas Torah Kiddush 2:00 PM Ma’ariv and Havdalah 7:21 PM Mincha & Evening Services 6:10 PM Sephardic Mincha 6:15 PM Hoshanah Rabbah Havdalah 7:18 PM Sunday, October 23 Sephardic all night Kraya 1:00 AM Recite Book of Tehillim 1:05 AM 6 THE MONTH OF TISHREI EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS

Please Sponsor A High Holiday Kiddush It makes Yom Tov Beautiful for everyone

DATE EVENT TYPE AMOUNT SPONSOR Oct. 22 Chol Hamoed Kiddush Anonymous Oct. 22 Chol Hamoed Shalosh Seudos $500 Oct. 23 Shemini Atzeret Hakafot Kiddush Mr. & Mrs. David and Stephanie Schwartz Oct. 24 Shemini Atzeret After Hakafot Kiddush $2,800 Oct. 24 Shemini Atzeret Day Kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Victor and Alla Weingarten in loving memory of their parents Irene and Jacob Weingarten z”l, David Mermelstein z”l and all those who perished in the Holocaust from Munkach and the Carpathian Region. Oct. 24 Simchat Torah Hakafot Kiddush $3,000 Oct. 24 Simchas Torah Eve Kids’ Kiddush Ighal & Sabrina Goldfarb in honor of Ighal's 40th birthday and Rabbi Shaya and Debbie Farkash in honor of Ruthy and Mushka Oct. 24 Simchas Torah After Hakafot Kiddush $3,000 Oct. 25 Simchas Torah Hakafot Kiddush $1,800 Oct. 25 Simchas Torah Day Grand Kiddush $10,000 Oct. 25 Simchas Torah Day End of Tishrei Farbrengen Mr.&Mrs Victor and Alla Weingarten in honor of the yahrzeit of their dear mother, Irene Weingarten’s z'l Oct. 29 Shabbos Bereishis Kiddush $1,800 Oct. 29 Shabbos Mevarchim Farbrengen $700 Oct. 29 Shabbos Mevarchim Women’s Farbrengen Mrs. Pilar Cardiff in honor of Elana bat Susana and Carlos ben Francisco Oct. 29 Shabbos Bereishis Seudah Shlishit $360 Oct. 29 Shabbos Bereishis Davening with Dad Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer

7 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Birthdays Yahrtzeits 20 Tishrei Mr. Andrrew Dubrofsky 20 Tishrei Aidel bas Yisroel obm 20 Tishrei Mr. Joel Greenblatt Mother of Mr. Abel Holtz 21 Tishrei Mr. Ashley Diener 20 Tishrei Moshe Ber obm 21 Tishrei Mr. Alberto Ghitis Father of Mr. Brent Levison 21 Tishrei Ms. Sender Lerman 21 Tishrei Eliezer ben Moshe Yosef obm 22 Tishrei Ms. Felissa Hadas Elfenbein Father of Mrs. Mina Sragowicz 22 Tishrei Mr. Avi Jaffe 22 Tishrei Esther Gold obm 22 Tishrei Mr. Stevan Leibowitz Friend of Mr. Arnold Lewis Cohen 22 Tishrei Mrs. Barbara F. Musikar 22 Tishrei Yirmiyahu ben Yakob obm 22 Tishrei Ms. Caren Sredni Father of Mr. Jakob Dreyfuss 23 Tishrei Ms. Sara Rivka Novetsky 24 Tishrei Eli Shahaf obm 24 Tishrei Mrs. Bessie Bedzow 24 Tishrei Ms. Alissa Benishai Brother in law of Mr. Gideon Azari 24 Tishrei Mrs. Bella Benlolo 24 Tishrei Eliezer ben Avraham obm 24 Tishrei Mr. Richard Planet Father of Mrs. Simone Bercu 25 Tishrei Mr. Michael Benlolo 24 Tishrei Leah bas Shlomo Zev obm 25 Tishrei Mr. Moti Derechinsky Mother of Mrs. Bella Brenner 25 Tishrei Rabbi Henry Eichler 24 Tishrei Yechiel Michal haCohen obm 25 Tishrei Ms. Jenna Galbut Father of Mrs. Susan Gluck 25 Tishrei Mr. Jacky Klainbaum 24 Tishrei Liba bas Tzvi Hersh obm 25 Tishrei Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Mother of Mrs. Golda Jacobs 26 Tishrei Mr. David Cohen 25 Tishrei Moshe ben Yaakov obm 26 Tishrei Mr. Shmuel Levinsky Father-in-law of Mrs. Estela Berry 26 Tishrei Mr. Alan Marcus 25 Tishrei Mackluf ben Yitzchak obm 26 Tishrei Mr. Terence Speyer Husband of Ms. Luisa Edderai and Father of Dr. Jean Jacques Edderai 25 Tishrei David ben Mordechai obm Kid’s Birthdays Grandfather of Mrs. Ruthy Ginsburg 20 Tishrei Tehora Slomianski 25 Tishrei Devorie Neuwirth obm 21 Tishrei Zalman Drimmer Wife of Dr. Zev Neuwirth 21 Tishrei Yehuda Levy 25 Tishrei Yehoshua ben Isaac obm 22 Tishrei Dov Shapiro Brother of Mrs. Fanny Selesky 23 Tishrei Isachar Dov Gewirtz 25 Tishrei Sura Weingarten obm 24 Tishrei Miriam Simcha Behar Mother of Mr. Victor Weingarten 25 Tishrei Yehosuah Azari 26 Tishrei Chaye Sarah bas Meir obm 25 Tishrei Etel Naama Schwartz Mother of Ms. Rita Grossman 26 Tishrei Chaya Mushka Tevardovitz

Anniversaries Mr. & Mrs. Paul and Lana Weintraub Mr. & Mrs. Gregory and Veronica Levine Mr. & Mrs. Harry and Miriam Greenblatt

Learning with The Bochurim If you are interested in having your child learn with one of our bochurim, or if you would like to arrange Condolences Our heartfelt condolences go out to Dr. Shmuel Katz on the passing of a lunch and learn in your office, his beloved mother, Ilona Helena Rachel Katz, obm. May her dear soul be Please contact Rabbi Shaykee Farkash bound with the Eternal Bond of Life. May Hashem comfort the Katz and Kavana family among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. [email protected] 8 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Tishrei 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 Tishrei is Kindly Sponsored by for donations received between 10/11/16 and 10/17/16 We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Mr. Jonathan Assouline Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rosengarten The Duchman Family Mr. Orel Ben Haim Mr. & Mrs. Uri Rotlewicz - Spiwak Mr. & Mrs. Salomon Btesh Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Salver Mr. Daniel Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer In tribute of The Rebbe, The Leader of our generation Mr. & Mrs. Didier Egozi Choukroun Mr. & Mrs. David Schottenstein and in honor of the shluchim, supporters of the Mr. & Mrs. Henry Eichler Mr. & Mrs. Simeon Schreiber shluchim and the entire community Rabbi & Mrs. Shaya Farkash Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Shapiro Mr. Greg Feldman Mr. & Mrs. Marc Sheridan Wishing you a sweet, prosporous and healthy new year Mr. & Mrs. Gustavo Galagovsky Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Sisisky Mr. Matias Garfunkel Ms. Rita Steiner with the ultimate revelation of Moshiach Tzidkeinu Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Mr. Claudio Stivelman “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mrs. Renee M. Grossman Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Viner pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Shaya Klein-Weberman Mr. & Mrs. Baruch Waldman and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Mr. Asher Mamane Mr. Bernard Werner occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Moses be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.”

Refuah Shleimah If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to keep Please Note the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. MEN WOMEN The North side parking lot and The Shul Michael Joseph ben Natalie Lee Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Gabriel ben Esther Chana bas Shoshana garage are closed on Shabbos and Yom Tov. Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Shifra bas Chaya Please do not open the barriers. Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Yosef ben Edwina Chava bas Elka Menucha Avrohom ben Feigel Chaya bas Rachel Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Fayge bas Chaya The Shul Parking Garage Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Miriam Leah bas Helen In response to numerous incidents in our garage and with the Yehuda ben Chaya Sara safety of our children, members and staff foremost in mind, we Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel insist on TOTAL compliance with the following rules in the garage. Roi ben Orly Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel • You must always park in a legal spot • Do not park in handicap parking • Do not park along the perimeter of the garage • Do not double park • Do not take up more than one space • Do not block another vehicle Community Notice Board: There is additional parking in the lots North and South of The Shul. When cars park illegally, you take an already challenging situation If you have a new or slightly used Shaitel that you in the garage and turn it into a near impossible and dangerous would like to donate to The Shul Sisterhood situation. You create more havoc, less visibility and more aggravation which itself contributes to the likelihood of an accident, G-d forbid. Please Contact Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 If you are not in a legal spot YOU WILL BE TOWED

9 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 7:25 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 6:40 pm 10:00 pm Main Minyan 7:00 pm Sephardic Minyan 6:40 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 October 19 We pray for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily. Dan Shlomo ben Eliyahu Alot Hashachar / Dawn 6:09 am Benyamin Aharon Ben Jeniya Gila Rut Earliest Talit & Tefllin 6:40 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 7:22 am Michael Shmuel ben Eliezer Eliyahu (Earliest Amidah) Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry Latest Shema 10:11 am Zman Tfllah 11:09 am

Chatzot / Midday 1:05 pm Earliest Mincha 1:35 pm Plag HaMincha 5:40 pm Shekiah / Sunset 6:49 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 7:12 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. 10 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 - Tishrei 19 (The general concept and method of reproving It is written that all through the year, when Sh'mini Atzeret and Rosh Hashana are parallel another is well explained in the maamar V'im saying in sh'mona essrei "and all the varieties of in many of the kavanot and higher yichudim. On ruach hamosheil (Kuntres 30). Every chassid its produce for good", one should have in mind Rosh Hashana, though, these are in a mode of would do well to learn it thoroughly and take it wheat for matza and the etrog (elsewhere, wine elevation and on Sh'mini Atzeret in a mode of deeply to heart.) for kiddush is also mentioned); then naturally elicitation from On High downward. On Rosh But this reproving at a farbrengen is only for such all the produce will be for good. Hashana man's avoda is with supplication, submission and intense bitterness; on Sh'mini matters that will not cause any embarrassment Atzeret it is with joy. whatsoever. This has been the way since the Shabbos - Tishrei 20 earliest days - one reproved another with love During the movements of the lulav one should and deep affection. touch the chest with the lulav at the spot one Tuesday - Tishrei 23 strikes his heart for ashamnu. On Simchat Torah 5540 (1779) the Alter Rebbe said: Thursday - Tishrei 25 My father once said at a farbrengen that this Ten melodies, some only singular stanzas, are (practice) is similar to the idea that only through It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to attributed to the Alter Rebbe as having been the earnestness before davening, when one is it - this refers to people of intellect who study composed by him. embittered over his sins, can there afterwards Torah. ...and those who support it are fortunate2 Those attributed to the Mitteler Rebbe were be an emotional excitement in davening. - these are the people of avoda (davening) who occupy themselves with Torah. composed in his time and sung in his presence, but he did not compose them. He had a group Sunday - Tishrei 21 They are fortunate (me'ushar) as the Zohar of musically-gifted young men known as "the In the Tikun of Hosha'ana Raba night, the parsha (III 53b) interprets: Do not read the word as Mitteler Rebbe's kapelle," divided into two of B'racha is also said only once. (My father me'ushar but (through a transposition of letters) groups, vocalists (baalei shir) and musicians instructed certain individuals to say it with as meirosho, "from his head." Through their who played various instruments (baalei zimra). Rashi's commentary on Hosha'ana Raba, but this avoda they call forth (the spiritual level of) "His was not a general instruction.) On erev Simchat head," the inwardness of the En Sof. Torah, B'racha is said twice and its Targum4 once. Friday - Tishrei 26 The interpretation of the verse, "Forever, O G-d, This is similar to the unique quality of the foot Your word stands frm in the heavens." (Tanya Before Hallel remove the (top) two rings from which provides the support of the head. the lulav, leaving the three rings that bind II:I and IV:25) is quoted by the Alter Rebbe the lulav with the hadassim and aravot. Eiruv in the Baal Shem Tov's name although that Tavshilin. On Hosha'ana Raba the piece of bread Wednesday - Tishrei 24 interpretation is found in Midrash Tehillim, A public farbrengen in general, and on Shabbat on which one says hamotzi is dipped in honey, as quoted in Likutei Torah in the maamar Ki or motzo'ei Shabbat1 in particular, is one of but not on Sh'mini Atzeret or Simchat Torah. bayom hazeh yechapeir. But the Alter Rebbe had the foundations in the ways of chassidim and a special reason for this: It was on the second Chassidus. It is an opening and entry-way to the day of Creation when G-d said: "Let there be a Monday - Tishrei 22 fundamental Mitzva of ahavat Yisrael. One makes kiddush and eats and drinks in the Heaven," and it is this utterance which "stands suka, both by night and during the (following) At the great majority of farbrengens, the frm in the Heavens." Associating the quotation day. principal speakers demand of the participants with the Baal Shem Tov was to be an eternal to improve their conduct and practices, to memorial that the Baal Shem Tov was born on Hakafot on Sh'mini Atzeret night. Haftora: Vay'hi designate times for the study of Chassidus and the second day of the week, on the eighteenth k'chalot until ul'yisrael amo. keep those times diligently, and that their study (chai) of Elul. We do not say the (specially designated prayer) be directed to learning and fulfllment. Yehi ratzon upon leaving the suka. 11 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

PARSHA & SUKKOS MESSAGES A Non Parting Party do it, but where you do whatever it is that you Based on the Rebbe’s talks on Simchat Torah do. Two people thinking the same thought of 5716 (1955) and on other occasions are nevertheless thinking differently; the same is true of two people experiencing here was once a king who invited his the same feeling or doing the same deed. children for a banquet of several days. But two people inhabiting a particular TWhen it came time for them to go, he place are utterly synonymous in the fact said to them: “My children, please, stay with of their presence: neither can be more or me one more day—your parting is difficult for less or differently there (in the empirical, me…” physical sense) than the other. So the sukkah Rashi, Leviticus 23:36 relates to all its inhabitants equally: it is the scholar’s home no more and no less than it With this parable, our sages explain the is the simple laborer’s; the mystic and the significance of Shemini Atzeret. Shemini businessman, the scientist and the artist, are Atzeret (literally, “the eighth of retainment”) their royal father. The same applies in reverse: housed by its walls without regard to the is the one-day festival that immediately when the people of Israel are one with each nature and content of their lives. In the words follows the seven-day festival of Sukkot. other, united in their common identity as of the Talmud, “All of Israel might conceivably Sukkot is a week-long reunion banquet that G-d’s children, they are one with G-d. dwell in a single sukkah.” the supernal King throws for His children, the souls of Israel; for seven days we rejoice in Sukkot, more than any other festival, The Eighth of Retainment our kinship with G-d and with each other. But emphasizes the unity between Jew and Jew But the sukkah is a once-a-year experience; then, when it comes time for us to take leave achieved through the Jew’s relationship with indeed, the halachic definition of the sukkah of the festival and return to our everyday G-d. All mitzvot have this uniting effect, is “a temporary dwelling” (dirat arai). After the pursuits, G-d requests: “Stay one more day…” underscoring our common endeavor to fulfill seven-day unity fest is over, the Jew moves Hence, the festival of Shemini Atzeret, one the will of our Father in Heaven; but the from the sukkah back to his home: back to a more day of joy and fellowship in the divine mitzvah of sukkah is unique in the depth and life in which his place of habitat is no longer a palace before returning to the hinterland of scope of the unity it awakens amongst us. mitzvah, a primary element in his relationship material life. with G-d; back to a life in which his oneness When two Jews study a chapter of Torah, they with his fellow Jews is expressed via the more But let us examine this parable more closely. strengthen their relationship with G-d and “individualistic” mitzvot of thought, word and At first glance, the king’s request seems little with each other by integrating the wisdom of deed. more than an indulgence of sentiment. If his G-d into their minds and lives; but their study children’s return to their lives apart from him also underscores the differences between Yet our parting is distressful to G-d. So He is inevitable, what is gained by staying one them, as each understands and appreciates the retains us one day longer, for an “eighth day more day? Other than delaying the pain of divine wisdom in accordance with his distinct of retainment.” parting for several hours, is there anything intellectual prowess and spiritual sensitivity. of enduring significance in an “eighth day of When two Jews fulfill the divine command to He retains us for an “eighth day” of Sukkot—a retainment”? give charity, the deed differentiates even as it day on which dwelling in the sukkah is no Equal Housing unites, as each gives in accordance with his longer a mitzvah but on which the unity of generosity and financial capacity. The same Sukkot suffuses us nonetheless. A day on In the parable, our sages do not have the is true of virtually every other mitzvah: while which we are utterly and unequivocally king say, “our parting is difficult for me,” but a mitzvah unites diverse individuals in the one without the paraphernalia of oneness, “your parting is difficult for me.” Indeed, G-d, common pursuit of serving the divine will, without the need for an actual edifice to of whom “no place is void of Him,” never parts it also accentuates the diversity of talent, context our unity. from us. It is we who might “part” from Him, experience and commitment that each bring moving on to a state of diminished awareness to the deed. He retains us for a day of “retainment”—a day of our relationship with Him. on which it is not we who are in the sukkah The sukkah, however, is the ultimate equalizer. but the sukkah that is within us. A day on “Your parting” has yet another meaning: our This mitzvah is observed by dwelling in a which we are empowered to imbibe and parting from each other, which, in G-d’s eyes, bough-covered hut for seven days—eating, internalize the unity of Sukkot, to store it in is synonymous to our parting from Him. When sleeping, and socializing in it, and otherwise the pith of our souls so that we may draw on the people of Israel are one with G-d, they are regarding it as one’s home, for the duration it in sukkah-less months to come. also one with each other, united as children of of the festival. In other words, the mitzvah of sukkah is not about what you do and how you 12 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

A Crown of Supernal Joy shines within all of Israel. From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; But isn't this aspect of shining already adapted by Yehoshua Metzinger occurring during the time of Sukkot? The he main concept of Simchat Torah is shining that occurs now and during the simcha, or joy, as is indicated by the initial revelation of Mashiach is of a kind Tname of the holiday. It is from this that encompasses and, at the same time, is special day that we derive all our happiness settled within the Jewish People, but is still for the entire year. While it is true that all somewhat hidden. The shining during the holidays, to some extent, are associated with time of the Resurrection of the Dead, the simcha, especially Sukkot, which is called time of ultimate reward, will be a shining "the time of our joy", Simchat Torah brings an that is openly revealed. aspect of simcha which is greater than that we read from the Torah? The answer lies in Why is the shining during the time of of other holidays and is the culmination of the fact that on Simchat Torah, the Jewish Resurrection of the Dead different from the the simcha of Sukkot. People brings down a higher aspect of Torah within the Torah itself, a joy which crowns shining that occurs now during Sukkot? The What is the source of the joy on Simchat the Torah from the aspect of keter. time of Resurrection of the Dead will be a Torah, and what sets it apart from the time that is more refined, when the body will happiness we experience on other holidays? There are two ways of understanding this no longer depend on eating and drinking. In the Zohar, parashat Pinchas, it is said simcha. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all of How can it be that the bodies will not need that it is customary that Simchat Torah is a Israel, including Mashiach, are rejoicing in food or drink when they are the same bodies day of joy and happiness. This sets Simchat the Torah on Simchat Torah. In addition, the that existed before? According to the tractate Torah apart from the days of Sukkot, which Torah itself is rejoicing, because on this day Sanhedrin, the bodies will be cured of their are characterized by joy because they are it receives its crown, a level that is higher blemishes and reach a state of completeness associated with the wheat harvest, whereas than the head. Keter is an encompassing where they will be stronger than they were the elation of Simchat Torah is referred to power which surrounds the Torah, and is on a before. If the bodies will be stronger, it as "customary", coming from a place beyond higher level than learning, which penetrates would seem even more likely that they would nature and the harvest. the Torah and is associated with the concept require sustenance. It is said that the bodies of inwardness (penimiyut). This level of Torah will be on the same level as the body of Adam. Perhaps one could say that the simcha of is compared to food as in the verse "create Why, then, did Adam need to eat (i.e. G-d gave Simchat Torah is derived from the reading your own sustenance". The sustenance can him permission to the fruit of any tree but of the Torah. However, the joy that comes take the form of bread, the most basic form one) and these bodies will not require food? from learning the Torah is also natural of food, but, at this level, the Torah reflects When Moses ascended the mountain for forty rather than customary, as the verse says, the level of "fat meat", as in the verse, "eat days, he did not eat or drink. It is said that "The commandments of G-d are straight, fat meat". Bread is necessary to sustain life, he suffered because of this, even though he gladdening the heart."(Psalms 19:9) but meat, especially fat meat, is above the was communicating directly with G-d. This level of mere physical existence the way that implies that there is a need for food, even Perhaps the happiness of Simchat Torah the inner aspect of the Torah is on a spiritual as one occupies lofty spiritual levels. But, comes from the dancing? Dancing is the G-dly level - above basic survival. However, the during the time of Resurrection of the Dead, service of the acceptance of Divine kingship. level of keter is above even the level of the there will be no physical suffering or hunger, Dancing increases joy, but it isn't the original richness of the Torah, i.e. "fat meat". because G-d has promised "to wipe away the source of the simcha. It is similar to the way tears from every face". in which speech comes from the intellect and It is said that the Jewish people gathered the heart, and, at the same time, increases in front of King Solomon in the month of Eating and drinking do exist on very high emotion and understanding. However, one "Eitanim", a word meaning both strength and spiritual realms. According to the Zohar, the wouldn't say that the source of the emotion age. It is in the seventh month, corresponding verse, "I ate the hive along with the honey", and the understanding was the speech itself, to the month of Tishrei. A verse explains (Songs 5:1) refers to the Reading of the Shema but the intellect and the heart. Likewise, how "Eitan" will also be revealed in the (i.e. the honey) and the blessings before the simcha inspires the dancing, and the dancing future: "A Maskil [type of song] of Eitan Shema (i.e. the hive). The recital of the Shema increases the simcha, but the dancing is not the Ezrachite." [in Hebrew, "Maskil L'aitan and the blessings provides something akin to the original source of the joy. Haezrachi."] (Psalms 89:1) can also be read nourishment in the higher realms. Sacrifices as "Intellect and strength will be shining." are a way in which the Jewish people "feed" The focal point of the service on Simchat The word "ezrach" also means "citizen". This G-d, on the level at which G-d can be said Torah is the hakafot, when we circle to Torah means that, in the future, the aspect of Eitan to receive from below. What occurs there is seven times; it is said that the simcha at will be shining, and that every Jewish citizen similar to the way in which eating, on the this time is so great that even the feet are will sit in the Sukka, since this revelation is human level, connects the soul and the body. rejoicing. If the concept of Simchat Torah is associated with the time of Sukkot, when G-d G-d fills Creation when he is "nourished" by so closely associated with dancing, why do 13 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! sacrifices. Halacha of The Week eat everything in the Succah, just as the previous By Rabbi Shusterman days of Succos. However, we do not recite the During the exile, when we have no means Brocho Leshev BaSuccah. of making sacrifices, the "food" is our prayer. Although His essence is beyond eating and Hoshana Rabba Shacharis of Yom Tov followed by complete Hallel. drinking, even "spiritual food", on infinite Saturday Night and Sunday Two Sefrei Torah are read from. Following Maftir, levels where there is no concealment of Tishrei 21, October 22-23 Yiz- kor is recited. G-dliness, nourishment from prayer and On the night of Hoshana Rabba it is customary to sacrifices are still received. This is not like stay up the all night. We read the entire book of Prior to Musaf, the Shammas an- nounces that we the body and the soul, which require food D’vorim from a Chumash. After 1:05 a.m. (Halachic begin to say “Mashiv Horuach Umorid Hageshem” and drink from a higher source; these levels Midnight), the whole Tehillim is recited with a in the second Brocho of the Amida. give and receive nourishment below. The minyan. The Chazan recites the Tefla of Geshem during his connection created by this nourishment is Shacharis repetition of Musaf. If one forgot to say Mashiv Ho- like the connection between the essence and ruach Umorid HaGeshem, as long as he said “Morid Through Hallel, the davening is the same as the the power of the soul. These powers, such as HaTal,” he need not repeat the Shmoneh Esrei. rest of Chol HaMoed. Before Hallel, however, we seeing and hearing, are separate from the One who heard the “Mashiv Ho-ruach” remove the two upper rings binding the Lulav. On- essence of the soul, which, when connected announcement before davening Shacharis, must ly the three bottom rings will remain. with these powers, activates them. The say Mashiv Horuach when he davens Shacharis, spiritual food can connect G-d to the world, Following Hallel, all the Sifrei To- rah are removed unless he will be davening with another minyan. although the essence of G-d and the world from the Aron Kodesh to be held by individuals are farther distant than the body and soul, No preparations may be done for the second day standing at the Bimah. The entire Hoshanos are which constantly require physical food. before 7:19 p.m. then recited. Even though at infinite levels G-d can be As on previous days, the Chazan begins to say Simchas Torah said to give and receive nourishment, there (out loud) starting from the alphabetical phrases Monday Night & Tuesday Tishrei is a higher level, keter, where the Infinite beginning with the letters “Samech” or “Ayin,” at Light shines closely, and it is because of 23, October 24-25 which time the word “Hoshano” is added before this closeness that there is no need for Candlelighting time is not before 7:19 p.m., only and after each phrase. When reciting the previous nourishment that would create a connection from a pre-existing fame. The Brochos “L’Hadlik phrases, “Hoshano” is said only before each one. between distant things, such as the body and Ner Shel Yom Tov” and Shehechiyonu are recited. The Bimah is encircled starting from the letter the soul. It is the aspect of keter that is the Maariv begins with Shir Hama’alos, and continues Samech or Ayin. Since all the Hoshanas are recited, source of the simcha on Simchat Torah, and with the usual Yom Tov Maariv. the Bimah will be encircled 7 times. is beyond the level of Sukkot, which requires Kiddush a sacrifice of 70 oxen. There is no special At the conclusion of the Hoshanos, the Sifrei Torah The Kiddush procedure is as follows: festive meal associated with Simchat Torah are returned to the Aron Kodesh, and the Chazan 1. “Borei P’ri Hagofen” because it brings the aspect of keter, which recites Kadish Tiskabel. We then take the 5 Arovos 2. Brocho of Kiddush for Yom Tov 3. “Shehechiyonu” is beyond eating and drinking, to crown the branches (Hoshanos), hit them on the ground 5 Shacharis of Yom Tov with Bir- kas Cohanim Torah. Keter is associated with closeness to times, and recite the Yehi Rotzon. performed during Sha- charis. After full Hallel and G-d and closeness with higher levels, since, Shir Shel Yom, “Atoh Horeiso” is said 3 times (Posuk as it descends, each level settles closely, like Davening then continues the same as the previous by Posuk) followed by Hakofos. All 7 Hakofos are a crown, on the "head" of the lower level. days of Chol HaMoed. recited, but the Bimah is circled only 31⁄2 times. However, keter is higher relative to the lower After reciting Hamotzi on Hosho- na Rabba, we dip Following Hakofos, we take out 3 Sifrei Torah. levels only; within keter itself, there are no the bread into honey. All men and boys over Bar Mitzva are called to levels at all, since it is beyond levels and is the Torah. A special Aliya, called “Kol Han’orim,” is associated with Ein Sof. Shmini Atzeres reserved for all the children. It is from keter, beyond levels of nourishment, Sunday Night and Monday Reading from the frst Sefer Torah, distance and connection, that we draw simcha Tishrei 22, October 23-24 the “Choson Torah” Aliya completes the Torah. The on Simchat Torah, adding a new dimension to Candlelighting Time is 6:27 p.m. Second Sefer is used for the “Choson Bereishis” the Torah and providing supernal joy for the The candles should be lit in the Suc- cah. The Aliya, which begins the Torah. The third Sef- er entire year. following two Brochos are recited: “L’Hadlik Ner Torah is used for Maftir. If a Shul has only 2 Sifrei Shel Yom Tov” and “Shehechiyonu.” Torah, the frst Sefer is used for Maftir. Maariv of Yom Tov followed by Hakofos. Kiddush The Kiddush should be performed in the Following Krias HaTorah, we recite “Sisu V’Simchu” following order: 1. Borei P’ri Hagofen and daven Musaf. 2. Birkas Kiddush for Yom Tov 3. Shehechiyonu Minhagei Chabad; Throughout Shmini Atzeres we Yom Tov ends at 7:18 p.m.

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shoemaker asked the group of young men who Stories With Soul would meet for services every Shabbat in a hidden corner of the barracks. Simchat Torah in the Nazi Someone had an idea, and the group set to work. Labor Camp They plied a plank off of one of the wooden By Menachem Posner bunks and made a space in which to put the small Torah scroll. The plank was then returned ntil World War II, the Polish city of to its place. Czestochowa had been a bustling center Uof Jewish life. Then came the bitter day The night of Simchat Torah arrived, and the when the Nazis invaded Poland. In the fall of sense of excitement rose. The inmates silently 1939, before Rosh Hashanah, the Nazis entered not yet returned from the ghetto. Who knows if made their way to the place where the Torah Czestochowa and began persecuting the Jewish he is OK?" scroll was hidden. They feared that the guards population. It was usual for the shoemaker to return late, would fnd the Torah, and that their lives were after the inmates had been given their meager in jeopardy. As a precaution, it was decided not The ghetto, one of the largest in Poland, was to remove the Torah from its place. Instead, the established in April of 1941, and the frst rations. He would go directly to the camp kitchen, where a modest meal had been reserved for him. plank was moved to the side, revealing the deportation started in September of 1942, on sacred parchment. the day after Yom Kippur. The Nazis had just But this time, when he fnally arrived, he did dispatched over a quarter million Jews from not go to the kitchen. Instead, he went to his A survivor later testifed: “On that Simchat Torah the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. To them, the workroom, where he was seen doing something we held the traditional Hakafot dances in our Czestochowa Ghetto, with just 50,000 Jews, was behind a large wooden plank. barracks. But they were not done in the usual small potatoes. During the course of that year, way. The Torah lay in hiding, and we danced the Nazis and their Ukrainian lackeys arranged Word soon spread that the shoemaker had around it humming the joyous Simchat Torah several “aktions,” in which they rounded up the managed to smuggle a small Torah scroll into tunes under our breaths. We entered in small Jews for deportation and extermination. But the camp! “When Simchat Torah comes, we get groups, and mutedly circled the bunk. One by most of the Jews were deported in that frst to dance with an actual Torah scroll," said the one, we then bent over to kiss it before exiting." "Great Aktion,” when they were brutally taken in shoemaker, his eyes ablaze. Miraculously, the Torah survived the war and cattle cars to the Treblinka extermination camp. Despite the badgering and questioning, the was brought to Israel by Rabbi Noach Adelist. The Germans left several thousand Jews in the shoemaker refused to say how he got the shofar It is now housed in the holy ark of the Gerer ghetto. They had to work from morning to night and now the Torah scroll. But word soon leaked synagogue in Bnei Brak. in the factories near Czestochowa. One factory out. (Translated and adapted from Sichat Hashavuah produced metal and another made bullets. 1293) Merciless SS offcers stood over the workers The Nazis had appropriated a large warehouse and did not allow them to stop working for a on the outskirts of the ghetto, where they moment. collected Jewish sacred objects. The warehouse was heavily guarded, making it almost And you shall rejoice in your Unique among the Jewish workers was a impossible to take anything out of it. Placing his shoemaker. An expert at his craft, he was life on the line, the shoemaker was able to bribe festival... and be happy - ach assigned to repair the shoes and boots of the the offcer in charge. And that was how he got sameach (Deut. 16:14-15) Nazi soldiers and offcers. In order to fulfll his the shofar. duties, he was granted special freedoms, and was allowed to walk between the nearly empty In order to get the Torah scroll, he promised Without certain boundaries, ghetto and the labor camp, where the surviving the offcer that he would make a pair of fancy unrestrained rejoicing can lead to Jews were now confned. boots for him, just like he had made for the most senior commanders. The offcer let him take a levity and frivolousness. By using And so it was that just before Rosh Hashanah, Torah scroll. the word "ach" (literally, "but"), the the shoemaker arrived at the labor camp with Torah cautions that even while a shofar. It was with bittersweet feelings that The shoemaker chose a small scroll and the Jews clustered into the shoemaker’s small wrapped it around his body so that he would we rejoice, we must always be workshop during the brief midday break to hear avoid attracting the attention of the guards. conscious of the reason for our the muted shofar blasts. How did he lay his The shoemaker had acted at the last possible rejoicing. hands on the precious artifact? No one knew. moment, as the Germans were already beginning to burn the sacred objects in the warehouse. One day, during the holiday of Sukkot, rumors (Sefat Emet) began to swirl. "The shoemaker is late. He has "How can we possibly hide the Torah?" The 15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

It Once Happened so happy that he danced about with the says I to him. 'No, it's Simchat Torah.' candle burning in one hand, and the bottle 'Sure, I remember. You go round and round in he hakafot (cirucits of dancing on in the other, forgetting all about the war, the a circle dancing. Well, go back to your dancing, Simchat Torah) were in full swing. Round bombardment, and the regulations. and say a prayer for us, Zalman. You Jews are and round went the circle of dancing T "Now, my young friend, you understand what marvellous, risking your neck for your religion, worshippers in the little shul. I had come to the sentries saw in the darkness of the night. dancing in the shadow of death...' watch, that's all. Somebody from the circle It was just as we were preparing to celebrate pulled me into the whirling mass of dancers. hakafot that the sentries burst in, crying, "That was Zalman's simple story. He got a I turned my head to glance at the man who 'Where is the dirty spy? Turn the spy over to pass to come back to us. And then we began had "roped me in." He seemed elderly and I us, or we will have you all shot!' hakafot. Oh, those hakafot! I'll never forget wondered where he got so much strength them. Every Simchat Torah, I remember them; to dance and dance without end. I was "At this moment Zalman stepped forward, for the last 30 years!" astonished to see that tears were streaming bottle in hand, and calmly said: 'Officers, it down his cheeks. An inner happiness and was I that you saw with the light upstairs, but ecstasy were written over his noble face. I was not signaling to the enemy. I..." "It's a long time since I had such inspiring " 'Never mind, come along!' the soldiers said hakafot," said my dancing partner. "It was briskly, and marched poor Zalman off under exactly thirty years ago today, during the heavy guard. Moshiach terrible days after the First World War. I lived in Riga then, the capital of the newly born "If we had been depressed before, now we One can appreciate that the independent Republic of Latvia. were truly grief-stricken. He would be put to the wall and shot immediately. Time dragged nature of the Jewish people's "That night we were sheltering in a slowly. Suddenly we heard steps, and presently cellar. Things were not going well for the in walked - who do you think? - Zalman! We service during Simchat Torah nationalists. They were losing ground and couldn't believe our eyes, but the bottle in his they suspected treachery. Anybody suspicious hand looked real enough. There were tears in and its extension throughout was shot, without even any investigation. all eyes. Suddenly sentries saw a light in a top floor the year is one that is apartment. 'The spy nest has been discovered!' 'Stop it! Stop!' cried Zalman. 'Let's just the sentries decided, and they rushed to the celebrate!' But we would not start until he permeated with the ideal of house to lay their hands on the spy. told us what had happened. "Whom did they rush to seize? Zalman. And 'Didn't I tell you, we have a great and mighty Redemption and Moshiach. who was he? I will tell you. He didn't know G-d?' Zalman began. 'When I was brought to what it meant to be sad. Heaven knows, he headquarters the duty officer hardly looked This means, that the manner in had plenty of worries. But G-d had blessed him at me. "To be shot!" he called out. I looked with a cheerful disposition, and seemingly at the officer for a moment, and I called out: which a Jew conducts his daily nothing, absolutely nothing could break his "Styopka! What on earth are you saying!" spirit. Zalman was with us in the cellar that activities, even as we stand in 'The officer gazed at me for a moment, night. That night of all nights, when Jews then burst out laughing. "What a joke! You, rejoice and dance with the Torah we sat exile immediately before the Zalman, a spy! Well, well, sit down and let's downcast, shivering with every explosion. talk about old times. Do you remember when Redemption is a sampling of "Zalman couldn't stand it any longer. I used to come to your house to remove the 'Brothers!' he exclaimed. 'It's Simchat Torah candlesticks on Saturday mornings, and light and analogous to the way of life tonight! We must rejoice!' But his words a fire in the winter? I was a kid then, but you fell flat. He looked hurt, then he suddenly treated me as though I was a grown-up. I and conduct that will occur in remembered something. 'I see, my friends, loved you, Zalman. Those were happy days in that without a little shnapps there will be our little town, but these are grim days. You the actual Messianic Age. nothing doing. I have a pint of shnapps at are lucky that I was on duty tonight. It was home, which I've been saving for tonight. I'll not even my turn, but I was substituting for a be right back.' friend. You would have been a dead duck by now. But, what's the idea of the bottle? Is it (The Rebbe, Simchat Torah "Before we could stop him Zalman climbed Purim tonight? to the sixth floor where he lived. He picked 5752-1991) up a candle and found the bottle. He was 'You ought to know better, Stepan Ivanovitsch,'

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y ancestors were Chassidic Jews from emphasis on the soul as the source of a human He expressed the worry that technology might Poland who immigrated to Israel where being’s strength. He said that the stronger a distance the doctor from the patient: “At the MI was born and educated. I studied in person’s connection is to his soul, the better he end of the day,” he explained, “the emotional religious as well as in secular schools, and can cope with life. And he pointed out that the support of the doctor, the human being, is most graduated from Hadassah Medical School of function of the mitzvah of visiting the sick is to important, and while technology can be a very Hebrew University in 1966. help the sick person strengthen that connection helpful tool, it cannot become a replacement for After the death of Professor Chaim Sheba, with to his soul. listening and caring.” whom I worked for a number of years, I became The Rebbe also voiced an opinion that every Unfortunately, he was right to worry. Today, the director of the Sheba Medical Center at person has the responsibility to take care of for many doctors, technology has become the Tel HaShomer Hospital, the largest hospital in their own health. Yes, doctors have a role to central means of practicing medicine instead of Israel with 1,700 beds, 7,000 employees and play, but the primary responsibility lies with a helping tool, sometimes to the detriment of an annual budget of $600 million a year. In my the individual Give a person the best doctor in the patient. capacity as director I came to the United States the world, but someone who does not take care periodically, and on one such occasion in 1976, of himself, does not eat well, sleep enough or In conclusion, returning to the point he made a friend invited me to a farbrengen. exercise enough will impair his health. at the farbrengen, the Rebbe offered this advice to me as a doctor and director of a hospital, This proved quite an experience. It was Simchat Today, there is a push in medicine toward “patient “Don’t sanctify illness, sanctify health. Make the Torah, and the farbrengen was attended by empowerment,” where we try to convince people hospital a place that an individual goes to to several thousand Chassidim, who were dancing that they must take responsibility for their improve his health, not a place where he goes and joyously celebrating the holiday. But when health and not just rely on doctors. The Rebbe to because he is sick.” the Rebbe walked in, everyone stood still – you was speaking to me about this thirty years could hear a pin drop. The awe and reverence ago! It is interesting that, so many years ago, I walked out of the meeting with the Rebbe with which those present held the Rebbe was the Rebbe held was advocating this approach extraordinarily impressed. As someone who palable. back then, when no one was thinking about spends considerable time in the religious world, I can testify that it is a rare phenomenon to At some point during the night, I was introduced the issue. Today it may seem obvious, but it has only become a basic rule of medical thinking in meet a Torah scholar who can also converse to the Rebbe, and he asked me why, in Israel, we about science and medicine. But the Rebbe called a hospital a beit holim, meaning “house more recent years – that preventive medicine requires the individual to take responsibility. did more than converse; he wasn’t merely of the sick.” He expressed the opinion that it knowledgeable – he actually foresaw how should be called beit refuah “house of healing.” The doctor can help, but he cannot replace the patient’s own effort. rapidly the world was moving ahead, and he He then invited me for a discussion on the anticipated the forthcoming problems which subject after the holiday. Another issue which we discussed was the place medical professionals had barely began to think This was arranged. The meeting proved very of technology in medicine. At that time, at the about. In hindsight, I believe that meeting has friendly. It wan’t a formal dialogue, rather a dawning of the age of the personal computer age, had not a small infuence in shaping my own give-and-take between two people coming technology was not yet a central nor dominant thinking, my own approach to these issues and from different worlds and holding sometimes component of the medical world. The problems my own vision of the role of medicine in society. similar, sometimes contrasting points of view. related to technology in medicine would not become apparent for years to come. But, here Dr. Mordechai Shani served as the director of the Sheba The conversation was conducted in a mixture Medical Center for 33 years. He received the Israel of languages – in Yiddish, which I spoke a little too, the Rebbe was forward-thinking. He said to me, “It is up to you, the doctors, to determine the Prize in 2009. Presently he is Professor of Healthcare thanks to my grandmother, in English, but mostly Systems at Tel Aviv University. He was interviewed in in Hebrew. outcome; whether this technology will be used for the beneft of the people.” Tel Hashomer Hospital in March of 2013. In his remarks, I recall that the Rebbe put an

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Torah Portion In Spanish MrsNo VivianClasses Perez this week 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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19 French Connection Reflexions sur la Paracha

Vivre avec la paracha Des âmes dans la pluie alors tout aura été créé en vain. L’univers tout L’union L'intimité avec le divin entier attend notre décision. La fête du mariage est terminée. La famille et les amis sont repartis chez eux. Les mariés par Yossef Y. Jacobson L’engagement vont désormais mêler leurs vies comme mari et Lors de la cérémonie de Roch Hachana, un son i D.ieu est « parfait », comme le clame le femme. Judaïsme, qu’est-ce qui Le précipita à créer perçant surgit de la terre : le cri du Choffar. C’est Sl’univers ? Quel vide essayait-Il de remplir ? un cri simple, exprimant l’aspiration de l’homme C’est pourquoi suivant les sept jours de Soukkot, à s’engager avec le Divin. nous atteignons le zénith de la période des fêtes La réponse apportée par la mystique juive : Chemini Atsérét et Sim’hat Torah, décrits dans Nous avons décidé. Notre réponse est « oui ». indique que D.ieu désirait le mariage. Le mariage la Kabbale comme « le moment d’intimité avec nécessite l’existence de quelqu’un d’autre que Le mariage le Divin ». Durant ces deux jours chargés, la joie vous avec lequel vous allez partager votre vie, Le jour du mariage arrive : Yom Kippour. Un jour atteint son apogée, lorsque D.ieu et Son peuple une union entre le mari et la femme. décrit dans la Kabbale comme « le moment se présentent formant un tout indissoluble. D.ieu choisit au Sinaï l’humanité comme d’unicité » au cours duquel le fancé et la fancée Une graine divine est plantée dans le cœur de épousée. forgent un lien pour l’éternité. chacun. Ce mariage est fait d’affection, de querelles et Dans la tradition juive, le fancé et la fancée C’est la raison pour laquelle nous récitons une de diffcultés. Dans chaque génération, cette jeûnent le jour de leur mariage. Le jour où nous prière particulière pour la pluie lors de la fête relation a subi des tribulations et cependant, nous unissons à D.ieu, nous nous abstenons de Chemini Atsérét. Qu’est-ce que la pluie ? cette union dure car chacun des partenaires sait également de boire et de manger. Le Talmud Au milieu de l’intimité entre le ciel et la terre, intrinsèquement que tous deux appartiennent enseigne que le jour du mariage, toutes les des gouttes venues du ciel sont absorbées, l’un à l’autre. Quand tous les voiles sont ôtés, fautes des mariés sont pardonnées. fertilisées et nourries par la terre nourricière qui, à son tour, donnera naissance à des enfants l’homme exprime ouvertement son aspiration à C’est la raison pour laquelle Yom Kippour est botaniques. s’unir avec D.ieu. appelé « le Jour du Pardon ». Le mois « normal » Selon la Kabbale, la période des fêtes de Tichri La cérémonie du mariage commence avec La période de célébrations touche à sa fn et constitue l’expérience annuelle du mariage la très émouvante prière du Kol Nidré dans l’excitation diminue. Maintenant le mariage cosmique entre D.ieu et l’humanité. Les cinq laquelle nous annulons tous les vœux et les consiste à se soucier l’un de l’autre et à se donner moments spirituels clé de la saison sont en dépendances qui nous entravent. Durant ces des preuves de confance et de loyauté, alors parallèles avec les étapes fondamentales d’une moments intenses, nous tentons de nous que nous avançons dans le labeur monotone et rencontre et d’une union conventionnelle. La libérer des comportements et des habitudes continu de la vie. période des fêtes nous invite à nouveau à compulsives et néfastes et nous abandonnons entreprendre ce voyage qui régénère la relation les ressentiments, l’animosité, la colère, la peur Parmi les douze mois de l’année du calendrier entre D.ieu et le peuple juif. et l’envie. juif, il en est un seul qui ne comporte aucune La rencontre La cérémonie traditionnelle du mariage juif fête. Il s’agit du mois qui suit immédiatement la Le mois hébreu d’Eloul précède les fêtes de culmine lorsque les mariés pénètrent dans un période des fêtes de Tichri : le mois de ‘Hechvan. Tichri. Ce mois est décrit dans les enseignements lieu fermé (en hébreu : ‘heder hayi’houd) pour Ce mois est le moment de construire une de la ‘Hassidout comme une période où « le Roi passer quelques moments seuls. Yom Kippour véritable relation dans notre mariage avec Celui va dans les champs pour rencontrer Son peuple, culmine avec la prière de Néïlah ou « clôture », qui est notre Partenaire chaque jour de notre l’accueillant avec bonté et tendresse, montrant appelée ainsi parce qu’au moment où le soleil se vie. C’est le moment de découvrir la joie qui naît à tous un visage plein de joie ». A notre tour, « couche, les portes des cieux se referment, nous d’une relation continuelle avec D.ieu. nous ouvrons notre cœur à D.ieu ». gardant à l’intérieur. Cette période nous donne l’occasion de faire Durant la prière de la Néïlah, chaque âme est connaissance avec D.ieu. seule avec D.ieu. La demande La célébration Le monde s’agite, dit le grand Maître de la Quand les mariés sortent de ce lieu privé, la fête Classes Kabbale, Rabbi Its’hak Louria. « Durant la nuit commence. De Yom Kippour, nous passons dans de Roch Hachana, écrit-il, la conscience animant Thursdays at 12.00 in the Haime Library Soukkot, la fête de sept jours décrite dans la Classes alternate between the following teachers: l’univers devient fragile et faible. » De fait, Torah comme « la période de notre joie ». les grands Maîtres mystiques se sentaient Dr. Hanna Barouk physiquement affaiblis, durant la nuit de Roch Ces jours sont emplis de joies festives et Rabbi Amar Hachana. extatiques, célébrant l’union entre D.ieu et Son Rabbi Frankforter peuple. Toute existence a vu le jour en vue de ce Rabbi Gansburg mariage qui lui est proposé. Si nous Le refusons, FOR WOMEN ONLY 20 Latin Link Reflexion Semanal

Parasha de la Semana El Pueblo del Libro hijos o los paseos al zoo etc. Por Jaia Shujat Luego de unos meses, ella vacilante admite in rumbo va y viene la polémica sobre que extraña nuestras pláticas. De alguna forma, los descubrimientos y hallazgos en el a pesar de nuestros intercambios de opinión, Scyberespacio… algo se despierta en su interior. Y creo que se exactamente a lo que se refere. Sus desafíos Debatimos sobre muchos temas, desde los me han hecho encender la misma pasión derechos de los homosexuales, hasta los en mí y me llevaron a bucear dentro de las problemas políticos en Israel. Pero la mayor páginas de los libros ya entrada la noche. Es parte del tiempo nos dedicamos a interpretar y nuestra Alma Judía, empecinada en declararse, desmenuzar los conceptos de la Torá. Nuestras y mostrándonos que ella esta allí, gritando para diferencias son muy notables. En principio creo expresarse. Debatimos y luchamos para defnir que la Torá es la única y verdadera palabra de Di- el eterno mensaje de la Torá; pero debajo s, aquella que nos da un manual de instrucciones esta superfcie de desacuerdos compartimos para la vida diaria. Carol, mi amiga, en cambio, un profundo e inquebrantable lazo que se cree que la Torá es una colección ecléctica de encuentra incrustado en el "Libro" que hizo y sabiduría y leyendas extravagantes escrita por hace famosa a nuestra nación. diversos individuos a lo largo del tiempo. Es Simjá Torá. En la Sinagoga, sacamos los rollos Creo que los personajes que aparecen en la de la Torá, cerrados, y envueltos en su manta. Torá fueron personas reales, de hecho mis eran judíos devotos, nuestros abuelos en Sosteniendo la Torá hacia arriba, la abrazamos ancestros. Ella a diferencia mía, insiste en que cambio perdieron su observancia durante la y la colocamos cerca de nuestro corazón los personajes fueron héroes mitológicos, y, los inmigración, mis padres, por su parte, siendo para bailar con ella. Abrazamos su integridad eventos relatados, describen simples metáforas. adolescentes y perteneciendo a la generación mientras celebramos nuestra relación única del baby boom volvieron a reclamar a sus padres con aquellos rollos que nos han mantenido y A veces le pregunto, como es que ella toma como su judaísmo. La conciencia me lleva entonces moldeado para ser el Pueblo que hoy somos. verdadera la palabra de un simple arqueólogo a pensar que si estoy donde estoy es por una Remontándonos hacia el pasado y luego en el y rechaza, sin embargo, el testimonio histórico casualidad histórica, lo cual hace que atenúe mi futuro, hacia la eternidad, la Torá nos pertenece de una nación entera. En lo que a ella respecta, elocuencia, y piense antes de hablar. Me imagino y nosotros le pertenecemos. no puede comprender cómo este documento haciendo un intercambio de roles, viendo a Carol milenario lleno de misteriosos conceptos me explicándome pacientemente los conceptos ha servido, y me sirve como guía, para vivir de la Torá que mis padres nunca pudieron dentro del siglo XXI con todos los avances y enseñarme; el intercambio se refeja muy tecnologías que este siglo nos impone. Ella no natural dentro de mi mente. Esto me recuerda logra comprender como yo creo que las historias que nosotros no hablamos por la Torá sino que que la Torá nos presenta son completamente la Torá habla por nosotros. Lentamente, llegamos reales. Trato de explicarle sobre la necesidad a una base en común. Yo acepto algunas de sus Clases y Eventos del estudio de la Torá oral, las interpretaciones interpretaciones metafóricas sobre las historias Porcion Semenal que le fueron dadas a Moshé en el Monte Sinai, de la Torá, (aunque sigo insistiendo que relatan Rabbi Shea Rubinstein aquellas que fueron entregadas por los sabios eventos reales), mientras que ella incorpora Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm de generación en generación. más mitzvot a su vida, prendiendo las velas de Orden de rezos diarios y su signifcado mistico Shabat, y realizando la ceremonia de Havdalá, (Para Mujeras) Carol no comprende como es que la decisiones incluso sus hijos también aprenden sobre su Sra. Vivian Perez de un grupo de hombres que vivieron hace judaísmo y se sienten orgullosos de ello. Martes 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm cientos de años deben ser llevadas a la práctica 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour en la actualidad con tanta escrupulosidad. Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 Finalmente nuestra batalla se tranquiliza, las para confrmar dos estamos cansadas. Generalmente cuando Mientras nuestro intercambio de opiniones llego al borde de nuestras conversaciones, Kolel Espanol continua, round tras round, me quedo retrocedo, tal vez por meses. No quiero tampoco Rabbi Shlomi Halsband sorprendida pensando cuan fácil podría haber Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm presionar muy fuerte y herir sus sentimientos. Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm sido que nuestros roles hayan estado invertidos. Valoro nuestra amistad ante todo, y cuando La divergencia que se produjo dentro de la llegamos al borde de nuestras discusiones Sra. Vivian Perez nación judía es un fenómeno relativamente hago que nuestras conversaciones giren hacia Jueves 11:00 am -12:30 pm reciente. 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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 8:15 - 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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