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THE SHUL HEBREW SCHOOL REGIONAL JEW Q CHAMPIONSHIP. Weekly Message: 3 Thoughts on the Parsha - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Celebrating Shabbos: 4 - 5 Schedules, classes, articles & more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Community Happenings: 6 -7 Sharing with your Shul Family A Time to Pray: 8 Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week Daily Study: 9 A complete guide to all classes and courses ofered at The Shul Inspiration, Insights & Ideas: 10 - 20 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 20 -28 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a Woman’s World 29 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman

French Connection 30 Reflexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 31 Reflexion Semanal Networking 32 -33 Efective Advertising

Numbers To Know 34 Contacts at The Shul Get The Picture 35 - 36 The full scoop on all the great events around town

CTEEN JUNIOR

QUOTABLE QUOTE In learning Torah the Jew feels like a pupil with his master; in praying - like a child with his father

– , Tammuz 26 THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA FROM RABBI SHABBOS PARSHAS YISRO

his week‘s Torah It is for that reason that it was necessary for the portion, Yisro, highest levels of secularism both in philosophy, is arguably the knowledge, wisdom and practical achievement, Tessence of the entire who were acquainted with all the theologies and Torah and all that philosophies and wisdom that was available in the emanates from it, having physical world, to accept and acknowledge the as its centerpoint the unity, authority and majesty of our one G-d. That revelation of Hashem is why it was critical for Yisro, who represented to the Jewish people all of that, to submit that whatever he knew or and the transmission accomplished was completely insignificant to the of the Torah via the 10 truth of Hashem. That is when the Torah could Commandments. be given as it now had a precedence to influence, affect, refine and elevate of the world. That is our An obvious question that has rankled so many holy mission. commentaries is why this fulcrum of our entire identity and existence is named after Yisro, Have a great Shabbos and wonderful week. identified as the high priest/ruler of Midyan, an idol worshiping land, and eventually a convert. Why should it not be named after Moses or someone of such spiritual levels? More so, our tell Rabbi Sholom Lipskar us that the necessary preparation for Revelation was Yisro‘s statement and acquiescence “Boruch/ Present in Absence Blessed is the G-d of the Jewish people etc. Now Tzvi Freeman I know that G/d is greater than all gods/idols” (chapter 18 v 10 and 11.) Why? The true teacher is most present in his absence. The objective of Torah is for the higher Holy realms to infuse the lower ones, even to the lowest It is then that all he has taught takes root, physical, crass, materialistic, hedonistic world, grows and blossoms. and elevate it to spiritual, G-dly levels. It was not enough for negativity and hedonistic forces to be The student despairs for his teacher’s eliminated and destroyed but primarily to utilize guidance, their powers and strength and elevate them to and in that yearning, the student leaves higher levels. The objective of the Jews is not to behind his old way of thinking. eliminate the negative world and to remain alone but to transform the world and refine it to its His mind opens to receive all that his teacher intended level of recognizing Almighty G-d, and gave him, to think as his teacher thought, utilizing all of the powerful potential inherent in to know as his teacher knew. our material physical world to serve Hashem and to make this world a dwelling place for Him. 3 CELEBRATING SHABBOS WITH OUR YOUTH EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR AN “OVER THE TOP” SHABBOS EXPERIENCE PARSHA IN PICTURES Test your Parsha knowledge. Can you tell the story of the parsha using the pictures below

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4 CELEBRATING SHABBOS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR AN “OVER THE TOP” SHABBOS EXPERIENCE

KIDDUSH THIS WEEK: SHABBOS SCHEDULE Kiddush this week is sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Moises and Eliana Gilinski in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Candle lighting 5:55 p.m. their son Yosef Yitzchak. Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 5:55 p.m. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. SHALOSH SEUDOS THIS WEEK: Shalosh Seudos this week is sponsored by Mr. & Tanya / Hayom Yom 8:50 a.m. Mrs. Nutti and Brenda Goldbrenner in honor of the Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m. yahrzeit of Nutti’s mother, Nechoma bas R’ Chaim Children’s Programs 10:00 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 10:30 a.m. obm. May her neshama have an aliya. Kiddush 12:00 p.m. Daf Yomi 4:40 p.m. Men’s Shiur 4:40 p.m. The following dates are available for sponsorship: Women’s Shiur 4:40 p.m. Kiddush Shalosh Seudos Shalosh Seudos for Boys 4:40 p.m. Feb 22, 29 Feb 22, 29 Mincha 5:40 p.m. Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 6:48 p.m. If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Milena Weekly Video of The Rebbe at 305-868-1411 ext 328 or email [email protected]

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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 20 Shevat Mr. Michael Bouhnik 20 Shevat Yehuda obm 20 Shevat Mrs. Sofi Davit Husband of Mrs. Hermine Gewirtz 20 Shevat Mrs. Perla Gilinski 20 Shevat Krajundla obm 20 Shevat Mr. Daniel Zev Givner Mother-in-law of Mrs. Raquel Grosfeld 20 Shevat Ms. Esther Vlosky 20 Shevat Yitzchak bar Nedgmah obm 21 Shevat Mr. Shaul Eliezer Gheblikian Grandfather of Dr. Jean Jacques Edderai 21 Shevat Ms. Sivana Levine 21 Shevat Sara bas Eliyahu Chaim obm 22 Shevat Mrs. Mary Gut Wife of Mr. Irving Hoine 22 Shevat Mrs. Raizel Marrus Mother of Mrs. Geri F. Levine 22 Shevat Mr. Jordan Alexander Mondshine 21 Shevat Brina Gitel obm 22 Shevat Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Grandmother of Mr. Arnold Lewis Cohen 22 Shevat Ms. Pearl Schneider 22 Shevat Henry obm 23 Shevat Mrs. Chaya Camissar Husband of Ms. Nina Mack 23 Shevat Mr. Barry Cohen 23 Shevat Eliyahu ben Mordechai obm 23 Shevat Mr. Morris Mendal Father of Mrs. Bahee Salver 23 Shevat Ms. Chaya Tzivia Schneider 23 Shevat Abraham ben Sender obm 24 Shevat Mrs. Eva Saka Father of Mrs. Rosita Boruchin 24 Shevat Ms. Yechida Slomianski 24 Shevat David ben Isaac obm 25 Shevat Mrs. Gilda Azout Father-in-law of Mrs. Rosita Boruchin 25 Shevat Mr. Simpson Gardyn 25 Shevat Leah Rapaport obm 25 Shevat Ms. Shoshana Greenberg Sister-in-law of Mrs. Rosalind Spodek 25 Shevat Mrs. Stephanie Levy 25 Shevat Mindel bas Levi Yitzchok obm 26 Shevat Ms. Lauren Bisk Mother of Mr. Morris Tuchman 26 Shevat Mr. Jassi Lekach 25 Shevat Liba bas Shmuel obm 26 Shevat Mr. Sanford Musikar Mother of Mrs. Bluma Schneider 26 Shevat Mrs. Rose Schreiber 26 Shevat Chaim Yaakov Shlomo ben Mordechai obm 26 Shevat Mrs. Sulamita Simkovicius Father of Mr. Matias Garfunkel 26 Shevat Ms. Alessandra Stivelman 26 Shevat Yehoshuah Aryeh ben Avraham Shmuel obm KID’S BIRTHDAYS Father of Mr. Sanford Musikar 20 Shevat Noam Wasserman 21 Shevat Chana Katz 22 Shevat Yaniv Shlomo Cohen MAZAL TOV 22 Shevat Chaya Mushkah Lipskar 23 Shevat Rafael Roller Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Moises and Eliana Gilinski on the 24 Shevat Michael Hakmon Bar Mitzvah of their son Yosef Yitzchak. May they continue 25 Shevat Batsheva Saidof to raise him to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have 26 Shevat Alexandra Chaya Shapiro much nachas from him. 26 Shevat Jude Benveniste-Plitt 26 Shevat Leah Tamar Hazan Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Jacky and Aviva Koenig on the birth 26 Shevat Caleb Schwartz of a son. May they raise him to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much nachas from him. ANNIVERSARIES Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Shimshon and Ruthy Tzubeli a on the Mr. & Dr. Yehuda & Amy Sabach marriage of their children Tamar and Jonathan. May the Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Cara Roller young couple build an everlasting edifice in Israel. Mr. & Mrs. Eran & Rebecca Tobul Mr. & Mrs. Eli & Channa Solaimanzadeh Mr. & Ms. Moshe & Judie Weinbach Mr. & Mrs. Harry & Talia Gross

6 COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS SHARING WITH YOUR SHUL FAMILY SHEVAT LIGHT & POWER THANKS TO OUR DONORS Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul for donations received between 02/04/20 and 02/10/20 Havdalah for the month of Shevat is Kindly We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Koby Assaraf Ms. Judith Kaplan Yanky and Odelia Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Menahem Mr. & Mrs. Aviv Kordich in honor of the Bar Mitzvah Banon Mr. & Mrs. Mendi of their son Mayer Ms. Malca Bassan Labkowski Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bavly Mr. Mario Laufer and in loving memory of Mr. Barak Ben Shitrit Mr. Samuel Lax Zlata bas Arie Leib obm. Mr. & Mrs. Oded Ben-Arie Rabbi & Rebbetzin “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Sholom D. Lipskar pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those G. Berenfus Ms. Nina Mack who occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal Mr. Jonathan Blue Mr. & Mrs. Aharon Maimon 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.” Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Mr. Getzel Markowitz Haim Borochof Mr. & Mrs. Asher REFUAH SHLEIMAH Dr. & Mrs. Stephen David Milstein 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. Brenner Mr. Benzion Rafaely Mr. Arnold Lewis Cohen Dr. Bracha Reich MEN WOMEN Yehonatan HaLevi ben Malka Esther Yocheved bas Raizel Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Mr. & Mrs. Edward Eliezer ben Sarah Bracha Colonomos Rosengarten Aharon ben Beylah Shima Leah bas Gittel Dr. & Mrs. Brian Dooreck Dr. & Mrs. Michael Meyer Eliezer ben Sarah Sarah Libke bas Baile Mr. & Mrs. Boruch Salzhauer Menachem Mendel ben Sara Chana Bayla bas Masha Yehoshua ben Tamara Rina Chaya Miriam bas Leah Duchman Mr. & Mrs. David Isaac Gilbert ben Nelly Esther Bracha Mr. & Mrs. Leon Franco Schottenstein Bentzion ben Nomi Rachel Genya Baila bas Gisela Mr. & Mrs. Gary Garson Mr. & Mrs. Marc Sheridan Margalite Sonia Simcha bat Sultana Eber Avraham ben Fruma Tzipora Pnina bas Slava Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Gewirtz Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol Esther Feige bas Krandel Mr. & Mrs. Moises Gilinski Mr. & Mrs. Eric Stein Shlomo Yaakov ben Chaya Tziporah Pnina bas Slava Mrs. Perla Gilinski Mr. Claudio Stivelman Sarah Rochel Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Mr. & Mrs. Diego Goldfarb Dr. & Mrs. Emilio Suster Chaim Zelig Ben Eidel Chava Ari ben Na’ama Clara bat Corina Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mr. Jason A. Vessal Tzvi Yitzchak ben Chaya Rivka bat Shoshana Greenblatt Ms. Esther Vlosky Aryeh Leib ben Sura Henya Miriam bat Risha Raizel Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Mr. Hershy Weinberg Rafael Maya ben Sol Chava bas Elka Menucha Mr. & Mrs. Benny Hematian Mr. & Mrs. Jefrey Wolf Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel Miriam Leah bas Helen Mr. Jefrey Hoschander Mr. Mandy Yachad Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ziefer Jaimovich Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jaimovich SHLOSHIM FOR MRS. DORIS OLESKY

The Shloshim for Mrs. Doris Olesky, Dvorah bas Chaim will be held this coming Wednesday, February 19th in the Main Sanctuary between mincha and maariv, followed by a small .

7 A TIME TO PRAY DAVENING SCHEDULES AND LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK

DAILY LEARNING SCHEDULE AT THE SHUL 6:20 -6:50 am The Rebbe’s Maamorim 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 7:45 Sephardic Minyan 8:00 am

DAILY CHUMASH & TANYA AFTER EVERY MINYAN SUNDAY MINCHA / MINCHA / MAARIV MINYANIM (MON - THURS) MAARIV MINYANIM Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 5:55 pm 10:00 pm Sephardic Minyan 5:55 pm Following Main Minyan 5:55 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 HALACHIC TIMES Forces, courageously protecting and defending BASED ON TIMES FOR FEBRUARY 19 Eretz Yisroel. We pray for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily.

Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:40 am Menachem Mendel ben Chaya Leah Earliest Talit & Tefllin 6:11 am Daniella Malka bat Natanya Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:53 am Menachem Mendel ben Aurit (Earliest Amidah) Eden Chana bat Karine Cecile Benyamin Aharon ben Jeniya Gila Rut Latest Shema 9:42 am Zman Tfllah 10:39 am Chatzot / Midday 12:34 pm Earliest Mincha 1:04 pm Plag HaMincha 5:08 pm Shekiah / Sunset 6:16 pm (Preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 6:40 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)

Times taken from www.chabad.org Please note that during the week times may Vary by a minute or two. If anyone would like to send us the name of a soldier in the IDF we would love to add them. 8 DAILY STUDY A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ALL CLASSES AND COURSES OFFERED AT THE SHUL

DAILY CLASSES SUNDAY MONDAY

The Rebbes’ Maamorim 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 (Men Only) (Men Only) (Men and Women) Daf Yomi 7:45 - 8:45 am TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet (Men Only) Tanya - Sichos 8:00 - 10:00 pm Insights to our Torah Portion PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband (Spanish) 8:45 - 9:45 pm Chassisdic Discourses 10:15 - 11:00 am (Men Only) PHL-120 Rabbi Shea Rubinstien PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi Shea Rubinstien (Men and Women) (Men Only) Women’s Study Group 8:30 - 10:00 pm Community Kollel (Men) 8:00 - 9:30 pm (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar (Men Only) At the home of: Mrs. Orit Osman 9655 West Broadview Drive Bay Harbor Islands

WEDNESDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY Megillot - Men and Women 8:45 -9:30am TXT 121 Studies in the fve Megillot Rabbi Dov Schochet Parsha (Men & Women) Purposeful Prayer 11:00am - 12:00 pm 11:15 am - 12:00 pm TXT-101 - Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Women’s Torah Class 10:00 - 11:30 am TXT-501 Rabbi Shea Rubinstien (Men and Women) TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Tanya Class In Spanish ( Women) Chassidic Discourses (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) 10:45 am - 12:00pm 11:30 - 12:30 pm 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet or Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Tanya Class - English 1:15 - 3:00 pm Senior Torah Academy 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) Pirkei Avot ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez (Men and Women) Spanish Kolel - Chassidus 8:00 - 10:00 pm PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband - (Men only) Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202

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

9 DAILY WISDOM Inspiring insights on the Torah Monday, 22 Shevat Shabbat, 20 Shevat Care in Receiving; Care in Giving The Importance of Simple Things If a person uncovers or digs a pit . . . You must not ascend My altar on steps, so that your nakedness and an ox or donkey falls into it, the not be exposed over it. Exodus 20:23 one responsible for the pit must pay The priests wore trousers under their tunics, so their bodies [for the damage]. Exodus 21:33-34 would not have been exposed to the altar even on a staircase. The same law that applies to a pit (i.e., a Nonetheless, since walking up a staircase gives the impression sunken hazard) applies to a raised barrier of exposing one’s uncovered body, it is more modest to use a or other obstacle (i.e., a protruding hazard). ramp. If G-d requires us to respect the “feelings” of unfeeling stones, all the more so does He require us to respect the feelings Spiritually, a pit represents our ability of our fellow human beings. to receive and a protrusion represents our ability to give. Properly used, these The requirement to show respect to the stones of the altar abilities can be beneficial; without proper teaches us to safeguard the honor of other people even when supervision, however, they may cause they are not aware that they are being disrespected, even when damage. If we give and receive haphazardly we do not mean to offend them. – not paying heed to what or how much we are giving or receiving, or to whom we are Thus, this last verse of this section of the Torah sums up the giving or from whom we are receiving – we message of G-d’s revelation at Mount Sinai: G-d is found in even will become a danger to society. But if we the most mundane things. Our relationships with other people choose to accept only positive influences are part and parcel of our relationship with G-d. And in a positive and spread only positivity throughout our sense, loving other people is in truth loving our Creator. surroundings, we will become a source of blessing to all around us.

Sunday, 21 Shevat Tuesday, 23 Shevat Physical and Spiritual Physicians [If someone injures someone else, the injurer] must pay for [the Fixing Previous Incarnations injured party’s] complete cure. Exodus 21:18 When you lend money . . . Exodus 22:24 Whenever we are ill, G-d requires us to seek the help of qualified The commandment to lend money physicians and follow all of their instructions. Likewise, G-d has applies even if the borrower owns empowered physicians to heal the sick. But whereas doctors are possessions that he can theoretically merely encouraged to heal whoever is sick, they are obligated to try to sell. Thus, the commandment to lend save someone’s life when it is threatened. money, unlike the commandment to give charity, is intended to benefit not Just as there are both life-threatening and non-life-threatening bodily only the poor but also the rich. illnesses, so it is with spiritual “illnesses.” Spiritually, a person is in “mortal danger” when his condition has begun to affect his ability or If, at times, we are reluctant to lend desire to fulfill the Torah’s commandments, since it is through our money to someone who is not poor, performance of the commandments that our spiritual vitality flows we should consider the possibility that into us. in a previous lifetime, the present roles may have been reversed: we may have The rules pertaining to a physical doctor also apply to a spiritual been the beneficiary of a loan or some “doctor” – i.e., anyone who is capable of helping someone who is other form of help from the person spiritually “ill.” When someone is suffering from a minor spiritual presently requesting a loan from us. “ailment,” we are encouraged to offer spiritual assistance. But when This is our opportunity to repay his someone is in spiritually “mortal danger” – i.e., his fulfillment of G-d’s good deed. commandments is threatened – we are obligated to offer assistance, not allowing any other considerations to get in the way. 10 Wednesday, 24 Shevat Friday, 26 Shevat Helping the Body Help the Soul Supernatural Living When you see your enemy’s donkey crouching under [Rather than serve idols,] you must serve its load . . . you must help [him]. Exodus 23:5 G-d, your G-d. Exodus 23:25 G-d gave us the Torah and its commandments for the benefit of our bodies as well as our souls. Nonetheless, G-d established the laws of nature when He since the body (our beast of burden, or “donkey”) created the world; sometimes He acts within naturally seeks its own comfort, it is likely to consider these laws and sometimes He overrides them. the study of G-d’s Torah and the fulfillment of His The two names of G-d used in this verse refer to commandments a burden. It may rebel (“crouch”), these two ways in which G-d relates to the laws positioning itself as the soul’s “enemy.” Therefore, of nature. The first name refers to Him when since for most of us, our body’s voice is louder than He ignores the limitations of nature; the second our soul’s, we are likely to initially view the Torah as an oppressive burden. refers to Him when He works within the laws of nature. This only means, however, that we have not yet integrated the Torah into our lives. Rabbi Yisrael Ba’al Thus, in this verse, G-d is telling us to Shem Tov, the founder of Chasidism, taught that we spiritually refine ourselves (“to serve”) until the should not despise the body because of its natural supernatural becomes natural for us, becoming attitude. Rather, we should work with it, strengthening our “second nature.” When we rise to this level its health while “educating” it to realize that accepting the Torah’s dictates is in its own best interest. Once of consciousness, we view everything in life we realize that G-d’s Torah and His commandments from G-d’s perspective, and see everything are the truest source of life, our bodies will view them that happens as part of His all-encompassing as a gift, joining our souls enthusiastically in their providence. fulfillment

Thursday, 25 Shevat

The Sin of Cruelty You must not eat a young animal cooked in its mother’s milk. Exodus 23:19 Cooking a young animal in its mother’s milk is an act of consummate cruelty. The Torah therefore forbids us not only to cook a young animal in its mother’s milk, but to cook any animal in any other animal’s milk, to eat such a mixture, or even to derive any other benefit from it.

We see here what extremes the Torah goes to in forbidding cruelty towards animals. The precautions the Torah takes to distance us from causing suffering to an animal demonstrate how much care we must take to avoid causing suffering to a fellow human being.

11 PARSHA MESSAGES SHABBOS PARSHAS YISRO THE BREAKTHROUGH

Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Courtesy of MeaningfulLife.com

nd it came to pass on the third day, when G-d created the world He summoned Moses to the top of the when morning came, that there decreed and said: “The heavens mountain, empowering physical man were thunders and lightenings, and are G-d’s, and the earth is given to raise his physical self and world to Aa thick cloud upon the mountain, and the to man.” But when He wished a higher state of existence. The Torah sound of the shofar exceedingly loud; to give the Torah to Israel, He could now sanctify physical life. and the entire people within the camp rescinded His original decree, and trembled. And Moses brought the people declared: The lower realms may This encounter between G-d and out of the camp to meet with G-d, and ascend to the higher realms, and man at Sinai introduced a new they stood at the foot of the mountain... the higher realms may descend to phenomenon: the cheftza shel the lower realms. And I, Myself, kedushah or holy object. After Sinai, And G-d came down upon Mount Sinai, will begin — as it is written, “And when physical man takes a physical on the top of the mountain. And G-d G-d descended on Mount Sinai, coin, earned by his physical toil and called Moses to the top of the mountain, and then it says, “And to Moses talents, and gives it to charity; or and Moses ascended. He said: Go up to G-d.” (Midrash when he bakes flour and water as Tanchuma, Vaeira 15; Midrash unleavened bread (matzah) and eats Exodus 19:16-20 Rabbah, Shemot 12:4) it on the first night of Passover; or when he forms a piece of leather to The most momentous event in history For the first twenty-five centuries a specified shape and dimensions, took place on Shabbat, the sixth day of of history, there existed a inserts into it parchment scrolls the month of Sivan, in the year 2448 gezeirah — a decree and schism inscribed with specified words, and from creation (1313 bce). On that day, — which split reality into two binds them to his head and arm as the entire people of Israel — more than hermetic worlds: the spiritual tefillin — the object with which he 2 million men, women and children, as and the physical. The spiritual has performed his mitzvah (divine well as the souls of all future generations could not be truly brought down commandment) is transformed. A of Jews — gathered at the foot of Mount to earth — its very nature defied finite, physical thing becomes holy, Sinai to receive the Torah from G-d. Ever actualization; nor could the as its substance and form come to since, the event has been marked on our physical be made transcendent embody the realization of a divine calendar as the festival of Shavuot,”the and divine — its very nature kept desire and command. Time of the Giving of Our Torah.” it imprisoned within the finiteness and mortality of the lower realms. The mitzvot could have been, and But the Torah we received at Sinai had So Torah, the divine wisdom and were, performed before the revelation already been in our possession for many will, could have no real effect upon at Sinai. But because they had not generations. Our ancestors had studied the physical world. It was a wholly yet been commanded by G-d, they and fulfilled the entire Torah even before spiritual manifesto, pertaining to lacked the power to bridge the great it was given, observing its every law and the soul of man and to the spiritual divide between matter and spirit. ordinance — including the obligation to reality of the heavens. While Only as a command of G-d, creator make an eruv tavshilin when a festival its concepts could, and were, and delineator of both the spiritual falls on the eve of Shabbat. No new applied to physical life, physical and the physical, could the mitzvah document was unveiled at Sinai, and life could not be elevated - it supersede the natural definitions of no hitherto unknown code of behavior could be improved and perfected these two realms. Only after Sinai was commanded there. What, then, was to the limits of its potential, but could the mitzvah actualize the given to us at The Giving of Our Torah? it could not transcend its inherent spiritual and sanctify the material. coarseness and subjectivity. The Midrash explains the significance of [Thus we find that when Abraham the event with the following parable: At Sinai, G-d revoked the decree required his servant Eliezer to take which had confined matter and an oath, he told him to “place your Once there was a king who decreed: spirit to two distinct realms. hand under my thigh.” An oath is The people of Rome are forbidden to go G-d came down on Mount Sinai, taken while holding a sacred object down to Syria, and the people of Syria bringing the spirituality of the such as a Torah scroll or tefillin; here are forbidden to go up to Rome. Likewise, heavens down to earth. He Abraham is telling Eliezer to swear on 12 echo. Belonging to the spirituality of the heavens, it could not truly penetrate the physicality of the earth. The world might hear of Torah and be affected by it; but there remained a certain degree of resistance, as the Torah and the physical world each remained defined by their respective “higher” and “lower” realms. At Sinai, however, G-d rescinded the decree which had severed the heavens from the earth. The world could now fully absorb the divine voice; a physical object could now become one with its mission and role.

The Empowering Precedent Therein lies an important lesson to us as we pursue our mission in life to implement the ethos and ideals of Torah in our world.

At Sinai we were charged to serve the part of his own body sanctified by of interpretations for this description as “a light unto the nations” — to the mitzvah of circumcision. But since of the divine voice. One interpretation actualize in our own lives, and to Abraham “observed the entire Torah is that the divine did not confine itself teach all of humanity, that no matter even before it was given” — i.e., he to the holy tongue but reverberated what the conditions of a particular studied Torah, put on tefillin, affixed a in mankind’s seventy languages. A time, place or society may be, there mezuzah on his doorpost — it would second meaning is that the voice is an all-transcendent, unequivocal, seem that he had no shortage of did not cease on that particular divinely ordained truth and moral sacred objects available to him. Why, Shabbat morning some 3300 years code of behavior to which to adhere. then, did he have Eliezer place his ago: throughout the generations, hand under his thigh, contrary to all all the prophets and sages who At times, we might be confronted common standards of modesty and prophesied, taught and expounded with a seemingly unresponsive and propriety? But as we said, the effects upon the wisdom of the Torah are the even resisting world. It may appear of Abraham’s pre-Sinai mitzvot were extension of that very voice, for they that one or another of the Torah’s of a wholly spiritual nature. Since G-d added nothing that was not already precepts does not fit in with the had not commanded him to do them, inherent in the Ten Commandments. prevalent reality. So the Torah tells us they remained subject to the law Finally, the Midrash offers a third that the voice which sounded G-d’s that separated the supernal from the explanation of the voice’s “unceasing” message to the world had no echo. material; while they had a profound nature: the divine voice at Sinai was effect on his own soul, the souls of unique in that it had no echo. The voice of the Ten Commandments his descendants, and the spiritual permeated every object and reality in essence of creation, they had no The first two interpretations the universe. So any resistance we impact on the material substance of obviously point to the universality may possibly meet in implementing the universe. The single exception and timelessness of Torah. But what them is superficial and temporary. was the mitzvah of circumcision, is “great and unceasing” about a For at Sinai, the essence of every which G-d did command to Abraham voice that has no echo? Why should created being was made consistent (as related in Genesis 17), imparting to the divine voice at Sinai have been with, and wholly receptive to, the this mitzvah something of the nature distinguished in this manner from all goodness and perfection which G-d of the post-Siniatic commandments other sounds? desires of it. of the Torah. In truth, however, the echoless nature An Absorbent World of the divine communication conveys Therein lies the significance of a the very essence of what transpired curious detail related by our sages at Sinai. An echo is created when a regarding the revelation at Sinai. sound meets with a substance which resists it: instead of absorbing its The Torah tells us that G-d spoke the waves, the substance repels them, Ten Commandments in “a great voice, bouncing them back to the void. Prior which did not cease” (Deuteronomy to Sinai, the voice of Torah had an 5:19). The Midrash offers a number 13 4 POWERFUL INSIGHTS FROM THE REBBE ON PARSHAS YISRO

The Silent Day The Talmud describes what happened on each of the six days leading up to the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. In this account we find a puzzling thing.

On the 1st of Sivan, ‘The Children of Israel encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai. Moses did not say anything at all to them that day, since they were exhausted from the journey.’

From the day they departed Egypt, the people had been eagerly awaiting the most important event in their history— their receiving of the Torah from G-d. Our sages tell us that they literally counted the days. How is it possible that on the day they arrived they did nothing?

At Sinai, the divine wisdom was revealed to man. Obviously, the human mind cannot attain the divine wisdom on its own; it that must be given by G-d Himself. So, although G-d instructed us to study His Torah, desiring that human intellect should serve as the vehicle by which we apprehend His truth, a crucial prerequisite to Torah study is the mind’s total abnegation of its ego. Only after it has voided itself of all pretension that it is capable of attaining the truth of truths on its own, can the mind become a fit vessel to receive it. In the words of the sages, “An empty vessel can receive; a full vessel cannot receive.”

So, this day was an integral part of their preparations for receiving the Torah. This was the day on which they undertook the most “exhausting journey” of emptying their souls of intellectual vanity and making themselves fit receptacles for the divine truth.

No Echo

At Sinai we were charged to serve as “a light unto the nations” — to actualize in our own lives, and to teach all of humanity, that no matter what the conditions of a particular time, place or society may be, there is an all- transcendent, unequivocal, divinely ordained truth and moral code of behavior to which to adhere.

At times, we might be confronted with a seemingly unresponsive and even resisting world. It may appear that one or another of the Torah’s precepts does not fit in with the prevalent reality. So the Torah tells us that the voice which sounded G-d’s message to the world had no echo.

The voice of the Ten Commandments permeated every object and reality in the universe. So any resistance we may possibly meet in implementing them is superficial and temporary. For at Sinai, the essence of every created being was made consistent with, and wholly receptive to, the goodness and perfection which G-d desires of it.

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No Echo

The revelation at Sinai represented a turning point in the world’s spiritual history. When G-d descended on Mount Sinai, the nature of the world changed. As the Midrash states, at that time, G-d said: “I came into My garden.” G-dliness returned to the world and the world became His garden, the place where He luxuriates and from which He receives pleasure and satisfaction.

True, directly afterwards, the people sinned — they made a Golden Calf and, in that way, prevented G-dliness from being revealed in our ordinary material framework of reference. Nevertheless, the essential Reaching Infinity bond, the fundamental connection between G-d and this world remained. The issue is that at Sinai, the How can a limited mortal relate to an unlimited G-d? G-d, connection was open and apparent. Mankind could is by definition, infinite and unbounded, and thus above our appreciate G-dliness. After the sin, He was hidden comprehension. from man’s consciousness and the challenge of relating to Him became man’s responsibility and The Midrash states, that before the giving of the Torah, mission. the spiritual status of the world could be described by the verse “The heavens are the heavens of G-d, but the earth He But that is precisely the advantage of this phase of gave to man.” The heavens, the spiritual realms, were self- our existence. G-d is waiting for man to make Him contained; they had no influence on the material realm. And part of his life; it is all dependent on man. There mankind, living as we do in the earthly realm, had no way of are no restraints from Above. If we truly desire, we tapping into the spiritual. can make Him part of our lives and make the age of Mashiach a tangible reality. At the Giving of the Torah, this changed. G-d allowed for communication between the two realms. Thus it is written: “And G-d descended on Mt. Sinai.” G-d made Himself manifest and accessible to mankind. We were given the opportunity to elevate ourselves and our surrounding environment and endow it with spiritual content.

At Sinai, G-d gave us the Torah to immortalize this experience. Sinai thus became not a one-time event, but rather the establishment of a channel that continues to enable man and G-d to relate to each other.

When a person studies a law from the Talmud, what he is in effect doing is understanding G-d’s essence. That infinite dimension which no mortal can grasp has been concentrated within the Torah’s teachings.

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Lechem Mishna (Two breads of the bread, they are not required to have Shabbat) their own two loaves, they can still rely on the leader of the table. While some uring the historical event of have the custom that anyone making G-d’s revelation at Sinai the their own blessing places their hands Jewish people were given ten on the two loaves, it is not required. Dcommandments, in a sense the The Chabad custom is that each person foundation of the Torah. While there is makes their own blessing on the bread. much written about the reasons certain According to many authorities it is not commandments were included, they necessary for each person to hear the all play a critical role in our life. One of blessing from the head of the family, the commandments was the laws of of the meal loaves are brought in, they rather to simply eat from the bread Shabbat and our obligation to observe should hold them both and break off that was used. According to this one it. In last week’s portion we read a piece of one of them (without a new need not wait until everyone finishes about the Manna. One feature of this blessing of Hamotzie) to fulfill the washing and gets to the table before miraculous bread was that it would not obligation of two loaves. cutting the bread, as long as they descend on Shabbat, rather on Friday receive bread from the two loaves. there would be a double portion of There are many customs regarding the However, it is appropriate to wait, bread (Lechem Mishna), to feed them exact way to hold the loaves of Lechem for there are opinions that argue that for two days. When the Torah describes Mishna. Before making the blessing, being present for the blessing is critical. how the bread would be consumed on we mark the bread with the knife where If the bread is “Pas Akum” and the Shabbat, it uses the word “Today” three we intend to cut it, without cutting the person usually does not eat it, it can times, that is the source to eat three bread. In the Shulchan Aruch the Alter still be used as the second bread. meals on Shabbat. Rebbe writes that we break a piece off This indicates that, even if the person of the top bread, because that is the one cannot eat one of the breads it is still During the Shabbat meals we must closer to us. However, he continues, on counted towards the two loaves. have bread. However, it is not sufficient Friday night we break a piece off of the Therefore, even if the bread is frozen to simply have bread, but we begin the bottom one, and to avoid “passing over of has some other problem it can be meal by breaking bread with two loaves a Mitzva” we place the bottom one counted towards the two loaves. of bread. Because the Torah speaks slightly closer to us. about the “double bread”, the Talmud The two loaves should be whole. Today says this is a source that we must have The Chabad custom is to place the it is common for people to make “pull two loaves when beginning the meal. loaves side by side on Friday night apart” Challa, where small rolls are (cutting from the one on the right), baked close together and attach during Some argue that this obligation is and Shabbat day to place the right loaf the baking process. If they were put a Biblical requirement! While this is slightly above the left one and use the in the oven separately, they can be the minority view and it is a Rabbinic right one for the blessing. separated after baking and used as obligation that is hinted at in the Torah, separate whole loaves, provided that it is a requirement that is incumbent on There is no obligation for each person they are at least the size of an egg. men and women. In fact, if one has to to have their own two loaves, rather choose between wine for Kiddush and the leader of the table exempts the The Talmud teaches that there was two breads, the breads come first, for entire table through his blessing over an important connection between the one can make Kiddush on bread, and the bread. While the simple Halacha Manna and Sinai, in fact it was the this obligation is alluded to in the Torah. is that each person eating from the Manna that prepared the nation for Some have a custom to use 12 breads bread does not need to make their own Sinai. In order to receive the Torah, the on Shabbat or two breads where both blessing of Hamotzie over the bread, people must have the complete faith are shaped as the Hebrew letter Vav many communities have a custom in Hashem that the Manna required. (that has the numerical value of 6), that each person makes their own for every day they put their trust in corresponding to the 12 breads that Hamotzie. The reason for this is that Hashem that He would provide their were on the table in the Temple and at times there can be a long break from needs without any fall back plan. This were consumed on Shabbat. This is not when the leader makes the blessing is an important lesson. While today we the Chabad custom. until the individual receives their bread, work and can leave food in the pantry and there can be a commotion while overnight, we can never forget that our If a person begins their meal without the bread is being cut that could be lives, sustenance and livelihood are having two whole breads, and in middle considered an interruption. Even when ultimately in the hands of Hashem. a person makes their own blessing over 16 STORIES WITH SOUL IT ONCE HAPPENED

t was Stalinist Russia. The sudden the shochet and accompanied him on was an emotional statement of his banging on the door made the his holy and very dangerous rounds. thanks and appreciation for the great occupants’ blood run cold. The mitzva they were doing, without their Iknocking was getting louder. They were The officer left. Was it a trap? Yaakov even knowing who he was. about to sneak out the back exit when was convinced that it was a clever the older of the two suggested that the ruse cooked up to catch Reb Eizik red- Reb Eizik quickly and deftly performed younger one stay behind. It was better handed. When Reb Eizik came home, the bris, while Yaakov acted as sandek. to wait a few minutes before opening Yaakov filled him in on everything. The They were about to leave when the the door. Chasid thought for several minutes, the woman who had opened the door deep wrinkles that lined his forehead suddenly appeared and motioned for The banging continued even more testifying to his inner conflict and them to stay put. vigorously. “Who’s there?” the turmoil. He had reached a decision: youngster called out, but the stranger Yaakov was terrified. Seconds later, refused to identify himself. The youth “Tomorrow morning we will go to the however, the woman brought out a flung open the door. Standing there officer’s house to enter his son into the brand new frying pan, and handed was a high-ranking officer of the KGB. covenant of Abraham.” them a dozen eggs! A veritable fortune! “Is this where the shochet lives?” the She invited them to make themselves officer demanded. The following day, Reb Eizik and his omelets. The young boy was so ward arose at dawn and recited their malnourished, so starved, that the “Shochet?” he replied. “There’s no one prayers. Then they set out in the eggs went down with no effort at all. here by the name of Shochet.” direction of the river. On the way, the Chasid explained that he was almost After they finished eating and were The officer gave him a penetrating certain that this was, indeed, a trap. He about to leave, the woman presented look and said, “Then perhaps there’s therefore wished to immerse himself in them with a huge sack of bread, another someone here who cuts children?” a mikva before they continued. “If this gift from the Russian officer. Such a is to be our last day on earth, at least quantity of bread was something the “No,” he said in the most confident tone we will die in a state of ritual purity,” he average citizen could only dream of, he could muster. declared. but how could they walk down the street carrying the bag. Surely they For a moment the stranger said The officer’s house was located on one would attract the attention of the ever nothing. Then he whispered in the of the finest streets in the city, which watchful police. boy’s ear: “Don’t deny it. I know that only served to confirm their suspicions. the man who cuts children lives here!” The neighborhood was inhabited by the The woman suddenly understood why The youth was shocked, for the man highest ranking members of the KGB the two Jews hesitated to accept the had uttered these words in Yiddish!” and their families. But the two Jews priceless gift. She opened a drawer, stuck to their decision. Reb Eizik and ripped off a wad of coupons from a “I am a Jew. Seven days ago my wife Yaakov secreted themselves in a hiding booklet and handed them over. gave birth to a baby boy, and I want very place across from the officer’s house. much for him to be entered into the Seconds later they saw a woman Many months later Yaakov was walking covenant of Abraham. My wife is very dressed in the latest fashion exit the down the street when the same much opposed to the idea. Tomorrow building and proceed down the block. Russian officer stopped him. “I must at exactly nine in the morning she will Together they strode across the street. thank you again, from the bottom of my be leaving the house. I am begging you heart. I have one more request to make to come to my house tomorrow and Reb Eizik knocked on the massive door. of you. Whenever you make a bris, bring the mohel. The baby will be in one An older woman opened the door and you should tell my story. Let everyone of the front rooms.” motioned for them to enter. In the know that even in Soviet Russia, there corner of the room was a beautiful crib, are still Jews who have a warm spot in The officer told the astounded inside which a tiny baby was sleeping their hearts for Yiddishkeit.” youngster his address and hurried peacefully. They ran over and picked away. “Remember,” he said pleadingly, up the child, whereupon a small white This request led to a tradition in “Tomorrow is the eighth day of my envelope fell out. Yaakov’s family. He is honored with son’s life. I implore you to do me this being the sandek, in commemoration favor.” Inside the envelope was a letter from of the role he played in that bris so very the baby’s father, apologizing for his long ago, and he relates the story of Reb Eizik was the only shochet and not being able to be present at his son’s the Russian officer, from beginning to mohel in the entire city, and Yaakov, bris and asking that they give the baby end, with great enthusiasm and fervor. a boy with no living relatives in the a Jewish name. The rest of the letter world, had been taken in to live with 17 22 SHEVAT REBBETZIN CHAYA MUSHKAH n the 22nd of Shevat 1988, the collective property of the Chabad knew the Rebbetzin testify that it the Rebbe’s wife of sixty years, community. typifies the intelligence, enthusiasm Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and concern that characterized all her OSchneerson, passed away. Barry Gourary’s lawyers insisted on interactions. fighting the case in federal court, and Unlike her husband, Rebbetzin Chaya served Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka with By drawing a sharp line between her Mushka did not practice her dedication a deposition. When asked to whom she private persona and the public realm, to the Jewish people in the public eye, thought the books belonged, she replied, the Rebbetzin was able to devote herself but in the privacy of her own home. She “I think they belonged to the chassidim, unreservedly to her husband. The Rebbe never attended her husband’s public because my father belonged to the worked unthinkably long hours and talks or communal services in the main chassidim.” Labeled “the most dramatic never took a day off. But during the time synagogue. Even on Rosh Hashanah, the moment in the whole proceeding” by he was at home, no one dared intrude. Rebbe blew the shofar for her at home, Chabad’s lawyer, this remark poignantly At whatever unearthly hour he arrived, and she always referred to herself as expressed just how much the Rebbetzin the Rebbetzin was always awake to Mrs. Schneerson, never as “Rebbetzin.” gave up to ensure that chassidim would receive him. Visitors to her home often continue to have a rebbe. noted the piles of books, newspapers Before her husband accepted the and journals that the Rebbetzin scoured leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch, she The Rebbetzin had no public profile, for developments in science, global had not been so retiring. She attended but did have a busy social life. She affairs and politics that the Rebbe might community events and celebrations, and befriended many individuals, from be interested in. during the public talks of her increasingly within the Chabad community and from frail father, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, she other backgrounds, entertaining them Dr. Ira Weiss, the Rebbe’s cardiologist, stood at the door to ensure the room in her home, playing with their children, spoke to the Rebbetzin almost daily to did not become overcrowded. When her writing to them and conversing by receive her report on the Rebbe’s health father passed away, and the future of telephone. situation, and was one of the few people the movement hung in the balance, she to interact with them in the privacy of told her husband, “If you do not become In 1974, Israeli student Orah Jurawel their home. Weiss testified to the deep rebbe, thirty years of my father’s life will visited New York and brought a gift for love, concern and respect that they have gone to waste.” the Rebbetzin from a mutual friend. each showed towards one another, and The strong stance that she took “When I arrived in New York, I called her remarked that she was the one person speaks volumes of her courageous and she immediately invited me to her in the world who the Rebbe could look commitment to Chabad’s continuity. Her home. . . . The Rebbetzin, a small, thin to for honest critique: older sister had long anticipated that lady, was dressed very elegantly. She her own husband, Rabbi Shmaryahu escorted me into the dining room, where “I was once at dinner with the Rebbetzin Gourary, would become the next the table was set with refreshments and the Rebbe. I had a chance to see rebbe. The Rebbetzin had no desire to and beautiful tableware. She was very them in action together, and it was compete with her sister, but along with interested in what I was doing, what a very good exchange, because the the chassidim she understood that only I was studying, what my aspirations Rebbetzin was very smart. . . . Here was an individual of her husband’s visionary were.” a personal conversation, the Rebbe and Rebbetzin talking to each other at the stature could continue her father’s The Rebbetzin was not simply being mission. The Rebbetzin’s sensitivity table and having a little bit of intellectual polite. “You could understand why they sparring. It was charming and revealing.” towards her sister seems to have been were husband and wife. And if the one of the factors that led her to evade Rebbe had one admirer, one chassid According to Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, any public occasion where she might be in this world all those years, it was the Rebbe’s longtime secretary, the honored as the Rebbe’s wife. her.”This was the beginning of a lasting Rebbetzin’s unique relationship with These tensions came to the fore in connection. When Jurawel’s fourth child her husband enabled her to appreciate 1985, when it was discovered that the was diagnosed with Down syndrome his qualities in an entirely different way: Gourarys’ son Barry was sneaking rare and heart complications, the Rebbetzin called to encourage her. “Everyone else “You could understand why they were books from his grandfather’s library husband and wife. And if the Rebbe had and selling them. When confronted, asked about the child and the doctors, but the Rebbetzin always asked how I one admirer, one chassid in this world all his mother claimed the books as those years, it was her.” family property, which her son had was feeling. . . . Her message was simply every right to sell for profit. Chabad’s that I too am important . . .” central organization contested this Jurawel’s relationship with the Rebbetzin claim, arguing that the books were was certainly special, but those who 18 CAKE AND JUICE WITH ROYALTY By Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Holtzman

y story begins with the story of in London to send special medicine to any relatives in the country, I called my father – Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi him. That’s how she took care of him. her. She immediately offered to send Holtzman – and his relationship over some Vitamin C but none of my Mwith the Rebbe and his wife, Rebbetzin In later years, when my parents visited friends would go to pick it up for me – Chaya Mushka. New York with us kids, we always came they were just too intimidated to go to to see the Rebbetzin. And even though My father was a child survivor of the the Rebbe’s house. Finally, I convinced she was a person of authority, she felt Holocaust who ended up in a Chabad someone, but it struck me that while like an aunt or grandmother, a member orphanage in Paris, and this is where I felt so comfortable there, my friends of the family to us. he met Rabbi Menachem Mendel couldn’t even imagine crossing the Schneerson, the future Rebbe. Rabbi I recall on one of our visits when I was threshold. Schneerson had come to Paris in 1947 about nine years old, my two brothers In the early 1980s the Rebbe and the to meet his mother, who had escaped and I were playing in the house which Rebbetzin began to spend Shabbat from the Soviet Union, and escort her seemed enormous to us. “Wow, you in the library adjacent to Chabad to New York. During his stay, he visited have such a big house,” I said to the Headquarters at . the orphanage and tested the kids Rebbetzin, “but there are no kids here. While the Rebbe was at 770, I used to on their Torah knowledge, awarding So what do you need such a big house visit the Rebbetzin to wish her “Gut prizes. My father, who was thirteen at for?” Shabbos” and eat there sometimes. the time, used this opportunity to ask the Rebbe if he could come to America. Before she could answer, I realized that Once she invited me to make the A year later this was arranged and he there was an obvious explanation, so Kiddush blessing and have some cake, came to Crown Heights and enrolled in I said, “The kids must be all grown up but the wine on the table was in a the central Chabad yeshivah there. and they don’t live here anymore.” fancy crystal bottle – for the Rebbe, I assumed – so I declined. In 1954, his relationship with the Rebbe The Rebbetzin’s response to a little and the Rebbetzin began. That year, boy who didn’t realize that he was She immediately figured out why I the Rebbetzin had gone to Europe for a committing a faux pas was brilliant, was reluctant and said, “What are you few weeks and, during her absence, the “Richtig, richtig. Aleh chasidim zeinen worried about? You think this is for my Rebbe’s meals were prepared by a local di Rebbe’s kinder – You are correct. All husband? Don’t worry.” cook. My father was selected to pick the chasidim are the Rebbe’s children.” up the food and serve it to the Rebbe. So I made myself comfortable and ate She also handled my younger brother And then, after the Rebbetzin returned, everything like it had been prepared for Noach brilliantly. While she was he continued to help out. For about me because she encouraged me to. serving us ice cream, my brother asked four years, he filled the role of their to scoop it out for himself. Of course, Later on, when I told this to my father, handyman – helping them prepare for he was likely to make a mess, but he said, “Of course that fancy bottle Passover and Sukkot – and this is how she didn’t refuse him for that reason. was for the Rebbe!” But this is how their house became his home away Instead, she said, “If you are going to she was – she wanted to make me from home, so to speak. take it yourself, you’re not going to comfortable; she didn’t want me to feel Since he had lost his father during the take enough.” And how could a little kid deprived of anything war and his mother lived far away in object to getting more ice cream? When I got married in 1985, I asked the Europe, the Rebbetzin looked after him. Subsequently, as a teenager, I came Rebbetzin for a favor – if I could borrow When he started dating, she told him, to New York to study in the Chabad one of the Rebbe’s shirts to wear under “It’s not appropriate that you should go yeshivah from 1980 until 1985. And the chuppah, as is the Chabad custom. on every date in the same suit,” and she during those years, I followed my And she immediately obliged. I took gave him one of the Rebbe’s old suits father’s lead and visited the Rebbetzin it to Israel where I got married, and to wear, so that he would have another. regularly. afterwards I returned it to her. (The Rebbe then was no longer wearing a suit but a kapote – the black rabbinical I’d call her up to ask how she was doing My brother Uri did the same thing, but coat – so this must have been one that and, inevitably, she would say “Come when he was done with it, he asked her he no longer needed.) over, come over for a visit.” I’d go to if he could keep it, and she said, “Wear her house and chat with her – telling it in good health.” After he got married, the Rebbetzin her about what I was learning in the gave my father a set of silver cutlery as yeshivah, what was going on with my That is how she was – the most good- a present. Even when he moved with family and things like that – while she hearted person, who was also a queen my mother to Belgium, she stayed in gave me cake with pineapple juice. – but I will always remember her as my touch with him and once, upon hearing caring, loving grandmother. that he was sick, she asked someone Once, I didn’t feel well and, not having 19 SPONSORED IN HONOR OF THE STUDENTS OF LANAAR

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PAREVE CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES PREPARATION 1 Pour chocolate chips in a large glass bowl. By Tamar Genger 2 Heat coconut milk in a saucepan until just boiling. Pour INGREDIENTS immediately over chocolate and stir. If the chocolate does 1 (12-ounce) bag pareve dark chocolate chips not melt enough, put over a pot of boiling water while continuing to stir until all mixed and melted in, add extract ¾ cup coconut milk and stir. 1 tablespoon favored extract of your choice (optional) 3 Now you have made ganache which can be used on Cocoa powder a cake or in this case put in the fridge until chilled a few hours or overnight. Cinnamon (optional) 4 Using a melon baller, scoop out balls of chocolate ganache, dust with cocoa powder and/or cinnamon and lay on wax paper.

5 Keep cool, the best place to store is a wine fridge.

29 FRENCH CONNECTION REFLEXIONS SUR LA PARACHA Vivre avec la paracha Révolution et évolution le Don de la Torah. livre de Torah et étudions quelques par Tali Loewenthal lignes, que nous assistons à Ceci est manifeste lorsque nous un cours de Torah ou que nous considérons les bénédictions sur trouvons des enseignements de la Torah récitées dans le cadre des Torah en ligne (pas le Chabbat prières quotidiennes du matin. évidemment). Des bénédictions similaires sont également dites lors de la lecture Cela signifie que, non seulement de la Torah à la synagogue. notre connaissance de la Torah, mais aussi l’expérience que Une bénédiction se termine par nous en avons se développe les mots « ... Béni sois-tu, Ô D.ieu, progressivement tout au long de qui enseigne la Torah à Son peuple notre vie. Nous pouvons apprendre Israël ». Une autre bénédiction se le même passage des centaines termine par les mots « ... Béni sois- de fois, mais avec toujours plus tu, Ô D.ieu, qui donne la Torah. » de profondeur et de sens. Et au évolution ou évolution ? Ces Ces bénédictions sont au présent. cours de l’histoire, nos Sages ont deux mots à la mode exercent Prenez la deuxième bénédiction. révélé de nouvelles dimensions l’esprit des historiens et des Ne faudrait-il pas plutôt dire « qui de la Torah, qu’il s’agisse de Rspécialistes des sciences sociales a donné la Torah » puisque ce fut halakha (loi) qui s’applique à une dans leur quête pour comprendre un événement historique unique ? situation nouvelle ou de nouvelles les orientations de la vie humaine. perspectives de progression Il semble toujours y avoir deux Mais le texte de ces bénédictions spirituelle. façons de faire les choses. est très précis. Elles nous disent D’un côté, la transformation qu’il y a une révélation de la Torah Tous ces enseignements étaient révolutionnaire soudaine et dynamique et continue à travers présents dans la révolution globale, et de l’autre : l’approche le temps : la Torah est infinie, originale, lors du Don de la Torah, progressive, axée sur la croissance il y a toujours des aspects plus mais en attente d’être révélés. et le développement. profonds et plus larges de la Torah Cela se produit progressivement, qui attendent d’être révélés.1 au fil des générations, au fur et à Ces deux approches se retrouvent- mesure que les Sages expliquent elles aussi dans le monde de la Les Sages nous disent qu’en la rencontre de la Torah divine Torah ? étudiant la Torah, nous devons avec la vie quotidienne. De éprouver un immense sentiment cette manière, la révolution se Absolument. Voyons comment. de crainte, ainsi qu’un sentiment combine à l’évolution, les grands de joie. Car D.ieu Lui-même est changements imprègnent les Il y a plus de 3 300 ans, la Torah présent dans ces enseignements. développements progressifs de fut donnée sur le mont Sinaï en Chaque fois que nous étudions notre appréciation et de notre présence de tout le peuple juif. À la Torah, c’est d’une certaine expérience de la Torah. Cette ce moment-là, il y eut du tonnerre façon une répétition du Don de la double approche de la Torah et des éclairs, le son d’un grand Torah. Tout comme il y eut alors entraînera la révolution ultime shofar et le peuple fut saisi de un sentiment de crainte, lorsque : celle du Machia’h (le Messie), peur et de tremblement. Ce fut nous étudions nous devrions lorsque le monde et tous les une expérience vraiment intense, éprouver un sentiment de crainte. aspects de la vie seront perçus une révolution dans la conscience En même temps, notre conscience comme exprimant l’Unité du Divin. humaine ! Un événement unique de l’unicité et de la beauté de qui allait changer la vie de tous. cette expérience nous procure un sentiment de joie... Car D.ieu est Dans le même temps, il y a aussi présent et se réjouit dans Sa Torah un aspect développemental dans chaque fois que nous prenons un 30 LATIN LINK REFLEXION SEMANAL Parasha de la Semana Ecos mayor, un sentimiento de que poseía una es un raro regalo —una demostración Por Jay Litvin individualidad y, a un nivel más profundo, momentánea de bondad Divina. Como no tenía individualidad en absoluto. Las tantos otros, antes y después de mí, a pequeña habitación verde podía palabras penetraban a una coyuntura de recibí durante esos dos años eso que el albergar tres, tal vez cuatro personas. mi personalidad que era completamente jasidismo llama “un despertar de Arriba”. Había un escritorio, algunas sillas, un impersonal, y al mismo tiempo tan El Omnipotente me había dado un Lrabino y una colección de libros apoyados profundamente personal, que mi corazón vislumbre —aunque profundo —de un en el umbral de una ventana de vidrio, se entibiaba mientras escuchaba y a tesoro que era mío. Pero a continuación que daba a una calle muy transitada. Fue menudo brotaban lágrimas de mis ojos. de este despertar vino la demanda de aquí que me puse tefilin por primera vez mi propio trabajo. El tesoro estaba lleno hace veinte años. Y por los siguientes dos El Midrash nos dice que cuando Di-s con el conocimiento y sabiduría más años, era aquí, una vez por semana, los habló los Diez Mandamientos en el Sinai, sublimes —pero finalmente yo tendría martes en la tarde, que experimentaba el no había eco de la voz Divina. El Rebe de que trabajar para poseerlas. más profundo y transformador despertar Lubavitch explica que esto era porque no espiritual. había resistencia a las palabras de Di-s. Entusiasmado con este despertar de Los Diez Mandamientos penetraron tan Arriba, Di-s había sembrado alrededor de Era la clase de Tania. profundamente en cada hendidura de la mi cinismo, mi desconfianza, y todas las El rabino leía el texto en voz alta con creación que no había superficie alguna actitudes contrarias, valores y juicios que una tonada magnética. Su monólogo era para que las palabras rebotaran para me habían formado durante mi vida. Pero tan hermético y cohesivo que nadie lo crear un eco. Él no estaba satisfecho. Él exigía ahora interrumpía. Para mí era pura revelación. que yo vuelva atrás y refine cada uno de De la misma manera, sentía que las éstos. Ahora dependía de mí asegurar Cuando lo escuchaba, las palabras palabras del Omnipotente entraban en que la luz que Él había puesto tan brillante parecían entrar a través de la totalidad mí durante aquellas sesiones de martes dentro de mí, fuera usada para iluminar de mi cuerpo, no sólo por mis oídos. por la tarde. Era como si el Omnipotente cada rincón restante de oscuridad. Ellas entraban y se alojaban en un hubiera llenado de revelación y verdad lugar reservado para ellas, como piezas dentro de mí. Parecía que Él había Y así, empecé a escuchar Sus palabras, diminutas de un rompecabezas que simplemente sorteado todas mis sin los ecos de las muchas capas que encuentran el justo espacio tallado para barreras —mis oídos tapados, mi mente constituían la totalidad del ser en que me encajar en las dimensiones exactas de la cínica y defensiva—y puesto Sus joyas había convertido. en mi corazón. palabra. Luego las palabras se amoldarían Después de haber oído sin estas como pequeñas piezas de lego formando No había ecos en ese pequeño cuarto resonancias, estos ecos ahora son frases, párrafos y conceptos. Y cuando verde. inequívocos. Como una trompeta, cada lo hacían, ocurrían mini-explosiones, eco se ha vuelto una llamada a la acción; pequeñas descargas de energía que Más tarde, luego de que dejaba ese cuarto como un candil, cada eco ilumina un área estremecían mi mente y mi cuerpo. y volvía a mi estado normal, reflexionaba de mi vida que requiere transformación; sobre las palabras y conceptos que Mi concentración a las palabras del como una señal, cada eco indica otra había escuchado allí. Repasaba, con mis senda hacia mi alma interior. En el rabino era tan absoluta, tan visceral, facultades intelectuales intactas, lo que que mi mente no tenía ninguna chance murmullo más suave, cada eco anuncia había aprendido. Pero algo en mi proceso la puerta al lugar dentro de mí, donde de hablar. Preguntas, análisis, desafíos de pensamiento había cambiado. Antes, —todo parecía irrelevante. Había una siempre he oído sin ecos, donde el tesoro yo me acercaba a ideas e información siempre ha sido mío. aceptación completa y una experiencia nuevas con cierto grado de escepticismo del tipo “¡ahhhhhh!” —momento mágico y cinismo. Aprendía desde una actitud en el cual todas las contradicciones de “¿a ver las pruebas?” que había interiores hallan simplemente un punto desarrollado durante años de palabras Clases y Eventos de unidad que hasta ese momento vacuas y revelaciones falsas, y haber Clases en Espanol parecía imposible. leído tantos libros llenos de experiencias Porcion Semanal Mi comprensión creció a tal profundidad ilusorias de descubrimiento personal. Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm que yo entendía lo que hablaba y Pero ahora, abría los libros con una simultáneamente me sentía entendido simple meta: entender mejor. La verdad Tanya( Women) por completo. Yo raramente hablaba, sin de lo que se estaba diciendo no estaba en Mrs. Vivian Perez embargo me sentía escuchado. Aunque cuestión. El único desafío era entender Martes 10:45 am - 12:00pm los conceptos eran nuevos y el idioma bien la verdad, permitirle llegar más 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village extraño, las palabras reflejaban algo profundo en mi ser, y encontrar el valor Jueves 11:00 - 12:00 que parecía que siempre había sabido, para transformar mi vida de acuerdo con Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202 pero nunca supe que sabía. Sin tener ella. que revelar quién era, las palabras me Analisis de distintos temas basados en la Perasha describían enteramente. El resultado era Yo sé ahora que escuchar las palabras Rabbi Shlomi Halsband de Di-s, de manera tan incondicional, Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm un sentido de fusión en una conciencia Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm 31 PLEASE READ ONLY NETWORKING AFTER SHABBOS EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

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CONTACTS AT THE SHUL 305.868.1411 Rabbi Rabbi Sholom Lipskar Ext 311 Associate Rabbi Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Ext 345 Rabbi’s Executive Assistant / CYS 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 Events / Offce Manager Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Director of Events and Marketing Mrs. Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 313 SHUL GABOIM Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 Operations / Maintenance Rabbi Shlomi Katan Ext 319 Mr. Andrew Roth Reception Mrs. Mindy Natoli Ext 0 Mr. David Portnoy Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Rabbi Henry Eichler Pre-School Director Mrs. Chana Lipskar Ext 325 Mr. Ettai Einhorn Sephardic Minyan 305.868.1411 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 Sidney Feltenstein - Chairman Alberto Kamhazi Simon Falic Shmuel Katz M.D. FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Matias Garfunkel Leo Kryss Albert Pollans - President Ambassador Isaac Gilinski Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Jaime Gilinski Jaime Gilinski Lazer Milstein David Lichter Max Gilinski Michael Perez Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Saul Gilinski Ryan Shapiro Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Abel Holtz Morris Tabacinic BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mike Izak Steven M. Dunn - President Anita Givner Jacob Givner - Vice President Sam Greenwald EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David Wolf - Vice President Sharon Hakmon Steven M. Dunn - Chair Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Mitchell Feldman - VP Oversight Albert Lichy Devorah Leah Andrusier Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Rabbi Zalman Lipskar - VP Development Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Janice Barney Lazer Milstein Eric P. Stein - Treasurer Alexander Matz Joel Baum Orit Osman Joel Baum - Financial Treasurer Ezzy Rappaport Maurice Egozi Brian Roller Dovid Duchman - Secretary Elliott Rimon Velvel Freedman - Associate Secretary Yaacov Saidof Henry Eichler Ryan Shapiro Carolyn Baumel Seth Salver Mitchell Feldman Marc Sheridan Max Benoliel Alex Tauber Daniel Gielchinsky Daniel Sragowicz Betzalel Camissar Jacob J. Givner Cynthia Stein Barry Cohen Evelyn Katz Eric P. Stein Boruch Duchman Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Michael Tabacinic Henry Eichler 34

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