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20Th Annual Chanukah Playland Sunday, December 22 ב Bests Wishes For A Happy Chanukah! ב”ה www.chabadelpaso.com The El Paso Issue 157 CHABAD TIMES A publication of Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso December 2019 | Kislev 5780 6615 Westwind Dr. • El Paso, TX 79912 • 915.584.8218 See page 10 for more details 20th Annual Chanukah Playland Sunday, December 22 ב"ה 19th Annual See Page 4 for details Kids Mega Challah Bake LET'S GET page 8 TOGETHER FOR THE EIGHTH Camp Gan Israel Winter Camp NIGHT page 8 Menorah Lighting. Falafel Bar. Share Rabbisthe Cha urgenuka teachingh cheer w ofit hempathy the Candle Making. to counteract religious hate Chanukah Toy Drive page 9 Sunday December 29 | 5:15pm 6615 Westwind Drive Donate toys to be distributed to TOYNORAH: Chanukah Toy Drive Kindly RSVP to page 8 [email protected] children in local hospitals. See Page 10 for details Your Chanukah Guide December 22 - 30 Page 11 Page 2 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Kislev 5780 | December 2019 From Our Mail Box Not so the Greeks. Whereas Dear Rabbi Greenberg, practice. Thank you for what you Haman wanted to annihilate Thank you for the warm and have given us! the Jewish people, the Greeks welcoming afternoon in the Sukkah Just know how much we cherished and respected the on Wednesday Oct. 16, 2019, 17 appreciate what we have from you. Jews as a nation and sought to Tishrei 5780. It was lovely being S.R. live peacefully with them. They with friends and sharing in the joy even respected and revered the of the holiday. Rabbi Levi: age old wisdom of the Torah Sincerely, Although I don’t want to explain and the ethical way of life it E.W. why specifically, I do want you encouraged and perpetuated, but to know that your Shabbos D’var they despised the soulful and Dear Greenberg Family, below speaks to me in a meaningful divine attachment we have with Thank you for a meaningful way, which I will be able to apply in the Torah. Sukkot dinner! The explanation of my daily life as I have needed to for Logical morals and ethics Sukkot and the manna from heaven a long time. Reconsidering that result in a peaceful and actually helped me more than you Gut Shabbos. Our Priorities productive society are good, but know! Thank you for sharing your what use could there be with the wonderful food and company! Dear Rabbi Greenberg, I just An antique collector was hosting suprarational laws of the kosher Love, read the article on your view that a Chanukah party and showed off diet, ritual purity and impurity J.K. schools should teach empathy as some holiday paraphernalia from and the primitive practice of an antidote to racism and religious his collection. circumcision, they argued. They Dear Rabbi and Chani, hatred. I know that this is very “This menorah is over 150 years implored us to see the light of effective as I have seen positive old and is a family heirloom and the new-age sciences and arts Your names came up as we results when I lived in Abu Dhabi. the siddur I’m holding was printed and assimilate to the enlightened were giving thanks for things (and We organised fundraising in 200 years ago and belonged to Greek lifestyle, but we refused. people) that we are thankful for. We all schools for Doctors without my grandfather before the war.” So they sought to force celebrated Thanksgiving with S.Y., Borders and for Terry Fox Everyone was very impressed us to change, and the heroic and family; M.E, and B. E., and Runs. We saw the students so with the presentation but one Maccabees fought the most family, and S.H. proud when their schools raised person wanted to know more. lopsided war only to preserve our As we were bentching, Bluma large amounts for less fortunate “Tell us, how old is this jelly soulful connection to G-d. The said that we are all here bentching communities. Bravo! donut?” miracle of the oil that transpired because of you! All of us are C.T. - Toronto After lighting the Chanukah 2,158 years ago was a statement grateful for the Judaism that we menorah we recite a prayer with of the spiritual devotion we have this stanza: “For the eight nights to G-d as a nation. of Chanukah these lights are holy The candles we light every and we have no permission to use night of Chanukah make the them.” point that our spiritual life is According to Jewish law one even more important than our may not use the light of the physical needs, and if we are Baby Boy Chanukah candles for any use at willing to invest so much money all. Even to pray or learn Torah by in our personal possessions and Dovid Greenberg the light of the Chanukah candles pleasures, then surely we are is prohibited. ready to invest our fortunes in Proud Parents This begs the question, what tzedaka and important Jewish Rabbi Menachem and Rochel Raizel Greenberg could be the purpose of having causes. flames burn at any part of the night The candles make a spiritual Proud Grandparents without having the opportunity to statement and are therefore holy Rabbi Yisrael and Chana Greenberg benefit from their light? and off limits beckoning us to The epic struggle between the reconsider our priorities and to Jewish people and the ancient elevate our focus to our spiritual Engagement Greek empire that transpired over needs and to the needs of others. 2,000 years ago was unlike most These are the things that bring Erin Reiter to Liroy Ozinci wars in our history. Unfortunately true light, warmth and joy to our people are no strangers to ourselves, our families, the Proud Parents persecution, but the common community and the entire world. Dr. Dennis and Erin Reiter scenario is that some vile enemy Chag Sameach! dreams up a way to rid the world Rafi and Riva Ozinci of the Jews. Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg In This Issue The Rabbi’s Message ................................p 2 is published by From Our Mail Box ....................................p 2 Shainy's Challah CHABAD LUBAVITCH Mazel Tov ..................................................p 2 Grace your Shabbat table with freshly A Message from the Lubavitcher Rebbe ..p 3 OF EL PASO home baked Challah! 6615 Westwind Drive Chabad Tomorrow ....................................p 3 El Paso, Texas 79912 Rabbi’s Blog ..............................................p 4 One for $6 | Two for $10 Ongoing Programs at Chabad .................p 4 (915) 584-8218 Orders due every Wednesday at noon. [email protected] JAMS: After School Program ...................p 4 Chanukah Playland ...................................p 5 [email protected] | 915.204.6581 Director Chabad In Photos.................................. p 6-7 RABBI YISRAEL GREENBERG Kids Mega Challah Bake............................p 8 Editor Gan Israel Winter Camp ............................p 8 ADVERTISE IN THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES RABBI LEVI GREENBERG Rabbis Encourage Empathy ......................p 9 Reach every Jewish household in El Paso ARK Giving Project....................................p 9 The Chabad Times is published Chanukah Toy Drive ................................p 10 ADVERTISING OPTIONS five times a year for the Jewish Raffle Ticket.............................................p 10 Holidays. Business Card $100 Half Page $500 Your Chanukah Guide .............................p 11 Double Business Card $180 Full Page $700 Chabad of El Paso does not certify Chanukah Calendar .................................p 11 the kashrut of its advertisers. New Building Project...............................p 12 Call Chabad at 915-584-8218 to place your ad now! Kislev 5780 | December 2019 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Page 3 A Holiday Message from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Two Powerful Chanukah Messages some tolerable, others not. The melt away. educator who wishes to impart a Once a year, we celebrate this set of values and priorities that will truth. For eight days and nights, weather them all, must deliver, in we celebrate the power of light: word and example, a message of in ascending number — one impeccable purity, free of even little flame on the first evening, the slightest and most acceptable two flames on the second, three compromise. on the third — we kindle the Light! Chanukah menorah, recalling that Light, brightness, radiance, are miraculous victory, 22 centuries metaphors we use when we wish ago, of quality over quantity, to speak about hope, wisdom, or spirit over materialism, right goodness. The candle flame, the over might. And pray for the day The Rebbe addresses to the participants of a children’s Chanukah rally in the main synagogue at ray of light, the glowing coal — when such victories are no longer Lubavitch World Headquarters. these are the images in which we “miracles”, but the way things are No Compromise uncompromising insistence on recognize our yearning for a better in G-d’s world. The name Chanukah comes purity and perfection which world, for a wiser, more virtuous, The Chanukah Battle Continues from the word chinuch, which Chanukah represents holds an more G-dly self. The Chanukah battle and means “inauguration.” Chanukah important lesson regarding the We are encouraged by the fact victory were immortalized by celebrates the renewal of the essence of the educator’s task. that a luminous body like the sun, the Sages. The candles evoke the service in the Holy Temple after Compromise is anathema to can have such a profound effect memory of the small group of it was liberated from the Greek education. To a mature tree, a on entities and beings millions of Jews who fought those who had defilers, purified, and rededicated gash here or a torn limb there miles away, enriching them with opposed the Torah. Today, we each as the seat of the divine presence is of little or no consequence.
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