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Sukkos Tishrei 14 - 16 October 4 - 6 CANDLE LIGHTING 1st night: 6:46 PM CANDLE LIGHTING 2nd night: After 7:37 PM (From Existing Flame)
Shabbos Chol Hamoed Tishrei 16 - 17 October 6 - 7 CANDLE LIGHTING: 6:44 pm (From Existing Flame) Shabbos Ends: 7:35 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
Rabbi Lipskar distributing “lekach” - honey cake on Erev Yom Kippur Weekly Message 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar The Month of Tishrei Everything you need to know for the High Holidays 4 -7 Celebrating Shabbos Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 8-9 need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience
Community Happenings 10-11 Sharing with your Shul Family A Time to Pray Check out all the davening schedules and locations 12 throughout the week
Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 13- 20 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE
Get The Picture 21-25 The full scoop on all the great events around town
The ABC’s of Aleph 26 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments.
In a woman’s world 27 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman
French Connection 28 Refexions sur la Paracha
Latin Link 29 Refexion Semanal Networking 30-32 Effective Advertising The Shul bochurim prepared lunches for Yom Kippur which were Numbers To Know enjoyed by the many children who attended the multiple programs Contacts at The Shul 33 at The Shul over Yom Kippur Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 34 The Shul
Get The Picture 35-36 The full scoop on all the great events around town
Quotable Quote G-d, through His individual Providence, gives each and every person the ability to bring the Supernal Will from the potential state to the actual by fulflling the mitzvot and strengthening Judaism and our holy Torah at all times in every place. All depends solely upon the person making the effort – Hayom Yom, Iyar 21 Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Succos This is doubly emphasized in the dynamic unity of all Jews entering into one Succah space. This unity on a personal, individual level ukkoth is the holiday of joy. is also symbolized by each one of us entering the Succah not only This is so clearly articulated with our heads and hearts but also our feet, combining every level Sin our prayer liturgy, referring of our being. Thus we recognize that every Jew, in whatever station to it as “the time of our happiness”, of life they may be, is an inseparable part of our whole. quoted from the Torah text in describing this important holiday. So let’s be happy, joyful, celebratory, party and thank Hashem for Sukkoth comes four days after Yom making us feel like one big happy, united family Kippur and in proximity to the very introspective, serious High Holy Have a joyful holiday, wonderful Shabbos and great upcoming days anchoring the last of a series holiday week. of holidays that conclude with joyfulness.
On a practical, material, physical level this happiness is consistent with the season of this holiday which is also referred to as the “time of harvest” and gathering of the produce grown in the felds. We are Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar joyful that our signifcant efforts in plowing, planting and gathering have been productive and fruitful. Seasons of Essence This holiday also commemorates our reliance on and being By Tzvi Freeman protected by G-d Almighty as we transversed the very bellicose environment of the desert for 40 years, enveloped and covered by There is the body, the soul, and then there is the essence. G-d’s glorious clouds that shielded us from the horrifc heat and If the soul is light, then the essence is the source of light. If from the snakes and scorpions that threatened desert travelers. the soul is energy, then the essence is the generator. It is not something you have. It is who and what you are. Together with that we celebrate the spiritual joyfulness that comes from our assurance of G-d’s forgiveness and complete blessings for all good, represented by our carrying the Lulav as an upright Whatever we do, we dance around that essence-core, like armament and banner proclaiming that we have been successful an orbiting spacecraft unable to land. We can meditate, we in our petitions. can be inspired—but to touch our inner core, the place from whence all this comes, that takes a power from beyond. Our happiness is also underscored by our commitment to the absolute Unity of all of us integrated as one. This is represented by That is why there are seasons in life empowered from the four species mandatory in the celebration of this holiday, each beyond. Special days and special nights, times of crisis and representing one of four possible categories of the Jewish people. times of joy that touch the core. At other times, you can step The Esrog representing the scholar who also does good deeds; the Lulav representing the one who emphasizes only scholarship; the forward. At those times, you can leap into a new form Myrtle representing the one who emphasizes good deeds; and the of being. Willow who is unfortunately bereft of scholarship and good deeds. THE MONTH OF TISHREI EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS
Tishrei Schedule Sukkos Eve - Wednesday, October 4 Hoshanah Rabbah - Wednesday, October 11 Candle lighting 6:46 PM Sephardic all night Kraya 1:00 AM Sephardic Mincha/Arvit 6:35 PM Recite Book of Tehillim 1:05 AM Mincha & Evening Services 6:50 PM Sephardic Shacharis & Hoshanot 6:40 AM Community Dinner in the Sukkah 8:00 PM (by reservation) Morning Services 6:50 AM / 7:30 AM / 9:00 AM
Sukkos 1st Day - Thursday, October 5 Shemini Atzeres Eve - Wednesday, Night October 11 Hashkama/Minyan 7:15 AM Candle lighting 6:38 PM Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Evening Service 6:40 PM Tanya 8:45 AM Followed by Kiddush & Hakafos Morning Services 9:00 AM Shemini Atzeres Day - Thursday, October 12 Upstairs Minyan 10:30 AM Hashkama Minyan 7:15 AM Kiddush 12:00 PM Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Sephardic Mincha/Arvit 6:35 PM / 7:10 PM Morning Services 9:00 AM Mincha 6:30 PM Upstairs Minyan 10:30 AM Sukkos 2nd Day Eve - Thursday, October 5 Yizkor Memorial Services (Approx.) 11:05 AM Candle lighting after 7:37 PM (from existing fame) Followed by Kiddush & Hakafos Evening Services 7:35 PM Simchas Torah Eve - Thursday, October 12 Community Dinner in the Sukkah 8:00 PM (by reservation) Mincha & Evening Services 6:40 PM Sukkos 2nd Day - Friday, October 6 Light Candles After 7:30 PM (from existing fame) Hashkama/Minyan 7:15 AM Followed by Kiddush & Hakafos / Dancing onto the street Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Simchas Torah Day - Friday, October 13 Morning Services 9:00 AM Hashkama Minyan 7:15 AM Upstairs Minyan 10:30 AM Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Kiddush 12:00 PM Morning Services 9:00 AM Sephardic Mincha/Arvit 6:40 PM Kiddush & Hakafos 10:30 AM Mincha & Evening Services 6:45 PM (Everyone has an Aliyah/Choson Torah/Choson Bereishis) Candle lighting 6:44 PM (from existing fame) Grand Simchas Torah Kiddush 2:00 PM Shabbat Chol Hamoed - Shabbos, October 7 Mincha & Evening Services 6:35 PM Sephardic Mincha 6:30 PM Hashkama/Minyan 7:15 AM Light Candles 6:36 PM (from existing fame) Sephardic Minyan 9:00 AM Morning Services 9:00 AM Shabbos, October 14 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 5:50 PM Morning Services 9:00 AM Sephardic Mincha 6:30 PM Upstairs Minyan 10:30 AM Mincha 6:20 PM Kiddush in the Sukkah 12:00 PM Shalosh Seudos 6:50 PM Shabbos Community Shiur 5:40 PM Ma’ariv and Havdalah 7:35 PM Sephardic Mincha 6:15 PM Mincha 6:05 PM
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We need your help to make our Yom Tov Kiddushim Beautiful!! Please contact Stacy 305.868.1411 Ext 313 to sponsor a kiddush!
DATE EVENT TYPE AMOUNT SPONSOR
Oct. 5 Sukkot Kiddush (1st Day) $2,800
Oct. 6 Sukkot Kiddush (2nd Day) $2,800
Oct. 7 Chol Hamoed Sukkos Kiddush Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz
Oct. 7 Chol Hamoed Sukkos Shalosh Seudos $500
Oct. 11 Eve of Shemini Atzeret Hakafot Kiddush Mr. & Mrs. David and Stephanie Schwartz
Oct. 12 Shemini Atzeret After Hakafot Kiddush $2,800
Oct. 12 Shemini Atzeret Day Kiddush $2,800
Oct. 12 Eve of Simchat Torah Hakafot Kiddush $3,000
Oct. 12 Simchas Torah Night Kids’ Kiddush Mr. & Mrs Goldfarb and Rabbi & Mrs Farkash
Oct. 12 Simchas Torah After Hakafot Kiddush $3,000
Oct. 13 Simchas Torah Hakafot Kiddush $1,800
Oct. 13 Simchas Torah Day Grand Kiddush $10,000
Oct. 14 Shabbos Bereishis Kiddush $1,800
Oct. 14 Shabbos Bereishis Davening with Dad Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer
Oct. 14 Shabbos Mevarchim Farbrengen $700
Oct. 14 Shabbos Mevarchim Women’s Farbrengen $200 Ms. Taliah Rameriez
Oct. 14 Shabbos Bereishis End of Tishrei Farbrengen $500 THE MONTH OF TISHREI EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS
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7 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 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: Montessori Classrooom 2 1) What is unique about the name of this parsha? classrooom 2 2) Where is the frst time in the Torah where offcers (shotrim) are mentioned? 3) Which law in this parsha involves “yesterday, and the day before yesterday” (mitmol shilshom)? What other Torah law involves “yesterday, and the day before yesterday”? Tehila's Basya's WILL RESUME AFTER SUKKOS Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls Answers from last week: Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 1) Yerushalayim is called “The place that Hashem will choose” (Deut. 26:2, 18:6, 16:6, 14:24, 25, 12:5, 11, 21, 26). In parshas Vayera, the frst 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm half of the name Yerushalayim is alluded to: “And Avraham called the name of the place Hashem Yireh” (Genesis 22:14). In parshas Lech Classrooom 4 Lecha, the second half of the name is alluded to: “And Malki Tzedek the king of Shalem etc.” (Genesis 14:18). Yireh Hashem and Shalem both refer to Yerushalayim.
2)The Sabbatical year (Shmittah) occurs every seventh year (Deut. 15:1). A Hebrew slave goes free on the seventh year, after working for six years (Deut. 15:12). There are seven days of Passover (Deut. 16:3, 4, 8). There are seven weeks of counting the Omer (Deut. 16:9). There are Mendy's seven days of Sukkot (Deut. 16:13, 15). Sholom's Hebrew School Junior Boys 3) In parshas Chayei Sarah (Genesis 24), camels are mentioned 18 Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 times in the story of Eliezer fnding a wife for Yitzchak. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm RIDDLE RULES Classroom 1 Answers to the riddles can be given to Sholom Loebenstein any time over Shabbos. The first child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize!
Shaykee’s Debbie’s Shmuely's Davening With Dad Teen Girls Teen Boys Grades: 9th - 12th Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Teen Girls Room Montessori 3 Haime Library
8 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience
Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel & Evelyn Katz Shabbos Schedule In honor of the upcoming Candle lighting 6:44 p.m. Yahrtzeit of Shmuel’s mother Rachel Liba OBM Bat Shmuel HYD Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 6:50 p.m. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. Shalosh Seudos This Week: Tanya / Hayom Yom 8:50 a.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is available for sponsorship. Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m. Children’s Programs 10:00 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 10:30 a.m. Kiddush 12:00 p.m. Daf Yomi 6:00 p.m. Men’s Shiur 6:00 p.m. Women's Shiur 6:00 p.m. the caterer for this week’s kiddush Shalosh Seudos for Boys 6:00 p.m. Mincha 6:20 p.m. and Shalosh seudos is Food Art Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 7:35 p.m. Weekly Video of The Rebbe
Sephardic Minyan Friday Evening Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 6:35 p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Shabbat Day Shacharit 9:00 a.m. Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank Mincha 6:45 p.m. by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually) Shabbos Ends / Arvit & Havdalah 7:35 p.m. The following dates are available for sponsorship:
Kiddush Shalosh Seudos PLEASE SEE TISHREI SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ON PG. 5
If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Stacy at 305-868-1411 ext 313 or email [email protected]
Lighting 6:51 p.m. Mincha 6:55 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 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family
Birthdays Yahrtzeits 15 Tishrei Ms. Kenny Anhalt 16 Tishrei Elizabeth bas Haim obm 15 Tishrei Mr. Morris J. Kaplan Mother of Mrs. Marlene Colonomos 15 Tishrei Ms. Abigail Laulicht 18 Tishrei Sara Rivka bas Meir obm 16 Tishrei Mrs. Cecilia Knoll Mother of Mr. Meir Izak 16 Tishrei Mr. Moshe Levi 18 Tishrei Rachel Libah bas Shmuel obm 16 Tishrei Mrs. Joanna Segal Mother of Dr. Shmuel Katz 17 Tishrei Ms. Shaindel Freedman 18 Tishrei Libba Gittle bas Shlomo obm 17 Tishrei Mr. Ari Gontownik Mother of Mrs. Karen Azari 17 Tishrei Ms. Shannon Adley Moteles 19 Tishrei Eli ben Avner obm 17 Tishrei Dr. Devorah Rivka Shagalov Father of Ms. Lydia Hasson 17 Tishrei Mr. Leonardo Stivelman 19 Tishrei Mordechai ben Zev Volf obm 17 Tishrei Mr. Azriel Wasserman Husband of Mrs. Claire Loew Hausman 18 Tishrei Mrs. Jenny Bublick 20 Tishrei Aidel bas Yisroel obm 18 Tishrei Mrs. Brenda Goldbrenner Mother of Mr. Abel Holtz 18 Tishrei Mr. Michael Weiss 20 Tishrei Moshe Ber obm 19 Tishrei Mr. Gideon Abraham Father of Mr. Brent Levison 19 Tishrei Rabbi Mendel Levy 21 Tishrei Eliezer ben Moshe Yosef obm 19 Tishrei Dr. Arthur Shapiro Father of Mrs. Mina Sragowicz 21 Tishrei Mr. Ashley Diener 21 Tishrei Mr. Alberto Ghitis 21 Tishrei Ms. Sender Lerman
Kid’s Birthdays 15 Tishrei Dov Iehuda Goldfarb Community Notice Board: 17 Tishrei Mama Bublil Please be aware that during construction, members 17 Tishrei Mama Kopfstein will not be able to park in the garage between the 17 Tishrei Maytav Melamed hours of 7am -4 pm 17 Tishrei Chesed Slomianski Thank you for your understanding and your 18 Tishrei Paulette Wahba patience. 19 Tishrei Gal Gottesman 19 Tishrei Anna Salver 20 Tishrei Tehora Slomianski 21 Tishrei Zalman Drimmer Learning with The Bochurim 21 Tishrei Yehuda Levy If you are interested in having your child learn with one of our bochurim, or if you would like to arrange Anniversaries a lunch and learn in your office, Mr. & Mrs. Shmuel & Batsheva Levy Please contact Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Mojdeh Danial [email protected]
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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 for donations received between 09/26/17 and 10/02/17 the month of Tishrei is Kindly Sponsored by We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Mr. & Mrs. Raphael Adouth Mr. Irving Hoine Mr. & Mrs. Ezzie and Malka Rappaport ALF HOLDINGS, INC. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Jaffe “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. Joseph Ammar Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Jaimovich pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Azari Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jaimovich and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Mr. & Mrs. Max Benoliel Mr. & Mrs. Steven Kevelson occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed Mr. & Ms. Yonathan Berdugo Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Lapidus be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Berend Mr. Stuart Liberman body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Berkowitz Regina Peterseil Family Mr. & Mrs. David Lichter together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Ms. Helene Berkowitz Ms. Rachel Lichtiger Ms. Jewel Bertman Ms. Ellen Manas Mr. & Mrs. Salomon Btesh Mr. & Mrs. Richard Moore Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Bublick Mr. Felipe Orner Mr. Arnold Lewis Cohen Rabbi & Mrs. Ezzy Rappaport Dr. & Mrs. Brad Cohen Mr. David Roth Refuah Shleimah Mr. Yehuda Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Josef Sadon 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. Mr. & Mrs. Max Dekelbaum Mr. & Mrs. Seth Salver Mr. Yonel Devico Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer MEN WOMEN Dr. & Mrs. Brian Dooreck Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Schmutter Meyer Yankev ben Chaya Etel Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Chava Alexander ben Esther Raizel Clara bat Corina Mr. Samuel Dror Rabbi & Mrs. Simeon Schreiber Chaim Moshe ben Clara Shoshanna bat Rivkah Mr. & Mrs. Zalman Duchman Mr. & Mrs. Pedro Seidl Raphael Moshe ben Sarah Leah Rochel bat Sarah Ms. Marta Feigenbaum Mr. Avrith Seymour Moshe ben Zoila Miriam bat Risha Raizel Mr. & Mrs. Sonny Fellig Mrs. Mina Sragowicz Moshe Avraham ben Tziporah Riva Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Finger Mr. & Mrs. Eric P. Stein Chaim ben Pnina Chana bas Shoshana Mr. & Mrs. Guido Fraiman Mr. Eytan Testiler Gabriel ben Esther Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Chava bas Elka Menucha Mr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Gellman Mr. & Mrs. Yechiel Weinfeld Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Chaya bas Rachel Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weintraub Yosef ben Edwina Fayge bas Chaya Mr. Jonathan Gilinski Ms. Edna Pena Werta Avrohom ben Feigel Miriam Leah bas Helen Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Robert Winer Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Mr. Ira Grosser Mrs. Pnina Wuensch Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Ms. Lydia Hasson Mr. Jose Yankelevitch Yehuda ben Chaya Sara Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel Mrs. Margreth Havasi Mr. Israel Zalmanov Roi ben Orly Mr. & Mrs. Reuven Herssein Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel Volunteers Needed After every Kiddush and event, The Shul donates the left over food to organizations or families in need. Community Notice Board: We are looking for volunteers to help collect and If you have a new or slightly used Shaitel that you wrap the food. would like to donate to The Shul Sisterhood If you would like to help please contact the Please Contact Mashgiach, Mordechai Olesky after the Kiddush. Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Community service hours will be awarded. A Time to Pray Davening schedules and locations throughout the week
Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul 6:45 -7:15 am Derech Mitzvosecha Foundational Chassidic Discourse R’ Zalman Lipskar 8:10 am Daf Yomi R’ Dov Schochet 8:45 am (approx) Halacha Sephardic Custom R’ Shimshon Tzubeli 10:15 - 11:00 am Maamorim Maamor of the Rebbe R’ Shea Rubinstein
Shacharis Minyanim (mon - Fri) Sunday Shacharis Minyanim Main Minyan 6:50 7:30 9:00 Main Minyan 8:00 am 9:00 am Sephardic Minyan 8:00 Sephardic Minyan 9:00 am
Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan Sunday Mincha /Maariv mincha / Maariv Minyanim (mon - Thurs) Minyanim Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 6:45 pm 10:00 pm Main Minyan 6:45 pm Following Sephardic Minyan 6:45 pm Late Maariv 10:00 pm
Evening Kolel Schedule - Monday and Thursday 8:45 -9:30 pm Mon & Thurs 8:45 - 10:00 pm Evening Community Kolel Chavrusah
To our beloved Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces, Halachic Times courageously protecting and defending Eretz Yisroel. We pray Based on times for October 11 for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily. Hinda Clara bas Chana Guenendel Benyamin Aharon ben Jeniya Gila Rut Alot Hashachar / Dawn 6:05 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Earliest Talit & Tefllin 6:36 am Michael Shmuel ben Eliezer Eliyahu Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 7:17 am Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry (Earliest Amidah) Eitan Gabriel ben Karine Cecile Latest Shema 10:10 am Zman Tfllah 11:09 am Chatzot / Midday 1:06 pm Earliest Mincha 1:37 pm Plag HaMincha 5:47 pm Shekiah / Sunset 6:56 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 7:20 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. 12 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. Wednesday - Tishrei 14 No more than two aravot are used, but many Our custom is to start saying aloud with the hadassim may be used. We make a point of letter samach or ayin. binding the lulav in the suka and on erev One should be certain to make a complete yomtov. Two rings are placed on the lulav proper, circuit, ending with tav. and these should be covered by the hadassim and aravot, even the top ring, at least somewhat. Monday - Tishrei 19 In addition, three rings are used to bind the It is written that all through the year, when hadassim and aravot to the lulav. These three saying in sh’mona essrei “and all the varieties of rings are to be all within one handbreadth. its produce for good” (p. 54), one should have in Thursday - Tishrei 15 mind wheat for matza and the etrog (elsewhere, We know the procedure (for the congregant) wine for kiddush is also mentioned); then during the blessing of the kohanim because naturally all the produce will be for good. the Alter Rebbe would take the Tzemach Tzedek, “She bears your yoke,” observing Torah and mitzvot with self-sacrifce; and then... Tuesday - Tishrei 20 before the latter’s marriage, under his tallit My father once said at a farbrengen that this during the blessing5 of the kohanim. “She, the One People (yechida), affrms Your (practice)1 is similar to the idea that only Friday - Tishrei 16 Oneness” - yechida of the soul is revealed. through the earnestness before davening, The Tzemach Tzedek related: In 5569 (1808) we Through this revelation the yechida of the when one is embittered over his sins, can there heard from my grandfather (the Alter Rebbe) for animal soul is transformed into G-dliness. This afterwards be an emotional excitement in the sixth time the maamar Ush’avtem mayim fnds expression in the intensity with which davening. (the frst of that title in Likutei Torah) and the one fulflls Torah and mitzvot, with an inner experience was reminiscent of the Talmudic enthusiasm, with a sense of great delight and Tuesday - Tishrei 21 In the Tikun of Hosha’ana Raba night, the parsha statement (Yerushalmi Suka 5:1) “From there tremendous pleasure in serving G-d. (To a person of B’racha is also said only once. (My father they drew (the holy spirit).” Yona received, at on that lofty level) there is total equanimity to instructed certain individuals to say it with the celebration of the water-drawing, the gift all worldy matters; “yes” and “no” have become Rashi’s commentary on Hosha’ana Raba, but this of prophetic revelation; we received revelation absolutely equal to him, for he is now divested was not a general instruction.) On erev Simchat without end. The end will be when Mashiach of the sense of delight in and appetite for Torah, B’racha is said twice and its Targum once. comes, for the end is rooted in the beginning. material things. Shabbos - Tishrei 17 Before Hallel remove the (top) two rings from Sunday - Tishrei 18 the lulav, leaving the three rings that bind The soul-aspect of yechida emerges through Say both Om ani choma (p. 327) and Adon the lulav with the hadassim and aravot. Eiruv the avoda of being tested. As is written (in the hamoshia, but make only one circuit. Say Tavshilin (p. 249). On Hosha’ana Raba the piece Hosha’anot service, p. 327): the word hosha’ana before and after those of bread on which one says hamotzi is dipped “She clings and cleaves to you” - the binding of alphabetical phrases which the chazan says in honey, but not on Sh’mini Atzeret or Simchat the soul to G-d. This leads to... aloud;1 for the other phrases say hosha’ana Torah. only once. 13 Selichos
Selichos from Monday - Wednesday will be half an hour before each minyan
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SUKKOS MESSAGES Are You Afraid To Change than stating its name directly? Emulating the Citron The answer is it is this quality of the citron— By: Rabbi YY Jacobson its ability to weather change and grow from The Blind Golfer it—which the Torah is attempting to teach us concerning our own lives. harlie Boswell was a great athlete who became blind during World War II while The year is a microcosm of human life. The Crescuing his friend from a tank that was bud and bloom of youth, the fruitfulness of under fire. When he returned to this country maturity, the autumn of one’s later years, after the War, he decided to take up a sport [of Sukkot],” instructs the Torah in the 23rd and the wither of winter—all find expression that he had never tried as yet—golf. Years of chapter of Leviticus, “the magnificent fruit in the seasons of a year. A year includes Practice and determination led him to win of a tree, the frond of a date-palm, branches mundane days and exciting days; success the honor of National Blind Golf Champion from the thick-leaved tree, and willows and failure, blessings and challenges, straight no less than 13 times. One of his heroes was of the brook.” These are the familiar “four balls and curve balls; warm and passionate the great golfer Ben Hogan, so it truly was an kinds”—the esrog (citron), lulav (palm frond), experiences, as well as cold and frozen honor for Charlie to win the Ben Hogan Award hadassim (myrtle twigs) and aravos (willow encounters. In short, the year incorporates in 1958. twigs), which we celebrate and shake during the full spectrum of human experience and the Sukkos festival. emotion. Upon meeting Hogan, Charlie was awestruck and told the legendary golfer that his greatest The Torah, however, does not explicitly name This is the deeper significance of the Torah’s wish was to have one round of golf with the the four kinds, identifying them instead description of the esrog, teaching us about great Ben Hogan. through allusions and double-entendres[1]. the how the human ought to mirror the esrog. Take the citron for example: The Torah states, The esrog is one who “dwells in his tree from Hogan was duly honored, after all, he knew “you shall take for yourselves the magnificent year to year:” one who weathers all changes Charlie as the great blind player that he was, fruit of a tree,” or in the original Hebrew: “pri and fluctuations, whose integrity, growth and truly admired his skills. eitz Hadar.” There are many beautiful fruits. and connection with his or her source and Why was the citron chosen? In a brilliant But suddenly Boswell blurted out an nucleus are not compromised by any of life’s interpretation, the Talmud reads the phrase vacillations. unexpected challenge. “Would you like to play “pri eitz Hadar” (“the magnificent fruit of for money, Mr. Hogan?” a tree”) as a reference to the esrog (citron) Many people do well in particular “seasons.” “Charlie, you know I can’t play you for money, since the Hebrew word hadar (“magnificent”) For some, when life is sunny and warm, they it wouldn’t be fair!” said Mr. Hogan. can also be read ha-dar, “that which dwells,” thrive; for others, when life is cloudy and so that the phrase also translates as “the cold, they function well. Dark days bring out Boswell did not flinch. Instead he upped the fruit that dwells on its tree from year to year.” the best in them. Regardless, they are fully ante. “Aw, come on, $1,000 per hole!” Unlike other fruits, which wither and fall off alive only in one season; when you take after a single season, the esrog continues to them out of their “comfort zone,” when you “I can’t. What would people think of me, taking grow on its tree throughout the entire year, remove them from their “natural habitat,” advantage of you and your circumstance,” enduring and growing with each season they often wither away or become detached replied the golfer who indeed was able to see. change. The citron is the only fruit on our from the tree, from their source of life. When “Chicken, Mr. Hogan?” planet “that dwells on its tree from year to life’s waterfalls transport them to new and year.” unexpected situations—they often lose their “Okay,” blurted a frustrated Hogan, “I’ll play. core, their vitality, their truthfulness, their But I warn you, I am going to play my best!” It is a fascinating fact: The esrog can remain steadfastness and courage. fresh and alive on a tree for five years, and just “I wouldn’t expect anything else,” said the continue to grow with each season and each The Torah teaches us to become like an esrog: confident Boswell. year, becoming bigger and bigger. This sets to learn how to endure the diverse seasons the esrog apart from all other fruits, which of life. And even more, just like the esrog, to “You’re on Charlie. I’ll tell you what. You name rots or falls off the tree after its particular learn how to grow and develop from each the time and the place!” season has passed. season and change in our life. For in truth, A very self-assured Boswell responded: “Fine. every new experience in life, affords us the 10 o’clock…tonight!” Weathering Change opportunity to discover new horizons. Yet here is an important question. Why does the Torah refer to the citron in this round- This year, when you shake the esrog, try to The Citron emulate it. “You shall take for yourselves, on the first day about way, as “the fruit that dwells,” rather 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
Unity in Three Dimensions the Talmud cites another of the Torah’s stranger, the orphan, the widow and the other Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe statements regarding the mitzvah of dwelling unfortunate paupers. One who locks the doors Courtesy of MeaningfulLife.com in the sukkah. In Leviticus 23:42 we read: “In of his courtyard and feasts and drinks with his sukkot you shall dwell for seven days; all children and wife, but does not feed the poor n sukkot you shall dwell for seven days; all citizens of Israel shall dwell in sukkot.” In this and the embittered—this is not the joy of the citizens of Israel shall dwell in sukkot verse, the word sukkot, which is the plural mitzvah, but the joy of his stomach.” ILeviticus 23:42 of sukkah, is spelled without the letter vav. This means that the word can also be read Selfish festivity is divisive, accentuating the It is fitting that all of Israel should dwell in a as sukkat, “the sukkah [of],” and the verse differences between the haves and the have- single sukkah can then be understood as saying that “all nots, between the full and empty stomachs of Talmud, Sukkah 27b citizens of Israel shall dwell in the sukkah.” society. But the joy of a mitzvah, joy as defined by Torah, unites. Master and servant, family When is something yours? When you control Explains the Talmud: the Torah wishes to man and loner, wealthy man and pauper, are it? When you have legal and moral right to its imply that the entire nation of Israel may, and all united by the giving and compassionate use? When it is yours alone, to the exclusion ought to, dwell in a single sukkah! Aside from joy of the Jewish festival. of everyone else? Ownership may mean many stressing the brotherhood and equality of all things, depending on the individual and Jews, this also has the legal implication that Nevertheless, even the most generous joy social circumstances that define it. a sukkah need not be exclusively “yours” in cannot be said to achieve a “unity” in the order for you to fulfill the mitzvah of dwelling ultimate sense of the word; at most, it A legal difference between the two major in it. If all Israel may dwell in a single sukkah, introduces a connection between disparate observances of the festival of Sukkot— then the requirement to make it “for yourself” individuals. The pauper remains separated dwelling in the sukkah and acquiring the cannot to be understood in the narrow sense from the rich man by a gulf of status and “Four Kinds”—is one example of the different of exclusive ownership, but in the sense of economic station, as does the servant possible definitions of ownership. Regarding the right to a thing’s use. from the master and the stranger from the both these mitzvot, the Torah stipulates that homesteader. Joyous hearts and giving hands the object of the mitzvah must be “yours”; but Why does the “yours” of the sukkah-dweller extend across these gulfs, but the division the definition of “yours” varies from mitzvah differ from the “yours” of one engaged in the and distance remain. to mitzvah. mitzvah of taking the Four Kinds? Obviously, there is an intrinsic difference between In the case of the Four Kinds, the Torah states: these two Sukkot observances—a difference So to inspire a deeper and truer unity, the Jew that extends to the very identity and self- acquires the Four Kinds on Sukkot. You shall take for yourselves on the first day definition of their observer. [of the festival] the splendid fruit of a tree Taste of Knowledge and Scent of Deed (etrog), fronds of dates (lulav), the branch of The Joy of Giving The Midrash explains that the Four Kinds the thickly leafed tree (hadas), and aravot of Sukkot is the festival that celebrates Jewish represent four spiritual classes within the the brook . . .” unity. Unity is the underlying theme of the community. The etrog, which has both a Our sages explain that the words “You shall festival’s three precepts: joy, the taking of the delicious taste and a delightful aroma, take for yourselves . . .” come to teach us that Four Kinds, and dwelling in the sukkah. represents the perfect individual—one who these must be the absolute property of their is both knowledgeable in Torah and replete All of the festivals are referred to as “occasions with good deeds. The lulav, whose fruit user: one who uses a stolen etrog (or lulav, for joy” (mo’adim lesimchah), but the Torah hadas or aravah), or a borrowed etrog, or even (dates) have taste but no smell, personifies stresses the centrality of joy to the festival the learned but deed-deficient individual— an etrog which he owns in partnership with of Sukkot more than with any other festival. another person, has not fulfilled the mitzvah the scholar who devotes his life to the pursuit Thus, only the festival of Sukkot is defined, in of the divine wisdom, but shuns the active of taking the Four Kinds on the first day of our prayers of the day, as zeman simchateinu, Sukkot. sphere of Jewish life. The hadas’s delightful “The Time of Our Joy.” (Passover is subtitled scent and lack of taste describe the active Regarding the mitzvah of sukkah, the Torah “The Time of Our Freedom,” and Shavuot, “The but ignorant individual. Finally, the tasteless, likewise stipulates, “You shall make, for Time of the Giving of Our Torah.”) Indeed, there scentless aravah represents the Jew who lacks yourself, a festival of sukkot.” But here, the is a unique joy associated with Sukkot—a joy all outward expression of his Jewishness. words “for yourself” are more broadly defined. that reaches its height in the nightly “water- In this case, says the Talmud, the verse comes drawing” celebration held during the festival. On Sukkot, the lulav, hadas, aravah and etrog only to exclude a stolen sukkah; a borrowed And joy, for the Jew, is an exercise in empathy are bound and joined together, reiterating or partially owned sukkah is considered to and communal concern. “You shall rejoice on the underlying oneness of a topically diverse be sufficiently “yours” to satisfy the mitzvah’s your festival,” enjoins the Torah, “you, your people. Whatever may divide the scholarly requirements. son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, from the ignorant and the more observant the Levite, the stranger, the orphan and the from the less so, Sukkot is a time when all To support its broader interpretation are held together in the single hand of Jewish of ownership as applied to the sukkah, widow . . .” In the words of Maimonides: “When one eats and drinks, one must also feed the identity. 15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
integrated body. Rather, the sukkah brings to Halacha of The Week So while the joy of Sukkot introduces a light the oneness implicit in our very beings— By Rabbi Yosef Shusterman unifying give-and-take relationship between the simple and absolute oneness of a people Erev Succos: various segments of the community of Israel, rooted in the utterly singular oneness of their Wednesday, Tishrei 14 ~ October 4 the Four Kinds take this unity a step further, Creator and Source. Eruv Tavshillin integrating us into a single entity. By taking An Eruv Tavshillin must be made. the Four Kinds in hand, we reiterate that, Self and Selves despite our disparities, we are all one. This explains the different ways in which Preparing the Lulav our sages interpret the Torah’s requirement It is customary to “prepare the Lulav” Erev The Enveloping Home of “for yourself” regarding the mitzvot of the Succos in the Succah. One may not use more Despite our disparities, we are all one. For the Four Kinds and of the sukkah. The Jew taking than two Arovos (willow) but many have a disparities remain, as even the unifying Four the Four Kinds is uniting with his fellows in a custom of using more than three Hadassim Kinds express. manner which preserves—indeed, employs— (myrtle). his identity as an individual. Hence the Torah’s The lulav towers above the lot in scholarship use of the word lachem, “for yourselves” (in Chabad custom: and erudition. The hadas exudes its scent of the plural): in addressing the people of Israel With the Lulav’s spine (front) facing you, place good works, while the aravah is marked by as they relate to the Four Kinds, the Torah one Hadas and Arovo on the right side, one its obvious ignorance and fruitlessness. The is speaking to many individuals, each with Hadas and Arovo on the left side, and one etrog, of course, outshines them all with its his or her own unique contribution to the Hadas in the center (leaning slightly toward sublime perfection. Even as they symbolize communal whole. In this context, “yours” is the right). The Arovos are placed behind the the unity of the various segments of Israel, something that is unique to your individual Hadassim so as not to appear too conspicuous. the Four Kinds underscore the differences self; a borrowed or jointly owned object is not The three “minim” are then tied together by between them—indeed, they stress these “yours.” very differences as the complementary three rings (taken from the Lulav). The three components of a one people. Regarding the making of a sukkah, however, rings are placed within one “tefach” (approx. the Torah addresses us in the singular lecha 3.1 inches). Two rings are placed on the Lulav There is, however, yet a higher form of unity (“for yourself”). For the mitzvah of sukkah itself and are covered by the Hadassim and that is realized by the festival of Sukkot. This touches on the intrinsic unity of Israel, a unity Arovos. It is best that each man prepare his is the unity of the sukkah—the unity embodied in which we are all seamlessly one. Here “for Lulav personally. by the structure worthy of accommodating an yourself” is the singular self of Israel; as long entire people within its walls. It is customary for men to go to the Mikveh as your use of a sukkah does not violate the Erev Succos. “The entire nation of Israel may, and ought integrity of this unity (as does the use of a to, dwell in a single sukkah.” For the sukkah stolen sukkah), the sukkah of your fellow is Candle lighting Time is 6:46 p.m. represents a oneness so deep and all- no less yours than your own. The candles should be lit in the Succah. The embracing that all distinctions pale to following two Brochos are recited: “L’hadlik insignificance before it. In sukkot shall you dwell seven days Ner shel Yom Tov” and “Shecheiyonu.”
“Sukkah is the only mitzvah into which a The sukka surrounds the entire person First Night of Succos person enters with his muddy boots,” goes the and one is enjoined to conduct all Wednesday, Tishrei 14 ~ October 4 chassidic saying, and this expresses the very worldly affairs within it for seven days. Maariv begins with “Shir Hamaalos” followed essence of the sukkah. When a person enters The fact that all of a person’s being is by the usual Yom Tov night Maariv. a sukkah, its walls and roofing encompass him encompassed, including his very shoes, Kiddush entirely, and equally encompass his entirety. teaches us that not only through prayer His mind is no more and no less in the sukkah The first night, the Kiddush procedure and study do we worship G-d. The sukka is as follows: than his toes; his heart is simply another teaches that it is also through the occupant of its space, as are his “muddy 1. “Borei Pri Hagofen” physical world that we approach G-d and 2. Bracha of Kiddush boots.” So when the entire nation of Israel draw holiness into our surroundings, as dwells in a single sukkah, the unity expressed 3. “Leshev BaSuccah” it states, “in all your ways shall you know 4. “Shehechiyonu” is one that transcends all differences and Him.” The mitzva of sukka strengthens distinctions between them. On the first night, it is mandatory for all men our realization of this and gives us the to eat at least one “K’zayis” (one ounce) of power to carry out our G-dly mission This is not the unity that is created by our challah in the Succah (even if it is raining). throughout the year. love and compassion for each other. Nor is The “K’zayis” must be eaten after nightfall, it the deeper unity that stems from the way even though the Yom Tov itself may have (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) in which our individual roles, talents and been ushered in before nightfall. strengths complement and fulfill one another, forming the organs and limbs of a single, The challah of Hamotzi is dipped into honey 16 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! three times. Honey is used on the Yom Tov of immediately after “Borei Pri Hagofen.” “Shem” was said, and one reminds himself Succos and Hoshana Rabbah. On Chol Hamoed before beginning “Modim” it is said there (the intermediate days, including Shabbos) its Preparation for the second day is prohibited and then continue with “Modim.” Once the use is optional. until 7:37 p.m. word “Modim” is said (while one is still in the Shmoneh Esrei) one returns to “Retzei.” First Day Succos: Second Night Succos Otherwise the Shmoneh Esrei is repeated. Thursday, Tishrei 15 ~ October 5 Thursday, Tishrei 15 ~ October 5 This applies for all of Chol Hamoed (including Candle lighting time is not before 7:37 p.m. We rise early to perform the Mitzvah of Lulav, Maariv). especially the first time. Bentching Lulav is The candles are lit (in the Succah) from a done (preferably in the Succah) as follows: preexisting flame. The Brochos “L’hadlik Ner Shabbos Morning shel Yom Tov” and “Shehechiyonu” are recited. Tishrei 18 ~ October 7 The Lulav is held in the right hand with the The complete Hallel is said. There are no spine facing you. (One who is left-handed Maariv begins with “Shir Hamaalos” followed by the usual Yom Tov night Maariv. Hoshanos on Shabbos. The Musaf is that of holds the Lulav in the left hand). The Brocho Shalosh Regolim with Shabbos and Chol “Al N’tilas Lulav” is recited. The Esrog is placed One is obligated to eat at least a “k’zayis” of Hamoed insertions are added. in the left hand at the beginning of the Brocho bread in the Succah. If it rains one is permitted “Shehechiyonu.” At the end of the Brocho both to eat the meal in the house and after that Since the Lulav and Esrog are not used on hands are joined so that the Esrog and Lulav it is preferable to eat a “k’zayis” of challah Shabbos, they are therefore Muktzah and may are held together. or bread in the Succah without the bracha of not be moved during Shabbos. Facing east, one shakes the Lulav and Esrog “Leshev B’Succah.” Havdalah is made in the Succah. The Havdalah three times to the right (southeast), three Kiddush is the same as every Motzei Shabbos. B’somim times to the left (northeast), three times The Kiddush procedure is as follows: (note and candle are used. We conclude the forward (east), three times upward, three slight change in order from first day). Havdalah with the Brocho “LeShev BaSuccah.” times downward and three times backwards 1. “Borei Pri HaGofen” Davening (west), bringing it back to the heart after each 2. Brocho of Kiddush of the eighteen motions. Tefillin are not worn on Chol Hamoed. 3. “Shehechiyonu” Complete Hallel, Hoshanos, and Musaf are Hallel 4. “Leshev BaSuccah” said throughout Chol Hamoed. Complete Hallel is said throughout the entire Sukkos (whenever the complete Hallel is said, Second Day Succos: Other Activities Friday, Tishrei 16 ~ October 6 everyone says the opening and closing Sewing, washing clothes (with the exception No Shehechiyonu is made on the bentching of Brochos individually). The Lulav is held in the of very young children’s clothing), writing the Lulav on the second day unless one did right hand throughout Hallel, while the Esrog (unless very important), cutting nails and not do it on the first day. Davening is the is only held during the motions. The Lulav and haircuts are forbidden during Chol Hamoed. same as the first day. Esrog are waved in the manner mentioned Succah above when reciting the following verses. Mincha Women are not obligated to sit in the Succah. 1. “Hodu LaHaShem Kitov” “Posach Eliyahu” and “Y’did Nefesh” are said Although only bread or cake (min. of 2 oz.) 2. “Ana HaShem Hosheea Na” before Mincha. (Hodu is omitted.) must be eaten in the Succah, it is proper that 3. “Ana HaShem Hosheea Na” nothing (even water) should be eaten or drunk Candlelighting time is 6:44 p.m. from a 4. “Hodu LaHaShem Kitov” (the 1st one, not outside of the Succah. The Brocho LeShev preexisting flame. Only the Brocho “L’hadlik the repetition) BaSuccah is made only on bread or cake and Ner shel Shabbos Kodesh” is said. After Hallel we say “Hoshanos.” The chazan even then, only when eating a minimum of 2 begins to say (out loud) from the letters Shabbos Chol Hamoed Succos: oz. (If one is eating only cake, it is preferable “Samech” or “Ayin” at which time the word to remain in the Succah a little longer). Hoshano is added before and after each one; Friday night, Tishrei 17 ~ October 6 while for the previous ones Hoshano is said If one leaves the Succah with no intention only before each one. The Bimah is encircled Maariv of returning within an hour or two, he must starting from the letter Samech or Ayin. Maariv begins with “Mizmor L’Dovid” and say the Brocho “LeShev BaSuccah” again, continues as on every Friday night. (In Boey regardless of when he returns. The same Prior to Kriyas HaTorah we say “Vayihee V’shalom we say “B’simcha,” not “B’rina.”) applies if a person returns to the Succah after Binsoah,” “Ha-Shem, HaShem” (once) and one or two hours; he must recite the Brocho “Brich Shmei.” Two Sifrei Torah are taken In the Shmoneh Esrei, “Ya’aleh V’Yavoh” is added. If one forgets “Ya’aleh V’Yavoh” the again. If one should go from one Succah to out. Musaf l’Sholosh Regolim and Birchas another, the Brocho is recited again and again. Kohanim are recited. following rules apply: If one reminds himself before saying the “Shem” (G-d’s name) at the If one forgets to say the Brocho “LeShev Ba- Kiddush end of the Brocho, he says “Ya’aleh V’Yavoh” Succah,” and one remembers in the course of The Brocho of “Leshev BaSuccah” is said and then returns to “V’Sechezenoh.” If the the meal, he may still make it afterwards—as 17 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! long as he remains in the Succah for a little Levi Yitzchak and the entire community were while. Stories With Soul delighted. But the businessman was sure that he had gotten the better deal. Minhagei Chabad It Once Happened We do not decorate the Succah; nor do we The businessman retired to his lodgings to sleep in the Succah. Our Succah has four walls t was just a day before the festival of Sukkot, prepare himself for the holiday. Unbeknownst and we use a great amount of S’chach. and not a single etrog could be found in all to him, Reb Levi Yitzchak issued an order to Iof Berdichev. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, the Rebbe the entire Jewish community that no one Hoshana Rabba: of Berdichev, and the entire community, were should invite the businessman home for Tuesday Night & Wednesday, concerned about how would fulfll the mitzva the holiday meals. Not only that, under no Tishrei 21 ~ October 10-11 (commandment) of reciting a blessing on the circumstance should anyone invite him into On the night of Hoshana Rabba it is customary “four species” which included the lulav and their sukka. It should be noted that it is a mitzva to stay up the all night. We read the entire etrog. They gathered together in the synagogue (commandment) to “dwell in the sukka” during book of D’vorim from a Chumash. After 1:10 to raise their voices in prayer to the Alm-ghty to the festival. This includes partaking of one’s a.m. (Halachic Midnight), the whole Tehillim is send a miracle, or at the very least, an etrog! The meals in the outdoor, temporary hut. recited with a minyan. hours ticked by and Reb Levi Yitzchak instructed a few of his Chasidim to travel to the crossroads When the services in the main synagogue in Shacharis of the main highway. Perhaps there they would Berdichev were over, the businessman thought Through Hallel, the davening is the same fnd a Jew who was traveling home for the it a little odd that no one invited him to their as the rest of Chol HaMoed. Before Hallel, holiday with an etrog. home and sukka to partake of the holiday meal. however, we remove the two upper rings He returned to the Jewish inn where he was binding the Lulav leaving only the three Indeed, they found a Jew who was on his way staying to contemplate the situation and found bottom rings. Following Hallel, all Sifrei Torah home after a long business trip. He had with him there wine, challahs, and a table covered with are removed from the Aron Kodesh and held a beautiful etrog. But the traveler’s destination mouth-watering food. The businessman was by individuals at the Bimah. All the Hoshanos was not Berdichev; he was merely passing once again baffed. Surely the inn has a sukka. are then recited. As on previous days, the through on his way home to another city. Why did the innkeeper set up the meal in his Chazan begins to say (out loud) starting from room? the alphabetical phrases beginning with the Reb Levi Yitzchak’s Chasidim persuaded the letters “Samech” or “Ayin,” at which time the businessman to stop for a few minutes in order The businessman walked outside and easily word “Hoshano” is added before and after to greet their Rebbe. Reb Levi Yitzchak tried with located the sukka. He looked inside and saw the each phrase. When reciting the previous all his persuasiveness to convince the man to innkeeper and his family gustily singing songs phrases, “Hoshano” is said only before each spend Sukkot in Berdichev. In this way, an entire in honor of the festival. Meekly at frst, and one. The Bimah is encircled starting from the town full of Jews would be able to properly then a bit more aggressively, the businessman letter Samech or Ayin. Since all the Hoshanas perform the mitzva of lulav and etrog. knocked on the sukka door. But what was this? The innkeepers was utterly ignoring him, as if he are recited, the Bimah will be encircled 7 But, alas, the Jew would not agree. He was did not exist at all. times. traveling home to his family whom he had not At the conclusion of the Hoshanos, the Sifrei seen for a long time. What kind of simchat Yom This scene - the businessman knocking at sukkot Torah are returned to the Aron Kodesh, and Tov, joy of the holiday, would be and his family throughout the town and not being invited to the Chazan recites Kaddish Tiskabel. We then have if they were separate for the festival? enter - repeated itself at each sukka he visited. His request to be invited in fell on deaf ears. The take the 5 Arovos branches (Hoshanos), hit Reb Levi Yitzchak increased the pressure in an rumbling in his stomach meant nothing to him them on the ground 5 times, and recite the attempt to convince the businessman. A few compared to the longing in his heart to sit in Yehi Rotzon. Davening then continues the hundred Jews fulflling the mitzva in his merit a sukka on the frst night of the festival. After same as the previous days of Chol HaMoed. wasn’t enough? Reb Levi Yitzchak promised much effort, the businessman fnally managed After reciting Hamotzi on Hoshona Rabba, we the Jew wealth and nachat (pleasure) from his to extract from one of the Chasidim that Rabbi dip the bread into honey. children. But this, too, was refused by the Jew. Levi Yitzchak had decreed that he should not be For, thank G-d, he was already wealthy and he allowed into a single sukka in Berdichev. Eruv Tavshillin had a household of fne children. An Eruv Tavshillin must be made With trepidation and growing panic, the But every man has his price. And so, in businessman went to Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s desperation, Reb Levi Yitzchak offered the man home. “How have I wronged you that you that if he would stay in Berdichev for Sukkot, commanded your Chasidim not to allow me to the Rebbe would assure him that they would be enter their sukkot?” he cried to the Rebbe. together in the World to Come. Calmly but frmly Rabbi Levi Yitzchak demanded, When the businessman heard this offer from “If you will nullify the promise I made to you the Rebbe, he immediately agreed to stay in that we would be together in the World to Come, Berdichev for the festival of Sukkot. Rabbi 18 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
I will tell my followers to allow you into their that this is a dark moment for us, and what we sukkot.” Recently In The News need to do is add as much light as we possibly can.” The businessman weighed his options. He tried using his keen business sense to decide if this Following Deadly Violence He has been working closely with the Israeli was a good deal, or at the very least, not a total in Vegas, a Rabbi Provides consulate and local police as they seek to wash-out. Comfort identify if Israelis are among the victims. As of Monday morning, it is believed that no Israelis “What can I do?” he reluctantly thought to were dead or wounded, with only four remaining himself. “It is indeed a great thing to be assured individuals to be accounted for, according to a place with the Rebbe in the World to Come. Harlig. Looking through lists of names and other However, I have never in my life not fulflled data, he has not located any Jewish people the mitzva of eating in the sukka!” An inner among victims. struggle took place within the businessman. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was very patient and fnally ”Last night, a fellow chaplain told me that he the businessman came to his decision. “All Jews met the parents of a Jewish female who had are sitting in sukkot tonight and I will eat inside n what is being called the deadliest mass been wounded,” said the rabbi, speaking from the house like Ivan? Rebbe, I give you back your shooting in U.S. history, a gunman with the Los Vegas Fusion Center. “There was so much portion in the World to Come so that I may Imultiple weapons at his disposal, stationed in chaos that I did not get her name. It may take fulfll the mitzva of eating in the Sukka. He then a high-foor room at a Las Vegas hotel, rained as many as 12 hours until everyone is properly joyously sat himself down in the Rebbe’s sukka. a rapid-fre hail of bullets on outdoor music- identifed. concert-goers Sunday night, sowing death and When the festival concluded, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak pandemonium. At least 50 have been reported “Right now, people need of our prayers,” he called the Jew to his home.”I am returning my dead and more than 400 people wounded, many continued. “There are families who have been promise. You see, I didn’t want you to merit the of them rushed to nearby hospitals, according to sucked into dark grief, and there are people World to Come as if it were a business deal or local offcials. struggling for their lives in hospitals. Please, bargain. I wanted you to earn your place in the take a moment to say a chapter of Psalms, speak World to Come. So, I caused you to be tested in Rabbi Mendy Harlig, a chaplain with the Las to G-d and ask Him to heal the the hearts that the mitzva of sukka and you have passed. You Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, said it have been broken, the lives that have been have shown true resolve concerning the sukka. has been a long and harrowing night for law shattered and the fractures in our society.” Now you surely deserve an exalted place in the enforcement. World to Come.” Speaking at 7 a.m. local time in a tired voice, the rabbi spoke of offcers who rushed to the scene near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, and soon found themselves under a hail of bullets. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem A Beautiful Etrog “The brave men and women I spoke to took comfort in knowing that they drew the killer’s One of the miracles that occurred when Each Sukkot morning, after performing attention away from civilians,” says Harlig. the commandment of blessing the “Four the Jews made their required pilgrimage to the Holy Temple on the three major Kinds,” the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, “The hotel is familiar to me, and I know the holidays - Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, would people there,” said the rabbi, co-director of - was that although when they stood allow all who wished to use his lulav and Chabad of Green Valley in Henderson, Nev. “I shoulder to shoulder inside the Temple etrog. Many chasidim availed themselves have been there for kosher certifcation and it was so overcrowded one could barely of the opportunity, regarding it as a great other times. This is hitting very close to home move, when they prostrated themselves privilege to perform the mitzva with the for all of us. Rebbe’s set. One day, after the Rebbe’s before G-d there was plenty of room. etrog was returned to him bruised from “The sight of blood on the foor and a truck flled The revelation of G-dliness was not being handled by hundreds of hands, with so many bodies—these are the images only apparent when they bowed down, someone asked him: “Why do you allow seared into my mind, but we need to keep on however. The Jews’ standing together so many people to use your etrog? Look at moving. Each of us is doing our part to extend a in complete unity and harmony was what has happened! It has lost its ‘hiddur’ helping hand wherever we can.” unparalleled anywhere else, yet when it (beauty)!” Replied the Previous Rebbe, came time for each individual to prostrate Harlig, who has been on duty since late last himself and serve G-d in his own unique “This is the most beautiful etrog in the night, plans on spending the day offering world! What greater hiddur can there be way, there was plenty of room for each support to victims and their families, in addition person’s individuality. for an etrog than the fact that hundreds to the hard-working police offcers and hotel of Jews have performed a mitzva with it?” staff. “The feelings are still very raw,” says the (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) rabbi. “The one perspective I can give people is 19 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!
Signs of Renewal in Battered local post offce, where she got her mail, was destroyed. Now, she and her neighbors wait in St. Thomas line at makeshift tables set up in the parking lot Rebuilding begins slowly as aid of a nearby post offce, where they must bring shifts in the right direction an ID and endure other headaches just to pick By Dovid Margolin up their mail. Simple day-to-day chores that most take for granted isn’t so simple anymore. All this, of course, is not to say there aren’t those who still desperately need help. For Margolis, among the most diffcult things has lived on St. Thomas for two decades. to face has been seeing friends and neighbors leave. Some have children who need to be Since Irma, Federman, who established Chabad in school; others have lost their homes and on St. Thomas back in 2006, has been arranging must regroup on the U.S. mainland. Yet many, aid to the island, and says he’s still distributing including some 100 members of the island’s items needed for salvaging, such as tarps. n the second day of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Jewish community, remain. Asher Federman and two young rabbis set “Some of the damage can look minor on “The Jewish community has been the best part Oout on foot, armed with a shofar, to blow the outside, but there’s signifcant structural of this whole story,” she says. “The sense of the ram’s horn for the Jews of St. Thomas. They damage,” he reports. “Add on top of that all the community here is amazing. We’ve always been visited local Jewish community members at their rain and water.” a tight-knit group, but this just showed how homes—people whose lives had been struck by much of a family we all are.” storm once again, this time by Hurricane Maria, Prior to Maria, much of the aid reaching the which followed on the heels of Irma. When Virgin Islands originated in Puerto Rico, but Chabad a Distribution Point since that island was also pommeled on Sept. they reached the damaged and barricaded Jewish Virgin Islanders see themselves very 20, such assistance has ended. Approximately Ritz-Carlton resort, they asked the U.S. Marines much a part of the broader island population, 1,400 kosher MREs (Meals, Ready to Eat) that stationed out front if any of their fellow troops attested to by the aid reaching Chabad and the had been destined for St. Thomas and were were Jewish. Jewish community, and being delivered to all. stuck in San Juan, Puerto Rico, were redirected “Yes,” replied one Marine, “two of us are!” to Chabad of Puerto Rico’s relief efforts there. “Rabbi Asher has been doing an amazing job serving as a distribution point for everyone,” “He told me that one Marine, Noah, had been ‘A Tight-Knit Group’ telling the group about the Jewish new year says Margolis by phone. “I’m actually waiting at On Tuesday, a container of aid, food and vital Chabad’s distribution [point] to pick up diapers the night before,” says Federman, co-director, supplies arrived from Houston via Miami. The with his wife, Henya, of Chabad-Lubavitch of the and food for a family near me that needs help items are being distributed island-wide with right now.” Virgin Islands. “When these two Jewish Marines the help of volunteers, the island’s Health came down, they were shocked. They couldn’t and Human Services Department, and the U.S. With Yom Kippur approaching and Sukkot believe their eyes.” military. Working with the Family Resource around the corner, Federman has, in addition A few of the Marines at the Ritz were from Center, Chabad has been able to bring aid to to the relief work, been planning services and Puerto Rico, which had been hit hard just days women with children, and through the Sea View holiday festivities. He has reached out to the earlier, and they had yet to hear news of their Nursing Home, to the elderly. On Wednesday, local government for curfew passes for the friends and family. The rabbi led a prayer for the volunteers packed 250 packages of supplies to Jewish community so they can attend Kol Nidre safety of their loved ones, and then asked Noah, be delivered to emergency aid workers stationed services on Friday evening, and this week an the Jewish Marine, to recite the blessings on the throughout the island, and by now, thousands of NGO delivered a lulav and etrog to St. Thomas shofar. Then, amid the incongruous surroundings meals have been distributed. for Sukkot. of a devastated Ritz, Federman blew 30 blasts. In the aftermath of Irma, basics such as food and Margolis sees the resonance between the The Virgin Islands are going through an water had quickly dried up, but the situation has High Holidays and her island’s ordeal: “There’s unprecedented crisis. Having been battered by since improved. Stores are slowly stocking up, defnitely a sense now of rebirth and renewal. Hurricane Irma’s winds, Maria brought torrential making it easier for people to obtain what they You can see the trees are starting to bloom foodwaters. need. Nevertheless, challenges abound. Margolis again. It’s certainly an interesting way to bring says that everything must be purchased in cash, in the new year.” “Whatever the frst storm didn’t do, Maria yet only a handful of ATMs are operating on came and fnished off,” says Jewish community the island. The other day she went to fll up member Liza Margolis, a Los Angeles native who her car with gas, but the station was empty. Her 20 Meyer Youth Center The full scoop on all the Youth events and classes
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Weekly Classes Monday Women’s Mikvah: Women’s Study Group Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an At the home of : Please call The Shul for details appointment: 305-866 1492 or 305-323-2410 Tuesday Please Note: Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be Prepaid Prayer Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:15 am 1111 Kane Concourse Suite 618 Tanya Class In Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:00 - 2:30 pm The Shul Sisterhood 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Torah Portion In Spanish Mrs Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm Who we are... The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village and classes geared toward women in the community. Our Wednesday objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am body and soul. Meet new friends, The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective relax and get inspired! Haime Library Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:00 - 3:00 pm If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, please call 305. 868.1411 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village
27 French Connection Reflexions sur la Paracha
Vivre avec la paracha Que s’est-il passé à réussite quand on sait qu’il y a toujours Soukkot? tellement plus à accomplir ? par Naftali Silberberg Par exemple : à Pessa’h, nous célébrons notre liberté. Certes, nous fûmes libérés, lus que toute autre chose, nous mais tant d’entre nous sont toujours recherchons le bonheur dans la vie. La horriblement asservis, à nos emplois, à la P « jeunesse éternelle », c’est bien, mais pression de nos pairs et (par-dessus tout) que vaut-elle si elle n’est pas accompagnée à nos pulsions et nos caprices. À Chavouot, de bonheur ? Pourtant, quelle que soit nous avons reçu la Torah, mais avons-nous l’ampleur de ce que nous accomplissons profité pleinement de ce magnifique don dans la vie, que ce soit matériellement de D.ieu ? ou spirituellement, le bonheur semble demeurer insaisissable pour beaucoup Le vrai bonheur vient de ce que chaque d’entre nous. Il semble y avoir toujours Juif possède intrinsèquement : une relation encore une chose qu’il nous faille accomplir personnelle avec D.ieu. Cette relation avant de pouvoir être vraiment heureux. découle de l’âme divine que chaque Juif En vérité, cependant, tenter d’atteindre le pas donné lieu à des fêtes. possède et qui, il faut l’espérer, s’est bonheur à travers des réalisations ou des révélée à Roch Hachana et à Yom Kippour. succès personnels s’apparente à vouloir La conscience que, quel que puisse être atteindre la richesse en fréquentant des De plus, Soukkot n’est pas « une fête parmi les autres ». Elle est la plus joyeuse des l’état spirituel d’un Juif, cette relation est casinos : on est toujours « tellement toujours là (car après tout, un fils ou une proche » de gagner le jackpot ! Examinons Trois Fêtes bibliquement prescrites. Dans les prières des fêtes, chacune de celles-ci fille continue d’être un fils ou une fille, la nature de la fête de Soukkot, et nous même si il ou elle ne se conforme pas résoudrons ainsi le mystère du bonheur. est désignée par un « titre » qui la décrit : Pessa’h est la « Saison de notre libération exactement aux souhaits de ses parents), déclenche une joie incroyable. Quoi qu’il De prime abord, la fête de Soukkot », Chavouot est la « Saison du Don de notre Torah », mais Soukkot est simplement décrite arrive, vous êtes connecté à D.ieu, et vous présente un aspect assez étrange. être vraiment important pour Lui ! Toutes les autres fêtes du calendrier juif comme la « Saison de notre réjouissance » commémorent un événement ayant eu lieu ! En effet, le Talmud affirme que « celui qui n’a pas connu la Fête du Puisage de l’Eau » Ainsi, à Soukkot, nous quittons la sécurité et à une date en particulier. Pourtant, rien le confort de nos foyers, en reconnaissant ne s’est passé le 15 Tichri qui aurait pu (qui se tenait dans le Saint Temple les nuits de Soukkot) n’a pas vu de joie dans sa vie ! que le vrai bonheur ne vient pas de nos expliquer l’instauration d’une fête en ce maisons joliment décorées, de notre jour. Toutes les autres fêtes célèbrent un » Aujourd’hui encore, il est de coutume de se réunir les soirs de Soukkot pour chanter, mobilier design ou de n’importe lequel événement majeur qui a sauvé le peuple de nos biens ou de nos accomplissements. juif d’un grave danger (comme à Pessa’h, à danser, dire « le’haim ! » et être joyeux (il y a sans doute une célébration dans votre Nous sortons dans la Soukka, que le Hanoukka ou à Pourim) ou qui a changé le Zohar nomme « l’Ombrage de la Foi », et cours de l’histoire juive (comme le pardon région). Mais pourquoi ? Quelle est la raison de l’immense joie de cette fête ? nous nous concentrons sur notre bien le que D.ieu accorda aux Israélites à Yom plus précieux : notre âme divine et notre Kippour ou le don de la Torah à Chavouot), relation spéciale avec D.ieu. alors que Soukkot ne célèbre qu’un miracle Paradoxalement, le secret de Soukkot relativement « mineur », celui des nuées de semble être son absence de grand miracle. gloire qui entouraient miraculeusement les Tous les miracles (ou toutes les réalisations Juifs pendant leurs quarante années dans personnelles) sont limités d’une manière le désert. Au cours de cette même période, ou d’une autre, ce qui entraîne que la joie les Juifs furent aussi les bénéficiaires de qui en résulte est également limitée. La Classes deux autres miracles, celui de la manne et joie est limitée par la portée du miracle ou de l’accomplissement, et lorsque les Thursdays at 12.00 in the Haime Library celui de l’eau produite par le rocher, le « Classes alternate between the following teachers: puits de Myriam ». Pourtant, bien que ces effets du miracle ou de l’accomplissement deux miracles aient sans doute été bien se dissipent, la joie devient une chose du Dr. Hanna Barouk plus importants que celui des Nuées de passé. En outre, il est un dicton de la Michna Rabbi Amar Gloire (en effet, les Juifs n’auraient pas pu qui dit : « Celui qui possède cent désire Rabbi Frankforter Rabbi Gansburg survivre sans eau ni nourriture, alors qu’ils deux cents, et celui qui possède deux cents pouvaient certainement dresser des tentes aspire à quatre cents. » Comment ressentir FOR WOMEN ONLY pour se protéger des éléments), ils n’ont un bonheur absolu suite à une certaine 28 Latin Link Reflexion Semanal
Parasha de la Semana Vivienda Temporaria de piezas y requería de un ejército de Por Yanki Tauber más de 8.000 personas montar -- aunque permanecieran en el lugar apenas una sola Es dueño de una casa? Si lo es, noche. Para un judío, concluyo el Rebe, no probablemente esta tratando de escapar existe tal cosa como simplemente “estar de ¿a un campo abierto. ¡Imagínese, una vida paso” en un lugar. Cada momento en la vida sin pagos de hipoteca, plomería, maquinas tiene importancia, en virtud del hecho que cortacéspedes, lecturas de consumo de Providencia divina nos ha dirigido a este electricidad o sistemas de alarma! ¿Quién punto en particular de tiempo y espacio con acuñó el término “dueño de casa” de de un propósito específico. todos modos”? “Esclavo de Casa” suena mejor. La segunda historia nos cuenta que un visitante, en el hogar del gran rabino Si usted es un vagabundo, probablemente Jasídico DovBer de Mezheritch (D. 1772), fue anhela un hogar. Un punto de permanencia sorprendido por la pobreza que encontró en este globo que gira, un lugar al que pueda allí. El hogar de DovBer estaba pelado de llamar propio. ¿Las alegrías del campo todo mobiliario, excepto de un surtido de abierto? Quizá seria lindo leerlo en una tablones y ásperos bloques de madera que novela de aventuras en un cómodo sillón servían como bancos para sus estudiantes junto al hogar. durante el día y como camas para su familia obliga a comer en ella – la sucá es su hogar, en la noche. ¿“Cómo puede usted vivir así?” y si lloviera en su hogar, usted se trasladaría ¿En que quedamos? ¿Nomade o remolón exigió el visitante. “Yo estoy lejos de ser a otro sitio. Otro ejemplo: Si las paredes son rico, pero por lo menos en mi hogar usted de sillón? ¿Somos seres para los cuales más altas de 20 codos (cerca de 30 pies) no el movimiento es vida y “en descanso” encontrará, gracias a Di-s, las necesidades es una sucá -- no una estructura “temporal”; básicas: algunas sillas, una mesa, camas… “ una inscripción para la lapida? ¿O somos pero si son demasiado débiles soportar un personas arraigadas, para los cuales las viento medio, también se descalifica -- no ¿“De hecho?” Respondió Rabi DovBer. “no transiciones de la vida son tan solo pasos una “vivienda”. para llegar al verdadero hogar? veo ninguno de sus mobiliarios. ¿Cómo usted viaja sin ellos? “ Es decir el Torá quisiera que tomemos una ¿Cómo [uno satisface] el Mitzvá de morar en estructura esencialmente transitoria y que el sucá? Uno debe comer, beber, y vivir en la ¿“Qué significa? Usted piensa que yo estoy la hagamos nuestro hogar permanente. O schlepn (arrastrando) ¿todas mis posesiones sucá, día y noche, como uno vive en su propia bien quisiera que miremos nuestro hogar casa en los otros días del año: durante siete conmigo dondequiera que vaya? Cuando permanente y que entendiéramos que es, viajo, me conformo con lo que haya. Pero días una persona debe hacer de su hogar esencialmente, una estructura transitoria. su vivienda temporal, y su sucá su vivienda en casa -- ¡la casa de una persona es algo totalmente distinto! “ permanente (Shuljan Aruj, Oraj Jaim 639:1). Los Jasidim tienen una costumbre interesante. Cuando deben explicar algo, lo Quizás el ejemplo más interesante sobre “Oh si, seguro” contesto rabi Dov Ber “en casa hacen con una historia. Y luego cuentan otra es totalmente distinto”... esta dualidad de habitante/viajante de historia, demostrando el punto opuesto. nuestra naturaleza es la sucá, esa choza cubierta de ramas que sirve como hogar del Dos historias, entonces. La primera historia judío durante los siete días de la festividad nos lleva a unos 50 años atrás. Un joven Clases y Eventos de Sucot. Porcion Semenal estudiante de Ieshivá estaba a punto de Rabbi Shea Rubinstein emprender un viaje y escribió al Rebe de La definición halajica (ley de Torá) de la Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm Lubavitch una bendición. En su contestación, Orden de rezos diarios y su signifcado mistico sucá es que es una dirat ar’ai, una “vivienda el Rebe impulsó al joven hombre aprovechar temporal”. Si las palabras “vivienda” y (Para Mujeras) la oportunidad de lograr algo positivo en Sra. Vivian Perez “temporal” suenan contradictorias es correcto; cada lugar en el que pararía durante su de hecho, dan lugar a leyes contradictorias Martes 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm viaje. El Rebe utilizó el Mishkán, el santuario 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour con respecto a la construcción y morada de móvil que acompañó al pueblo de Israel en Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 la sucá. 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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 Ms. Lydia Hasson Ext 311 Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 305.992.8363 JLAC / Adult Ed/ Singles Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Ext 342 CYS College / Kolel Rabbi Dov Schochet 305.790.8294 Accounting Mrs. Geri Kelly Ext 341 Controller Mrs. Janice Barney Ext 318 Offce Manager Ms. Stacy Waxman Ext 313 Events / Offce Assistant Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Youth Director / Dinner Mrs Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 329 Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 Shul Gaboim Operations / Maintenance Rabbi Shlomi Katan Ext 319 Mr. Andrew Roth Reception / Accounts Payable Mrs. Mindy Natoli Ext 0 Mr. David Portnoy Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Rabbi Henry Eichler Pre-School Mrs. Chana Lipskar Ext 325 Mr. Ettai Einhorn Sephardic Minyan Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 305.865.4205 Mr. David Ben-Arie Hebrew School / Editor Mrs. Aurit Katan 786.382.9006 Mr. Seth Salver Hashkama Minyan Mr. Lazer Milstein 305.349.3040 Mashgiach Mr. Mordechai Olesky 786.262.9115
Board of Trustees Foundation Trustees Ambassador Isaac Gilinski - Chairman Mike Izak Albert Pollans - President Simon Falic Alberto Kamhazi Jaime Gilinski Sidney Feltenstein Shmuel Katz M.D. David Lichter Matias Garfunkel Leo Kryss Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Jaime Gilinski Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Max Gilinski Lazer Milstein Saul Gilinski Michael Perez Board of Directors Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Mitch Feldman – President Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Abel Holtz Morris Tabacinic Eric Stein – Vice President Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Joel Baum CPA – Treasurer Lazer Milstein Executive Committee Rabbi Zalman Lipskar – Secretary Orit Osman Mitchell Feldman - Chair Bruce Gelb Devorah Leah Andrusier Brian Roller Janice Barney Daniel Gielchinsky Eli Dominitz Yaacov Saidof Maurice Egozi David Schottenstein Joel Baum CPA Evelyn Katz Henry Eichler Daniel Shapiro Max Benoliel Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar Daniel Gielchinsky Daniel Sragowicz Dovid Duchman Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Jacob Givner Cynthia Stein Steven M. Dunn Ryan Shapiro Nicole Katz Kavana Michael Tabacinic Maurice Egozi Marc Sheridan Gregory Levine Jose Yankelevitch Velvel Freedman Eric P. Stein 33 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul
DAILY CLASSES SUNDAY MONDAY
Derech Mitzvosecha 6:20 - 6:50 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am In Depth Chumash 1:30 pm PHL 101 PHL-301 PHL-501 Rabbi Z. Lipskar TXT 220 Rabbi Dov Schochet TXT-110 Rabbi Dov Schochet Daf Yomi 7:45 - 8:45 am Tanya - Sichos 8:00 - 10:00 pm Insights to our Daily Prayers TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband (Spanish) 8:45 - 9:45 pm PHL-120 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic 8:45 am Reb Shimshon Tzubeli Women’s Study Group 8:30 - 10:00 pm TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Chassisdic Discourses 10:15 - 11:00 am At the home of: Please call The Shul PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi S. Rubinstien for details Community Kollel (Men) 8:00 - 9:30 pm (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 Shul Rabbis & Kolel
TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
Women’s Morning Torah Class Parsha (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy 12:00 - 1:00 pm 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Pirkei Avot ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 10:00 - 11:30 am TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar i TXT-501 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Women’s Tanya Class In Depth Tanya Class (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) (Spanish) 2:00 - 2:30 pm 11:30 - 12:30 pm 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom Lipskar TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Tanya Class - English 1:00 - 2:00 pm Sukkot Women’s Torah Portion Class French Class Will Resume in Fall PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez (Spanish) 2:30 - 3:45 pm 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 12:00 pm Haime Library TXT-110 Mrs. Vivian Perez Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village SpanishWill Kolel Resume - Chassidus in Fall 8:00 - 10:00 pm 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202
NUMERIC CODES INDICATE ALL CLASSES LOCATED CYS COLLEGE COURSES AT THE SHUL VISIT WWW.CYS-COLLEGE.ORG UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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