B”H The Shul weekly magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Parshas Tazria Parshas Hachodesh Shabbos Rosh Chodesh 29 Adar 2 - 1 Nissan April 5-6 Candle Lighting: 7:21 pm Shabbos Ends: 8:14 pm The Shul - Chabad Lubavitch - An institution of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson (May his merit shield us) Over Thirty five 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.TheShul.org Email: [email protected] www.TheShul.org Email: [email protected] www.theshulpreschool.org www.cyscollege.org The Shul Weekly Magazine Everything you need for every day of the week Contents Nachas At A Glance Weekly Message 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar The Shul Teens early morning Chassidus Celebrating Shabbos 4-5 Schedules, classes, articles and 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 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 9 -15 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 16-19 The full scoop on all the great events around town French Connection 20 Reflexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 21 Reflexion Semanal In a woman’s world 22 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman Networking 23-24 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 25 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study 26 A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul Get The Picture The full scoop on all the great events around town 27-28 Quotable Quote When in doubt, pause and say this acronym to yourself: WAIT, which stands for: Why Am I Talking? Just as we use the gift of speech for the good, let’s learn to use the gift of silence Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Tazria / Shabbos Hachodesh To know death one must know life. What is life? Is it existence with the aforementioned symptoms? If one’s heart is beating and brain he names of the 53 waves moving but is in a deep coma, is that life? Of course it is portions of the Torah technically and legally living, but is that life? T are significant and give an essential identity to True life has eternal quality that never ceases and contributes a the general theme of that sense of meaning and purpose to everything and everyone it portion. The portion that contacts. Before we read the Torah from the Torah Scroll we we read this week contains proclaim the verse “And you who connect with the Lord your G-d are seemingly opposite and even all alive today”. “The Torah is the tree of life to those who hold onto contradictory concepts. it”, “G-d is called alive”. The Torah teaches us that we each have a choice for life or death as it states clearly “I hereby give you today The literal translation of life and good and death and bad – choose life”. Tazriah means to give forth seed – be impregnated – When we are born, we are given the opportunity to utilize the relating to birth and life. The eternal life that has been imbued in us by G-d to vitalize our portion begins with the laws physical body wherein that life force (soul) is contained and sanctify pertaining to a woman who has given birth and the obligation to every space that we will contact in our time span in this physical circumcise a son on the eighth day. The balance and majority of world. That effort and objective requires a total commitment to this portion relates to the laws of Metzorah, a leper – one who G-d. This unconditional commitment is represented by circumcision, has been infected by a dermatological eruption, abrasion, rash beginning a life devoted to G-d’s directives. This is true life. When or discoloration that renders him/her impure, contaminated and one, however, utilizes his life force to beget negativity ie. gossip, tale spiritually defiled. (It is important to note that this condition was bearing, character assassination and selfishness, then life is wasted not a medical or biological malady but one that resulted from and usurped and integrated into a state of death (Metzorah). spiritual malfunction.) This particular state is the harshest kind of impurity requiring excommunication and quarantine. In fact, our The word for Truth in Hebrew is Emes – which is one of G-d’s Rabbis state that a Metzorah is considered like a dead person. The signatures and represents eternity. It consists of three letters Aleph, degree of spiritual impurity engendered by the Metzorah is more Mem and Sof. Aleph represents the Master of the Universe – Mem extreme than even the defilement caused by a dead person. The and Sof make up the word Mes – meaning death – when the Aleph/ proximity of these two concepts and their integration into a single Hashem is there then you have Emes – truth – eternity. When, weekly portion must have significance. however, the Aleph is absent then you are left with Mes – death. As completely and extremely polarized that life and death are from Let us utilize our potential to bring life to oneself and to our each other, they are like two sides of a common coin - two realities entire world in preparation for Moshiach when “all impurity will be that are divided by the thinnest demarcation that often blurs removed from our world” and “death” will be abolished forever”. their distinction. Life can at times be death and death, life. Our Rabbis teach that “Righteous even in death are considered alive” Have a good Shabbos and a great week. while “Evil ones even in their life are considered dead”. As much as life and death are biological and chemical, and are measured and determined by physical factors i.e. breathing, heart beat, brain function, blood flow etc., there is another dimension to these states of being. Have you ever heard or experienced a comment or feeling “He/she is like a dead person”, “There is no life in him”, “I have no desire to live” or similar statements. Rabbi Sholom. D. Lipskar 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle Morah Malkie’s Chayale Lipskar Tot Shabbat Tot Shabbat 2 Ages: 0 - 3 Pre1 - K 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: 1) a) Where does the number 33 appear in this parsha? b) Where in the Back of Women’s Back of women’s Section section Torah and in the Prophets is the number 33 mentioned? 2)What two other places in the book of Levitcus is there a commandment not to tear clothing? 3) In this parsha, what word must a leper call out twice? What other law (in the book of Numbers) requires someone to call out a word twice? Sara Fraida Katan Raquel Gilinski Aleph Wonder Girls Pre Tween Girls Answers from last week: 1) (1) In parshas Tazria, the Torah describes the mitzvah of circumcision, Grades: 1 - 3 Grades: 4 - 5 10:00 am - 12:00 pm which is performed on the eighth day after the baby boy’s birth 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Leviticus 12:3). (2) In parshas Emor and parshas Pinchas, the holiday Montessori 2 of Shmini Atzeres is described as the additional eighth day added on to Montessori 1 the holiday of Sukkot (Leviticus 23:36, 39 and Numbers 29:35). 2)The expression “And a fire came out from before Hashem” is used to describe consuming the korban olah (burnt offering) and its fats (Leviticus 9:24), and also to describe the consuming of Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron, who brought a foreign fire into the Tabernacle (Leviticus 10:2). 3) In parshas Korach, the 250 men who attempted to bring incense Mendel Schwartz Mushky Segall during the rebellion of Korach are consumed in “a fire came out from Youth Boys Tween Girls Hashem” (Numbers 16:35). In parshas Beha’alotecha, regarding the Grades: 6 - 8 complainers, the Torah states: “And a fire of Hashem burned against Grades: 1 - 4 them” (Numbers 11:1). 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm RIDDLE RULES Montessori3 Back Office Answers to the riddles can be given to Rabbi Shaykee Farkash any time over Shabbos. The first child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize! Pinchas Gansbourg Davening With Dad Deby Farkash Yitzchak Pruss Pre-Tween Boys Teen Girls Teen Boys Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 5 - 6 Grades: 9th - 10th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Montessori 3 Teen Girls Room Haime Library Sephartdic Shul 4 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is available for sponsorship. Shabbos Schedule Shalosh Seudos This Week: Early Minyan 6:00 p.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is sponsored by Sarah Libke Caplin Candle lighting 7:21 p.m. in honor of her beloved husband’s Yarhzeit, Mordechai Yaakov Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 7:25 p.m. ben Avraham obm. May his neshama have an aliyah. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:15 a.m. Tanya / Hayom Yom 8:50 a.m.