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Contents Nachas At A Glance

Weekly Message 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from 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 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

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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 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 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. / 8:50 a.m. the caterer for this week’s Shacharis (Morning Services) 9:00 a.m. Children’s Programs 10:00 a.m. kiddush and Shalosh seudos is Upstairs Minyan 10:30 a.m. Food Art Kiddush 12:00 p.m. Daf Yomi 6:10 p.m. Men’s 6:10 p.m. Women’s Shiur 6:10 p.m. Shalosh Seudos for Boys 6:10 p.m. Mincha 7:10 p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv 8:14 p.m. Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually) Sephardic Minyan Friday Evening Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 7:10 p.m. The following dates are available for sponsorship:

Shabbat Day Shacharit 9:00 a.m. Kiddush Shalosh Seudos Mincha 7:10 p.m. April 6, 13, 20, 27 April 13, 20, 27 Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 8:14 p.m. If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Milena at 305-868-1411 ext 328 or email [email protected]

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Eruv Information We would like to emphasize that every Erev Shabbos, individuals should call the Eruv Hotline to make sure that the Eruv is operational. The number to call is 305- 866-ERUV (3788). The Eruv message is recorded approximately two hours prior to candle lighting. Surfside: The Eruv in Surfside now includes the walking paths along the beach. Pushing strollers and carrying is permitted on the paths, but not beyond the path or onto the beach. Bal Harbour: The Eruv in Bal Harbour included the inner (western) walking path only. The pier at Haulover Cut is not included.

To pay your annual dues visit: www.miamibeacheruv.com 5 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Birthdays Yahrtzeits 1 Nissan Mrs. Luisa Behar 1 Nissan Tzvi ben Moshe obm 1 Nissan Mr. Danny Benoliel Father of Mr. Morris Tuchman 1 Nissan Mr. Eli Bouhnik 1 Nissan Chana bas Yosef obm 1 Nissan Mrs. Helene Gassner Mother of Mr. Lawrence Jaffe 1 Nissan Mr. Israel Kopel 2 Nissan Rechel obm 1 Nissan Mr. Levi Yitzchok Rosenblum Mother of Rabbi Ezzy Rappaport 2 Nissan Mr. Eliyahu Adouth 2 Nissan Sarah obm 2 Nissan Mr. Benjamin David Givner Mother of Mr. Guido Fraiman 2 Nissan Mrs. Lillian Tabacinic 5 Nissan Fruma Esther bas Yaakov HaCohen obm 2 Nissan Ms. Shoshana Wolf Mother of Mr. Edward E. Kopelman 3 Nissan Mrs. Judith Adouth 6 Nissan Moshe Chaim ben Yidel obm 3 Nissan Mr. Nelson Berman Father of Ms. Marilyn Cohen 3 Nissan Mr. Jacob J. Givner 6 Nissan Yisroel ben Chaim obm 3 Nissan Mr. Gary Retelny Father of Mrs. Rosita Zelcer 3 Nissan Ms. Judie Weinbach 6 Nissan Menachem Mendel ben Sholom obm 4 Nissan Ms. Ludivine De Vitton Father of Mr. Mordechai Gottlieb 4 Nissan Mr. Larry Dekelbaum 6 Nissan Shraga Faivel ben Dovber obm 4 Nissan Mrs. Bahee Salver Father of Rabbi Berel Zisman 4 Nissan Mr. Jonathan Sher 7 Nissan Susan Jane obm 5 Nissan Ms. Michal Dror Sister of Mr. Richard Moore 5 Nissan Ms. Maxime Dunn 5 Nissan Mr. Michael Freund 5 Nissan Ms. Blima Weinschneider 6 Nissan Mrs. Esther Davit 6 Nissan Mrs. Ravit Feldman Mazal Tov 7 Nissan Mr. Gideon Azari Mazel tov to Mr. & Mrs. Eli and Shena Dominitz on the birth of a son. 7 Nissan Mr. Scott Cohn May they raise him to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much 7 Nissan Dr. Ronald Dozoretz nachas from him. Mazal Tov also to the grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Simon 7 Nissan Mr. David Egozi and Jana Falic and to the great grandparents, Mrs. Nili Falic and Mrs. 7 Nissan Mr. Avi Schottenstein Poala Lekach.

Kid’s Birthdays Condolences 1 Nissan Esther Laoui Our heartfelt condolences go out to Mrs. Dobie Rubinstein on the 2 Nissan Benjamin Lamet passing of her grandmother, Rebbetzin Shula Kazen obm. May her dear 3 Nissan Chava Gewirtz soul be bound with the Eternal Bond of Life. May the family be comforted 3 Nissan Moses Goldfarb among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. 6 Nissan Rivka Ginsburg 6 Nissan Benjamin Hakmon 7 Nissan Emmanuelle Zohara Freidman Volunteers Needed After every Kiddush and event, The Shul donates the Anniversaries left over food to organizations or families in need. Mr. & Mrs. Ettai & Rotem Einhorn Mr. & Mrs. Adam & Michelle Weinberg We are looking for volunteers to help collect and Mr. & Mrs. Dan & Carolina Goldfarb wrap the food. Dr. & Dr. Howard & Tamar Levene Mr. & Mrs. Avrom Chaim & Rose (Rosalia) Zelmanovitch If you would like to help please contact the Mashgiach, Mordechai Olesky after the Kiddush. Community service hours will be awarded.

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Nissan Light & Power Thanks To Our Donors Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah for We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul the month of Nissan is Kindly Sponsored by for donations received between 3/26/19 and 4/01/19 We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Mr. Daniel Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Chanoch Alperovitz Mr. Martin Lustgarten Mr. & Mrs. Cedric Moise Amanou Mr. & Mrs. Harry Mamane Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Amram Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Matz “In honor of my dear Father, Mr. & Mrs. Dan Arev Mr. Daniel Minkowitz Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Azari Dr. & Dr. Raul Mitrani Dov ben Yaacov” Mr. & Mrs. Jonah Bardos Mr. & Mrs. Yaakov Mizrachi “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. & Mrs. Danny Barouk Mr. Glenn D. Moses pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Joel Baum Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Musikar and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Mr. Lawrence Blenden Mr. & Mrs. Isser New occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed Mr. Jeffrey Bookman Mr. & Mrs. Jack Osman be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mr. & Mrs. Isaie Bouhadana Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Ostrowiak body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Brenner Mr. & Mrs. Shlomo Peretz together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Mr. & Mrs. Eliyahu Bryski Mr. & Mrs. Shabtai Plutno Rabbi & Mrs. Betzalel Camissar Mr. Albert Pollans Rabbi & Mrs. Uri Cohen Mr. Ari Propis Rabbi & Mrs. Shlomie Diamont RDB Consulting and Trading Refuah Shleimah Mr. Ashley Diener Mr. & Mrs. Levi Yitzchok If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to Mr. & Mrs. Eli Dominitz Rosenblum keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. Dr. & Mrs. Brian Dooreck Mr. S. Rothschild MEN WOMEN Mr. & Mrs. Dovid Duchman Mr. & Mrs. Uri Rotlewicz-Spiwak Isaac Gilbert ben Nelly Esther Chaya Sara bat Leah Bentzion ben Naomi Rachel Margalite Sonia Simcha bat Sultana Mr. & Mrs. Zalman Duchman Mr. & Dr. Yehuda Sabach Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Tzipora Pnina bas Slava Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Egozi Mr. & Mrs. Jason Saka Shlomo Yaakov ben Chaya Sarah Feige bas Krandel Rabbi & Mrs. Henry Eichler Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Salver Rochel Tziporah Pnina bas Slava Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Englard Mr. & Mrs. Seth Salver Chaim Zelig Ben Eidel Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Chava Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Failer Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer Ari ben Na’ama Clara bat Corina Ms. Marta Feigenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schnapp Tzvi Yitzchak ben Chaya Rivka bat Shoshana Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Feltenstein Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Schneider Baruch Raphael ben Fraida Miriam bat Risha Raizel Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Gilbert Franco Mr. & Mrs. Aryeh Schottenstein Aryeh Leib ben Sura Henya Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Dr. & Mrs. Reuven Freedman Mr. Jeremy Schwalbe Rafael Maya ben Sol Chana bas Shoshana Mr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Gellman Mr. & Mrs. David Schwartz Aaron ben Tamar Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Mr. & Ms. Shaya Gheblikian Mr. & Mrs. Steven Schwartz Raphael Moshe ben Miriam Chava bas Elka Menucha Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Mrs. Fanny Selesky Meyer Yankev ben Chaya Etel Chaya bas Rachel Mr. & Mrs. Eli Ginsburg Mr. & Mrs. Fred Shainbaum Alexander ben Esther Raizel Fayge bas Chaya Mr. & Mrs. Dan Goldfarb Mr. & Mrs. Bentzy Shemtov Raphael Moshe ben Sarah Miriam Leah bas Helen Mr. & Mrs. Josh Greisman Mr. & Mrs. Abe Mark Sher Moshe ben Zoila Mr. & Mrs. Salomon Grosfeld Mr. & Mrs. Effi Shmuel Moshe Avraham ben Tziporah Riva Mr. & Mrs. Sharon Hakmon Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol Chaim ben Pnina Mr. & Mrs. Mendy Halberstam Sragowicz Foundation Gabriel ben Esther Mr. & Mrs. Roshi Handwerger Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Sragowicz Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel Ms. Lydia Hasson Mr. & Mrs. Moishe Susskind Mr. & Mrs. Michael Henesch Mr. & Mrs. Simon Tisminesky Mr. & Mrs. Moishe Hersman United Jewish Generations Mr. Irving Hoine Mr. & Mrs. Ezzy Wasserman Community Notice Board: Mr. & Mrs. Meir Izak Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weintraub If you have a new or slightly used Shaitel that you Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Jaimovich Mr. & Mrs. Moises Wertheimer would like to donate to The Shul Sisterhood Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jaimovich Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh Wuensch Mr. & Ms. Morris J. Kaplan Mrs. Pnina Wuensch Please Contact Ms. Shay Kardonski Ms. Belinda Zaret & Ms. Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Kavana Liv-Tiferet De Vitton Rabbi & Mrs. Joseph Kazarnovsky Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ziefer Dr. & Mrs. Richard Koffler 7 A Time to Pray Davening schedules and locations throughout the week

Daily Learning Schedule at The Shul 6:20 -6:50 am The Rebbe’s Maamorim Chassidic Discourse R’ Zalman Lipskar 7:45 am Daf Yomi R’ Dov Schochet 8:45 am (approx) Halacha Sephardic Custom R’ Shimshon Tzubeli 10:15 - 11:00 am Maamorim Maamor of the Rebbe R’ Shea Rubinstein

Shacharis Minyanim (mon - Fri) Sunday Shacharis Minyanim Main Minyan 6:50 7:30 9:00 Main Minyan 8:00 am 9:00 am Sephardic Minyan 8:00 Sephardic Minyan 9:00 am

Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan

mincha / Maariv Minyanim (mon - Thurs) Sunday Mincha /Maariv Minyanim Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 7:25 pm 10:00 pm Sephardic Minyan 7:25 pm Following Main Minyan 7:25 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 April 10 for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily.

Daniella Malka bat Natanya Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:49 am Menachem Mendel haLevi ben Hanna Guenendel Earliest Talit & Tefillin 6:21 am Menachem Mendel ben Aurit Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 7:03 am Eden Chana bat Karine Cecile (Earliest Amidah) Benyamin Aharon ben Jeniya Gila Rut Latest Shema 10:10 am Zman Tfillah 11:14 am Chatzot / Midday 1:22 pm Earliest Mincha 1:54 pm Plag HaMincha 6:26 pm Shekiah / Sunset 7:41 pm (Preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 8:05 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)

Times taken from www.chabad.org Please note that during the week times may Vary by a minute or two. If anyone would like to send us the name of a soldier in the IDF we would love to add them. 8 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Hayom Yom In the winter of 1942, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. , of righteous memory, gave his son- in-law, the future Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, the task of compiling an anthology of Chasidic aphorisms and customs arranged according to the days of the year. The calendar was entitled Hayom Yom. In describing this work Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak wrote: …”A book that is small in format…but bursting with pearls and diamonds of choicest quality.” “A splendid palace of Chasidism.” True to these words, Hayom Yom has become a beloved classic work and a source of daily spiritual sustenance. Friday - 29 Adar 2 Wednesday - Nissan 5 My father said at a : G‑d created the My grandfather commented on the saying, “The universe and all physical objects yeish mei’ayin, place of man does not honor him; rather man something from nothing. Jews must transform honors his place.” The term, kavod, “honor,” has the “something” into “nothing,” transform the two implications. One is kaveid, “liver,” as the material into spiritual. The avoda of turning the Torah says, “Pharaoh’s heart is kaveid (“heavy”), physical into spiritual and making the physical and the Sages comment, “His heart became like into an instrument for the spiritual, is a personal a liver,” (cold, insensitive). The other meaning obligation. Every single person, individually, is is kavod, “honor,” signifying the revelation of a required to do this. supernal encompassing illumination. Shabbos - Nissan 1 “The place of man does not honor him”: Place My father instructed his brother-in-law, R. Moshe (and circumstances) do not make him cold and Horenstein, a kohein, to say Yehi ratzon after the insensitive. Rather, “Man honors his place,” man nassi, noting that even a kohein or leivi must say has the capacity and the power to illuminate his it, for it is related to ibur. environment (“place”) with the light of Torah and avoda. Sunday - Nissan 2 When the soul descends into the body, it is Yahrzeit of my father the Rebbe, (R. Sholom Codes, but not daily. During the course of the year he would conclude the entire Midrash administered an oath to be a , This oath, Dovber) who passed away on Saturday night, 2 sh’vua, implies sova, “satiety”; the person is Nissan 5680 (1920), in Rostov, and is interred Raba, “borrowing” from the long sedrot and “repaying” on the shorter ones. generously endowed with eminent powers to be there. able to fulfill G‑d’s intention in having the soul descend (into the material world). And just as it The first maamar he (R. Sholom Dovber) Tuesday - Nissan 4 The avoda of laymen has two categories: is with the soul’s descent, so is it also with every delivered after the passing of his father (the person, in whatever place he may be. Rebbe Maharash) was on the second day of Chol Hamoed Sukot 5643 (1882), beginning 1) Avoda with self: When actually at work, in a Thursday - Nissan 6 yitnu l’cha etc. The last public maamar in free moment in his store, for example, he should Experience has shown that with less his lifetime was delivered at the Purim repast study a Mishna or two, or a chapter of Tanya. speculation,* but working with orderliness and 5680, beginning Reishit goyim Amalek...keitz He should commit some Torah to memory - for firmness, in accord with the “pleasantness” sam lachoshech. example, Chumash, Mishna, Tehillim, Tanya, so of Torah (with the “right hand bringing close that he will be able to review these while in the and the left hand rejecting”) one is certain to Monday - Nissan 3 marketplace, the street or wherever. achieve results, especially in matters concerning Among my father’s regular Torah-study sessions: the fundamentals of our religion. 2) Avoda with another: When discussing A parsha of Chumash with Rashi daily; reciting Friday - Nissan 7 Tanach by heart - a chapter each of Torah, business, he should turn the conversation The Alter Rebbe’s family name was Baruchovitch. Nevi’im and Ketuvim; a chapter of Mishnayot; towards introducing a story with content, and seek some reason or opportunity to stimulate a regular session in profound study of Gemara The Mitteler Rebbe’s family name was Schneuri. - two folio pages weekly, another in rapid study the other to study Torah, or to do similar of Gemara - three pages daily; a session of study activities. The Tzemach Tzedek’s family name was of the Jerusalem Talmud; a regular period for Schneersohn. 9 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Storming Heaven

Selfless in a Selfish World an one be selfless in a selfish world? This is one of the great moral questions plaguing Cmankind from the beginning of time. Some argue that all people are fundamentally selfish creatures, driven by self-interest and survival. Even when we see glimpses of nobility, these are but anomalies amidst the predominant narcissism of the human race. Others adamantly disagree and feel that the human soul, created in the Divine Image, is fully capable of selfless behavior. But, even according to this altruistic view, it is undoubtedly difficult, if not impossible, to maintain a selfless attitude amidst all the selfishness surrounding us. The only way to to end. First of all, aren’t debates exclusive to eloquent explanation, demonstrating how a preserve our integrity, this perspective claims, is the human condition on earth, where there seemingly obscure Talmud is both brilliantly by separating ourselves (to some extent) from are doubts and conflicting interests between coherent as well as illuminates for us one of the the powerful social currents and pressures to mortals? How is there room for a debate in most fundamental and relevant lessons in the conform and compromise our selfless souls in heaven where everything should seem clear and human moral struggle. true, without any acrimony and disagreement? order to compete and survive in an embattled The laws of the “leprous curse” (negah tzaraat), environment driven by “survival of the fittest.” Even more perplexing is the fact that the “entire discussed in this week’s double Torah sections Some form of asceticism seems necessary in academy of heaven” is arguing and disagreeing of Tazria (Leviticus 12-13) and Metzora (14- order to remain moral in an immoral world. with “The Holy One, Blessed be He”? It’s one 15), is in essence the story of spiritual illness Where then does that leave us? It’s seems like thing that flawed and arrogant humans on earth – a misalignment between the body and the an impossible choice: Either we must succumb should quarrel with G-d (and feel entitled to do soul, between our material drives and our to some selfishness in order to make it; or we so), but how is it possible that an “academy in transcendent yearnings, between who you are have to remove ourselves from regular life to heaven,” and all its members without exception, and what you do, resulting in the battle between protect our virtue. should dispute G-d’s opinion, and in a Torah matter and spirit and all the other struggles that matter?! Wouldn’t G-d be the best One to plague human beings. An enigmatic debate in… heaven (of all places) interpret a law in His Own Torah?! about the leper (of all things) in this week’s Tumah (usually inadequately translated as Torah portion, resolved by a human (of all And what exactly is the argument about? “White impurity) is a state of negative energy, made creatures), sheds light on this timeless dilemma. patches” and “white hairs,” and which precedes possible when the body is not aligned with The Talmud relates the following episode (Bava which! Does G-d have nothing better to do then the soul’s life force. Every illness (physical or Metzia 86a): debate the intricacies of leper laws? (He could spiritual) is some form of compromise of one’s leave that for Rabbis to debate endlessly…) life energy not being able to flow smoothly and It was debated in the academy of heaven: If the Doesn’t G-d have more serious problems to seamlessly through the entire body. white patch precedes the white hair, it is impure; address – say, help alleviate our human suffering if the white hair precedes the white patch, it is – than to quibble about these nuances? The psychological root of the negative energy pure; but what if there is doubt (as to which (tumah) in spiritual illness is arrogance: When came first)? The Holy One, Blessed be He, said: And who is this Rabbah bar Nachmeini and what someone is selfishly consumed with his own “It is pure.” is the significance of him resolving this dispute? interests, blocking out others needs, his soul Commentaries explain that “Torah is not in energy is drained from him. G-d, the Talmud says, The entire academy of heaven said: “It is impure.” heaven,” and therefore the legal ruling must be cannot dwell under the same canopy together Said they: “Who shall decide it for us? Rabbah determined from a sage in Earth? But what did with an arrogant person; there simply is no bar Nachmeini.” For Rabbah bar Nachmeini had Rabbah bar Nachmeini know more than G-d to room for both… (Healing this disease therefore declared: “I am singular in the laws of tzaraat rule accordingly? requires immersion in a mikvah, called tevilah, (leprosy)…” They dispatched a messenger [to which is the same letters as bittul, selflessness – bring him to heaven]… Said [Rabbah]: “Tahor, Cryptic is definitely an appropriate way to the antithesis and antidote to arrogance). tahor (‘Pure, pure’).” describe this Talmudic passage. Thus, the identifying mark of a leper was a This exchange seems strange from beginning Chassidic thought offers us an absolutely “white patch” appearing on his skin (or in other 10 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! areas of his environment) and “white hairs” declare him “pure.” Are We Having Fun Yet? growing from that spot, reflecting that the soul’s By Shalom Paltiel life and vitality (“blood is the life/soul”, dam hu But this still suggests that to be selfless and ha’nefesh) have been drained from this part of pure one has to remove himself from earthy onder this. Do human beings favor consistency the body. desires and elevate to a heavenly state. True, or change? Do we prefer that which is familiar, the Divine perspective sees man as essentially Por something different and new? Still, a white patch alone does not yet indicate a pure and selfless (as opposed to the heavenly negative state (“tumah”). But when we see white academy, which sees primarily the impurity), Which would you prefer: dining at the same hairs sprouting in the white patch — when we but only by virtue of man’s Divine soul. The restaurant every night, or never eating at the same see dead things feeding on this dead place, questions remains: Can man – as a soul in a place twice? Growing old with the same set of indicating that the lifelessness has given birth very physical and selfish body – also experience furniture, or refurnishing your home every Sunday? to selfish characteristics and behaviors of the selflessness and purity? Your trusted old Chevy from your college years, or a person — we have a full-blown case of spiritual brand new vehicle every week? illness (tumat (tzaraat). We all have potential Enter Rabba bar Nachmeini, who delivers the My guess is—neither. We seem to want a change elements of arrogance in our beings, but when verdict: G-d vested the power of the Divine once in a while, but we also like to become the arrogance takes hold and become a breeding Essence (Atzmus) in the human being on Earth – comfortable with what is ours. Yes, when we’re tired ground for the ugliest in human nature. Such a a power greater than heaven itself, even greater of the old car it’s nice to get a new one; but for a condition indicates that the person has to some (kavyochol) than “The Holy One” Himself (which while it actually feels nice holding on to “my” car. extent abandoned his commitments to life and refers to the Divine dimension that transcends Vacations are wonderful when we need a change productivity, leaving behind a hollow, selfish and existence, but not the Divine Essence) – to of scenery; nevertheless, there’s no place like home. lifeless self that is a breeding ground for what is determine the Torah ruling whether corporeal humans are inherently selfish or selfless. worst in human nature. Bottom line, we want a little bit of both: consistency and change, routine and excitement. Hence the law that a white hair is a symptom Rabbah bar Nachmeini was “singular in the laws of tzaraat.” He was a human being, but a human of tzaraat only when “the white patch precedes The teaches that these two characteristics being who had so thoroughly refined himself, so the white hair,” indicating that this dead growth in human nature derive from two distinct G‑dly deeply devoted himself to the Divine Torah that is the result of a certain area of the person’s life energies invested into creation: the natural and he had uncovered its singular core—uncovered having been drained of its vitality. the supernatural. the divine vision of reality, seamless and pure, With this backdrop we can now makes sense of as it relates to the very essence of G-d. Which explains a striking duality in . When the debate raging in heaven between the “The does the Jewish year begin? On Rosh Hashanah, And the verdict? Rabba bar Nachmeini declares Holy One” and the “academy of heaven.” From the the Jewish New Year, or during the Hebrew month – for all time – that man is: Pure, Pure! Pure in perspective of a perfect, sublime heaven earth of Nissan (when Passover takes place) referred to his soul, but also pure in his body. is an inferior reality, fraught with selfishness in Torah as “the first of all months”? and arrogance, which is simply intolerable and This week we all have the power to be Well, it’s both. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning repulsive. Thus, if there is even a shred of doubt microcosmic Rabbah bar Nachmeini’s: As we of the year, while Nissan is the beginning of the as to whether the “white hair” came before or ponder the laws of human selfishness and months. after the “white patch,” the “academy of heaven” selflessness – as we look at others, as well as at declares this as a case of disease. Heaven’s ourselves – what do we see? What does that mean? The root of the Hebrew perspective is that man is inherently selfish, word shanah - “year”--also means repetition. Rosh and even when he may appear pure, arrogance The “heaven” within may see impurity and Hashanah, the anniversary of Creation, is when we is always brewing just beneath the surface, arrogance. The pure eyes of the Divine recognize G‑d as the Creator of the natural order of waiting to rear its ugly head. If it’s possible that emanation may see purity and selflessness. But things, the continuous, perpetually-repeating cycle arrogance has taken hold, we must suspect that then “singular” human on earth, the one who of life. Chodesh - the Hebrew word for “month”-- it has indeed occurred. struggles daily with self interest and selfish also means newness. In this regard, the year begins desires, has the power of the Essence: To see in Nissan, which is related to the Hebrew word for “The Holy One” however, who transcends event not one dimension of purity, but two: How even miracle, for it was then that G‑d began showing us the perfection of heaven, and Who created the our self-contained physical beings can and are the supernatural side of our life as His people— human in His Image, sees man as an essentially channels for utter selflessness. a selfless being. From the perspective of the splitting the sea, dropping bread from heaven, etc. Divine soul spiritual disease and arrogance It all depends on the eyes we use to look In our quest to satisfy both of these very different is an anomaly (as the incredulously at ourselves and at others. Projection. Look needs—consistency and change, normal living and declares: “nefesh ki sechta, tevoha!” a soul to with selfish eyes and you see selfishness all fun and excitement—I think we have been quite sin – how is it possible?!). If there is clear and around you. Peer with selfless eyes and you see successful in the former, but have failed miserably conclusive evidence that a person’s arrogance selflessness all around you. in the latter. has contaminated his life, we then can consider that the disease has taken hold. But where there We’ve learned how to appreciate the security and is doubt, this divine perspective is inclined to comfort that comes with a committed relationship, 11 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! a steady job and a productive daily routine. We have Halacha of The Week There is also a custom not to have a fast day during not been so successful in our attempt to satisfy our By Rabbi Dov Schochet this month. Even those that have a custom to fast need for a rush of adrenaline. The entertainment on a Yartzeit (the anniversary of a parents passing), industry is an excellent case in point. The creativity Customs for the month of do not do so if it is during the month of Nissan. The of last year’s releases simply don’t cut it anymore Nissan exceptions are that firstborns fast on Erev Pesach for this year. Every few years Hollywood has to (unless they join a meal of a Mitzvah). When Pesach reach new heights (or lows…) if it is going to keep n Temple times the sages instituted that the begins on Saturday night, and the fast would be on us entertained and happy. orators should expound about the holidays from Shabbat, we move it to Thursday for it is improper I30 days before they began. So they would begin to move a fast to Friday. However, in a year as this A good ride in a bumper car used to be enough discussing the holiday of Pesach directly following one, where Pesach is Shabbat, the firstborn’s fast is excitement for the average amusement park Purim. The reason for this is because all the Jews had on Friday. A bride and groom on their wedding day visitor. Then it was the roller coaster, then the up- to make a pilgrimage for the three festivals, during may fast as well. Even if the wedding is on Rosh side-down-inside-out roller coaster, then the free which they would be obligated to bring sacrifices. Chodesh Nissan, a bride and groom may fast. While fall, and that’s still not enough. Today it’s bungee In order to prepare them for this obligation, and we don’t usually fast on Rosh Chodesh, as Rosh jumping and mountain gliding. People are so to have the necessary animals, they would start Chodesh Nissan is the day of passing of Aaron’s desperate for a thrill that they’re prepared to risk speaking 30 days before the holiday. sons Nadav and Avihu, we may fast. their very lives in the process. (I’m told that in some Although the original intent is no longer relevant, amusement parks in Israel they have the Shema There is a long standing Jewish tradition for each the custom continued to be observed. And the displayed in big bold letters overlooking the community to provide “the flour of Pesach”, that is sages would use this pre-festival period to teach bungee jumping site…) special guarded flour for the poor to use to make their students the various laws of each holiday. This Matza. Who was obligated to contribute to this How often do we come back from what promised was important, so when the holiday arrived they fund, and who was able to take from it depended to be an exotic vacation feeling rather empty, even would have the requisite knowledge to celebrate on various factors. Was the person living in the city depressed. We seem to know how to live. Why don’t properly. (The thirty day window is also relevant for a year, 30 days? When they came did they intend we know how to have fun? when it comes to checking for Chametz. If one is to settle or move on? Regardless, today the custom leaving their home for Pesach, the requirement to is for all to give according to their ability and to The answer lies in understanding how these two check before leaving is somewhat dependent if help the needy of the community. Furthermore, it contradictory impulses coexist within the human they are leaving within 30 days to Pesach.) They is not sufficient to provide the poor with the Matza being. Why would one being possess two such would also utilize the Shabbat before the holiday to they need rather it is incumbent to provide all of opposite needs? It’s because they actually come give a crash course to the entire community about their holiday needs. If we are willing to spend on from two different life forces: the natural and the the basic Halachot of the upcoming festival. The a holiday, ostensibly to strengthen our relationship supernatural, the body and the soul. The body is a primary purpose of these lessons was to learn the with Hashem, we cannot forget the needy among natural organism that craves order and normalcy. practical laws and not to have esoteric talks about us. The soul, a literal spark of the Divine, is a boundless the nature and purpose of the holiday. G‑dly energy, which gravitates upwards, craving We have a custom starting from Rosh Chodesh holiness, freedom and . Today, when all of the laws are available in Sefarim Nissan to recite the daily “Nasi” prince. The Torah (books) there is no longer a requirement to teach relates in detail the prince who offered the It’s no wonder that a movie or a fancy toy don’t them, rather every individual is obligated to learn inaugural offerings from the first day of Nissan satisfy this need. It’s not fun or lack of order that them on their own. Every person is expected to until the 12th. We recite each prince along with we’re craving. Our quest is for something larger become proficient in the laws by the time the their offering every day, followed by a short prayer. than life. What we’re looking for is life’s purpose, its holiday arrives. Even one who is certain that they are not from the meaning, its energy source. We’re looking for G‑d... Aside from the above, Moses instituted that during tribe of that days prince e.g. a Kohen who knows During this month of Nissan, the season of Spring each festival the story of the holiday be taught he is from the tribe of Levi, still recites this daily. and renewal, when we seek to fulfill our soul’s to the community. So on Pesach the rabbi must On the 13th day of Nissan we recite the paragraph yearning for the outer-worldly and exciting, let’s be expound on the story of the Exodus, on Shavuot corresponding to the Menorah, which relates to the sure to clearly identify what it is we’re really looking the story of revelation and on Sukkot the protection tribe of Levi. for. It’s not the once-in-a-lifetime vacation on some Hashem afforded us in the desert. Unless there is great need we refrain from exotic island (that will end up costing more than During the month of Nissan there is a custom not to condemning or placing any bans during this month. our credit card will allow for) or that most unusual say Tachnun. As we have the festival of Pesach, Erev car that they only made 100 models of in 2009 that From the day before Pesach until the last day of Pesach, the day the Pesach offering was brought, Pesach we do not say the Mizmor L’Todah psalm. will satiate us. Our neshamah, our G‑d- given soul, and the first 12 days of the month were holidays is reaching upward. Rather than free fall, it yearns As this offering contained Chametz and Chametz is when the princes brought the inaugural offerings forbidden during this time. to rise ever higher; to transcend the confines of the of the Tabernacle, it is considered to be a month of material and bond with its Source. celebration. Included in this is a custom to not offer As we prepare ourselves during this holy month of eulogies or prayers for the deceased, except if it is Nissan, a month of miracles, may Hashem provide for a noted scholar and they were not yet buried. the ultimate Nes, the coming of Moshiach

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sense of self-esteem. If so, how could humility that person would also be on such a level—and Stories with Soul be a receiving channel for joy? perhaps higher, since he may bring out these abilities even more. Humility & Happiness The answer is that humility is not the kind of —How the ego conflicts with true lowliness that comes out of low self worth, in This type of humility is a channel for joy. For as joy which a person finds nothing good about himself soon as you begin to feel your own existence, you From the teachings of Rabbi Sholom DovBer of or that he is, G‑d forbid, on a path that isn’t have lost the opportunity for true joy. That sense Lubavitch good. Rather the lowliness of humility is simply of feeling oneself is the primordial snake and because he doesn’t feel himself so much. He it’s well known that a snake is by nature always any and diverse are the ways to experience doesn’t consider himself to be such a “somebody,” depressed. the gamut of life within earth’s biosphere, despite all the good that he has. Even though Myet one creature chooses to spend its he is good and upright in Torah and Superficially, it would seem quite the contrary, time here absorbed in an obsession with its own and in his service of G‑d with self-sacrifice, he that a person who feels himself very strongly existence. Other creatures exhibit intelligence, is not so important in his eyes that he should should also feel the good that he has received but the intelligence of this one creature is so be considered to have attained some certain much more. If so, he should be happier than top heavy that it folds in upon itself, fixing it’s spiritual level because of all this. someone who doesn’t feel himself so much. But gaze upon it’s own being almost as though from no, his happiness is never complete, and this is another’s eyes, and remarking, “I am.” And that’s It’s not that he doesn’t know about his good, it’s for two reasons:

where all the trouble begins. just that while he knows he is good and upright in everything, he doesn’t make a big deal out of it. Firstly, because he believes the world owes it “I am” lies at the root of all schism, jamming Basically, he has an essential sense of nothingness to him, so what’s there to celebrate? A person is a wedge between the creatures and their and all his attitude extends from there. especially happy when he receives a gift, but for experiences of life, between the created and the this person there are no gifts, since in his mind Creator. Once “I am,” I am the center of all things. You see, someone who has that essential sense of he is just getting his due reward. He takes into Once “I am,” who are “they”? Once “I am,” there nothingness doesn’t make a big deal out of any account how good and upright he is and figures is nothing quite as real as I am. In effect, I have of his accomplishments. He simply doesn’t notice that whatever he gets is owed to him, and so his become my own god, the measure of all things. himself so much, so therefore he doesn’t think happiness is never complete. about his importance in any matter. Rabbi Shalom Dovber, fifth rebbe in the succession Secondly, because he feels himself so strongly, of of Chabad-Lubavitch, was a profoundly Especially when he contemplates that everything nothing is ever enough. “He who has one hundred deep thinker, yet what interested him most was good he has—his faith, his love for G‑d—none desires two hundred…and no one dies with half landing heavenly ideas down here on earth. In the of it is his own achievement, through his own his desire in his hand.”2 If so, he is never able to midst of an intellectually challenging chassidic cognizance. Rather it is an inheritance from fully rejoice. In truth, within whatever happiness discourse, delivered in 1918, he grapples with a Abraham our father who was the first believer and he does achieve is buried a certain sadness, since keenly practical challenge for the spiritual seeker: the head of all those who believe. Abraham’s faith he remains essentially dissatisfied. How much Keeping your spirits up while keeping your ego was through his own cognizance, for he came to more so when he’s not getting what he feels he down. recognize his Creator on his own. If so, his faith, deserves—then he is truly depressed. too, was a cognitive one and he passed that faith We may be somewhat surprised to discover down to his children after him. Similarly, the bond The joy of a humble person, on the other hand, that not only is there no conflict between the to G‑dliness which is the hidden love in every Jew is complete. He is perpetually celebrating. After two, but in truth happiness and humility make a is also an inheritance from our forefathers. all, since he doesn’t feel himself so keenly and marvelous pair. he doesn’t consider himself so important, he It’s like a son who inherits great wealth from his feels that he doesn’t deserve anything at all. For Self Versus Joy father. He didn’t get this through his own hard him, whatever he receives is a gift, and so cause …Now, the channel for receiving joy from above work. All he did was to partake of that prepared for great celebration. And if the influx of life is is a sense of nothingness [original: bitul—trans.] for him by his fathers… sometimes lacking, that doesn’t sadden him before your Creator. Wherever there is that either, since he feels he doesn’t deserve anything nothingness, joy shines from above. And wherever Moses’ Secret anyways, so why should he be depressed? there is a keen feeling of self, there is no joy. This is what is written about Moses, “And the man Moses was very humble, more than any man on Besides, since he is hardly an entity in his eyes, As the verse says, “The humble will increase joy the face of the earth.” Although Moses knew his he lacks nothing, and whatever happens to him in G‑d.”1 So it seems that humility and joy are own greatness, that he was on a higher level is justified. For that reason he is never depressed related. It’s the humble in particular that can than any other person, nevertheless he remained and on the contrary, he rejoices in his lacking as bring joy to G‑d. the most humble of men. He was able to do this well.

because he felt that all this was given to him from Superficially, this is difficult to understand. Humility and a sense of nothingness, as it turns above. After all, when he was born his mother saw Humility is a sense of lowliness and lack of self out, are the receiving channel and the cause for even then “that he was good.” So Moses reckoned worth, while joy implies an uplifted spirit and a happiness. that if such abilities were given to someone else, 13 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

fact, the Jewish home and all of its inhabitants looked Stories with Soul as if they were entertaining a royal guest. And perhaps Recently In The News It Once Happened they were, for the Sabbath is referred to in Jewish Rabbi Moshe Landa, 83, Torah teachings as the “Shabbat Queen.” Scholar, Chief Rabbi of Bnei n 1831, the year of the Polish uprising, Polish patriots organized a rebellion against their Russian overlords. The general, who had burst into the house with the Brak, Kashrut Authority intention of teaching this Jew a lesson, felt his anger He gained international renown IIn a small town near Kovno, there lived a Jewish melt away and very politely asked him why he refused for scholarship and communal innkeeper. The innkeeper, whom we’ll call Joseph, to sell him wine. “Don’t you know that refusing to sell was well known as an honest, G-d-fearing Jew and provisions to the army in times of war is a tantamount rabbinic leadership By Menachem members of the Polish nobility frequently visited his to rebellion?” inn for good food and wine. “Your Highness,” said Joseph, “to keep the Sabbath day One late Friday afternoon, a Russian General arrived holy is one of the Ten Commandments given to us in town with his troops. The General had heard about by G-d, the Supreme King of Kings. His command we the reputation of the local Jewish innkeeper, and sent must obey before any command by human kings and his aide to him. princes. However, we shall indeed consider it a great honor if you would join us as our Sabbath guests.” The aide found the inn but it was closed; the sun had already set. The aide went around to the private The general accepted the offer and was greatly entrance and knocked on the door. The innkeeper, impressed with Joseph and his family. At the end of dressed in his Shabbat clothes, welcomed the aide a wonderful evening, he warmly shook hands with his into his house. host and departed in a happy mood. “The General sent me to buy some of your best wine,” Several years later, Joseph was falsely accused of the aide said, taking out a roll of money. taking part in a new Polish conspiracy to overthrow abbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa, a noted the Russians and drive them out of Poland. He was scholar, halachic authority, dedicated “I am sorry indeed,” Joseph replied. “We are now arrested and thrown in jail. Chassid and chief rabbi of Bnei Brak, the celebrating the Sabbath and I do not do any business R Israeli city famed as a center of Torah scholarship, on this holy day.” One day, as Joseph sat in his prison cell reciting , the heavy door of his cell opened and a high passed away after Shabbat at Laniado hospital Nothing the aide said would change the mind of the official appeared. The official was the Chief Inspector in Netanya. He was 83 years old. loyal Jew, and he therefore returned to the General of the prisons and was on a routine check-up of the Widely regarded as a “rabbi’s rabbi” and a empty-handed. prison. When the Inspector approached Joseph’s cell, standard-bearer for rabbinic integrity, Landa The General flew into a rage and immediately sent he gazed at him, and then exclaimed, “Why, this is was appointed head of the Bnei Brak rabbinate two soldiers to warn the innkeeper to sell him some my good friend, Joseph the innkeeper. Good Heavens, in 1986. He gained international renown for wine. what are you doing here?” his highly regarded scholarship and kosher Joseph looked up in astonishment and realized that supervision, which he provided at no cost to any Some time later, the soldiers returned to the thirsty company willing to comply with his exacting general - without wine. this Inspector was none other than the General whom he had entertained in his house that Friday night so requirements. “Why didn’t you bring me wine?” the general roared. long ago! At the funeral procession for Rabbi Landa held in Netanya after Shabbat, the Rebbe of Sanz “The Jew said he could not sell any wine to anybody The general, now Chief Inspector, vouched for the stated that the loss will be felt by everyone, as on his Sabbath. However, he sent the key to his wine innocence of the Jewish innkeeper and assured the those involved with kashrut would always ask cellar, and suggested that perhaps the General might investigating committee that he had nothing to do among themselves “what will Rabbi Landa say?” wish to help himself to any of the wine as his guest!” with the conspiracy. the soldiers reported. The Chief Inspector’s words had a great influence and Rabbi Landa’s expertise and practical approach as a halachic decisor had rabbis from around the “What a queer Jew that is!” the general thought. “He Joseph was immediately sent home free. “How did this world seek his opinion and assistance in solving would not sell me a bottle of wine because of the miracle take place?” his wife asked in astonishment some of their most difficult issues and disputes. Sabbath, but he is prepared to give away all his wine.” and delight. The general set out to meet the Jew in person. “The Queen intervened in my behalf,” Joseph said. Moshe Yehuda Leib was born in 1935 to Rabbi Yaakov and Chaya Mina Landa in the British When the general entered Joseph’s house, the Shabbat Mandate town of Ramatayim, now incorporated atmosphere was everywhere. The table was covered “What Queen?” his wife asked. into Hod Hasharon, Israel, where his father, with tasty dishes and the candles shone brightly. “The Sabbath Queen, of course,” replied Joseph. served as rabbi. After a little more than a year Joseph and his family were all dressed in their Sabbath in Ramatayim, the Landas moved to Bnei Brak, clothes and their faces were all aglow with delight. In where Rabbi Yaakov Landa was appointed chief 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! rabbi, a position he would hold for 50 years. city’s rabbinic leadership and residents, who saw Taking Stand Against ‘Modern him as a fair, learned and strong leader. A product of the Chabad yeshivah in the hamlet Day Antisemitism,’ German of Lubavitch, the elder Rabbi Landa had been Rabbi Landa continued in his father’s ways, Soccer Giant Borussia encouraged to enter the rabbinate by the including refusing payment for kosher fifth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber supervision and arbitration, ensuring that his Dortmund Donates $1.1 Schneerson. At one time, he served as household rulings were guided solely by Torah principles. Million to Yad Vashem rabbi in the Rebbe’s home in Rostov, and was He was revered as a uniting force in a city full by Algemeiner Staff instrumental in planning and supervising the of strong leaders, and competing ideologies and construction of a mikvah in the city, which worldviews. set the pattern by which Chabad mikvahs are constructed. During his tenure, he established the acclaimed Lishkat Halachah Lemaaseh (“bureau of practical Young Moshe Yehuda was raised in an halachah”), through which thousands receive atmosphere of Chassidic inspiration and Torah guidance on questions of Jewish law. scholarship. After studying at Yisrael in Petach Tikvah and the Ponovezh Beyond Bnei Brak, he was often called to arbitrate in high-level communal disputes yeshivah in Bnei Brak, he transferred to the ans of German soccer club Borussia Dortmund Chabad yeshivah in Lod, where he was deeply around the world, and he rarely refused to help, even though traveling would often take serenade their team. Photo: Reuters / Wolfgang influenced by the famed (Chassidic Rattay. mentor), Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman. him away from his countless duties at home. F His greatest pleasure, however, seemed to be One of Europe’s most storied soccer clubs is among In 1958, he married and settled in Bnei Brak. derived from the instances where he was able the five top German companies who announced In 1964, he was asked to join the faculty of the to help people with their individual needs a major donation to Israel’s national Holocaust Chabad yeshivah, which had since moved to Kfar memorial on Tuesday. Chabad, a position he would keep with devotion Rabbi Landa’s passing was widely mourned. “Our for 23 years. people have lost a giant of the spirit who made Borussia Dortmund is contributing $1.1 million sure that the Judaism of the previous generations of a total $5.6 million donation to Yad Vashem “He was forever grateful to Reb Shlomo Chaim would continue unchanged in a changing world,” in Jerusalem. The soccer powerhouse — which is for forming his Chassidic perspective,” recalls read a story in the daily Hamodia, where he was currently top of the German league, two points Rabbi Nochum Kaplan of the Central Committee described as “an outstanding talmid chacham, above arch-rival Bayern Munich — joined leading of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis in the United States dedicated to the uncompromising observance German corporations Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, and Canada, who had also studied under him in of halachah and totally devoted to the high Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen in making the , “but everyone knew that he was standards of Chassidus Chabad to which his donation. primarily a student of his father and a Chassid family had been attached for many generations. of the Rebbe.” The money will be spent on designing and building He is survived by his wife, Miriam, his children, a new space — the Shoah Heritage Collections Kaplan recalls that he was among the first Israeli Rabbi Yitzchok Eizik Landa, Safed; Mrs. Dina Center — to hold Yad Vashem’s growing collection Chassidim to travel to New York to meet the Belinow, Bnei Brak; Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Landa, of Holocaust artifacts. The construction of the new Rebbe, a trip he took with the encouragement Bnei Brak; Rabbi Yisrael Landa, Toronto; Rabbi center, with a floor area of approximately 45,000 sq of his father. Throughout his career in education Yosef Landa, London; Rabbi Menachem Landa, ft, is expected to start in August 2019. and rabbinics, he would receive invaluable San Francisco; Rabbi Shneur Landa, Netanya; guidance and encouragement from the Rebbe. Mrs. Shulamis Winkler, Bnei Brak; Mrs. Mina “Remembering, documenting, researching and Weinberg, Bnei Brak, children and grandchildren. teaching are the pillars on which Yad Vashem As his father aged, the young Rabbi Landa began is founded,”said Hans-Joachim “Aki” Watzke, CEO to assist him in his ever-increasing rabbinic He is also survived by his brother, Rabbi Eliyahu of Borussia Dortmund, in a statement. “It is our duties as Bnei Brak burgeoned into a religious Landa, Bnei Brak. honor and obligation to strengthen them. Future metropolis. His portfolio included providing Rabbi Landa’s funeral took in Bnei Brak on generations should know the suffering that has kosher supervision and providing religious been inflicted on people by other human beings.” guidance to the many who turned to his father Sunday and was attended by thousands. During on a daily basis. the course of the funeral, it was announced Carsten Cramer, managing director of Borussia that he would be succeeded by his son, Rabbi Dortmund, pointed out that the club had been In 1986, the elder Rabbi Landa passed away, Yitzchok Eizik Landa, who had trained under engaged in Holocaust education programs aimed and his son was appointed to succeed him at his father and assisted greatly in administering at soccer fans for more than a decade. “Together the funeral. The appointment was initially kosher certification, alongside Rabbi Shevach with this strong network, we are making a lasting controversial, as some non-Chassidic leaders of Tzvi Rosenblatt, who will share the rabbinic commitment to the memory of the Holocaust, as the city bristled at the thought that the rabbi of leadership of the city. The rabbis of the city well as against modern day antisemitism,” Cramer the city was not from their own group. However, asked that business in the city close during the said. his rabbinate was supported by the majority of funeral. 15 Get the Picture The full scoop on all the great events and classes around town

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19 French Connection Reflexions sur la Paracha

Vivre avec la paracha Votre propre choix si quelqu’un est élevé dans un environnement juif La dernière création Mais avez-vous seulement le choix? traditionnel, sa vie quotidienne sera marquée par par Lazer Gurkow par Tali Loewenthal une forte quantité de pratiques et d’enseignements a Paracha de cette semaine énumère les lois juifs. C’est quelque chose qui lui viendra « d’en haut d’impureté rituelle qui se rapportent aux êtres st-ce votre choix ? Ou bien avez-vous été forcé », qu’il n’aura pas choisi lui-même. humains. Le Midrache note que la Paracha ? L En revanche, poursuit le Rabbi, le second chapitre précédente énumérait les lois d’impureté relatives E commence par l’idée du choix. Une personne aux animaux et affirme que les lois de l’homme ont Je parle de votre Judaïsme, le fait que vous soyez choisit ce qui lui convient et cela lui assure une été mentionnées après celles de l’animal pour la un Juif dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, avec toutes relation plus profonde avec son identité juive. même raison que l’homme fut créé après l’animal. ces lois et ces traditions dans vos bagages. Est-ce quelque chose que vous avez choisi ? Mais avez- Le Rabbi explique que nous avons besoin de ces Deux raisons sont données à cela : vous seulement le choix ? deux qualités. Nous avons besoin de recevoir Il convient que le roi ne pénètre dans la salle le plus possible par la chaîne de la tradition, Comme pour de nombreuses questions, les de banquet qu’après que les tables aient été par l’environnement juif, l’ambiance familiale et enseignements du Judaïsme apportent à celle-ci au entièrement dressées. L’homme, le roi de toute la l’éducation qui façonnent à notre personnalité un moins deux réponses. Première réponse : oui, c’est création, n’apparut donc qu’après que l’univers fut caractère juif. Puis vient l’importante seconde étape votre choix. Seconde réponse : en effet vous êtes entièrement créé. : notre propre choix, notre propre reconnaissance né dedans, c’est votre identité et vous ne pouvez y de notre identité et de notre relation avec la Torah. Au cas où nous deviendrions arrogants, nous échapper... Comment ces deux réponses peuvent- devrions nous rappeler que nous fûmes précédés elles être toutes deux justes ? Pour répondre à Je vous entends demander, cela arrive-t-il à chaque dans la création par le plus insignifiant des insectes. cette interrogation, observons la Paracha de cette fois ? Chaque personne juive finit-elle toujours par semaine ainsi que les Pirkei Avot (les Maximes des découvrir « véritable » identité dans le Judaïsme À première vue, ces raisons semblent Pères). ? Considérons une remarque du Talmud sur le contradictoires. La première raison postule que thème qui ouvre notre Paracha, la grossesse et la l’homme est roi, la créature la plus élevée, tandis La Torah nous parle d’« une femme qui conçoit naissance : que la seconde suggère que l’homme est inférieur et donne naissance à un fils » (Lévitique 12, 2). Il à toutes les autres créatures. est intéressant d’observer que le texte commence Le Talmud affirme que lorsqu’une femme est avec une femme plutôt qu’avec un homme et une enceinte, l’enfant à naître reçoit l’enseignement Le meilleur et le pire femme qui se marient. Il n’est pas dit : « un homme de toute la Torah. Quand il naît, « un ange frappe En vérité, les deux raisons sont correctes, car a épousé une femme et celle-ci a donné naissance l’enfant sur sa lèvre supérieure » et il ou elle oublie l’homme est un amalgame d’un corps et d’une âme. à un garçon ». L’accent est ici sur la femme elle- tout. Cela signifie néanmoins que, profondément L’âme est un fragment du Créateur tandis que le même. La ‘Hassidout enseigne que cette femme enfouie en l’enfant, demeure la conscience de toute corps fait partie de la création. L’âme est noble et de notre Paracha représente le peuple juif ou la Torah. transcendante tandis que le corps est inférieur et l’individu juif que nos prophètes décrivent comme terrestre. Nous ne pouvons pas nous attribuer le « l’épouse » ou « la promise » de D.ieu. La Torah Chaque Juif, homme ou femme, possède ce niveau mérite de notre spiritualité, car notre esprit afflue parle d’une personne qui fait un pas en avant dans profond de savoir et de reconnaissance. La vie est de notre âme qui nous est accordée d’en haut. Nous sa vie juive, de son propre gré. Un choix a été fait, et un processus de remémoration et les schémas pouvons cependant revendiquer le mérite de notre cela a un résultat positif : la naissance d’un enfant, imposés d’en haut, qui nous font intégrer « de discipline personnelle et du raffinement de notre qui symbolise performance et réussite. force » des schémas de vie juive, ne font en réalité caractère, car ils sont le fruit de nos propres efforts. que susciter notre reconnaissance profonde, notre Dans cette optique, ce qui est important, c’est notre propre choix d’être un Juif vivant. Un enfant est par nature sauvage, recherchant propre choix. Si l’on choisit de soi-même d’exprimer l’assouvissement de ses désirs égoïstes. Sans son Judaïsme, plutôt que d’y être contraint, cela ******** instruction ni discipline, l’enfant se trouve en aura un effet positif et durable. contradiction avec les lois rigoureuses de notre Torah. Même l’insecte le plus bas considère avec Les Pirkei Avot évoquent la même idée. Le premier mépris l’homme sauvage et clame sa supériorité chapitre commence par « Moïse reçut la Torah au sur lui, car l’insecte ne pourrait pas et ne voudrait mont Sinaï... » Le deuxième chapitre débute en pas contrevenir à la volonté du Créateur. demandant : « Quel est le chemin que l’homme Pourtant, nous, les humains sommes capables de devrait choisir ? » façonner notre caractère, pour brut qu’il soit à la Le Rabbi de Loubavitch fait remarquer que le base, à l’image du divin et, quand nous le faisons, premier chapitre commence par quelque chose nous nous tenons à l’apogée de la morale et de qui fut imposé d’en haut : Moïse reçut la Torah l’accomplissement, au sommet de la pyramide de de D.ieu au Sinaï et la transmit aux générations la création. Quand nous nous maîtrisons nous- futures de Sages et de dirigeants. En conséquence, mêmes, nous sommes supérieurs à tous. 20 Latin Link Reflexion Semanal

Parasha de la Semana La pureza familiar unión. Por Eliezer Shemtov ¿Cómo se explican los términos y conceptos de “pureza” e “impureza” en algo que parece ser nada más que un Renacimiento personal El agua es la fuente de la vida. Es interesante notar que fenómeno biológico? Esta sección de la Torá aborda uno de los preceptos la masa crítica de agua necesaria para una mikve es más importantes en el judaísmo: la pureza familiar. El significado de estos términos es relativo: un vaso de cuarenta seá (medida bíblica equivalente a 331,776 Según la ley bíblica, las relaciones íntimas entre de agua pura y un sonido puro tienen implicancias litros), uno por cada uno de los primeros cuarenta días la pareja están prohibidas durante el período de muy diferentes. Con la palabra ‘puro’ generalmente del embarazo, que es cuando el feto adquiere su forma. la menstruación. Una vez terminado ese período, queremos decir que no contiene nada extraño, ajeno La inmersión en la mikve representa, entre otras cosas, denominado nidá, la mujer cuenta siete días limpios, o de más. una especie de renacimiento personal. al cabo de los cuales debe sumergirse en una mikve En la Torá encontramos un estrecho vínculo entre, por Dicha medida de agua alcanza para que el cuerpo (‘baño ritual’) para poder retomar el contacto íntimo una parte, la vida y la pureza y, por la otra, la muerte humano pueda sumergirse totalmente, entendiéndose con su marido. y la impureza. D-os es la fuente de vida; el potencial por esto que la manera de lograr ser afectado por La Torá no ofrece ninguna explicación para esta ley. de generar vida es una extensión de esa energía la energía Divina vital purificadora es a través del Está dentro de la categoría de leyes conocidas como creadora Divina, y la pérdida de dicho potencial nos sometimiento total a Su voluntad. transforma en receptores, vehículos o generadores de jukim (‘estatutos Divinos’), que no fueron acompañadas En la actualidad, muchas mikvaot incorporan también una realidad vacía de dicha energía. El nivel máximo por una explicación racional explícita. sofisticados criterios de higiene, estética y confort de impureza en este contexto es el que genera el físicos, a la par de los mejores spas del mundo, siempre Tensión positiva en la pareja cadáver humano, justamente por haber perdido el respetando las normas bíblicas mencionadas. En cuanto a la separación durante el período de la máximo potencial de crear vida. En menor grado de menstruación, encontramos en el Talmud1 la siguiente impureza se encuentra la mujer menstruante al perder Según la Halajá, si los fondos comunitarios son escasos, explicación: transitoriamente su potencial de crear vida, así como el es preferible que una comunidad carezca de sinagoga El Creador del hombre, quien lo conoce íntimamente hombre luego de experimentar un flujo de semen. En a que carezca de una mikve, ya que el uso de esta y sabe cómo funciona, es sabedor de que entre las cada caso, el nivel de impureza es relativo al nivel de afecta el estado de pureza espiritual y la salud física de mayores amenazas para el matrimonio se encuentran vida que poseía. Lejos de ser una señal de desprecio, las nuevas generaciones engendradas, mientras que se la rutina y el aburrimiento. Fijar un lapso cada mes en es un reconocimiento del contraste entre el potencial puede rezar prácticamente en cualquier lado. de vida máximo de la persona y la pérdida del mismo. el cual la relación íntima está prohibida ayuda a crear En Uruguay, como en muchas comunidades del mundo, una tensión positiva que sirve para fortificar el vínculo Cuanto más fuerte brilla la luz solar en la calle, tanto más difícil es ver al entrar a la casa, aunque las luces hay cada vez más parejas jóvenes (y no tanto) que entre la pareja. Todos sabemos que lo prohibido nos respetan este precepto milenario.2 seduce más que lo permitido. estén encendidas. Dicho mecanismo, denominado taharat hamishpajá El ciclo de separación y unión asegura que el vínculo La menopausia (‘pureza familiar’), le provee a la pareja el gusto de físico entre la pareja tenga lugar cuando ambos están Cabe señalar que, desde el momento en que la lo prohibido dentro de lo permitido. El reencuentro con su potencial de vida pleno. mujer menstrúa hasta que se sumerge en la mikve, retiene su estado de nidá, aunque hayan transcurrido mensual les ayuda disfrutar de una luna de miel Aguas naturales perpetua. años. A partir de que la mujer llega a la menopausia, ¿Por qué no alcanza para purificarse con bañarse en corresponde visitar la mikve una sola vez, para entrar a Cabe señalar que, para que realmente funcione, debe una bañera o bien en un jacuzzi de lujo? ¿Qué distingue esa etapa de su vida con pureza. respetarse el sistema como un mandato Divino. Si uno la mikve de una piscina común y corriente? se propusiera inventar su propio período de abstención Nuevamente, nos encontramos ante una ley Divina. El Clases y Eventos para lograr el mismo objetivo, terminaría creando una mismo D-os que determinó qué es lo que transforma Clases en Espanol tensión negativa en lugar de positiva. a uno en espiritualmente impuro es Quien determinó El motivo es muy sencillo. Ocurre que una ley humana, cómo purificarse de esa condición. La Torá delinea Porcion Semanal especialmente si es confeccionada por uno mismo, dos opciones al respecto: un cuerpo de agua de lluvia Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm es inherentemente “negociable”, mientras que una y un manantial de agua. Cada una requiere ciertas Analisis de distintos temas basados en la Perasha ley Divina no lo es. Si la pareja se adhiere al sistema condiciones físicas para adquirir y mantener ese poder Divino, ambos integrantes saben que no hay opción purificador, condiciones altamente improbables que se Rabbi Shlomi Halsband mientras dure el período de separación. En cambio, en reúnan en una piscina o bañera comunes y corrientes. Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm un sistema “casero”, diseñado por ellos mismos o por No se trata aquí de una consideración de higiene física, un tercero que no sea D-os, se verán constantemente ya que la mujer se higieniza profundamente antes de (Para Mujeres) tentados a hacer excepciones (piensa cuánto tiempo entrar a la mikve para su purificación espiritual. La duró la última dieta que empezaste...). Sra. Vivian Perez funcionalidad (o no) de una mikve depende de leyes y Martes 1:15 pm - 2:50 pm Pureza e impureza criterios propios de otra dimensión. Miércoles: 1:15pm - 2:50 pm La Torá postula que, al final de su período de impureza Jueves: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Es la adhesión a dichas normas “de otra dimensión” 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour ritual, la mujer debe purificarse sumergiéndose en lo que ayuda a incorporar la dimensión Divina al un cuerpo de agua natural que reúna determinadas Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 matrimonio, lo que influye también en las condiciones para confirmar condiciones. físicas y espirituales de los hijos engendrados por esa 21 In A Woman’s World Issues of relevance to the Jewish Woman

WEEKLY CLASSES Women’s Mikvah: Monday Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an Women’s Study Group Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm appointment: 305-866 1492 or At the home of : Please call The Shul for details. 305-323-2410 Please Note: Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be Prepaid Tuesday Prayer Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:15 am 1111 Kane Concourse Suite 618 The Shul Sisterhood Tanya Class In Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:15 - 2:50 pm

198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Who we are... Wednesday The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am and classes geared toward women in the community. Our The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds Haime Library together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:15 - 2:50 pm body and soul. Meet new friends, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village relax and get inspired! Thursday If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, Women’s Tanya Class – Spanish – Mrs. Vivian Perez please call 305. 868.1411 Call Vivian for details – 305.213.3202

TABBOULEH SALAD WITH PREPARATION For the cauliflower rice: CAULIFLOWER RICE 1. Cut the cauliflower in half. Cut out the hard core. Cut into By Jamie Geller pieces that fit in the food processor. 2. Place pieces in food processor. Pulse about 5 times or INGREDIENTS until pieces are the size of rice. You can also use a hand ½ small cauliflower grater for this step. 2 cups of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped (approx. 3 3. Transfer the cauliflower rice to a microwavable bowl. Microwave for 2 1/2 mins. This leaves the cauliflower rice bunches) with a little crunch- which we love for tabbouleh salad! If ½ cup of mint, finely chopped you want the cauliflower rice to taste more like actual rice, microwave for 3 minutes. 1 Persian cucumber, chopped (the normal kind in Israel) For the salad: 1 cup cherry tomatoes, quartered Literally just add everything to a bowl and mix. But there ½ small white onion, chopped are a couple important tips if you want a more authentic tabbouleh salad: ¼ cup quality olive oil Tabbouleh tip #1: It’s all about the parsley. Parsley should 3 tablespoons lemon juice be the main ingredient in the salad- get some fresh parsley! ½ teaspoon kosher salt Tabbouleh tip #2: Make sure the parsley and mint are dry ¼ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper before adding to the salad. Use paper towels or a spin dryer ¼ teaspoon cumin thing. Any extra water in the salad is bad.

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Contacts at The Shul 305.868.1411 Rabbi Rabbi 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 Events / Office Manager Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Director of Events and Marketing Mrs Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 313 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 Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Mr. David Portnoy Pre-School Director Mrs. Chana Lipskar Ext 325 Rabbi Henry Eichler Sephardic Minyan Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 305.865.4205 Mr. Ettai Einhorn / Editor Mrs. Aurit Katan 786.382.9006 Mr. David Ben-Arie Hashkama Minyan Mr. Lazer Milstein 305.349.3040 Mr. Seth Salver Mashgiach Mr. Mordechai Olesky 786.262.9115

Board of Trustees Foundation Trustees Sidney Feltenstein - Chairman Alberto Kamhazi Albert Pollans - President Simon Falic Shmuel Katz M.D. Jaime Gilinski Matias Garfunkel Leo Kryss David Lichter Ambassador Isaac Gilinski Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Jaime Gilinski Lazer Milstein Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Max Gilinski Michael Perez Saul Gilinski Ryan Shapiro Board of Directors Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Steven M. Dunn - President Jerrod M. Levine Abel Holtz Morris Tabacinic Mitchell Feldman - Vice President Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Mike Izak Rabbi Zalman Lipskar VP Development Alexander Matz Eric P. Stein - Treasurer Lazer Milstein Joel Baum - Financial Treasurer Ezzy Rappaport Executive Committee Steven M. Dunn - Chair Evelyn Katz Dovid Duchman - Secretary Eliott Rimon Carolyn Baumel Brian Roller Devorah Leah Andrusier Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Max Benoliel Seth Salver Janice Barney Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Eli Dominitz Daniel Shapiro Joel Baum Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Boruch Duchman Ryan Shapiro Maurice Egozi Orit Osman Velvel Freedman Michael Tabacinic Henry Eichler Marc Sheridan Eli Freund David Wolf Mitchell Feldman Daniel Sragowicz Bruce Gelb Jose Yankelevitch Daniel Gielchinsky Cynthia Stein Ighal Goldfarb Jacob J. Givner Eric P. Stein Sam Greenwald 25 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul

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The Rebbes’ Maamorim 6:20 - 6:50 am Daf Yomi 9:00 am In Depth Chumash 1:30 pm PHL 101 PHL-301 PHL-501 Rabbi Z. Lipskar TXT 220 Rabbi Dov Schochet TXT-110 Rabbi Dov Schochet Daf Yomi 7:45 - 8:45 am Tanya - Sichos 8:00 - 10:00 pm Insights to our Torah Portion TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband (Spanish) 8:45 - 9:45 pm Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic 8:45 am PHL-120 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Reb Shimshon Tzubeli Women’s Study Group 8:30 - 10:00 pm Chassisdic Discourses 10:15 - 11:00 am TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar At the home of: Please call The Shul for PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi S. Rubinstien details. Community (Men) 8:00 - 9:30 pm (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 Shul Rabbis & Kolel

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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 TXT-501 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Women’s Torah Portion Class Chassidic Discourses (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) (Spanish) 1:15 pm - 2:50 pm 11:30 - 12:30 pm 12:00 - 1:00 pm TXT-110 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village or Rabbi Zalman Lipskar (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Tanya Class - English 1:15 - 2:50 pm Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez Spanish Kolel - Chassidus Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202 8:00 - 10:00 pm PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband

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