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WishingWe Wish you You a happy A Happy and healthy Chanukah! summer! ב”ה A PUBLICATION OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH EL PASO 6615 Westwind Dr. • El Paso, TX 79912 • Tel: (915) 584-8218 • www.chabadelpaso.com Issue 137 Kislev 5776 November 2015 Dear Friend, Chabad is hosting its annual Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso fundraising raffle to help As our third decade support the many ongoing nears completion we are activities. Please participate filled with a sense of pride in the raffle by purchasing and gratitude. Pride in the one or more tickets and be a beautiful community we have Twelfth Annual Raffle partner in ensuring a vibrant become and gratitude to you Jewish future in El Paso. The for partnering with us in this grand prize is two round trip revolutionary endeavor. Your 2016 • 5776 tickets to Israel ($2,500.00). commitment and support is what enables us to reach out One (1) ticket - $100.00 to every Jew in the region Three (3) Tickets - $250.00 regardless of social status, background or affiliation. To purchase tickets, mail in the form on page 10 or call This past year has us at (915) 584-8218. Tickets been one of continued may also be purchased online development and growth. at chabadelpaso.com/raffle Our annual programming has seen an increase in interest The raffle drawing will be held and participation. Camp Gan on January 17th. Israel provided a fabulous summer experience to thirty With much appreciation for campers. Always increasing Two round trip tickets your support, Torah study opportunities, the new bi-monthly Lunch and to Israel ($2,500 cash) Rabbi and Mrs. Yisrael Greenberg Learn has garnered much Rabbi and Mrs. Levi Greenberg interest and participation. chabadelpaso.com/raffle Project Give Warmth EP ChanukahChanukah sweatshirts for kids PlaylandPlayland LargestLargest AnnualAnnual ChanukahChanukah CelebrationCelebration inin town!town! Sunday,Sunday, DecemberDecember 66 W e A r e E l P a s o SeeSee PagePage 66 With a high poverty and unemployment rate - many of El Paso’s Menorah Workshop children will not be properly prepared for winter. at Home Depot You Can Help Change That! Sunday, November 22 Sponsor a sweatshirt for a deserving El Paso child. page 10 Drop off NEW sweatshirts Monetary donations may be at Chabad Lubavitch. made with check or online: (Kindly arrange a drop off time by calling 915-584-8218) www.chabadelpaso.com/warmthep $15.00 per sweatshirt Thank you for your care and support! Your Chanukah Guide December 6 - 14 Page 11 Page 2 THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — CHANUKAH 5776 / NOVEMBER 2015 one candle. On night two we never been in a shul before! Your service has inspired us add a second until the eighth to continue growing in Torah and night we have a fully lit Menorah. mitzvos and to maybe sometime The relevant message return for another service at the is clear: We must strive to Chabad center. constantly increase in light. Sincerely, E. and H. Never be satisfied with past accomplishments. Each new day is a fresh opportunity to Dear Rabbi Yisrael and Chana reach new heights. From Our Mail Box and Rabbi Levi and Shainy, Thank you for the New Year’s Entering the fourth decade t “Lekach” sweet honey cake and of Chabad in El Paso we are ÷ ø hanukah is upon us once good wishes for the New Year 5776. C proud of our accomplishments Dear Rabbi and Mrs. Greenberg, again. I hope the the coming year brings but our vision is focused on Thank you for the excellent you and your families health and It is an opportunity to connect hospitality you provided during Yom the future. There is much happiness. to our ancestors of ancient Kippur services yesterday. Yom I look forward to seeing you at only opportunity and potential in our times who battled to preserve Kippur was always my father’s good and happy occasions, where desert town. Join the ongoing favorite holiday. He thought of it as our precious traditions. By we can enjoy life. revolution of Jewish identity a Jewish strength that we ask G-d Again, my best to you all. commemorating the miracle of and education. As individuals to forgive us for sins as a nation, Fondly, the oil that expressed G-d’s love assuming joint responsibility. He and as a community we are R.B. for His people, we celebrate our left the synagogue after the shofar building a Jewish today and religious freedom and the right to telling us the Jews would return ensuring a Jewish tomorrow for next year. You helped me remember be who we are. Dear Rabbi Levi and Shainy, our children. those days. We are so appreciative of all you At the heart of this festival May you and your family do to make our children’s learning is the kindling of the Chanukah Sincerely yours, so fun and enriching. We especially be blessed with a joyous and Menorah. We do not merely light SE appreciate how you help mark and bright Chanukah. all eight candles every night. celebrate their birthdays. Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg Rather, on the first night we light They are growing up with such a Rabbi, love for Torah and Mitzvos and we Thank you for allowing me and thank you for helping to cultivate an my father to join your congregation environment in which they can thrive, New Program! for the Rosh Hashanah Shacris Warmest wishes, and Shofar blowing. Please excuse I. & E. C. any of our ignorant behavior; we’ve Mommy & Me With A J e wi s h T wi s t Wednesdays Baby Boy 9:45 - 10:45am Aharon Shayesteh Proud Parents Ages 0 - 3 Dr. Nima & Shirin Shayesteh RSVP to Shainy: Wedding [email protected] Aviv Arusi and Hana Geller 915.204.6581 Proud Parents Yinon and Nili Arusi Can't Wait To See Y'all! In This Issue ADVERTISE IN THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES 12th Annual Raffle ....................................p 1 Reach every Jewish household in El Paso is published by Project Give Warmth EP ...........................p 1 The Rabbi’s Message ................................p 2 ADVERTISING OPTIONS CHABAD LUBAVITCH Mazel Tov ..................................................p 2 Business Card $100 Half Page $400 OF EL PASO From Our Mail Box ....................................p 2 Double Business Card $180 Full Page $700 6615 Westwind Drive A Message from the Lubavitcher Rebbe ..p 3 What’s Happening On Chanukah ..............p 3 El Paso, Texas 79912 Chabad Lubavitch Convention ..................p 4 Call Chabad at 915-584-8218 to place your ad now! (915) 584-8218 Daily Study of Maimonides .......................p 5 [email protected] Chanukah Playland ....................................p 6 Chabad In Photos......................................p 7 Director The Splattered Gem ..................................p 8 Jewish Women’s Circle .............................p 8 RABBI YISRAEL GREENBERG Chanukah Story.........................................p 9 Editor Chanukah Recipe ......................................p 9 RABBI LEVI GREENBERG Kids In The Kitchen ...................................p 9 Menorah Workshop at Home Depot .......p 10 The Chabad Times is published Raffle Ticket.............................................p 10 five times a year for the Jewish 10 Tevet ...................................................p 10 Holidays. Ongoing Programs at Chabad ................p 10 Your Chanukah Guide .............................p 11 Chabad of El Paso does not certify the kashrut of its advertisers. Chanukah Calendar .................................p 11 New Building Project...............................p 12 THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — CHANUKAH 5776 / NOVEMBER 2015 Page 3 The Lamp Lighter A Holiday Message from The Lubavitcher Rebbe There is another difference: the Beth Hamikdosh - and the Sabbath-lights have their place indoors, while the place of Chanukah lights is at the entrance to the home (when Jews lived freely in their land, the place was outside the entrance). Finally, there is yet another distinction: in the former two cases the lights remain the same, while the Chanukah lights are increased Do a good deed today ... every night. The lesson which seems to And help others do be indicated by the Chanukah lights is that besides lighting up The message of Chanukah the home (Sabbath lights) and a good deed tomorrow! is important and timely to all the synagogue and Yeshiva Jews, but even more so to (substituting for the Sanctuary of Jews living in surroundings old), the Jew has the additional with comparatively little responsibility of lighting up Jewish vitality and activity. It is the “outside,” the whole precisely in such circumstance environment. Moreover, when Remember that Chanukah offers many a conditions are unfavorable (it useful lesson. One such lesson is “dark” outside), it is then not Chabad Lubavitch I wish to make the subject of enough to make a light and this message. maintain it, though it is also It is noteworthy that the an achievement in view of the of El Paso in your will. Chanukah lights must be darkness; but it is necessary kindled after sunset, when it is to steadily increase the lights, dark outside, unlike the lights through steadily growing efforts that were kindled in the Beth to spread the light of Torah and Hamikdosh [Holy Temple] mitzvoth, to illuminate not only much earlier, or the Sabbath one’s home, but the whole lights kindled on Friday before environment as well... sunset. Shainy's Challah Grace your Shabbat table with freshly home baked Challah! One for $6 | Two for $10 Orders due every Wednesday at noon. [email protected] | 915.204.6581 WHAT’S HAPPENING ON CHANUKAH AT CHABAD? We invite you to celebrate with us! Sunday, November 22: giving this Chanukah. A dessert buffet you Wednesday, December 17: don’t want to miss and donut frying will round We want y’all to be prepared for Chanukah Chabad will be hosting a Chanukah party for off the social evening. See page 8 for details in style.