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To become a sponsor of the day, please contact Itchy @ 739.0770 ext 223 SHABBAT SCHEDULE Earliest Candle Lighting..………..….7:15 pm Candle Lighting……....…….....….....8:28 pm First Minyan Mincha*...…….....….....6:45 pm Second Minyan Mincha*............….....8:30 pm Shacharit*…………...…….....…...10:00 pm HEART-TO-HEART TH ‘FARBRENGEN’ FOLLOWING DAVENING FAST OF THE 17 OF TAMUZ IN HONOUR OF YUD BEIS TAMUZ Pre-Shabbat sermon THURSDAY, JULY 9 (see page 3) Friday at 5:00pm Mincha*………..…....…….....….....8:30 pm Fast begins 3:30 am Maariv*/Shabbat ends...….......….....9:43 pm themtc.com/Zoom Mincha 8:20 pm or FB Live Fast ends 9:21 pm Pirkei Avot Chapter 5 TORAH READING he fast of the 17th of Tammuz, known as Parshat Chukat-Balak & Haftorah.................... T Shiva Assar B'Tammuz, is the start of a *Shabbat indoor and outddor services, Torah Classes three week mourning period for the destruction of Jerusalem and the two Holy by reservation. 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Mincha 8:40 pm, Maariv 9:25 pm During the three weeks, weddings and other MTC WISHES A HEARTY joyful events are not held during this period; like mourners, we do not cut our hair, and MAZAL TOV TO various pleasurable activities are limited or Kaufman & Howard families on the proscribed. birth of a daughter to Sarah & David The three weeks concludes with the fast of Kaufman Join a live class or prayer service on zoom. the 9th of Av (Thursday, July 30), the date Lorne & Lisa Levitt on the Bar Mitzvah when both Holy Temples were set aflame.⬢ VISIT THEMTC.COM/ZOOM of their son Cameron 2 MOSAIC EXPRESS ALIYAH SUMMARY Tammuz 12, this year on Shabbat land (which is south of Canaan) on the way to the Promised Land. Edom refuses the Jews July 4, is the passage. The Jews are therefore forced to birthday of the sixth circumvent the land of Edom, and approach Lubavitcher Rebbe, Canaan from the east. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1880-1950). It is also the day Third Aliyah: The Jews arrive at Mount he was officially granted release from General Overview: This week's Torah Hor, where Aaron then passes away and is his sentence of exile to Kastroma in the reading, Chukat-Balak, begins with a discussion mourned. The Amalekites, disguised as regarding the laws of the Red Heifer. Miriam and Canaanites, attack the Jews. The Jews pray to interior of Russia. Aaron die. When the Jews are in need of water, G-d and are victorious. When the Jews Moses strikes a rock and waters stream forth; but complain about the manna, G-d dispatches Twenty-seven days earlier, the Rebbe Moses is banned from entering Israel. Amalek serpents into the Israelite encampment, and had been arrested for his activities to battles the Israelites and is defeated. Edom and many Jews die. Following G-d's instructions, preserve Judaism throughout the Soviet Moab refuse the Israelites passageway to Israel. Moses fashions a copper serpent and places it empire and sentenced to death. His The Israelites battle Sichon and Og, and are atop a pole. The bitten Jews would look at this sentence was miraculously commuted snake and be healed. The Jews journey on, victorious. King Balak of Moab retains the sorcerer to exile and ultimately the Rebbe was Balaam to curse the Jewish people. Instead of making their way towards the eastern bank of liberated. The actual release took place curses, only blessings come out of his mouth— the Jordan River. Encrypted in this section is a including prophecies concerning the Messianic great miracle which occurred when the Jews on Tammuz 13, and Tammuz 12-13 is redemption. Moabite women entice some of the passed through the Arnon valley. Tall cliffs rose celebrated as a "festival of liberation" by Israelites to sin, resulting in a plague amongst the from both sides of this narrow valley, and in the the Chabad-Lubavitch community. Jews. Phinehas zealously kills two of the high- clefts of these cliffs the Emorites, armed with ranking offenders, and the plague comes to an arrows and rocks, were waiting to ambush the end. Jews. Miraculously, the mountains moved towards each other, crushing the Emorite guerrilla forces. This section ends with a song of First Aliyah: The most severe of all ritual PARENTING POST impurities is tum'at met, the impurity contracted praise for the well which sustained the Jews through contact with a human corpse. This section throughout their desert stay — and whose now- details the purification process for an individual or bloodied waters made the Jews aware of the object which has contracted this form of impurity. great miracle which G-d wrought on their By Sarah Chana Radcliffe A red heifer is slaughtered and is burned together behalf. with a few added ingredients. Water from a Neither your child nor your stream is added to the ashes. On the third and Fourth Aliyah: The Jews approach the land spouse enjoys criticism or seventh day after contracting tum'at met, this of the Emorites, on the east bank of the Jordan correction, so how can you get mixture is sprinkled upon the individual or object. River. They ask Sichon, king of the Emorites, for your point across? After immersion in a mikvah (ritual pool) the permission to pass through his land en route to Canaan. Sichon refuses and instead masses his person or object is freed of this impurity. The Criticism and correction are hard to take. impure individual may not enter the Tabernacle or armies and attack the Jews. The Jews are Temple until the purification process is completed. victorious and occupy the Emorite lands. Og, You may be "right" but you also need to Miriam dies in the fortieth year of the Israelites' king of Bashan, then attacks the Jews. The know how to get your message heard. sojourn in the desert. With Miriam's death, the Jews are triumphant again, killing Og and Telling someone straight out "That's the waters which flowed from the miraculous "Well of occupy his land, too. Balak, king of Moab, wrong way to do it" tends to get their back Miriam" dried up. The people complain bitterly worries that his nation would be the Israelites' up and their ears down. In order to get about the lack of water. next victim. He sends messengers to the Land of Midian, to Balaam, a famed non-Jewish prophet through, try experimenting with questions Second Aliyah: G-d tells Moses and Aaron to and sorcerer, asking him to come and curse the instead of statements. "Would you like to take a staff and gather the people in front of a Jews. G-d appeared to Balaam that night and know how I would have done it?" "Did you instructed him not to go to Moab. "You shall not certain rock. They should speak to the rock, and it ever try doing it this (other) way?" "Did you would give forth water. Moses strikes the rock and curse the people because they are blessed!" it gives forth water. In the course of this episode know that some people actually do it this he commits a grave error, the conventional Fifth Aliyah: Balak sends more prestigious way?" In summary, when you find that your explanation being that he struck the rock instead messengers to Balaam, promising him great remarks are eliciting defensiveness instead of speaking to it.