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t is with profound gratitude Symbolically, it is the most appropriate holiday to celebrate to Hashem that we are so as we exit from our quarantine and isolationist preparation to fortunate to inaugurate re-enter the world on a higher, more pristine and thoughtful Iour reentry into our holy level. We do not need special celebrations or fireworks to common community home, emphasize the essence of our purpose to make our world The Shul, on this auspicious a dwelling place for Almighty G-d. It is our genetic fiber and day of Shavuos. For the essential being that represents and portrays our critical role hundreds of our community in this world. family men, women and children who will gather to Armed with G-d‘s wisdom in the Torah, we have the express deepest feelings absolute strategic plan and method. How to navigate a of prayer to our Father in world with its ups and downs, happiness and sadness and Heaven, and collectively re- also treacherous travails in the most successful and positive experience Revelation with manner. G-d giving us the holy Torah by listening to the reading of the 10 Commandments, is truly momentous. The Rebbe would always bless the Jewish world on this holiday by wishing them to “Receive the Torah with joy and Shavuos is the actual center-point of our identity as the internalization.” Nation of Israel and G-d‘s Chosen People. It is at Sinai when the entire community of Israel formally and legally became Joy is represented by recognizing that the Torah’s objective the Jewish people and received the document that serves is not to isolate ourselves in a spiritual cocoon and distance as the abstract to our origins, who we are and our historic ourselves from all worldly matters but, on the contrary, to multi millennial mission, partnering with Almighty G-d to infuse worldliness, including all of G-d‘s intended pleasures bring our world to its ultimate fulfillment. for us with a spiritual meaning and purpose. It is why on Shavuos we enjoy delicacies of ice cream, cheesecake and Notably, this fundamental holiday is different than all others the best foods and drinks. as in the Torah it is only a single day, as celebrated in Israel (in exilic lands we celebrate two days until the coming of Internalization directs us to know the seriousness of our Moshiach) and has no specific symbols or cultural elements. purpose and commitment and to realize our monumental On Passover we eat matzo, don’t eat bread and celebrate responsibility that we carry to be G-d’s representation to a special Seder night with all kinds of customs, on Sukkos the entire world. we eat in the Sukkah, the temporary hut that we construct Let us hope and pray that this reentry into the world in a outside and say the blessing over the Esrog and Lulav, on more open fashion will herald our collective entry into the Rosh Hashanah we blow the shofar, on Yom Kippur we fast, ultimate positive world that will be filled with health, peace, on Hanukkah we kindle the Menorah and on Purim we read tranquility, kindness, happiness and holiness, with the the Megilah, send gifts to friends etc. Shavuos is celebrated coming of Moshiach now. almost like a regular Sabbath, with some variations in the prayers and even a shorter Torah reading than an entire Have a wonderful holiday, beautiful Shabbos and great year. weekly portion.

The holiday is celebrated only for the event that took place on this day, our marriage with Almighty G-d and our becoming His People. There are no symbols, cultural elements, accoutrements or any unique celebration. It is a singular day that concentrates on the simplicity of the Rabbi S. Lipskar essence of our being in our bonding and dynamic connection and relationship with the Creator of the universe.

3 CELEBRATING SHABBOS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR AN “OVER THE TOP” SHABBOS EXPERIENCE Eruv Information We would like to emphasize that every Erev Shabbos, individuals should call the Eruv Hotline to make sure SHABBOS SCHEDULE that the Eruv is operational. The number to call is Candle lighting 7:49 p.m. 305- 866-ERUV (3788). The Eruv message is recorded approximately two hours prior to candle lighting. Surfside: The Eruv in Shabbos Ends 8:46 p.m. 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.

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Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:05 am Menachem Mendel ben Chaya Leah Earliest Talit & Tefllin 5:42 am Daniella Malka bat Natanya Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:29 am Menachem Mendel ben Aurit Eden Chana bat Karine Cecile (Earliest Amidah) Benyamin Aharon ben Jeniya Gila Rut Latest Shema 9:51 am Zman Tfllah 11:00 am Chatzot / Midday 1:18 pm Earliest Mincha 1:54 pm Plag HaMincha 6:47 pm Shekiah / Sunset 8:09 pm (Preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 8:36 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)

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BIRTHDAYS YAHRTZEITS 6 Sivan Mrs. Ruthy Benoliel 6 Sivan Etta Liba obm 6 Sivan Mr. Meir Cosiol Mother of Mr. Alex Gross 6 Sivan Ms. Susan Roth 6 Sivan Tzvi Hirsh ben Yehoshua obm 6 Sivan Ms. Angelica Rubin Father of Mrs. Karen Azari 6 Sivan Mr. Samuel Daniel Vlosky 6 Sivan Chaim Akiva obm 6 Sivan Mr. Mark Weinschneider Father of Mr. Alex Gross 7 Sivan Ms. Chanee Weinstock 6 Sivan Chaim Mitrani obm 8 Sivan Ms. Shana Cappell Father of Dr. Raul Mitrani 6 Sivan Sarah Rivka bas Yosef obm 8 Sivan Ms. Lydia Hasson Sister of Mr. Irving Hoine 8 Sivan Mrs. Chaya Wolf 6 Sivan Shlomo ben Yosef obm 9 Sivan Mr. Jesse Izak Brother of Mr. Irving Hoine 9 Sivan Mr. Allan Weinbaum 7 Sivan Harav Yitzchok ben Moshe Leder obm 10 Sivan Mr. Moses Egozi Father of Mrs. Pola Lekach 10 Sivan Mr. Evan Hershman 7 Sivan Shulamit bas Yaakov obm 10 Sivan Mr. Mendi Labkowski Mother-in-law of Mrs. Nily Falic 10 Sivan Mr. Alexander Robinson Grandmother of Mr. Jerome Falic, 11 Sivan Mr. Josh Greisman Mr. Leon Falic 11 Sivan Mrs. Fortuna Mamane 7 Sivan Tzora Hizler obm 11 Sivan Mrs. Shir Melamed Mother-in-law of Mr. Avrom Chaim Zelmanovitch 8 Sivan Yosef ben Zvi Yehuda obm 12 Sivan Dr. Fran Glicksman Father of Mrs. Elisabeth Berend 12 Sivan Mr. Rachmiel Lekach 8 Sivan Shmuel ben Zadok HaLevi obm 13 Sivan Mr. Nafali Kaplan Father of Mr. Henry Stern 13 Sivan Mr. Isaac Mamane 8 Sivan Sultana Levy obm Mother of Mrs. Sonia Franco KID’S BIRTHDAYS 9 Sivan Ezra ben Farida obm Father of Mrs. Ginette Dekelbaum-Sultan 6 Sivan Estie Chudaitov 9 Sivan Joseph ben Zvi Jehuda obm 6 Sivan Levi Chudaitov Grandfather of Dr. Rita Steiner 7 Sivan Jacob Hakmon 10 Sivan Chaya bas Shimshon Yoseif obm 7 Sivan Yitzchak Yehoshua Kopel Grandmother of Mr. Andrew Roth 9 Sivan Avraham Tzvi Sragowicz 10 Sivan Etel obm 10 Sivan Yisroel Mordechai Barouk Mother of Mr. Sam Greenberg 10 Sivan Misha Cohen 10 Sivan Israel ben Gershon obm 10 Sivan Rochel Rivka Gassner Father of Mrs. Jenny Bublick 10 Sivan Clara Sheindel Kopel 10 Sivan Malka bas Dovid Aryeh obm 11 Sivan Noach Abraham Givner Mother-in-law of Mrs. Rosita Retelny 13 Sivan Yitzchak Isaac ben Rab Zev obm 12 Sivan Natan Haim Benaroch Husband of Mrs. Shelley Rindner 12 Sivan Dov Shapiro 13 Sivan Radelfa obm 12 Sivan Elana Sher Mother of Ms. Renee Grossman 13 Sivan Solana Garfunkel MAZAL TOV ANNIVERSARIES Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Shlomi and Orly Alexander on the Mr. & Mrs. Ira and Marsha Sussman marriage of their children, Oren and Shani. May the young Mr. & Mrs. Moshe and Luisa Behar couple build an everlasting ediface in Israel. Mazal Tov also Mr. & Mrs. Laiby and Chaya Best to the grandfather Avraham Alexander. Mr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Hindy Hazan Dr. & Mrs. John and Raquel Sragowicz Mazal Tov to Mr. & Dr. Elchonon and Devorah Shagalov on Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence and Roslyn Jafe the birth of a son. May they raise him to Torah, Chupah and Rabbi & Mrs. Aryeh and Raizel Schottenstein Ma’asim Tovim and have much nachas from him.

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6 COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS SHARING WITH YOUR SHUL FAMILY SIVAN LIGHT & POWER THANKS TO OUR DONORS We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah for donations received between 05/18/20 and 05/25/20 for the month of Sivan is Kindly Sponsored by We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Musikar Mr & Mrs. Alberto Kamhazi Mr. & Mrs. Baruk Benamran Ms. Golda Retchkiman Mr. & Mrs. Levi Boymelgreen Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Salver In memory of Shlomo Ben Yaacov obm Rabbi & Mrs. Uri Cohen Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Schneider and Mayer Goldstein obm Mr. & Mrs. Shaya Klein- Mr. & Mrs. David Schwartz Weberman Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol Mr. David Lekach Mr. Jack Waksal “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. & Mrs. Asher Mamane Mr. & Mrs. Leon Weinschneider pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Mizraji Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ziefer MSG Marina Mile LLC and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD their endeavors, together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Dearest Community Family, REFUAH SHLEIMAH If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to Our ofces have re-opened and we are so happy keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. that we are beginning to return to normal, and MEN WOMEN gradually opening up the minyanim and multiple Yehonatan HaLevi ben Malka Esther Yocheved bas Raizel services that the Shul provides, while following Eliezer ben Sarah Bracha safety and social distancing directives. Aharon ben Beylah Shima Leah bas Gittel Meyer Eliezer ben Sarah Sarah Libke bas Baile For regular updates to services and events, please Menachem Mendel ben Sara Chana Bayla bas Masha check our website at www.TheShul.org or call The Yehoshua ben Tamara Rina Chaya Miriam bas Leah Shul at 305-868-1411. Isaac Gilbert ben Nelly Esther Bracha Bentzion ben Nomi Rachel Genya Baila bas Gisela Margalite Sonia Simcha bat Sultana Please continue to follow the recommendations Eber Avraham ben Fruma Tzipora Pnina bas Slava of the health authorities, to ensure the safety of Esther Feige bas Krandel our community and particularly those who are at Shlomo Yaakov ben Chaya Tziporah Pnina bas Slava greater risk. Sarah Rochel Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Chaim Zelig Ben Eidel Chava Classes will continue online for the foreseeable Ari ben Na’ama Clara bat Corina future. The full schedule and instructions how Tzvi Yitzchak ben Chaya Rivka bat Shoshana to connect to a class can be found under the Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel Miriam bat Risha Raizel Education menu on our website.

CONDOLENCES We look forward to seeing you in person very Our heartfelt condolences go out to Joseph Nutti soon, Goldbrenner and Esther Etinger Braun on the passing of their dear father R’ Shloima Goldbrenner obm. May her dear soul be bound with The Eternal Bond of Life and may With very best wishes, the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. The Shul Shluchim and Staf

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Board of Trustees Sidney Feltenstein - Chairman Simon Falic Matias Garfunkel Isaac Gilinski Jaime Gilinski Max Gilinski Saul Gilinski Regulations for Opening Sam Greenberg Abel Holtz Mike Izak You should not come to Shul but pray comfortably at home if you have any of the following conditions. Alberto Kamhazi Shmuel Katz M.D. Leo Kryss a. Even slightly unwell (fever, coughing, shortness of breath, sore throat or sniffling) Lazer Milstein Regulations for Opening Michael Perez b. You have been exposed to someone who is a possible COVID-19 carrier within the past 14 days Ryan Shapiro Claudio Stivelman c. You are experiencing a loss of taste or smell (potential symptoms of Covid- 19) Morris Tabacinic d. Anyone who has traveled in the past 14 days —–—— President e. You haveYou any should underlying not health come issues to thatShul put but you prayat greater comfortably risk i.e. heart at disease, home diabetes,if you have immune-compromised, any of the respiratory Steven Dunn issues, obesityfollowing and so conditions. on). Vice Presidents Jacob Givner f. Adults over 65 – a.this groupEven has slightly shown unwellthe greatest (fever, susceptibility coughing, to the shortness virus, please ofconsult breath, your physiciansore throat to make or sure that he David Wolf feels that it’s prudent andsniffling) advisable for you to attend. Your health and safety are paramount. Vice President - Oversight Mitchell Feldman b. You have been exposed to someone who is a possible COVID-19 carrier

Vice President Development While in Shul, masks MUSTwithin be worn the at past all times. 14 Nodays exceptions. As supplies are limited please bring your own masks, if possible. Associate Rabbi Shul Oversight c. You are experiencing a loss of taste or smell (potential symptoms of Covid- Rabbi Zalman Lipskar

Treasurer Please disinfect your hands19) with the provided hand sanitizers before entering the Shul. Eric Stein d. Anyone who has traveled in the past 14 days Financial Treasurer Joel Baum CPA There will be bathroome. attendantsYou have to anyopen underlyingthe doors and healthallow one issues person inthat at a put time. you at greater risk i.e. heart

Secretary disease, diabetes, immune-compromised, respiratory issues, obesity and so Dovid Duchman

Associate Secretary In order to be able to adhereon). to the Social Distancing parameters, we will need to severely limit the number of congregants in any Velvel Freedman room. f. Adults over 65 – this group has shown the greatest susceptibility to the virus, ———— please consult your physician to make sure that he feels that it’s prudent and Board of Directors Carolyn Baumel One should bring their ownadvisable Tallis and forSiddur you to Shul,to attend. to limit crossYour contamination. health and safety are paramount. Max Benoliel Betzalel Camissar Barry Cohen While in ShulWhile we will in need Shul, to maintainmasks a MUST 10 foot distancebe worn from at anyone all times. not part No of exceptions. your quarantined As family. supplies We will arearrange limited the seats to Boruch Duchman Henry Eichler ensure thatplease this is compliedbring your with. ownWhen themasks, regular if Shul possible. is filled to capacity, an auxiliary minyan will be added in the Social Hall. Anita Givner Sam Greenwald Sharon Hakmon Reading ofPlease the Torah disinfect and all other your functions hands will with follow the halachic provided guidelines, hand as instructedsanitizers by thebefore Gaboyim. entering the Shul. Albert Lichy Alexander Matz Ezzi Rappaport Children under Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah are not permitted in the Shul at this time. (We are trying to be creative in arranging for a Elliot Rimon There will be bathroom attendants to open the doors and allow one person in at a time. Yaacov Saidof special service just for children and will be in contact if this can be realized). Seth Salver Alex Tauber In order to be able to adhere to the Social Distancing parameters, we will need to ———— No kiddushim will be held. Cantor severely limit the number of congregants in any room. Chazan Yaakov Motzen Associate Cantor No food or drink of any kind is allowed to be brought into the Shul No congregating outside either before or after services. Rabbi Betzalel Camissar One should bring their own Tallis and Siddur to Shul, to limit cross contamination. ————

Director of Operations With G-d’sWhile help, towards in Shul the we end will of the need week, to we maintain will be sending a 10 out foot the distanceschedule. Planning from anyone and arranging not partthis will of take your much effort Shlomi Katan and require many volunteers and professional hours. To help us do this properly and efficiently, we request that all intending to join, ______quarantined family. We will arrange the seats to ensure that this is complied with. When register with the Shul form below. With that information, we will G-d willing be able to create a schedule that allows all to join, in a Special Projects the regular Shul is filled to capacity, an auxiliary minyan will be added in the Social Hall. Devorah Leah Andrusier responsible and safe manner. ————

The Meyer Youth Center Reading of the Torah and all other functions will follow halachic guidelines, as instructed Rabbi Shaykee Farkash We thank you all for your continued cooperation and look forward to a successful reopening and returning to our regular schedule as ———— by the Gaboyim. soon as we can. The Shul Child Enrichment Center Chana Lipskar ______Children under Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah are not permitted in the Shul at this time. (We These guidelines are being put in place to ensure our safety. Please respect the positions put forth by our medical and Rabbinic Rohr Community Kolel are trying to be creative in arranging for a special service just for children and will be in & Kolel Levi Yitzchok guides. If these guidelines are not adhered to, the Shul will not have the ability to remain open. Academy for the Elderly contact if this can be realized). Rabbi Dov Schochet ———— These guidelines have been reviewed and approved via consultations with physicians who are familiar with our facilities and Chaim Yakov Shlomo No kiddushim will be held. College of Jewish Studies circumstances. Smicha Program Rabbi Dov Schochet No food or drink of any kind is allowed to be brought into the Shul Dr. Nathan Katz Sholom D. Lipskar Steven Dunn ————

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Friday, 6 Sivan Shabbos, 7 Sivan

Hearing the Voice The Torah Makes the World Alive When Moses would come into the The offering [of the sixth prince] consisted of one silver Tent of Meeting so G-d could speak bowl, weighing 130 [shekels] . . . Numbers 7:43 with him, he would hear His voice. Numbers 7:7-8 The princes brought two types of offerings: objects (silver and gold Much as we might wish it, we cannot be vessels, flour, oil, and incense) and animals (bulls, sheep, and goats). The allowed to hear G-d’s voice everywhere lifeless objects were not consumed by the heavenly fire that descended and at all times. If we could, we would be onto the Altar, whereas the animals were consumed by this fire, either deprived of our freedom of choice. A world in entirely or partially. which G-d’s voice is constantly heard does not challenge its population. It was G-d’s The lifeless objects thus symbolize the “lifeless” era before the Giving desire to create a world of Divine silence, in of the Torah, when physicality could not be infused with Divinity. The which, through our efforts, we can uncover consumption of the animals by Divine fire symbolizes our present, post- G-d’s concealed voice. It is our task to take Sinai era, in which physical objects – and the physical world in general what we heard during that short period at – can be sanctified. Through the Tabernacle and its successor – the Mount Sinai and within that small space of holy Temple – and through the sanctuary for G-d that we all construct the Tabernacle – and each of us has heard out of ourselves, our lives, and our sphere of influence, Divine vitality is G-d’s voice somewhere and at some time, revealed in the physical world. however fleetingly – and transmit it to the rest of time and space.

Sunday, 8 Sivan Avoiding the Negative; Pursuing the Positive [G-d told Moses,] “Take a census of the clan of Monday, 9 Sivan Gershon.” Numbers 4:22 The Foundation of Everything There are two steps in preparing one’s home for an [G-d told Moses,] “You must count the clan of Merari.” esteemed guest. First the rooms are scrubbed clean; Numbers 4:29 then they are decorated with beautiful furnishings and works of art. The same two steps apply to how The clan of Merari carried the “skeletal” part of the Tabernacle – we make our lives and ourselves into a home for the planks that formed the walls, together with their bases and G-d. First we rid our lives of what is negative and connecting poles. The walls were the least “functional” of all the undesirable and then we do what is good and right. components of the Tabernacle, but they made up its essential frame, the environment in which all of the more “glamorous” The clan of Gershon carried the outer coverings of activities took place. the Tabernacle, which protected it from undesirable elements. This corresponds to our job of avoiding In our lives, the framework and basis of our relationship harmful activities and influences. The clan of Kehat, with G-d is our selfless devotion to His will. While this is the on the other hand carried the furnishings of the least glamorous aspect of our relationship with G-d, it is the Tabernacle, each of which represents a particular foundation upon which all the other, more appealing or exciting positive attribute and activity. aspects rest. Just as Gershon was born before Kehat, it is necessary to first cleanse oneself of negative behavior in order to be able to properly pursue good. Nonetheless, the clan of Kehat was counted before that of Gershon, since cleansing oneself of negativity is only a preparation for the true work: pursuing good.

14 Tuesday, 10 Sivan Counteracting Negativity [G-d instructed Moses to tell the Jewish people,] “When a man or woman sins, and feels guilty and confesses the sin he [or she] committed.” Numbers 5:6-7 If we have wronged a fellow human being in some way, we must first ask their forgiveness; then, we must restore the item or pay for any damage we caused. Then, we must “apologize” to G-d, through repentance. Repentance consists of three steps: regret for the past, positive resolution for the future, and verbal confession to G-d of the misdeed. Every misdeed creates negative energy, which has a “body” and a “soul.” The “body” of this energy is the misdeed itself, while its “soul” is the lust that caused the misdeed and accompanied it. Feeling regret for having committed a misdeed destroys the “soul” of the negative energy; confessing verbally – physically using our mouths – destroys the “body” of the negative energy.

Wednesday, 11 Sivan Thursday, 12 Sivan

Who in Their Right Mind? Same Act, Different Intentions [G-d instructed Moses to tell the Jewish people,] “Should a man’s The offering [of the first prince] wife stray, [causing him to suspect that] she was unfaithful to him.” consisted of one silver bowl, Numbers 5:12 weighing 130 [shekels] . . . Numbers 7:13 Committing a misdeed is a terrible act because the Jewish people are The Torah could have simply given the “married” to G-d. Were adulterers not married, their behavior would not details of one prince’s offering and be judged so harshly; the fact that they betrayed a covenant-relationship then stated that this same offering is what makes them deserve punishment. The same is true of the Jewish was brought by all 12 leaders. The people. A misdeed is not merely a technical transgression; it is a personal reason that it does not is because each affront to our beloved Divine Spouse. prince initiated the Altar into a different way of elevating the physical world As Jews, our connection to G-d is so strong that it is inherently impossible and drew a different type of spiritual for us to transgress His will. The only way we can commit a misdeed is by energy into the world, corresponding deluding ourselves into thinking that it will not jeopardize our connection to to the spiritual nature of his tribe. G-d. Reminding ourselves that G-d is our “spouse” helps us avoid committing misdeeds. Similarly, we all recite the same words in our prayers and perform more or less the same commandments. Yet, at the Friday, 13 Sivan same time, we are individuals. We are The Torah Makes the World Alive not only permitted to express our own The offering [of the sixth prince] consisted of one silver bowl, weighing individual feelings and intent in our 130 [shekels] . . . Numbers 7:43 prayers and in our performance of the commandments – we are required to The princes brought two types of offerings: objects (silver and gold vessels, do so. flour, oil, and incense) and animals (bulls, sheep, and goats). The lifeless objects were not consumed by the heavenly fire that descended onto the Furthermore, just as the Torah repeats Altar, whereas the animals were consumed by this fire, either entirely or the same words but each time the inner partially. meaning is different, so are we intended to bring new meaning to the actions The lifeless objects thus symbolize the “lifeless” era before the Giving of the and words that we repeat daily. Every Torah, when physicality could not be infused with Divinity. The consumption day’s prayers and deeds should reflect of the animals by Divine fire symbolizes our present, post-Sinai era, in which the unique spiritual accomplishments physical objects – and the physical world in general – can be sanctified. we have made since the last time we Through the Tabernacle and its successor – the holy Temple – and through prayed or performed them. the sanctuary for G-d that we all construct out of ourselves, our lives, and our sphere of influence, Divine vitality is revealed in the physical world. 15 SHAVUOS MESSAGES THE PHILOSOPHY OF SLEEP By: Nechama Greisman; Editad by Rabbi Moshe Miller

any have the custom to stay up late on Shavuot night and read the Tikkun Leil Shavuot, selections Mfrom the entire Torah, including the Five Books of Moses, the Prophets and Writings, Mishnah, Talmud, Zohar, and so on. Some people do not recite the Tikkun but simply study the entire night, until morning.

What is the reason for this custom that we stay up very late on Shavuot, or don’t sleep at all? The Midrash states that the night before the Giving of the Torah, the Jewish people went to sleep. Why did they go to sleep the night before getting the Torah? “Because sleeping on Shavuot night is sweet, and the night is short!” The Midrash goes on to say that during that night a miracle occurred and mosquitoes did not bite them.

I don’t know where you live, but where I live, in Kfar Chabad, we have a mosquito plague, and very often you wake up in the go out of its way to use positive reason to publicize it so that all future middle of the night — eeeee… You try words. generations will know how bad they and find that mosquito that’s not letting were, that instead of waiting up eagerly you sleep. This can go on for hours. But The Torah describes impure animals for the Torah they went to sleep? that night, the mosquitoes didn’t bother as those “which are not pure,” That’s not such a nice thing to say. The anybody. It was a very sweet and peaceful rather than as impure. But when Torah could have overlooked it. What sleep. it comes to matters pertaining kind of teaching is it for us to know to Kosher, when one has to know that our forefathers did something When G-d came in the morning to give the law clearly, the Torah does use that isn’t so great? After all, ever since them the Torah, the Midrash continues, negative expressions. Normally, then we’re doing a Tikkun for it, we’re they were still sleeping. G-d says, “I came negative words do not have to trying to repair it, which means that it and there was no one; I called and there cross your lips; use a euphemism, wasn’t a good thing. So let’s just say was no answer.” G-d is ready to give them unless you have a specific reason simply that they overslept a little, and this great gift and everybody’s asleep. G-d to be blunt and explicit. For we say Tikkun. But the Midrash goes has to wake them up and he says, “Nu, it’s example, there is a very serious into great detail. time to get the Torah.” disease, a malignant disease, that one shouldn’t call by its name, for Our sages go into all of the details for This is what the Midrash states. But what that adds to its power. Or when there are several lessons that can be does it mean? There’s obviously more to you’re talking about certain parts learnt. it than meets the eye. The Rebbe points of life that are very intimate, you out that the Torah is always very, very can talk about them in a way that It just doesn’t make sense that they careful about not saying a bad word. In people know what you mean, went to sleep and overslept on that other words, the Torah in general is very without being explicit. night, because we know that from clear to do things in a positive way. When the very day they came out of Egypt the Torah says something negative, such Accordingly, why does the Midrash they started counting the days until as calling an animal spiritually impure speak so disparagingly about the Sinai. They started counting because (tameh), this is only for the purpose of Jews before the receiving of the of the excitement of looking forward practical instruction. Where no practical Torah? Let’s say they didn’t do to the Torah. It was a natural when instruction is intended, the Torah will such a good thing — is there any one wants something one counts the 16 days until it arrives. Our sages say that idea of death, a whisper of death — had almost overcome most of the during each day of the seven weeks of the Talmud calls sleep one sixtieth of night. There was still a bit of a night the counting, the Jews in the desert, death. Many people die in their sleep. left but it was much shorter than it rose to a higher spiritual level. So you Because during sleep everything was when they started. So they felt, can imagine that by the time they slows down. The heart, the respiration, now we have done what we can do reached the 49th day of counting and everything functions at a much slower with daytime, let’s see what sleeping the 49th level of holiness, they were pace than when the person is awake. can do for us. on a much higher level than they were During sleep the soul that was inside the day they began the counting. On the body rises to its source above. G-d, in recognition of their good the night before they received the intentions said, “You know what? Torah, having reached a higher level During sleep, when the soul is free They’re really so sincere that I will of understanding and sensitivity — of the body, it can in a sense go help them along by preventing the precisely now they went to sleep, and higher and reach revelations that mosquitoes from biting.” Had G-d overslept?! It just doesn’t make sense. cannot happen during the day, when been opposed to their sleeping He a person is awake. At Sinai, this was wouldn’t have made this tremendous The Chassidic masters explain that the intention of the Jews in going to miracle that the mosquitoes which bit G-d gave us a soul and he clothed the sleep. They knew that they had been last night and the next night, all of a soul in a body. We are fully aware of working for seven weeks to elevate sudden this night didn’t bite. the fact that our body is what we see themselves to be ready to receive the and experience. When the soul leaves Torah. But all of their preparations had Why, then, do we recite the Tikkun the body, the body remains a corpse, been done, in a sense, during the day year after year? Because G-d says, like a doll; there’s nothing there. The when they were awake and conscious. “I know what your idea was, but you body is essentially subservient to the And they felt that now that they had made a little mistake. That’s all. It was soul. Now, even though there’s a great reached such a high level, maybe now, an innocent error. I’m not punishing.” purpose in living in this world in a body, if we go to sleep, our souls will reach We don’t see that there was any for if there wasn’t, G-d would not have such a high level that we can get the punishment. We don’t see in the created a world and would not have Torah while asleep. For we will be on Midrash or in the Torah that there was put us in the world, nevertheless, a much higher level than we can attain ever any reprimand or any punishment it is clear that the soul is in a sense through our own efforts. This was the meted out to them. The only thing G-d confined within the body. There is a true intention. They were hoping that said is, “I want you to make a Tikkun. certain restraint that the soul must through their sleep they would be able Don’t do it again, and to remember undergo because it is in a body. If the to reach a level of holiness that would that you shouldn’t do it again, every soul was not in a body it wouldn’t have be much greater than they could reach year I want you to stay up.” to stop serving G-d in order to eat and on their own accord during the day. sleep and wash the dishes. There are What was their mistake? It was a certain needs that the body has that This is what the Midrash explains: very innocent error that many people put a damper on what the soul would Their sleep on Shavuot night was very still make today — that the ultimate want to do twenty-four hours a day. So sweet. Sleep can only be great and purpose is the spiritual world, rather the body, in a sense, prevents the soul holy and special if you are on the level than the physical world. G-d , however, from expressing itself fully, and from of Shavuot, if you have done all the wanted a dwelling place in the lowest serving G-d constantly. A person gets necessary preparations. Then you can world, as the Midrash states. Actually, tired. A soul doesn’t get tired. After go to sleep with the hope that great to make a dwelling place for G-d in a while you get bored. You lose your things will happen, that you will see this world was not possible until we train of thought. You can’t concentrate great revelations during your sleep. received the Torah, and G-d annulled any more. You need to sleep, you need the decree separating spirituality to rest, you need to have your coffee. “The night was short.” Here “night” and physicality, so that now even the We’re just human beings. So the body alludes to concealment. We know that physical can become spiritual through slows the soul down. darkness, night, hides things. Have you the service of Jews. Thus, their error ever tried looking for your glasses in was entirely understandable, for it However, when a person sleeps, a the middle of the night and then in the took place before the Torah was given. totally different thing happens. During morning, there they are just by your the time of sleep, even though the night table, two inches away from your person is obviously still alive, the hand? At night you just grope and you heart still beats and the person still can’t find your slippers or anything. breathes, nevertheless, a segment of So what does the night do? The night the soul leaves the body during the doesn’t change anything. It just hides time of sleep. things. You cannot see. In the day you see it all, it’s so simple. During sleep there is a loss of consciousness. One does not fully The Jews had reached a level where hear, nor speak, nor see. There is an the concealment was minimal. They 17 11 SHAVUOT MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS By Yehuda Altein

1. Myth: Shavuot Is Always on 6 Sivan be celebrated on Sunday. Every year, the holiday of Shavuot takes 4. Myth: It’s a Mitzvah to Eat Dairy place on the 6th (and 7th) day of the Fact: The “Day of Rest” Is the First On Rosh Hashanah it’s a mitzvah to Hebrew month of Sivan (corresponding to Day of Passover hear the shofar; on Sukkot—to eat in a May-June). It would seem that Shavuot has Along with the Written Torah, G-d sukkah; on Passover—to eat matzah; always been celebrated on this date. gave us the Oral Torah to ensure and on Shavuot—to eat dairy. Shavuot the correct interpretation of the law. without cheese blintzes is not Shavuot, Fact: Shavuot Is the 50th Day From the The Talmud cites an oral tradition,3 right? Omer sourced from Moses, who received The Torah instructs us to count seven it from G-d Himself, that the “day Fact: It’s a Custom (Albeit a Delicious weeks (49 days) from the day of the omer of rest” in this verse refers not to One) offering, and to celebrate Shavuot on the Shabbat, but to the first day of The Torah does not instruct us to eat 50th day.1 The omer offeringwas brought Passover. (Indeed, it is common dairy; in fact, it is not even mentioned on the second day of Passover (more on for Scripture to refer to holidays as in the Talmud. Eating dairy foods on this below), and according to the calendar “days of rest” or “appointed times.”) Shavuot is a custom that evolved in we follow today, 50 days later is 6 Sivan. post-Talmudic times, with numerous Hence, the omer offering was explanations (see next myth for more In Temple times, however, each month was always brought on the second day on this). As with all customs, we express established anew by the rabbinical court, of Passover, no matter which day of our devotion to G-d by doing even more based on the testimony of witnesses who the week it was, and Shavuot is 50 than He asks of us. had observed the new moon. (Read: The days later, be it a Sunday, Monday, Jewish Month.) The length of each month Wednesday, or Thursday. 5. Myth: It’s Primarily Because varied accordingly, and Shavuot therefore That’s What We Had After Sinai occurred on either the 5th, 6th, or 7th day 3. Myth: It Is Enough to Celebrate Perhaps the most well-known reason of Sivan. Shavuot for One Day for eating dairy is that when G-d gave Many people erroneously believe the Torah, the Jews became obligated Interestingly, alternative Shavuot dates are to observe the kosher laws. All the possible today as well—for someone who celebrating Shavuot for one day is sufficient. meat in their possession was rendered crossed the International Dateline between unfit, and since the Torah was given on Passover and Shavuot. In such a case, your Fact: Shavuot Is Celebrated for Two Shabbat, no cattle could be slaughtered 50th day is different from the 50th day of Days in the Diaspora nor could utensils be koshered. They those around you. If you crossed the line According to Torah law, Shavuot is had no choice but to eat dairy, and we westward (e.g., from America to Australia), a single day. In Temple times, since commemorate this by doing the same. your Shavuot will begin on 7 Sivan. each month was established anew Conversely, if you crossed the line eastward by the rabbinical court in Jerusalem, Many believe that this is the only reason, (e.g., from Australia to America), you will and it took time to send out word, the or at least the primary reason, for eating begin celebrating on 5 Sivan. communities in the Diaspora were dairy on Shavuot. If you are planning to cross the dateline often unsure as to the correct day Fact: This is Only One of Many (Earlier) between Passover and Shavuot, make sure of the holiday. As such, in the Land Reasons to discuss the relevant halachic details with of Israel, where word traveled faster This explanation can be traced to a book a competent rabbi. and there was no doubt which day printed about 100 years ago, presenting was the first of the month, Shavuot Torah thoughts of the chassidic greats 2. Myth: Shavuot Is Always on Sunday was celebrated for one day (as per of the 18th century. However, many Although this mistake is pretty much a thing Torah law), while in the Diaspora a other fascinating reasons have been of the past, it is probably the oldest Shavuot second day was observed to cover given for this custom, some of them myth in history, dating back to Talmudic all bases. from centuries earlier. times. In the 4th century CE, a fixed calendar Discover 12 reasons for this custom: The Torah instructs us to “count seven was established, and people knew in The Custom of Eating Dairy on Shavuot complete weeks from the day after the day advance when the festivals would of rest, from the day you bring the omer occur. Nevertheless, the Talmud 6. Myth: No Need to Eat Meat on offering.” This seems to imply that the omer explains that we are bound by Shavuot offering was brought on Sunday (the day rabbinic law to observe a second day. after the “day of rest”—Shabbat). If this On a simple level, the reason for this The typical Shabbat and festival fare is when the seven-week count begins, it ancient requirement is to uphold the includes a sumptuous meat-based should always conclude on Shabbat, and customs of our forefathers. Deeper, dish. Eating meat is one of the ways Shavuot—the fiftieth day—should always mystical reasons are also provided. we fulfill the mitzvah to rejoice on the holidays. Some assume that Shavuot 18 is an exception. Since we must wait directly and the last eight via Moses. not binding. Or are they? a specified amount of time between Moses then ascended Mount Sinai and eating meat and dairy, the custom to remained there for 40 days, where G-d Fact: Every Mitzvah Is Equally eat dairy would seem to override the gave him the Tablets upon which these Important obligation to eat meat. Ten Commandments—the foundation While the Ten Commandments certainly of all 613 mitzvot G-d taught him during occupy a unique role, we should not Fact: There Is Still an Obligation to Eat that time—were inscribed. underestimate the significance of any Meat (Separate From Dairy, of Course) mitzvah, no matter how small it seems. Shavuot is no exception; the obligation to The 40 days concluded on the 17th of eat meat remains. There are numerous the Hebrew month of Tammuz. When A mitzvah is the will of G-d, and its value customs regarding when to serve dairy Moses descended with the Tablets, far exceeds anything we can grasp. Each so it should not conflict with the meat. he was met with the sight of the Jews and every mitzvah is an opportunity to One common practice is to serve a worshipping the golden calf. Horrified, forge a personal connection with G-d dairy meal immediately after morning he threw the Tablets to the ground, Himself. So go ahead and do any that services. Then, after reciting Grace After shattering them instantly. you can! Meals and waiting an hour, a meat meal is served. Moses then ascended Mount Sinai 11. Myth: We Slept in Because We once more to intercede on behalf of the Were Apathetic 7. Myth: Tractate Shevuot Is About sinners. G-d heeded his requests and The Midrash relates that the night Shavuot forgave the Jews, and 80 days later, on before the giving of the Torah, the Jewish There is a Talmudic tractate devoted Yom Kippur, Moses descended once people turned in early for a good night’s to each of the major holidays—Rosh more with a second set of Tablets. sleep. The next morning, they slept in Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Purim, and Moses had to wake them. To rectify and Passover (although Chanukah is 9. Myth: The Giving of the Torah this wrongdoing, it is customary to stay a noticeable exception). There is also Was a One-Time Phenomenon up all night on Shavuot and study Torah a tractate named Shevuot. Obvious The giving of the Torah was a wondrous texts. conclusion: Tractate Shevuot is about experience, unmatched by anything This story is commonly viewed as a Shavuot. since. The common perception is that on Shavuot we commemorate a climactic shameful part of our history, reflecting Fact: Tractate Shevuot Discusses event that occurred over 3,330 years our forefathers’ lack of enthusiasm to Oaths ago. receive the Torah. Interestingly enough, Tractate Shevuot Fact: We Wanted to Prepare by Drawing is not about Shavuot but about oaths. Fact: Every Year—Every Day—We Spiritual Energy While the holiday’s name means weeks, Receive the Torah Although the Jews did sleep in on that as it is celebrated seven weeks after the From a deeper perspective, the Jewish fateful morning, there is a deeper omer offering, the similar word shevuot festivals do not merely commemorate dimension to the story, giving us a more means oaths, and that is the subject of long-gone events. On a spiritual realm, positive way to look at what happened. the tractate. the incidents of yore recur each year, imbuing us with ever-increasing energy The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that Although Shavuot is blessed with a and vigor. the Jews went to sleep not because of myriad of beautiful customs, it has very apathy, but because they felt that was few unique laws. Many laws relating Moreover, we are taught that G-d gives the best way to prepare. When you to festivals in general are discussed in us the Torah anew each and every day. sleep, your soul ascends to the supernal another tractate—Beitzah. This idea is expressed in the blessing we recite—in present tense—each realms and receives renewed spiritual There is, however, a connection between morning before studying Torah: Blessed energy. What better way to prepare for Tractate Shevuot (oaths) and Shavuot are You L-rd who gives us the Torah. the giving of the Torah, they felt, than (the holiday): On this day G-d swore to spend the preceding hours basking in eternal devotion to us, and we in turn So this year on Shavuot, picture the spirituality? pledged everlasting loyalty to Him. momentous giving of the Torah as a current reality. It’s happening today! And Despite their good intentions, that was 8. Myth: We Received the Two Tablets next year, when circumstances allow, a mistake. By going to sleep, the Jews on Shavuot be sure to attend synagogue and hear demonstrated they had misunderstood the point of the Torah. The Torah wasn’t Shavuot is the day G-d gave us the the Ten Commandments read from the Torah. given so that we can become spiritual Torah. Many understand this to mean beings, but for us to grapple with and that we received the two Tablets (luchot) refine our physical nature. We therefore on this day. 10. Myth: The Ten Commandments Are the Most Important Mitzvot stay up to fix their mistake. We spend the night learning, working with our Fact: We Got Them (and Lost Them) on It is common knowledge that the Ten body, inspiring it, and purifying it, so 17 Tammuz Commandments are the most important that every part of us, both the physical On Shavuot G-d communicated the Ten of the 613 mitzvot, while the remaining and the spiritual, is ready to receive the Commandments to us, the first two ones are less significant and perhaps Torah anew. 19 STORIES WITH SOUL

t began like any one of the “Why aren’t you eating, Mommy? Why Someone had denounced him to the indistinguishable, mechanical days isn’t anyone eating?” Gestapo and they came looking for which had followed one another in him in his hiding place. He jumped two “I’m not hungry this morning.” Suddenly Imonotonous succession. flights out of a window, scaled one she put her two hands on my head and concrete garden wall after another and We, that is my mother, my two sisters said a few words quietly the way my outran and outwitted a detachment of and I, lived as Christians like the scores father often did. Then I started to cry. SS men. of families surrounding us on all sides. “Where is Max, Mommy? Why doesn’t “Soon I must go. With the help of G-d, We shared their bomb shelter, we ate he come back?” our passports to Switzerland should be their food, we trembling with them “Shh -- don’t talk about him. It’s coming through soon.” at the ceaseless crash of bombs over dangerous.” Budapest. “I will make you something warm to “Are you still angry with him for what drink,” my mother said. Our society of a hundred women, happened...?” “Nothing happened. You children and disabled men became our “No, it isn’t time, yet,” my father must forget it.” whole world; only rarely did anyone answered. venture into the death- infested streets But I couldn’t forget it. It was the night “You must eat something -- you must to bring news of the war-crazed world before last, the night before Max left. have some strength, I tell you!” outside. Max barged in on us, and began to “And since when does our food give us Thus, day followed day till we had lost rummage through our belongings. strength?” my father asked softly. the will to count them. Suddenly, he found a little book. He looked into it and then started laughing. “And who knows whether fasting does Yet, as soon as I woke up, I knew that My mother walked in. not give more strength than food? This there was something different about is the time when each man’s deepest this day. “Of all the insane things in the world! nature is uncovered and each man sees A siddur (prayerbook)!” He shouted at Suddenly I remembered: since the day what he wants to see. If only we could my mother, “What do you think this is before yesterday, no one knew where understand G-d’s ways!” going to do for you?” Max was, or, at least that’s what they (Only days later did I hear what else told me. Max was my only friend in this “I don’t know what you are talking my mother found out that day. It was place full of strange faces and fear. about or where you got that thing.” about Max. He had been found in a Where could he be? Then, she crossed herself solemnly. doorway near our shelter. Tacked onto But he didn’t leave right away. First, his clothing, they found a piece of paper My mother told me time and again not he tore out all the pages of the siddur, with the word “Jude” in big letters.) to go with him on our “promenades” shredded them, spit on them and around the shelter, but I went anyway. I had been sitting playing with a stamped on them wildly. I made a move Max would come, hoist me in the air flashlight when my father left. Now, forward but my mother’s eyes were on onto his shoulders and say, with his my mother called out angrily, “Put that me and I froze. big laugh: “Well, my queen, where shall down!” we promenade today? In the forest Then Max looked at me. “But why?” Then my mother’s anger primeval? By the babbling brook? Or “At least you should know, there is faded and she leaned close and shall we just roam through the fields nothing up there. Remember that.” whispered in my ear. “Because it’s Yom of laughing daisies?” Then each broken With that he walked out, and that was Kippur.” chair and bed and old box in the dingy the last I saw of him. cellar turned into trees and rocks and My hand dropped the flashlight. So flowers. It was evening when I sensed a sudden that’s why nobody had wanted to eat! commotion; someone had come in, Blurred images flitted through my But there was another side to Max, too. someone new. mind -- my father blessing me, people In the middle of a promenade he would in white, and the whole day in shul -- I ran out to look -- maybe it was Max. mutter to himself and begin one of his but it was so far away. interminable tirades about G-d. But, then I stopped, frozen. Now I wanted to think about Max. “Where is your G-d now? Why is He The man who was hurrying forward Somehow I had a sad, empty feeling hiding? Where is His justice to those with his head bent was not Max - - it that he wouldn’t come back, and I was who have served Him faithfully?” He was my father. angry at him. would go on for hours. His face was deathly white and I This morning, my mother prepared noticed a steady trickle of red dripping breakfast, but neither of my two sisters from his fingers. nor my mother touched the food. 20 LAWS OF INTEREST MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE REBBE “THIS IS HOW I FEEL YOUR PAIN”

hree or four months after I started studying in kollel, the rabbinical seminary where young Tmarried men go to study for a year or two, I was asked to see Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, who was the head of the kollel and the Rebbe’s chief secretary. Rabbi Hodakov told me that he had a special mission for me that would take priority over everything else I was doing, even over my studies. The mission involved helping a young, seventeen year-old girl who was experiencing great emotional difficulties with teenage issues – rebelliousness, religious confusion, her home situation – the typical things her immediately as he did throughout her. We discussed it and she began that this episode – typically within a couple to realize that the Rebbe was feeling trouble teenagers. In her case though, of hours or, at most, within a day. In what she was going through, and these problems were quite severe. his letter, the Rebbe wrote, among that the Rebbe was trying to help her. The Rebbe had taken an extraordinary other things, that he empathizes with Slowly, she began to respond. She personal interest in helping this girl her... that he feels her pain. made progress, through this stage in her life, and I she matured and things turned was recruited to do what needed to be So she wrote back: “I don’t believe out well for her. Eventually she got done. you. How can you feel my pain? You’re married, had children and many good not going through what I’m going things happened to her. For three or four months, I spent fifty through.” percent of my time working on this Within two hours, there was a I feel privileged to have witnessed issue. I didn’t do a single thing without response from the Rebbe, and this firsthand the Rebbe’s involvement in consulting Rabbi Hodakov, who in turn was the gist of it: this girl’s life... how he put himself into would consult with the Rebbe and it with such intensity. I mean, he was relay the Rebbe’s instructions how to “When you will merit to grow up and the Rebbe, and yet he spent so much deal with each particular situation. marry, G-d willing you will have a child. time answering her letters back and The nature of things is that towards forth, back and forth, over weeks and This young girl often wrote to the the end of the first year, the child will months. And through his caring, he Rebbe directly, and when the Rebbe begin to teethe. Teething is painful succeeded in turning her life around. responded, I was instructed to discuss and the child cries. And a mother feels his response with her. What I want to that pain as if it was her own. This is describe is one particular exchange how I feel your pain.” that was absolutely extraordinary. The last words of the letter read: Kach She had written to the Rebbe, ani margish tzaara, “This is how I feel describing at length her anguish and your pain.” inner turmoil. The Rebbe responded to This had a very strong impact on 21 RECENTLY IN THE NEWS BRINGING SHABBAT TO MEDICAL STAFFS AND COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE

just picking up the box and seeing the to a traditional Shabbat experience ediatric dental resident Dr. Mirissa through Chabad. Price has been working day and masked faces of my Harvard Jewish family brought warmth and belonging night in a Boston emergency That program, like so many others that Proom and dental clinic during the to my Shabbat.” bring people together, is on pause, but coronavirus pandemic, her family At Chabad centers around the world, students and community members quarantined together on the other side now have another rich opportunity— of the country. Chabad emissaries, their children and local volunteers are busy cooking, to take charge and own their Shabbat preparing and delivering Shabbat experience. It’s an empowering and Last Friday, Price hurried across the educational moment, said Zarchi, river from the Boston-area hospital essentials while strictly observing social-distancing and other safety even if it’s coming for some students where she works to Cambridge, Mass., earlier than it would have in the past, to make it in time to pick up a special measures established by local authorities. when they knew they could rely on package—a Shabbat box, courtesy of their community to create Jewish life, Chabad-Lubavitch at Harvard. The box In Boston, Rabbi Hirschy and Elkie at least until graduation. “Now they’re held candle-holders and a Kiddush cup, being asked to do it as students,” said homemade chicken soup, butternut Zarchi, directors of Chabad of Cambridge, serve not only students Zarchi. “And it’s incredibly inspiring to squash pie, freshly baked challah and see.” printed prayers. She promptly took and faculty at Harvard University, it home, and had a healthy and much which is closed at present, but also the broader Cambridge and Menachem Butler, who works as a appreciated Shabbat dinner with her program fellow at the Julis-Rabinowitz puppy, Joey. Somerville communities. Last week, they distributed more than 100 boxes Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School, signed up “It was a great way to feel a part of that to Jewish residents and expect the program to grow substantially. last week to receive a Shabbat box. Jewish community again when we can’t It was a chance to do something as a all gather at a single table,” said Price, community and to include new people who first got involved with Chabad “Our center hosts more than 2,000 different students at our Shabbat in the warmth of Shabbat, which he’d at Harvard in 2015, when she came experienced so many times over the to campus as a dental student. “Even programs annually,” said Rabbi Zarchi, adding that many are first introduced past five years at the Zarchi dinner 22 table, he said.

The Shabbat boxes enhanced the experience of each person who received one, affirmed Butler. “It was more than just a little food; it was also the feeling—the sense that ‘we’re thinking about you, we are a community, anything you need, we are always here.’ You don’t have to be present right there to experience that closeness.”

People walked and drove to pick up their bags from a safe distance away, still connected by phone, and we went beginning to end—for those who need and relished the chance to see each for a walk and people were walking, so it. It’s a service they provided before the other, if only for a minute, he said. “To we got to see people outside.” pandemic that’s getting more requests be a part of something bigger; really, a as more people fall on hard times or little thing can go a long way. We just She and her husband heard the can’t leave home. picked it up for a minute, but we went doorbell ring, and saw a friendly face back to our homes, and were able to from their Chabad. On their doorstep “We want them to know that here do our Shabbat and were all able to do was the box that included challah, at Chabad of Naples, we’re here for it together, even though we weren’t candlesticks and a booklet to help the community, we’re here always, physically present.” them celebrate Shabbat. Though she especially during the challenging had her own challah already, Goldner times,” he said. “It lifts people up, it noted that it was special to know gives people nourishment, physically, Mitzvah of the Week in Wisconsin that the Chabad was reaching out to spiritually—we’ve always prided Rabbi Moshe Rapoport, program community members and encouraging ourselves on the fact that Chabad is director at the Peltz Chabad Center for them to make their homes a sanctuary. family. It’s really family.” Jewish Life in Mequon, Wis., is running a campaign focused on making every “It’s amazing, the outreach,” she said. Greatness Unlimited home a sanctuary. Every week for the “If you touch one person that one next six weeks, they’ll be delivering person can touch another, who knows To some, G-d is great because He packages tied to a particular mitzvah what can happen.” makes the wind blow. that can strengthen the sanctity of Shabbat Dropoff in Naples For others, because He projects the home. “Instead of being down space and time out of the void. that shuls are closed and places of Rabbi Fishel Zaklos, co-director of Yiddishkeit are closed, make your home the Chabad Jewish Center of Naples, The enlightened laugh and say He is that place,” he said. Fla., with his wife, Etti, has hosted a far beyond any of this, communal Kiddush every Shabbat for His Oneness remains unaltered This week they focused on Shabbat, since they got the program rolling in even by the event of Creation. giving out candlesticks and candles, 2005. Last week, they had a Shabbat We Jews, this is what we have challahs and a guidebook. Kashrut is on drop-off where 175 members drove the list, as are charity and holy books. by to pick up challah, chicken soup, always said: “The goal is first of all to help people candles and more. He’s moved classes, G-d is so great, Hebrew school, preschool and other change their focus and to increase their He stoops to listen to the prayer of a learning online, and set up a task force Yiddishkeit,” he said. “There’s never small child; been so many people baking challah, with volunteers to shop for those who making Kiddush every Friday night.” can’t. He paints the petals of each wildflower and awaits us there to Fran Goldner, who with her husband, “We’re trying to cover all bases and catch Him doing so; Mark, has been involved with Mequon’s work on all cylinders more than ever,” he said. He plays with the rules of the Chabad since 1994, is usually busy world He has made to comfort the going to services on Friday and Saturday For their challah drive-by, they handed oppressed and support those who morning, and taking numerous classes champion justice. the Chabad offers. “Now we’re doing out bags to community members, many them on Zoom,” she said of her classes. of them making their way outdoors for He transcends the bounds of higher “I still feel very connected to the the first time since lockdowns began. and lower. community. All of my needs are being “It was unbelievable, the response,” provided, I’m getting my classes, I’m he said, adding that Chabad is also He transcends all bounds. offering Shabbat kits—meals from 23 FRENCH CONNECTION REFLEXIONS SUR LA PARACHA Vivre avec la paracha La vie comme une montagne fort et puissant qui érode les montagnes » un esprit d’humilité et décide de s’amender. par Yaakov Paley

ourquoi une montagne ? PPourquoi, quand après deux mille cinq cents ans de jardins et de déluges, de tours et d’exils, de rivières emplies de sang et de mers fendues, D.ieu décida enfn de Se révéler à l’humanité – pourquoi rassembla-t-il Son peuple autour d’une montagne ?

D.ieu nous a réunis au Sinaï pour enseigner, pour transmettre sagesse et connaissance, pour guider. L’endroit qu’Il choisit n’a certainement pas été désigné par hasard. Il lui-même porteur d’enseignements particuliers.

Il y a, dans une montagne, de nombreux messages pour l’homme.

Notre univers se compose de quatre règnes : l’inanimé, le végétal, l’animal et l’humain. Nos en fortife aussi d’autres. Alors que certaines Ce sentiment est un vent qui rabaisse les sages ont appelé les hautes montagnes : « le rétrécissent, d’autres grandissent. sommets de ferté que nous avons laissé se végétal au sein du règne inanimé ». La terre former. Du fait qu’un tel changement est positif, qui grandit. La perte d’une montagne est le gain d’une la montagne ne « rétrécit » pas, mais elle se autre. développe en une montagne plus petite et elle Nous remarquons toutefois que les montagnes diminue progressivement. L’atténuation d’un rétrécissent aussi. Secouées par les vents, « Tout ce que D.ieu a créé dans Son monde trait négatif est toujours un pas vers l’avant et détrempées par les pluies, ciselées par les », disent les Sages, « Il l’a aussi créé dans vers le haut. rivières. Il y a des organisations qui tentent de l’homme ». protéger certaines montagnes, de prévenir les Vue de l’autre versant de la montagne, notre glissements de terrain et l’érosion. Le prophète Notre montagne représente notre conscience hauteur peut nous permettre d’atteindre de Élie avait évoqué « un vent fort et puissant, qui de nous-mêmes ; de notre position et de plus hauts sommets encore. Nous pouvons érode les montagnes ». notre importance. Nous pouvons choisir utiliser notre importance, notre position une montagne négative, une montagne respectable, notre pouvoir ou notre réputation Comment se fait-il que le vent s’attaque d’arrogance et d’orgueil. Ou nous pouvons pour susciter des changements pour le bien aux montagnes, mais ignore pratiquement avoir une montagne sainte, utilisée pour un des autres. Notre montagne d’infuence peut les plaines ? La raison en est la montagne développement positif. être utilisée pour guider d’autres personnes elle-même. Elle est aussi simplement dans une direction positive. qu’obstinément en travers de la route. Le vent Nous pouvons nous grandir comme une la frappe avec force et il doit frayer son chemin montagne d’orgueil – un bloc de terre qui se Notre montagne pourra être suffsamment autour ou au dessus d’elle. Dans ce mouvement, hausse en outrage à la décence, à la société, à impressionnante pour gagner le cœur de il emporte des petits fragments du massif. notre Créateur. ceux qui ignoreraient le même message d’un simple petit monticule. Alors, notre importance De minuscules fragments de montagne Mais c’est précisément cet orgueil qui invite et notre « altitude » deviennent alors une accompagnent les nuages. Ils continuent leur les forces qui vont l’assagir et le corriger. montagne sainte, un endroit où D.ieu peut Se chemin jusqu’à ce que le vent atteigne une Quand une personne se rend compte qu’elle révéler. autre formation rocheuse idéalement dressée s’est permise de maintenir sa tête et son cœur pour les recevoir. De cette manière, le « vent bien au dessus des autres, elle est envahie par 24 LATIN LINK REFLEXION SEMANAL Parasha de la Semana Bikurim - Las Primicias de Bikurim y lleva su nombre. Aquí encontramos las También todos los artesanos de Jerusalem solían Por Nissan Mindel diversas leyes: sobre quién recaía la obligación de salir e inclinarse ante los recién llegados, diciendo: llevar Bikurim, quién estaba exento de hacer la ‘Hermanos de tal o cual lugar, sed bienvenidos’. havuot —el festival que conmemora la entrega Declaración, y fnalmente, quién estaba exento de La procesión continuaba hasta llegar al Monte de la Torá en el Monte Sinaí— se conoce ambos. No entraremos en el detalle de estas leyes, del Templo, precedida por los fautistas. Cuando también, como ya hemos mencionado, con el sino que daremos la muy interesante descripción S llegaban al Monte del Templo, cada uno, hasta el nombre de Festival de la Cosecha —Jag Hakatzir— de toda la ceremonia, que encontramos en la mismo rey, ponía su canasta sobre el hombro y o Día de los Primeros Frutos—Jag Habikurim. Mishná. entraba hasta el Patio del Templo. Nadie trabaja más duro que el agricultor, y, Cuando un hombre iba a su campo, huerta o Cuando los portadores de Bikurim llegaban al simultáneamente, nadie tiene tanta inseguridad viñedo, y veía por primera vez un higo maduro, o Templo, los Levitas cantaban: ‘¡Y Te exaltaré, Oh sobre los frutos de su trabajo como éste. un racimo de uvas maduro, o una granada madura, la envolvía con un junquillo y decía: “Estos son los Señor, pues Tú me Has elevado e impedido que mis El labrador depende completamente de los Primeros Frutos”. enemigos triunfen sobre mí” (Salmo 30). “elementos” de la naturaleza. Imaginen qué tentación era para el campesino Las palomas atadas a los canastos eran entonces Se necesita sol, pero no demasiado, para que no se el arrancar el primer higo maduro y llevarlo a la sacrifcadas, y lo que el pueblo traía en sus manos produzca una sequía que arruine lo plantado. Se boca. Pero no se entregaba a la tentación, sino que era entregado a los Sacerdotes. precisan lluvias, pero a su exacto y debido tiempo. lo designaba como ofrenda a Di-s por la buena Mientras el canasto estaba todavía sobre su hombro, El rocío, el viento, la temperatura — todos son cosecha. cada portador de Bikurim recitaba la “Declaración” factores importantes. ¿Qué puede hacer el pobre (Deut. 26:5). Esta Declaración contenía, en pocas agricultor más que rogar a Di-s para que El bendiga Recogiendo todos los Primeros Frutos, y palabras elegidas, la antigua historia de nuestro el producto de sus manos y le brinde una buena y agregándoles muchos más, de entre los mejores, pueblo, incluyendo la esclavitud egipcia y la abundante cosecha? el agricultor se dirigía a la ciudad más próxima y desde allí, junto con sus colegas, se dirigía a la liberación. Concluía con las palabras: “Y Él nos ha No es de extrañar, pues, que la época de la cosecha ciudad de Maamad —la principal del distrito—. traído hasta este lugar, liberándonos, y nos ha dado fuera ocasión de gran regocijo en la antigua Tierra esta tierra, una tierra que rebalso de leche y miel. de Israel. Allí, reunidos en el mercado bajo un cielo limpio y Y ahora, he aquí que he traído los Primeros Frutos azul, los campesinos pasaban la noche. Temprano de esta tierra que Tú, Oh Señor, me has dado” (Deut. El campesino judío sabía que todo lo debía al por la mañana, el ofcial del Maamad los despertaba 26:10). querido y piadoso Di-s. llamando: “Levantaos vosotros, y vayamos hasta Sión, a la Casa de nuestro Di-s”. Luego dejaba el canasto al lado del altar, se Para no olvidar esta verdad, decimos en nuestras inclinaba y salía. oraciones diarias (en el Shemá) “Y ocurrirá si Aquellos campesinos que vivían cerca de Jerusalem obedecéis Mis mandamientos... entonces daré traían los frutos frescos, pero aquellos que vivían Luego de la grande e impresionante ceremonia las lluvias de vuestra tierra en su temporada... y lejos traían higos secos y pasas de uvas, para que la de la ofrenda del Bikurim, Jerusalem se convertía recogeréis vuestro grano, vuestro vino y vuestro fruta no se arruinara en el camino. en una ciudad de solemne alegría y regocijo, de aceite.” (Deuteronomio 11:13,14). acuerdo con el mandamiento: “Y te alegrarás por Los frutos se llevaban en canastas decoradas. Los todo lo bueno que el Señor, Tu Di-s, te ha dado La época de la cosecha, en la vieja Israel, comenzaba ricos llevaban canastas de oro y plata, mientras a ti ya tu casa; tú, el Levita, y el extraño que se en Pesaj, cuando el grano de cebada comenzaba a que los pobres utilizaban canastas confeccionadas encuentre entre vosotros” (Deut. 26:11). recogerse, y el “Omer” se llevaba al Templo como con ramillas de sauce peladas. Muchos llevaban ofrenda de Gracias. palomas vivas consigo, junto con la canasta, como sacrifcios. Clases y Eventos Pronto, maduraban los otros granos y frutas, Clases en Espanol pero “Bikurim”, la ofrenda de los primeros frutos Cuando más se acercaban los peregrinos a Porcion Semanal maduros, no debía llevarse al Templo antes de Jerusalem, mayor era su número, y su alegre Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Shavuot. espíritu. 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