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The Shul B”H weekly magazine Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Yom Kippur Tishrei 9 - 10 September 29 - 30 CANDLE LIGHTING: 6:51 PM Fast Begins: 7:05 PM Fast ENDS: 7:50 PM WELCOME TO CHAZZAN MOTZEN Gma Chasima Toa Best Wishes fo a Happy, Healthy, Sweet New Yea and a Meaningful Fast Over Tirty Years of Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Fl 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TeShul.org Email: info@TeShul.org The Shul Weekly Magazine Everything you need for every day of the week Contents Nachas At A Glance The Shul Hebrew School does Tashlich on The Bay Yom Kippur Message 3 The Lubavitcher Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn Weekly Message 4 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar A Time to Pray Check out all the davening schedules and locations 5 throughout the week Celebrating Shabbos 6 - 7 Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience The Month of Tishrei 8 -15 Everything you need to know for the High Holidays Community Happenings 16- 17 Sharing with your Shul Family Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 18-25 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 26-29 The full scoop on all the great events around town The ABC’s of Aleph 30 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. In a woman’s world 31 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman French Connection 32 Refexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 33 Refexion Semanal Networking 34-36 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 37 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 38 The Shul Get The Picture The full scoop on all the great events around town 39-40 Quotable Quote You have selected the L-rd this day, to be your G-d, and to walk in His ways, and to observe His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and to obey Him . And G-d has selected you this day to be His treasured people, as He has promised you . – Deuteronomy 26:17–18 Yom Kippur Message from The Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn We Trust as One belief having been inherited from our Father Abraham. This belief unites and hese are the days when, having been unifes all Jews and, furthermore, it is blessed on Yom Kippur with a good perfectly equal in all Jews though they be Tand sweet year, we are preparing for unlike each other in many other aspects. the Festival of Succos-”the Season of Our Rejoicing.” At this time some refection is It is this trust that makes a spiritual in order: uniting of the Jewish people a reality, unifying all Jews into one entity. For their True, we are living in exile, a time when common simple belief also pervades and G-dly revelation is not as prevalent. This encompasses everything in which they diminished light of Torah has its effect differ, including their understanding, and in the world in its relations with the level of study and observance of the Torah. Jewish people and, in some Jews, in their relationship to Judaism. This unity is also refected in Yom Kippur, the unique and only day in the year, which (It should be stated that these two are of all the festivals ordained in the Torah, interconnected. It is only when Jews, is celebrated for one day only, both in and individually or collectively, proudly and openly adhere to their outside of the Holy Land. Jewishness that they earn the respect of the world around them. Yom Kippur is the day on which all Jews conclude on the same culminating “resume” and proclaim with profound inspiration Furthermore, by adhering to a Torah life-style, which means and in a loud voice: Shema Yisroel-Hear, O Israel, Hashem is actually learning Torah and doing Mitzvos, we not only our G-d, Hashem is One; Blessed be the name of His glorious diminish but eventually completely eliminate the only cause Kingdom forever and ever; Hashem He is G-d!” of the Exile (as we clearly say in our prayer-”Because of our sins we were exiled from our land”) and the Exile is shortened This same unifying principle is refected also in the Festival of and eventually ended by the true and complete Redemption Succos, in combining together the “Four Kinds” (Esrog, Lulav, through Moshiach.) Myrtle, and Willow), symbolizing all different types of Jews, into one Mitzvah, which is created by virtue of a Jew unifying Nevertheless, the fact that we are still in Exile must not, and them. does not, dampen the joyful preparations for Succos, much less the actual joy of Yom Tov, particularly the Festival of Succos And also in the Succah itself, concerning which the Torah says: (including Chol HaMo’ed, Shemini Atzeres, and Simchas Torah) “It is possible for all Jews to sit in one Succah.” which has been singled out and designated as “The Season of Our Rejoicing.” May G-d grant that just as on Yom Kippur, after the many prayers and the culminating resume, one long shofar blast is An additional factor, which is also one of our fundamental sounded-a Tekiah Gedolah, according to custom, followed by beliefs and basic principles of our Torah, is Bitochon (trust) in the loud proclamation: Next year in Jerusalem! G-d. This means true and absolute trust in the Master of all the universe, whose Divine Providence extends to each and So may every Jew in the midst of the entire Jewish people, everyone individually, and specifcally, and in detail. may every Jewish man and woman, very soon indeed hear the sound of G-d’s Great Shofar announcing our liberation, This trust includes, frst of all, that He surely granted that followed immediately by-”Bring us... to Jerusalem Your Holy everyone be favorably sealed in everything and in every House with everlasting joy.” detail, including and especially the fulfllment in our own very days of the hope, heartfelt yearning, and most fervent daily Translated and excerpted from a letter dated “Between Yom expectation of Moshiach “for whose coming I wait every day.” Kippur and Succos, 5741 [1980]” The basis of this trust is the simple belief of every single Jew. For Jews are “believers the sons of believers,” this intrinsic 3 Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Yom Kippur being crystal clean, without any blemish whatsoever, is so powerful that even before this day we already purchased the Esrog and We have transgressed; we Lulav which represent our marching to victory, holding the Lulav have acted perfdiously etc. upright and dancing into the Sukkah which G-d assembled for us “etc.” enumerating 22 different with His celestial clouds of glory to envelope and protect us against additional types of transgressions all negative intrusions while sojourning the diffcult Sinai desert that we articulate in our and likewise the bellicose environment of a challenging world and confessional 10 times in our prayers history. during Yom Kippur day. “For the sin that we have committed before you Yes, we may have done many things incorrectly and made many under duress or willingly; and for mistakes but we are Your child whom You bore and chose and with the sin which we have committed whom You forged an eternal, indelible bond that guarantees an before you by hardheartedness; etc.” eternal, loving, forgiving and giving relationship. listing 42 more detailed acts of our potential malfeasance towards G-d We will all certainly be sealed for a good, healthy, happy, sweet, and man which we also say 10 times in our prayers during the holy peaceful, prosperous and liberated new year 5778. day of Yom Kippur. Yet with all of these wrongful behaviors we have or may have sinned, we are not sinners. On Yom Kippur we beseech G-d for forgiveness, Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar dressed in white representing purity, and denying ourselves all Broken & Whole physical, material pleasures to reach a state of internal soul essence By Tzvi Freeman that transcends our external beings. We are G-d’s beloved. The broken shards of the frst tablets are stored in the ark together with the whole ones.—Talmud Bava Batra 14b. It is a day when we admit to our weaknesses and bodily animalistic When you fnd the Infnite, where will you put it? tendencies that are so seductive and sometimes corruptive. We talk In your broken vessel? to G-d as a loving child to a loving Father, asking Him to embrace It will not stay. us and take us back under His wings of protection and power of blessing. We are able to do so because at our primal essence we In a new whole one? It will not ft. love Him and never want to abandon Him. Let the heart be broken in bitterness for its confnes. Let it Though this day should naturally bring a sense of introspective, be whole in the joy of a boundless soul. meditative, self-effacing sadness, it is rather a day of a joy and This is the secret that the human being holds over the thankfulness that goes beyond the physical expressions of eating, angels: Only the human heart can be broken drinking, dancing and singing. and whole at once. It is the only day of the year when we have fve separate prayers representing the fve levels of the soul, culminating with the Neilah APOLOGY prayer that represents the actual, essential, integral soul that is Last week a picture of The Lubavitcher Rebbe was directly part of G-d Almighty Himself.

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