B”H The Shul weekly magazine Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Parshas Tazriah - Metzorah Iyar 2 -3 April 28 - April 29

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Weekly Message 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 23 Teens from The Shul participated in the Celebrating Shabbos Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 4 - 5 annual March of the living together with need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash and Community Happenings 6 - 7 Sharing with your Shul Family thousands of others from all over the world. A Time to Pray Check out all the davening schedules and locations 8 throughout the week Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 9-16 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE

Get The Picture 17- 20 The full scoop on all the great events around town Meyer Youth Center The full scoop on all the Youth events around town 21 -22

In a woman’s world Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman 23

French Connection Refexions sur la Paracha 24

Latin Link Refexion Semanal 25 The ABC’s of Aleph Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 26

Networking Effective Advertising 27- 28 Numbers To Know Contacts at The Shul 29 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 30 The Shul Get The Picture The full scoop on all the great events around town 31 - 32

Quotable Quote “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Elie Wiesel Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar

Shabbos Parshas Tazria - Metzorah it is technically and legally living, but is that life?

he different names of the True life has an eternal quality that never ceases and 53 portions of the Torah contributes a sense of meaning and purpose to everything T are significant and give and everyone it contacts. Before we read the Torah from an essential identity to the the Torah Scroll, we proclaim the verse “And you who general theme of that portion. connect with the Lord your G-d are all alive today”. “The The two portions that are read Torah is the tree of life to those who hold onto it”. “G-d is in tandem this week have called alive”. The Torah teaches us that we each have a seemingly opposite and even choice for life or death as it states clearly, “I hereby give contradictory meanings. you today life and good and death and bad – choose life”.

Tazria means to give forth When we are born, we are given the opportunity to utilize seed – be impregnated – the eternal life that has been imbued in us by G-d to relating to birth and life. It vitalize our physical body wherein that life force (soul) regards the laws pertaining is contained, to sanctify and bring meaning to every to a woman who has given birth and the obligation to space that one will intersect with during their time span circumcise a son on the eighth day. Metzorah means a in this physical world. That requires a prerequisite total leper – one who has been infected by a dermatological commitment to G-d and a life devoted to G-d’s ways, which eruption, abrasion, rash or discoloration that renders is represented by circumcision. On the other hand, one him impure, contaminated, spiritually defiled. This can likewise utilize his life force to beget negativity in particular state is the harshest kind of spiritual impurity their environment through gossip, tale bearing, character requiring excommunication and quarantine. In fact, our assassination and selfishness. His life has then been Rabbis state that a Metzorah is considered like a dead usurped and integrated into death. person. The degree of spiritual impurity engendered by the Metzorah is more extreme than even the defilement The word Truth in Hebrew is Emes – which is one of caused by a corpse. The proximity of these two concepts G-d’s signatures and represents eternity. It consists of and their integration into a single weekly portion must three letters Aleph, Mem and Sof. Aleph represents the have significance. Master of the Universe. Mem and Sof make up the word Mes - meaning death. When the Aleph/Hashem is there As completely and extremely polarized that life and then you have Emes - truth - eternity. When, however, the death are from each other, they are like two sides of Aleph is absent then you are left with Mes - death. a common coin - two realities that are divided by the thinnest demarcation that often blurs their distinction. Let us utilize our potential to bring meaningful life Life can at times be construed as death and at times to oneself and to our entire world in preparation for death does not extinguish life. Our Rabbis teach that Moshiach when “all impurity will be removed from our “Righteous even in death are considered alive” while world” and “death will be abolished forever”. “Evil ones even in their life are considered dead”. As much as life and death are biological and chemical states Have a great week and a good Shabbos. that are measured and determined by physical factors i.e. breathing, heart beat, brain function, blood flow etc. there is another dimension to these states of being. Have you ever heard or experienced a comment or feeling “He/she Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar is like a dead person”, “There is no life in him”, “I have no desire to live” or similar statements?

To know death one must know life. What is life? Is it existence with the aforementioned symptoms? Of course 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle

Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: 1) a) Where does the number 33 appear in this parsha? b) Where in the Montessori Classrooom 2 Torah and in the Prophets is the number 33 mentioned? classrooom 2 2) Which of the ten plagues appears in this parsha? 3) In what two contexts is fre mentioned in this parsha? Answers from last week: 1)In the book of Genesis there is parshas Noach, and in the book of Exodus there is parshas Bo. Tehila's Basya's Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls 2)When the Kohen performs the commandment of terumas hadeshen, removing of a portion of the previous day’s ashes from the altar, he frst Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 removes his fner clothing and puts on other clothing (Leviticus 6:4). During the Temple service on Yom Kippur (detailed in parshas Acharai 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Mos), the High Priest removes his regular eight garments and instead wears plain white linen clothing. This was done whenever he entered Classrooom 4 the Holy of Holies. When the service is fnished, he would remove the white linen garments and puts on his eight garments (Leviticus 16:23).

3) In this parsha, the Korbon Todah (Thanksgiving offering) is brought with loaves of leavened bread (Leviticus 7:13). Parshas Emor describes the Two Loaves brought on the festival of Shavuos, comprised of loaves of leavened bread (Leviticus 23:17).

Mendy's Sholom's Hebrew School Junior Boys RIDDLE RULES Grades: 4th - 8th Answers to the riddles can be given to Sholom Grades: 1 - 4 Loebenstein any time over Shabbos. The 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm first child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize! Classroom 1

Shaykee’s Debbie’s Shmuely's Davening With Dad Teen Girls Teen Boys Grades: 9th - 12th Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Teen Girls Room Montessori 3 Haime Library

4 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience

Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Schedule and Mr. & Mrs. Morris and Lillian Tabacinic in honor of the Moss Family from Australia. Early Shabbos Minyan: 6:10p.m. Sefras Haomer - Count 17 Shalosh Seudos This Week: Candle lighting 7:33 p.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is is sponsored in loving memory of Ze’ev Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 7:3 p.m. ben Shimon by his children Shay Kardonski, Mark Kardonski, Jaime & Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 7:1 a.m. Raquel Gilinski and Henry & Claudia Kardonski. Tanya / Hayom Yom 8: a.m. Shacharis (Morning Services) : a.m. Children’s Programs 1: a.m. Upstairs Minyan 1:3 a.m. 3 Minutes of Tanya: Classroom 1 /- 12: p.m. With Mrs. Vivian Perez (for Women) After Davening the caterer for this week’s kiddush Kiddush 12: p.m. and Shalosh seudos is Food Art Daf Yomi 6:3 p.m. Men’s Shiur 6:3 p.m. Womens Shiur 6:3 p.m. Shalosh Seudos for Boys 6:3 p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Mincha 7:2 p.m. Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv & Havdalah 8:27 p.m. Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank Sefras Haomer - Count 18 by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually) Weekly Video of The Rebbe

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

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Birthdays Yahrtzeits 3 Iyar Mr. Jackie Abraham 3 Iyar Jacob Chosher obm 4 Iyar Mr. Chaim Cohen Grandfather of Mrs. Chava Fux 4 Iyar Mr. Shmuel Falic 3 Iyar Tzvi ben Moshe Yosef obm 4 Iyar Ms. Tzoporah Sarah Farbman Father of Ms. Vivian Naimer 4 Iyar Mrs. Nancy Karp 3 Iyar Ze’ev ben Shimon obm 4 Iyar Rabbi Jacob Katz Father of Ms. Shay Kardonski, Mrs. Raquel Gilinski 4 Iyar Mr. David Labkowski 4 Iyar Brane Elke obm Mother of Mr. Gustavo Galagovsky 4 Iyar Ms. Laurie Laulicht 5 Iyar Moshe ben Eliyahu Hacohen obm 4 Iyar Mr. Murray Laulicht Father of Mr. Elias Sussman 4 Iyar Mr. Matt Levine 6 Iyar Yisroel Aron ben Shmuel obm 5 Iyar Mr. Ezra Cappell Father of Mrs. Adria Mandel 5 Iyar Mrs. Shena Dominitz 6 Iyar Yisroel ben Reb Shneur Zalman Halevi obm 5 Iyar Mrs. Levana Duchman Father of Mr. Boruch Duchman 5 Iyar Ms. Binah Leah Gheblikian 7 Iyar Felix Shalom obm 5 Iyar Mr. Mayer Rivkin Father of Mrs. Sarita Lekach 5 Iyar Mr. Alexander Shear 7 Iyar Reb Yisroel ben Harav Yitzchok Yaakov obm 5 Iyar Mr. David Yerushalmi Father of Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 6 Iyar Mr. Moshe Retelny 7 Iyar Yedidya ben Ezra obm 6 Iyar Ms. Natalie Sredni Father of Mrs. Elana Saka 8 Iyar Chaim Leib ben Yitzchak obm 6 Iyar Ms. Debby Tabacinic Father of Mrs. Lillian Glick 7 Iyar Mr. Jack Azout 8 Iyar Rivkah Devorah bas Tzvi obm 7 Iyar Mr. Joshua Diener Wife of Mr. Andrew Roth 8 Iyar Mr. Velvel Freedman 8 Iyar Tova bas Zalman obm 8 Iyar Mrs. Batsheva Levy Mother of Mr. Kobi Karp 8 Iyar Mr. Lloyd Stanley Rubin 9 Iyar Josef ben Shimon Hanouch HaCohen obm 9 Iyar Mr. Zev Gontownik Husband of Ms. Marilyn Cohen 9 Iyar Ms. Aliya Amit Kordich 9 Iyar Mr. Joseph Musikar 9 Iyar Ms. Harlon Waksal

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Iyar Light & Power Thanks To Our Donors Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & Havdalah for We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul for donations received between 04/18/17 and 04/24/17 the month of Iyar is Kindly Sponsored by We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Mr. Dan Azeroual Dr. & Mrs. Richard Koffer Mr. & Mrs. Yankie and Odelia Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Laurent Becker Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Kopelman in honor of their children Neomi, Meyer and Eli Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel G. Berenfus Mr. & Mrs. Aviv Kordich Best Of The Best LLC Mr. & Mrs. Chaim Lieberman and in honor of Yankie’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Avi Bitton Rabbi & Rebbetzin “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. & Mrs. Jerold Blumstein Sholom D. Lipskar Mr. Armand Bouhadana Mr. & Mrs. Alan Lipton pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bouhnik Mr. Edward Mermel and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Ms. Pilar Cardiff Mr. & Mrs. Shlamie Mochkin occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed Mr. & Mrs. Dovid Duchman Mr. & Mrs. Temuri Nanikashvili be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mr. & Mrs. Shalom Edelkopf Mr. & Mrs. Jack Osman body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Mr. & Mrs. Judah J. Epstein Mr. Charles Ouanounou together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Failer Mr. Andrew Roth Mr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Gellman Mr. Mordejai Salamon Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer Mr. & Mrs. Shraga B. Goldenhersh Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schlachet Mr. Sidney Gordon Mr. & Mrs. David Schottenstein Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Fred Shainbaum Mr. Sergio Gurvitsch Mr. & Mrs. Saadia Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Meir Izak Mr. & Mrs. David Shlomovich Refuah Shleimah Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Jaimovich Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Sragowicz If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jaimovich Mr. Claudio Stivelman Ms. Shay Kardonski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Vaturi MEN WOMEN Mr. & Mrs. Shlomi Katan Ms. Esther Vlosky Moshe Avraham ben Tziporah Riva Leah Rochel bat Sarah Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel Katz Mr. & Mrs. Yechiel Weinfeld Chaim ben Pnina Gabriel ben Esther Miriam bat Risha Raizel Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Kaufman Mr. Adam Ziefer Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Chana bas Shoshana Yosef ben Edwina Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Avrohom ben Feigel Chava bas Elka Menucha Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Chaya bas Rachel Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Fayge bas Chaya Yehuda ben Chaya Sara Miriam Leah bas Helen Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel Roi ben Orly Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel

Volunteers Needed After every Kiddush and event, The Shul donates the left over food to organizations or families in need. We are looking for volunteers to help collect and wrap the food. If you would like to help please contact the Mashgiach, Mordechai Olesky after the Kiddush. Community service hours will be awarded.

7 A Time to Pray Davening schedules and locations throughout the week

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

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

Daily Chumash & Tanya after every Minyan Sunday Mincha /Maariv mincha / Maariv Minyanim (mon - Thurs) Minyanim Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 7:40 pm 10:00 pm Main Minyan 7:40 pm Sephardic Minyan 7:40 pm Following Late Maariv 10:00 pm

Evening Kolel Schedule - Monday and Thursday 8:45 -9:30 pm Mon & Thurs 8:45 - 10:00 pm Evening Community Kolel Chavrusah

To our beloved Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces, Halachic Times courageously protecting and defending Eretz Yisroel. We pray Based on times for May 3 for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily. Dan Shlomo ben Eliyahu Benyamin Aharon Ben Jeniya Gila Rut Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:24 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Earliest Talit & Tefllin 5:58 am Michael Shmuel ben Eliezer Eliyahu Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:42 am Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry (Earliest Amidah) Eitan Gabriel Ben Karine Cecile Latest Shema 9:57 am Zman Tfllah 11:04 am Chatzot / Midday 1:17 pm Earliest Mincha 1:51 pm Plag HaMincha 6:34 pm Shekiah / Sunset 7:53 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 8:18 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv)

Times taken from www.chabad.org Please note that during the week times may vary by a minute or two. If anyone would like to send us the name of a soldier in the IDF we would love to add them. 8 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! Hayom Yom In the winter of 1942, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of righteous memory, gave his son- in-law, the future Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, the task of compiling an anthology of Chasidic aphorisms and customs arranged according to the days of the year. The calendar was entitled Hayom Yom. In describing this work Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak wrote: …”A book that is small in format…but bursting with pearls and diamonds of choicest quality.” “A splendid palace of Chasidism.” True to these words, Hayom Yom has become a beloved classic work and a source of daily spiritual sustenance. Friday - Iyar 2 is greatest through an act of goodness - My grandfather (the Rebbe Maharash) was extending a favor to another, a material favor born on this day in 5593 (1833). in general, a spiritual favor in particular. When he was seven years old he was once Wednesday - Iyar 7 tested in his studies by his father, the Tzemach When one enwraps himself with the tallit Tzedek. My grandfather did so well in the test gadol (large tallit) it is unnecessary to cover that his teacher was enormously impressed. his head and face down to his mouth; this is Unable to restrain himself he said to the indicated in the laws of tzitzit in the siddur. It Tzemach Tzedek, “Well, what do you say? Hasn’t is our custom, however, to cover the eyes with he done marvelously?” The Tzemach Tzedek the upper part of the tallit. responded: “What is there to be surprised about when tiferet-within-tiferet does well?” During the days of sefra it is customary to study tractate Sota, one page each day - in Shabbos - Iyar 3 addition to one’s regular study sessions. One should not drink water before havdala.

It is possible to utilize for G-d’s service, Thursday - Iyar 8 according to Torah, all behavior-traits. This An emissary is one with his sender. This includes those traits that are unwholesome, katan, to recite the early-morning b’rachot, the concept is similar to that of an angel acting as and even those that are evil, as their names grace after meals (birkat hamazon p. 89) and a Divine emissary, when he is actually called and descriptions indicate. For example, the the bedtime sh’ma (p. 118). by G-d’s name. If this is so with an angel it is tzadik Rabbi Meshulam Zusya of Anipoli, of certainly true of the soul; in fact with the soul blessed memory, learned a number of methods the quality of this oneness is of a higher order, Monday - Iyar 5 as explained elsewhere. of serving G-d - from a thief: a) He works quietly The Alter Rebbe received the following without others knowing. b) He is ready to place teaching from the tzadik Reb Mordechai, who himself in danger. c) The smallest detail is of Now chassidim are emissaries of the Rebbe, had heard it from the Baal Shem Tov: A soul the Alter Rebbe. So if the chassid actively great importance to him. d) He labors with may descend to this world and live seventy or great toil. e) Alacrity. f) He is confdent and discharges his mission, he is bound up with eighty years, in order to do a Jew a material his Rebbe, bound up in his entire being - there optimistic. g) If he did not succeed the frst favor, and certainly a spiritual one. time, he tries again and again. walks a chassid, there eats a chassid, there sleeps a chassid. Sunday - Iyar 4 Tuesday - Iyar 6 It is a Jewish custom not to shave or cut a baby Our sages said: “One should not take leave of Friday - Iyar 9 boy’s hair until his third birthday. his friend other than with a parting word of Our teacher the Baal Shem Tov said: Every Torah-law, a d’var halacha.” Our forefathers, single thing one sees or hears is an instruction The frst haircutting or opsherenish of a baby the saintly Rebbes, explained: The parting for his conduct in the service of G-d. This is boy is a Jewish custom of great importance. word should be the kind of Torah-teaching the idea of avoda, service, to comprehend and The essence of the custom is the educational that transforms the listener into a mehaleich. discern in all things a way in which to serve act of leaving (uncut) the peyot (sidelocks). “Progress,” hiluch, means to rise from level G-d. From the day of the haircutting and leaving the to level, with one ascent after another. Such peyot it is the custom to take particular care progression embodies the superiority of the in accustoming the little boy to wear a tallit human soul over the angels, for this ascent 9 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

PARSHAH MESSAGES Don’t Kill the Love Cultivating Sensitivity toward Birds By: Rabbi YY Jacobson The Gender of Computers Why computers should be considered masculine: 1. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. 2. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they are the problem. 3. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model and for much cheaper. Why computers should be considered feminine: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic. 2. The native language they depended largely on the financial means of turtledove. Why? use to communicate with other computers is the family. Here is how the Torah describes incomprehensible to everyone else. 3. Even it: “She shall bring a sheep within its first The Pairs your smallest mistakes are stored in long- year for an elevation offering, and a young One of the greatest legal and spiritual term memory for later retrieval. 4. As soon dove or a [mature] turtledove… “But if she personalities of the Middle Ages, Rabbi as you make a commitment to one, you find cannot afford a sheep, then she shall take Jacob Ashkenazi (born 1270 in Germany; yourself spending half your paycheck on two [mature] turtledoves or two young died in 1343 in Toledo, Spain), in his Torah accessories for it. doves… and she shall become purified.” commentary known as “Baal Haturim,” offers a simple but profoundly moving two- Searching for the Discrepancies The Anomaly line answer. Wherever the bird offering is Jews have long known that the Hebrew It seems quite clear and straightforward. mentioned throughout the Torah, says Rabbi Bible can be truly appreciated only when Yet the discerning student of the Bible Jacob, it is always in the context of a pair attention is paid not only to the explicit will notice a glitch here. The Torah has of turtledoves or a pair of young doves. narrative and message, but also to the already discussed a number of times the The above quote is one example: “But if text’s apparent discrepancies, grammatical possibility of specific individuals bringing she cannot afford a sheep, then she shall flaws and unusual syntax. In fact, one of turtledoves or young doves as an offering take two turtledoves or two young doves.” the outstanding features of Jewish biblical to G-d. Later, too, the Bible will discuss Birds are offered in pairs of two. The only literacy produced over the past two-and- this type of offering repeatedly. In each of exception is the woman possessing greater a-half millennia is its incredibly rich these instances, the Torah first mentions means, who, following childbirth, offers one interpretation of the Bible’s apparent errors, the turtledove (tor, in Hebrew), and only sheep and one bird. Here the Torah states, a study that almost totally escaped the afterward the young dove (ben yonah, in “She shall bring a sheep… and a young dove eye of many Bible critics of the past two Hebrew). Here too, when discussing the or a turtledove.” This is why the Torah, in this centuries. In this week’s essay, I wish to draw offering brought by the woman possessing instance, changes the order of the birds, first our attention to one such small anomaly in smaller means, the Torah states, “She shall mentioning the young dove, than the older this week’s Torah portion, Tazria, which, upon take two turtledoves or two young doves,” turtledove. The Torah is attempting to teach further reflection, exposes to us the Torah’s first mentioning the option of offering us that in a case when a single bird is offered, majestic attitude toward the cultivation of turtledoves and only afterward the option preference should be given to the young sensitivity and empathy. of young doves. In all of the nine times dove over the older mature dove. The older Post-Birth Offerings this offering is discussed in the Bible, the turtledove should only be brought as a last turtledove precedes the young dove. There resort, if a young dove could not be found. The beginning of this week’s portion, is, surprisingly, one exception. In our portion, This requirement would not apply when a Tazria, discusses the offering every Jewish while discussing the offering presented by pair of birds is being offered together. woman would bring during the Temple the woman of larger means, the Torah states days following the birth of a child. This (as recorded above), “She shall bring a sheep Loyalty of a Dove offering, representing post-birth healing within its first year for an elevation offering, The logic behind this is moving. Most animals and dedication, was brought forty days after and a young dove or a turtledove.” Here, do not enjoy monogamous relationships. The the birth of a male, and eighty days after the suddenly, the order is changed. First the majority of animals belong to the ‘sowing birth of a female. The type of this offering young dove, and only afterward the mature wild oats’ school of thought, in which they 10 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! are constantly switching mates, even in a The Treasure Behind the Wall hurts. It does not build. single season. The male chimpanzee, for By Menachem Feldman example, goes so far as to invite different Eventually, when we find the courage and females to mate by just spreading his legs. strength to pick ourselves up and overcome Creatures such as fish (and particularly sea the challenge, we feel as though we have urchins) take it even a step further: They reached a new state of being. Only after we release their eggs and seed into the sea are removed from the painful situation are and hope that some of each will meet up we capable of looking back and realizing and fertilize. There are a few exceptions to that the person we have become is very the non-monogamous trend among animals; much a result of the previous challenge that one of them is the dove. Many (though not we tried so hard to escape. all) birds of the dove family are loyal to their mates, sometimes over many seasons and This is the reason that the affliction of even years. In fact, the Talmud states that tzaraat and its purification are written in if the Torah had not been given, we would two separate portions. From the human have learned how to be loyal to our spouses he two portions of Tazria and Metzora perspective, the purification is a new from the behavior of doves. The passionate are perhaps the most difficult and beginning; it is an escape from the impurity, words expressed by the groom to his bride Ttechnical in the book of Leviticus. not its culmination. in the Song of Songs, “Behold, you are lovely my beloved; behold you are beautiful, your The first portion, Tazria, describes the laws of Things are very different from G-d’s eyes are doves,” is understood in the Midrash impurity caused by tzaraat, a form of leprosy perspective. The purpose of the challenge is as G-d’s profound compliment to the Jewish that afflicts human flesh and garments. to lead a person to greater heights. But we people. “Just as a dove, from the moment Tzaraat is a malady that came upon a person humans are not always capable of seeing it it recognizes its partner, never exchanges as a consequence of slandering or gossiping that way. it for anybody else, so the Jewish people, about another person, as well as other sins. from the moment they recognized G-d, never In describing the tzaraat that afflicted the substituted Him with any other deity.” There The next portion, Metzora, describes the home, the Torah says: “When you come to are even certain doves who mourn the death process of purification from this leprosy. the land of Canaan, which I am giving you of their mate, not easily choosing a new Only after discussing the purification of the as a possession, and I place an affliction of partner. That is why in the case of a woman body and garments does the Torah introduce tzaraat upon a house in the land of your offering only one dove, the Torah is urging a third type of leprosy, one that afflicts possession.” The Midrash teaches that from us to avoid taking a single mature dove as the walls of a home. This is immediately the words of the verse we learn that G-d an offering, since we might be depriving followed by the laws of purification for the Himself placed the affliction of tzaraat on its partner from his or her mate which has home. the house, so it was in fact a blessing. For ascended to G-d. The preference must be when the Israelites removed the afflicted the young dove which has not yet began to Why, when talking about the leprosy that stones from their homes, they discovered mate. In all other instances, though, where afflicts the person and the garments, are treasures that the native Canaanites had the instruction is to offer two doves, no the affliction and its purification taught in hidden within the walls. partner will lose its mate, hence the Torah two separate portions? This is not the case does not give preference to the young doves when discussing the topic of leprosy of the The tzaraat of the home was taught to us over the mature doves. home—the purification process is taught from G-d’s perspective. Every affliction is immediately after, and in the same portion just a facade, begging to be pulled away so The Lesson as, the affliction. we can discover a great treasure. By telling This conveys a profound lesson on the us the laws of the home’s purification sensitivity the Torah demands of us toward Anyone looking at life objectively can immediately after the affliction, the Torah feelings of animals, even toward a bird left appreciate that a setback can be an asks us to keep G-d’s perspective in mind. over after its mate has been offered to G-d. opportunity for growth. Challenge has the This will give us the strength to transform Certainly, it tells us how we must honor the potential to bring out the best in the human challenge to treasure. dignity and feelings of a fellow human being. soul. How much more must we deeply honor and cherish the emotions and experiences of our But that is theoretical. partners in life. When we experience an actual struggle in life, our perspective may be very different. We do not feel anything positive or constructive in our moment of despair and pain. 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this should only be done if the father is the Halacha of The Week Mohel. Asheknazic custom is to not recite Sefras Haomer By Rabbi Dov Schochet this blessing in any event. The basic reason Transformation Through Balance Circumcision given is that Shehechiyanu is a blessing of Sefrat HaOmer, Part III joy which is inappropriate to say at a time By Shimona Tzukernik hen discussing the laws of purity that the child is going through a painful of childbirth, the Torah tells us experience or because it is not a Mitzva n editor once told me, “Great writing Wthat on the eighth day from when which comes at specific times. should read like a hot knife through a boy is born he is to be circumcised. The Abutter.” What an analogy! The author has to commentaries are puzzled why the Torah The chair the child is placed on for the Bris is work the text so that the ideas fow seamlessly. would teach this law in this portion of called the chair of Elijah, and this is publicly The form and function must become one entity. the Torah. This is especially confusing stated when the child is placed there. (This is Sure, you can leave the reader intellectual or considering the fact that the Torah has because Elijah questioned the commitment emotional work to do in processing the writing, already taught the laws of circumcision in of the Jewish people and therefore is there but the actual text itself must unite with what it the portion of Lech Lecha, when Abraham to witness every circumcision.) To hold the is coming to convey, allowing the reader to cut receives the command of circumcision. child during the Bris is considered to be a through it as a hot knife through butter. great Mitzva, like the bringing of incense in The particular language of the verse in our the Temple. If there is only one Aliya in shul Few things in life are seamless. We live in portion teaches that circumcision on the to give the Sandak has preference over the polarized worlds—some more than others— eighth day can be done even on Shabbat. Mohel. The general custom is that a person but opposed nonetheless. Each of us, though, That law could not be learned in Lech Lecha, doesn’t serve as the Sandak twice for the has the possibility of fnding balance. We can for Abraham had no Mitzva of Shabbat. same family. generate powers within our being that blend Therefore any allowance to perform other diverse aspects of who we are in one circumcision on Shabbat for Abraham The meal made after the Bris is considered to smooth continuity. One of them is the emotional wouldn’t be relevant once the Torah was be a Mitzva feast. Therefore one who refuses ability Kabbalah terms tif’eret, the translation given along with the Mitzva of Shabbat. to partake is considered to be censured of which includes “balance,” “truth,” “harmony,” from heaven. This is the reason brought not “beauty,” “compassion” and “empathy.” When circumcision is performed, like all to invite the community to the meal after To call it “seamless” appears to be a misnomer. Mitzvot, a blessing is made. The Mohel the Bris. For if one is invited and for various After all, truth and compassion, balance and make the blessing “that he commanded us reasons cannot come the consequence is empathy seem to be distinct from one another. regarding circumcision”. At that point, during severe. For that reason in many communities More so, one could even say they contain opposite the process of the removal of the foreskin, the the Gabai does not announce the actual meal dimensions: compassion feels somewhat blurry father makes the blessing “he commanded so that no one should be formally invited. and truth absolute, for example. What does us to enter the child in the covenant of beauty have to do with empathy, other than Abraham”. (If the father is not present there At the meal it is proper for there to be a that being empathic is considered a “nice” thing are different opinions regarding who should Minyan. to do? When we look at the translations, we make the blessing.) realize that tif’eret is way more complex than An explanation given about the relationship the literal translation of the word, “beauty.” What, At that point the custom is for the community between circumcision and purity is that in actuality, is it? there to declare, when possible there should both are required to enter into a covenant be a Minyan at a Bris, just as he entered the with Hashem. A convert needs to both go to One entry point is the body. Tif’eret is associated covenant so may he come to Torah, marriage the Mikva and circumcise in order to enter with the heart center. In fact, each soul attribute and good deeds. (Some say “just as you the Jewish nation. Here the Torah teaches is mapped onto the body. According to the brought him” referring to the father.) that the proper relationship requires both same model, love is associated with the right circumcision, which implies walking away shoulderblade. The manifestation of love, the At that point a blessing is made over a cup from materialism and then immersion which attribute of chessed, is linked with the right of wine, Sephardim also make a blessing is complete submersion in the waters of arm. So too, awe—or fear—is associated with over sweet smelling myrtle, and the final Torah and Hashem. Then we can rightly have the left shoulder. Its manifestation, in the form blessing regarding the value of the Bris. the “sign of the covenant” between Hashem of restraint, discipline and respect, is connected and the Jewish people. with the left arm. In this way, each of the mystical There is a debate when the blessing spheres on the Tree of Life is mapped onto the Shehechiyanu should be made. Usually soul, and in turn fnds a visual representation in when we have an opportunity to perform a the form of the human body. unique Mitzva we make the blessing and in fact the custom by Sephardim is to make this Clearly, the heart center is a middle point in the blessing at a Bris. Some opinions say that body. It lies at the center of the spine, which itself 12 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! forms the center of the body, connecting the top Think of it as two people with different of the skull with the coccyx. Mystically, too, the personalities uniting in marriage to form a heart is a point of blending, a coming together whole. Or better yet, imagine your own faculties of different attributes in a unique way. What’s of head and heart, thought and feeling. They are distinct about it is that whereas our heart- so different as to contradict each other: thought tif’eret center brings together diverse feelings, is cold and objective, feeling is warm and the sum total of those feelings is no longer the subjective. You can live your life as a person who individual points that form it, but something is detached from one or the other. Or, you can live entirely new, seamless in its dimensions. It is in a way where your mind acknowledges your often described as a blending of love and awe, heart, and vice versa, but where the two are in lovingkindness and respect. In truth, it is much constant confict with each other. Alternatively, more. you can marry the two, creating inner peace. What you generate within yourself is akin to the Each of the abilities of the soul blends various child that is an entirely new person born of the components. Each covers a subtle range of bodies of both mother and father. differentiation. We don’t just love or respect. Our spine, only one center up from the heart. This is ways of thinking and our feelings might shift da’at, our ability to know the world. It is the third Tif’eret, then is a particular kind of balance in from love to anger. More often, the very same of three intellectual faculties, the frst of which the heart. It is akin to da’at in that there is no feeling changes in delicate ways—at times from is our ability to conceptualize and the second to splitting; opposites disappear, leaving only moment to moment. Take love, for example. analyze. Da’at is the aspect of knowledge where wholeness and unity. Sometimes the love is pure and manifest. At we internalize the information we’ve been In order to generate this kind of consciousness, other times, we might need to draw from fear— processing. even anger—to keep the love going. whether in the mind or heart, a third attribute This kind of knowing allows us to absorb is needed. When two opposites meet, you In real life, that looks like setting boundaries in a ideas because we have explored them subtly, need a higher entity to bring resolution. Or if, relationship; taking a stance against those things and thereby have become intimate with the for example, you’re in an argument, you need that oppose the ideals you love and subscribe concepts. The word is the name of one of something or someone higher to effect healing to; or fearing being separated from the one you the trees in the Garden of Eden—the Tree of and resolution. It doesn’t matter whether that love, and thus doing all you can to nurture the Knowledge. That knowledge was about the thing is a loftier internal consciousness or a connection. That’s what we’d call “fear in love.” distinction between good and evil. Whereas we person outside of you. What matters is that You’re fully in love mode. Everything is about are asked not to judge others, Torah living means the healing insight is coming from a more bringing more of it into the world. It’s just that that we will make distinctions between what is transcendent place. As Einstein said, “No you do it in diverse ways, some of which might right and wrong.5 In that sense, the attribute of problem can be solved from the same level of even appear contrary to the central goal of Knowledge is associated with the color gray, or consciousness that created it.” generating love and connection. silver. It’s the place where our mind can sustain In Kabbalistic terms, the heart-point turns to the Conversely, there’s “love in fear.” What are the opposites. In fact, it is the point where all the supra-consciousness in order to fuse love and real-life scenarios that display this particular parts of an idea fuse into one whole. respect. Ultimately, all our soul abilities derive color on the emotional spectrum? Enticing When we can do that, we can take ideas in as from this one indivisible point of our highest someone with a reward to get them to toe the part of ourselves, because at that point we are supra-consciousness. By pulling from the line, or supporting causes that rid the world of no longer defensive or exploring an idea with source, where love and respect are one prior to evil. Here, you’re fully in “fear” or “awe” mode. All an agenda. We are truly open to what it has to individuating, the heart is able to create a new the shades of that restraint serve the ultimate tell us. This is the reason our prayer services end experience. goal of creating healthy boundaries, and with the words, “You must know it today and bind ultimately, awe of G-d. We call it tif’eret, “beauty,” because as the it to your hearts.” There’s a domino effect that individual elements of love and awe disappear, Yet, despite the fact that in both the above happens with intimate, subtle knowledge. Once they are reborn in a more glorious whole. examples there’s a merging of opposites, you get it, you automatically absorb the concept the love is still love, and the fear is fear. The into your heart in a way that’s user-friendly, One fnds the same notion of beauty when it variegation is there in a way that is subordinate allowing not only for emotional resonance with comes to the arts. An artist can be technically to the primary attribute. ideas, but also for new action. profcient, even excellent, but the work will lack life. Aesthetically, it dies on the canvas. In such a Tif’eret is different. Here, in the heart, love Tif’eret enacts in the heart what da’at enacts work there is line, color, form. But each is present and fear unite as one. The resulting ability is in the mind. It is the point where not ideas, but on the canvas in a way that calls attention to something new and distinct. emotions, unite to emerge as a powerful new itself. By contrast, the great works of art display force, full of subtlety, experienced empirically, a merging of all the components in such a way We can take an example from another soul and which open us to a much vaster world than that a new, living, compelling entity is born of power. Being a balance point, it also lies on the the one we’ve lived in without it. them. 13 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Stories With Soul This beauty is not monochrome. Think of a When they arrived in the town they looked for a Rothko. To the uninitiated, one may superfcially It Once Happened suitable property, but all they could afford was dismiss these creations of genius as “a color a very small place on the outskirts of town. How slapped on canvas! I could do it!” We’ve all he young, newly married couple were happy would anyone ever fnd out about their shop? heard some aesthetic peasant say the same. in every respect. But when the young man Would anyone come to buy hats from them? But if you take even just a moment, the beauty Tlost his job, their joy was clouded over. An Their doubts were confrmed as days and weeks of the layers and subtlety shines through in a expert mechanic, he just couldn’t fnd another went by. They sat in their tiny shop and looked luminous, vibrating surface that speaks of all the job, and their panic increased from one day to at their beautiful hats, but no one came. They subtlety, the myriad layers, of the universe. the next as they grappled with their fnancial began to wonder if they had made a mistake by diffculties. listening to the Chasidim and the Rebbe. Take even a work by Franz Klein. Seen in person, the edges of his lines shimmer with individuality; One day, the young man was speaking to some Then one day, a luxurious coach pulled up in the white is not “white,” and the black is not of his acquaintances, who happened to be front of their shop. A well-dressed man entered “black.” Even in his minimalist renditions, Klein Chasidim of Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber (the ffth their modest shop and said, “I am returning captures the full range of life’s subtlety. Chabad Rebbe, known as the Rebbe Rashab, home from a business trip, and I’m looking for whose anniversary of passing is this coming a gift for my wife.” He began selecting hats and Tif’eret is spiritual artistry, spiritual beauty. It’s Wednesday). “Why don’t you go to see our Rebbe. placing them on the counter. Within the space of the ability to marry two opposites and form a He is very wise, and he will help you.” several minutes the man had amassed a great uniquely new dimension in the heart. That’s why selection of hats. In fact, almost every hat in the it’s referred to by so many different names. The The young man, who was not a Chasid, little store was sitting on the counter. blending gives our heart-center a full range responded, “What does the Rebbe know about from truth to empathy, beauty to compassion. being a mechanic? How can he possibly help “How much do I owe you?” he asked. The common point between them all is the idea me?” But, as time passed and no job appeared, of opposites merging. Truth is not one-sided. If I the proposition gained credibility in his mind. The young proprietors stood tongued-tied. If really want to know the truth, I have to look at After all, the young man reasoned, what could they charged him the actual price, he would it from all angles, my perspective and yours. In I lose? He went to the Chasidim and told them surely change his mind about his extravagant that sense it’s like Beauty, Balance and Harmony. that he was now ready to see their Rebbe. purchase, so they mentioned a very low price. Everyone contributed a little and soon they had “What!” the wealthy man exclaimed. “That can’t At the psychological level of Compassion and enough money to send the young mechanic to be the correct price!” Empathy, balance is also the guiding light. Here, Lubavitch. you are no longer driven by your personal pre- “Actually, sir,” replied the man, “We are giving you dispositions. In tif’eret, I can take myself out of Eventually, the mechanic had his chance to the wholesale price.” myself. Maybe I’m a person who is naturally kind, speak privately with the Rebbe. He described “No, I insist on paying a fair price for your or the opposite. When it comes to Balance and his terrible plight while the Rebbe listened merchandise,” said the buyer, taking in the Compassion, my personal inclinations are no attentively. Then the Rebbe said, “You and your apparent lack of activity in the tiny shop and longer the driving force of my choices. Here it’s wife should go to [a certain city]. There you the nervous look on the proprietors’ faces. He all about Truth. What does the situation ask of should open a hat store.” The Rebbe blessed counted out a generous sum to cover the many me? I ask, “What is needed?” rather than “What them with much success, and the confused hats he had chosen, and was about to leave, would I want? What do I think is right?” young man departed for home. when he stopped. Mystically, we said that love and respect die, When he returned, he confronted the Chasidim: The young man looked so sad. “What,” he asked or disappear, momentarily to be reborn as “Your Rebbe gave me the strangest advice! He solicitously, “is the reason for your downcast something new. At the humanistic level, the told me to go to a city I never heard of and sell appearance?” same thing applies. To enter into compassion hats - something I know nothing about!” The means that my ego dies in the interaction. I can Chasidim were not in the least put off by the The wealthy man’s inquiry elicited a detailed feel the other person as she feels herself. seemingly irrelevant advice. “A Rebbe is not like explanation. “I’m a mechanic,” the young man other people,” they told him. “If he gives you said, “and a very good one, too. But a few months Here, in the heart, we are soul-artists. We can advice, listen to him, even if it makes no sense ago I lost my job and couldn’t fnd another one. compose a text that’s as easy to cut through as to you. The Rebbe sees further than we do,” they The Chasidim in my town convinced me to go a knife through hot butter. We can create jazz or concluded. to their Rebbe, and the Rebbe told me to move symphonies by allowing for all of reality to fll to this town and set up a hat business. Your our lives, rather than live according to the rules The young man left, and after discussing it with purchase has set us on our feet. But really, sir, I we’ve gone by for the past X number of decades. his wife, they decided that maybe they should am a mechanic, not a shopkeeper.” We can create masterpieces, as we access the try the Rebbe’s advice. Another collection was vast world we’ve been missing out on without taken up, and soon the young people were on “I may have the perfect solution!” cried the all that balance and beauty. their way to what they hoped would be a new wealthy man. “My brother owns a factory and beginning. two of his most valuable machines stopped 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! working almost six months ago. He’s at his wits’ hours later with that same boy that was there end since no one seems to be able to fx them. Community Corner in the morning, I couldn’t quite fathom the Maybe you’ll be successful.” The wealthy man Arbet Macht Frie horror that I was in at the moment and I just then gave him a letter of introduction and lent By: Daniel Yerushalmi passed through. On the outside of the gas him the money for traveling expenses. chamber, Josh and I both decided to put on teffilin. Many other kids wanted to as well so A week later the young man reported to the we put on with them, but Josh and I went back factory, and two days later, to the great relief of inside the gas chamber with our teffilin on the factory owner, both machines were up and and half way walking in, neither of us had any working. “You’re the only one who was able to control of our emotions and completely broke repair the machinery, and I’d like to offer you a down. Crying and hugging for 10 minutes, position. How would you like to be the manager neither of us wanting to let go. The emotions of my factory?” The young man was overcome of the morning putting on teffilin with Julius, with happiness at his change of fortune. Some a 97 year-old survivor, to then being in the months later, the young couple returned to their gas chamber with our teffilin was the most hometown and the Chasidim anxiously gathered powerful moment of my life. And as we walked around them wanting to be flled in on their ords I saw while we crossed into a out, tears still streaming down our cheeks as progress. The happy couple recounted the whole we came out of a room of death, the feeling story and they drew the obvious conclusion: the place where a million Jews perished. The moment is so surreal as you know of “we won” and “we are here” was bursting Rebbe was right, and so were his loyal followers. W from our hearts. in your heart that you are walking in destined to leave within a few hours while the Jews Arbet Macht Frie from 70 years ago would walk in, never to The next day, again Arbet Macht Frie starring leave. back at me. However, this time there was an And Aaron raised his hands As I walked through different rooms in the ocean of blue jackets roaming around the camp it seemed fictional. It seemed like camp. Thousands of young teens walking (“yadav”) toward the there was no chance that people could around what was once a camp of death. people and blessed them orchestrate such a documented and thought- Soon everyone linked their arms together out corporation of killing. Then there was a and walked out of Auschwitz and walked the (Lev. 9:22) moment where everyone’s lives would change 1.7 miles to Birkenau. And as the thousands forever as we walked into a room to a see a of young Jewish teens marched, it was not a Mount Everest of human hair that filled the death march like it would’ve been some years Although the word for hands, whole room. This is not fictional. This is not a ago, it was a march of the living and a march “yadav,” is pronounced in the nightmare. This is real. of the loving. Thousands of Jews locked in arms marched down on live TV to show the plural, it is written without But even before I entered the camp and world the Jewish nation and the infinite an extra yud, as if in the before I stepped on the bus, that morning was characteristic of the Jewish soul. more unusual than any other morning in my singular (“yado”). This is an entire life. As I woke up in the hotel I went Julius and all the survivors have bestowed allusion to the importance downstairs to daven. Most of the boys on the upon us, the young adults, the responsibility trip never put on teffilin so Shaykee, the rabbi to carry the torch of Judaism. They survived of Jewish unity: When with me, and I were putting teffilin on many for each of us and it is our responsibility the Jewish people stand of the other boys. Until Shaykee got a unique and our obligation to cling to the torch with hero to come to us to put on teffilin. A 97 all our might and strength. To hold it high united, Aaron’s “hands” are year-old man named Julius who not that long all over the world and to be proud to be a transformed into a single ago worked right next to the crematorium in Jew. They survived for us to spread the light the death camp. As I rolled up his sleeve a of Judaism to the world. To spread peace, hand reaching up to Heaven, faint few numbers were revealed. Julius had kindness, and love to every place we venture to bring down an abundance not put on teffilin in many years, and as I put to. To accept differences and look beyond the the straps over his numbers, Shaykee started minor facades that separate us, to look deeper of G-dly blessing. to sing Ani Ma’amin; a song stating I believe into the soul of every Jew and love them for with complete faith in the coming of the who they are. We have to get it done, and we Moshiach. Tears rolled down my face and the have to go over the top in our obligation of (Nefesh Yehonatan) face of another boy next to me, Josh, that was carrying this torch. By doing that and living helping me put teffilin on Julius. out the survivors’ legacy, we will never forget. When I walked into the gas chamber a few 15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

hall, and a ballroom for weddings and other Recently In The News festivities. The sports center will include an Berlin to See Its First Jewish indoor basketball court and opportunities for soccer and other ball games. Outside, there’ll Campus After the Holocaust be a playground and a garden. Seven-story building will be dedicated to Jewish education, The cost of the entire campus is projected prayer and heritage at around 18 million euros ($20.3 million). By Kirsten Grieshaber It’s being funded by the federal government, Berlin’s state government, several German foundations and private donations. abbi Yehuda Teichtal doesn’t get much Germany has experienced a strong influx of sleep these days, but says it’s well worth Jews in recent decades and Berlin has the it. The community rabbi and head of Unlike most Jewish institutions in Germany, R biggest Jewish community in Germany, with which are behind fences and tightly guarded the Jewish outreach group Chabad in Berlin about 40,000 members. Those numbers against anti-Semitic attacks, Teichtal says has been campaigning relentlessly to turn are still a far cry, however, from Germany’s his dream of creating a Jewish campus in he wants the Jewish campus to be open to flourishing Jewish community of more than everyone. Germany into a reality. 500,000 before the Nazi period, with some 120,000 Jews in Berlin alone. For years, he’s lobbied the German authorities, “It should become a place where Jews and raised millions of euros (dollars) in funds and non-Jews can come together and meet,” he Overall, some 6 million European Jews were said. bought a 3,000 square meter (32,000 square murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. feet) plot of land next to Chabad’s synagogue in the German capital’s Wilmersdorf district. Because of its history, Germany took in some Moshiach Matters 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union More than just a new facility, Teichtal sees since the fall of communism in 1989—most of the center as a step toward Chabad’s goal of them secular and with only little knowledge Every Jew’s soul is an actual re-establishing a vibrant Jewish community in about their own religion. part of G-d. Therefore, in the the former Nazi capital, in part by welcoming Era of the Resurrection when and integrating Jewish immigrants from When Rabbi Teichtal and his wife Leah set the former Soviet Union and encouraging out from Brooklyn to Berlin 20 years ago, they the essential G-dliness that interactions with non-Jews. came with the goal of reaching out to this pervades every dimension of group, but also to the established German our existence will be revealed, “Everyone in Europe talks about fears and Jewry. Though New York-based, Chabad uncertainties; we’re talking about going members are sent out as “Jewish messengers” this holiness - the fundamental forward,” said the 44-year-old Orthodox rabbi, around the globe with the aim of getting vitality present in every Jew - will looking across the large empty plot where a mostly unaffiliated Jews in touch with their emerge. Our material world will few containers have been set up as a temporary religion. extension of Chabad’s kindergarten. then be G-d’s dwelling. Just as In the last two decades, the Chabad a person reveals the innermost The planned seven-story building will be community in Berlin has kept growing and dimensions of his personality dedicated to Jewish education, culture and there are now around 600 to 700 families sports, the first of its kind in Germany. If all who regularly take part in the community’s only in his own home, so too goes to plan, the groundbreaking is scheduled offerings, Teichtal said. the essence of G-dliness - for September and the entire campus is slated those dimensions of His Being to be finished in late 2019. Chabad has a synagogue, an educational center, a kindergarten, an elementary and that transcend even spiritual German authorities approved some of the high school—but the facilities are spread existence - will be revealed in still-outstanding permissions earlier this over the city and so popular that the Jewish our material world. month. group can’t offer places to all the applicants.

“With all the challenges we’re facing today, With the establishment of the new 7,000 (Maamar, Kol Yisrael Yesh La’hem building this campus is a signal: We’re here square-meter (75,300 square-feet) campus, all Cheilek L’olam Habah, 5733; to stay—otherwise we wouldn’t build,” says Chabad schools will all be united under one Teichtal, who wears a traditional beard, a roof and also offer more facilities, including Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XVII, p. 343ff.) velvet kipah and a black caftan. a library, cafeteria, movie theater, concert

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In Honor of Shay Gross and Benny Davidson, representatives of the great miracle that occurred at Entebbe July 3-4, 1976 when 102 of 106 hostages were rescued Israel: Our Homeland and Identity

his week, the world Jewish community will both mourn and rejoice consecutively related to a common singular event and set of incredible obvious miracles. TSunday is a somber day called “the day of remembrance” that commemorates and brings to our attention and consciousness, and to so many families the presence and image of those beloved whose life was extinguished in a brutal way while selflessly defending the Jewish Holy Land of Israel and G-d’s Chosen Jewish people. Cemeteries will be packed, memorial prayers will be chanted, many tears will be shed and many broken hearts again experience that hollow abyss of unhealed darkness that will always remain empty with an endless, unquenched yearning in their inner souls. Segueing from that planting and irrigating with tears will come the harvesting with joy. A deep and exulting sense of gratitude, thankfulness and praise to Hashem will give evident purpose and meaning to the self-sacrifice of so many as we will recognize G-d’s miracle in setting the stage for the world to formally recognize JEWISH sovereignty over the JEWISH Holy land. We will understand and recognize why we the Jewish people do not have to believe in miracles. You only believe in something that you do not know but rely on another sense and dimension of determination. We KNOW experientially that miracles are an inevitable, realistic and constant part of our existence. We are a miracle. In the natural process of history and social anthropology we should have disappeared a long time ago. For the stones, paths, caverns, vineyards and olive groves whose golden reflections and transcendent sounds had been concealed and silenced for 2000 years, burnt, destroyed, ploughed over and buried, using every conceivable means to eradicate its existence even from memory, to once again illuminate with a translucent shine and flourish like a verdant garden is a true miracle in motion. Israel is not different and unique because it is ours. It is different and unique because it is the Chosen land that G-d bequeathed to His chosen children. It is the land about which the Torah testifies “the eyes of G-d are upon it from the beginning to the end of the year” – constantly. Anyone who travels to Israel can feel its special vibrations as soon as you get out of the plane. It is an ephemeral reality that defies logic, nature and ecological measurements though it permeates the air itself. There is somebody somewhere living today or in the eternal annals of Jewish history that can point to every single space in the holy land and relate some miraculous event that transpired in that particular place. From the slave markets of Athens to the inquisition torture chambers of Torquemada and the gas chambers and ovens of the Nazis, Jerusalem was always on our lips as Israel was always in our hearts and minds. Israel is a land that does not only exist in the particular geographic Middle East of its territorial borders but is located and lives in every single Jew wherever they are in the world. I remember looking out the window as our plane came in over the Mediterranean over Tel Aviv descending into Ben Gurion airport the first time I came to ISRAEL in 1974. The planes public address system boomed not with announcements to fasten our seatbelts or to remain seated but greeted us with the happy song and lyrics “Heivinu Sholom Aleichem”. Without planning or staging when we reached the bottom of the stairs, I dropped to the ground to passionately kiss the asphalt. It was one of those moments that forever will remain etched in the DNA of my being. It really does not matter how you love Israel as long as you love it, support it, are proud of it, defend it, exalt it, pray for it and are part of it as it is part of you. Thank you G-d for Israel, an important milestone and sin qua non prerequisite in our final March to redemption with Moshiach and building the Third and Eternal Beit Hamikdash. 17 Construction Updates Keeping you up to date on our exciting progress Construction has begun!!! We are very excited to inform you that construction on our new building has begun!

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22 In A Woman’s World Issues of relevance to the Jewish Woman

Weekly Classes Monday Women’s Mikvah: Women’s Study Group Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an At the home of : Please call The Shul for details appointment: 305-866 1492 or 305-323-2410 Tuesday Please Note: Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be Prepaid Prayer Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:15 am 1111 Kane Concourse Suite 618 Tanya Class In Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 2:00 - 2:30 pm The Shul Sisterhood 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Torah Portion In Spanish Mrs Vivian Perez 2:30 - 3:45 pm Who we are... The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village and classes geared toward women in the community. Our Wednesday objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am body and soul. Meet new friends, The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective relax and get inspired! Haime Library Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:00 - 3:00 pm If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, please call 305. 868.1411 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village

Light A Candle Say a Prayer Share The Light 23 French Connection Reflexions sur la Paracha

Vivre avec la paracha Les enjeux de la paracha décrivent le processus messianique, et même le de la Torah et l’accomplissement des Mitsvot, Machia’h lui-même, est celui de « germination ». non uniquement comme une fn en soi – ce qu’ils Metsora sont, eu égard à notre obligation d’accomplir les Basé sur les enseignements du Rabbi de Loubavitch « Car, de même que la terre fait jaillir ses pousses, commandements divins par soumission absolue de même qu’un jardin fait germer ses semences, –, mais également comme les moyens de hâter la e nom de la paracha, Metsora, signife : « une ainsi D.ieu fera pousser la justice et la louange personne atteinte de tsaraat ». venue du Machia’h. Nous ne devons pas dissocier devant toutes les nations. » notre Tazria, notre ensemencement, de Metsora, LLa tsaraat, que nous avons rencontrée dans la son but messianique. Voici que des jours viennent, dit D.ieu, où Je ferai paracha précédente, Tazria, était une affection par s’élever un juste plant de David, un roi qui régnera laquelle une personne contractait une impureté Plus encore, nous devrions considérer nos efforts et prospérera et qui exercera le droit et la justice et leur fnalité, c’est-à-dire le fait de vivre notre vie rituelle qui lui interdisait de pénétrer dans le dans le pays. » Temple, de participer à ses divers rituels ainsi qu’à en accord avec les commandements de la Torah la vie sociale de la communauté. Ainsi séparé du En outre, les Sages du Talmud disent que le d’une part et la Rédemption messianique d’autre Temple – lieu de vie et de divinité (qui est la source qualifcatif du Machia’h est « le Metsora de la part, non pas comme deux entités distinctes, mais de vie) – et de la vie sociale, le metsora est, selon Maison de Rabbi Yéhouda le Prince », citant le comme une continuité. les paroles de nos Sages, une métaphore de la verset : « En vérité, ce fut nos maladies qu’il D’une part, vivre une vie de Torah conduit mort. endurait et nos souffrances qu’il portait, mais nous naturellement à la Rédemption, et d’autre part le considérions comme un metsora, frappé par la Rédemption n’est rien d’autre que la pleine Bien que le mot metsora soit effectivement l’un D.ieu et affigé. » des premiers de la paracha, le sujet du premier éclosion de la Torah et des commandements que tiers de celle-ci évoque le processus par lequel Le Talmud relate même un épisode dans lequel le nous aurons connus au cours de notre exil. La Torah le metsora est guéri de la tsaraat, c’est-à-dire de Machia’h apparut sous l’aspect d’un metsora : des temps messianiques sera la même Torah que la négation de la situation d’être un metsora. Le celle que nous avons actuellement à la différence sujet du second tiers de la paracha est la tsaraat Rabbi Yéhouda ben Lévi rencontra le prophète près que ses dimensions les plus profondes nous qui affecte une maison et de quelle manière une Élie qui se tenait à l’entrée de la grotte de Rabbi seront entièrement révélées. De même que nous maison peut en être purifée. La troisième partie de Chimone bar Yo’haï. Il demanda à Élie : « Quand le continuerons à observer les commandements de la paracha traite de deux autres formes d’impureté, Machia’h viendra-t-il ? » la Torah, mais de la manière la plus complète qui non liées à la tsaraat, et de leur purifcation. puisse être, aussi bien quantitativement, tels que Élie répondit : « Va et demande-lui toi-même. » les commandements qui ne peuvent être accomplis Compte tenu de la nature dégradante de la tsaraat, – Où se trouve-t-il ? que le Temple existe et que l’ensemble de la nation il semble étonnant qu’une paracha consacrée aux juive se trouve sur sa terre, que qualitativement, moyens de guérir une personne de cette affiction – À l’entrée de la ville. lorsque la réalité se défera du matérialisme porte le nom de celui qui en est affecté. Toutefois, grossier qui occulte actuellement la plupart des l’explication qui est donnée du nom de la paracha – Et par quel signe pourrais-je le reconnaître ? révélations divines qui résultent de notre pratique des mitsvot, ainsi que de l’orientation matérialiste précédente, Tazria, peut servir à expliquer le – Il est assis parmi les pauvres affigés de tsaraat. naturelle de notre conscience, qui cèdera la place à nom de cette paracha-ci. Tazria désigne l’acte « Mais, alors que les autres défont tous leurs une conscience élevée de D.ieu. d’ensemencement », le fait de s’engager de façon bandages puis [après avoir soigné leurs plaies] les optimiste dans un processus qui mène à une rattachent tous, il défait et refait ses bandages un nouvelle vie et à une nouvelle croissance, bien En lisant dans la Torah l’odyssée du metsora et par un, en se disant : « Peut-être serai-je appelé le processus de sa rédemption de l’ostracisme, de que l’essentiel de la paracha traite des détails de la [pour me révéler comme le Machia’h et, s’il en est maladie de la tsaraat, l’antithèse de la vie, car celle- son « exil » social, nous lisons en même temps ainsi,] je ne peux être retardé [en ayant à refaire de l’odyssée de nos crises et de nos rédemptions ci n’est pas conçue comme un châtiment, mais un nombreux bandages.] »5 nouveau départ, une incitation à réaffrmer la vie. spirituelles personnelles ainsi que notre odyssée collective à travers l’exil, qui nous mène vers notre En tant que telle, elle peut et doit être perçue Dans ce contexte, il est possible d’interpréter les Rédemption fnale. comme l’« ensemencement » d’un degré plus élevé noms des deux parachiot traitant de la tsaraat d’existence. comme exprimant le processus messianique : Tazria, qui signife « ensemencer », désigne les De la même manière, la paracha de metsora est Classes efforts que nous faisons pour que la Rédemption Thursdays at 12.00 in the Haime Library appelée du nom d’une personne atteinte de cette « germe ». Metsora désigne le Machia’h lui-même. Classes alternate between the following teachers: maladie, bien qu’elle traite essentiellement de la C’est ainsi que la phrase Tazria-Metsora signife : « Dr. Hanna Barouk manière d’en délivrer celui qui en souffre, parce Sème les graines de la Rédemption messianique. » que le processus de purifcation est en soi un Rabbi Amar prolongement de l’affection elle-même. Ce n’est La plupart des années, les deux parachiot de Tazria Rabbi Frankforter que l’étape suivante du processus de réhabilitation et Metsora sont lues ensemble. Dans le contexte Rabbi Gansburg qui a commencé en contractant la maladie. allégorique que nous venons de mentionner, cela FOR WOMEN ONLY nous enseigne que nous devons considérer nos L’un des termes par lesquels les Prophètes efforts pour raffner le monde à travers l’étude 24 Latin Link Reflexion Semanal

Parasha de la Semana Llaves hacia la santidad El judaísmo nos enseña que un esposo y una “Cuando una mujer engendra y esposa están interconectados en una multitud Pero, ¿Cuál, de hecho, fue la última respuesta de planos físicos y espirituales. En la Parshá de de los Sabios? Que el Mashíaj vendrá durante da a luz a un varón, se impurifca” Tazria, se ve un ejemplo de esto, con respecto a Nisan. El Rebe de Lubavitch explica que el (Levítico 12:2) los sacrifcios que se ofrecen luego de dar a luz. principal aspecto de la Redención es la luz Divina Por Shaul Yosef Leiter revelada desde Arriba. La Redención debe ser en El Jozé de Lublin nota que el versículo también Nisan porque el puro poder de la revelación puede ser leído “Y él se acercó a Di-s…”, será más brillante que la luz producida por refriéndose al arrepentimiento del esposo. Un nuestros esfuerzos espirituales aquí abajo. Si esposo y una esposa están tan unidos que el prestamos atención desde nuestro punto de arrepentimiento que surge del esposo puede ventaja de la “casi Redención”, ya podemos ver afectar el status de la pureza de su esposa. lo sobrenatural comenzando a conquistar y a Cuando examinamos nuestras relaciones reemplazar el mundo natural. interpersonales, debemos recordar que estamos conectados en niveles más allá de lo obvio. ******** El ex piloto de combate, el Profesor Shlomo Kalish explicó sobre un evento trágico reciente No Esperar en el que un avión F16 se estrelló. El piloto se confundió debido al vértigo, y no pudo distinguir a Torá nos cuenta que para purifcar a una en qué dirección estaba volando. El Profesor persona que había sido impurifcada con Kalish explicó que en alturas elevadas y altas Ltzaráat debía ser “traído al Cohen”. velocidades, incluso durante el día, el mar y el cielo se ven iguales. Mientras que es natural La Torá es precisa. El versículo no dice que la volar de acuerdo al sentido de la percepción, persona manchaba debía “dirigirse al Cohen” mucho del entrenamiento de un piloto es o “ir hacia el Cohen”, sino que “será traído al Cuando una mujer engendra y da a luz a un forzarlo a confar en los instrumentos de Cohen”. varón, se impurifca” (Levítico 12:2) cabina. Una y otra vez se les dice, especialmente “ en caso de dudas, que deben farse de los Una de las enseñanzas que podemos extraer de El Talmud nos dice que hay tres llaves instrumentos. Su conclusión fue que hoy en día aquí es que cuando vemos alguien que necesita celestiales: para la lluvia, para el nacimiento, nos encontramos en una situación similar: a ayuda, no debemos esperar a que ésa persona y para la resurrección de los muertos, que no veces es difícil decir qué está arriba y qué está se acerque a quien puede ayudarlo, sino que fueron dadas a ningún emisario (Taanit 2a). abajo. Nuestro propio sentido de la percepción debemos hacer todo lo posible para acercarlo, Si Di-s controla el útero, ¿cómo puede ser que de la tierra y el cielo muchas veces nos engaña. aconsejarlo y guiarlo en el camino adecuado la impureza emane de allí? La respuesta es Es imperativo que dirijamos nuestras vidas de para solucionar su difcultad. que la impureza entra sólo después de que el acuerdo a los instrumentos de la Torá. embarazo concluye. El Rebe de Kotzk explica que en cada evento importante, cuando la Divinidad La llegada de la Redención incluye dos Clases y Eventos se fortalece, energías impuras también crecen. elementos: el mérito de nuestro servicio Divino Porcion Semenal Gracias al poder del embarazo y el nacimiento, y la promesa de Di-s de mandar el Mashíaj. Rabbi Shea Rubinstein en los que Di-s controla la llave, las impurezas De esto podemos entender las divididas Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm se mantienen fuera hasta que el bebé nace. opiniones de los Sabios acerca de en qué mes Orden de rezos diarios y su signifcado mistico Luego, la Divinidad se va, y las energías la Redención ocurrirá. Algunos dicen que será (Para Mujeras) impuras entran. Esto es similar a la impureza en el mes de Nisan, ya que en él ocurrió la Sra. Vivian Perez que adquiere el cuerpo una vez que el alma primera redención de Egipto; otros dicen que Martes 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm se va. Análogamente, cuando sobresalimos en ocurrirá en Tishrei, seis meses más tarde, el mes 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour algún área, especialmente en algo judío, existe Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 de las Festividades. 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Contacts at The Shul 305.868.1411 Rabbi Rabbi Sholom Lipskar Ext 311 Associate Rabbi Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Ext 345 Rabbi’s Executive Assistant Ms. Lydia Hasson Ext 311 Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 305.992.8363 JLAC / Adult Ed/ Singles Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Ext 342 CYS College / Kolel Rabbi Dov Schochet 305.790.8294 Accounting Mrs. Geri Kelly Ext 341 Controller Mrs. Janice Barney Ext 318 Offce Manager Ms. Stacy Waxman Ext 313 Events / Offce Assistant Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Youth Director / Dinner Mrs Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 329 Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 Shul Gaboim Operations / Maintenance Rabbi Shlomi Katan Ext 319 Mr. Andrew Roth Reception / Accounts Payable Mrs. Mindy Natoli Ext 0 Mr. David Portnoy Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Rabbi Henry Eichler Pre-School Mrs. Chana Lipskar Ext 325 Mr. Ettai Einhorn Sephardic Minyan Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 305.865.4205 Mr. David Ben-Arie Hebrew School / Editor Mrs. Aurit Katan 786.382.9006 Mr. Seth Salver Hashkama Minyan Mr. Lazer Milstein 305.349.3040 Mashgiach Mr. Mordechai Olesky 786.262.9115

Board of Trustees Foundation Trustees Ambassador Isaac Gilinski - Chairman Abel Holtz Albert Pollans - President Simon Falic Mike Izak Jaime Gilinski Sidney Feltenstein Alberto Kamhazi David Lichter Matias Garfunkel Shmuel Katz M.D. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Jaime Gilinski Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Max Gilinski Lazer Milstein Saul Gilinski Michael Perez Board of Directors Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Mitch Feldman – President Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Morris Tabacinic Eric Stein – Vice President Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Joel Baum CPA – Treasurer Lazer Milstein Executive Committee Rabbi Zalman Lipskar – Secretary Orit Osman Mitchell Feldman - Chair Bruce Gelb Devorah Leah Andrusier Brian Roller Janice Barney Daniel Gielchinsky Eli Dominitz Yaacov Saidof Maurice Egozi David Schottenstein Joel Baum CPA Evelyn Katz Henry Eichler Daniel Shapiro Max Benoliel Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar Daniel Gielchinsky Daniel Sragowicz Dovid Duchman Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Jacob Givner Cynthia Stein Steven M. Dunn Ryan Shapiro Nicole Katz Kavana Michael Tabacinic Maurice Egozi Marc Sheridan Gregory Levine Jose Yankelevitch Velvel Freedman Eric P. Stein 29 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul

DAILY CLASSES SUNDAY MONDAY

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

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Women’s Morning Torah Class Parsha (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy 12:00 - 1:00 pm 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Pirkei Avot ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 10:00 - 11:30 am TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar TXT-501 Rabbi S. Rubinstien Women’s Tanya Class Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) (Spanish) 2:00 - 2:30 pm In Depth Tanya Class (Men & Women) 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez 11:30 - 12:30 pm TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom Lipskar (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Women’s Torah Portion Class Tanya Class - English 1:00 - 2:00 pm French Class (Spanish) 2:30 - 3:45 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez 12:00 pm Haime Library 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village TXT-110 Mrs. Vivian Perez Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Spanish Kolel - Chassidus 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 8:00 - 10:00 pm PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband Chabad of Aventura, 21001 Biscayne Blvd

NUMERIC CODES INDICATE ALL CLASSES LOCATED CYS COLLEGE COURSES AT THE SHUL VISIT WWW.CYS-COLLEGE.ORG UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

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