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of the Chabad Lubavitch Center Humanity was the final species When G-d sees our good for Jewish Life. to enter this beautiful world resolutions and intentions for You built it. It was built for because G-d has a mission the coming year, the blessings each and every one of you and for each and every one of us. come in overflowing waves. for future generations. To take this wholesome and There is much to be proud On the eve of the new year complete physical world and of in our community, but as I the traditional greeting and wish reveal the inherent divinity express my thanks for all that to each other is Shana Tova through studying the wisdom you have done in the past, we U’metuka - that the new year of the Torah and observing the at Chabad commit to better and be even better and sweeter than Mitzvot. greater going forward and we Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg the previous year. Even more Physical without revealed know that you will continue to healthy and more successful in divinity is bland and useless and join us on this journey as friends I wish to express my everything. But as we focus on our mission is to inject reality and partners in the mission of gratitude to every member ensuring the new year brings with the energy of purpose and preparing El Paso for the coming of the El Paso Jewish with it a refreshment of our own objective. Therefore, Elul, the of Moshiach. community for your devoted needs, let us be mindful about preparation month for Rosh Best wishes that you and support, help, friendship and the purpose of why we are here Hashanah is a time to intensify yours be inscribed and sealed partnership over the past 34 and need all of these things in our spiritual commitment as for a good and sweet new year. years. Without you we would the first place. we prepare to beseech G-d never be able to accomplish Adam, the first human was for a better and sweeter year. Shana Tova! all that has happened over created on the sixth day of Asking for more means we are these past three decades, Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg creation, after everything else committing to do better and especially the construction had already been created. greater in the future.

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A Holiday Message from the Lubavitcher Rebbe We are all guests

much more so must we strive to He scattered them among the emulate his hospitality after the nations.” The true reason for the Giving of the Torah and with regard was not punishment, but to our fellow Jews. “tzedaka” - to fulfill a positive In truth, the concept of hospitality purpose and objective. G-d is a very good description of our wanted the Jews to imbue every Divine service in exile, when the location on earth with holiness as entire Jewish people is likened to preparation for the Messianic era, a “guest.” Our Sages characterized when the entire world will be His the exile as a period in which the “dwelling place.” Jews are like “children who have The Baal Shem Tov (who is also The Rebbe is honored with an Aliya during the at prayer services in the main syna- been exiled from their Father’s the “Chasidic ushpiz” on the first gogue at Lubavitch World Headquarters. table.” The rightful and natural night of ) said something According to the mystical In fact, the Talmud derives from place of a Jew is at G-d’s “table”; similar on the verse in , teachings of the Zohar, heavenly Abraham that “Having guests is during the exile he is not in his “The steps of man are ordered by “ushpizin” (guests) visit the greater than greeting the Divine natural “habitat,” and is therefore a G-d,” explaining that wherever a sukka on the festival of Sukkot. Presence.” The Torah relates that “guest” in alien territory. Jew finds himself, he should know They are: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, when G-d visited Abraham after Why would G-d create such an that it is not “by coincidence,” but Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David his brit mila, he hastened to usher unnatural situation? Because of the that G-d has deliberately led him (Solomon). Each day, one of these into his tent what he thought were special quality and advantage of there for a Divine purpose. tzadikim is the “main” guest who mortal guests but were really the Jews’ Divine service during the It is precisely through our brings the others along. On the angels. exile. This service is so important service in exile that we will merit first night of Sukkot, the “main” If this was how Abraham acted and beloved to G-d that He was to “greet the Divine Presence” in ushpiz is Abraham. before the Torah was given, willing to transform His children the fullest sense with the Final Our ancestor Abraham was pursuing even those who appeared into “guests.” Redemption, when “the glory of renowned for his outstanding as “Arabs who bow down to the Our Sages said: “G-d did the L-rd will be revealed,” with “hachnasat orchim” (hospitality). dust of their feet” as guests, how a favor (‘tzedaka,’ from the root happiness and gladness of heart. meaning righteousness) that

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place in our desert region, some ob- to Seven Seventy and every Jew in In truth, even when there are no served. the world knew that it was a place physical battles to fight, there is a Shortly after the previous they would be heard, cherished and constant spiritual battle raging in the Lubavitcher Rebbe miraculously helped. world in general and within every escaped war ravaged in In the early 1970s as the Rebbe individual as well. The war against 1940, the three story building lo- started sending emissaries to ev- apathy and assimilation. The battle cated at 770 Eastern Parkway was ery country, state, city and town against egocentrism, selfishness and purchased to become the new with Jews a song was composed materialism. headquarters of the centuries-old in summer camps where the future The soldiers marching out of Rabbi Levi Greenberg Chabad movement, becoming the emissaries were being educated on Seven Seventy are charged with the Sunday, August 30 was a special most important address for Jews the importance of committing their mission of bringing the light and day for our community. The inau- around the world, known to all sim- lives to servicing the Jewish world. joy of Torah to every human being guration of our brand new Chabad ply as “Seven Seventy.” “From Seven Seventy we’re to enable everyone to overcome the Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life Ten years later the Rebbe as- marching out, on to victory without many spiritual battles we face on a started a new chapter in the annals sumed leadership of Chabad and a doubt…” daily basis. The three peaked facade of Judaism in El Paso. A new home personal responsibility for the The choice of military language of Seven Seventy has become an for every Jew in the region - a place Jewish world and set in motion to describe the Rebbe’s campaign icon of the ability every person has to celebrate, learn, discover and the greatest Jewish renaissance to create a permanent presence of to be victorious in sharing the beau- thrive. in a millenium. Seven Seventy is Chabad in every corner of the globe ty and joy of Judaism to all. We are Throughout the years since the where the Rebbe taught Torah for can be traced to an idea in the book proud to join the ranks of the close to capital campaign started and the thousands of hours, responded to of Deuteronomy where the Torah twenty other cities around the world first sketches of the new building a volume of mail rivaled only by communicates a host of battlefield who host an imitation of Seven Sev- were publicized many wondered the White House and met person- laws. A simple question is present- enty and we look forward to increas- why the facade is an imitation of ally with countless human beings ed: Since every mitzvah is relevant ing our ability to bring the Rebbe’s the Chabad Lubavitch World Head- from all walks of life. The revolu- to every person, at all times and all message to the entire region. quarters in Brooklyn. The brown tion of Jewish outreach we take for places, how can the laws of war be Thank you for joining us in this bricks and three peaks seem out of granted today can be traced directly meaningful to us in times of peace? mission.

Aug. 24, 2020

El Paso Chabad Center 6516 Escondido El Paso , TX 79912

Dear Members of Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso:

I write to extend congratulations to Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso as it greets the new year with the new Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life.

Since Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso was established in 1986, with the blessings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, you have served the spiritual needs of Jewish people in our region. The thriving synagogue, Hebrew school, adult education program, summer camp and a robust community outreach initiative are just a few of the accomplishments achieved by Rabbi Yisrael and Chana Greenberg during the last 34 years in El Paso, joined nine years ago by Rabbi Levi and Shaina Greenberg.

This is critically important not only for Jews in the region. The United States is a multicultural, religiously tolerant country, which has provided a welcome to Jewish people from around the world, and I am grateful for the role of Jewish Americans have played in advancing our ideal of equality under the law, without regard to race or religion.

This weekend, as you launch a special series of communal events celebrating your 35th year, beginning with a grand opening celebration of the new Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life, know that you are appreciated as vital not only to the Jewish community, but to our greater regional community.

Again, congratulations on your new facilities, which I look forward to seeing in-person soon.

Sincerely,

Jose Rodriguez Tishrei - Cheshvan 5781 | September - October 2020 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Page 5 A new synagogue embodies deepening roots of Chabad movement in El Paso By Robert Moore | www.ElPasoMatters.org Yisrael Greenberg came to El Paso we had almost every mayor come and in August 1986 with his wife Chana light the Hannukah candles. I saw the and newborn son Levi as an emissary mayors come and go and I’m still the of Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish move- same,” Greenberg said with a chuckle. ment with no history in the community. Greenberg moved to El Paso know- To say this Orthodox rabbi stood out in ing it was a lifelong commitment. He a predominantly Hispanic community said he is in El Paso “until the Messiah is an understatement. will come or till the last Jew leaves “I was the only one to look the way town.” I look in El Paso,” he said with a smile. Since 2011, Greenberg has been as- He came to El Paso with a mission, sisted in rabbinical duties by his son to bring traditional Judaism to a city Levi. He was born in Brooklyn and where it had little presence. Thirty-four moved with his parents to El Paso years later, his success can be mea- Cover photo: The new Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life. (Justin Hamel/El shortly after he was born in 1986. Levi sured in a new West Side synagogue Paso Matters) Greenberg studied in Chabad schools that opens this week. the message. If you would be the same two Jewish synagogues — Temple in the Midwest, Israel and Argentina. Like other Chabad rabbis, Green- as the people here, I wouldn’t come Mount Sinai and Congregation B’Nai He met his wife Shainy in Brooklyn berg was inspired by the Lubavitcher here,” Greenberg said. Zion — that date back more than a and they were married in 2010. They Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneer- Bringing Chabad to El Paso century. Greenberg said there was a and their first-born daughter Musia son, who sent emissaries throughout The rabbi was born in Russia and need in El Paso for a more traditional moved to El Paso in 2011 the world to drive a Jewish spiritual immigrated to Israel as a child. As a form of Judaism. He is deeply committed to work- reawakening in the aftermath of the teen, he came to Brooklyn to study at “We came, there was a group of ing with his father and building on his Holocaust. the Rebbe’s Central Chabad Yeshiva. people that were very happy that we work. “The leader of the Chabad move- His wife, Chana,was born in Milan, came, they wanted a little bit more “I don’t think you’ll be able to find ment from 1950, the Lubavitcher Italy, to parents who were among the traditional Judaism, because, as you too many people here that identify as Rebbe, he had this philosophy in his first Chabad emissaries. They were know, Chabad offers Judaism with Orthodox. But you’ll find many people teachings that a person came to this married in 1985. a smile — but Judaism, not watered that identify as connected to Chabad,” world for a mission. No such thing as a “A year later, we’re looking for a down Judaism,” he said. Levi Greenberg said. person comes to the world and just by community, two different communi- Chabad’s new El Paso synagogue The new synagogue cost $2.5 mil- default of parents, the child came to the ties were available, but the Rebbe kind Greenberg’s first Chabad house in lion to build and furnish. Yisrael world,” said Greenberg, 59. of supported us to go to this commu- El Paso was a small facility next to his Greenberg said the new, larger center “What is the mission? Number one, nity, to El Paso,” Greenberg said. family’s West Side home. Chabad has will allow Chabad to concentrate its the mission is to do for others because “Somebody asked me, do you know been in its second El Paso synagogue, functions in one location. if the mission is to do for yourself, where El Paso’s at? I never heard the on Westwind, for more than a quarter “I think it will be inviting more peo- that’s not a mission. Any animalistic word El Paso. If I heard the word Tex- century. The new center opening this ple to come and people will have less living creature cares for himself. That’s as it was already a miracle,” he said. week is at 6516 Escondido, around the of an excuse for not coming,” he said. a part of our nature. To do for others, “To me, it didn’t make a difference, El corner from Chabad’s current location. Chabad’s mission remains un- that’s already a spiritual thing, that’s Paso or any other city. There’s a Jew- While Chabad’s mission focuses on changed in its new El Paso center. already a G-dly mission,” Greenberg ish community there. They need help. meeting Jewish spiritual needs, the El “The question is, are there Jews said. We’ll come.” Paso center also has engaged with the there? You can reach those Jews. You He said he sees his role as similar to El Paso has a small but longstanding general community through charity ef- can go and engage them and engage that of an ambassador. Jewish community. Solomon Schultz, forts. It’s annual Hanukkah menorah them in one mitzvah and one Torah “We are coming to a place to share who was El Paso’s mayor when the lighting draws large numbers of Jews class or whatever it is. That’s already a message. Yeah, we know, we are dif- railroads arrived and transformed the and non-Jews. a reason to be there,” Levi Greenberg ferent. That’s why we come to share city in 1881, was Jewish. El Paso has “I’ll tell you, for the past 30 years, said. 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Mayor Dee Margo Mayor Dee Margo Senator José Rodríguez Page 8 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Tishrei - Cheshvan 5781 | September - October 2020 Your High Holiday Guide The Month of Elul

As the last month of the Jewish for a fellow Jew) in the quest for basic customs and practices for the tefillin and mezuzot checked by year, Elul is traditionally a time self-improvement and coming month of Elul: an accredited scribe to ensure that of introspection and stocktaking - closer to G-d. The Alter Rebbe - • Each day of the month of Elul they are in good condition and fit a time to review one’s deeds and Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (except for and the last for use. spiritual progress over the past likens the month of Elul to a time day of Elul), we sound the • During the last week of Elul, year and prepare for the upcoming when “the king is in the field” and, (ram’s horn) as a call to repentance. in the days leading up to Rosh “Days of Awe” of Rosh Hashanah in contrast to when he is in the royal • When writing a letter or meeting Hashanah, the Selichot prayers are and Yom Kippur. palace, “everyone who so desires one another, we bless one another recited. The first selichot is recited As the month of “Divine Mercy is permitted to meet him, and he by including the greeting Ketivah on Motzei Shabbat (Saturday night) and Forgiveness,” Elul is a most receives them all with a cheerful vachatimah tovah - which loosely at midnight and on the following opportune time for teshuvah countenance and shows a smiling translates as “May you be inscribed days in the early morning. This (“return” to G-d), prayer, charity, face to them all.” and sealed for a good year.” year selichot recitation begins on and increased Ahavat Yisrael (love The following are some of the • Elul is a good time to have your Motzei Shabbat, September 12.

Rosh Hashanah Tishrei 1-2 | September 18 - 20 The festival of Rosh Hashanah also occurred on Rosh Hashanah, is observed for two days beginning in which a ram took Isaac’s place on Tishrei 1, the first day of the as an offering to G-d; we evoke Jewish year. It is the anniversary of Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his the creation of Adam and Eve, the son and plead that the merit of his first man and woman, and their first deed stand by us as we pray for a actions toward the realization of year of life, health and prosperity. mankind’s role in G-d’s world. Altogether, the shofar is sounded Rosh Hashanah thus emphasizes 100 times in the course of the Rosh the special relationship between G-d Hashanah service. and humanity: our dependence upon Friday, September 18 G-d as our creator and sustainer, and On the day before Rosh Hashanah G-d’s dependence upon us as the it is customary to visit the graves ones who make His presence known of tzaddikim (righteous, saintly and felt in His world. Each year on people) to pray for a sweet new Rosh Hashanah, “all inhabitants year. We beseech the tzaddikim to of the world pass before G-d like intercede On High on our behalf, a flock of sheep,” and it is decreed and we pray to G-d to have mercy Hashanah, it is customary to greet After eating the challah dipped in in the heavenly court, “who shall on us in the merit of these righteous one another with blessings and good honey, it is customary to eat several live, and who shall die... who shall people at whose resting places we wishes of Leshana tova tekatev foods which symbolize the type of be impoverished, and who shall be are standing. v’etachetem - May you be inscribed year we wish to have: enriched; who shall fall and who Many have the custom to visit for a good year! Dip a piece of sweet apple into shall rise.” the Ohel - the resting place of the honey and recite: This is also the day we proclaim Rebbe in New York City. Petitions Rosh Hashanah Eve Dinner Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei- G-d King of the Universe. The for blessing may be sent via fax or Rosh Hashanah dinner begins nu Me-lech ha-olam bore pri ha-etz. Kabbalists teach that the continued email to be placed by the Ohel. with the recitation of Kiddush over [Blessed are You, L-rd, our G-d, existence of the universe is Fax: 718-723-4444 E-mail: a glass of wine or grape juice. King of the universe, who creates dependent upon the renewal of the [email protected] After kiddush all present perform the fruit of the tree.] divine desire for a world when we Light Festival Candles the ritual handwashing. Raise two Ye-hi ratzon she-ti-cha-desh alei- accept G-d’s kingship each year on Women and girls light candles challah loaves (it is customary nu shanah tovah u-m’tu-kah. Rosh Hashanah. on each evening of the festival and to have round challah on Rosh [May it be Your will to renew for The central observance of Rosh recite the appropriate blessings. Hashanah) and recite the Hamotzie us a good and sweet year.] Hashanah is the sounding of the September 18: Light candles at blessing: A head of a fish, ram or other shofar, the ram’s horn, which 6:49pm. Recite blessings 1 and 3. Ba-ruch atah A-do-nay, E-lo-hei- kosher animal is served. This represents the trumpet blast of a September 19: Light candles nu Melech Ha-Olam, hamotzie le- symbolizes our desire to be at the people’s coronation of their king. AFTER 7:42pm. Recite blessings 2 chem min ha-are-tz. “head” this year. The cry of the shofar is also a call & 3. [Blessed are You, L-rd, our G-d, A pomegranate is eaten, to repentance; for Rosh Hashanah NOTE: On September 19 light King of the universe, who brings symbolizing our wish to have a year is also the anniversary of man’s first candles from an existing flame forth bread from the earth.] full of mitzvot as a pomegranate is sin and his repentance thereof. (such as from a pilot flame), as on It is customary to dip the slice of filled with luscious seeds. Another significance of the shofar is the holiday one may not create a fire. challah into honey. During the meal, it is customary to recall the Binding of Isaac which On the first night of Rosh Symbolic Foods to eat foods whose names in the

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Rosh Hashanah continued vernacular allude to blessing and shofar. Tashlich and during the kiddush. While prosperity. For example, many have The Shofar is NOT sounded on On the second day of Rosh reciting the Shehecheyanu blessing the custom of eating a carrot dish, Shabbat. Therefore, this year we Hashanah after the afternoon after candle-lighting and after the because in Yiddish the word for will not blow the Shofar on the first prayer, we go to a lake, river or kiddush, one should have the new carrots – meren - means to multiply. day of Rosh Hashanah because it to the sea (preferably one that fruit in mind. It is customary not to eat sour or will also be Shabbat. We will only has fish), and recite the Tashlich This fruit is eaten following tart foods (the gefilte fish will have blow the Shofar on the second prayers, symbolically casting our kiddush, before washing for bread. to do without the horseradish this day of Rosh Hashanah: Sunday, sins into the water, starting the new Before partaking of the fruit recite time). The menu should mainly September 20. year with a clean slate. these two blessings: consist of sweet foods, symbolizing Why: It is a mitzvah. If one is unable to perform this Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei- our desire to have a sweet, blessed On a deeper level, the blasts of the ceremony on Rosh Hashanah, one nu Me-lech ha-olam bore pri ha-etz. and abundant year. shofar serve as a wake up call. Rosh may do so until Erev Yom Kippur Blessed are You, L-rd, our G-d, Shofar Hashanah is the time to shake out (this year on September 27). King of the universe, who creates What: A shofar is a horn of a of our spiritual slumber, reconnect Second Night of Rosh the fruit of the tree. kosher animal with the marrow to our source, and recommit to our Hashanah Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei- removed. There is a specific series divine mission in this world. New Fruit nu me-lech ha-olam she-heche-ya- of sounds we obligated to hear from Who: All Jewish men, women, On the second night of Rosh nu ve-ki-yi-ma-nu ve-higi-a-nu liz- a Shofar on Rosh Hashanah. and children. All of us need to Hashanah, a “new fruit,” i.e. a man ha-zeh When: In the Torah, Rosh reconnect. seasonal fruit which we have not Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, Hashanah is called “The Day of the Where: Venue of preference is yet tasted since its season began, King of the universe, who has Shofar Blast.” That’s the mitzvah your local synagogue. should be present on the table when granted us life, sustained us, and of the day: to hear the blasts of the the holiday candles are kindled enabled us to reach this occasion.

Yom Kippur Tishrei 9-10 | September 27-29 Yom Kippur is the holiest day by the proclamation, “Next year of the. It is the Day of Atonement in .” We then partake - “For on this day He will forgive of a festive after-fast meal, as the you, to purify you, that you be evening after Yom Kippur is a Yom cleansed from all your sins before Tov (festival) in its own right. G-d” (Leviticus 16:30). For twenty-six hours - from Sunday, September 27 several minutes before sunset on Kaparot Tishrei 9 until after nightfall on The Kaparot (atonement) service Tishrei 10 - we abstain from eating is performed early morning with a and drinking, washing or anointing live chicken (or alternatively with our bodies (using body lotions), money) which is then donated to wearing leather footwear and from charity. having marital relations. Receive Honey Cake There are five prayer services: It is customary to ask for and , preceded by the solemn Kol receive lekach (sweet cake - Nidrei service, on the eve of Yom signifying a sweet year) from Kippur; - the morning someone (usually one’s mentor prayer; Musaf, which includes a or parent) on this day. One of the It is customary to give charity [for a daughter:] May G-d make detailed account of the Yom Kippur reasons given for this custom is generously and liberally on the day you like Sarah, Rebbeca, Rachel, Temple service; Minchah, which that if it had been decreed, G-d before Yom Kippur, for tzedakah is and Leah. includes the reading of the Book of forbid, that during the year one a great source of merit and serves On Yom Kippur leather footwear Jonah; and Ne’illah, the “closing of should need to resort to a handout as protection against harsh decrees. is not worn. Before candle lighting the gates” service at sunset. The Al from others, the decree should be Prior to sunset, one should eat time change your shoes to plastic Chet (confession of sins) is recited satisfied with this asking for food. the final meal. One should eat or canvas shoes or slippers. eight times during the course of Festive Meals only light foods such as chicken September 27: Light candles at Yom Kippur. It is a mitzvah to eat and drink in and soup. One should not drink 6:37pm. Recite blessings 4 and 3. Although it is the most solemn abundance on the day before Yom intoxicating beverages, and it is day of the year, an undertone of joy Kippur. It is customary to have two also customary not to eat fish at this Fasting suffuses it: a joy that revels in the meals: one during the day and the meal. If you wish to eat after this On Yom Kippur, women and spirituality of the day and expresses second just prior to the onset of meal, when reciting the Grace after girls over 12 years old and men the confidence that G-d will accept Yom Kippur. Meals have in mind that you will and boys over 13 are obligated to our repentance, forgive our sins, Many have the custom to eat still eat or drink until the onset of fast and observe all the restrictions and seal our verdict for a year of life, kreplach on the day before Yom the fast. mentioned above. health and happiness. The closing Kippur. Kreplach are small squares The fast begins at 6:37pm If one is unable to fast due to Neilah service climaxes in the of rolled dough filled with ground It is customary to bless one’s health reasons, a Rabbi should be resounding cries of “Shema Yisrael beef or chicken and folded into children before Yom Kippur. consulted. - Hear O Israel... G-d is one.” Then triangles. They can be boiled and Although there is no required The fast ends at 7:30pm joy erupts in song and dance (a served in soup or fried and served formula for this blessing, it is After evening services Havdalah Chabad custom is to sing the lively as a side dish. customary to say: is recited over a glass of wine and “Napoleon’s March”), followed by It is proper to immerse in the [for a son:] May G-d make you we are then permitted to end the a single blast of the shofar, followed mikvah on this day. like Ephraim and Manasseh; fast. Page 10 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Tishrei - Cheshvan 5781 | September - October 2020

Sukkot Tishrei 14 - 21 | October 2-9

For forty years, as our ancestors Sukkot. a Sukkah on the first night of traversed the Sinai Desert prior Sukkot is also called “The Sukkot (October 2). Throughout to their entry into the Holy Time of Our Joy” as a unique joy the festival of Sukkot (October Land, miraculous “clouds of pervades the festival. The seventh 2 - 9), when partaking of a meal glory” surrounded and hovered day of Sukkot is called Hoshana in the Sukkah, containing at least over them, shielding them from Rabbah (“Great Salvation”) and two ounces of bread or cake, the dangers and discomforts of concludes the period of Divine recite blessing 7. The first time the desert. In commemoration judgment initiated on Rosh eating in a Sukka this year, recite of G-d’s kindness we are Hashanah. A special observance blessing 3 as well. commanded to dwell in a sukkah is the Aravah - the taking of a - a hut of temporary construction bundle of willow branches. Lulav & Etrog: The Four with a roof covering of branches Kinds - for the duration of the Sukkot Festival Candle Lighting One of the special mitzvahs festival (Tishrei 15 - 21). For Women and girls light candles of Sukkot is to recite a blessing seven days and nights, we eat on each evening of the festival and on the “The Four Kinds,”. Hold all our meals in the sukkah and recite the appropriate blessings. them close together, recite effectively regard it as our home. October 2: Light candles at blessing 8 and wave them in Another Sukkot observance 6:31pm. Recite blessings 5 & 3. all four directions, upward and is the taking of the Four Kinds: October 3: Light candles downward. The first time doing an etrog (citron), a lulav (palm AFTER 7:24pm. Recite blessings the mitzvah this year recite frond), three hadassim (myrtle 6 & 3. blessing 3 as well. twigs) and two aravot (willow Note: On October 3, light twigs). On each day of the candles from an existing flame Simchat Bet Ha-Sho’evah festival (excluding Shabbat), (such as from a pilot flame), as It is a mitzvah to rejoice on we take the Four Kinds, recite on the holiday one may not create Sukkot in commemoration of a blessing, bring them together a fire. the joyous “Water Drawing in our hands and wave them in Celebrations” that were held in all six directions: right, left, Eat in the Sukkah the Temple. Sukkot. In many communities, forward, backward, up and down. The mitzvah of Sukkah During the Temple era, the it is customary to hold festive The Midrash tells us that the Four encompasses the entire body. celebration of the simchat bet ha- gatherings in synagogues during Kinds represent the various types Every limb and cell of the person sho’evah was marked with great the nights of the festival to rejoice and personalities that comprise is completely immersed and public festivity and rejoicing. together through music, song, the community of Israel, whose encompassed by the Sukkah. Even in the absence of the Temple and praise in commemoration of intrinsic unity we celebrate on It is very important to eat in we continue to celebrate during the simchat bet ha-sho’evah.

Shemini Atzeret & Tishrei 21- 23 | October 9-11

After the seven-day festival On Simchat Torah we conclude, Note: On October 10, of Sukkot comes the two-day and begin anew, the annual light candles from an festival of and Torah reading cycle. The event existing flame (such as Simchat Torah. (In the Land is marked with great rejoicing, from a pilot flame), as on of Israel, the two festivals are especially during the “hakafot” the holiday one may not “compacted” in a single day). procession, in which we march, create a fire. Shemini Atzeret means “the sing and dance with the Torah eighth [day] of retention”; the scrolls around the “Bima” Hakafot chassidic masters explain that the (reading table) in the synagogue. Hakafot is the signature primary purpose of the festival The Chassidic masters describe celebration of completing is to retain and “conceive” the the joy of Simchat Torah as the Torah. After the spiritual revelations and powers follows: We rejoice in the Torah, evening services on that we are granted during the and the Torah rejoices in us; the Shemini Atzeret and festivals of the month of Tishrei, Torah, too, wants to dance, so we Simchat Torah as well as so that we can subsequently apply become the Torah’s dancing feet. during morning services them to our lives throughout the on Simchat Torah all the year. A special prayer for rain is Festival Candle Lighting Torah scrolls are paraded recited during the Musaf service. Women and girls light candles around the synagogue On Shemini Atzeret we continue on each evening of the festival and seven times. Each parade On Sunday, October 11 we to eat in the sukkah without recite the appropriate blessings. is accompanied with song and conclude the annual cycle of the making the special blessing on October 9: Light candles at dance. Torah by reading the last portion the sukkah. On Simchat Torah 6:22pm. Recite blessings 5 & 3. Hakafot Schedule: of Deuteronomy and begin night (i.e., the ninth day from October 10: Light candles October 9 – 6:30pm reading once again from Genesis. the beginning of Sukkot) - we go AFTER 7:15 pm. Recite blessings October 10 – 7:15pm It is customary for all men to

back to eating in the home. 6 & 3. October 11 – 11:30am receive aliyot during this reading.

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Selichot Begins Saturday at Midnight ..12:00midnight

Light Candles ...... 6:49pm Mincha...... 6:15pm Eat Special Rosh Hashanah Foods

Shacharit...... 9:00am Light Candles...... 6:31pm Torah Service...... 10:15pm Mincha...... 6:30pm Sermon...... 10:45pm Halel & Torah Reading...... 11:00am Musaf:...... 11:00pm-12:15pm Mincha...... 6:15pm Evening Services...... 6:30pm Light Candles after *...... 7:24pm Light Candles after * 7:42pm Halel & Torah Reading...... 11:00am Shacharit...... 9:00am Mincha...... 6:15pm Sermon...... 10:15pm Holiday ends...... 7:23pm Torah Service...... 10:30am Shofar Service:...... 11:00pm Musaf:...... 11:15pm-12:30pm Evening Services...... 6:30pm Shacharit...... 7:00am

Light Candles...... 6:22pm Mincha...... 6:15pm Hakafot...... 6:45pm Mincha...... 3:00pm Light Candles...... 6:37pm Halel and Torah Reading...... 11:00am Fast Begins...... 6:37pm Yizkor...... 11:30am Kol Nidrei...... 6:30pm Mincha...... 6:15pm Light Candles after *...... 7:15pm Shacharit...... 9:00am Hakafot...... 7:15pm Torah Service...... 10:30pm Yizkor & Sermon...... 11:00pm Halel, Hakafot & Torah Reading. . .11:00am Musaf:...... 11:30am-12:45pm Holiday ends...... 7:14pm Mincha ...... 5:45pm Neliah ...... 6:30-7:30pmpm

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Holiday Blessings 1) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam 5) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam asher ki-deshanu be-mitzvo-tav ve-tzvi-vanu le-hadlik ner asher ki-deshanu be-mitzvo-tav ve-tzvi-vanu le-hadlik ner shel Shabbat veshel Yom Hazikaron. shel Shabbat veshel Yom Tov. Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded us sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded to light the candle of Shabbat and of the Day of Remembrance. us to light the candle of Shabbat and of the Festival. 2) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam 6) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam asher ki-deshanu be-mitzvo-tav ve-tzvi-vanu le-hadlik ner asher ki-deshanu be-mitzvo-tav ve-tzvi-vanu le-hadlik ner shel Yom Hazikaron. shel Yom Tov. Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded us to light the candle of the Day of Remembrance. us to light the candle of the Festival. 3) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam 7) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ha-olam she-heche-ya-nu ve-ki-yi-ma-nu ve-higi-a-nu liz-man ha-zeh Asher Kideshanu Bemitzvotav Vetzivanu Leshev Basukkah. Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who has granted us life, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded occasion. us to sit in the Sukkah. 4) Ba-ruch a-tah ado-nai e-lo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam asher 8) Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ha-olam ki-deshanu be-mitzvo-tav ve-tzvi-vanu le-hadlik ner shel Asher Kideshanu Bemitzvotav Vetzivanu Al Netilat Lulav. Yom HaKipurim. Blessed are You, L-rd, our G-d, King of the universe, who has Blessed are You, L-rd, our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded us to hold the lulav.

us to kindle the light of Yom Kippur.

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