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The Shul B”H weekly magazine Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech Shabbos Mevarchim - Shabbos Selichos Elul 24 - 25 September 15 - 16 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:06 PM SHABBOS ENDS: 7:57 PM Rosh Chodesh Tishrei Thursday, September 21 Molad - New Moon Wednesday, September 20 11:28 (16 chalakim) PM Rosh Hashana Tishrei 1-2 September 20 - 22 Candle Lighting 1st Night: 7:01 pm Candle Lighting 2nd Night: After 7:52 pm ( From Existing Flame) Welcome to Chazan Motzen Wishing The Entire Community A Good and Sweet New Year Over Tirty Years of Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Fl 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TeShul.org Email: [email protected] The Shul Weekly Magazine Everything you need for every day of the week Contents Nachas At A Glance Rosh Hashana Message 3 The Shul was a beacon of light during Hurricane Irma, providing The Lubavitcher Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn spiritual and physical warmth for all those who stayed or came Weekly Message back to homes with no power. 4 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar A Time to Pray Check out all the davening schedules and locations 5 throughout the week Celebrating Shabbos 6 - 7 Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience The Month of Tishrei 8 -15 Everything you need to know for the High Holidays Community Happenings 16- 17 Sharing with your Shul Family Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 18-25 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 26-29 The full scoop on all the great events around town The ABC’s of Aleph 30 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. In a woman’s world 31 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman French Connection 32 Refexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 33 Refexion Semanal Networking 34-36 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 37 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 38 The Shul Get The Picture The full scoop on all the great events around town 39-40 Quotable Quote The wise of heart shall choose the mitzvah – Proverbs 10:8 Rosh Hashanah Message from The Rebbe - Rabbi MenachEm Mendel Schneersohn Increasing in Physical and practiced both material and Spiritual Charity spiritual deeds of charity and kindness. 18th of Elul, 5710 Even as the poorest among Dear Brethren, G-d bless you the poor has opportunities all: to practice acts of kindness towards his fellows, so has On the threshold of the New the spiritually poor man Year, every one of us, man and opportunities to benefit others woman, pauses to draw up а through exercising good balance sheet of one’s record influence upon his friends and in the past year. We resolve to neighbors in the observance of better ourselves and pray for the Torah and Mitzvoth. а happy year, materially and spiritually. And naturally, the materially wealthy and spiritually rich, Our Sages say that giving Tzedoko (charity) to the among the latter the spiritual leaders, Yeshivah needy opens the way for our prayers to bring us students, etc., must be lavish in their acts of Tzedoko, good health, prosperity and happiness. in money and time, in behalf of their brothers and Man possesses a body and а soul. And just as there sisters who are less fortunate than they, to save is material poverty (in food, clothing and shelter), them, heal them, and strengthen them, body and so there is spiritual poverty, where the deficiency soul. is in spiritual things: knowledge of the Torah, the May our Merciful Father in heaven inscribe every observance of the Mitzvoth and the practice of good one of us all unto a good and happy year, materially deeds. and spiritually, and bring us the true Redemption Said our Sages: “How are we to understand the words through our Righteous Messiah, speedily in our time, of the prophet, ‘When thou seest а poor man, clothe Amen. him?’ Surely also in this sense: When you see a man Wishing you, and thanking you for your wishes of а lacking in the knowledge of the Torah, take him in to Ksiva V’Chasima Tova your house, teach him the Shema, encourage him to fulfill the Mitzvoth, teach him Torah, etc. ...” M. Schneerson When we are about to appear before the Supreme Rabbi Mendel Schneerson Judge on Rosh Hashanah, we must take stock, each Son-in-law of the late Lubavltcher Rabbi, one according to his own yardstick -- the possibilities of saintly memory obm and opportunities one has -- as to how well we have 3 Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Netzavim - Vayelech blessings that we each need for the coming year. This preparation is Rosh Hashana vital and is more accessible as the King, Almighty G-d, is in the feld making Himself available to each and every one of us. irst let us thank Hashem for In the same way as we prepared for the advent of the potentially keeping us and every one catastrophic Irma that had temporary impact affecting our lives, Fhealthy, safe and well during this including comfort, pleasure, safety, money, effort and prioritization, monster hurricane that threatened how much more so should we prepare for our being summoned us. Almighty G-d extended His Holy to appear before the ultimate Divine Tribunal where and when we Hand of compassion and protection will be judged and determined for our very lives, health, sustenance, over us in every way. prosperity, children, peace of mind and every detail and aspect of Recognizing the fact that everything our lives. that happens to a person in this Last Shabbat, the 18th of Elul, began a 12 day period before this world, though it may seem unrelated, extraordinary court appearance on Rosh Hashanah with each day is by Divine Providence, the Torah representing one month. How we introspect and repair and live each portions that we read last Shabbos day is able to cleanse an entire month so that when we fnally are and during this Shabbos defnitely summoned before the Divine Judge we come with 12 pure months. speak to us on a practical level. As the “bon mot” of the Alter Rebbe whose birthday we celebrated last Let us utilize this challenging time that each of us were forced Shabbos states “a person must live with the times” indicating that to experience, to strengthen us, elevate us, unite us and prepare each person must live with the Torah portion that is read in that us properly. Without doubt Hashem will care for each and every period of time. one of us as a Father cares for His children. In the same way as we coalesced with our personal families and community with In these Torah portions we are assured the most extraordinary a love, selfessness and unity what brought light and warmth in blessings that one can imagine affrming a dynamic, internal, an otherwise dismal darkness, so too can we transform any dark essential connection between every single Jew and G-d Almighty spaces in our lives to a light that is brighter when contrasted to Himself with love, blessings, caring, compassion and a covenant of the darkness. The key to our blessings are unity, selfessness, and Eternity. connection to Almighty G-d. In last week’s portion Ki Savo we were exposed to 98 of the most I will make sure to pray at the Rebbe’s OHEL for our entire community, horrifc admonishments, rebukes and curses that one can imagine to each and every one of you specifcally and our entire community such a degree that the Miteller Rebbe, son of the Alter Rebbe, when to always be spared from any tragedy and for us to come through he heard this reading literally fainted. In this portion Nitzavim we this experience better, stronger, more unifed, more successful and are given ultimatums of annihilation and destruction as a result of elevated, and for all good this coming year “over the top”. disobedience to G-d. Those who experienced the worst conditions of modern history such as the Holocaust etc. look at these curses With best wishes for a healthy happy Shabbos and Rosh Hashanah, and statements and recognize them individually and specifcally to and may we all be inscribed and sealed for a healthy happy sweet equal that evil unimaginable horrifc reality. new year. Our world has the potential and kinetic of extremes: day and night, P.S. love and hate, light and darkness, good and evil etc. Our dedicated Shluchim, Shluchos and Community members who were here during this period of time for anyone that remained in The result of the direction the pendulum swings is dependent upon the area, conducting all spiritual services, counselling endlessly and our actions and behavior. As the Torah states, “When we follow G-d’s showing true caring and love – Thank You! Our Shul is a lighthouse directives in our personal, collective and public lives then good that never shuts its light. Please do not hesitate to call for anything conquers all that is negative and evil. However, when the opposite unfortunately is the modus operandi of society then we feed energy, and everything that is necessary. power and capacity to the dark and negative side”. During this month of Elul we blow the shofar each morning as an Rabbi Sholom D.