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5776Chabad Center for Jewish Life JEWISH CALENDAR 2015–2016 Artwork by Michoel Muchnik 5776 CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE 505.983.2000 • 230 West Manhattan avenue • WWW.chabadsantafe.coM ב"ה feed your SOUL . at meaningful Community Shabbat Dinners. nurture your HEART with other women . at the Jewish Women’s Circle. Rediscover the JOY in Jewish life . with meaningful Holiday Celebrations. ensure a brighter JEWISH TOMORROW . with hands-on Jewish Kids Clubs. stimulate your INNER MIND . with thought-provoking Torah Classes. nourish your BODY . with healthy, delicious Traditional Jewish Food. awaken the LEADER within . by helping create the new Jewish Center. support Jewish LIFE in santa fe with your tax-deductible gift to Chabad. CHABAD: JUDIASM. DONE. JOYFULLY. THIS CALENDAR IS DEDICATED TO THE WEST MANHATTAN AVENUE 230 • חב“ד • LUBAVITCHER REBBE, SANTA FE, NM 87501 • 505.983.2000 RABBI MENACHEM M. [email protected] CHABADSANTAFE.COM SCHNEERSON, OF RIGHTEOUS MEMORY, WHOSE LOVE, LEADERSHIP, DEDICATION CHABAD OF NM REGIONAL OFFICE: 4000 S PEDRO, NE AND INSPIRATION ARE THE GUIDING ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87110 • 505-880-1181 LIGHT OF ALL OF Chabad’s efforTS IN RABBI CHAIM SCHMUKLER REGIONAL DIRECTOR • CHABADNM.ORG SANTA FE AN THE WORLD OVER The Center for Jewish Life 16,000 sq. ft. center will include: commercial Kosher Kitchen, Kosher café, sanctuary, social hall, art Gallery, classrooms, children’s Playrooms, Library, hospitality Rooms, Jewish Museum and More! Be A Part of History! Make your tax-deductible contribution to the “center for Jewish Life” in the heart of santa fe! Located at 230 West Manhattan avenue. Jewish Kids Club Jewish Women’s Circle Adult Education Shabbat Dinners Join the coolest kids club in Join together with Jewish women of delve into Kabbalah, torah Join your community delicious and town! Learn hebrew, take all ages and backgrounds to learn, and talmud and nourish your meaningful shabbat dinners. once a photos, cook Jewish foods, learn laugh, experience and rejuvenate mind with timeless Jewish text. week we gather for uplifting shabbat Krav Maga self-deference, sing the mind, body and soul. this year’s find answers to contemporary services, followed by a dinner with Jewish songs and more! theme: explore Jewish communities questions and inspire your a talk by Rabbi Levertov or a guest around the world! intellect and soul. speaker. chabadsantafe.com/kidsclub JewishWomenscircle.com chabadsantafe.com/adulted shabbatInsantafe.com TORAT EMET BY MICHOEL MUCHNIK SELICHOT wind instruments, sounding like a primal Although Yom Kippur is a solemn day, it With the imminent approach of the New cry from the depth of the soul. The is not a sad day. In fact, in a subtle way, Year and the Days of Awe, preparations shofar’s thrilling blasts herald a special it is one of the happiest days of the year, move into highest gear. occasion, as we proclaim G-d as King of for we receive one of G-d’s most precious the universe. It also awakens us to return gifts—forgiveness. Several days before Rosh Hashanah, to G-d, reminding us of the shofar heard we begin to recite Selichot, a series of at Mount Sinai when we accepted G-d’s SUKKOT: penitential prayers and liturgy before the commandments for all time. morning prayers. Sept. 28–Oct. 4 Tashlich: On the first afternoon of Rosh The Festival of Sukkot is observed According to Ashkenazi custom, the Hashanah, it is customary to visit a through the performance of three mitzvot: first Selichot are recited on Saturday natural body of water that contains fish, Sukkah: For the duration of the holiday night after midnight, and a minimum to cast our past sins down the river of it is a mitzvah to eat in a temporary hut of four days of Selichot are observed. time. Thus, when Rosh Hashanah begins on covered by loose tree branches. Apple & Honey: It is customary to dip a Monday or Tuesday, Selichot begin on Lulav & Etrog: Each day of the festival a piece of apple into honey at the first the Saturday night a full week and a half (except Shabbat) we take the “four meal of Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing the before Rosh Hashanah. species” and shake them together. hope that our new year be blessed with The Sephardic custom is to recite sweetness and goodness. For the same Joy: The overarching mitzvah is joy. When Selichot throughout the entire month of reason, it is customary to eat other sweet our Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, Elul. foods, such as tzimmes. men, women, young and old would join in music, dancing, juggling and more for ROSH HASHANAH: FAST OF GEDALIA: all seven days of Sukkot! Sept. 14–15 Sept. 16 Chol Hamo’ed (lit. “Weekday of the Rosh Hashanah celebrates the sixth This fast day commemorates the Festival”): On the third through seventh day of creation. On this day, G-d gave tragic assassination of Gedalia—the days of Sukkot, the main observances breath to human beings, charging Adam Jewish governor installed in Judea after continue, but certain work is permitted with helping the world reach perfection. Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion of Israel and to prevent financial loss. (Denoted as Rosh Hashanah is thus a time to reflect the subsequent Babylonian exile. “CH”M”.) on the purpose of creation and resolve to make our lives more meaningful by YOM KIPPUR: contributing to all of creation. For more info, inspiration and Sept. 23 observances: The Shofar: On Rosh Hashanah we hear Yom Kippur is a 25-hour fast beginning at Chabad.org/Tishrei the sounding of the shofar, the ram’s sunset on September 22, and continuing Chabad.org/Sukkot horn. It is the oldest and most soulful of through nightfall the following night. WWW.MUCHNIKARTS.COM ◆ September 2015 Elul 5775/Tishrei 5776 Tishrei Molad: Sunday, 5:07pm + 9 chalakim We thanK ouR sPonsoRs SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY כ"א אלול כ' אלול י"ט אלול י"ח אלול י"ז אלול AUGUST OCTOBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 17 ELUL 18 ELUL 19 ELUL 20 ELUL 21 ELUL 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 Kabbalat shabbat services chai elul Ki Tavo 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 at sunset talmud study 9:30am Kabbalah study 9:30am 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 services 10:00am 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 30 31 LIGHT CANDLES AT: 7:09 PM SHABBAT ENDS: 8:04 PM כ"ח אלול כ"ז אלול כ"ו אלול כ"ה אלול כ"ד אלול כ"ג אלול כ"ב אלול 6 22 ELUL 7 23 ELUL 8 24 ELUL 9 25 ELUL 10 26 ELUL 11 27 ELUL 12 28 ELUL talmud study 9:30am Kabbalat shabbat services Labor day Nitzavim at sunset torah study 6:00pm Kabbalah study 9:30am services 10:00am Women’s circle Meeting 6:00pm LIGHT CANDLES AT: 6:59 PM SHABBAT ENDS: 7:54 PM ו' תשרי ה' תשרי ד' תשרי ג' תשרי ב' תשרי א' תשרי כ"ט אלול 13 29 ELUL 14 1 TISHREI 15 2 TISHREI 16 3 TISHREI 17 4 TISHREI 18 5 TISHREI 19 6 TISHREI The Erev Rosh Rosh Hashanah I Rosh Hashanah II Fast of Gedalia Kabbalat shabbat services Vayelech WOODCARE at sunset Hashanah services: 9:30am services: 10:00am talmud study 9:30am vov tishrei SPECIALIST services & dinner: 6:45pm shofar sounding: 12:00pm shofar sounding: 12:00pm Kabbalah study 9:30am shofar on the Plaza: 5:00pm services 10:00am happy birthday seth van dinter LIGHT CANDLES AT: 6:56 PM LIGHT CANDLES AFTER: 7:51 PM HOLIDAY ENDS: 7:49 PM FAST ENDS: 7:38 PM LIGHT CANDLES AT: 6:49 PM SHABBAT ENDS: 7:43 PM י"ג תשרי י"ב תשרי י"א תשרי י' תשרי ט' תשרי ח' תשרי ז' תשרי 20 7 TISHREI 21 8 TISHREI 22 9 TISHREI 23 10 TISHREI 24 11 TISHREI 25 12 TISHREI 26 13 TISHREI torah study 6:00pm Erev Yom Kippur Kabbalat shabbat services Ha’azinu Yom Kippur at sunset Yizkor Kabbalah study 9:30am services: 10:00am services 10:00am Touch-up Repair Polishing Kol Nidrei Services: 6:30pm happy birthday betty Leiter LIGHT CANDLES AT: 6:43 PM FAST ENDS: 7:37 PM LIGHT CANDLES AT: 6:39 PM SHABBAT ENDS: 7:33 PM CALL BARRY METZGER TODAY! י"ז תשרי ט"ז תשרי ט"ו תשרי י"ד תשרי 505.670.9019 1273B Calle De Comercio 14 TISHREI 15 TISHREI 16 TISHREI 17 TISHREI Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 27 28 29 30 Erev Sukkot Sukkot I Sukkot II Sukkot III www.thewoodcarespecialist.com sukkot services & sukkot services & Lulav blessing: 10:00am (CH”M) Sukkot Dinner & Services: Lulav blessing: 10:00am • חב“ד • 6:30pm K ee m p co LIGHT CANDLES AT: 6:36 PM LIGHT CANDLES AFTER: 7:30 PM HOLIDAY ENDS: 7:28 PM ch g. abadRunnin MAMME ROCHEL BY MICHOEL MUCHNIK SHEMINI ATZERET/Simchat TORAH: Oct. 5–6 On the evening of Simchat Torah (in some communities, on the eve of Shemini Atzeret as well) great celebrations take place in the synagogue, focusing on the Jew’s connection to the holy Torah. Children play a central role in the festivities, waving flags and riding on their parents’ shoulders. On Simchat Torah day, the yearly cycle of Torah reading is completed and the cycle begins anew. We express this joy by singing and dancing while embracing the Torah scrolls.
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