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Shabbos Parshas Behar - Bechukosai Shabbos Mevarchim Shabbos Chazak Iyar 23 -24 May 19 - 20

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Contents Nachas At A Glance

Weekly Message 3 The Shul’s Aleph Wondergirls. Learning Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar through crafts, games and fun. Celebrating Shabbos Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 4 - 5 need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience

Community Happenings 6 - 7 Sharing with your Shul Family

Kiddush Bank 8 The investment with a guarenteed return A Time to Pray Check out all the davening schedules and locations 9 throughout the week

Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 10-18 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE

Get The Picture 19-24 The full scoop on all the great events around town

Meyer Youth Center 25-26 The full scoop on all the Youth events around town

In a woman’s world 27 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman

French Connection 28 Refexions sur la Paracha

Latin Link 29 Refexion Semanal The Shul Hebrew School makes cheese cake The ABC’s of Aleph while learning about Shavuos Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 30

Networking Effective Advertising 31-32 Numbers To Know Contacts at The Shul 33 Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at 34 The Shul

Get The Picture 35-36 The full scoop on all the great events around town

Quotable Quote

Prayer is called by [thirteen] names: cry, howl, groan, stricture, song, prostration, encounter, judgment, entreaty, standing, appeal and beseeching

Midrash Rabbah on Deuteronomy 3:23; Sifri ibid. Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar

Shabbos Parshas Behar - Bechukosai the way of proper actions are called “movers”. It is that contradictory force Shabbos Mevarchim of negative tension that serves to thrust us forward much the same as the backward thrust of jet engines propel a plane forward or the drawing back he two portions Behar - of a rubber band pushes the projectile in the opposite direction. Only Bechukotai which are read in through exposure to limited, fnite, physical, material earthiness can one Ttandem this week, culminate achieve sublime heavenliness. the third book of the Torah. These two That is why our world is called a wedding party. Just as through marriage, concepts, Behar and Bechukotai, are representing love and physical contact do we release the power of eternal seemingly opposite, refecting two infnity represented by bearing children, so too do we achieve infnite, completely different perspectives in sublime holiness by our challenges in this coarse world. It is harnessing life. the physical world that captures these energies at the highest levels. Behar means mountain, representing The specifcally structured statutes of in-the-box behavior represented height, freedom, breaking out of by “Bechukotai” allow us to reach the “Behar” essential, beyond limits restrictions, and experiencing connection to Hashem. This is enormous gift of Divine contact with the heretofore inaccessible scenic “Infnite Light” that we achieve through our selfess commitment to vistas and ever widening horizons. Hashem’s Torah and Mitzvahs Bechukotai, which means statutes, represents limits, structures, in-the-box thinking, fniteness and regulations. The concept of a mountain conjures Have a good Shabbos and a great week. open space and attention to the more general encompassing aspects of life, whereas Bechukotai emphasizes attention to detail, specifcs, concentrated vision and contained spaces. Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar These portions come together at this critical time in preparation to the holiday of Shavuos and culminating the week of Lag B’Omer that emphasizes the integration and combined strength of both these perspectives in each of our lives. To Our Dear Community Members, There are different circumstances where it is necessary to operate in Baruch Hashem. We want to always maintain the Behar modality of general overarching perspectives and other times contact with you! when we need to function in the Bechukotai modality committing our attention and focused direction to the minutest details of Jewish law and When you celebrate one of life’s passages or living. Though this latter approach can be restrictive, it must be infused any joyful event, we would like to be aware by the Behar attitude which utilizes these details of seeming minuteness so we can wish you a mazel tov. When you to integrate into the heights, glory, beauty and crown of G-d Almighty Himself. confront an unsettling time of sadness, we wish to offer our help. The Shul organizes Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai states in the Zohar “this physical world from meals (for families with newborns and for which we move on is like a Hilula/wedding party”. The simple meaning of shiva homes), visits to hospital patients, and this statement is that this physical, material world is like a big celebration where we eat, drink, sleep, rejoice and have pleasure. The Alter Rebbe offers multi-faceted community activities. and his immediate successors translate this in a more classical way. “This physical, material world causes us to become movers”. It is the physicality We care about you and want to know what’s and limited perspective of our hedonistic environments that give us the going on in the lives of our Shul family opportunity to move to higher and more accomplished levels. members. Angels are referred to as “standing”. They cannot move or grow to higher Please share your news with us! levels since they face no challenges, nor experience any resistance to their given tasks and appointed missions. Humans however, who live in a Call Stacy at The Shul tension flled world often having to overcome many hurdles that stand in 305-868-1411 ext. 313 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience

The Lubavitcher Rebbe said, “Be scrupulous about saying the entire Weekly Riddle Tehillim (Psalms) on Shabbos Mevarchim (Blessing of the New Month). It is crucial for you, for your children, and your children’s children.” Every Shabbos Mevarchim in the Haime Library 8:30 - 9:00 am Sponsored by the Duchman Family Questions: 1) IMount Sinai is referenced in the frst verse of the parsha. By what two other names is Mount Sinai known? Which two other mountains in the Torah are known by more than one name?

Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's 2)In this parsha, what number appears four times in one verse? Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 3) In this parsha, which verse has six words in a row - all beginning with 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm the same Hebrew letter? Montessori Classrooom 2 Answers from last week: classrooom 2 1) A ritually impure person who purifes himself in a mikveh must wait for sunset to be considered completely pure (Leviticus 22:7). 2) A Kohen with a broken bone is disqualifed from serving in the Tabernacle (Leviticus 21:19). An animal with a broken bone cannot be brought as an offering (Leviticus 22:22). If someone breaks another Tehila's Basya's person’s bone, he must compensate the victim (Leviticus 24:20). Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 3) (1) A Kohen is allowed to become ritually impure upon the death of his seven close relatives (Leviticus 21:2-3 with Rashi). (2) This parsha 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm states the command to light the seven-branched menorah (Leviticus 24:4). Classrooom 4 RIDDLE RULES Answers to the riddles can be given to Sholom Loebenstein any time over Shabbos. The Mendy's first child to give a correct answer to each of Sholom's Hebrew School the questions will win an INSTANT prize! Junior Boys Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 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 Mr. & Mrs. Dani and Diana Shabbos Schedule Sragowicz in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter Ariela Perel. Early Shabbos Minyan: 6:15p.m. Sefras Haomer - Count 3 Farbrengen This Week: Candle lighting p.m. The Shabbos Mevarchim Farbrengen is sponsored in honor Mincha / Kabbalas Shabbos 5 p.m. of The Rebbe, the Leader of our generation, the Shluchim Hashkama Minyan recital of entire Tehillim 6:00 a.m. of the Rebbe and the supporters of the Shluchim. Shabbos Day Hashkama Minyan 15 a.m. Recital of the entire book of Tehillim 7:30 a.m. Shalosh Seudos This Week: Tanya / Hayom Yom 850 a.m. Shalosh Seudos this week is available for sponsorship. Shacharis (Morning Services) 00 a.m. Children’s Programs 1000 a.m. Upstairs Minyan 1030 a.m. Kiddush 1200 p.m. Farbrengen in honor of Shabbos Mevarchim 1:00 p.m. the caterer for this week’s kiddush Daf Yomi 0 p.m. and Shalosh seudos is Food Art Men’s Shiur 0 p.m. Womens Shiur 0 p.m. Shalosh Seudos for Boys 0 p.m. Mincha 3 p.m. kiddushim at The Shul Pirkei Avos Chapter 5 Please help us to provide our weekly Shabbos Kiddush and Shabbos Ends / Ma’ariv Havdalah 80 p.m. Shalosh Seudos by becoming a sponsor. Or join the Kiddush Bank Sefras Haomer - Count 0 by becoming a Partner ($770 annually ) or Patron ($360 anually) Weekly Video of The Rebbe The following dates are available for sponsorship: Sephardic Minyan Friday Evening Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat 20 p.m. Kiddush Shalosh Seudos June 10, 17 June 3, 10, 17, 24 Shabbat Day Shacharit 00 a.m. Mincha 15 p.m. If you wish to become a sponsor, please speak with Stacy at 305-868-1411 ext 313 or email [email protected] Shabbos Ends / Arvit Havdalah 80 p.m.

Lighting 7:47 p.m. Mincha 7:50 p.m.

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.

To pay your annual dues visit: www.miamibeacheruv.com 5 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

Birthdays Yahrtzeits 24 Iyar Ms. Selena Snow Cappell 24 Iyar Aidele bas Zvi Hersch obm 24 Iyar Ms. Morri Cohen Mother of Mrs. Violeta Chocron 24 Iyar Mr. Jonathan Egozi 25 Iyar Esther bas Izah obm 24 Iyar Ms. Renee M. Grossman Mother of Ms. Yaffa Raviv 24 Iyar Mr. Daniel Hilu 25 Iyar Moshe Aharon ben Chaim Ha Levi obm 24 Iyar Mrs. Bluma Malky Tevardovitz Grandfather of Mr. Berel Golomb 25 Iyar Ms. Rivkah Yerushalmy 26 Iyar Shmuel obm Father of Dr. Bernard Baumel 26 Iyar Mr. David De Vitton 26 Iyar Zeev ben Emanuel obm 26 Iyar Mr. Gustavo Galagovsky Father of Mr. David Shear 26 Iyar Mr. Stephen Sugar 27 Iyar Michael ben Zalman obm 27 Iyar Mr. Stephen Cohen Uncle of Mr. Michael Werner 27 Iyar Ms. Perel Tzirel Litchkowski 27 Iyar Yehuda Leib ben Shmuel obm 27 Iyar Ms. Rasha Roiza Litchkowski Father of Mr. Mordechai Turgel & Mr. Alan Turgel 27 Iyar Ms. Deborah Gilda Perl 28 Iyar Chaya Klara bas Binyamin Yosef obm 27 Iyar Mr. Saul Spitz Aunt of Mr. Harold Tripp 27 Iyar Mr. Sasha David Zuckerman 28 Iyar Miriam bas Joel HaCohen obm 28 Iyar Mrs. Sandy Goldfarb Mother of Mrs. Susan Packer 28 Iyar Mr. Nosson Levinsky 29 Iyar Aidel bas Asher Tabac obm 28 Iyar Mr. Neil Mark Schuster Sister of Mr. Leon Jakobs 29 Iyar Chana Necha bas Yaacov obm 28 Iyar Mr. David Eyal Woldenberg Mother of Mr. Brent Levison 29 Iyar Mr. Daniel Cohen 29 Iyar Chana Pessel bas Ashertabac obm 29 Iyar Ms. Mushka Schneider Sister of Mr. Leon Jakobs 29 Iyar Mrs. Chaya Schottenstein 29 Iyar Chaya Royza bas Asher Zelig obm 29 Iyar Ms. Michelle Sher Mother of Mr. Leon Jakobs 29 Iyar Mr. Yonatan Smulevich 29 Iyar Noach ben Velnel obm Father of Mrs. Susan Packer 29 Iyar Rivke bas Asher Tabac obm Kid’s Birthdays Sister of Mr. Leon Jakobs 25 Iyar Shmuel Drimmer 29 Iyar Shlomo Leib ben Asher Tabac obm 25 Iyar David Bentzion Salzhauer Brother of Mr. Leon Jakobs 29 Iyar Surah bas Asher Tabac obm 29 Iyar Noa Yacout Becker Sister of Mr. Leon Jakobs 29 Iyar Mika Halberstam 29 Iyar Yosseph ben Yaich obm 29 Iyar Samuel Jacob Moster Father of Mr. Raphael Ammar 29 Iyar Yosef Wasserman 1 Sivan Gamalo bas Miriam obm 1 Sivan Elijah Segal Mother of Dr. Menahem (Jimmy) Srur 1 Sivan Frieda bas Avrohom Simcha obm Mother of Mr. Barry Cohen Anniversaries 1 Sivan Raizel bas Aron Yehudah obm Dr. & Mrs. Bernard & Carolyn Baumel Grandmother of Mr. Abraham Gewirtz Mr. & Mrs. Daniel & Miriam Wiener Mr. & Mrs. Shaya & Tziporah Gheblikian Mr. & Dr. Hersh Yitzchok & Bracha Reich Rabbi & Mrs. Shaya & Deby Farkash Mr. & Mrs. Isaac & Miriam Basha Arber Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Dani and Diana Sragowicz on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter Ariela Perel. May they continue to raise her to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much nachas from her. Mazal Tov also to the grandparents, Dr. & Mrs. John and Raquel Sragowicz and Mr. & Mrs. Morris and Lillian Tabacinic.

6 Community Happenings Sharing with your Shul Family

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 05/09/17 and 05/15/17 the month of Iyar is Kindly Sponsored by We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. ALF HOLDINGS, INC. Rabbi & Mrs. Aaron Lipskar Mr. & Mrs. Yankie and Odelia Weiss Mr. Chaim Backman Medici Shoes, Inc. in honor of their children Neomi, Meyer and Eli Mr. & Mrs. Joel Baum Ms. Erica Mizrahi and in honor of Yankie’s Birthday Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Baumel Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Mondshine Mr. Barak Ben Shitrit Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ohayon “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to Mr. & Mrs. Baruk Benamran Mr. Mordechai Olesky pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. David Benichou Mr. Jeffrey Patow and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Mr. Lawrence Blenden Ms. Engel Ramirez occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed Mr. & Mrs. Udi Brosh Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rosengarten be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mr. Uri Bublil Mr. & Mrs. Uri Rotlewicz-Spiwak body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Chateau Ocean LLC Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Ms. Liv-Tiferet De Vitton Mr. & Mrs. David Schottenstein Mr. & Mrs. Shalom Edelkopf Mr. & Mrs. David Schwartz Mr. Tizion Stephan Elbaz Mr. & Mrs. Fred Shainbaum Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Eleff Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Sisisky Refuah Shleimah Mr. & Mrs. Gustavo Galagovsky Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Slomianski 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. Daniel Gielchinsky Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Sokol Mr. & Ms. Ighal Goldfarb The Samuel & Anna MEN WOMEN Alexander ben Esther Raizel Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Chava Mr. & Mrs. Moishe Hersman Rottenstein Foundation Chaim Moshe ben Clara Clara bat Corina Mr. & Mrs. Abel Holtz Mr. & Mrs. Teddy Toledano Raphael Moshe ben Sarah Shoshanna bat Rivkah Ms. Gail Jamal Mrs. Rivka Tyberg Moshe ben Zoila Leah Rochel bat Sarah Mr. & Mrs. George Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Adam Weinberg Moshe Avraham ben Tziporah Riva Miriam bat Risha Raizel Chaim ben Pnina Gabriel ben Esther Dana Ella bas Devorah Hinde Mr. & Mrs. David Krieger Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Weingarten Eber Avraham ben Fruma Esther Chana bas Shoshana Mr. & Mrs. Moshe Shlomo Lerman Mr. & Mrs. Yaakov Weitman Shmuel ben Sarah Perl Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Mr. & Mrs. Shmuel Levy Yosef ben Edwina Chava bas Elka Menucha Avrohom ben Feigel Chaya bas Rachel Mordechai David ben Esther Raizel Fayge bas Chaya Yedidya Chaim Raphael ben Elana Miriam Leah bas Helen Yehuda ben Chaya Sara Shimon Yitzchak ben Leah Rochel Learning with The Bochurim Roi ben Orly If you are interested in having your child Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel learn with one of our bochurim, or if you would like to arrange a lunch and learn in your office, Volunteers Needed Please contact Rabbi Shaykee Farkash After every Kiddush and event, The Shul donates the [email protected] left over food to organizations or families in need. We are looking for volunteers to help collect and wrap the food. Community Notice Board: If you have a new or slightly used Shaitel that you If you would like to help please contact the would like to donate to The Shul Sisterhood Mashgiach, Mordechai Olesky after the Kiddush. Please Contact Community service hours will be awarded. Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 7 Kiddush Bank The Investment with a Guaranteed Return

Kiddush Bank 5777 Our very special thanks to the following Partners & Patrons whose contributions will help us to cover some of the costs of the un-sponsored Kiddushim and Farbrengens in the coming year. Partners - annual contribution of $770: Patrons - annual contribution of $360:

Mr. Arnold Lewis Cohen Mr. Bernard Werner Mr. & Mrs. Boruch and Yonit Duchman Mr. & Mrs. Nelson and Rochelle Berman Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Mr. Mordechai Olesky Mr. & Mrs. Edward and Pauline Kopelman Dr. & Mrs. Gene and Sandra Moteles Mr. & Mrs. Temuri and Maya Nanikashvili Rabbi & Mrs. Ezzy and Malka Rappaport Ms. Engel Ramirez

PLEASE BECOME A MEMBER OF OUR KIDDUSH BANK AND HELP MAKE SHABBOS AND YOM TOV BEAUTIFUL FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

Become a member of our 5777 Kiddush Bank Please call the shul!

The Shortfall for 5776 was over $13,500

8 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 7:55 pm 10:00 pm Main Minyan 7:55 pm Following Sephardic Minyan 7:55 pm 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 24 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 5:09 am Jonathan ben Aliza Sher Earliest Talit & Tefllin 5:45 am Michael Shmuel ben Eliezer Eliyahu Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:31 am Amir Herzel ben Dvora Dorry (Earliest Amidah) Eitan Gabriel Ben Karine Cecile Latest Shema 9:52 am Zman Tfllah 11:00 am Chatzot / Midday 1:17 pm Earliest Mincha 1:52 pm Plag HaMincha 6:43 pm Shekiah / Sunset 8:04 pm (preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 8:30 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. 9 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 23 Wednesday - Iyar 28 The beginning of one’s decline, G-d save us, In one of the nocturnal visions in which the is the lack of avoda in davening. Everything Tzemach Tzedek saw the Alter Rebbe (his becomes dry and cold. Even a mitzva performed grandfather), during the Thirty Days of Mourning by habit becomes burdensome. Everything for the Alter Rebbe, the latter recited for him the is rushed. One loses the sense of pleasure in maamar, Al shlosha dvarim. After the maamar Torah-study. The atmosphere itself becomes the Alter Rebbe said, “If the man emits seed frst, crass. Needless to say, one is totally incapable of she bears a female” - that is your mother; “if the infuencing others. woman emits seed frst, she bears a male” - that is you. Shabbos - Iyar 24 “If you go in My statutes.” Our Sages interpret Thursday - Iyar 29 the word “if” as a plea, in the sense of “if only The ascent of the soul occurs three times daily, you would go in My statutes.” G-d’s pleading (as during the three times of davening. This is it were) with Israel to keep the Torah, in itself particularly true of the souls of tzadikim who aids man and gives him the ability to remain “go from strength to strength.” It is certain that steadfast in his choice of the good. Moreover, “... at all times and in every sacred place they may you go in My statutes” - the soul then becomes a be, they offer invocation and prayer on behalf mehaleich, it progresses. of those who are bound to them and to their instructions, and who observe their instructions. * * * They offer prayer in particular for their disciples and disciples’ disciples, that G-d be their aid, With the advent of Mashiach, there will be Monday - Iyar 26 materially and spiritually. revealed the superior quality of the traits of The command “You shall rebuke” is preceded by simplicity and wholeheartedness found in the the words “You shall not hate your brother,” for Friday - Sivan 1 avoda of simple folk who daven and recite this is a precondition for the rebuke. The Torah “Throw a stick into the air; it will fall back on Tehillim with simple sincerity. continues, “...and you shall not ascribe sin to ikrei, its root-side.” Our fathers, the holy Rebbes, him,” for if the rebuke was ineffectual, you are bequeathed a boundless heritage to the frst Sunday - Iyar 25 certainly the one responsible, for yours were not chassidim, that their sons’ children and their Among the Alter Rebbe’s maamarim of 5555 words coming from the heart. daughters’ children throughout the generations, (1795) in Lyozna: “The reward of a mitzva is the in whatever country and environment they may mitzva.” The mitzva in its ultimate essence - state Tuesday - Iyar 27 be, will have that “root” - which is the attraction is the reward. The revelation of this essence My father related that he heard from his father of their “inwardness of heart” to the rock from will take place in the Time to Come. This is the quoting his father (the Tzemach Tzedek), who which they were hewn. At times this element “enduring principal of the mitzva.” However, man heard the Alter Rebbe refer to himself as the son is covered and concealed in a number of garbs. also “eats of its fruits in This World,” each mitzva of the Maggid (his Rebbe), and as the grandson This, then, is the avoda of whoever desires according to its particular nature; i.e. when man of the Baal Shem Tov. life - to remove these coverings, to establish has that particular need, he is answered. for himself periods for the study of Chassidus, and to conduct himself in the manner of the Chassidic community.

10 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

PARSHAH MESSAGES Foreclosure On Your Soul the Jubilee year (unless the buyer chose to sell the frst Jewish tribes were exiled from their Selling Your Integrity, Your Love and the home back to the original seller.) How about homeland, some 2600 years ago, the Jubilee year if a Jew sold an ancestral home located in an un- laws and plot-sale laws were no longer applicable. Your Soul walled city? Here the law constitutes the “best of Yet each mitzvah and law in the Torah consists of By: Rabbi YY Jacobson both worlds” of the two former cases. The home a psychological and spiritual dimension, as well The Mortgage could be redeemed immediately after the sale, as a physical and real-life dimension. It is this My buyer told me that he lived in the same just like a home in a walled city. And even if it was dimension that is still very relevant today. What house for 10 years. When I checked, I found out not redeemed during the frst year of the sale, it is the metaphysical meaning behind these laws? he’d still be there today if the Governor hadn’t could still be redeemed afterwards, till the arrival “ of the Jubilee year when it returned to its original Selling Your Career, Home and Soul pardoned him.” “The sellers told me their house owner, just like the law regarding the feld. Fields, homes located in un-walled cities, and was near the water. It was in the basement.” “If homes located in walled cities, symbolize three you think no one cares you’re alive, miss a couple Income vs. Dignity aspects of our daily lives: Fields represent of house payments.” “There is no longer a need What is the logic behind the three different laws a person’s career and his or her day-to-day for the neutron bomb. We already have something concerning the sale of 1) felds, 2) homes in interactions and purchases in the outside world, that destroys people and leaves buildings intact. walled cities, and 3) homes in un-walled cities? in the “feld.” Homes, situated in un-walled cities, It’s called a mortgage.” One of the great biblical commentators, the 13th represent a person’s internal home and family Owner to a house hunter: “Yes, the kitchen is a bit century Spanish sage, Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, life, which are not exposed for all to observe. small, but with a mortgage like this you won’t do known as Nachmanides, explains the rationale in Homes located in walled cities, surrounded by much cooking anyway.” a rather moving way. Selling your personal home an additional wall of protection, are symbolic due to impoverishment affects not your income of the most vulnerable and intimate space of a Fields and Homes (a home does not produce regular profts), but person’s life, usually guarded by an additional The Torah portion of Behar discusses the laws your dignity. Selling your feld due to poverty, on fortress of privacy. This represents a person’s concerning sale of land in the Holy Land. After the other hand, might affect your income (a feld inner relationship with his core-self, his soul. His the Jewish people entered the land of Israel produces regular profts) but not your personal G-d, his or her moments of prayer, meditation in 1273 BCE (the year 2488 since creation in honor. To preserve the dignity of an impoverished and transcendence. Here, the Torah gives us a the Jewish calendar), Joshua, the Jewish leader, individual who was forced to give up his home, blueprint of what transpires when we “sell” and assigned a plot of land to every tribe and family, the Torah allows him to redeem it immediately dispose of our careers, homes, and selves. as recorded in the book of Joshua. If a Jew fell after the sale, throughout the entire frst year, upon hard times and was compelled to sell his as soon as he comes up with the money. After Goodbye Integrity ancestral feld, the Torah -- the constitution of the year is up, however, he certainly relocated When you sell your feld, i.e. when you allow your Judaism -- gave him the right to redeem it two to another home; now the buyer is entitled to career and your daily external encounters to years after the purchase date. The seller would hold on to his purchase as long as he wishes. It become tarnished by dishonesty and selfshness return the money to the buyer and receive cannot be redeemed any longer. Concerning a -- you can get away without noticing your moral his feld in return. If he did not redeem it, the feld however, which affects a person’s income degeneration for a full two years. Only after feld would return to him automatically with rather than his dignity, short-term redemption two years of moral and spiritual decay will you the arrival of the Jubilee year. What was the was unnecessary. The Torah’s only concern was begin to sense the void in your life. The depravity Jubilee year? After the Jewish people completed that the feld be returned to its original owner caused by the “selling” of your integrity will begin the settling of the land of Israel 14 years after upon the arrival of the Jubilee year, in order not to haunt you. Then, when you have become aware entering it, they began counting their years in to deprive a person and his family of their natural and frustrated, you can liberate your feld and your cycles of ffty. Every 50th year was observed as a source of income. Homes in open cities, says life. Even if you don’t, time and life’s experiences Jubilee year during which ancestral plots of land Nachmanides, were often used for farmers and are likely to do the job. In the 50th year, you will that had been sold during the previous 49 years, guardians of felds. Thus, they were treated like get back your feld. But why wait so long? reverted to their original owner. Almost no sale or the felds themselves and needed to be restored gift in Israel was legal for longer than 49 years. to their owner by the Jubilee year. Yet since their Goodbye Love This was the law concerning the sale of a feld. sale (just as the sale of full-fedged homes in Then comes the far more serious situation where What happened if a poor Jew was forced to sell walled cities) was embarrassing for the seller, you “sell” your home, i.e. you lose touch with your an ancestral home located within a walled city they too could be redeemed immediately after loved ones, your wife, your children and your in Israel? Here the law changed dramatically. This the sale, even before the passing of two years. closest friends. In your smugness you enter into home, the Torah states, could be redeemed only your private bubble and you alienate the people until the frst anniversary of the sale. Thereafter, it The Psychological Dimension closest to you. You give up your home. All of these laws applied only when the entire remained the property of the buyer in perpetuity, “What is Home?” asked Ernestine Schumann- Jewish nation was living in Israel, each tribe and did not return to the seller with the arrival of Heink. Her answer: dwelling on the land designated to it. When 11 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

A roof to keep out the rain. Four walls to keep Punishments or Gifts? to shoot down the punishment. I constantly out the wind. Floors to keep out the cold. Yes, For years I perceived G-d as an feared something terrible happening if I let but home is more than that. It is the laugh of down my guard. I could not rely on anything a baby, the song of a mother, the strength of a onlooker on my life because it could be taken away as a reprimand father. Warmth of living hearts, light from happy By Gittle Gesina or a reminder not to be too cocky. Not only that, eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship. Home is frst but G-d could infict pain on me at His whim. school for young ones, where they learn what is right, what is good and what is kind. Where they On the outside, intellectually, I accepted go for comfort when they are hurt or sick. Where the Jewish view of G-d as benevolent, joy is shared and sorrow eased. Where fathers compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and and mothers are respected and loved. Where abounding in kindness and truth. On the inside, children are wanted. Where the simplest food subconsciously, my old view persisted. is good enough for kings because it is earned. During one of my journaling excursions, I Where money is not so important as loving- attempted to uncover the reasons for my fear kindness. Where even the teakettle sings from of punishment and my shame for thinking happiness. That is home. G-d bless it. And when that I deserved it. I realized that I was under you dispose of your home, you will sense the the heavy infuence of pagan ideology, which emptiness immediately. Your life will just become was further reinforced by the autocratic adult far more shallow and artifcial. Since the pain will rule during my upbringing. Going against the be felt immediately, you are indeed capable of established practices was wrong, and pain liberating your home right after the “sale.” Here and suffering were self-inficted by my own again, even if you don’t possess the courage to disobedience and willfulness. Comfort was change, time and life’s journey usually will change possible only if I dutifully complied with the you. But why wait? Who knows what can transpire o, we answer the soul’s call. We learn about expectations of me. till then? Will you still have the chance to repair our roots, about the heritage bequeathed broken relationships? to us by our ancestors, and we make the To my surprise and relief, I was fnally able S to reconcile this subconscious indoctrination transition to the religious way of life. We begin Goodbye G-d to observe Shabbat, keep kosher, adhere to the from childhood with my struggles as an adult. Then comes the third and most serious condition modest style of dress and participate in the When people refer to negative occurrences -- when you “sell” your most intimate space, when numerous practices of the holidays. you become alienated from your deepest sense of in life as punishments, they operate along self, from your inner relationship with G-d. In such Yet something is amiss. The baggage of the materialistic guidelines. According to this view, an event, you can sense the extraordinary void past doesn’t seem to allow us to fully embrace the “bad” thing is anything which stands in the immediately and thus liberate your soul right the new life. Fears, anxieties and worries do not way of a person’s experiencing the pleasures away. But if you wait for more than a year, you will leave us so readily, even though we seem to be and comforts of life. Losing a job means that likely lose the chance to ever liberate your inner doing all the right things. Without attempting there will be less money to get things one identity again. When you allow the external to make this essay dramatic, I would like to wants to have, to do the things one wants to pressures or enjoyments of life to rob you of your share my insight, which has shed more light on do. An illness spells pain. There is frustration core self, when you no longer dedicate twenty and deepened my relationship with my Creator. with not being able to enjoy sports, or even to minutes a day to speak your heart out to your do simple chores at one’s will. There seems to Creator, when you have no time for the essence I started to believe in G-d in my adolescence. be no answer as to why bad things happen— of it all, you will soon lose touch with the notion My adherence to Jewish practices steadily natural calamities, wars, death. One draws the that you ever had any innocence to lose. You increased from age 16, and at 20, I undertook conclusion that it must be that G-d is a cruel may no longer know that there was anything to complete observance. I started to fulfll the G-d, quick to punishment. This view flls one liberate. It is painful to lose things (“felds”) in commandments to the best of my knowledge with anxiety and dread of the future. If it is life. It is far more painful to lose people (“homes”) and abilities. All seemed appropriate on the good now, it means that it will get bad at some in life. But the worst pain of all is when we lose outside. What was on the inside? What about point. our connection with the quintessence of life and my personal, intimate relationship with G-d? The spiritual approach offers another reality, with G-d. We simply can’t afford to lose I read numerous accounts on how one is explanation to life’s seemingly painful events. our souls. None of us can afford to sacrifce our to experience G-d’s love and care, and I The underlying principle of creation is that G-d few intimate moments of prayer and communion understood intellectually that He is always made this world for the purpose of serving Him with G-d because of other responsibilities or with us. The subconscious message, however, with complete devotion and self-abandonment, pleasures. For without this relationship, we might was different. I perceived G-d as an onlooker making this material existence into a dwelling one day look in the mirror and observe a living to my life. He was dispassionately watching place for Him. He is the Creator, and He causes body encasing a dead soul. from above as I struggled through the daily everything to run according to His will. With challenges, waiting for me to slip in order every thing that happens to us, whether good 12 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE! or bad, we can learn how to serve Him a little you pay at the end of the year the charge will be better, how to draw down His presence a little Halacha of The Week $12 without violating the laws of interest. For By Rabbi Dov Schochet closer. The challenges set in front of us are the obligation to pay is only at the conclusion of never greater than we what can handle. G-d is Laws of Interest the rental period, therefore Halacha views the not only behind us, encouraging and cheering landlord as being a creditor to the renter. Like as we muster the strength to keep going, but n this week’s portion we have one of the any creditor it is acceptable for him to sell his He is beside us, breathing energy into us, and many times the Torah warns against charging debt for less than the full value, taking less than carrying us in His arms when we are unable to Iinterest. Rashi points out that the Torah says the “full price” for early payment. walk by ourselves. He is not out to break us, but “And you shall fear G-d” specifcally in regards to to make us. this commandment. The Torah recognizes the However, if it was already agreed upon that the diffculty in abstaining from interest. It is easy to price would be $10 and then the landlord says Losing a job, becoming ill or any other calamity justify receiving a beneft for allowing another to if you want to pay at the end of the year it will one can think of are not punishments. At frst, use my money and the opportunity cost involved. be $12, it’s forbidden. Once the original amount is they cause us to reach deeper and deeper Understanding the nature of man the Torah agreed upon, to take more for a delayed payment into our own resources, until we realize that warns us to stay away from charging another Jew is the classic defnition of charging interest for we can’t do it without Him. From that, the interest. The opening of these laws in Shulchan allowing another to hold on to one’s money. realization that nothing is possible without Aruch begins similarly with “We must be very, very Him begins to infltrate our minds and hearts, careful in regards to interest.” If a seller tells a buyer if you would like to changing our frame of reference on the world pay later it is fne if you pay a little more, it is from self-centered to G-d-centered, exactly as One of the complex areas of interest is different considered Biblical interest and is forbidden. He wants it to be. I cannot perceive a source of pricing for early or late payment. While it seems Even if before the sale was fnalized the seller greater comfort and security. straightforward to offer a discount for prepayment offered one price for immediate payment and it can easily be construed as interest. We might In the course of my religious journey, I heard a higher one for delayed payment, it would look at the prepayment as a loan from the buyer be Rabbinically forbidden. This is even if the these explanations, read them, even spoke to the seller and the reduction in price for the about them myself, but they never became a current market price is equal to the price for future purchase the interest the seller is paying. the delayed payment. The difference between a reality for me until I put them against my old, Halacha deals extensively with these questions. deeply rooted beliefs, which were the cause rental in which this is allowed and a sale where If a person hires a laborer and prepays thus it is forbidden is when the money is due. In the of all the fear, anxiety and shame. Now, the receiving a better rate it is forbidden as interest. process of shaking off the distorted childhood case of a sale the obligation to pay is immediate, The logic being that in Halacha a laborer always therefore whatever the agreed upon amount is views and turning around to face mature has the right to back out of a job, therefore until reality is just beginning to take place. This for immediate payment is considered to be the the job actually begins the money is viewed sale price. If the buyer pays more for delayed slow and gentle process—as it infuses my as a loan. The discount given by the laborer is soul with insights, inspiration, gratitude and payment it is viewed as if he is paying for the viewed as interest the laborer is paying for that “loan” he received from the seller. humbleness—enables me to proclaim that loan. However, were the person to pay on the everything will only get better from now on. day that the job began, even if the obligation to There is a similar problem for a buyer to prepay pay the worker is at the conclusion of the job, it for an object at a lower than market rate. This would be fne. Even though the laborer is giving would be like the seller is paying interest for If you walk in My statutes a better price for receiving early payment it is not the “loan” he received from the buyer. However, considered interest. Interest is only the added (Lev. 26:3) if the seller actually has the object at the time payment for opportunity cost or holding on to he received the funds it is permitted. for in that someone’s money, not the reduction given for case the sages viewed the sale as being fnalized The Baal Shem Tov taught that early payment of a loan. A creditor is certainly at the time the money was transferred, thus the a person must never become allowed to accept less than the full amount of money is not viewed as a loan rather as payment a loan to get paid immediately. In this case as for a product. settled in his habits and fxed in well, as soon as the job begins the laborer is his ways, for G-d’s laws are meant considered a creditor. His taking less money is The prohibition against charging interest relates like any other creditor who allows the debtor to the general obligation we have to support to be “walked in.” The service of some relief for early payment. another Jew. The sages compare interest to a G-d should never be static, but snakebite which at frst seems minor and grows When one is renting real estate or any other to the point where it can destroy the person. As should lead us to higher and object from which the parties cannot renege the interest compounds, the borrower can be higher levels of sanctity. once the Kinyan (act of acquisiton) was made, it overwhelmed and have their economic future is acceptable to give a better price for an early destroyed. The Torah’s emphasis on this teaches payment. One would even be allowed to say if us the sensitivity we must have to help another (Keter Shem Tov) you pay upfront the charge will be $10 and if Jew in their time of need. 13 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

The brain, on the other hand, is at all times bound deeply with others. Sometimes you facilitate a Sefras Haomer up with every cell in the body. That’s not just connection by being like the metal underpinning because of the way the nervous system works, going deep down into the ground. At others, Transformation Through Intimacy but rather as a result of the fact that the brain you’re like the earth itself, making space for Sefrat HaOmer, Part VI actually contains the body within it. The left heel, another. Either way, you’re activating your soul’s By Shimona Tzukernik the right eye, the liver, spleen and so on exist ability to connect. within the brain itself. tereotypically, Each of us is born with the faculty of Bonding men are often That’s why people can feel a limb that’s been intact. Each of us then is driven by a need for Sdescribed as amputated. The source of that very limb within connection. We deeply want to engage with physical beings the brain becomes stimulated by some other others, allow them to become part of our lives, detached from heart adjacent brain activity, and the individual is left and enter into their world in a boundaried way and soul. Maybe that’s with the physical sensation of having felt the that enriches us all. born of the fact that limb. In reality, he’s feeling the limb-within-the- while they certainly brain. Similarly, deep stimulation of the brain with Bonding in and of itself is a powerful drive. have intense feelings electrodes can elicit memory, joy and laughter, or However, of all the relationships we pursue, and emotions, when can slow down speech, for example. In a sense, probably the most powerful drive for connection it comes to intimacy, the totality of who we are—our hearts, memories, is manifest in male-female relationships and men seem to be able to separate their bodily mouths, feet, et cetera—is located within the human sexuality. Its power leaves other longings desires from their minds and hearts. And yet, brain. in the dust. What drives the desire for fnding a contrary to popular belief, men have an intense mate and physical connection? And how does connection between body, brain and spirit. So No other organ in the body is like that. Except for that connect back to our discussion about the intense, actually, that they cannot be separated. semen, that is. As the nucleus for procreation, it is physical makeup of the human being as refecting encoded with all the bytes of info that allow for something of our spiritual quest and purpose? To understand how this is so, we need to explore it to manifest as any part of the body, from bone the two polarities of the body, head and sacrum, marrow to lashy brows. One theory of what drives us to fnd a partner specifcally examining what the brain and seminal and enter a love relationship is that the need for fuid have in common. So, the top and bottom of the body are intimately marriage, love and romance is all a façade. It goes connected. The brain atop the spine is the center something like this: Procreation lies at the heart They’re not unique in that they have a connection. of consciousness, of our ability to know G-d, and is of the survival of a species. That makes it a really All organs of the body contain aspects of each the seat of our spirituality. The base of the spine powerful drive. other. That’s where the art of healing known is the seat of the reproductive organs and human as iridology comes from. The same applies to sexuality. Now, whereas we might think that just As humans became more sophisticated, they phrenology, bloodletting, refexology and the like. as they are two opposite ends of the body so too felt a little awkward being compelled by such The body is like a hologram, in that each part are they diametrically opposed, we’d be wrong. strong urges. And so they invented romance, contains aspects of the other. Whichever angle They’re not. The base of the spine is called the state the theoreticians! Humans came up with you come at it from, you see the whole. sacrum—from the word sacred. It is a reservoir of all the emotional connotations of “being in a spirituality. And conversely, the most fundamental relationship”—the fowers and dinners, walks in The brain is unique, though, with regard to its organ in the body is the brain, because if you’re the park and gazing lovingly into one another’s manner of connection to the body. Contrast it with shut down there, the rest of you will shut down eyes, to maintain a sense of dignity in the face of the heart, for example. too. That’s why our sages say that a child is their desire. Saying “My passion is an outgrowth of my love” feels more comfortable to our The frst difference is that the heart has an on- conceived from the brain. Sacrum and brain form one continuum. sophisticated notions of who we think we are. off mode in the way it links to the body. The Much better than say, “My love is a byproduct of pulse starts and stops. One moment the heart What can we learn about how to live life from lust!” reaches out, engaging with the body, and the all this? How is our spiritual identity and life’s next it withdraws. The brain, on the other hand, mission refected in our physiology? What can we The sages would beg to differ. The compelling is continuously linked to the body through the learn about the inner workings of sexuality from desire to fnd a partner, marry, love and be loved, nervous system. Here there is no stop-start the way we’re made? bear children and build a life together, they dynamic, only continuous infuence. say, is rooted in the yearning to rediscover our The sixth of the emotional powers of the soul original divine image. They explain that Adam A second difference between them has to do with is called yesod in Hebrew. Literally it means and Eve were, in the primordial garden, one not just blood or neuro-impulses, but with the “foundation,” and is often translated as “bonding.” being with two faces back to back. They were organs themselves. Blood from the heart does It’s your ability to connect with others and the then split into two. The split created a spiritual move through every organ and cell. But then it world. Just as the foundation of a building is an and psychic longing for wholeness. Ever since, moves on. In other words, it’s not the heart itself extension of the edifce plunging deep into the male and female seek each other out physically, that is bound with the body. Furthermore, even earth and enabling the building to stand, so too emotionally and spiritually, in an attempt to re- the blood that makes the link keeps on moving. your faculty of bonding enables you to connect attain their original unity. 14 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

and passionate too, but the passion and pleasure home. What happens during the day will affect Once we come together, though, it is of an even are even more gratifying because they ft within the way husband and wife connect at night. And higher order than the singular person with two the broader, deeper dimension of soul. The latter the way they bond at night will have a bearing faces that was the original Adam and Eve. Genesis kind of love bears testimony to why we’re here at on what’s going on, or more importantly, how it’s gives us a hint as to the profound outcome of all. It speaks of our yearning for bonding, intimacy, going on, the next day. When there is merely a marriage in the verse, “Therefore a man must and a revelation of the true nature of things. sexual act, and the other’s soul and heart are not leave his father and mother, and cleave to his met, the morning after will refect that. Where wife. They shall become one fesh.” One opinion as When two people are truly intimate, the rest of there is true intimacy, real bonding will happen to the meaning of the verse is that the “one fesh” their relationship refects that. And vice versa. by day. And when that kind of holy, healthy refers to the child who derives from both parents. If the act is just physical, focused on bodily interaction is routine by day, intimacy is possible gratifcation, the pleasure is short-lived. It by night. A more mystical interpretation states that the doesn’t penetrate where we want to be touched. “one fesh” is the couple united at the time of Furthermore, if there is alienation of spirit at Counterintuitively, intimacy is not merely intimacy. It is precisely at that moment that we get night, it will be present in the morning. Conversely, “tolerated” in Jewish thought. Quite the contrary, to see what a human being looks like. Anything a deep and loving connection feeds the soul. It it’s mandated and encouraged. That’s because else—a man or woman talking over coffee at the also resonates throughout the following day, intimacy according to Torah is never an end in breakfast table, say—is merely half a person. generating a different and deep intimacy with it. itself. It must always be part of a larger whole. That bigger picture is about people becoming Marital intimacy, then, brings us together in a This idea that what happens in the bedroom is whole. It’s about G-d’s unity becoming manifest. manner that is even deeper than the primordial refected in the remainder of our daily life is to be Our sexuality is bound up with the deepest Adam and Eve. No longer one being with two found in the teachings of our sages. underpinnings of existence. It’s connected with heads back to back, nor two lonely people, The most intimate space in the Temple was our yearning for G-d, and with G-d’s desire for at the moment of marital union we are two unity. distinct beings come together as one. This is the Holy of Holies. It housed an ark that in turn how Genesis takes the theorists to task. It lays housed the tablets given to Moses on Mount We see this refected in our physiological makeup. out the underpinnings of romance, marriage and Sinai. Atop the ark were golden cherubs in the Although brain and sacrum seem so far apart, love, beckoning us to embrace the spiritual and shape of two angels with large wings. One was spirituality and sexuality are deeply intertwined. psychic implications of intimacy. male, the other female. I think that’s why there’s so much sexual abuse in cults. There, spirituality is present, but it’s not holy. Our sages teach us that our desire to attain The relationship between these two cherubs precisely refected what was happening between It’s out of control. That affects everything, and the wholeness with a partner is part of a much larger sexual abuse follows as a natural consequence. It desire to become one with our Creator and to re- G-d and the Jewish people at any given moment. When things were good between us, they faced also explains why the ill of pornography abounds. attain our original divine image. That’s why it’s Today, people are out of touch with healthy so strong. Forget the creation of “relationship” each other, reaching out to one another in a winged embrace. If things weren’t so hunky- spirituality. It’s not like a cult situation, where as a means to uphold our dignity in the face of the soul dimension of life is misdirected and uncontrollable urges! This yearning, we’re taught, dory, then the two would be back to back. What we see is that whatever was happening on the impure; rather, here’s a situation where there’s lies at the heart of existence. We’re here to bring no attention to soul at all! The consequence is male and female back together again—at every Temple Mount, in the back streets of Jerusalem, in a feld in Jericho, a courtroom in Akko, a Jew’s a cutting off of the natural healthy fow between level of creation, from one man and one woman soul and sex, brain and sacrum. to our connection between us and our Creator, heart or anywhere in between, was refected in which is also seen as a masculine and feminine the innermost sanctum of the Temple. If a Jew The fact that both the brain and semen contain dynamic. lied under oath, another cheated on her friend, every organ in the body, and the fact that they a husband and wife argued over dinner, a teen are the only two aspects of the body to do so, With this in mind, we can understand why people felt hurt and misunderstood—whatever the bears testimony to the profound connection are so lonely in love. We can grasp why the world circumstance of back-to-back relating was—then between our highest and lowest dimensions. We is so out of balance when it comes to sexuality. our connection with G-d was compromised. In serve G-d with all of who we are. Both our brains What we’re all really looking for is intimacy. We turn, the angels over the ark turned away from (our consciousness and Torah learning) and our want bonding in the deepest way, and a discovery each other. intimate lives (our passion and bonding) must of our truest self through unity with another. What Conversely, when there was love and connection, bring out into the world the awareness that G-d is we’re giving and getting are physical hookups, the only True Existence. Everything we are and are slick motions, quick fxes, but nothing close to the bonding and intimacy, the angels turned to each other in face-to-face embrace. Loving intimacy, about is encapsulated in those two arenas of our psychological and spiritual underpinnings of our lives. Just as they contain within themselves the desires. acts of charity, doing a favor to another—all these generated unity amongst individuals, within rest of the body, so too do the mind and sacrum Contemporary culture is hooked on sexuality, but groups, and ultimately between us and G-d. encapsulate the whys and whats and hows of the knows almost nothing of intimacy. The former has rest of our lives. They point out that our purpose to do with the body, the act alone. The latter is To come back to our topic at hand, this same is to rise above the limits of creation and reveal personal, and also spiritual. Of course it’s physical dynamic is refected in our personal temple, the the oneness of G-d in all the world. 15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

gone but a short distance, the team of horses Stories With Soul refused to budge. The driver went off to get help and we tried to shake off the cold by It Once Happened immersing ourselves in learning. he great Rabbi Moshe Sofer (the Chasam “Finally the driver returned and readied the Sofer) was sitting with his students one team to continue the journey. Suddenly, my Tday when they were interrupted by the Rebbe leaped out of the carriage and began Parness (the head) of the Jewish community. He dancing in the snow. I was shocked and couldn’t hadn’t want to disturb the rabbi when he was understand his actions. busy with his students, but when the Chasam Sofer noticed the man’s distraught face, he “ ‘Don’t you see, Moshe, the driver has harnessed excused himself and called the Parness into an a team of oxen together with horses!’ adjoining room. “I explained to the driver that we were “What has happened?” the rabbi inquired. forbidden to be drawn by a team composed of mixed species (“kilayim,” is forbidden, since the The man answered with a sigh. “I am in deep animals have differing strengths and it causes trouble. I have lost my entire fortune. There’s them hardship). I offered him extra money if he no hope, for I am in such deep debt, and I’ve The next day he bought large quantities of would exchange the oxen for horses. signed promissory notes for others as well. I’m merchandise. The pattern repeated itself every on the brink of utter ruin. Tomorrow, when it day of the fair, and by the end, he had not only “When he had gone, I asked my teacher to becomes known that I didn’t go to the fair at recouped all his losses, but had become even enlighten me as to his strange behavior. He Leipzig, my creditors will come running, and richer than before. It occurred to the Parness answered, ‘My dear Moshe, when in Frankfurt that will be my end.” to buy something special for the Chasam Sofer. do I get to do the rare commandment of The rabbi was knowledgeable in jewels, so he kilayim? Now, that it comes my way, once in my “How much money do you need to go to the purchased a valuable gem to present to him. life, should I not rejoice?’ fair?” the Chasam Sofer asked. Back home, he went at once to visit the rabbi and tell him the good news. “Your blessings “That is why, when I got the chance to do “Oh, Rabbi, the amount I usually bring is not were fulflled beyond my dreams. In addition the mitzva (commandment) of “ribbit” (not worth talking about. At this point, I would be to repaying you, it would be an honor if you accepting interest from a fellow Jew), I rejoiced. grateful for travelling money and a bit of cash.” would accept this gift.” Who comes to a rabbi to request a free loan? The Parness mentioned an amount. When that mitzva came my way, I couldn’t The rabbi eagerly took the box and opened conceal my joy and excitement!” “That’s no problem. I think I have just that it, revealing the gem. “It’s beautiful, and very amount here.” The Chasam Sofer went to a valuable as well,” he said turning the gem this certain drawer in his desk and withdrew the way and that, all the while smiling in delight. cash. “Behar” - literally, “on the mountain” Then he handed it back to the Parness. - is symbolic of growth, increase and “Rabbi, I can’t take the money from you. I came “But, Rabbi, it’s yours.” to you for advice, not a loan. If I take your ascending upward. “Bechukotai” - money, how can I guarantee that I will be able “No. You see, if you had given it to me at any literally, “in My statutes” - comes to repay you?” other time, perhaps I would have accepted it, from the word meaning “engraving” for it would support my yeshiva for some time. or “carving,” symbolic of permanence The Chasam Sofer smiled. “Don’t worry, with But since I gave you the loan, I cannot accept G-d’s help, you will repay me. May you have and regularity, things not subject even something which has ‘the dust of interest’ much success.” to change. The fact that these two on it.” Torah portions are read together Deeply grateful and with new hope, the Parness The Parness left, and some students who had teaches us the necessity of combining took the money and left. He caught the early observed the scene came to their rabbi with a train to Leipzig, and upon leaving the train both these attributes: We must question: “If you had no intention of accepting met a friend who was a big wholesaler and never become complacent about the gift, why did you receive it with so much importer. He offered the Parness a shipment of our religious observance and must happiness and pay it so much attention?” coffee. The price was right, so the Parness gave always strive upward; at the same a deposit and concluded the deal. Before the “I will tell you a story which will answer your time, our spiritual growth must be day ended, news reached the fair that the crop question. Once I was traveling with my Rebbe, constant and permanent. in Brazil had been damaged by bad weather, Rabbi Nosson Adler of Frankfurt. It was a trip and the price of coffee had risen. of extreme urgency to the Jewish community. We started out after dark, and after we had (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) The Parness sold the coffee at a great proft. 16 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

Recently In The News “I do not know how to say it,” the young kibbutznik responded. 50 Years After Six-Day War, How the Kotel Became “I told him to repeat after me, and I said ‘Shema!’ and he shouted ‘Shema!’ recalled Porat. “Believe Synonymous With Tefllin me, I do not know if I ever heard a Shema like An overwhelming response to a that in my life.” worldwide call by the Rebbe in 1967 has lasted a half-century Less than a week later, on Shavuot, the Western By Dovid Margolin Wall plaza opened to the public, allowing Jews tefllin that connected him to the place. The to approach the remnants of the Temple Mount’s Shema Yisroel he said. We saw that.” retaining wall unimpeded for the frst time in two millennia. Rabbi Yosef Gopin, a 16-year-old boy at the time, spent the war in Jerusalem helping his older The frst morning after Shavuot, four Chabad- sister while his brother-in-law was at the front. Lubavitch Chassidim stationed themselves at Like Blau, Gopin came to the Western Wall for the wall with tefllin, offering throngs of Jews the frst time on the day after Shavuot. “I saw a the opportunity to transform their raw emotions Lubavitcher approach a group of high-ranking into concrete action. The men were on the offcers and offer them to put on tefllin. The front lines of Chabad’s newly-launched tefllin most senior one put them on and suddenly ran campaign, which the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem to the Kotel and started crying. Then he came t was the morning of June 7, 1967, the third day M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—had back and gave an order to the offcers with him of the Six-Day War. After a long night of battle initiated just days before war started. to put on tefllin and pray as well.” Ion the streets of Jerusalem, an eerie quiet enveloped the ancient city. With fresh orders Much has changed in the 50 years since Israel to take the Old City, Israeli paratroopers blew The Tefllin Campaign miraculously won the Six-Day War and liberated open the great wooden doors of Lion’s Gate and It had been on Saturday, June 3—the Shabbat Jerusalem, but the Chabad tefllin booth at the entered, making their way through the narrow prior to the Six-Day War—that the Rebbe frst Kotel remains much the same, offering hundreds alleys to the Temple Mount, site of the First and directed his followers to put on tefllin with of thousands of Jews a year—millions over the Second Temples. Despite the Temple Mount’s Jewish men around the world, placing special years—the chance to pray in tefllin at the holiness, it was not the Jewish soldiers’ true emphasis on soldiers in the Israel Defense holiest site in Judaism, many for the frst time. destination. They sought the Kotel Hamaaravi, Forces. In calling on soldiers to perform the the Western Wall, where Jews had prayed for mitzvah, the Rebbe quoted the verse “the That the wall and tefllin go hand in hand is a 2,000 years, but where no Jew has been allowed nations of the world shall see that the name of given today—experienced by Jewish soldiers, during the past two decades of Jordanian rule. G-d is upon you, and they will fear you,” adding celebrities, locals, tourists—and the stand itself that the Talmud explains this “refers to tefllin.” appears regularly in documentaries, television Finding a path, they descended a small staircase programs and other video footage on Israel. to the wall below. With the war over and the Kotel liberated, hundreds of men lined up to don the black The alley in front of the Western Wall was barely boxes, wrap their forearms in the soft leather The Holiness of the Holy Land and straps, and connect their hearts and minds in 15 feet wide, but was soon fooded with Israeli the Western Wall paratroopers—religious and non-religious, the service of G-d, and themselves, with their ancestors before them. By the end of November The Jewish people’s surprise victory in the face kipah-wearers and kibbutzniks. Photos and of overwhelming odds stunned the world. At flm of that day depicted battle-hardened men 1967, The Boston Globe reported that “more than 400,000 members of the Jewish faith are the same time, Jews everywhere were elated—a breaking down in tears as they encountered feeling heightened and given expression to by the Kotel, burying their faces in the enormous estimated to have observed the commandment to wear Phylacteries—tefllin in Hebrew—at the the poignant images of Israeli paratroopers Herodian stones. A shofar was blown. Soldiers weeping at the Western Wall, staring at it in awe prayed, even those not used to doing so. city’s Western, formerly known as the ‘Wailing’ Wall.” and wonder. One of the paratroopers, the late Knesset The holiday of Shavuot was the frst time that member and activist Hanan Porat, remembered Rabbi Tuvia Blau, a senior Chabad rabbi in Jerusalem, was one of the original four men at anyone could visit the Kotel, with thousands of a non-religious kibbutznik asking him what Jewish pedestrians making their way through prayer to recite. “Say Shema,” Porat answered the wall. “The whole Jewish world was coming there,” he recalls. “A Jew would come, he’d put the Old City via a road built by Israeli army him, recounting the moment in the 2007 PBS engineers from Mount Zion. Only two days after documentary “Six Days in June.” on a yarmulke and write a letter, but it was the 17 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE!

those who pray should go to the wall, and those who wish to see old buildings” go elsewhere.

“But we see that for them too is apparent the holiness of the Holy Land at the Western Wall, and they forget about all else. Because if not there would be no reason to go this place and shed tears there, certainly not to cry in so public a manner, to the point where if one would try to separate him from the Kosel Hamaaravi, he would not let!” the ceasefre, Israeli patrols spent their holiday The response to tefllin was overwhelming. in search of remaining Arab snipers shooting Two weeks after the work had begun, Lubavitch sporadically from positions within the Old City. Youth Organization in Kfar Chabad, which Moshiach was responsible for the new tefllin campaign Although Jews had received various degrees of nationwide, received a letter from the Rebbe’s access to the Western Wall prior to 1948, all of its secretariat containing his specifc instructions Women are given rulers—from the Romans to the Mamluks to the for the Kotel. prominence over the men for, Ottomans to the British—had placed strictures on what Jews could and could not do at their “The Rebbe suggests that if possible a before giving the Torah, G-d holy site. Benches and tables were mostly permanent booth be arranged at the Kotel approached the women frst. banned; the British forbade the blowing of the for the putting on of tefllin, of course with shofar and tore down the traditional mechitza permission from the appropriate authorities,” This is because women are barrier that divides men and women at prayer. the letter reads. It continues to state that papers “the essence of the home.” Now, after centuries of foreign occupation, the containing the blessings for tefllin and the Kotel was in Jewish hands. Even before the war Shema prayer be printed in a small format, and Women have the unique was over, Israel began clearing the area in front that tefllin be offered for sale and checked at a nature necessary to shape discounted price. of it for a plaza. the personalities of their “I remember powerful but conficting emotions According to Blau, offcial permission came family members, particularly converging. Not only sitting with my father a short time later from the frst rabbi of the in anguish about the possibility of another Western Wall, Rabbi Meir Yehuda Getz, who young children. A woman Holocaust [before the war], but also standing arranged that Chabad’s presence there be teaches with all her heart, at the Western Wall and seeing him become a formally recognized. For decades, the tefllin religious Jew again,” author Yossi Klein Halevi stand was run by the late Rabbi Moshe Weber. life and energy, and also with recently told the Israeli publication Fathom. Fifty years later, the booth remains in operation, the sensitivity that make her Klein Halevi’s father was a Hungarian Holocaust with several full-time staff fuent in a number of survivor who carried the experience with him languages stationed there literally from sunrise listeners more receptive. and grappled with his relationship with G-d, to sunset. Thus, it is through Jewish “yet at the Western Wall my father made his peace with God, and became a devout Jew. What “It’s nice that the rabbis there are not insistent, women that the Torah has happened to my father also played out in the not intrusive, but are there to assist anyone who been communicated to the Jewish people.” wants to go further than just putting a message in the wall,” says Silicon Valley venture capitalist Jewish people throughout In New York, the Rebbe spoke directly to and philanthropist Irwin Federman. “I enjoyed the generations, including the emotional images being broadcast from putting the tefllin on there. It’s something I Jerusalem. The Jewish people are visibly united don’t do very often, but it reacquainted me with the generation of the as one nation under G-d, the Rebbe stated; how the services of my youth.” redemption. else to explain the moving tears of such a cross- spectrum of Jews when encountering the Kotel? “We meet people every day who would not put on tefllin anywhere, but will do it here (The Rebbe to the Lubavitch “One would think, the Kosel Hamaaravi is an old, at the wall,” attests Rabbi Shmulie Weiss, an devastated wall; there are buildings far more Englishman who has greeted English speakers Women and Girl’s Convention, beautiful and more strategic than the Western at the Kotel tefllin booth for the last 10 years. 1991) Wall,” he exclaimed. “It should have been that “It’s the holiest place in the world.” 18 Construction Updates Keeping you up to date on our exciting progress

While we are building we ask for your patience and understanding and we will do our best to keep you informed. We apologize for any inconvenience these “growing pains” may cause. PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING: The Shul garage will be closed to the community Monday - Friday from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. Transponders will not be active during those times. CEC has implemented new drop-off and pick-off policies and procedures. If you are a CEC parent please contact the CEC offce with any questions.

Community Members may park in The Shul’s North lot while it remains open for the next couple weeks. If the lot is closed or full, please fnd alternative public parking. If you are a Surfside resident, you may obtain a Surfside Resident parking permit which allows for free parking. (http://www.townofsurfsidef.gov/Pages/SurfsideFL_Parking/2016-2017-parking-permit-form.pdf)

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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 PortionWill ResumeIn Spanish Mrs in Vivian Fall 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 ParkWill Drive, Resume Bal Harbour in Village Fall

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Vivre avec la paracha L’année sabbatique jours, une année lunaire entière, permet au champ divine, il en va autrement : plus nous donnons, plus Six raisons d’« équilibrer ses comptes » et de rattraper son nous pouvons nous permettre de donner. La charité par Lazer Gurkow propriétaire dans l’observance d’un nombre complet renforce donc notre foi et notre unité. de Chabbat durant six ans. es fermiers, en Israël, sont requis, par la loi juive, 6. La libération de respecter la Chemitah laissant leurs champs 4. Une leçon de foi et d’humilité La croyance que le monde appartient à D.ieu et reposer une année entière, une fois tous les Malgré cette argumentation, une nouvelle théorie que notre succès dépend de Lui est une notion L fut proposée plus tard. Les lois de la Chemitah ne libératrice. Elle nous permet de poser le fardeau sept ans (Vayikra 25, 1-7). Pourquoi la Torah donne- t-elle cet ordre ? furent enjointes à nos ancêtres qu’une fois qu’ils que nous traînons. Nous continuons à travailler, furent installés en Israël. Quand nous travaillons sur mais nous respirons plus facilement. Nous savons 1. Le sol les graines que nous faisons pousser, ou sur d’autres que D.ieu guide nos pas et que tout arrive pour une Les philosophes anciens voient dans la Chemitah formes de revenus, quelles qu’elles soient, nous bonne raison. Nous apprenons à voir la main de une occasion de laisser reposer et de rafraîchir risquons d’être fers de nos accomplissements et de D.ieu dans tout ce que nous faisons et Sa présence le sol. Néanmoins, cette théorie, sans rien pour la prendre tout le crédit de nos accomplissements. dans tout ce que nous voyons. renforcer, est insuffsante dans la mesure où le sol requiert des repos plus fréquents qu’une fois Nous avons tendance à oublier que la bénédiction Cela nous conduit à l’ultime raison pour la tous les sept ans. (Le Talmud évoque souvent une divine est la seule raison de notre succès. Nous Chemitah que nous proposent les commentateurs formule où l’on travaillerait la terre deux ans pour la risquons d’oublier que c’est D.ieu Qui nous a donné bibliques. Le Talmud nous indique que dans le laisser reposer une année. Aujourd’hui pour ce faire, notre terre et nos graines et que c’est Lui qui fait Temple, les Lévites chantaient chaque jour des on utilise des fertilisants et la rotation des récoltes, tomber la pluie, briller le soleil et pousser les graines. louanges à D.ieu. Le Chabbat, le septième jour, leurs mais aujourd’hui encore, le repos de la terre est La Chemitah renforce notre foi en l’intervention de chants évoquaient le jour du repos éternel, l’âge considéré comme une formule adéquate) la Providence Divine dans nos affaires. messianique. 2. Un macro Chabbat Nous travaillons la terre six années consécutives Le Talmud nous enseigne que notre monde durera D’autres voient la Chemitah comme un Chabbat bien que la sagesse conventionnelle indique que six millénaires. Les deux premiers ont été consacrés à grande échelle. Nous nous reposons le Chabbat ce n’est pas sain pour le sol. En fait, le sol garde à la création, les deux suivants à la Torah et les pour démontrer que D.ieu a créé l’univers en six sa force et produit une récolte plus importante la deux derniers seront consacrés à Machia’h. En jours et a interrompu Sa tâche le septième jour. sixième année, en vue de l’année de la Chemitah. Et fait, nos Sages affrment qu’au cours du septième De la même façon, nous laissons les champs à puis nous nous interrompons la septième année, en millénaire, le monde comme nous le connaissons l’abandon la septième année pour démontrer que dépit de nos doutes et de nos soucis bien naturels cessera d’exister. Il deviendra un monde de liberté D.ieu S’est « reposé » le septième jour sur la façon dont nous allons pourvoir aux besoins et de Divinité. de nos familles. Les commentateurs postérieurs rejettent cette La Chemitah, la septième année, comme le Chabbat, Ce type de comportement pourrait apparaître théorie, arguant que si la Chemitah avait pour but le septième jour, représentent l’époque messianique. comme la meilleure manière d’aller au désastre. Et d’instiller la conscience que D.ieu est le Créateur, Notre foi en D.ieu est renforcée durant la Chemitah, pourtant, pour les Juifs en Israël, cela produit des son but se trouverait entravé par le long intervalle tout comme elle le sera à l’ère messianique. Notre résultats extraordinaires. Cela renforce notre foi qui sépare les périodes de repos. Le Chabbat unité est renforcée durant la Chemitah tout comme dans le fait que la terre appartient à D.ieu, que notre hebdomadaire sert déjà ce dessein et par des à l’ère où Machia’h introduira un âge de paix. La succès découle directement de Sa bénédiction et intervalles beaucoup plus brefs. Qu’apporte donc la sixième année est une année d’abondance tout que nous devons Lui être reconnaissants pour tout Chemitah au-delà des effets du Chabbat ? comme l’ère qu’introduira Machia’h : une ère de ce que nous possédons. 3. Rattraper six années de Chabbat prospérité. En réponse à cette question, certains avancent que 5. L’unité la Chemitah permet aux champs de se reposer Il est aisé de partager avec les autres quand nous Mais c’est par la liberté qui régnera que l’époque le Chabbat. Il est vrai que nous nous reposons pouvons nous permettre de partager, quand nous de Machia’h sera la plus remarquable. En fait, le septième jour, mais même alors, les champs avons un revenu stable et quand nous savons la Chemitah est une année d’émancipation. Les continuent à fonctionner. Nous plantons des graines comment nous paierons les dépenses du lendemain. esclaves sont libérés et toutes les dettes exonérées. le vendredi et les graines germent le Chabbat. Mais il est beaucoup plus diffcile d’être charitable Que nous ayons bientôt le mérite d’accéder à la Durant la Chemitah, nos champs rattrapent les quand nous ne sommes pas sûrs de quoi seront liberté de l’ère de Machia’h ! Chabbat et les fêtes où ils ne se sont pas reposés faits les lendemains. Les propriétaires n’avaient les six années précédentes. aucun revenu pendant la Chemitah et pourtant ils abandonnaient les récoltes qui poussaient Classes Il existe cinquante-deux Chabbat dans une année spontanément pendant cette année-là. C’est ainsi Thursdays at 12.00 in the Haime Library basée sur le calendrier solaire. Le nombre total que se trouvaient resserrés les liens qui unissaient Classes alternate between the following teachers: des Chabbat pendant six ans est donc de 312. Sept la communauté. Dr. Hanna Barouk fêtes par an élèvent le total à 354, ce qui est le Rabbi Amar nombre précis des jours de la Chemitah dans une En dehors d’Israël, ce phénomène est mis en évidence par les contributions aux caisses de charité. Rabbi Frankforter année basée sur le calendrier lunaire. Observer Rabbi Gansburg la Chemitah pendant trois centcinquante-quatre La sagesse conventionnelle dicte que plus nous donnons, moins nous avons ! Mais de la perspective FOR WOMEN ONLY 28 Latin Link Refexion Semanal

Parasha de la Semana ¿Capitalista o Comunista? es una de las comprobaciones y balances Por Yossy Goldman que mantienen nuestro capitalismo kosher y bueno. arl Marx pudo haber sido el pionero, pero muchos otros judíos también Algunas personas son demasiado amantes Kse involucraron en la lucha por el de los negocios. Todo es medido y exacto. comunismo, particularmente en los primeros Negocios son negocios. Si te invito para días de la revolución rusa. Personalmente Shabat, no repetiré la invitación hasta no creo que debamos disculparnos por que me la devuelvas primero. Si le das este fenómeno. Habiendo sufrido en forma $50 a mi hijo para su Bar Mitzvá, entonces insoportable bajo sucesivos regímenes eso es exactamente lo que daré a tu hijo. opresores, muchos de esos activistas Debemos ser más suaves, más flexibles, políticos pensaron genuinamente que el no tan duros, inflexibles y amantes de los comunismo sería mejor para el pueblo que la negocios. Por supuesto, sean capitalistas, corrupción zarista. Su sentido del idealismo pero capitalistas kosher. Lo que una persona alimentó las esperanzas de una vida mejor “vale” financieramente debe ser irrelevante y un futuro más equitativo para todos. En para el respeto que deben darle. Mantengan los papeles el comunismo era una buena las tradicionales características judías idea. El hecho de que fracasó —y que los de bondad, compasión, tzedaká y jesed, nuevos líderes superaron la opresión de sus generosidad de espíritu, corazón —y bolsillo. predecesores —refleja las personalidades Que ganen grandes cantidades de dinero involucradas tanto como el sistema que y animen a Di-s a seguir bañándolos de promovieron. en su propia tierra, no tiene más derechos que el extranjero. Durante seis años ustedes bendiciones al compartir generosamente ¿Cuál es el sistema económico judío? ¿Hay poseen la propiedad, pero en el séptimo año con otros. alguno? Yo lo describiría como “capitalismo no disfrutan de derechos especiales. con conciencia”. Promoviendo la libre empresa, la Torá es claramente capitalista. Este es uno de los muchos ejemplos del Pero es un capitalismo condicional, y “capitalismo con conciencia” del judaísmo. ciertamente un capitalismo compasivo. Hay legisladas muchas otras obligaciones hacia los pobres —no agregados opcionales, Winston Churchill dijo una vez “El vicio no recomendaciones piadosas, sino inherente del capitalismo es el compartir claramente mandatarias contribuciones desigualmente las bendiciones. El vicio para los menos afortunados. El diezmo del Clases y Eventos inherente del comunismo es el compartir diez por ciento, como también la obligación Porcion Semenal Rabbi Shea Rubinstein igualmente las miserias”. Por lo tanto el de dejar sin cosechar para los pobres los judaísmo introdujo un sistema de mercado Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm rincones del campo de uno, las gavillas Orden de rezos diarios y su signifcado mistico libre en el que el compartir las bendiciones y racimos olvidados son todo parte del no queda librado a la casualidad o a los sistema de capitalismo compasivo. (Para Mujeras) buenos deseos, sino que es un mandamiento. Sra. Vivian Perez Nuestra Parashá nos da un ejemplo clásico. Por lo tanto el judaísmo presenta un sistema Will Resume in Fall económico que conlleva lo mejor de ambos Shemitá, el año sabático, fue designado Martes 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm mundos —las ventajas de un libre mercado 198 Park Dr. Bal Harbour para permitir que la tierra descanse y se que permite la expresión personal y el éxito Por favor llamar al 305.213.3202 regenere. Durante seis años la tierra debe relacionados con el trabajo duro sin las para confrmar ser trabajada, pero en el séptimo año debe desventajas de la codicia corporativa. Si la descansar y permanecer en barbecho. El Kolel Espanol tierra pertenece a Di-s, entonces no tenemos Rabbi Shlomi Halsband ciclo agrícola en la Tierra Santa impone la propiedad exclusiva sobre ella. Di-s Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm estrictas leyes y regulaciones sobre el derrama Sus bendiciones sobre nosotros, Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm propietario de la tierra. No sembrar, no pero, claramente, el trato es que debemos podar, ningún trabajo agrícola, cualquiera Sra. compartir. Sin la ley de la Torá, el capitalismo Vivian Will Resume in Fall que sea, en el séptimo año —y todo lo que fracasa. La ambición desmedida y la codicia Perez crece solo debe ser “sin dueño” y puede de dinero y poder llevan a monopolios y ser tomado por todos. El propietario puede conglomerados que no dejan lugar para tomar algo, pero también sus trabajadores, el otro y amplían la brecha entre los que amigos y vecinos. El propietario de la tierra, tienen y los que no tienen. El año sabático 29 The Aleph Institute Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments

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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 33 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 At the home of: Please call The Shul PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi S. Rubinstien for details 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)Will 2:30Resume - 3:45 in pm Fall PHL-120Will Mrs. VivianResume Perez in Fall 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-320Will Mrs. ResumeVivian Perez in Fall 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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The Shul Children proudly rode on the foat in the grand Lag Ba’Omer Parade celebrated by thousands of Jews from all over South Florida. They led the crowd in Torah Pesukim and enjoyed a fabulous carnival and a wonderful day