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The Shul B”H weekly magazine Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Parshas Vayikrah Parshas Hachodesh Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Nissan Adar 29 - Nissan 1 March 16 - 17 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:12 pm Shabbos Ends: 8:04 pm The Shul Annual Dinner Tuesday, March 20 Honorees Mr. and Dr. Albert and Marilyn Pollans Grand Benefactor and Leadership Award Rabbi and Mrs. Henry and Evy Eichler Family of Classic Baal Tehshuva Mr. and Mrs. Nadav and Sari Ben-Chetrit L’dor V’dor Generation to Generation Te Shul - Chabad Lubavitch - An institution of Te Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson (May his merit shield us) Over Tirty fve Years of Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Fl 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TeShul.org Email: [email protected] The Shul Weekly Magazine Everything you need for every day of the week Contents Nachas At A Glance The Shul Youth is preparing for Pesach. Mishmar, after school Weekly Message 3 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar programs and Hebrew School all are in full Pesach swing. Learning, doing crafts, singing and more. Celebrating Shabbos 4 -5 Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Community Happenings 6-7 Sharing with your Shul Family A Time to Pray 8 Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week 9-15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE 16 -22 Get The Picture The full scoop on all the great events around town The ABC’s of Aleph 23 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. 24 French Connection Refexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 25 Refexion Semanal In a woman’s world 26 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman 27-28 Networking Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 29 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study 30 A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul Get The Picture 31-32 The full scoop on all the great events around town The Shul Hebrew School children enjoyed an ice cream party as a reward for amazing accomplishments in their Aleph Champ, Quotable Quote Hebrew reading progam. The study of Zohar exalts the soul; study of Midrash arouses the heart; Psalms with tears scours the vessel [of the soul - i.e., the body.] – Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Vayikrah when he obviously brought light and wisdom to the entire world. Parshas Hachodesh Our rabbis teach us, there is a Moses in every generation and that each Jew contains a spark of Moses within him. G-d loves each of us and holds us his beautiful Shabbos we are dearly, creating breakthroughs in nature to assure our successful continuity privileged with a cornucopia of holy and invincible eternity. Tevents integrating together to give In the holy book “Hercholos” attributed to the great Mishnaic sage Rabbi us an extraordinary spiritual experience. Shmuel Kohein Gadol, he writes that there is a special gate in the Heavens Together with beginning of the third that opens very rarely, only when we open the Ark to take our 3 Sifrei Torah. book of the Torah, Leviticus / Vayikrah, we It is then that we can enter that gate and beseech for any blessings or help also take out a second Torah to read the that we need. This Shabbos we have that opportunity. Let’s utilize it. portion called Parshas Hachodesh that is always read before Passover, and a third As we celebrate our 36th anniversary Dinner at The Shul on Tuesday Sefer Torah as it is also the frst day Rosh night, we can see how we are carried over the top by special blessings and Chodesh of Nissan, the month of miracles. expressions of love from Hashem and our Moses / Rebbe as we are blessed to grow exponentially and be the nucleus of a Community that is truly “over This third book of the Torah, Vayikrah, the top and gets it done.” which primarily addresses the specifc and intricate details of the various offerings We look forward to celebrating together on Tuesday night and, of course, that were brought on the altar for multiple to having a great and wonderful Shabbos, a good week, Chodesh Tov and a reasons and purposes, begins with a very interesting term “and He called happy Kosher Pesach. to Moses”. It is quite unusual in the Torah for that word to proceed G-d’s communication with Moses, as it usually states “and G-d spoke to Moses, G-d said to Moses, G-d appeared to Moses”. Here it precedes the communication with the word “and He called”, addressing him by his name “Moses, Moses”. Rabbi S. Lipskar It is also noteworthy that that frst word has a small letter Aleph which is different than the regular size letters of the entire Torah. Rashi, the classic commentator explaining the Torah to the fve-year-old precocious child, The Shul welcomes Benjamin Anthony explains that this term of G-d’s calling to Moses is one of special endearment who will be speaking in Shul this shabbos and love which was refected in the manner of His communication. Calling someone by name prior to actually addressing the topic discussed is a clear Benjamin Anthony is the founder of Our Soldiers Speak show of closeness and endearment. (www.oursoldiersspeak.org). This non-for-proft NGO provides briefngs and analysis on the realities and challenges faced by the It is, of course, not surprising that G-d had that particular feeling to Moses, Israel Defense Forces in asymmetrical combat situations. recognizing his extraordinary capacity and over-the-top, selfess beyond rationality commitment to lead and direct the Jewish people in accordance Benjamin is the lead lecturer for the organization which has reached to G-d’s directives. diverse audiences at more than 380 campuses across several At the same time, the word itself spelled with the small Aleph, underscores continents as well as leading think tanks in various countries. the very special character of this greatest leader in history who merited a relationship with G-d that was unique and singular. The small Aleph He has lectured before students at every Ivy League college and has represents humility. Though he did recognize his own capacity and knew of been keynote speaker for Israel Bonds, CAMERA, CUFI, and numerous his important role as a seeming intermediary between G-d and the Jewish Jewish Federations. Benjamin has also spoken at some of the most people, nonetheless he was “the most humble person that lived on the face prestigious Synagogues around the world. of the earth” and was completely self- effacing in not taking any credit for himself. In 2013 he spoke at the plenary session of the AIPAC Convention It is that unique quality in true Jewish leadership that caused Almighty G-d in Washington DC. Benjamin also speaks annually on Capitol Hill, to write in the Torah “and they believed in G-d and in Moses, His servant”. and arranges briefngs by senior IDF offcers for members of the US The only time that you can believe in a Rebbe / Jewish Leader is when he is Congress and their staffers. the servant of G-d, not when he considers himself as a self-important ego. A Sergeant in the I.D.F. reserves, Benjamin is a veteran of service in: We also read about the special commandment of this month Nissan being The Second Lebanon War, 2006, Operation Pillar of Defense, 2012 dedicated by G-d as the frst of months and the month of miracles. It is totally intertwined with the Jewish experience as our entire existence, Operation Protective Edge, 2014, He has served in Judea and throughout history, is an obvious miracle that is indicated by our following Samaria/ The West Bank and along Israel’s northern border. the lunar calendar which is based on the growing and waning moon. At the Benjamin continues to serve on an annual basis as a combat reservist conclusion of each month the moon is invisible and then immediately has its renaissance as a tiny light consistently moving to its full moon in the in the IDF. middle of the month. The Jew similarly experience many times in History when his basic existence was in danger or challenged and other times He is a graduate of the University of Manchester, UK. 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: 1)5. Where is the frst time in the Torah where the following are Montessori Classrooom 2 mentioned: a) sheep, b) cattle, c) fre, d) goats? classrooom 2 2) Where is salt mentioned in this parsha? What two other places is salt mentioned in the book of Genesis? 3)What does a four offering (minchah) have in common with the Passover offering? Answers from last week: Raquel Gilinski 1 )Moshe’s name does not appear in this parsha. Parshas Tetzaveh Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls is the only parsha in the book of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers where his name does not appear. One reason found in the Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 Zohar (parshas Pinchas) is that Moshe told Hashem: “If You do not [forgive the Jews after the sin of the Golden Calf], erase my 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm name from Your book” (Exodus 32:32).