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From the morning prayers THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA FROM RABBI SHOLOM LIPSKAR SHABBOS PARSHAS NOACH he outset of this his particular society he was able to overcome the week’s portion challenges of following the herd mentality and stood describes Noach alone, living a life of decency and righteousness. as a Tzaddik One should never undermine his capacity, ability nor Tstating, “Noach was his responsibility to behave in a manner consistent a Tzaddik/righteous with G-d’s directives though he may honestly man relative to his perceive himself as less than totally righteous. One generation.” should never think of himself as unworthy to take a leadership position until he has achieved absolute Rashi, the classic perfection. Though Noah was not the ultimate commentary on the degree of a Tzaddik, still in his particular diabolical Torah, offers two generation the Torah considers him as one. completely contradictory interpretations. As we move into our year of activity coming from the potency of holy energies generated during the One gives special praise to Noach, stating that he month of Tishrei with its array of Holy Days and was righteous even in a corrupt, degenerate period pristine powers, we are taught that no matter where of time and if he would have lived in a generation we are and how lowly our society is behaving, we can when people were more righteous and proper, he be a righteous person regardless of the darkness would have been considered even a greater Tzaddik. that envelops us.
The second interpretation is demeaning, stating Each one of us coming from our individual that he was only considered righteous relative to backgrounds with our specific traits, abilities and his evil, corrupt environment and had he lived in education must live up to the highest standards a generation where people behaved morally and that we are capable of. We must never undermine ethically, he would not have been considered a our holy purpose in this world and recognize that Tzaddik at all. we are placed at a particular time and milieu where we can make a positive difference. It is an accepted axiom that the Torah does not write about anyone or anything in a derisive manner even In the same way as Noach was the critical link when the facts are so. Why then undermine Noach’s for the continuity of civilization, so too must we greatness? be those links that move us forward towards the complete and ultimate perfection of our world Here the Torah teaches us a very important lesson. ready to experience the messianic epoch. We are One should never think that he is incapable of being each endowed with the necessary qualities to live an example or teacher or leader in comparison to our life maximally relative to that which is expected true righteous individuals. Almighty G-d does not of us. judge one based on absolute highest standards but relative to his capacity, upbringing, and Have a wonderful Shabbos and a great week. environmental influences that are beyond his choice.
Though Noach historically was not the most righteous person, not reaching the level of Abraham Rabbi S Lipskar or others of that standard, but within the space of
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BIRTHDAYS YAHRTZEITS 4 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Roni Arber 4 Mar Cheshvan Yosef Mordechai ben Shulem Aron obm 4 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Lily Colonomos Father-in-law of Mrs. Rosita Retelny 4 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Amy Gelb 4 Mar Cheshvan Stewart Harris obm 4 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Shoshana Jacobs Father of Mr. Jefrey Harris 4 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Mery Kamhazi 4 Mar Cheshvan Meir ben Benyamin obm 5 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Aaron Attias Uncle of Mrs. Nily Falic 5 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Kevin Dunn 4 Mar Cheshvan Michael ben Esther obm 5 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Dinah Raizel, MD Reich Grandfather of Mr. Michael Perez 5 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Hana Salama 4 Mar Cheshvan Moshe ben Max Yellin obm 5 Mar Cheshvan Mr. David Schottenstein Uncle of Mrs. Susan Lotkin 5 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Jodi Sirotkin 4 Mar Cheshvan Michael ben Shmuel Aryeh obm 6 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Ralph Gut Father of Mrs. Judith Farbman 6 Mar Cheshvan Mr. David Karchov 5 Mar Cheshvan Yitzchak ben Nina obm 6 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Susie Lustgarten Brother of Ms. Liv-Tiferet De Vitton 6 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Mildred Nyman 5 Mar Cheshvan Saad ben Sultana obm 6 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Vivian Perez Father of Dr. Menahem (Jimmy) Srur 6 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Randee Schottenstein 6 Mar Cheshvan Daniel ben Yitzchok obm 7 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Danielle Arev Brother of Mr. Richard Moore 7 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Jerome Falic 6 Mar Cheshvan Menachem Mendel ben Abraham obm 7 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Amram Kamhazi Father of Mr. Jose Tabacinic and 7 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Chaya Mushka Katz Mr. Moris Tabacinic 7 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Teri Knight 6 Mar Cheshvan Dvora Kardonski obm 7 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Hadassa Lipskar Mother of Ms. Shay Kardonski 7 Mar Cheshvan Dr. Bracha Reich 6 Mar Cheshvan Devorah obm 7 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Bluma Schneider Mother of Mrs. Raquel Gilinski 7 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Jayne Shapiro 7 Mar Cheshvan Abraham Itzhak ben Tzvi obm 8 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Daniel Gielchinsky Father of Ms. Golda Retchkiman 8 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Edward Ohayon 7 Mar Cheshvan Levi Yitzchuk ben Yaacov David 9 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Sharon Hakmon Hacohen obm 9 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Eda Schottenstein Uncle of Mrs. Susan Lotkin 9 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Paige Sussman 7 Mar Cheshvan Shlomo ben Saadia obm 10 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Benjamin Colonomos Father of Mrs. Dana Werner 10 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Esther Leah Gassner 7 Mar Cheshvan Chaviva bas Salha Gurgia obm 10 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Channah Hershman Mother of Rabbi Shimshon Tzubeli 10 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Jennifer Ann Kaplan 7 Mar Cheshvan Dovber ben Mordechai obm 10 Mar Cheshvan Ms. Adine Mitrani Husband of Mrs. Genia Bruder 10 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Elisa Septimus 8 Mar Cheshvan Osher ben David obm 10 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Ofy Shifman Husband of Mrs. Rosita Boruchin 10 Mar Cheshvan Mrs. Loren Sragowicz Father of Mrs. Diana Ben-Arie 10 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Elias Sussman 8 Mar Cheshvan Esther obm 10 Mar Cheshvan Mr. Matthew Sussman Mother of Mr. Gideon Azari 8 Mar Cheshvan David Isaacson obm Brother-in-law of Mrs. Loren Sragowicz KID’S BIRTHDAYS 8 Mar Cheshvan Hirsch Tzvi ben Isaac obm Brother of Mrs. Fanny Selesky 4 Mar Cheshvan Julia Sher 10 Mar Cheshvan Benzion Nanikashvili obm 5 Mar Cheshvan Jetta Pearl Krieger Father of Mr. Temuri Nanikashvili 8 Mar Cheshvan Eva Hannah Gelb 10 Mar Cheshvan Bernard Rutman obm 8 Mar Cheshvan David Yosef Sitbon Father of Mrs. Jodi Rae Harris 10 Mar Cheshvan Sara bas Yekutiel Yehuda obm Mother of Mrs. Evelyn Katz ANNIVERSARIES Mrs. Lillian Tabacinic and Mr. & Mrs. Yossi & Miriam Lapidus Mr. George Rohr Mr. & Mrs. Jefrey & Gabriela Gut Mr. & Mrs. Samuel & Joy Ziefer WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Mr. & Mrs. Jefrey & Helene Gassner Judge & Mrs. Steven & Joyce Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Larry and Jane Scheinfeld Mr. & Mrs. Moshe (Motty) & Jenny Klainbaum Mr. & Mrs. Ben and Deborah Philipson Mr. & Mrs. Samuel & Rivka Ostrowiak Mr. Adam Benaroch 6 COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS SHARING WITH YOUR SHUL FAMILY
CHESHVAN LIGHT & POWER THANKS TO OUR DONORS Light & Power and Wine for Kiddush & We sincerely thank the following members and supporters of The Shul Havdalah for the month of Cheshvan is for donations received between 10/22/19 and 10/28/19 We apologize for any errors or omissions that we may have made. Kindly Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Nadav Ben-Chetrit Mr. & Mrs. Albert David Lichy Mr. Marc Benichou Mr. & Mrs. Max Lichy Mr David B. Schottenstein Mr. & Mrs. Max Benoliel Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Liss “In honor of my incredible wife, Eda Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel G. Berenfus Mr. & Mrs. Asher Mamane Sirota Schottenstein, and her 2 x Mr. & Mrs. Levi Boymelgreen Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mizrahi Chai birthday. May it be a year full of Rabbi & Mrs. Menachem Dr. & Mrs. Gene Moteles Mendel Brod Mr. & Mrs. Shlomo Nahmias success, happiness, health and joy. Mr. Uri Bublil Mr. & Mrs. Temuri Mr. & Mrs. Santos Chocron Nanikashvili And in honor of the Yahrzheit of my Rabbi & Mrs. Moshiach Mr. & Mrs. Eliezer Nerenberg grandfather, Leon Schottenstein, Chudaitov Dr. Yehuda Neuwirth Dr. & Mrs. Brad Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Ostrowiak Aryeh Leib HaKohen, a source of real Kenneth Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Ben Philipson inspiration to our entire family.” Mr. Steeve Daien Rabbi Yitzchak Pruss Rabbi & Mrs. Henry Eichler Ms. Rachel Rosenblatt Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Failer Mr. & Mrs. Edward “Those who establish Synagogues for prayer and those who come there to pray, those who provide lights for illumination, wine and grape juice for kiddush Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Rosengarten and havdalah, food for the wayfarers and charity for the needy, and all those who Gilbert Franco Mr. Andrew Roth occupy themselves faithfully with communal affairs - may The Holy One, blessed be He, give them their reward, remove them from all sicknesses, heal their entire Mr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Gellman Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Rovt body, pardon all their sins, and send blessing and success to all their endeavors, Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Gewirtz Dr. & Mrs. Michael Salzhauer together with all Israel their brethren; and let us say Amen.” Mr. & Mrs. Leo Ghitis Mr. & Mrs. David Shear Mr. & Mrs. Saul Gilinski Mr. Luis Snaider Mr. & Mrs. Sam Greenwald Mr. Michael Tordjman REFUAH SHLEIMAH Mr. & Mrs. Salomon Grosfeld Mr. Boris Vertsberger If you have a health update on anyone listed please contact The Shul. We would like to Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Gut Mr. Jason A. Vessal keep the listing current and remove names of people who have recovered. Mr. Julien Haccoun Dr. & Dr. Jesse Viner MEN WOMEN Mr. Mark Herskovits Mr. & Mrs. Adam Weinberg Eliezer ben Sarah Shima Leah bas Gittel Aharon ben Beylah Sarah Libke bas Baile Charles Ittah Rev Trust Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weintraub Meyer Eliezer ben Sarah Chana Bayla bas Masha Mr. Sam Judlo Ms. Edna Pena Werta Menachem Mendel ben Sara Rina Chaya Miriam bas Mr. & Mrs. Shaya Mr. Alex Yakubovich Yehoshua ben Tamara Leah Bracha Klein-Weberman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Yosef Isaac Gilbert ben Nelly Genya Baila bas Gisela Mr. & Mrs. Jacky Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ziefer Esther Malka Tziril bas Devorah Bentzion ben Nomi Rachel Dina Mr. & Mrs. Leo Kryss Margalite Sonia Simcha bat Sultana Eber Avraham ben Fruma Tzipora Pnina bas Slava Mazal Tov Esther Feige bas Krandel Mazal Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Shimshon and Ruth Tzubeli on the engagement of Shlomo Yaakov ben Chaya Tziporah Pnina bas Slava their daughter, Tamar to Jonathan Abda, son of Mahvash and the late Faisal Sarah Rochel Chaya Miriam Yehudit bat Chaim Zelig Ben Eidel Chava Abda z”l. May the marriage be in an auspicious time and may the young Ari ben Na’ama Clara bat Corina couple build an everlasting home in Israel. Tzvi Yitzchak ben Chaya Rivka bat Shoshana Aryeh Leib ben Sura Henya Miriam bat Risha Raizel Mazal Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Mendy and Rochel Katz on the birth of a grandson Rafael Maya ben Sol Dana Ella bas Devorah born to their children Shmulik and Chaya Berkowitz. May they see him raised Aaron ben Tamar Hinde to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much nachas from him. Raphael Moshe ben Chana bas Shoshana Miriam Ilana bas Shaina Rochel Mazal Tov to Dr. & Mrs. Gordon and Hannah Braun on the birth of a daughter. Meyer Yankev ben Chaya Chava bas Elka Menucha May they raise her to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much Etel Chaya bas Rachel nachas from her. Alexander ben Esther Fayge bas Chaya Raizel Miriam Leah bas Helen Mazal Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Aaron and Chaya Elbogen on the birth of a grandson. Rafael Moshe ben Sarah May they see him raised to Torah, Chupah and Ma’asim Tovim and have much Moshe ben Zoila nachas from him. Chaim Tzvi Hirsch ben Guttel 7 DAILY WISDOM Inspiring insights on the Torah Portion from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Shabbat, 4 Cheshvan Monday, 6 Cheshvan The Purpose of Civilization They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower.” Transforming Descent into Ascent Genesis 11:4 When Abraham came to Egypt . . . Genesis 12:14
The survivors of the Flood overlooked the Flood’s lesson Metaphorically, our personal “arks” are our periods of that we should look to G-d as the source of our well-being. Torah study and prayer. Just as Noah and his family were protected by the ark from the flood that raged outside it, We, the survivors of a “flood” that killed 6,000,000 Jews, we can “enter” the worlds of Torah study and prayer in should learn from the mistake of the survivors of Noah’s order to be protected from the “flood” of worldly concerns Flood. Rebuilding the infrastructure of Jewish civilization is that threatens to inundate us. praiseworthy and noble, but it is not an end in itself. It is particularly helpful to immerse ourselves in prayer first Our “city and tower” must possess a deeper, spiritual thing in the morning. When we confront the world anew purpose, which means that our houses of prayer and each morning, it and everything in it can seem to exist self- Torah study should be the most prominent and cherished sufficiently, as if in no need of G-d. The morning prayers buildings in our cities. help us recognize that the world could not exist on its own, and that its purpose is to be made into G-d’s natural home. Similarly, our careers, homes, lives, and families should express our desire to fulfill G-d’s will rather than just Beginning our day this way helps us to consciously avoid empty self-pride. Their Jewish trappings – mezuzot, activities that do not further this goal, taking care instead tefilin, Sabbath candles, etc. – should be of the highest to use every moment as an opportunity to fulfill it. Thus ritual quality; our collection of Torah books should be well- prepared, we can engage in worldly pursuits without fear stocked, prominently displayed, and well-read; the music that they will turn into “raging waters” that overwhelm us and conversation heard within our homes should befit a with anxiety, stress, and distractions. Jewish home; and so on.
Tuesday, 7 Cheshvan Sunday, 5 Cheshvan The Ladder of Divine Consciousness Reaching the True Self He built an altar to G-d. Genesis 13:18 G-d said [to Abraham], “Go.” Genesis 12:1 The three altars that Abraham built express the three Although Abraham’s accomplishments in spreading Divine levels through which we can ascend in our relationship consciousness so far had been impressive, they had been with G-d. Abraham built his first altar to thank G-d for limited by the fact that he was speaking only from his the promise of sustenance, children, and a land in which personal convictions and reasoning. they could live. This corresponds to observing G-d’s commandments, which gives life to the soul and sustains All this changed when G-d spoke to Abraham. His first its connection to the body. words to him were literally “Go, to you,” meaning “Go to your true, higher self, the self you could never reach on your own.” Abraham built his second altar to acknowledge the Divine Through these words, G-d made Abraham into a person gift of repentance. This altar expresses how we deepen who could progress beyond his own abilities. our relationship with G-d in order to restore it after having sinned. As we saw, the Flood introduced into the world the possibility to correct wrongdoing and remake our lives even after committing what would otherwise appear to Abraham built his third altar purely for the sake of be fatal mistakes. Now, when G-d told Abraham to “go, to glorifying G-d. This altar expresses our ability to abandon you,” He made it possible for us not only to return to our our sense of independent selfhood and fuse with Him. All original selves but to “return” to our authentic, fundamental reality will fully attain this level of Divine consciousness selves – the selves we never even knew existed, constantly only in the Messianic Era, but our awareness of this fact uncovering new and infinitely higher vistas of our innate fuels our yearning for the Messianic Era, and G-d will Divine personality and connection with G-d. hasten its arrival commensurate with our yearning for it. 8 Wednesday, 8 Cheshvan Friday, 10 Cheshvan Tithing for Spiritual Growth He gave him a tenth of everything. Genesis 14:20 Asserting our Inheritance [G-d said to Abraham,] “I have given this land to your Tithing our wealth expresses our awareness that descendants.” Genesis 15:18 everything we possess really belongs to G-d and must therefore be used for holy purposes. Generally, we When G-d promised the Land of Israel to Abraham’s amass wealth in order to improve our lives and the descendants, the land in its entirety became – and lives of our loved ones; the more we internalize the remains to this day – the inheritance of every Jew, Torah’s values, the more these motives fuse with our not subject to negotiation or trade. It is solely G-d’s desire to make the world more G-dly. promise to Abraham that constitutes our connection to our land. When we articulate this confidently However, when unearned wealth comes our way, and unapologetically, the community of nations will it might not occur to us to relate to it in the same acknowledge its truth. In contrast, basing our claims way. By tithing the spoils of war, which he received to the Promised Land on treaties, military victories, miraculously, Abraham demonstrated that not only or diplomatic machinations will undermine other the wealth that we have produced ourselves belongs nations’ respect for our inheritance. By asserting our to G-d, but all our wealth. inviolable connection to the Land of Israel, we hasten the Messianic Redemption, when G-d will grant us its G-d promises to pay us back many times over for full possession peacefully. giving Him our tithes, and in fact implores us to test Him in this. By following Abraham’s example even with our unearned wealth, our lives will demonstrate how G-d rewards those who fulfill His will. In this way, we, like Abraham, will disseminate the knowledge of G-d’s goodness and kindness throughout the world.
Thursday, 9 Cheshvan To Shine Like the Stars [G-d told Abraham,] “Look toward heaven and count the stars – if you can count them! That is how your descendants will be.” Genesis 15:5
Although the plain meaning of this statement is that the Jewish people will eventually be as numerous as the stars, its metaphorical meaning is that they will sparkle like the stars; their light is so bright that even those walking in the thick of night will not stumble. We are all Abraham’s “shining stars,” possessing sufficient moral and spiritual fortitude to prevent those around us from stumbling and to exert a positive influence on them.1
9 PARSHA & HOLIDAY MESSAGES SHABBOS PARSHAS NOACH LUNAR FLOOD, SOLAR YEAR Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
ou’ve designated the weekend for some quality time with your family Ywhen the phone rings; naturally, it’s an emergency at the office which requires your immediate involvement. You’ve set aside the evening for volunteer work in your community; instead, you spend it with your neighborhood mechanic attending to another eruption of car trouble.
Few of us, fortunately, have faced a “real” flood in which torrents of water threaten to engulf one’s home. But we’re all familiar with the experience of being flooded with the cares of material life, of being swamped with all sorts of matters demanding our attention just when we were finally getting down to the things which are truly important and precious to us. rich month of Tishrei, is wholly The biblical commentaries explain The Chassidic masters explain that this is devoted to spiritual pursuits: the that the Flood lasted exactly one the contemporary significance of the great renewal of our commitment to year, and that the 11-day discrepancy Flood which the Torah describes in the the Divine Sovereignty on Rosh in the dates represents the 11-day seventh and eighth chapters of Genesis. Hashanah, repenting our failings difference between the solar and lunar A basic tenet of Chassidic teaching is that on Yom Kippur, celebrating our years. the Torah is eternal, its “historical” events unity as a people and G-d’s ever-present realities in our lives. Noah’s providence in our lives on Sukkot, This reflects the fact that different Flood is the prototype for a challenge rejoicing in our bond with the Torah components of the calendar are based which we all face: the flood of material on Simchat Torah. The following on a variety of natural cycles which concerns which threatens to quench the month, Cheshvan, marks our return do not easily lend themselves to flame of spiritual striving we harbor in our to the “daily grind” of material synchronization. The month derives souls. life. On Cheshvan rain begins to from the moon’s 29.5 day orbit of the fall in the Holy Land after the six earth; the year, from the 365-day solar Indeed, our sages tell us that Noah’s Flood rainless months of the summer cycle. The problem is that 12 lunar began as an ordinary rainfall, which the season, signifying the return to a months add up to 354 days — eleven misdeeds of man caused to escalate into life that derives its nourishment days short of the solar year. the Flood. In other words, in their proper from the earth. It is no coincidence proportion and context as a regulated that Cheshvan (also called Mar- Most calendars deal with this means to a higher end, the waters of Cheshvan — mar meaning both discrepancy by simply ignoring one or materiality are a beneficial, life-nurturing “bitter” and “water”) is the most the other of the celestial timekeepers. rain; but when allowed to overstep their ordinary of months — the only For example, the Gregorian Calendar bounds, they become a destructive month of the year without a single (which has attained near-universal deluge. festival or special occasion. status) is completely solar based. Its 365 days are divided into 12 The deeper significance of Noah’s Flood is The Jewish Calendar segments of 30 or 31 days, but these also reflected in the fact that it began and Noah’s Flood commenced on “months” have lost all connection ended in the second month of the Jewish the 17th of Cheshvan in the year with their original association with year, the month of Cheshvan. 1656 from creation, and ended on the moon. There are also calendars Cheshvan 27 of the following year. (such as the Moslem Calendar) which The first month of the year, the festival- are exclusively lunar-based, with 10 months that are faithfully attuned the sun’s light is self-generated, while and spirituality; and that at the to the phases of the moon. Twelve the moon illuminates by receiving and same time we should also develop such months are regarded as a year, reflecting the light of the sun. a lunar personality — a material life but these “years” bear no relation to which reflects and projects our other, the solar cycle (a given date in such Spirituality is a direct effusion of divine spiritual self. a calendar will, in certain years, fall light. When studying Torah, praying or in the midst of summer and, in other performing a mitzvah, we are in direct This is also the lesson implicit in the years, in the dead of winter). contact with G-d; we are manifestly 365-day duration of Noah’s Flood. revealing His truth in the world. But The deluge of material concerns which The Jewish calendar is unique in that not every thought of man relates threatens to overwhelm our lives can it endeavors to reconcile the solar and directly to the Divine Wisdom; not be mastered and sublimated. The lunar time-streams. By employing every word we utter is a prayer; not Flood can be reconciled with the solar a complex 19-year cycle in which every deed we perform is a mitzvah. calendar and made part of a “complete months alternate between 29 and 30 G-d created us as material creatures, year” in which lunar and solar time days and years alternate between 12 compelled to devote a considerable converge and the moon receives and and 13 months, the Jewish calendar part of our time and energies to the conveys the light of the sun. sets its months by the moon, its years satisfaction of a multitude of material by the sun, combining lunar time and needs. By necessity and design, much solar time into a single system while of our life is “lunar,” comprised of the MOSHIACH preserving the integrity of each. “dark matter” of non-holy pursuits.
For the sun and the moon represent Dark matter, however, need not mean the two sides of a dichotomy which an absence of light. It can be a moon- The Talmud associates the bisects virtually every aspect of our dark matter serving as a conduit of existence — a dichotomy whose light. It’s all a matter of positioning. moon’s periodic rebirth differences we must respect and The moon is dark matter positioned in preserve even as we incorporate them such a way as to convey the light of with the ultimate renewal in a cohesive approach to life. the sun to places to which it cannot flow directly from its source. Placed the Jewish people will Light and Darkness in the proper context, the material On previous occasions, we have involvements of life can serve as experience in the Era of the explored various aspects of the solar/ facilitators of divine truth to places lunar polarity: the contrast between which, in and of themselves, are not Redemption, for the Jews the surety and consistency of tradition in the “direct line” of spirituality and on the one hand, and the yen for flux, holiness. The proceeds of unavoidable “calculate their calendar innovation and creativity on the other; overtime at the workplace can be the male/female dynamic, which translated into additional resources according to the moon and imbues us with the passion to give for charity; the unplanned trip to the and bestow on the one hand, and mechanic can be the start of a new resemble the moon.” Just the capacity to accept and receive on friendship and a positive influence on the other. On this occasion, we shall a fellow man. as the moon wanes and dwell on another aspect of this cosmic becomes concealed, for duality: the twinship of spirit and A Complete Year matter. Our lives include both a solar and a a certain time the Jewish lunar track — a course of spiritual The spiritual and the material are achievement as well as a path of people must endure the often equated with light and darkness. material endeavor. These orbits do not Indeed, a number of religions and run in tandem — at times they clash, darkness of exile. The moral systems regard the spiritual as giving rise to dissonance and conflict. enlightened, virtuous and desirable, The simple solution would be to follow shining of the moon anew and the physical-material side of a single route, choosing an exclusively life as belonging to the “forces of solar or exclusively lunar path through each month, however, darkness.” The Torah, however, has a life. But the Jewish calendar does not different conception of spirituality and avail itself of the simple solution. reassures us of the coming materiality — a conception embodied by the solar/lunar model. Our calendar insists that we of the ultimate rebirth-- incorporate both systems in our time- The sun is a luminous body while the trajectory: that we should cultivate a the Redemption. moon is a dark lump of matter. Yet solar self — thoughts and feelings, both are luminaries. Both serve us as deeds and endeavors, moments and sources of light — the difference is that occasions of consummate holiness
11 5 POWERFUL INSIGHTS FROM THE REBBE ON PARSHAS NOACH
Luminous Matter vs Black Holes Noah’s Flood commenced on the 17th of Cheshvan in the year 1656 from creation, and ended on Cheshvan 27 of the following year. Noah’s Flood lasted exactly one solar year, the 11-day discrepancy in the Hebrew dates represents the 11-day difference between the solar and lunar years. The sun and the moon represent the two sides of a dichotomy which bisects virtually every aspect of our existence. Light and darkness are oft metaphoric for the divine and mundane. The sun is a luminous body while the moon is a dark lump of matter. Both serve us as sources of light — the difference is that the former is self-generated, while the moon illuminates by receiving and reflecting the light of the sun. Spirituality is a direct effusion of divine light. But by necessity and design however, much of our life is “lunar,” comprised of the “dark matter” of non-holy pursuits. Dark matter, though, is not a black hole. When making a living, one need not be consumed by utter Epicurean lust. Our moon/dark matter serves as a conduit of light. It is all a matter of positioning. Placed in the proper context, the material involvements of life can serve as facilitators of divine truth to places which, in and of themselves, are not in the “direct line” of spirituality and holiness. Our dark side is blackened no longer. For our calendar insists that we incorporate both systems of self in our time-trajectory: that we should cultivate a solar side as well as lunar— a material life which reflects and projects our other, spiritual self.
The Sign of a Leader
This week’s Torah reading is named Noach, the Hebrew for Noah. The name Noach refers to satisfaction and repose.
The Torah portion repeats the name Noah twice in the first verse. The Zohar, the fundamental text of Jewish mysticism, explains that this is not redundant. Noah - and by extension, every one of his descendants - was intended to spread satisfaction and repose in two spheres: among his fellows and in the spiritual worlds.
Our Sages explain that Noah lived an insular existence. 120 years before the flood, G-d told him to warn the people of his generation of the impending retribution and motivate them to improve their conduct.
Noah began building the ark. If anyone would ask him why, he explained: “The world is filled with corruption; this has enraged G-d, and He is going to bring a flood.” Noah did not extend himself to seek out people and communicate with them.
A leader is not supposed to be merely a model of excellent conduct. A leader should lead; he should take people with him. That’s the kind of repose and satisfaction which Noah was supposed to generate. He should have infused the lives of the people around him with depth and meaning to allow them to define the purpose for their existence. 12 5 POWERFUL INSIGHTS FROM THE REBBE ON PARSHAS NOACH
The Birth of Abraham
Our Torah reading concludes with the birth of Abraham whose recognition of G-d at age 48 would initiate the third millennium. The third supernal quality is Tiferes, “beauty.” The Kabbalists explain that beauty results from the fusion of opposites. How do opposites come together? When they are motivated by the revelation of a quality that surpasses them both. As our Sages state, G-d “creates peace in the high places;” His transcendent influence brings about harmony between Michael, the archangel of water, and Gabriel, The Importance of the ‘Trivial’ the archangel of fire.
The beginning of this week’s Torah reading relates how G-d Thus on the third day of creation, the expression “And tells Noah that since he was righteous, he and his family would G-d saw that it is good” is mentioned twice, for the be saved. Although all mankind would be punished for their third day consummated and brought out the positive wickedness, Noah and his descendants would not perish. For dimension of the division of the waters of the second that purpose, Noah was instructed to build an ark in order to day. And on the third day, the first forms of life, an withstand the flood. expression of G-d’s transcendence, were brought into being. Noah spent the entire year in the ark feeding and caring for the many animals. These motifs were given full expression in the third millennium which featured the Giving of the Torah Herein lies a fundamental lesson. No person exists for himself. which, as our Rabbis state, “was given solely to We were created for service.The Jewish ideal is not a world establish peace in the world.” And it concluded with where “the righteous sit crowned with their knowledge.” That is the construction of the First Temple in which G-d’s a description of the World to Come, the afterlife, where the souls infinite presence became manifest in the physical bask in divine light. However, until a person reaches that state, he world. must work.
We have all been given a mission — to prepare the world to be a dwelling for G-d. And to be complete, that dwelling must encompass every element of creation. Therefore every element of our environment is important and deserving of our concern and attention. Universal Mission
G-d did not create the world for there to be chaos, but for peaceful civilization.” This unified purpose for mankind lies at the heart of the Seven Noahide Laws, which preceded even the Giving of the Torah.Many teachings in Torah speak to non-Jews, even if they are not clearly included in the Seven Noahide Laws. If it is a matter which speaks to the innate moral reasoning of a human being, then it applies to them as well:
13 HALACHA OF THE WEEK BY RABBI DOV SCHOCHET Kiddush in the Seventh Hour changes every day), ultimately the custom is to start from the average here is a Biblical commandment Halachic midday. R Moshe Feinstein to verbally sanctify the day of writes that in NYC that is 11:56 am. As Shabbat, as the Torah states Miami is in the same time zone as NY T but about 6 degrees west, here it would “Remember the day of Shabbat to sanctify it”. That is, we must verbally be about 12:20 pm. Once we determine mention the Shabbat to praise and when midday is it is important to point sanctify it. While there is a debate if out that the hours mentioned here this applies to verbally marking the end are average 60 minute hours.Unlike in of Shabbat as well, Havdala, or that many areas of Halacha where hours is only a Rabbinic obligation, all agree are 1/12th of a day (summer daytime that Kiddush is a Biblical obligation. hours are longer than winter daytime hours), for this custom which is based The Biblical obligation is to verbally on the planets every hour is always 60 sanctify Shabbat. Some say simply minutes. That would make the seventh saying “Good Shabbos” could suffice, hour between 6:20 and 7:20 pm. others argue that the Amida of Kabbalat (During daylight savings time it would Shabbat or VaYechulu is sufficient. be from 7:20 to 8:20 pm.) Regardless, the sages required that be adding that this concern should be Kiddush be made with a cup of wine. (If There is a notion that if one makes a non-issue because one should have one does not have wine available then Kiddush on white wine, there is no made Kiddush before the seventh hour the next option would be Challa etc.) problem. This seems to be based on even began. the fact that the reason not to make Kiddush should be made as soon as Kiddush is because of the planet There are many questions regarding one arrives home. As the custom was Ma’adim which means red. Therefore, this custom. Is it Chabad custom? Is it to pray Arvit on Friday before sunset it is only a problem for red wine. the custom in Israel? Does it apply if to expand the start of Shabbat, that However, this position is not mentioned one is making Kiddush on white wine? means that the person would normally in any of the major codes that discuss When exactly is the seven hour, 6-7? be making Kiddush before sundown on this law. Especially as the reason not and what about during daylight savings Friday night. The Alter Rebbe explains to make Kiddush has nothing to do time? that this is not a problem, for once the with the color of the planet, rather the person adds to the start of Shabbat it fact that its influence is considered to From multiple letters of the Rebbe it is considered to be Shabbat for that be destructive. Therefore, we do not is clear that this is Chabad custom. person. Therefore, they are making want to sanctify the Shabbat during However, in Israel it seems that some Kiddush when it is already Shabbat for this fraught hour, it would thus make were not concerned about it. In fact, them. no difference how one was making in one of the abridged versions of the Kiddush, with either white or red wine. Alter Rebbe’s code, the author who Some have a custom not to make The allowance for white wine seems was from Israel, does not include this Kiddush in the seventh hour. The to be a simple mistake based on the custom. While some explain that the reasoning is based on the planetary planet’s name. concept of planetary influence doesn’t influences in the world. The Talmud apply to Israel, the Rebbe rejects that explains that there are seven planets Regardless on one’s custom, the logic. (There is a story in the Talmud that influence the world, each for an concept of Kiddush is an eye opening about R’ Akiva and his daughter, who hour, in a repeated cycle. Based on the one. We see the power of our speech. lived in Israel, and their concern about basic calculations it turns out that the With just words we have the ability the influence of the planets.) However, planet “influencing” Friday afternoon to usher in the Shabbat day and its it is possible that the community in from 6-7 is Ma’dim (Mars). This was holiness, and with words we end it. Israel never accepted this custom. viewed as a destructive influence Not only do we see the potency of the Today it seems that most Lubavitchers, because of the spiritual influences of words that we use, it also indicates the even in Israel, do follow this custom. Mars and therefore it was seen as an purpose of man. We can and do bring inopportune time to make Kiddush. sanctity to the world. Every Shabbat While the seventh hour should The Alter Rebbe concludes this point we are reminded of this mission and seemingly be easy to find, it isn’t so by saying “ And we already said one charged to fulfill it throughout the simple. While some would say it begins should make Kiddush immediately week. six hours after Halachic midday (which when arriving home”. This seems to 14 EVEN IN AUSCHWITZ: CHOOSING THE POSSIBLE Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a Holocaust survivor and trauma expert, channels her experience to help others learn to move past suffering. AISH.COM ike many Holocaust survivors, Dr. Edith LEger could not speak to anyone of the nightmare she had endured at the hands of the Nazis. Against all odds, she and her older sister Magda survived nearly one year in Auschwitz, another month in Mauthausen, and a death march to an outpost of Mauthausen called Gunskirchen. By the time the Allies entered these unspeakable killing fields, Edith was close to death. Her disease- riddled body weighed only seventy pounds. Her back was broken. She was left for dead in a pile of in as a clinical expert to treat soldiers, including Special corpses. Operations Forces, suffering from PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. At ninety-one, Dr. Eger maintains an active When the Americans arrived at the camp, one of the shocked clinical practice in San Diego, California. GIs called out to the hundreds of slack bodies and asked, “Raise your hand if you can hear me.” Summoning her last She has also written a riveting and extraordinary book jot of strength, Edith, then seventeen, managed to raise about her riveting and extraordinary life, The Choice: her hand a few inches, imagining she was performing an Embrace the Possible. The memoir recalls her traditional arabesque from her former days as a ballet dancer. A silent Jewish family life in Hungary, and its abrupt end when the declaration that she was, if only barely, among the living. Nazis stormed through their doors during Pesach in 1944. Her recollections of life in Auschwitz are chilling, yet they Edith and Magda knew that their parents had been killed on are also inspiring because of Edith’s realization that even their first day at Auschwitz. With a flick of Mengele’s finger, in Auschwitz she had choices: to be a giver or a taker, to the parents were sent to the left; the girls to the right. Their be kind and ethical, or to only look out for oneself. She eldest sister, Klara, had stayed in Budapest when she heard and Magda remained inseparable, protecting one another rumors that the Nazis were about to round up the Jews in and taking risks for one another from their first day as their town of Kassa, Hungary. Had Klara survived the war? prisoners to their last. Edith and Magda had no idea. The last section of the book includes case studies from her Bereaved, frail, and penniless, the sisters began to try to practice, where readers can appreciate Dr. Eger’s style of build a new life. They were overjoyed to discover that Klara total, compassionate acceptance for patients struggling had in fact survived the war. Still, flashbacks, panic attacks, with many types of issues. The “sneak peek” into these and acute survivor’s guilt kept them both imprisoned in their sessions poignantly demonstrates the combination of nightmarish past. Today, more than seventy years later, Dr. empathy and prompting so that patients realize they Eger is still triggered by the sound of sirens. must take responsibility for their lives.
It took decades before Edith Eger realized she had to face “We can find meaning in suffering and turn it into an the rage and grief that had roiled her emotionally since the opportunity to discover something within us that we war, taking a toll on her closest relationships, including her never thought possible,” Dr. Eger said in an interview with marriage. By the time she chose to stop hiding her secrets, Oprah Winfrey. “I am not a victim. It’s not my identity. I’m a she was already a successful clinical psychologist, having whole person who can have joy and passion today instead earned her Ph.D. at the age of fifty. Her education, insights, of living as a hostage of the past.” skill and personal experience with trauma have made this petite Hungarian grandmother a nationally renowned After their liberation, Edith and Magda required months expert in both post-traumatic stress disorder and resiliency of physical healing. Magda was physically weak but full of training. Branches of the U.S. military have brought her rage, wanting to exact revenge on any German she could. 15 to come,” and discovering her own “personal conviction and clinical touchstone: we can choose to be our own jailors, or we can choose to be free.”
Dr. Frankel’s famous statement that we cannot choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond to it, resonated strongly with Dr. Eger. On their first day in Auschwitz, Edith and Magda were stripped naked and their heads shaved. Magda, who had always prized her looks and ability to capture the attention of admiring males, turned to Edith and asked, “How do I look? Tell me the truth.”
Edith could not tell her sister the truth, FROM LEFT: SISTERS KLARA, EDITH AND MAGDA IN 1946. that she looked like “a mangy stranger,” so she searched for “the impossible answer, a truth that doesn’t wound. Edith didn’t share that rage, but knew and became a schoolteacher, yet I gaze into the fierce blue of her eyes she was in a psychological limbo: despite her success in the classroom, and think that even for her to ask the she didn’t feel she had found her question, ‘How do I look? Is the bravest “I will have to find my own way to live professional calling. In 1966, when she thing I’ve ever heard. She is asking me with what has happened,” she writes. was nearly forty, she began another to help her find and face herself. And “I don’t know what it is yet. We’re degree program in psychology. One so, I tell her the one true thing that’s free from the death camps, but we day, a young student who had guessed mine to say. also must be free to—free to create, that Edith was a survivor offered her a to make a life, to choose. And until copy of Viktor Frankel’s book, Man’s “Your eyes, they’re so they’re so we find our freedom to, we’re just Search for Meaning. Holding the slim beautiful. I never noticed them when spinning around in the same endless book in her hand filled her with dread. they were covered up by all that hair.’ darkness.” She writes, “Why would I willingly It’s the first time I see that we have a return to hell, even through the filter choice: to pay attention to what we’ve Edith married another survivor, Bela of someone else’s experience?” The lost or to pay attention to what we still Eger, whom she met in a hospital in book’s presence in her book bag at have.” Austria where both were being treated home unnerved her, and after midnight for tuberculosis. Edith was nineteen, she opened it and began to read. Dr. Eger’s personal survival as a Bela a decade older. Her post-war life prisoner of war gives her an added went from rags to riches to rags again It was a transformative moment. authority when she speaks in front in very short order. The Egers were In reading Frankel’s account, Edith of audiences of Navy SEALs, combat an extremely wealthy family, living realized, “I am staring directly at the soldiers recently returned from battle, a mansion with many servants, but thing I have sought to hide. And as I and others who deal with life and the Communists had taken control of read, I find I don’t feel shut down or death issues, such as oncologists and post-war Hungary and arrested Bela trapped, locked back in that place. . . cancer patients, others facing end-of- without warning. At only twenty, with For every page I read, I want to write life issues, and even at-risk youth. At a baby in her arms, Edith bribed the ten. What if telling my story could each gathering, she repeats what her prison guard with a glittering diamond lighten its grip instead of tightening mother told her the day they were ring. Moments later, she and Bela it? What if speaking about the past taken by the Nazis: “We don’t know walked out of the prison and directly could heal it instead of calcify it? where we’re going, we don’t know to the train station, escaping from What if silence and denial aren’t the what’s going to happen, but no one Hungary with only the clothes on their only choices to make in the wake of can take away from you what you put backs. In the United States, where they catastrophic loss?” in your own mind.” had been granted refugee status, they performed menial labor to survive the She and Frankel began a Dr. Eger used to ask herself, “Why me? early years. correspondence, and he remained Why did I survive?” But over the years a mentor throughout her education she has learned to ask a different The Egers slowly gained their footing. and career. For her Ph.D. dissertation, question: “Why not me? What is mine Bela eventually became an accountant, she conducted interviews with to do with the life I’ve been given?” and he and Edith eventually had three other Holocaust survivors, “laying children. Edith enrolled in college a foundation for my own healing 16 you did on the day your son went STORIES WITH SOUL to the office which saved him from conscription?” It Once Happened The Chasid returned to Vitebsk The people of Vitebsk were a discouraged and broken-hearted. “I honestly don’t know,” he replied. miserly lot. Not that they would Two days before his son’s “Well then, go ask your wife.” appointment, he sent a special leave a hungry man to starve. Not The Chasid did so. His wife told messenger again to Reb Shmuel at all. If a pauper was hungry, the them that she did not remember with a heartfelt plea to try once Jews of Vitebsk supplied him with anything in particular which more. Reb Shmuel went to his food. However, when it came to could have contributed to what father. There were another two giving money, that was an entirely had happened. Reb Shmuel was days left: could the Rebbe bless different story. They rarely gave insistent. He prodded her and she the Chasid? unless it was forced out of them. thought back to that day. And then It once happened that a Chasid The Tzemach Tzedek turned to she remembered. came from Vitebsk to consult his son and said, “What do you with the Tzemach Tzedek (Rabbi A hungry pauper had come to want from me? I cannot help him. Menachem Mendel, the third their door early that fateful day Bring me a Midrash Tanchuma.” Rebbe of Lubavitch). His only son, and asked them to give him some Reb Shmuel did so, and the Rebbe the apple of his eye, had just been food. They brushed him off angrily opened it to the portion Mishpatim, ordered to appear in a few days at and shouted at him. “Today we are to the verse that starts, “When the conscription office. He would tearing the graves apart asking for you will lend money to my people,” be evaluated to see if he was fit to mercy,” they had screamed at him, and read to him the following: join the Russian army. “and you come to bother us? We “The Holy One, Blessed be He, says: have no time for you now!” The Chasid was at his wits’ end. ‘The pauper’s soul was famished It was a particularly harsh year, The pauper was adamant. He with starvation and you gave him and the government was going ignored their cries and began support and revived him. I promise after everyone. Men who would complaining of the powerful hunger you that I shall reimburse you with normally have been exempted he felt. “I truly have not eaten in a a soul for a soul.’ were being drafted. Though in long time!” he said. “How is it that the past, the Chasid could have “ ‘The day will come,’” the Tzemach you can refuse another Jew who is relied on the fact that his son was Tzedek continued reading, “when starving? I am so hungry!” an only child, this fact would no your son or daughter will succumb There was a meal that had been longer exempt him. to sickness or approach death’s prepared for the family to eat door, and I will remember the deed The Chasid stood in the Tzemach that day. Due, however, to the that you performed. I shall repay a Tzedek’s room and asked for the emotional strain and anguish that soul for a soul.” Rebbe’s blessing. The Rebbe eyed everyone felt, it was untouched. him carefully: “I cannot help you.” The Tzemach Tzedek closed the The Chasid’s wife took the food book and the subject was closed. and served it to the poor man. He, Unexpected as the answer was, the in turn, enjoyed a hearty meal. Chasid did not lose faith. He stayed A few days passed and the news in the Rebbe’s room, pleading was heard in Lubavitch that Reb Shmuel heard all she had and begging for his blessing, but this particular Chasid’s son had to say and the meaning of the to no avail. The Tzemach Tzedek been spared. He had been at Midrash Tanchuma became crystal repeated simply: “I cannot help the conscription office and had clear. How far-reaching was his you.” managed to return home a free father’s vision! “It is enough,” he man. said to them, and he took his leave. The Chasid was friendly with the Rebbe’s son, Reb Shmuel, who was When the Tzemach Tzedek heard Many years later, when the later to succeed his father. Out of the news he was elated. Reb Previous Rebbe related this story desperation, the Chasid set out for Shmuel, too, rejoiced in the during a gathering on Passover Reb Shmuel’s home and related Chasid’s good fortune, yet he he noted: “We can see from this to him all that had transpired. could not help but wonder what story the power behind even one Could Reb Shmuel intervene on had transpired. What was it that deed. Each and every good deed his behalf? Reb Shmuel said he had saved the boy? brings with it much good fortune. would try his best. When the time This story is a testimony as to was right, Reb Shmuel entered his Shortly after, Reb Shmuel the effects that all of our physical father’s room to plead the Chasid’s needed to consult with a Doctor actions have.” case. But the Tzemach Tzedek Heibenthal who lived in Vitebsk. repeated once more: “I cannot help Reb Shmuel used the opportunity him.” to meet with this Chasid. “Tell me,” Reb Shmuel asked, “What was it 17 PITTSBURGH STUDENTS CITE JEWISH UNITY AS KEY TO COPING SINCE ATTACK WIDE-RANGING CARE AND SUPPORT FROM CAMPUS CHABAD AND COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION “The night after the shooting, upon completion of Shabbat, we had about 100 people come out for Havdalah [candlelight service that officially ends Shabbat]. The next morning, many people came to an emergency Shacharit [morning prayer service]. Then, the next week, 600 students showed up for a Shabbat meal, which was completely unprecedented.” The care individual faculty members showed was also exceptional, he said. “During the upcoming week, I was sitting in a public relations management class and the teacher asked me to share what year after the deadliest attack “would remind us to say in difficult times, Shabbat means to the Jewish community on the Jewish community in Barcheinu Avinu kulanu k’echod [‘Bless as tears were welling up in her eyes.” U.S. history—the slaughter us our Father, all of us as one’]. We must A The support only increased, along with of 11 people and injury of six more unite to do what we can for everyone.” during Shabbat prayers at the Tree heightened camaraderie throughout the of Life congregation in Pittsburgh— It wasn’t until the walk back to the year, he said. University of Pittsburgh campus Chabad college students talked about the This past Saturday night after Shabbat, uplifting influences provided by Chabad center with its co-director, Rabbi Shmuli Rothstein, that the full details of the another memorial Havdalah ceremony House onCampus-Pittsburgh and the was held, marking a year since the university community at large that have mass shooting began to emerge as the two came upon Jews and non-Jews alike incident and celebrating the 31st year of helped them cope in the aftermath of Chabad House on Campus in Pittsburgh. the immense tragedy. with tears in their eyes and the worst news on their lips. The gala affair was designed to continue Gabi Kaufman, a recent student to boost student morale and honor the president of Chabad at the University Then, without much delay, a turnaround school’s chancellor, Patrick Gallagher, of Pittsburgh, shared with Chabad.org started, said Kaufman—a shift from who galvanized the university’s the bewilderment he experienced upon anguish and pain to relief and comfort. counseling staff beginning on the day witnessing a parade of police cars with It was prompted by an outpouring of of the tragedy to provide services to sirens blaring, whizzing by as he walked unity, courage and strength by his fellow traumatized students and others at the to his own place of worship on Shabbat students, led by the Chabad rabbis and Chabad center. morning, Oct. 27, 2018. Upon arrival, their wives, with additional support from a devoted school administration. “We never welcome tragedy, but what police were ushering worshippers, has come out of this tragedy is a beautiful including him, into the synagogue that is “When we got to the rabbi’s house, and heartfelt and growing response of part of the Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh there were 50 to 60 students there for caring and support,” said Sara Weinstein, Torah learning institution. Shabbat lunch,” Kaufman remembered, co-founder with her husband, Rabbi “They waived me into the shul, and indicating the numbers represented Shmuel Weinstein, of the Chabad House then it went into lockdown,” Kaufman, a six-fold leap from the usual “more on Campus chapters in Pittsburgh. “We 23, recalled about what at that point intimate” attendance. chose the chancellor to honor because remained a mystery to him as to the full he mobilized the administration to come Kaufman, a finance and marketing to the aid of the students. They provided nature of the tragedy. “Rabbi [Yisroel] graduate who has gone on to study Rosenfeld was just before the reading of counseling on the day of the shootings, at Chabad’s Mayanot Institute of for the following week and beyond.” the weekly Torah portion, and stopped Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, said the and asked the congregation to say a few phenomenon then kept repeating itself. A Partnership Among Campuses chapters of Tehillim [Psalms].” Since their arrival in Pittsburgh in 1988, ‘Incredible Acts of Unity’ Rosenfeld would later note that the Weinsteins have built a Chabad “Greater than the sorrow that ensued presence on several campuses. They the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. in the aftermath of the attack were Schneerson, of righteous memory— include the University of Pittsburgh with the incredible acts of unity,” he said. Rabbi Rothstein and his wife, Chasi, 18 catering to the needs of undergraduates, intentional nature of the shooting and outside Pittsburgh’s Soldiers and Sailors and Rabbi Shua and Shoshana Hoexter, the fact that he showed no remorse Memorial Hall and Museum. who serve graduate students. Chabad afterwards. In the incident, 11 Jewish of Carnegie Mellon University is run men and women were killed, and six “My roommate and I are among a by Rabbi Shlomo and Chani Silverman. injured, including four police officers who relatively small group of practicing “Seven campuses in all,” Weinstein said, responded to the shooting after Bowers Jews at the university,” said Rubin of “in a partnership that has made a big entered the synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Philadelphia, who was student president difference for all of the students.” Squirrel Hill neighborhood, shooting and of the school’s Chabad center after screaming anti-Semitic epithets. Kaufman and at the time of the shooting. Weinstein told of how a year ago at “I am dedicated to this fight.” the Havdalah ceremony that took place A year after the massacre, University after nightfall the day of the slayings, of Pittsburgh senior Zahava Rubin is At a vigil organized by the university University of Pittsburgh’s Senior Vice still reeling from the terror. But like administration on the Monday after the Chancellor Kathy Humphrey stirred the fellow student Gabi Kaufman, she shooting, attended by as many as 4,000 crowd with the words: “Today would has been bolstered by the support of of her fellow students and professors be a good day to lose hope, but we the community, fellow students, and from all walks of life, Rubin said she cannot. For if we lose hope, they win.” At the rabbis and their wives who have was afraid to stand up and talk at first, Saturday night’s event, she said Rabbi “provided the students with dozens though forced herself to do so. Rothstein reminded the audience of upon dozens of opportunities and “I felt a social obligation to say anything Humphrey’s words and added, “We have services to express their grief and seek I could to help them through this difficult not lost hope, and we have won!” comfort,” she said. time,” she said, sharing that she told the Regarding the legal case, federal Dressed in a T-shirt handed out to crowd: “This is the most important time prosecutors have announced that they students by the school in the aftermath to stay together. We don’t have time to plan to seek the death penalty against of the tragedy, emblazoned with the be sad. We have to unite and make sure the suspected shooter, 47-year-old words: “Stronger Than Hate” and a everyone in the world knows the Jewish Robert Bowers. 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25 FRENCH CONNECTION REFLEXIONS SUR LA PARACHA Vivre avec la paracha Les enjeux de la paracha Noa’h impitoyablement et sans distinction à ne pas réitérer. Son propos était de dire à la lumière de la ‘Hassidout toute vie sur terre constitue sans doute le qu’à travers le Déluge, Il avait transformé Adapté des enseignements du Rabbi de summum du bouleversement, tout comme la réalité de telle façon qu’il ne serait plus Loubavitch les deux autres épisodes significatifs de jamais nécessaire de recommencer ce la paracha : la malédiction de ‘Ham et la processus, non pas que la nature humaine dispersion de l’humanité depuis la Tour de se fut améliorée, mais parce qu’Il leur ans la paracha Beréchit, nous avons Babel. avait procuré un mécanisme nouveau vu la façon dont D.ieu créa le monde qu’ils pourraient utiliser pour contrer, voire et donna à l’humanité la mission de D Néanmoins, si nous considérons le but éradiquer, les effets d’un comportement le transformer pour en faire Sa demeure et sous-jacent de ces événements et ce que négatif. comment celle-ci se détourna massivement furent leurs conséquences, il apparaît que de cette mission et l’abandonna. le nom Noa’h est tout à fait approprié. En soi, le Déluge constitua une étape Aussi turbulent que le déluge ait pu être fondamentale dans la progression vers la Ceci étant, l’on aurait pu s’attendre à ce que sur le plan matériel, son objet était de réalisation du but de la Création qui est de l’acte suivant dans ce drame divin soit la guérir le monde de son état spirituel promouvoir et disséminer la conscience naissance du peuple juif, la nation désignée qui constituait un problème plus grave du divin dans le monde jusqu’à ce qu’il pour développer la conscience du divin et encore. Le monde antédiluvien était encore devienne une résidence naturelle pour ramener l’humanité sur la voie d’une vie en relativement jeune et toutes les formes D.ieu. C’était donc également une étape présence de D.ieu. Le temps semble propice de vie possédaient la pleine vigueur de la cruciale dans l’établissement des bases : le décor est monté, tous les accessoires jeunesse, comme l’atteste par exemple pour la genèse du peuple juif. Le message sont en place. Il semble même y avoir un l’extraordinaire longévité humaine qui d’espoir que la Torah est censée apporter au candidat tout indiqué pour être le géniteur caractérisait cette époque. Et pourtant, monde est qu’il n’est jamais trop tard, que de ce nouveau peuple : la paracha Beréchit cette force était fragile : quand les créatures D.ieu est toujours prêt à nous accueillir à s’achève sur les mots « Noa’h trouva faveur s’étaient développées et avaient muri, elles bras ouverts et que nous pouvons toujours aux yeux de D.ieu. » devenaient inflexibles, presque immuables. recommencer de nouveau, et même Il leur était pratiquement impossible de poursuivre notre mission divine avec un Et pourtant, la Torah maintient le suspens, changer. C’était également le cas de la succès que nous n’aurions jamais considéré repoussant la genèse du peuple juif jusqu’à dimension spirituelle de la vie : lorsque imaginable. la paracha suivante. Il est évident que des les caractères étaient modelés et leurs fondements supplémentaires devaient modes de comportement formulés, il leur La leçon de cette paracha reste être posés avant que le monde ne soit prêt était extrêmement difficile de changer. Et éternellement pertinente pour nous. pour l’avènement d’un peuple choisi. La dans la mesure où les normes sociétales Lorsque nous sommes confrontés à une description détaillée de cette préparation devenaient de plus en plus corrompues, la situation particulièrement éprouvante ou est le sujet de la paracha Noa’h, nommée grande majorité de la population se trouva une phase turbulente de notre vie, il est d’après son protagoniste. Noa’h (Noé) fut progressivement prise dans une spirale utile de nous rappeler que, tout comme l’homme que D.ieu choisit pour construire de dégénérescence des mœurs et des le Déluge, le but de cette difficulté est de l’Arche à travers laquelle la vie humaine comportements. nous purifier et de nous raffiner. En suivant et animale survivrait au Déluge qui allait l’exemple de Noa’h qui ne prit pas peur effacer la race humaine qui avait atteint Le Déluge changea tout cela. Les eaux devant l’imminence des flots, mais qui un point de non-retour dans l’iniquité, lui battantes ramollirent la terre, non tint résolument sa place, nous pouvons permettant ainsi de renaître. seulement matériellement, mais aussi non seulement nous en sortir indemnes, spirituellement, rendant la réalité plus mais nous sommes capables d’en tirer les Quelle était cette préparation ? Quelles malléable, plus flexible, plus réceptive bénéfices inhérents et même d’en ressortir étapes supplémentaires étaient-elles au changement. Le « nouveau monde » renforcés. En nous concentrant sur nécessaires pour que le monde puisse qui se présenta à Noa’h quand il sortit de l’opportunité inhérente à l’épreuve plutôt amorcer son élévation vers la naissance l’Arche, était un monde où les vents du qu’à la difficulté superficielle à laquelle nous du peuple juif et le don de la Torah au mont repentir (techouvah) soufflaient librement, sommes confrontés, nous transformons Sinaï ? Pour répondre à cette question, accessibles à tous, aussi malsains que les eaux destructrices en « eaux de Noa’h », nous devons au préalable nous approfondir pussent chroniquement devenir les les eaux de la tranquillité et du repos. sur le nom de cette paracha, car, comme comportements humains. nous l’avons déjà souligné, les noms des Et si, comme Noa’h, nous sommes assez parachioth révèlent leurs messages et leurs Ainsi, quand D.ieu déclara après le Déluge sages pour utiliser cette expérience à leçons essentielles. : « Plus jamais il n’y aura un déluge qui notre avantage, nous pouvons contribuer détruira la terre»,, Il n’était pas en train à transformer le monde entier en un Le mot (dans le cas présent, le nom) de se réconcilier avec des hommes qui environnement plus réceptif à la conscience Noa’h signifie « repos », « tranquillité ». Et continueraient à pécher comme auparavant du divin, le rapprochant ainsi de son pourtant, les événements de cette paracha ; Il n’était pas non plus en train de accomplissement ultime et véritable. sont tout sauf reposants et tranquilles. reconnaître qu’en inondant la terre, Il avait Le déluge cataclysmique qui anéantit commis une sorte d’erreur qu’Il s’engageait 26 LATIN LINK REFLEXION SEMANAL Parasha de la Semana El Sobreviviente habían tatuado esos números en sus Torá? ¿Quién cuidará del Shabat? ¿Quién Por Yossy Goldman brazos. Tristemente, hoy, las filas de mantendrá a flote la escuela Judía? esos hombres han mermado mucho. ¿Quién reconstruirá el mundo Judío odos hacen chistes acerca de Noé Cada vez que uno de ellos levantaba sino tu y yo y cada uno de nosotros? y su Arca. Luego está el de Noé su manga para ponerse los tefilín, el siendo el primer manipulador de número nos era revelado. Ellos no En las pequeñas comunidades de Sud T parecían notarlo demasiado, como si no África, donde tengo mi hogar, hay la bolsa en la historia — ¡el puso a flote una companía mientras todo el mundo fuera algo especial, pero para mí eran todavía pequeños grupos de Judíos estaba siendo hundido! héroes. No sólo por haber sobrevivido dedicados, que se reunen en el hogar el infierno de Auschwitz o Dachau de alguno de ellos para tener un minían, El Rebe veía a Noé mucho más sino por mantener intacta su fe, por o para servir como chevra kadisha seriamente. Noé era un sobreviviente. seguir viniendo al shul, rezarle a Di-s y para enterrar, a los Judíos fallecidos, ponerse Sus Tefilín. de acuerdo a nuestra tradición. Estos Noé fué salvado del destructivo no son rabinos, cantores o maestros diluvio que se tragó al mundo y su Hoy en día como soy mayor y mas de jeder. Son gente común. En la gran mayor contribución es que se propuso sensible a los sentimientos de padres e ciudad seguramente no estarían tan reconstruir ese mundo. No leemos hijos, de familia y amigos esos hombres involucrados, pero en su pequeño que se sentó a llorar, retorciéndose han subido aún más en mi estima. pueblo saben que si ellos no lo hacen las manos con desesperación, aunque Se han convertido en super héroes. nadie lo hará estoy seguro que tuvo sus momentos. Después de todo lo que pasaron, El hecho crítico que la Biblia registra fueron capaces de vivir otra vez vidas Necesitamos esa misma convicción es que luego que Noé emergió de su normales, de casarse o volver a casarse, dondequiera que estemos. refugio flotante, él empezó la tarea de traer niños a éste mundo, seguir con la reconstruir, a partir de cero, un mundo vida, negocios, relaciones, son logros Demos gracias a Di-s por Su misericordia, hecho añicos. Puso manos a la obra y como para volverse loco. porque nuestro mundo está, en gran parte, lenta pero seguramente, la sociedad siendo reconstruído. Milagrosamente, fué generada nuevamente. Mi propio padre no estuvo en los los grandes centros de enseñanza Judía campos pero es el único sobreviviente florecen hoy una vez más. Pero demasiados Hace sólo una generación una gran de toda su familia de Polonia. de nuestros hermanos y hermanas están inundación barrió nuestro mundo. El Hace unos años, grabó su historia todavía fuera del círculo. Cada uno de plan de los Nazis era para la Solución y recientemente fué publicada en nosotros necesita participar. Todos somos Final. Cada Judío en la tierra estaba forma de libro — Desde Shedlitz a la Noés. Permítan que reconstruyamos destinado a ser aniquilado y los Nazis seguridad: viaje de supervivencia de un nuestro mundo. ya estaban planeando su Museo de la jóven Judío. Nosotros, sus hijos, nunca Extinta Raza Judía. Ningún Judío debía habíamos sabido ni la mitad de lo que sobrevivir. Así, aún todos nosotros, le había pasado. Cuando me lo imagino nacidos después de la guerra, somos como un refugiado adolescente en sobrevivientes también. Incluso un Shanghai, China, descubriendo que su niño Judío nacido ésta mañana, es un familia entera había sido eliminada y sobreviviente — ya que de acuerdo que estaba completamente sólo en el mundo, me erizo. ¿Cómo pudo seguir con el plan de Hitler, que trágicamente Clases y Eventos casi resultó exitoso, el o ella no estaba adelante? ¿Cómo conservó la cordura? ¿Cómo conservó su fe? Gracias a Di-s Clases en Espanol destinado a vivir. Porcion Semanal que lo hizo y que inició una familia otra Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Esto quiere decir que cada uno de vez, de otra manera yo no estaría aquí Lunes 8:45 pm - 9:45 pm nosotros, como Noé, tiene el deber para escribir estas líneas. Mi propio Tanya( Women) moral de reconstruir el mundo Judío. padre se a vuelto un super héroe para mí. Mrs. Vivian Perez Martes 10:45 am - 12:00pm Cuando yo estaba creciendo en 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Brooklyn, rezaba en un pequeño shul El Rebe dice, que todos tenemos esa Jueves 11:00 - 12:00 en Crown Heights donde uno de cada misma responsabilidad—porque todos Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202 dos hombres en el minián (quorum somos sobrevivientes. Analisis de distintos temas basados en la Perasha para rezar), llevaba un número sagrado ¿Quién traerá al mundo niños Judíos Rabbi Shlomi Halsband en su brazo. Eran presos de un campo Miercoles 8:30 - 10:00 pm de concentración y los alemanes les sino tú? ¿Quién si no tú estudiará la Domingo 8:30 - 10:00 pm 27 בפרספקטיבה יהודית
נקודת-מבט אימון אישי בהיבט דתי ובראי פרשת השבוע מאת שרי וינברג
במסגרת עבודתי כמאמנת אישית הגיעה אלי פעם אמא, כשאתם אומרים : "קשה לי לעשות זאת" או "אני לא יכולה אישה אינטלגנטית וטובת לב. הייתה לה בת שהיא אהבה לעשות את זה " אתם ממש יוצרים לעצמכם קשיים והעריצה מאד. ילדה מוכשרת שבורכה גם בקול נעים ומחסומים שימנעו מכם להשלים את המשימה. לאוזן. דא עקא שהבת המוצלחת יום אחד הסתגרה והשתבללה בתוך עצמה. מפתיחות ומנהיגות שהייתה לכן, עשו טובה לעצמכם ודברו רק בשפה חיובית מפגינה היא פתאום חששה לדבר עם אחרים, נעשתה ואופטימית. ביישנית מאד וכמובן סרבה לשיר. הכל השתנה. האם במצוקתה תינתה את צרתה. כשאתם אומרים משפטים כמו:" יש לי כוחות אני מסוגל לעשות הכל ובעזרת השם אצליח" היקום כולו מתגייס בשיחות שקיימנו ניסיתי לדובב אותה מתי חל השינוי לעזרתכם ואתם פועלים ישירות לפתוח לעצמכם ערוצים בילדה ומה קדם לכך . תוך כדי שיחה האם נזכרה שערב להצלחה. אחד היא חזרה מהעבודה עייפה מתוחה ועם כאב ראש איום . היא ניסתה לנוח בחדרה אבל בתה שרה בחדר הנה בפרשה אנחנו קוראים על דור הפלגה שאמרו : " הבה הסמוך בקול רם שהגביר את כאב הראש שלה . ברגע נבנה לנו עיר ומגדל ונעשה לנו שם פן נפוץ על פני כל מסוים היא איבדה שליטה וגערה בילדה ואמרה לה : " הארץ" ( י"א ד') תשתקי כבר עם הקול הזוועתי שלך "..... האמת שהקול של הבת לא היה נורא אבל באותו רגע האם לא יכלה ולבסוף אכן התקיים בהם : "ויפץ ה' אותם משם על פני לשאת כל רעש. כל הארץ"
אבל באותו רגע הילדה נפגעה קשות והפנימה את המסר כתוב במסכת נדרים: " ברית כרותה לשפתיים " לכן אסור שקיבלה מהאם . הקול שלי נורא ואיום ועל כן לא אשמיע "לפתוח פה לשטן" . הקב"ה שם חומות למילים היוצאות אותו יותר….. היא פיתחה תסביך שלם וכך הפכה באחת מפינו , הלא הן השפתיים והשיניים . ולא בכדי . אלא כדי לילדה סגורה וביישנית. להזהיר אותנו ולעזור לנו לשמור על מוצא פינו.
כמה פעמים אנחנו נוהגים כך בילדינו? בבני הזוג שלנו? פן נוסף של הקפדה על המילים, הוא השימוש במילים בידידינו? נקיות. אנחנו למדים בפרשה מהציווי של השם לנח להכניס לתיבה "מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה אנחנו פשוט לא מודעים לכח הטמון במילים שלנו! טהורה"
במילה טמונה עוצמה כה רבה שהיא יכולה לבנות וחלילה כתוב במסכת פסחים : "עיקם הקב"ה שמונה אותיות להרוס חיים שלמים. ולא הוציא דבר מגונה מפיו"
המילים הן כח שניתן לנו כדי ליצור. המילה איננה צליל או ורש"י מסביר : המילה "הטמאה " היא בת חמש אותיות . סמל כתוב בלבד . המילה היא כוח שבאמצעותו אנחנו ואילו המילים "אשר אינה טהורה" הן שלוש עשרה אותיות מתבטאים , מתקשרים , חושבים ובכך אנחנו יוצרים את הפסוק יכל לומר בקיצור ומן הבהמה הטמאה...אבל המציאות של חיינו ואת האירועים שמתרחשים בהם. הקב"ה האריך בדבור בשמונה אותיות ובלבד לא להזכיר מילה מגונה. לכן אנחנו חייבים לשמור על כל מילה שיוצאת מפינו. להשתמש באנרגיה vzu כדי לקדם את עצמינו ולא בואו ונקבל על עצמנו להשתמש רק במילים נקיות ובשפה להשתמש במילים כנגדנו. חיובית ואופטימית כי מוות וחיים תלויים בכך.
האם אתם מאמינים שכשאתם אומרים משפטים נגטיביים הכותבת היא מורה, מנטורית ומאמנת אישית כמו : " אין לי טיפת כוח" מוסמכת לתגובות, לשאלות וליצירת קשר באימייל: [email protected] או "אין לי כסף" או "בחיים אני לא אצליח" אתם יוצרים לעצמכם מצב מציאותי של חוסר כוח , מחסור אמיתי בכסף והעדר הצלחה.
כן. עד כדי כך המילים מייצרות מציאות!
28 A TIME TO PRAY DAVENING SCHEDULES AND LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK
DAILY LEARNING SCHEDULE AT THE SHUL 6:20 -6:50 am The Rebbe’s Maamorim Chassidic Discourse R’ Zalman Lipskar 7:45 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 / MINCHA / MAARIV MINYANIM (MON - THURS) MAARIV MINYANIM Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 5:25 pm 10:00 pm Sephardic Minyan 5:25 pm Following Main Minyan 5:25 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 HALACHIC TIMES Forces, courageously protecting and defending BASED ON TIMES FOR OCTOBER 30 Eretz Yisroel. We pray for you and all of the soldiers safety and well being daily.
Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:18 am Menachem Mendel ben Chaya Leah Earliest Talit & Tefllin 6:49 am Daniella Malka bat Natanya Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 6:32 am Menachem Mendel ben Aurit (Earliest Amidah) Eden Chana bat Karine Cecile Benyamin Aharon ben Jeniya Gila Rut Latest Shema 9:16 am Zman Tfllah 10:12 am Chatzot / Midday 12:03 pm Earliest Mincha 12:32 pm Plag HaMincha 4:30 pm Shekiah / Sunset 5:36 pm (Preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 6:00 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. 29 IN A WOMAN’S WORLD ISSUES OF RELEVANCE TO THE JEWISH WOMAN
WEEKLY CLASSES Women’s Mikvah: Monday Please call Mrs. Devorah Failer for an Women’s Study Group Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 8:30 - 10:00 pm appointment: 305-866 1492 or At the home of : PLEASE CALL THE SHUL FOR DETAILS. 305-323-2410 Please Note: Shabbos & Yom Tov visits must be Prepaid Tuesday Prayer Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 9:15 - 10:15 am 1111 Kane Concourse Suite 618 The Shul Sisterhood Tanya Class In Spanish Mrs. Vivian Perez 10:45 am -12:00 pm
198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village Who we are... Wednesday The Shul Sisterhood organizes all of The Shul’s programming Morning Torah Class Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar 10:00 - 11:00 am and classes geared toward women in the community. Our The weekly portion - Women’s Perspective objective is to bring women of all ages and backgrounds Haime Library together to learn, laugh, experience, and rejuvenate their mind, Tanya Class in English Mrs. Vivian Perez 1:15 - 3:00 pm body and soul. Meet new friends, 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village relax and get inspired! Thursday If you would like to be a part of The Shul Sisterhood, Women’s Tanya Class – Spanish – Mrs. Vivian Perez please call 305. 868.1411 Call Vivian for details – 305.213.3202
MEXICAN FRIED RICE PREPARATION By TAMAR GENGER MA, RD 1. In a large sautépan over medium heat, sauté INGREDIENTS onion for 2 minutes in 1 tablespoon evoo. Add 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, such as Colavita, mushrooms and garlic and sauté 4 minutes more. divided Add peppers and cook until soft. 1 small onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2. Add remaining evoo with the beans, rice, paprika, 1 cup mushrooms, chopped and cumin. Stir well to coat grains with oil and 1 cup chopped peppers (any color including spices. Add salsa, mix well, adjust seasoning to jalapeño if desired) taste and serve garnished with cilantro. 2 cup leftover rice (best when day old) 1 cup cooked red kidney beans 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon paprika 2 tablespoons salsa 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
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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 / CYS 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 Events / Offce Manager Ms. Milena Liascovitz Ext 328 Director of Events and Marketing Mrs. Devorah Leah Andrusier Ext 313 Youth Director Rabbi Shaykee Farkash Ext 329 SHUL GABOIM Operations / Maintenance Rabbi Shlomi Katan Ext 319 Reception / Accounts Payable Mrs. Mindy Natoli Ext 0 Mr. Andrew Roth Mikvah Mrs. Devorah Failer 305.323.2410 Mr. David Portnoy Pre-School Director Mrs. Chana Lipskar Ext 325 Rabbi Henry Eichler Sephardic Minyan Chazan Shimshon Tzubeli 305.865.4205 Mr. Ettai Einhorn Hebrew School / Editor Mrs. Aurit Katan 786.382.9006 Mr. David Ben-Arie Hashkama Minyan Mr. Lazer Milstein 305.349.3040 Mr. Seth Salver Mashgiach Mr. Mordechai Olesky 786.262.9115
BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Sidney Feltenstein - Chairman Mike Izak Albert Pollans - President Michael Blisko Alberto Kamhazi Jaime Gilinski Simon Falic Shmuel Katz M.D. David Lichter Matias Garfunkel Leo Kryss Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Ambassador Isaac Gilinski Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Monroe Milstein - Treasurer Jaime Gilinski Lazer Milstein Max Gilinski Michael Perez BOARD OF DIRECTORS Saul Gilinski Ryan Shapiro Steven M. Dunn - President Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Sam Greenberg Claudio Stivelman Mitchell Feldman - Vice President Alexander Matz Abel Holtz Morris Tabacinic Rabbi Zalman Lipskar VP Development Lazer Milstein Eric P. Stein - Treasurer Ezzy Rappaport EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Joel Baum - Financial Treasurer Eliott Rimon Steven M. Dunn - Chair Evelyn Katz Dovid Duchman - Secretary Brian Roller Carolyn Baumel Seth Salver Devorah Leah Andrusier Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Max Benoliel Ryan Shapiro Janice Barney Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Boruch Duchman Michael Tabacinic Joel Baum Rabbi Zalman Lipskar Velvel Freedman David Wolf Maurice Egozi Orit Osman Eli Freund Henry Eichler Marc Sheridan Bruce Gelb Mitchell Feldman Daniel Sragowicz Ighal Goldfarb Daniel Gielchinsky Cynthia Stein Sam Greenwald Jacob J. Givner Eric P. Stein Jerrod M. Levine 33 DAILY STUDY A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ALL CLASSES AND COURSES OFFERED AT THE SHUL
DAILY CLASSES SUNDAY MONDAY
The Rebbes’ Maamorim 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 (Men Only) (Men Only) (Men and Women) Daf Yomi 7:45 - 8:45 am TXT-220 Rabbi Dov Schochet (Men Only) Tanya - Sichos 8:00 - 10:00 pm Insights to our Torah Portion Chok L’Yisrael - Sephardic 8:45 am PHL-322 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband (Spanish) 8:45 - 9:45 pm Reb Shimshon Tzubeli (Men Only) PHL-120 Rabbi Shea Rubinstien (Men and Women) Chassisdic Discourses 10:15 - 11:00 am PHL-322 PHL-510 Rabbi Shea Rubinstien Women’s Study Group 8:30 - 10:00 pm (Men Only) Community Kollel (Men) 8:00 - 9:30 pm TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar (Monday & Thursday) LAW-154 At the home of: PLEASE CALL THE SHUL (Men Only) FOR DETAILS
WEDNESDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY Megillot - Men and Women 8:45 -9:30am TXT 121 Studies in the fve Megillot Rabbi Dov Schochet Parsha (Men & Women) Purposeful Prayer 11:00am - 12:00 pm 11:15 am - 12:00 pm TXT-101 - Rabbi Shea Rubinstein Women’s Torah Class 10:00 - 11:30 am TXT-501 Rabbi Shea Rubinstien (Men and Women) TXT-110 Rebbetzin Chani Lipskar Tanya Class In Spanish ( Women) Chassidic Discourses (Men & Women) Senior Torah Academy (Men & Women) 10:45 am - 12:00pm 11:30 - 12:30 pm 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez PHL-320 PHL-501 Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar TXT-120 Rabbi Dov Schochet or Rabbi Zalman Lipskar 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village (Main Sanctuary) Book of Judges - Years 2780 -2835 Tanya Class - English 1:15 - 3:00 pm Senior Torah Academy 12:00 - 1:00 pm PHL-120 Mrs. Vivian Perez Women’s Tanya Class (Spanish) Pirkei Avot ETH-101 Rabbi Dov Schochet 198 Park Drive, Bal Harbour Village 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PHL-320 Mrs. Vivian Perez (Men and Women) Spanish Kolel - Chassidus 8:00 - 10:00 pm PHL-301 Rabbi Shlomo Haltzband - (Men only) Call Vivian for details - 305.213.3202
NUMERIC CODES INDICATE ALL CLASSES LOCATED CYS COLLEGE COURSES AT THE SHUL VISIT WWW.CYSCOLLEGE.ORG UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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