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 Behar - Bechukosai Shabbos Mevorchim Shabbos Chazak Iyar 26 - 27 May 11 - 12 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:39 pm Shabbos Ends: 8:35 pm Rosh Chodesh Sivan Tuesday, May 15 Molad - New Moon Tuesday, May 15 5:21 (6 chalakim) AM 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 Weekly Message 3 Bar Ilan University bestowed an honarary doctorate upon Dr. Shmuel Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar and Evelyn Katz in recognition of their unwavering commitment to Israel, the Diaspora community and Jewish education. Celebrating Shabbos 4 -5 Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you Mazal Tov to the entire Katz Family 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 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 9-15 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 16- 25 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a woman’s world 26 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman The ABC’s of Aleph 27 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. The JLAC event this week was a great success with over 100 people French Connection 28 in attendance. Speaker Elias Obadia inspired the crowd with his talk Refexions sur la Paracha on Torah Codes. Latin Link 29 Refexion Semanal Networking 30-32 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 33 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study 34 A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul Get The Picture 35-36 The full scoop on all the great events around town The Shul Women enjoyed a Pre Shavuos event with delicious food, inspiring words by Laurie Lans and a great dairy food demonstration by Leah Lipskar Quotable Quote When learning Torah the Jew feels like a pupil with his master; in praying - like a child with his father – Hayom Yom, Tammuz 26 Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Behar - Bechukosai it Shabbos Chazak (Strength). The Talmud states “this physical world from which we move on is like he laws of the Sabbatical a Hilula/wedding party” the simple meaning of this statement is that year, Jubilee year, real this physical, materially orientated world is like a big celebration where estate transactions and T we eat, drink, sleep, rejoice and have pleasure. The Alter Rebbe and limits of human servitude are the his immediate successors translate this in a more classical way. “This main focus of this parsha, sharing physical, materially orientated world causes us to become movers”. It is with the children of Israel how the physicality and limited perspective of our hedonistic environments to function in their materialistic that give us the opportunity to move to higher and more accomplished world. levels. It is only this very practical and Angels are referred to as “standing”. They cannot move or grow to higher physical Mitzvah that is not levels since they face no challenges, nor experience any resistance to relevant to every single person, their given tasks and appointed missions. Humans however, who live in a only to those who are farmers, tension flled world often having to overcome many hurdles that stand in landowners and servants where the way of their proper action are called “movers”. It is that contradictory the Torah specifes that it was force of negative tension that serves to thrust us forward, much the same articulated at Mt. Sinai. Just as as the backward thrust of jet engines propel a plane forward or the this Mitzvah and all of its specifcs, details and particulars were given drawing back of a rubber band that pushes the projectile in the opposite by G-d at Sinai, surely were all Mitzvos, especially those which pertain to direction. Only through exposure to limited, physical, material earthiness everyone including all of their details, given at Sinai. can one achieve sublime heavenliness. When charging the Jewish People with the necessity to allow the land to That is why our world is called a wedding party. Just as through marriage, lay fallow during the 7th (Sabbatical year), the Torah states, “And if you representing love and physical contact do we release the power of ask what will we eat…” (25:20) – How can we survive with three years of eternity expressed in the infnity of bearing children, so too do we achieve non-productivity? During the seventh year we are not allowed to harvest infnite holiness by our life in this coarse world. crops of the sixth and will have produce only at the end of the eighth year since we can only begin to plough and plant at the beginning of the It is the Holy RaShbY who conveyed through Kaballah the inner meaning eighth year; hence, the produce of the sixth year must be adequate for and purpose of this world that contains the holiest and loftiest sparks and three years (the 6th, 7th & 8th). energies of G-d Almighty Himself. It is our Holy interaction with the world that releases these energies and elevates it to the highest levels. This incredible challenge to the materialistically oriented human, who functions in the generally accepted socio-economic society, is responded Bechukosai which generally refers to those statutes which are outside of to by G-d with . “And I will command My Blessings that the sixth year will the intellectual, rational grasp also convey our essential, beyond limits bear adequate (amounts) for the three years”. (25:21) connection to Hashem, our “Commander in Chief”. It is the total and unqualifed faith of the Jew, who transcends the natural It is that enormous gift of contact with the Divine “Infnite Light” that order of material achievements and relies completely on the promise of we achieve through our selfess commitment to Hashem’s Torah and G-d’s Blessings, that can and does elicit the Divine reaction that brings Mitzvahs which become evident through the knowledge of Kaballah and forth blessing above and beyond the expected order. Chassidus that gives us true and ultimate strength (Chazak) to overcome and succeed against all odds. Everything in this world happens by Divine Providence and direction. When special days or events coincide, their junction must have a message Have a good Shabbos and a great week. of holy potency. This Shabbos comes in proximity to Lag B’Omer, a day of exceptional energy and G-dly strength. On this day the great sage, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, (referred to by his initials the RaShbY) author of the Zohar Rabbi S. Lipskar (Seminal text of Kabballah) passed on. The day is known as the “Hilula” of the RaShbY”. This Shabbos we also read the portion of Bechukosai (My Statutes) which culminates the 3rd Book of The Torah, Leviticus – making 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Shabbos Mevarchim Tehillim Club Weekly Riddle The Lubavitcher Rebbe said, “Be scrupulous about saying the entire 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 Questions: Sponsored by the Duchman Family 1 )Mount Sinai is referenced in the first 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 Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls 2) Which law in this parsha involves counting? Which two Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 other laws in the Torah involve counting? 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Montessori Classrooom 2 3) In this parsha, which law involves a wall? classrooom 2 Answers from last week: 1) In this parsha, the myrtle branches taken on Sukkot are called “a branch with braided leaves” (Leviticus 23:40). The chains that attach the High Priest breastplate to the apron are Raquel Gilinski Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls called “a braided work” (Exodus 28:14). Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 2) On Yom Kippur, a Kohen leads the scapegoat to the “land of Geziera” (Leviticus 16:22). These are all descriptions of 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm the Showbread, the loaves placed on the golden table in the Classrooom 4 Tabernacle. There are “twelve” loaves, placed in sets of “six” loaves each. Each (“one”) loaf is kneaded with “two” solid measurements of flour (Leviticus 24:5-7). 3) In this parsha, the person who cursed Hashem is given the Yossi Cohen’s Yosef Brook’s Hebrew School punishment of stoning (Leviticus 24:23). In parshas Shelach, Junior Boys the person who gathered sticks on Shabbat is punished with Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 stoning (Numbers 15:36). 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm RIDDLE RULES Classroom 1 Answers to the riddles can be given to Rabbi Shaykee Farkash any time over Shabbos.