B”H THEWEEKLY MAGAZINE SHUL SPONSORED BY MR. & MRS. MARTIN (OBM) AND ETHEL SIROTKIN & DR. & MRS. SHMUEL AND EVELYN KATZ SHABBOS PARSHAS TZAV SHABBOS HAGADOL NISSAN 13 - 14 MARCH 26 - 27 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:17 PM PESACH NISSAN 14 - 16 MARCH 27 - 29 CANDLE LIGHTING 1ST NIGHT: AFTER 8:10 PM FROM PRE-EXISTING FLAME CANDLE LIGHTING 2ND NIGHT: AFTER 8:10 PM FROM PRE-EXISTING FLAME YOM TOV ENDS: 8:10 PM The Shul - Chabad Lubavitch - An institution of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson (May his merit shield us) Over Thirty five 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.TheShul.org Email: [email protected] www.theshulpreschool.org www.cyscollege.org THE SHUL WEEKLY MAGAZINE EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK NACHAS AT A GLANCE CONTENTS Weekly Message: 3 YUD ALEPH NISSAN FARBRENGEN ON ZOOM AND IN PERSON Thoughts on the Parsha - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Celebrating Shabbos: 4 - 5 Schedules, classes, articles & more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Community Happenings: 6 -7 Sharing with your Shul Family All Things Sephardic: 8 - 9 Schedules, classes, articles & more KASHERING PESACH KEILIM AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS Daily Study: 12 PACKING MATZOS FOR DELIVERY A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul Inspiration, Insights & Ideas: 10 - 22 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture: 23 - 28 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a Woman’s World: 29 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman French Connection: 30 Reflexions sur la Paracha Latin Link: 31 Reflexion Semanal Networking: 32- 33 & 35 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know: 34 Contacts at The Shul Get The Picture: 36 The full scoop on all the great events around town THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA FROM RABBI SHOLOM LIPSKAR SHABBOS PARSHAS TZAV - SHABBOS HAGADOL - PESACH Egyptian society, who became defenders of Jewish ear Community freedom and actually went to war to allow the Jewish Family and dear people to leave. DGuests and Friends, The Haggadah is the story of our existence: where Welcome to Shabbos we started; how we developed; the intensity of the Hagadol/Pesach, an pressures that formed the coal into a diamond amidst opportunity to relive recognition of and gratitude to Almighty G-d for the initial experience of carrying us beyond the limits of nature and granting becoming completely us eternal continuity. We read about our oppressors, free. Though the initial enemies, schemers of a final solution; those who event that brought about challenged our spirituality and those challenged our this great Shabbos was physical existence. on the 10th day of Nissan, four days before the We persevered and flourished but the underlying Passover miracle of our problem still lurks as in our own time and environment exodus, this calendar year it flows right into Passover a major concern is the rise of anti-Semitism, or more as if it is one lengthy celebration of this extraordinary correctly, Jew hatred. holiday. Though we will be eating Chometz items until Shabbos late morning, there will still be a pervasive The “Great Shabbos” teaches us that we will achieve feeling of Pesach. that final objective in this journey. It prefaces our historical journey with the assurance of the most What is the unique miracle that took place on the wonderful, imminent exodus. When people will have 10th of Nissan, so powerful that it is given the name transformed their negative energies to achieve the “Shabbos Hagadol/The Great Shabbos” every year? In positive. some fashion this Great Day has a certain qualitative edge even beyond our Pesach miracle. The historical concept of freedom also has a very individual, personal relationship as each of us are There are a number of strategies that allow us to attain commanded to each day view ourselves as if we are freedom from slavery. One is to rid yourself of the slave coming out of Egypt - out of our own limitations, master. Another is to become the master over your boundaries and challenges, to allow us to overcome former slave master. In both instances, you always and eventually transform any negative energy to have to retain caution and recognize that without positive. proper diligence that negative master could raise his No more conflict or fragmentation nor antagonism as head again and we would once again be enslaved. all will be completely balanced in a real true sense of We would have achieved temporary freedom, but we freedom. are not assured of its continuity. The negative forces continue to exist beneath their external veneer and When we eat Chometz during part of Shabbos when can try to dominate. it feels like Passover, it is that sense of transformation that is so intense and extant. A third way is when the original negative forces that were the slave masters themselves become May Hashem grant that we achieve our complete, protagonist of freedom. The antagonist has become truest freedom now! the protagonist. That is being truly free as there are no longer negative forces as they have been Have an extraordinary holiday and Kosher and Happy transformed. Not only dominated but transformed. Pesach. That third level is where our world will be with the coming of Moshiach, when all evil and negativity will be eradicated, and the world will be filled with the knowledge of G-d as the water fills the sea. This year, we experience the emphasis of this highest third level of redemption represented by the Rabbi S. Lipskar transformation of the firstborn Egyptians, the elite of 3 CELEBRATING PESACH EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR AN “OVER THE TOP” YOM TOV EXPERIENCE Pesach Schedule Friday, March 26 Monday, March 29 - Second Day of Passover 6:50 a.m. Shacharis Morning Services - 1st minyan 7:45 a.m. Hashkama Minyan 7:30 a.m. Shacharis Morning Services - 2nd minyan 8:00 a.m. Morning Services 8:00 a.m. Shacharis Morning Services - Sephardic minyan 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 9:00 a.m. Shacharis Morning Services - 4th minyan 10:30 a.m. Second Minyan ~ Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Sell Chometz before 10:30 a.m. 7:20 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha / Ma’ariv (fax to 305-861-2426 or www.TheShul.org) 7:20 p.m. Mincha / Arvit Burn Chometz until 12:24 p.m. starting from 10:30 a.m. at entrance to 8:11 p.m. Havdalah Shul Garage in alleyway Chol Hamoed - Daily Torah Reading and Musaf (No Tefllin) 7:17 p.m. Candle Lighting 7:20 p.m. Mincha followed by Ma’ariv Tuesday, March 30 - 1st Day Chol Hamoed 7:10 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Minya / Arvit 6:50 a.m. Shacharis—Morning Services 7:30 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services Shabbos, March 27 - Passover Eve 8:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 7:15 a.m. Minyan (one Minyan) 8:05 a.m. Daf Yomi 7:00 a.m. Shacharis Morning Services - Sephardic minyan 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 7:25 p.m. Mincha / Ma’ariv Finish eating Chometz before 11:21 am and then flush Chomets crumbs 7:20 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha Before 12:24 pm nullify Chometz Wednesday, March 31 - 2nd Day Chol Hamoed 7:00 p.m. Mincha followed by Shabbos Hagadol Drasha 6:50 a.m. Shacharis—Morning Services 7:15 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Minya / Arvit 7:30 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services After 8:10 p.m. Candle Lighting from existing fame 8:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 8:05 a.m. Daf Yomi Sunday, March 28 - First Day of Passover 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 7:45 a.m. Hashkamah Minyan 7:25 p.m. Mincha / Ma’ariv 8:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 7:20 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 10:30 a.m. Second Minyan Thursday, April 1 - 3rd Day Chol Hamoed 7:20 p.m. Mincha / Ma’ariv 6:50 a.m. Shacharis—Morning Services 7:20 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha / Arvit 7:30 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 8:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit In Evening Start Counting the Omer 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services After 8:10 p.m. Candle Lighting from existing fame 8:05 a.m. Daf Yomi 7:25 p.m. Mincha / Ma’ariv 4 7:20 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha 8:13 p.m. Candle Lighting from an existing fame - after Friday, April 2 - 4th Day Chol Hamoed / Shevii Shel Sunday, April 4 - Last Day of Passover 6:50 a.m. Shacharis—Morning Services Acharon Shel Pesach 7:30 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 7:15 a.m. Hashkama Minyan 8:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 8:00 a.m. Shacharis - First Minyan 8:05 a.m. Daf Yomi 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 9:30 a.m. (approx) Yizkor 7:20 p.m. Candle Lighting - Shevii Shel Pesach 10:30 a.m. Second Minyan 7:20 p.m. Mincha Followed By Ma’ariv 12:00 p.m. (approx) Yizkor 7:20 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha/ Arvit 6:50 p.m. Mincha 11:30 p.m. All Night Learning 7:00 p.m. Sephardic Mincha Shabbos, April 3 - Shevi Shel Pesach 7:15 p.m. Moshiach’s Seudah (Grand Celebration & Farbrengen) 7:15 a.m. Hashkama Minyan 8:14 p.m Passover Ends 8:00 a.m.