B”H The Shul weekly magazine Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Parshas Balak Tammuz 13 - 14 July 7 - July 8 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:58 PM SHABBOS ENDS: 8:54 PM Fast of 17 Tammuz Tuesday July 11 Fast begins: 5:13 am Fast Ends: 8:42 pm Over Tirty Six 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 Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen at The Shul Celebrating Shabbos Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you 4 - 5 need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Community Happenings 6 - 7 Sharing with your Shul Family A Time to Pray 8 Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week 9 -15 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE Get The Picture 16-18 The full scoop on all the great events around town In a woman’s world 19 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman French Connection 20 Refexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 21 Refexion Semanal The ABC’s of Aleph 22 Serving Jews in institutional and limited environments. Networking 23-24 Effective Advertising Numbers To Know 25 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study 26 A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul Get The Picture 27-28 The full scoop on all the great events around town Quotable Quote Camp Gan Israel week 2 more pictures on Page 27 Rabbi Yossei the son of Judah of Kfar HaBavli would say: One who learns Torah from youngsters, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats unripe grapes and drinks [unfermented] wine from the press. One who learns Torah from the old, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats ripened grapes and drinks aged wine. Said Rabbi Meir: Look not at the vessel, but at what it contains. There are new vessels that are flled with old wine, and old vessels that do not even contain new wine. – Ethics of the Fathers, Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Balak and a total respect for each other’s personal life and privacy. It is that level of unity that thwarts the grotesque intentions of our enemies and his Shabbos, the 14th of Tammuz, forces them to wish us only well. Transformation. falls between the 12th/13th Tof Tammuz when we celebrate As the controversy of the Torah-ordained sanctity of the holy Western the birthday and liberation of the Wall and the holiness of the Jewish people is being threatened, it is previous Rebbe, Yosef Yitschok of notable to witness a phenomenon that is troubling and dangerous. blessed memory, and the 17th of Tammuz commencing the three-week Contrary to the false impression of the optics of fake news, the major period of sadness and mourning for outcry for this fssure directed at the Israeli Jewish community emanates the breaching the Walls of Jerusalem not from Israelis but from the reform and conservative leadership in and its conquest, leading to the America. destruction of the two holy Temples by the Babylonians in 423BCE and 490 One only needs to see the statistical reality compiled by such years later in70CE by the Romans. It is credible researchers as the Pew organization to recognize that these a time of serious refection. movements have failed in their objective to sustain Jewish continuity and commitment as they have opened the door to an assimilation rate In 1927 the previous Rebbe who challenged the mighty forces of the of more than 70%, serving not as a door into Jewishness but out of it. communist Soviet regime, refusing to submit and succumb to their The numbers testify that more than 6 million Jews have slipped out unconditional restrictions of all religious freedom to live Jewishly, was of Jewishness since the Holocaust in a quiet attrition without burning sentenced to capital punishment, endangering not only his life but the ovens and stinking gas chambers. entire remnant of the Jewish people who were under direct attack to give up their faith and allegiance to G-d and Torah. Miraculously and The Jewish community is at a very serious crossroads with many social through intervention of the free world, especially the United States of anthropologists pointing to a drastic loss of Jewish identity in the next America, the Rebbe was snatched from the jaws of evil and bowels of two generations. dehumanizing darkness to set the foundations for the development of the most successful Jewish outreach movement that literally reignited To me, every single Jew is a Jew, no matter what their labels - Conservative, Jewish pride and life in the post-Holocaust period, exponentially Orthodox, Reform, Reconstructionist, or without any demarcation. The accomplished with stratospheric success by his successor, our Rebbe. only Jewishness that seems to fourish and grow is Torah observant. Why then mess with the successful model? Similarly, the three week period that for 2000 years was flled with anguish, diffculty and yearning is showing a crack in the wall of exile Everyone is welcome to pray at the Kotel, the Holiest place in Judaism that defnitely feels like Moshiach is knocking on the door and portends at any time, and to enter into the Jewish fold as a Jew. But why take a that the fnal redemption is truly on its way. compromising system that is proven to be a failure and set that as a standard that needs to be accepted as part of the formality of Jewishness This week’s Torah portion tells us about the radically evil prophet and its Torah way of life. Bilaam and his cohort, the anti-Semitic king Balak who planned, prayed and prepared to do whatever possible to vanquish the Jewish people Israel is alive and well, and its blossoming in an over-the-top manner and deny their entry into the Holy Land. and accelerated growth pattern has been incredible, set into motion according to the millennial traditions that has sustained the holiness of In their attempt to curse the Jews and bring misfortune upon them, they the Wall as the center-point of the Jewish people. Let’s keep it that way were not only unsuccessful and neutralized but radically transformed and we will conquer all of our enemies and move forward to a blessed, their intention to actually bestow the greatest blessings on the Jewish successful unity that brings peacefulness, prosperity and blessing. people that we continue to include in our daily prayers. Regards from the Holy City. Looking down at the Jewish encampment of more than 3 million people, Bilaam opened his evil mouth and was forced to utter the words Have a great Shabbos and wonderful week. “how good are your tents (homes) Jacob, your encampments (dwelling places) Israel” and many other extraordinary blessings, including the prophesizing of the coming of Moshiach. The Talmud tells us that when he looked down upon The Jewish people he witnessed a sense of true camaraderie and unity as in their lifestyle they maintained modesty Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: 1)In this parsha, to whom does Hashem ask a question? What three Montessori Classrooom 2 other places in the Torah does Hashem ask someone a question? classrooom 2 2) In this parsha, Bilaam saddles his own donkey (Numbers 22:21). Who else in the Torah saddled his own donkey? What two people in the Torah harness their own chariot? 3) In this parsha, a donkey speaks to Bilaam (22:28). Where else in the Torah does an animal speak to a human? Tehila's Basya's Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls Answers from last week: Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 1) This parsha begins with the laws of the red heifer (Numbers 19:2), and later Moshe sends messengers to the king of Edom (“red”) for 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm permission to pass through his land (Numbers 20:14). The frst time the Torah mentions the color red is in parshas Toldos, where the newborn Classrooom 4 Esav is described as “red” - admoni (Genesis 25:24). A few verses later, Yaakov cooks a dish of red-colored food (Genesis 25:30). 2) When the Jews complain that they have no water, they also complain that they were brought into the desert which is “not a place of ... fg, grape or pomegranate” (Numbers 20:5). In parshas Bereishis, Adam and Chava fashion clothing out of fg leaves (Genesis 3:7). 3) In parshas Beshalach, Moshe also produced water from a stone Mendy's (Exodus 17:6). In parshas Beshalach the stone is called a tzur; in this Sholom's Hebrew School Junior Boys parsha is called a sela (Numbers 20:11). Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 RIDDLE RULES 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Answers to the riddles can be given to Sholom Loebenstein any time over Shabbos. The Classroom 1 first child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize! 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