VOLUME 10 NUMBER 1 FALL 5766/2005 A PUBLICATION OF THE MONTREAL TORAH CENTER BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD LUBAVITCH JOANNE AND JONATHAN GURMAN COMMUNITY CENTER • LOU ADLER SHUL BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD LUBAVITCH Gleanings From the Rebbe’s wisdom Advice on Anger Prepare yourself with this meditation, and when you feel anger overcoming you, run through it in your mind: Know that all that befalls you comes from a single Source, that there is nothing outside of that Oneness to be blamed for any event in the universe. And although this person who insulted you, or hurt you, or damaged your property – he is granted free choice and is held culpable for his decision to do wrong – That is his problem. That it had to happen to you - that is between you and the One Above. MONTREAL TORAH CENTER BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD LUBAVITCH Joanne and Jonathan Gurman Community Center 28 Cleve Road, Hampstead PQ H3X 1A6 INDEX Tel. 739-0770 Fax 739-5925 Email: [email protected] • www.themtc.com Torn Together . .3 MTC Moments . .20 Sefer Torah Dedication . .4 Sacramento, California . .22 Rabbi Moishe New Rabbi Itchy Treitel Courses Schedule . .5 People of the Book . .27 Nechama New Zeldie Treitel Brothers . .6 MTC Draw . .28 Program Directors Learn Hebrew . .10 A Brief History of Shabbat . .30 Velvel Minkowitz Administrator Post Sinai . .11 Whose Prayer Is It, Anyway? . .35 Joannie Tansky How Many Children . .12 Sukkah Street Celebration . .36 Co-ordinator Rosh Hashana Unwrapped . .14 The Meaning of Beshert . .37 Rabbi Zalman Kaplan Prayer Services . .16 Around our Table . .38 Adult Education Director Around our Table . .17 Simply Divine . .39 Fraida Malka Yarmush Accounting MTC Mazeltovs & Sympathies . .18 Lunch & Learn . .40 Rochel New Faigy Treitel If You Could be G-d for One Week . .19 Youth Directors 2 Torn Together he most brilliant gems are buried in the deepest caverns; by TZVI FREEMAN Tthe purest pearls at the bottom of the sea. Reprinted with permission The most pristine beauty of the human spirit shines from Chabad.org at its darkest moments, if only you will look deeply with a discerning eye. In mid-August of the Jewish year of 5765 (2005), soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces together with Israeli police were ordered to forcefully evacuate over eight thousand of their fellow Jews from their homes in Gush Katif, an area of the Gaza Strip. The move threatened to tear the nation apart and in many ways it did. Yet amidst the rage and anger, the accusations, the threats and the slander…here and there unfolded a deep and mysterious drama, sparks of a truth that cannot be washed away. I try to imagine police and army of the country in which I live and how they would deal with such orders. I try to imagine people of any other country besides Israel as the indignant evacuees. In all of my dreams, this I could never see: Soldiers and families together as though they were brothers and sisters… Making l’chaim together, Praying together, Speaking to each other’s hearts, Crying with one another, Even sobbing in embrace. Yes, there were some ugly scenes. There was anger from both sides. But not a shot was fired from either side, nothing close. How can you know that something is truly one? That it is not just many parts sewn together? Try to tear it apart. If the parts will cry for each other and hug each other as they are being torn, you know they are a oneness that no conflict can erase. Publication Mail Agreement A oneness that must eventually return because No. #40030976 Questions or return undeliverable oneness is forever. Canadian addresses to: The Montreal Torah Center 28 Cleve Road, Hampstead PQ H3X 1A6 In the scrolls of the tefillin of the Master of the Universe, Tel. 739-0770 Fax 739-5925 Email: [email protected] what is written? 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MIRYAM & BATYA MEDICOFF Basic Textual study. For men. Instructor: Rabbi Kaplan LECTURE FOUNDATION Instructor: Rabbi Kaplan 12:00 - 1:00 pm THURSDAY Half an hour before Mincha Lunch and Learn S.P. DIAMENT Halacha A discussion on: the Torah portion 6:00 -7:00 am Textual study of Jewish law. For men. of the week, current events or holidays. Chassidus Instructor: Rabbi Kaplan Instructor: Rabbi Kaplan In-depth, textual study, selected from the broad-based array of Chassidic writings. Accordingly, subject matter varies. Instructor: Rabbi New 5 Brothers by ROSLYN CONVOY hile visiting my daughter Janice Hellmann My husband Zalman grew up with five siblings: NO PART OF THIS ARTICLE MAY BE and her family in Atlanta last spring, Zelda, Moishe (Morris), Yehoshua, Yehuda and REPRODUCED, IN ANY FORM, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF WI chanced upon a small, obscure newspa- Raizel. Yehuda and Raizel were toddlers and died THE MONTREAL TORAH CENTER per published (in English) in Vilna, Lithuania, called with their mother in the camps. The three remain- ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania’. My eye was drawn to the ing brothers were taken to Dachau. When Josef obituary column and on the spur of the moment emailed us, asking if we were related, we replied by I decided to place a death notice asking him questions about his childhood: What regarding my recently deceased were your parents names? Your grandparents brother-in-law, Morris Convoy names? Did you have any siblings? (father of Terry Convoy). My reason- ing was, that since he was born in The reply we got was that he did not remember Kovno, Lithuania (not far from Vilna) his grandparents; he remembered he lived in a and I chanced, by Divine Providence, house near the river, they were six children, the on this newspaper, it was my duty to father was a tailor.