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Monday thru Thursday morning at 6:15, and Friday at 8:30, a more YUD SHVAT, advanced class on Chassidus related THE 10TH OF SHVAT to the Parsha and Holidays. This is followed by a chassidic story. This Shabbat is the yartzeit of the Previous Monday thru Thursday 8:00-8:30 am, Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, Talmud who passed away on Shabbat morning, the Friday at 6:30 am, Parsha Class. 10th of Shvat, in 1950. My Garden"), signifying his formal Tuesday 11:00am, a class for acceptance of the leadership of the Chabad- women, held until now in the home In 1951, at a gathering of Chassidim marking Lubavitch movement. of Debbie Cons. the first anniversary of the passing of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, the late Rebbe's In the decades that followed, the Rebbe son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel revolutionized, inspired and guided the post- Schneerson, delivered a Chassidic discourse Holocaust transformation of the Jewish Join a live class on zoom. (maamar) entitled Basi LeGani ("I Came into people that continues to this day.⬢ VISIT THEMTC.COM/ZOOM 2 MOSAIC EXPRESS ALIYAH SUMMARY warning him to never appear in his presence again, “for on the day that you see my face, THIS WEEK’S CLASS you shall die!” Moses agreed, but not before he delivered a final message that G-d relayed to him at that moment. G-d told ALL OR NOTHING General Overview: In this week’s reading, IN HONOUR OF YUD SHVAT Moses that he would visit one more plague Bo, the last three plagues—Locust, Darkness, upon Egypt, after which Pharaoh will actually This class addresses an and Death of the Firstborn—are inflicted drive the Israelites from his land. empowering message upon the Egyptians. Moses commands the Parenthetically, at that time G-d also related to the 71st anniversary of the Israelites concerning the Paschal offering and instructed Moses to ask the Israelites to Rebbe’s assumption of leadership. the laws of the Seder. After the final plague, borrow from their Egyptian neighbors jewels, View this class at themtc.com/tapestry Pharaoh unconditionally releases the silver and gold. The Israelites complied, and Israelites from his land. the Egyptians readily lent out their valuables. First Aliyah: Plague Eight: At G-d’s behest, Fourth Aliyah: Moses delivered G-d’s Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and warning to Pharaoh: “At midnight, I will go PARENTING POST delivered a warning: “How long will you out in the midst of Egypt. Every firstborn in refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn people go, so that they can worship Me!” of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the By Sarah Chana Radcliffe They informed Pharaoh that if he does not firstborn of the slave woman . .” G-d then allow the Israelites to go, Egypt will be gave the Israelites their first mitzvah, that of Parents have to correct their children, attacked by a plague of locusts. After Moses determining the New Moon (Rosh Chodesh) showing them right from wrong, but... and Aaron left, Pharaoh’s servants begged each month and establishing a lunar Negative feedback (a.k.a. correction, criticism, him to allow the Israelites to leave. “Don’t calendar. G-d also told Moses to instruct the complaint) does more than teach a child right you yet know that Egypt is lost?” they argued. Israelites to designate a lamb for the Paschal from wrong; it also makes him feel bad. The Pharaoh called back Moses and Aaron, and offering. The Israelites were to sacrifice this more negative feedback he receives, the worse offered to allow the Israelites to leave— lamb and consume it, together with matzah he tends to feel - about himself and you. When provided that they leave behind their children and bitter herbs, on the eve of the fifteenth criticism is given frequently throughout the day, as security. Moses and Aaron refused the of Nissan. The blood of the lamb was to be a child can actually come to hate himself (and offer, and Pharaoh stubbornly refused to smeared on the lintels and doorposts of the you). It's a high cost to pay for learning to make allow the Israelites to go. Israelite residences, and all inside those one's bed or put one's dish in the sink. There are homes would be spared when G-d far better ways to educate a child.⬢ Second Aliyah: Moses stretched out his descended to smite the Egyptian firstborn. G- hands, and swarms of locusts swept down on d also instructed that for all future Yes, you CAN be turned off by your own Egypt. They consumed absolutely every blade generations this day would signal the child... of grass, and all the crops. Pharaoh beginning of the seven-day holiday of beseeched Moses to pray to G-d for the Passover, during which no leaven may be When one of your kids really rubs you the wrong removal of the locusts, promising to then eaten or possessed. way, you may find yourself being less than release the Israelites. Moses prayed, and no affectionate to her. Then you may find yourself sooner had a wind carried the locusts back to Fifth Aliyah: Moses gathered the feeling guilty for the way you treat her and feel the Red Sea than Pharaoh changed his mind Israelite elders and conveyed to them G-d’s about her. Remember that it is completely yet again. Plague Nine: A frightful darkness instructions. natural to not be drawn to certain people - descended upon Egypt. For days, the entire including your own child. Remember too, that nation was incapacitated by the debilitating Sixth Aliyah: Plague Ten: At the stroke YOU will feel better when you can find a way to pitch darkness. “But for all the children of of midnight, G-d slew all the Egyptian be gentle and positive with your most Israel, there was light in their dwellings.” firstborn. No Egyptian home was spared, and challenging youngster. Keep working on it; both Egypt erupted in a great outcry. Pharaoh she and you need to hear words of praise and Third Aliyah: Pharaoh summoned Moses awoke and raced to Moses, and begged him appreciation, so give them to yourSELF as well again, offering to release the Israelites if they to take the Israelites and leave. The as to your youngster.⬢ leave behind their cattle. Moses refused the (Continued on page 4) condition. Pharaoh sent Moses away, MOSAIC EXPRESS 3 TU B’SHVAT Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar— celebrated this year on Thursday, February 28—is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle. Legally, the “new year” for trees relates to the various tithes that are separated from produce grown in the Holy Land. These tithes differ from year to year in the seven- year shemittah cycle; the point at which a budding fruit is considered to belong to the next year of the cycle is the 15th of She- vat. We mark the day of Tu B’Shevat by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pom- egranates, olives and dates. On this day we remember that “man is a tree of the field” (Deuteronomy 20:19), and reflect on the lessons we can derive from our botani- cal analogue.⬢ (Continued from Aliya Summaries page 3) Egyptians pressured the Israelites to leave as soon as possible, and the Israelites complied.