B”H THEWEEKLY MAGAZINE SHUL SPONSORED BY MR. & MRS. MARTIN (OBM) AND ETHEL SIROTKIN & DR. & MRS. SHMUEL AND EVELYN KATZ SHABBOS PARSHAS VAYETZEI KISLEV 8- 9 DECEMBER 6 - 7 CANDLE LIGHTING: 5:11 PM SHABBOS ENDS: 6:06 PM WELCOME TO OUR TORAH AND SCIENCE SCHOLARS, RABBIS AND SCIENTISTS 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.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 VIOLINS OF HOPE - HONORING THE SIX MILLION JEWS WHO PERISHED Weekly Message: 3 Thoughts on the Parsha - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar WITH POWERFUL TRADITIONAL COMPOSITIONS PLAYED BY LEADING PREMIER MUSICIANS. 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 Inspiration, Insights & Ideas: 8 - 19 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE A Time to Pray: 20 Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week In a Woman’s World 21 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman SMICHA STUDENTS FROM AROUND MIAMI STUDY FOR THEIR Get The Picture 22 -29 RABBINICAL ORDINATION AT THE SHUL The full scoop on all the great events around town French Connection 30 Reflexions sur la Paracha Latin Link 31 Reflexion Semanal Networking 32 Efective Advertising Numbers To Know 33 Contacts at The Shul Daily Study 34 A complete guide to all classes and courses ofered at The Shul Get The Picture 35 - 36 The full scoop on all the great events JLI - WORRIER TO WARRIOR WITH RABBI DOV SCHOCHET around town QUOTABLE QUOTE When you see the donkey of your enemy collapsing under its load, and are inclined to desist from helping him, you shall surely help along with him. – Exodus 23:5 THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA FROM RABBI SHOLOM LIPSKAR SHABBOS PARSHAS VAYETZE his week’s Torah challenges: – challenges of a materialistic, hedonistic portion begins the world to the proper development of the Jewish holy soul; first real exile/ challenges in the simple sustenance of our being, to make galut of the Jewish a living; challenges of relationships; and challenges of the TPeople. Yaakov, the third of various inclinations that try to seduce us by the animalistic our Patriarchs who is also nature of our physicality. Then come the geographic named Israel, Father of the physical exiles i.e. Egypt, Rome, etc. Tribes, and the Patriarch who is the direct ancestor of the As we read the events of Jacob’s life and the daunting tests Family of Israel, is forced to that he confronted in the sojourn of his life’s experience, leave his home, his father’s we recognize that it is only in this difficult space that we environment, the holy place achieve our highest level aspirations and the goals that are where he is raised, and to run set for us by Almighty G-d. for his life. The destination, though also with family, is It is in the house of Laban that the Tribes of Israel are born. fraught with real danger, even to the extent of his life and It is in the environment of Laban that Jacob amasses an his family being threatened. Laban’s environment to some enormous amount of wealth. It is in this seeming descent degree was not much better than the environment of Eisav into exile that G-d promises Jacob the Holy Land and actually who had vowed to kill Jacob. As we read in the Haggadah puts all of Israel under his head so that he can be assured of Passover, Laban wanted to uproot the entire Family of that one day it will be the habitation of his children. It is at Israel. Laban’s place was spiritually corrupted, morally and the outset of this treacherous journey that Jacob dreams ethically degenerate, and filled with idol worship. about the special ladder that stands from earth to heaven, allowing the Jew to connect the lowliest experience to the Jacob sets out on this path with nothing but a staff in his loftiest ideals, to literally be a bridge between heaven and hand. Eliphas, at the direction of his father Eisav, chased earth, which is the special function of the Jew. down Jacob and vowed to kill him. Only by giving up everything that he had and explaining to Eliphas that one It is in this environment where Jacob realizes and recognizes who has nothing is considered as if one is dead, did Eliphas that G-d’s angelic forces protect him throughout his ordeals then allow him to stay alive, literally purchasing his life. and that angels accompany him at all times enabling him to realize his potential. It is in this physical world that the soul As Jacob sets out on this path of exile, about which he later achieves its ultimate objective and reaches an even higher says to Pharaoh, “the years of my life were few and very level than prior to coming into this world. difficult”, he prays to Almighty G-d, asking him to guard over him and to take care of all of his needs. Almighty As we look around us and realize a world faced with all kinds G-d promises that He will never forsake Jacob and He will of difficulties and serious matters that may seem to inhibit always be with him. our growth and movement and at times are like barriers that we have no way of overcoming, we can ultimately This entire episode that we begin to read, and which achieve, through our difficulties, success in a manner that eventually culminates in the exile of Egypt when the Jewish we would never have hoped or planned for. It is through the People were afflicted by Pharaoh, is the story of our exiles darkness that we see a light much brighter than the light throughout history. we had prior to the darkness. It is through exile that we experience the highest levels of our upcoming redemption. The first exile is the descent of the soul into the physical body. The soul, connected to Almighty G-d in a pristine holy Wishing you a great Shabbos and a good week. state of transcendence and ecstatic spiritual experience, is forced by Almighty G-d to come down into this physical world and to be dressed in a physical body, otherwise referenced in the Zohar and the Tanya as the “skin of Rabbi S Lipskar the snake”. There the soul is constantly met by arduous 3 CELEBRATING SHABBOS WITH OUR YOUTH EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR AN “OVER THE TOP” SHABBOS EXPERIENCE PARSHA IN PICTURES Test your Parsha knowledge. 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